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Neighbors fought again. I put a speaker next to the wall and played a loud swaying tone reminiscent of high voltage hum. I could hear them stop arguing and start to coordinate to figure out where it was coming from

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Egyptian poem from 3,300 years ago

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In Finland it's standard for people to have a gap in their CV of some years during their 20's. In job interviews it's accepted as normal and politely ignored. The section title for it in the default CV layout provided by the state translates roughly to "dark night of the soul"

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Found an article about a cat in the Finnish winter

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It's quiet now but I'm ready to use it again if they make up in their usual way

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3 years

One good aspect about Finland is how nothing becomes a meme. There are no types of guys. With a population of 5.5 million, there's barely a guy per thing

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I put on Vision Pro goggles for the first time and asked them to filter out branding from my environment. Suddenly what I saw around me was no longer America but a vast machine built for generating human biomass out of animal biomass and carbohydrates. This had been coupled to

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(making small talk with the neighbor) all sunny days are alike; each rainy day is rainy in its own way

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4 months

Night walk home, cherry trees are in bloom and birds are singing their most tentative tunes

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From a film roll shot a few weeks ago

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You can write a little about it in the box in the CV. Your putative employer will never comment on it, but they may come to understand you better as a person. Every job interview has some minutes of silence during which the interviewer reads this section and contemplates on it

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On your way out the interviewer may give you an empathetic tap on the shoulder, as acknowledgement of having read and understood the contents of the "dark night of the soul" section. It's also the only occasion of bodily contact to be found in the Finnish behavioral etiquette

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6 months

Kafka's draft of a letter to his boss explaining why he didn't come to work

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2 years

Email job but you control a forklift via email

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7 months

Many seek jobs just to express what they experienced during these years because you're not supposed to talk about it elsewhere than in your CV

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2 years

This guy had an incredible setup for a coffee and cigarette in rainy midtown Manhattan

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4 months

Thinking again about the time Bladee got hit by lightning but just went to bed to sleep it off

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1 year

"Do you love the Dunkin app?" No "Sorry to hear that. How could we improve?" Don't use the word love so carelessly

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10 months

Men really live like this (Thomas Bernhard's house)

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4 months

Brooklyn trees in bloom

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4 months

My favorite empty lot in NYC I spotted yesterday was this one in Carroll Gardens

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6 months

an abstract "quantity" that seemed to be squeezed out of the biomass in giant buildings resembling factories, offices and hospitals. The quantity flowed through the whole machine, towards a hidden heart that was like a black box, pixelated unrecognizable

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6 months

I don't know what Apple is up to or whether this is intentional on their part but maybe don't try Vision Pro before the bugs are ironed out. It was not something I needed to see. Putting mine on the shelf until further notice.

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9 months

Persimmons, attributed to Muqi (13th century)

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3 years

I think some of you would enjoy this: “The Pillar” by Stephen Gill, a book of photographs taken at different times of a pillar and what’s happening on and by it

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Victor Hugo's drawings in which he often used coal, soot and coffee

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10 months

Kafka

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5 months

Explaining at the job interview that I'm looking to pivot from introversion and dreams to extroversion and reality

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1 year

Normal evening walk in Newark

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2 years

"Trails" by Takashi Homma, about deer control in Hokkaido

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3 years

Photos that I took on motion picture film and a 65-year-old camera

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6 months

The longest silence in a conversation in recorded history occurred in 1873 near Koppelo, Finland. Two gold prospectors had set out on a land they had purchased after having witnessed a strange bright yellow bird bathing in a river that passed through it, which they considered

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1 year

Graphic designers could never do this

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3 years

The downside is of course you wont have any buddies and you'll be known as "that guy"

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3 months

From a letter by a Finnish poet: "In my youth I often introduced myself as a 'dandelion farmer'. A blatant lie since I had a 9-5, but also a literal truth: when walking about I would gather dandelion seeds into a plastic sandwich bag until it was full. Then I'd find a hill, and

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3 years

@arkmashton Sometimes not having culture is advantageous, I'd say. You shut down your computer and it's gone, all you hear is the forest swaying in the wind

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2 years

Hideaki Anno on his wife

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2 years

@ipaddlearound Guy has an evil pfp, it's good to get out. Bad vibes

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5 months

The magic of TLR cameras is that you get to look at a screen without any electronics

