rilka

my new daily practice is to attempt to become so bored that I start checking in with my toes to see how they're feeling

BACK ON BLUESKY

warm pools of light appreciation post

I use careful words all the time!! thank you for making it 💕

something to be said for refusing to cultivate good taste in certain arenas so that you can continue to delight in the cheap stuff forever

thank you friend!! held these intentions so closely yesterday 🥰

someone on here recently said something about abstraction as the desperate retreat of the avoidantly attached mind but I can’t find it so now I am just saying it again. that’s oral tradition baby

we are convinced by things that show the traces of their own evolution

haha no but I do have to convert between pdf and jpg fifty times a day and the only form of version control is duplicating a massive 3d model file over and over again with slightly different names!!! so maybe we can call it even

when you cried your tiny heart out to all those albums in high school you were actually investing in your future self, who can now put on said albums and power through punishing tasks purely on the strength of a single remembered adolescent emotion

I dreamed I was the deepfates program. then I awoke, and now I wonder

left my frontend eng job to go to drawing pictures of buildings school but now juries for drawing pictures of buildings school are FOUR (4) days away and am vibrating with how fervently I wish I could be writing react code for bluesky interfaces instead rn… cruel fate

the vast and endless sea, the cold and distant stars, the long and winding road,

god I wish!!!

sublimate, cacophony, parched !

there is something quite romantic about having an ancient egyptian pharaoh trapped in the labyrinthine interiors of the golden pyramid you wear around your neck

regular body parts: I'm growing 😇
teeth: in the dark secret places of your skull where I have rooted I am becoming hard and calcified and strong. I lie in wait. one day I will destroy the other teeth in my path and erupt through your soft, fleshy gums

think roughly half would become embroiled in a hyperselfconscious power struggle and the other half would probably have a chill time discussing, like, lossless audio compression formats

omg you are very kind!! 😭

attention makes things beautiful

felt this in every cell of my itchy itchy eyes 😭

wowww oh my gosh yes that is so good 🥲 they’re across the room but it still feels like you can hear their heartbeat!!

when you have a crush on someone and your entire awareness reorients to their being, your skin suddenly hypersensitive to a fleeting touch, the sound of their voice grazing you like a physical presence

rip nietzsche you would have flourished as a poaster

the fact that we can drive, as a species, feels directly rooted in this really distinctly human facility for extending our body map beyond our physical body, into our tools

YES

wowww I loved this thread!! u might also enjoy this beautiful little book “are we human?” about the tools we design and how we inhabit (and become ? ? ?) them

I also once had an allergic reaction to peanuts so intense that the distant stars drew streaks of light across the night sky in my vision… tune in for more tips on how to hack the ravages modernity has wrought upon your body in order to more closely commune with the ineffable

if you do not have time for mind altering substances you can simply develop moderate to severe myopia, remove your corrective lenses, and turn to the nearest light source to see it explode into a splintered web of intricate geometries. it’ll do in a pinch

the sacred seriousness of genuine play, reverent, surrendering, free