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  1. Comment on You're not crazy. The bugs are disappearing. in ~enviro

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    That's good to know! I already take a b12 supplement a few times a week. Maybe a low-dose b complex instead would help.

    That's good to know! I already take a b12 supplement a few times a week. Maybe a low-dose b complex instead would help.

  2. Comment on Disney inks blockbuster $1b deal with OpenAI, handing characters over to Sora in ~tech

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    I'm hoping this is what happens and signals the beginning of the end of AI being shoehorned into everything

    I'm hoping this is what happens and signals the beginning of the end of AI being shoehorned into everything

    6 votes

  3. Comment on You're not crazy. The bugs are disappearing. in ~enviro

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    Mosquito abatement in CA is just them all coming to attack me because they know I'm allergic to them or something. Even in off seasons, I get bitten by mosquitos and fleas.

    Mosquito abatement in CA is just them all coming to attack me because they know I'm allergic to them or something. Even in off seasons, I get bitten by mosquitos and fleas.

    4 votes

  4. Comment on You're not crazy. The bugs are disappearing. in ~enviro

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    Some of them live in my building's courtyard, tempting my dog, who likes to eat them for some reason.

    Some of them live in my building's courtyard, tempting my dog, who likes to eat them for some reason.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Books: Your personal year in review for 2025 in ~books

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    I've read so many books this year. More than I think I've ever read in one year. I got really lucky and have been able to listen to audiobooks a ton, which is my new preferred reading mode, since...

    I've read so many books this year. More than I think I've ever read in one year. I got really lucky and have been able to listen to audiobooks a ton, which is my new preferred reading mode, since I can do all of my mindless work tasks and still get something to enjoy while I do it.

    I was surprised just how much I love horror novels, since I'm such a weenie when it comes to horror movies and other scary-type movies. Some of my favorite books this year have been by Grady Hendrix and Simone St. James. I will read anything they put out in the future.

    I DNF'd a few books this year, but they were mostly just not my type of novel - though there was one book I DNF'd for being poorly written and basic as fuck. I found I don't like most modern literary fiction. It's just not for me.

    I actually worked through the Goodreads challenges for the year, and am almost at the last one on my list for the year. Several of the options weren't books I would consider reading, memoirs, non-fiction that isn't history/food related, literary novels, just genres that weren't my type. I won't be going through it again next year. If I happen to want some ideas, I'll look through the challenge list again, but I won't kill myself over reading things I'm not interested in.

    Two books I was surprised I wasn't a fan of were Under the Whispering Door and The Spear Cuts Through Water. Both are queer stories, the latter being sort of a mythology book as well, but I found that they were both kind of boring and really should have just been edited down a bit better. Actually, most of the books I didn't enjoy much this year were due to them being too long and/or poorly edited so they were generally boring in some way.

    I think my two favorite books this year were from my book club with two of my best friends: Murder Road by Simone St. James, and Starling House (not officially a book club book, but we all decided to read it separately after picking our second book) by Alix E. Harrow. Harrow is another author who I love and will read all of her books. The Ten Thousand Doors of January is one of my favorite books and was introduced me to Harrow's work.

    I also learned I love the "dumb fun" series that are around. I'm reading the Haunting Danielle series in between heavy books, and they're pretty silly little romps with the same premise over and over, but they're cute and a good way to turn my brain off and read something simple. It's been a great thing to have in my pocket every time I needed a break.

    Overall, I've read 131 books so far and have 4 more books in my library loans list to read before the end of the year. It's been a wild ride!

    3 votes

  6. Comment on How do you plan out your meals for the week/meal prep? in ~food

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    We don't actually have a meal plan or prep our food ahead of time. Instead, I go to the farmer's market on Sundays and then do a supplemental shop for staples I need afterward and then look at...

    We don't actually have a meal plan or prep our food ahead of time. Instead, I go to the farmer's market on Sundays and then do a supplemental shop for staples I need afterward and then look at what I have and decide what meals we want to make that week. I have a white board where I write down the meal ideas that has 10 lines on it with a little checkbox to the right of it to say it was done or not.

    I pick 10 meal options for us to have based on what we have in the fridge/pantry and each night, we decide what to eat based on the energy levels we have and what we haven't had yet. I always have a range of easy/simple meals to project-level recipes.

