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It's good
Screen shot of a tumblr post that says "mood post Superman" and shows a crude line drawing of a person with two dot eyes and a huge mouth saying "you son of a bitch you rekindled my sense of wonder."
July 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Now this is MY kind of travel guide
Photo of a magazine in a grocery store checkout rack. It is titled "Cursed & Creepy Destinations" and has a picture of a creepy Victorian home at night
July 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Screenshot of a text chat. The first chat bubble says, "have we discussed whether hot dogs are sandwiches?" The second text bubble says, "Leslie, haven't you brought enough upset to the group chat for one night?"
July 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Finished.

If you need me, I'll be (metaphorically) lying on the ground staring at the ceiling
A screen shot of the audiobook of Moby Dick by Herman Melville. The player is on the Epilogue and says "The End"
March 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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So excited I've reached the Whale Facts portion of Moby Dick
Screenshot of a text exchange in which a person receives texts from a supposed "Whale Facts" service and is unable to unsubscribe (edited from the original prank in which the texts are cat facts) Screenshot of a text exchange in which a person receives texts from a supposed "Whale Facts" service and is unable to unsubscribe (edited from the original prank in which the texts are cat facts)
March 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Now in her new home with my other plants and Lego book cart
A photo of a shelf in an office with two small house plants and a Lego book art and Lego book shelf.
February 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Taking my new plant to get a coffee
Photo of a cafe latte on a wooden table in a paper cup. There is latte art in the form on top of a heart with butterfly wings. A small button fern in a ceramic pot sits on the table behind the coffee cup.
February 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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My current stress strategy: buying $5 houseplants for my office at Trader Joe's
Photo of a small button fern in a ceramic pot held in a hand. A self behind it out of focus has more small plants in similar pots. A sign on the shelf says "mini foliage in seasonal deco 4.99"
February 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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This decision really paid off at trivia tonight
Screenshot of a trivia game with the question "A waxy, fragrant substance used in perfumes, which animal is the source of ambergris?" The answer "whales" is filled in.
February 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Starting on a journey today
Screenshot of an audiobook of Moby Dick by Herman Melville. It is open to chapter one.
February 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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If you see this, share a skeleton 💀
A tattoo of a skeleton surrounded by cherry blossoms and text on a scroll that says "all tattoos are temporary"
February 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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I bought this cookbook last year after borrowing it from the library and it had been very helpful when I'm having a bad week and want to outsource all of my grocery/mealprep/cooking decision-making.
Cover of the Ultimate Meal Prep Cookbook by America's Test Kitchen
February 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Who could forget that influential story "Call of Kahuku"
Screenshot showing audiobook chapters including "The Call of Kahuku"
February 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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I borrowed an audiobook of Lovecraft's stories from Hoopla and the chapter titles are full of (OCR?) errors. Remember that classic weird tale, "Another Down Sizing"
Screenshot showing chapters from an audiobook including "The Shadow Over Ila Smith", "The Dreams and the Watch House" and "Another Down Sizing"
February 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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I did it, I went back and added everything I read over the past three years - whew
Three notebooks open to "book logs" listing books read and the dates from 2022, 2023, and 2024.
January 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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QUINTUS LIVES
Quintus advenit Quintus ad villam advënit. Salvius é villā contendit et eum salütävit. "miQuinte!" inquit. "exspectätissimus es! cubiculum optimum tibi parãvimus." Salvius Quintum in tablinum düxit, ubi Rúfilla sedebat. Rúfilla, 5 postquam familiärem suum salütävit, suäviter risit. "cenam modicam tibi paravi," inquit. "tibi ostreãs paravi et garum Pompeiãnum. post cénam cubiculum tibi ostendere volo." Salvius, postquam Quintus cēnam consümpsit, dē urbe Pompeiis quaerebat. 10 "ubi in Campãnia militäbam, saepe urbem Pompeiõs visitäbam. nonne illa clãdēs terribilis erat?" Rüfilla interpellävit, "cúr Quintum nostrum vexãs? non decõrum est. difficile est Quintõ tantam clãdem commemorãre." 15 Rüfilla ad Quintum sẽ convertit. "fortasse, mi Quinte, fessus es. cubiculum tibi paravi. cubiculum nön est örnātum. in eõ sunt armärium modicum et candeläbrum parvum." 20 Salvius irätus nihil dixit. Quintus, postquam cubiculum vidit, exclämävit, "quam elegãns est cubiculum! ego nihil elegantius vidi." "consentio," inquit Salvius. "cubiculum tuum elegantius est quam tablinum meum." talk about exspectatissimus: exspectatus modicam ostres: ostrea garum cladēs terribilis interpellavit: interpellare welcome ordinary, little oyster sauce disaster terrible interrupt so great, such a great commemoräre se convertit: sẽ convertere turn örnätum: örnätus elaborately furnished, decorated more tasteful élegantius
January 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Have a nice day making some pierogi and never going outside today
A cookie tray covered in handmade pierogi A plate of cooked pierogi topped with onions, sour cream, and dill.
January 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Dealing with the horrors by undertaking various baking projects this weekend (King Arthur flour's no-knead crusty white bread, baked in a Dutch oven)
Two crusty, artisanal loaves of bread cooling on a rack on a kitchen counter.
January 18, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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I have made it to the final chapter of book one of the Cambridge Latin Course, in which we find out that it's 79 AD and Mount Vesuvius erupts, killing almost every character we've met. What a wild textbook, love it.
Black and white illustration from a book showing two men on a dock looking out at a volcano. A cloud of smoke rises above the volcano. Black and white illustration of a woman standing in an ancient Roman plaza next to a stall selling cloth. In the background, smoke rises above a volcano. Black and white image in a book of a plaster cast made of the hollow space left where a body decayed in the ashes of Pompeii. The plaster cast is of a man lying on his stomach with his arms raised to his face.
January 6, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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My mom wanted to make those Italian tri-color/rainbow bakery cookies this year
December 24, 2024 at 10:40 PM
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The TRAIN ROOM!!!!
December 24, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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Signs fortold of it
December 24, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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Absolutely stoked to come and see The TRAIN ROOM (It Will Be Open...)
December 23, 2024 at 12:44 AM
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Bribing everyone to come to trivia tonight with shortbread
December 16, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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Classical Latin doesn't have a T-V distinction???? What are we even doing out here, Romance languages???
December 7, 2024 at 3:05 AM