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  • This is an incredible piece. Highly recommend it. Good journaling music but it'll also take you on a journey that you don't expect. Give it a listen. All instrumental with a seven note medley that repeats throughout but takes on new meaning as it progresses.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucdYt46DpX8

    #music #promises #floatingpoints #pharoahsanders #thelondonsymphonyorchestra #londonsymphonyorchestra #instrumental #modernclassical #journaling

    8:44:50 PM 5/13/2025
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@Bluedepth/114489338393927244

    @Bluedepth @mcnado Sermon on the Mount 🧑‍🍳🤌

    5:26:17 PM 5/11/2025
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  • If you're looking for a good wake up track, look no further. It's got energy without being spastic. It's got sun and hope. It'll make you actually want to do the thing!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWJV83LyBz8&t=1224

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    #music #fourtet #morning #goodmorning #motivation #hope #feelgood

    9:01:00 AM 5/8/2025
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  • This morning I'm off to a temple near Blois until Sunday. It's the first time staying at a monastery since I left the United States. It would be dishonest to say I'm not a bit apprehensive. There's things that give me pause. But it's one of the two closest monasteries, and I figured I'd start as local as possible before needing to travel across France to find a place where the dharma is alive and vibrant. Maybe I'll write up my experience on my way back.

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    #buddhism #zen #religion #blois

    7:12:11 AM 5/8/2025
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@CStamp/114468520129561288

    @CStamp hahaha come to think of it, French people have said they don't understand why we say that. So I think the next time they don't understand that an américaine thing is not American, I'll just say: "French fries, échec. et. mat." haha

    10:52:39 PM 5/7/2025
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  • donthatedontkill replied to https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1746642582/

    @CStamp hahaha come to think of it, French people have said they don't understand why we say that. So I think the next time they don't understand that an américaine thing is not American, I'll just say: "French fries, échec. et. mat." haha

    10:52:39 PM 5/7/2025
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@CStamp/114468497684116401

    @CStamp Maybe because if you believe it is American, it's true and anyone who says otherwise is spreading fake news 😅

    10:48:24 PM 5/7/2025
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  • donthatedontkill replied to https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1746642582/

    @CStamp Maybe because if you believe it is American, it's true and anyone who says otherwise is spreading fake news ????

    10:48:24 PM 5/7/2025
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  • In reply to: https://tilde.zone/@BenCollver/114468488164363207

    @BenCollver I have always been advised by friends to not eat out in the Netherlands because it was expensive and not necessarily good. And one of my friends liked to cook (and was really good at it too!) so we ended up dining in during visits. I only ate an Indian restaurant once. And I tasted bitterballen. I'll have to see what their take is on Mexican food the next time I go. (But said cooking friend is actually Mexican so I'll have to keep it a secret from him. :blobpeek:)

    10:47:09 PM 5/7/2025
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  • donthatedontkill replied to https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1746642582/

    @BenCollver I have always been advised by friends to not eat out in the Netherlands because it was expensive and not necessarily good. And one of my friends liked to cook (and was really good at it too!) so we ended up dining in during visits. I only ate an Indian restaurant once. And I tasted bitterballen. I'll have to see what their take is on Mexican food the next time I go. (But said cooking friend is actually Mexican so I'll have to keep it a secret from him. blobpeek)

    10:47:09 PM 5/7/2025
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@CStamp/114468466564318459

    @CStamp This here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauce_ And there's things on menus called "American ___" and I'm just like why. Like once it was like a hamburger with an egg in it or something like that. I can't remember. It was relatively unassuming but I guess to them something was American about it. I'll have to try to notice the next time I walk past one of the kebab places. I've just grown used to it at this point. Also don't get me started on what they call a "tacos" (yes with an S but it's singular).