    I don't do well with most leftovers for texture reasons, so this is a great compromise for me, and Mr. Tired doesn't have to cook most nights, and we've drastically reduced our takeout orders, from several nights a week to just one night most weeks since we've started.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Tweaks to state laws mean many Americans will be able to benefit from small, simple plug-in solar panels in ~enviro

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    We live in an apartment and I would be so hype to be able to just plug in a solar panel and use that. PGE is getting insanely expensive and where we are in the Bay Area, we get more sunny days...

    We live in an apartment and I would be so hype to be able to just plug in a solar panel and use that. PGE is getting insanely expensive and where we are in the Bay Area, we get more sunny days than not, so we could feasibly use solar with no issues.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on US shoppers, drawn by steep discounts, power through Black Friday in ~finance

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    I pre-ordered something, but my account won't be charged until the item release date, so technically I didn't buy anything, but I did make a return request for an item I bought on Amazon that...

    I pre-ordered something, but my account won't be charged until the item release date, so technically I didn't buy anything, but I did make a return request for an item I bought on Amazon that wasn't the dimensions advertised, so technically, I spent negative money?

    Mr. Tired and family bought Ninetendo e-shop gift cards through Costco because they're finally on sale again.

    My travel water bottle broke yesterday, so now I need to decide if I should go back to one of my old ones which were hard on me, accessibility-wise and just deal with the hand pain from twisting a cap when I'm thirsty, or cleaning the camelbak bite valve while traveling, which I usually do with a vinegar soak and dishwasher back home daily when using those on a trip. I wish Camelbak made a flip top cap for their Eddie bottles - if anyone knows of one, lmk.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on Facebook and Instagram are paradises for scammers, reveal Meta's internal documents in ~tech

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    They actually forced me to take a survey on this last week in messenger. It wasn't super long, but I'm surprised to see something actually come of it. I would never use meta products anymore if I...

    They actually forced me to take a survey on this last week in messenger. It wasn't super long, but I'm surprised to see something actually come of it.

    I would never use meta products anymore if I didn't have to, but I have an instagram where I share my art, and unfortunately, it got linked to my FB account as a professional account and I can't uncouple them without losing my insta account. I also have a few friends who refuse to text and only use messenger for whatever reason, so I still have that as well. I wish I could just do away with all of it. I wouldn't even have an instagram if there were a viable alternative for my art niche.

    2 votes

  10. Comment on Timasomo 2025: The Showcase in ~creative.timasomo

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    OMG! Your work is amazing! What an awesome output for a month. I'm so proud of you <3.

    OMG! Your work is amazing! What an awesome output for a month. I'm so proud of you <3.

    3 votes

  11. Comment on Timasomo 2025: The Showcase in ~creative.timasomo

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    Oh wow! This is so exciting to have completed! Congratulations!!!!

    Oh wow! This is so exciting to have completed! Congratulations!!!!

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  12. Comment on Timasomo 2025: The Showcase in ~creative.timasomo

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    I still don't have a plan for them. I might just make a dress out of them, since that's trendy at the moment? To make dresses out of patchwork and piecework? Or maybe I'll make a quilt. I still...

    I still don't have a plan for them. I might just make a dress out of them, since that's trendy at the moment? To make dresses out of patchwork and piecework?

    Or maybe I'll make a quilt. I still don't know what I want to make from them lol. Mr tired keeps asking me what I'm going to do with them too 😂.

    Thank you for the kind compliments! As it turns out, chitons are difficult to replicate when you're trying to sew the pieces together.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on Timasomo 2025: The Showcase in ~creative.timasomo

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    Thank you so much!! The dog familiar was luck, since dogs are Hecate's sacred animal (things you learn researching your Halloween costume). English Paper Piecing is really relaxing at the making...

    Thank you so much!! The dog familiar was luck, since dogs are Hecate's sacred animal (things you learn researching your Halloween costume).

    English Paper Piecing is really relaxing at the making the pieces part. I assume the stitching them together part will be very stressful lol.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on Hate-reading? in ~books

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    I've hate read a few books, but I do try to give myself permission to DNF books I don't like. I'm also stubborn and will trudge through books I think I should like, but don't love. My main issue...

