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@qsyami.bsky.social

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Closer to 40. OT7 ARMY. Studying Korean. Chronic overexplainer. 소확행.

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soch @qsyami.bsky.social · 1h

It's not homework! And the inability to feel moved by something I know I love even in the short term still feels strange and sad to me.

soch @qsyami.bsky.social · 1h

The ratio of bad to good things that I encounter lately is just...hard to deal with. And I'm lucky. I have a lot of IRL friends who are great, and a kind of job that sometimes feels meaningful, and I'm close to my family and support network even if that's hard sometimes. And I'm still sad. Sucks

soch @qsyami.bsky.social · 1h

I do generally want to be more positive or at least not just be angry/sad on the internet all the time because I feel like it doesn't really help anyone, but ugh it's feeling pretty awful rn a lot of the time

soch @qsyami.bsky.social · 1h

My own brother sincerely believes his "3d chess" is altruistic for working class people.

soch @qsyami.bsky.social · 2h

I wish I was in a brain space to just be really into fandom, but I haven't been. So I'm sorry if you follow me for BTS stuff, but I'm spewing a bunch of sad thoughts and random stuff onto your skyline.

soch @qsyami.bsky.social · 2h

Which ik is not even the right way to think about it because it's not like species development is akin to psychological maturation. We are not gaining wisdom as we move through geologic time, just adapting to the circumstances presented circumstances. Eh, idk idk

I'm feeling kinda sad is all

soch @qsyami.bsky.social · 2h

A while back, I read that the average mammalian species has lasted about a million years, and sapiens is ~250,000 years in. So we're adults but not an old species. And I just think about that a lot and of what version of us will make it to a million years or if we're living fast and dying young.

soch @qsyami.bsky.social · 2h

Numbers are just words, I guess

soch @qsyami.bsky.social · 2h

At least in modern records, the volcanic winters only last a year (year without summer 1816), and maybe we get a decade long mini ice age.

It's bad because of crop failure but not worldwide apocalyptic like humans are obliterated unless you're geographically close to the eruption.

soch @qsyami.bsky.social · 4h

Fuck those shitbags. I hope they have gastric distress out both ends

soch @qsyami.bsky.social · 10h

Just ate it. It was a delight.

soch @qsyami.bsky.social · 10h

I'm the luckiest

soch @qsyami.bsky.social · 10h

For clarification, this is a one hundred percent sincere post. I am actually feeling very happy about finding this parking lot tomato.

soch @qsyami.bsky.social · 10h

Gave my small package of gummy bears to a kid that said he was hungry and found this parking lot tomato. Seems like a fair trade. Thanks universe.

Looking forward to washing and eating it when I get home.

A lovely red cherry tomato in my hand that I just picked up in a parking lot.

soch @qsyami.bsky.social · 10h

They do a spoof shoot every year!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15h

Wrote a thing. Again. Telling the truth is generally regarded as a matter of intention and moral character, but it's also a skill: the ability to delineate accurately what's going on out there and who exactly the parties are....

Categories Are Leaky (Over-Generalizations are Dangerous)

Many people seem to love sweeping generalizations. Not all people, but lots of people I come across trying to discuss the politics of our time fall back on pretending that a category of people is homo...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 17h

1. Scientists flossed mice. And delivered a vaccine through the floss!

2. This could mean people could self administer vaccines, something vital in a pandemic.

3. Ok but wait you want me to FLOSS!? Like let's not get wild here...

www.sciencenews.org/article/flos...

How flossing a mouse's teeth could lead to a new kind of vaccine

Flu viruses often enter the body through mucous tissue in the nose. Researchers are developing new ways to protect such areas.

www.sciencenews.org

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yrrweg⁷🦢 @yrrweg.bsky.social · 22h

Tae's just so cute. Also, that laugh there at the start of the video

🔗 www.instagram.com/reel/DPmuqpu...

#Taehyung #V

soch @qsyami.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Hangul Day

Some composer wrote this extremely grandiose song about it

youtu.be/Y60aPySfNxY?...

여민락콘서트- Welcome to 한글 - 최정원&김성결-김효근 아트팝가곡

YouTube video by 김효근 K-ARTPOP (HYOGUN KYM)

soch @qsyami.bsky.social · 2d

Actually had an okay class today that made me feel like teaching isn't just a wash. We talked about vaccine hesitancy and how vaccines work and how systemic data can tell us things that personal experience can't.

Also, the complicatedness of many seemingly conflicting things being true at once.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

god damn this is brutal defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

soch @qsyami.bsky.social · 3d

Taehyung in rich widow chic is actually kind of one of my favorites

soch @qsyami.bsky.social · 3d

Modern medicine! Yay!

soch @qsyami.bsky.social · 4d

Seollal is also the same as Lunar New Year!

soch @qsyami.bsky.social · 4d

Bonus win, I taught my brother how to disassemble the p-trap and check for leaks after putting it back together so maybe next time he can deal with this instead!