It was a good sesshin. But I never can find a good descriptive adjective for the experience.
02.11.2025 19:29 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@donthatedontkill.bsky.social
This is an account for cross posts from my indieweb site. https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com I come by to check notifications and comment back, but I'm more active on Mastodon (see website). Attempting to escape from Omelas
It was a good sesshin. But I never can find a good descriptive adjective for the experience.
02.11.2025 19:29 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โ
Mask ordered โ
Tickets bought โ
Tail wagging
Going to my first pup party Satuday night! Wish this virgin pup luck! ๐
#puppyplay #lgbtq #gay #gaymen #kink #fetish #gaypup #musclepup #queer #pupgear #humanpup (https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1762108600/)
Them: How are you? Me: I'm okay. Just came back from four days in a Buddhist temple. Them: I'm not very situation. Me: Ok.....?
(I swear. France is like r/atheist became a country.) (https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1761679699/)
I am up at 4:45 for a 7 o'clock train. I'm going to the only Rinzai temple in France for a four-day sesshin. The things I'll do for a little zazen with the homies. ๐คฆ
#zen #buddhism #sesshin #zazen #rinzai (https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1761188458/)
Me (in French but with my accent ๐): What is the beer of the moment? Her: Do you speak French? Me: Is that not what I just did? ๐ (https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1761160468/)
22.10.2025 21:14 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Me. (https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1760522543/)
15.10.2025 12:02 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0One of my favorite coworkers coming out to me as polyamorous by bringing up The Ethical Slut casually in conversation will be my favorite moment of our team week. You can take that to the bank.
#polyamorous #love #work (https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1760512249/)
Spotted in the wild.... This is my energy company.... Which is actually a non profit!
#edn #Nantes #energiedeNantes #anticapitalism #nfp #france #ecotopia (https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1760424283/)
I am the type of NPC where if you roll wrong, and French people often roll wrong, that dialogue tree is done. Her: "Oh it smells like you're making crepes!" Me: "No. Seitan! But yeah a lot of flour!" Her: "Oh you eat that in England?" Me [โฆ] https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1760376317/
13.10.2025 19:25 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Bon si j'ai tort on va certainement me dire, mais ร chaque fois que je vois Sandrine Rousseau sur le plateau, je suis motivรฉ pour l'avenir, pour la vraie dรฉmocratie, pour ce qu'on peut faire ensemble. J'adore la faรงon qu'elle s'exprime et ce [โฆ] https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1760370297/
13.10.2025 17:44 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0FreeTube has been down a long time and I'm worried. I'm rooting for the devs! I believe in you!!! People have been recommending Grayjay, but the fact that I have video suggestions is a deal breaker. The first and foremost reason I use [โฆ] https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1760250410/
12.10.2025 08:26 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My train got cancelled and so I'm stuck in Paris for an extra a couple hours till the next one comes and oh my god I forgot how much I HATE THIS FUCKING CITY
#paris (https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1759673350/)
Well. Fuck.
https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/gay-loneliness/ (https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1759607248/)
"Wow, you've lived so many lives"
Yep it's one of the reasons people are constantly underestimating me. That and the fact that I look around ten years younger than I am.
I normally don't mind (too much) but I'm very frustrated lately.
Add [โฆ] https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1759604100/
This is an appreciation post for https://github.com/robturner45/vlc-yt-dlp And also https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp And also https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube
FreeTube is temporarily broken, longer than usual. (Bless those devs!) And [โฆ] https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1759343772/
Ok damn the arms are arming this morning. This was the first time in ages that I took a photo of myself shirtless and liked what I saw. Also first time ever doing this way of taking a photo. Now I can see why it was a trend for a hot second [โฆ] https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1759313594/
01.10.2025 12:13 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I'm having feelings again tonight about my place in the world. I feel so out of place and it's because of ideas I have about the world, humanity, all of us.... And how much that feels in conflict with... just everything around me. And despite [โฆ] https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1759015000/
28.09.2025 01:16 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I think it's also worth noting that at my housewarming party yesterday, when any person said I don't know a lot of people on Signal, I would point out about three people (out of around 20) and say "they're not on Signal but everyone else here [โฆ] https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1758563950/
22.09.2025 19:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I did in fact chant "ONE OF US! ONE OF US! GOOBLE GOBBLE! GOOBLE GOBBLE!" when I convinced a friend to download Signal and join our huge group chat. I may have had a few beers.
#signal (https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1758560231/)
The irony of a guy at the gym who I perceive as of Middle Eastern descent wearing a "Taliban Hunting Club" t shirt with a skull with a banana. Because I can 100% imagine some right wing gun nut wearing that and thinking of him as the target [โฆ] https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1758441557/
21.09.2025 09:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I tried to shave my mess of a face and it didn't go well. In a move reminiscent of Britney Spears, I got frustrated with my lack of agency in life and shaved it all off. Feeling a bit daddy now. Anyway, how you doin' ?
#shaving #spiraling [โฆ] https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1758367641/
"The truth about drugs": That there are a lot less people just handing drugs out for free and that pot will not make you a useless blob on the couch. Also your parents have done at least one.
#drugs #healthclass (https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1758360889/)
Damn ok. Here's my unpopular opinion opinion for the night: if you see religion and leftism as being antithetical, you've lost the plot, honey. They're, in essence, the same thing. So critique those power structures, but the phenomenon itself [โฆ] https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1757539931/
10.09.2025 23:32 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I organized an apรฉro with my building neighbors. Despites one RSVP and one maybe, I waited an hour and no one came. People just seem uninterested. I say uninterested and not, for example, too busy because I put on the poster to feel free to [โฆ] https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1757261322/
07.09.2025 18:08 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thinking tonight about how alone and not alone I am. How powerless and powerful I (we?) are in the face of insurmountable odds to save us all. I am facing a tsunami, remembering that I am also mostly water. I have no words of motivation. I [โฆ] https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1757206686/
07.09.2025 02:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A friend sent me a link to an AI output of a question we had discussed a few days earlier. I sent him this: https://youtu.be/6ROlMFlbkWE Video title: Signal's Meredith Whittaker says Chat GPT can't be trusted Desc: When Isikoff asked [โฆ] https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1757169949/
06.09.2025 16:45 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I'm finally back home. After missing my connection because of a delayed flight, I had to spend the night in Paris. Then, the flight they put me on got all the way to the destination before they turned back around to Paris because of low [โฆ] https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1756841458/
02.09.2025 21:30 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Last look of the weekend. It's a remix of my street fair look. I was feeling a way about my body so I'm not posting that one. This one however is one for the archives.
(The second photo is an expression of pain.)
Happy end of Folsom to the [โฆ] https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1756649506/
Lol @ the person who said "oh so you're American but you only speak English" and then I answered him back in two other languages and then he said "but those are the only phrases you know right?"
I have a degree in translation and [โฆ] https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1756581605/
Last night's look. For the Folsom opening party. ๐คผ What a night!
#Folsom #FolsomBerlin #Folsom2025 #FolsomBerlin2025 #wrestling #kink #fetish #gay (https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1756483487/)