    I've hate read a few books, but I do try to give myself permission to DNF books I don't like. I'm also stubborn and will trudge through books I think I should like, but don't love. My main issue has generally been books that need a bit more of an edit because they're too long for no reason, as if the author was trying to hit a word count.

    5 votes

  15. Comment on Timasomo 2025: The Showcase in ~creative.timasomo

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    I did it! I sewed my Chilton, and it looked awesome, and as usual, I was the goth one out at work with my costume. The total for Timasomo of hexagons was 672! I still have more scraps and hexies...
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    I did it! I sewed my Chilton, and it looked awesome, and as usual, I was the goth one out at work with my costume.

    The total for Timasomo of hexagons was 672! I still have more scraps and hexies to glue together, but I think I'm really enjoying how relaxing this process it. I'm pretty sure I will end up with a nice, large piece of fabric out of these!

    link to my work

    9 votes

  16. Comment on “Results - I don't have dementia” in ~health.mental

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    So many different illnesses and mental disorders cause memory issues. Depression, Anxiety, injury (not just concussion/TBI), fibromyalgia, ADHD, flu, covid.... the list goes on. Some, we haven't...

    So many different illnesses and mental disorders cause memory issues. Depression, Anxiety, injury (not just concussion/TBI), fibromyalgia, ADHD, flu, covid.... the list goes on. Some, we haven't studied near enough to understand just how they're causing memory lapse or memory issues.

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  17. Comment on What are your favorite low cost main dishes/meals? in ~food

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    I haven't made them in a long time, especially since I've gone mostly plant-based this year, but chicken kotleti: ground chicken, onions, bread, milk, egg. Mix it all together, and you have a meat...

    I haven't made them in a long time, especially since I've gone mostly plant-based this year, but chicken kotleti: ground chicken, onions, bread, milk, egg. Mix it all together, and you have a meat patty you can pan fry. They're delicious, easy, and cheap if you shop at aldi or grocery outlet, or bulk buy. It's a Ukranian/Eastern European food I grew up with that's always filling and makes a lot, so you can use the leftovers in a breakfast fry with eggs and potatoes the next morning.

    My current plant-based cheap meal is rice and beans. Rice is cheap, beans are cheap, and we buy them dry, so they're even cheaper. I mix it all together and throw in a bay leaf to my rice cooker, and it comes out perfectly mixed and delicious. Some hot sauce or salsa on it, and it's a perfect, low effort, cheap meal.

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  18. Comment on Timasomo 2025: Final Updates in ~creative.timasomo

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    Final updates: I did indeed baste the fabric together, and I hate it. So I might just throw on some more pins and make it "sleeved." I'll be trying that tonight with some silver ribbon I bought to...

    Final updates:

    1. I did indeed baste the fabric together, and I hate it. So I might just throw on some more pins and make it "sleeved." I'll be trying that tonight with some silver ribbon I bought to make a belt. I'm also using the beautiful fabric I bought for my wedding cape as a hood, and I love that. It looks so good.

    2. I've made close to 400 hexies at this point. They've gotten me through a lot of tough times this month when I felt like I couldn't do anything at all, so I made a hex or two.

    3. I've abandoned the top for now, not because I don't like it, but because I've been busy and sick this month, so aside from the mockup nothing is done.

    Not too shabby for having been otherwise unable to work this month. I still need to get on to designing a new sticker design for my trip next month and ordering it, which, thanks to tariffs, has gotten 30% more expensive, even though I print in the US.

    5 votes

  19. Comment on Return of the Obra Dinn - narrated modeling mega timelapse in ~games

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    I absolutely love this game. It's one of my favorites to recommend to people who love horror stories as much as I do. It's simple, beautiful, yet it is terrifying and complex. I'm definitely...

    I absolutely love this game. It's one of my favorites to recommend to people who love horror stories as much as I do. It's simple, beautiful, yet it is terrifying and complex. I'm definitely watching this with Mr. Tired, who introduced me to this beautiful game, tonight.

    3 votes

  20. Comment on Flights to Los Angeles International Airport halted due to air traffic controller shortage in ~society

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    From my brother who is a federal employee in TX: "Don't show up, don't have a job"

    From my brother who is a federal employee in TX: "Don't show up, don't have a job"

    5 votes