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Do you have questions about tacos? - annie's blog
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I made a small informative zine about tacos to help! It is made out of Taco Bell wrappers because why not? We begin with the essential questions: Who? What? When?...
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Tomorrow might feel better - annie's blog
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Sometimes you just don’t get to feel good about things. Anyway a good rule I read somewhere long ago is something like Never trust how you feel about your life...
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Break dumb rules - annie's blog
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“Rules are not valid because the Senate passed them, or because heroes once played by them, or because God pronounced them through Moses or Muhammed. They are valid only if...
on Apr 4
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Reading notes: March 2025 - annie's blog
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What I read about last month: Mysteries in the woods! Stories! Kind-of-not-really pirates! Ireland! Friendship! And saying no! In the Woods by Tana French Gorgeous writing. Good plotting. It unraveled slowly,...
on Apr 3
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Let’s make a list. I’ll start. I’m eating a really good sandwich. Soft roll, rotisserie chicken, crisp lettuce, a little mayo, gruyere cheese, candied jalapeños. Yes and amen. Also, what...
on Mar 29
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How little we know of each other’s existence - annie's blog
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I have a small circle of friends. I’m choosy. Within this small circle, two friends deal with chronic illness. Another with multiple serious allergies. There are some mental health challenges...
on Mar 13
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Love letters 9-10 - annie's blog
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9You’re doing everything for the first time. Every single thing. Even the things you do over and over are new, because you’re always new. Life might look the same on...
on Mar 10
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How to clean the bathroom - annie's blog
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Start by running out of toilet paper, or getting dangerously close. There’s living on the edge, and then there’s running out of toilet paper. Perhaps you keep extra toilet paper rolls...
on Mar 5
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Let’s talk about the fediverse - annie's blog
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The goal: Get people started. Encourage action—action is investment. They only need to understand enough to take the next action. Names• Try other names; fediverse sounds dumb af when you...
on Mar 2
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Reading notes: February 2025 - annie's blog
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The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin Meh. Read this in one day. It was easy to read and I ended up skimming a lot of boring parts (all the flashbacks...
on Mar 2
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What’s the situation, and what can I do about it? There are two steps I need to take when there’s something upsetting but complex to deal with: a situation outside...
on Mar 1
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Inconclusive neck region - annie's blog
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““Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.” —Brian Rathbone” Why is entropy so boring? Here's a thing that happens to me sometimes: I am doing something mundane, perhaps...
on Feb 26
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Urgencies are yappy little dogs - annie's blog
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The law of urgency tells us this: By default, whatever screams the loudest will get the quickest response. Whatever generates the most discomfort (real or imagined) will get the most...
on Feb 25
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I’m glad I was married, and I’m grateful to not be married anymore - annie's blog
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I started writing a comment in reply to Derek Sivers’ latest article. After the 3rd paragraph I realized it was a blog post, not a comment. So here it is. “Some...
on Feb 22
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Blog challenge - Music edition - annie's blog
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🎶 This was fun. I was tagged by @mb (here’s his) and it only took me like 3 weeks to finally get it done. 🎶 What are five of your...
on Feb 21
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If you don’t, somebody else will: - annie's blog
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WorryYou can worry about everything in the world or you can let somebody else do that. There are always eager volunteers for the worry patrol. Either way, it won’t make...
on Feb 21
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Painting yourself into a corner - annie's blog
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When you’re interested, you find interesting things. I am slowly downloading a portion of my 753 Kindle books from the clutches of Amazon. I have two book-related hobbies: One is...
on Feb 18
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Talk about the thing itself - annie's blog
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God help me, fediverse, we have got to stop being so pedantic. In university, I got a degree in English. I expected lots of reading, lots of writing, and lots...
on Feb 16
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A good day for love - annie's blog
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I have long thought of Valentine’s Day as a good precursor to a better day following when a lot of chocolate goes on sale. But it’s a nice concept, as...
on Feb 15
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A good night for old cartoons - annie's blog
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I’m sitting on the couch. 30 minutes ago I finished an episode of Broadchurch and was getting up to do the last little puttering around things before bed. Then Lily...
on Feb 12
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I’m gonna keep making shit and I hope you will too - annie's blog
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When things are bad, as they so very often are, I like to crawl into a little hole and stay there, curled up. I want to withdraw. Nurse my wounds,...
on Feb 6
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Your personal brand makes me want to vomit - annie's blog
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I don’t know how to say this gently so here it is bluntly: You turning yourself into a brand is a bad user experience for me, your potential target market....
on Feb 5
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My real-life friends don’t blog but if they did they would be good at it - annie's blog
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I’m using real-life as shorthand for people I know and interact with in my physical life versus my digital life. I think online friends are real, None of my real-life...
on Feb 4
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Blog question challenge 2025 - annie's blog
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Thanks to my buddy BinaryDigit for tagging me, I’m sorry it took so long! For more meta-blogging-about-blogging: here and here and here and here. Why did you start blogging in the...