    10:41:54 PM 5/7/2025
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  • donthatedontkill replied to https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1746642582/

    @CStamp This here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauce_am%C3%A9ricaine And there's things on menus called "American ___" and I'm just like why. Like once it was like a hamburger with an egg in it or something like that. I can't remember. It was relatively unassuming but I guess to them something was American about it. I'll have to try to notice the next time I walk past one of the kebab places. I've just grown used to it at this point. Also don't get me started on what they call a "tacos" (yes with an S but it's singular).

    Sauce américaine - Wikipedia
    10:41:54 PM 5/7/2025
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@CStamp/114468395970689231

    @CStamp As far as the country naming goes, you're right. I have friends in the Netherlands and we've exchanged stories about this sort of thing. I think what gets me is kind of the French resistance to the idea that they're doing it. And once again, being surprised I don't know what "American sauce" is. Again I don't know how many Americans believe Swiss cheese is Swiss.

    10:28:58 PM 5/7/2025
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  • donthatedontkill replied to https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1746642582/

    @CStamp As far as the country naming goes, you're right. I have friends in the Netherlands and we've exchanged stories about this sort of thing. I think what gets me is kind of the French resistance to the idea that they're doing it. And once again, being surprised I don't know what "American sauce" is. Again I don't know how many Americans believe Swiss cheese is Swiss.

    10:28:58 PM 5/7/2025
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@CStamp/114468395970689231

    @CStamp I'm from Indiana originally and Taco Bell was definitely not my introduction to Mexican food. But you know, I'm just me. I don't have any kind of statistical evidence of who knows what or how. I'm not sure how it is in Canada but my feeling is that a lot of people my generation or younger in the US know. I can see maybe older generations being a bit ignorant about it though, geography depending

    10:23:48 PM 5/7/2025
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@RationalizedInsanity/114468290508733225

    @RationalizedInsanity oh don't I know it but the dehumanization remains shocking

    9:53:11 PM 5/7/2025
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@RationalizedInsanity/114468236246923767

    @RationalizedInsanity oh wow!! Man.... But like how do you expect people to act if you cut out their tongue?? And just for popping. Jayzus :blobsweats:

    9:45:41 PM 5/7/2025
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@PapiKitsune/114468054559039512

    @PapiKitsune I haven't seen that :welp:

    8:55:50 PM 5/7/2025
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  • donthatedontkill replied to https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1746548932/

    @PapiKitsune I haven't seen that welp

    8:55:50 PM 5/7/2025
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@PapiKitsune/114468038066716151

    @PapiKitsune I don't know who that is but looking up a picture, I can see it!

    I wrote that and just saw she was in Death Stranding. I know her from that! Of all things!

    8:49:45 PM 5/7/2025
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  • Blog posts
  • Spiders in the web: Hyperion's Farcasters and Technofeudalism

    SPOILERS FOR THE HYPERION SERIES

    I recently finished the Hyperion Cantos. For those who have never heard of it, you can check out

    8:11:00 PM 5/4/2025
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  • Slump (A poem)

    Wind rushing by my ears
    Branches slap my face
    Speed increasing
    As gravity drags me down
    Into its bosom
    Woosh, whack, whiz
    As I wake up
    To a once hidden nightmare.

    ...

    4:26:00 PM 12/19/2024
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  • A Manifesto? - Part 1: New Ways of Being

    I have an idea rattling around in my head. An embryo of an idea. A little intellectual itch nagging at me. A perpetual refrain when my mind idles and looks for the nearest thing to alight on. A noti...

    4:06:00 PM 10/13/2024
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  • The dreams continue.

    During my nap, in the dream I woke up from it but not for real. There was someone strangely in my apartment. Seemed kind of lost. I asked who he was and why he was here and he just left. Then I went...

    3:27:00 PM 7/22/2024
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  • More dreams

    I just woke up from another bad dream. I'm not sure if you can call this one a nightmare because I normal associate them with fear and this was sadness, stress. Stuff happened before but the part I ...

    9:33:00 AM 7/20/2024
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How I'm Spending My Free Time

Ecotopia emerging

Ernest Callenbach

Cover of Ecotopia emerging

Total playtime in the last two weeks

6.15 hours