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Me signing up for the library in the year I told myself to focus on reading books I already own wasn't super smart. The world of Libby is too tempting (but also helpful to get audio versions of the books I own) ❤️

A library card in Berlin costs 10 euros per year, and the amount of content (digital as well) you get for that is insane. I love it. (a similar offer in Amsterdam would be more than 60 euros per year, just to compare to where I come from)

Raw dog a book. Get something from the library that you’ve never heard of and don’t know the outcome of. Do the Brian Eno thing where you roll dice or draw cards and go to that section of the library. Retrain your intellectual curiosity. Try something you might hate and see what you learn from it.

I’ll never be a real grownup because part of me believes wholeheartedly that I can fix anything in my life by buying a new pen and notebook or adopting another cat

Software solutions meant for companies to use are always so damn bad and it's so stupidly frustrating. They're small annoyances you endure on a near-daily basis and aarrggh. Why do they not care??

Table of contents from an article called "25 famous fashion photographers of 2025"

Noukka Signe is a Finnish photographer. Her fashion model photography is top quality. You will see the play of soft lights in her photos. That's why Signe has been an inspiration for the newcomers. Her famous work The Enchanted Forest will be published in 2019. Also, the Delicate Details and the Inner Landscape are remarkable works of hers. We see her photos in the top magazines of the world.

Stumbled upon this search result. I assume I can thank AI for putting my name in the same list as Tim Walker(!) and Lara Jade (= 1st person who inspired me to pick up a camera 18 yrs ago). Sadly I am, in fact, not published in top magazines or even a professional fashion photographer at all 😂

Tiny figure with large wings created with cogs and other metal small parts sitting on the end of a white real finger

'Steampunk fairy' by US artist Sue Beatrice who creates sculptures and jewellery out of recycled watch parts #WomensArt

I am so grateful that I found dance, especially as it's not something I grew up with. My dance classes 2-3x a week definitely keep me sane ❤️

I wish these existed! So cute

I've been doing some group strength training, it's the kind of exercises you'd do at the gym except that they take the thinking out of it for you, and it's honestly great. I really dislike having to track reps, sets, breaks, weights, different exercises. This setup allows me to just do 💪

Photo of the tv tower of Berlin the background against a mostly blue sky. In the foreground there are out of focus bright red poppies.

Our beloved Fernsehturm in the poppies today ❤️ #berlin

Simple digital drawing of a figure looking at its belly, inside of which rainbow letters spell "aahh"; with the caption "(internally screaming)"

When there's excess emotion but I need to keep calm for my own sake 🤭

#art #illustration #cartoon

screenshot showing part of a table with the columns: article type, category, colour, weather, last worn, rating, location, n(eeds fixing), fabric. Each field has tags applied to explain the garment specs

I love my digital wardrobe organization a lot but I do feel incredibly extra any time I use it 😅

doodle. write poems you never show anyone. make banana bread. take pictures of birds. grow a plant. the goal isn’t to build job skills or “become a creative” it’s to just fool around and experience yourself and the world around you

"Lives" also includes work (sharing commentary or insights) but also hobbies like making art = needs to be shared online, going to gigs = post videos online, etc.

Sometimes I feel like our society only sees the lives shared online as worth living, which is just selection bias (I see the lives & commentary online) and as someone who doesn't enjoy posting on most social media anymore, I sometimes feel like my life is "nothing". I don't know how to combat that.

and many things just seem to get worse 🙃

Please send me the funny/terrible Google AI/chat GPT search results you have spotted. For example, the one that suggests eating one small rock per day, or the one that suggests using an iron to smooth your scrotum wrinkles.

Image with an original poem: Flipping through Netflix covers for over an hour while our ice cream was melting one movie too sweet, the other too gory When it got too late to start something new we settled on comedy background noise and tapping through Stories.

As one of the instagram accounts I deleted held my little #poetry experiments, I thought maybe I'd share some here. Even though it's very scary to do so.

So many people use capitalizing a word as 'Emphasis' and it. is. not. in formal English language rules. In tweets, texts, blogs, do whatever, but in UI or professional spaces it often conflicts with actual language rules (like capitalizing proper nouns) and just makes things hard to parse.

One of the most annoying pet peeves I have is the general lack of consistency and thought about capitalization in UI. The moment you notice this, you'll never see anything else and it's annoying for both you and everyone else.

Haha Rectangle Designers are UI people in my brain cause all we do is draw rectangles

It's a tiny step but I finally deleted 2 of my 6 (?!) Instagram accounts. Mostly unused ones, but still. A small step in the right direction to move away from meta.

Oh I think I meant to write "It took a bit more time to"

Also easier with an ereader: reading at night, reading while eating, reading when lying on your side & not having to awkwardly switch the book over, highlighting without getting anxious about errors and lastly: the built-in dictionary. I love being able to look something up in just a tap & hold.

It took a bit more me to get into reading ebooks, but I do love it now. I love physical books as objects and buy them still, but the lightness of the e-reader and that I can use it easily with just one hand is awesome. And I can have hundreds of books with me in just that little device!

The rage you are feeling comes from the same place inside your heart as the love. This is why you refuse to accept a world where cruelty reigns and the fire consumes all. You have known hope and joy and kindness like you have known water. And justice is a river that demands you do not give up on it. - Nikita Gill

On rage and why we need it.

Buzzkill Sunsleep · Hellfire · Song · 2025

I love it when recommendation algorithms work well, and damn my daylist this morning was right on the nose including Sunsleep. Thoroughly enjoying catching up with their stuff. open.spotify.com/track/3jQCzp...

this is universal advice for creative work, including design.

people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.