on Feb 4
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Good advice from Burkeman - annie's blog
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A few notes from Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman, a January read. You’re not gonna do it all, so quit trying. Be realistic and limit what you actually expect to...
on Feb 1
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Reading notes: January 2025 - annie's blog
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Well, I read a bunch of fiction. Winter is such a good time for reading. It’s the coziest. Get a hot beverage and a snack, curl up on the couch,...
on Jan 31
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Ignore this if you are a complete success - annie's blog
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Fail more often is my new life goal and I think I’m gonna nail this one. Having earned now • the experience of failure many times over, • and the...
on Jan 31
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Build a life you can live in - annie's blog
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Here’s the thing: When you write about yourself, your own experience, it can’t be fair. By nature, by instinct, and even by design, I want a story that is understandable...
on Jan 28
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Here is how I, a cishet white woman, will save the trans community and also, certainly, the larger LGBTQ+ community (because why not) and after that most likely I will...
on Jan 25
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Fuckity fuck fuck - annie's blog
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I fucking hate this shit. I hate conflict like this. I hate people I like being mad at each other. I hate disagreements within my circle. I hate feeling empathy...
on Jan 24
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“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories. —Hilary Mantel” We don’t live life, we live storiesWe do not live a...
on Jan 23
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Today has been a sad day. I don’t know why, why today? Why tears today, why crying in the car today, why the helpless ache blooming in my chest today?...
on Jan 22
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When you love something made by a terrible person - annie's blog
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This particular post could be written in any week of any year and be relevant. Because, well, there’s always someone who’s just been found out. Someone whose art is beautiful...
on Jan 17
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I am full of schemes - annie's blog
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What if we… Meet up every Friday when the weather’s good at the park. We can pick a theme each week. For example: Water balloons. What sound does a lemur...
on Jan 15
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It’s okay to not know, and it’s okay to wait - annie's blog
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About a month after I graduated college, I went for coffee with a kind and wise woman. A close friend of my mom’s who had become a friend and mentor...
on Jan 14
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We have to imagine the world before we can build it. Art is the way. We have to find hope when reality weighs on our shoulders. Art is the way....
on Jan 11
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False equivalencies - annie's blog
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Trying to make things what they are not can get you in a lot of trouble. Cauliflower is not rice, for example. Codependency is not love. Believing that things are...
on Jan 11
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What courage feels like - annie's blog
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Having courage is not the same as feeling courageous. We conflate these two experiences. We think that feeling courageous—dwelling in a psyched-up energy spin-cycle produced by Rocky reruns and motivational...
on Jan 10
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What to worry about - annie's blog
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Worry about how much you appreciate the buttery light of a sunrise or sunset. Is it enough? There is a certain amount of awe required or the sun will not...
on Jan 9
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Do you dabble? Meander? Peruse and putter? - annie's blog
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I'm a dabbler, myself. I like to investigate a little about a lot. I’m about a mile wide and an inch deep. I love to try things out. I like...
on Jan 8
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Love letters 6-8 - annie's blog
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6How long will you grieve? Well, how much did you love? Did you love wholehearted, broad as the earth? Did you pour yourself out like water, like time? Did you...
on Jan 7
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Anticipation, experience, satisfaction - annie's blog
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Start comparing how much you want something (or think you want it) with how you feel while you’re actually having it. Compare your anticipation with your experience. Start comparing how...
on Jan 4
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📋 Good advice for somebody - annie's blog
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“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow...
on Jan 3
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Love letters 1-5 - annie's blog
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1You matter. I matter. Everything matters. 2You are not alone. You have never been alone. You will never be alone. You are not alone and you are not broken. 3Don’t...
on Jan 2
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One bucket at a time - annie's blog
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If you try to optimize everything, you will fail at everything. Think of all the stuff of your life as a big lake of clear, cool water. You’re in a...
on Dec 30
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Retrospective, reading - annie's blog
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What’s my favorite book of 2024? I have no idea. I can’t remember what I read over the last few weeks, let alone over the past twelve months. I’m not...
on Dec 29
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📱Default apps (2024) - annie's blog
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I like lists. • ♻️ Automation: Raycast, Shortcuts • ✍🏻 Blogging: Pika, Micro.blog, MarsEdit • 📚 Book tracking: Epilogue • 🔖 Bookmarks: Micro.blog, Raindrop.io, many open tabs 😬 • 🌐...
on Dec 27
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My Mom loved the holidays. She always tried to do too much, and would get a little frazzled and stressed, but she did it because she loved all of it....
on Dec 26
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Asking too much of the fediverse - annie's blog
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Connection between people requires time and care and a bit of vulnerability. Typical social media is frenetic and shallow by design. It’s a firehose of urgency that encourages consumption over...
on Dec 20
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Retrospective, financial - annie's blog
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This time of year can be quite the stressor. I love the holidays, in general, and I treasure the traditions I have with my kids and friends and loved ones....
on Dec 17