Clifford Hsu
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Clifford Hsu
@syrphid.bsky.social
Amateur writer, inhabitant of the PNW, bizarre creature enthusiast, and best of all: dilettante human being.
Excited to begin my reading of the Service Berry by Robin Wall Kimmerer! Initial thoughts: I find it poetic and am enjoying this thought of 'enoughness': That we already have enough for everybody on the planet. #booksky 📚💙
February 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Ive been thinking about misinformation lately. Imagine a pond, still and clear. Then a rain drop hits it rippling outward.

How do you stop the ripple? Is it more drops or is it waiting for the ripple to stop on its own?
January 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Was about to throw out some protein powder because of lactose then I had a doomsday prepper thought so I am now one packet of protein powder more prepared for a doomsday than I was yesterday.
January 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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"Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing."

—John Stuart Mill
January 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
From my journal today: Allow yourself to be worse at being human but take notes. Surely nobody expects you to remember all the rules by yourself.
January 20, 2025 at 1:52 AM
After reading news about teabags containing microplastics I had to do a not so quick internet search to see if my favorite tea has been turning me into a wax sculpture.

Reader, I am happy to report the answer is no: my favorite tea comes with a little staple through the bag.
January 14, 2025 at 7:02 AM
December is already a better month for my projects. Remembering to take my vitamin D and go outside makes a huge difference.
December 11, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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Living luxuriously
December 9, 2024 at 10:32 AM
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I keep reading that this is a place for kinder people, but gentle souls have always been among us. We just couldn’t hear them anymore. Perhaps our gathering here is proof that we missed those voices. What a wonderful thing to believe about ourselves. It can be a bold move to choose kindness.
December 8, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Reading(procrastination) checkpoint:

📚last book read: Wisteria by Adalyn grace
📚your current read: Shock Induction by Chuck Palahniuk
📚Last book added TBR: Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
📚Next Read: Shapes of Native Nonfiction: (...) edited by Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton

#booksky
December 3, 2024 at 1:27 AM
One of the things I've been enjoying most about #booksky is seeing all the neat books everyone else is reading, so in that spirit here's my favorite book quote that's stuck with me in the past month.

"Hauntology is a nostalgia for futures that cannot be." -Villareal

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@booksandquotes.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 2:29 AM
On one hand being sick sucks.

Wrapped in blankets staring blankly at the floor sipping on tepid water avoiding the gaze of harsh amber light I installed last month.

But on the other hand I've never been better at solving plotholes. Maybe I should do this more often?

#amwriting #writingcommunity
November 25, 2024 at 11:47 PM
My collection of inks, and all the bottles are different shapes. I don't know how to store them! 😅
November 24, 2024 at 7:45 AM
I think it was Hannah Arendt who said that Loneliness: a loss of shared experiences, gives rise to totalitarianism. So to whomever needs to hear it: thank you for sharing your passions. Thank you for having a unique identity. It helps.
November 24, 2024 at 6:55 AM
I suppose I should post something here, but I don't know what to post. So here's a nothing to occupy your eyes while I think of something.
November 23, 2024 at 6:25 PM