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i replaced my French press with an oxo 9-cup recently and it’s honestly great and also I set it to brew the night before. i rise out of bed and float on the smell to the kitchen every morning like a looney toon.

If you have smart settings off you have to turn them on and then manually uncheck grammar suggestion. Then you can turn smart settings off again.

The wrinkle I think is TikTok and Reels are powered by music, just short repetitive bits of it but still.

I read it recently and loved it as an experiment in extending the mystery, dislocation and confusion of starting a novel over the length of a novel but ymmv of course!

Not dissimilar from how an llm reads

YouTube video by Marcos Valle - Topic Garra

And youtu.be/MNm85vORDzg?...

YouTube video by Caetano Veloso - Topic Alegria, Alegria (Remastered 2006)

Been really into this one lately youtu.be/he_ghOAXbSM?...

Front loading with “library WiFi on burner laptop” threw up all the flags for me.

My primary disappointment is they’re all in English! Feels parochial

I’ve had an ongoing bit where I want to make a show called “Touched by No One” and it would follow all the beats of a TBAA ep but then at the last moment no one would go angel mode.

This one has been hanging out on the traffic light near my place for weeks

St Elmo’s Fire the night before the SAT

O no

I got this way but reading ebooks on my phone. Literally got through all of In Search of Lost Time on my phone! I banned screens from the bedroom before bed so only had paper as an option and within a couple of months I was much better at paper again.

While still a diehard, I didn’t totally “get” Divers until I met the love of my life in 2017 and it all snapped into place. 🥰

I listen to and love lots of other things but when I think about genius, breadth, ambition, virtuosity… she is hard to beat.

Every Joanna Newsom record 👍

A dream! Plus easier access to lunch at MezeHub

My partner works for the Friends and I’d love to walk over there more often (it’s less than a mile!) but it’s so unpleasant.

I'm just bringing this over here so I'll know I'll have it readily available

how could i resist???

i'm addicted to buying t-shirts from indie printmakers

I’m on week 5 of The Artist’s Way

now THAT'S design within reach.

you know what's a breath of fresh air? after slogging through wayfair and other dropship furniture sites for hours, opening up Ikea.com. Cheap, curated, elegant. What a store.

Lonesome Dove rocks.

2 neon tubes leaned onto the wall to form a triangle, topped with a tinselly thing.

Prototyping neon xmas tree

i'm not in a good situation christmas-gift-wise