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7 months

From last night

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1 year

It's so rare to find people who viscerally understand what your experience of life is like or whose own point of view interacts with yours in interesting ways. It's probably the most precious thing there is

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4 months

Pictures I took in Finland many years ago

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4 months

Need to go visit a forest soon to hear what's really going on this spring

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6 months

On their way back, they caught a fish from the river. Back home, when gutting the fish, they discovered a nugget of gold worth enough to recoup the cost of the land and buy them two beers each. That night the silence was broken again by cheers over the beers

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3 years

Most peoples’ fantasies about moving to a rural location seem to involve the creation of a community of likeminded individuals. Not mine: it’s all about entering into a decades-long land border dispute with someone equally stubborn

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3 years

I'm home grad schooling my children

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4 months

From a walk along Second River in NJ

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1 year

@hum_dunkin You can release a cat in any environment and it will soon become a mountain cat, a swamp cat, a forest cat, whatever is needed and appropriate

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3 months

Every town should have a selection of monasteries where you can retreat to at will for a few days or even an afternoon whenever needed. Amenities should include a secluded garden, a cool cell w/ a simple wooden desk, chair & bunk. Meals of gruel twice a day. Light & heavy duties

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6 months

an auspicious sign. They'd been sieving silt in silence to no result for three weeks when one of them asked the other, "should we head back?" After three more years of fruitless sieving and further silence the other one answered, "yes"

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From a letter of a Finnish poet to his editor: "Recently I've been looking for slow people to walk behind, as a form of walking meditation. You get to live at someone else's pace for a while. It gives you time to think: what happened in their lives to make them like this? How do

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The "scandi" style of interior design is a huge psyop by the likes of ikea and airbnb. The old houses look nothing like it, nor does original modernism

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2 years

Diner breakfast, once again

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Poems by the monk Saigyo (1118-1190) that you can use as away messages in work related contexts

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9 months

From a series on Georgian nomads by Natela Grigalashvili

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3 months

on a suitable day would climb it to release the seeds into the wind and the slanted evening light. Last night I had a dream. A tornado was approaching. Instinctively I reached for my bag of dandelion seeds, sensing an opportunity."

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3 years

How do I untake the cozypill? I need to get back on my grind

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9 months

Image from the satellite Euclid when its guidance sensor failed to lock on a guide star, later fixed by a software update

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3 years

This is what they took from you when they took fleets

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Visited Boston for 12 hours

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rhi

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you guys really should google your usernames and see what random articles you’ve been featured in. i should put on my resume that i’ve been featured on vice and screenrant

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2 years

New camera loaded up and good to go

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More flowers on this tree now

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2 years

Everyone should post their dream farm. Don't be a hater, this could be fun. Mine would have 3 ducks, a barn for cats, a blueberry field and an alder orchard, from where I occasionally cut down a tree out of which I carve little cat figurines.

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A walk in Central Park

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In the spring when they are in bloom you notice that there are cherry trees everywhere in surprising places. They've been standing there humbly all year, patiently, almost withering in appearance, in the middle of a strip mall parking lot, between bland government offices, next

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Picture I took on film at work one afternoon

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From my walk to get a coffee

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Early Moomin drawing by Tove Jansson, 1945

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3 years

A diner that respects its craft

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3 years

It was just me and the plows out last night

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4 months

Vantablack is famous for being the blackest black, but few know of the lightest black, measured from the surface of a woodcut by the early British master of the art form, Thomas Durham (1421-1454). Carved in ebony and polished with a technique since lost, the dark wood

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3 years

I told him to use his antlers and take what's rightfully his (the park)

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2 years

In the winter it's too cold to work, in the spring too beautiful to work, in the summer too hot to work and in the fall again too beautiful to work

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5 months

A Finnish poet in a letter to his editor: "It's thanks to poetry that I'm able to work. For every poem I write, I'm able to write maybe 50 polite, professional and concise but information-dense emails. If I stop writing poetry, resist it long enough in my attempts to show who's

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How your email finds me

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4 months

My ideal day: 4-10 hours of intellectual or other work 1-2 hours of walking & exercise 1-2 hours of cooking and household work 2-4 hours of reading and writing 7-8 hours of sleep with the possibility of a nap The rest lounging about/relaxed socializing Every day can be like this

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In the US there’s a stereotype for everything. A lot of it is of course satirizing this way of thinking but that doesn’t make the tendency less real. When there’s less of everything, you just can’t think like that, for better or worse

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Amazing inn in the Catskills