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Sylvia
@sylvia@social.lol
mastodon 4.7.3+glitchblogger, doodler, poet, diarist, avid reader and website tinkerer.
Chronic list maker.
Passionate about pro cycling, and probably won't shut up about it during the season.
Lives in the Netherlands with her husband and two cats.
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Joined January 01, 2023
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- writing a little on my new novel-ish project, longhand because that felt less challenging than writing on my laptop
- coffee. Delicious coffee
- my husband making me cheesy things as my afternoon snack. Yum.
- just had some amazing tea my sister gave me. It's brilliant
- started to knit some candy colour fingerless gloves. Wear those things so often in winter that I like to have a choice :)
- the wild meows of our cat when my husband comes home. I swear she starts meowing even before he puts his key in the lock.
Just found this old poem in my notes. It made me smile so I share it in hopes it does the same for you.
—
finding what to create
is as easy as
doing nothing
watching thoughts zip by
until your mind lets go
and allows your soul to
whisper
#poetry
new on my blog: How I broke through fear today
https://sylvia.studio/posts/how-i-broke-through-fear-today
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This post by Kurzgesagt is so disturbing. They make videos without AI, yet an AI moderator marked their video as slop, and has stopped showing the video to subscribers.
This is so worrying. Every time I look at the sidebar of YouTube videos, I see videos with thousands of views from vague channels that look very slop-y and those videos get recommended while those by real creators seem to get shadowbanned.
My doom-thinking mind can't help but think that it won't be long before AI creates videos that AI clients view and then Google gets all the ad money (from ads created by AI because why would you use human creativity when you just can steal it).
No humans needed! Wheeeeee.
The death of the internet theory gets more real every day....
https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxxLHEv1q7v_3k7Iaycfd_DHfNlwBFzo9F
This is my favourite of the bunch! Only two more to go 😀 after this I'm going to make my own designs 😀
I think getting better at this 😀
when life overwhelms
look for the beauty
the joy in the bright colour
of a newly opened flower
the breeze playing
with the leaves of a tall tree
the clouds floating
in a bright blue sky
the bird soaring,
diving into life
#poetry
Almost all good news from the oncologist on my blood tests. Phew!
Do need an extra blood test for the kidneys but drinking more should give better levels at a new test in two weeks. If not my meds need adjusting (they mess with the kidneys)
Replying to
I wrote a post in response to so many comments below about being afraid to comment.
https://sylvia.studio/dont-be-afraid-to-comment
I won't stop being angry about AI companies destroying books https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwnTmkDH1Ns
The New Book Burning
holy shit. Saw something similar cross my timeline the other day, and it's set me off on a tailspin.
They are gobbling up all our creativity and knowledge and then DESTROY the books!!!
It must be their wet dream that they own all the knowledge and then get us to pay for the priviledge of learning.
https://www.techspot.com/news/113277-ai-firms-quietly-buying-destroying-millions-printed-books.html
I have a new favourite craft. This is supposed to be two hearts in yin/yang but it doesn't look like hearts at all!
Did have fun though, that's most important!
😴 Yoga was FANTASTIC. Did some shopping after. Then came home and collapsed and slept for 3 hours I think. Now playing with what could become a new hobby: punch needling!
I've spent most of my day in front of my air cooler. Just saw that the temperature outside is 38, but feels like 40. Inside it's 32, and 77 percent humidity.
I'm in bed, only moving if I have to go to the loo, otherwise I'm not moving, and having a loving husband occasionally supplying me with food and tea :)
Tomorrow the temperature will be 31 degrees, and then in the evening they predict wild thunderstorms.
After that the temperature will go to a niiiiiiiice 21 degrees average for the week, and hopefully by then my asthma will improve again.
🕸️ Home from watching Spider-Man brand new day in a full cinema.
Loved it! So much.
it's a really hot day, and I'm sitting at the aircooler, resting because we're going to see Spidey tonight :)
new on my blog: I’ve found my joy in dots
🏋️♀️ Went to the gym. Now feel like a tired superwoman. Am making giant leaps though, can move up some weights, like the leg press, because 40kg feels easy 💪
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@eyrea@mstdn.ca I guess it's old age lol
Finally learning that a body is not meant to move in extreme heat
So sad at hearing of Glen Hansard's passing. Feels right to share the tiny desk concert (which was where I first fell in love with his music, I think)
Glen Hansard: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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@eyrea@mstdn.ca hi! Sorry for the delay in P. I love lineageOS! It's so smooth and I love that you can colour every icon just the way you want it. No visual clutter!
And I love the grey scale nightmode. It's perfect!
Being awake in the middle of the night apparently makes me good at playing smush.
Only had one character left too!
hankgreen.com/smush · 16 Jul
406 pts · ★ pangram · no hints
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@binarydigit@social.lol so sorry to read that! I really hope it's not carpal tunnel.
Something that really helped with the pain was the microsoft ergonomic keyboard, I was pain free in weeks!
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@elena@aseachange.com 20! My goodness. I have been thinking of playing with setting one up so this will be fun!
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@aliide@mstdn.social I bet that is a big part of the problem, because the big chains don't care about their rates, they always undercut because they have so many clients, they don't lose any money.
So then smaller centres have the problem of competing with them, and they are not in a position to negotiate bulk rates for gym equipment etc.
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@aliide@mstdn.social oh my goodness, why would it take that long to fix those machines. It's not rocket science!
So I don’t eat sugar but do have cravings sometimes 😀
For that I mostly go to stevia.
Now for stevia I used to get the granulated kind but that’s not available anymore.
And now I need a cookie or cake recipe for the drops, but after fifteen minutes searching I haven’t managed to find any recipes.
Well, I did find some but a lot started with: a cup of brown sugar.
Ugh.
I want cookies! If anyone has a good recipe using stevia drops and no sugar, hit me up.
This is the most promising one I found so far. Not cookies tho 🤣
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@markrprior@ohai.social
BEL Evenepoel
DEN Vingegaard
GBR Pidcock
GER Lipowitz
IRL Healy
NED Arensman
NOR Tobias Halland Johannessen
SLO Pogacar
#8NationsTDF #TDF2026 #finally
- I’m recovering from the cold, so happy about that. Goes to show that focusing on rest is the best medicine.
- Creating a second blog to prevent overwhelm was the best decision. I could just write without the noise of my main blog. May be ready to return soon.
- A day started with a cat curled up in my lap and bright sunlight peeking into the room through a split in the curtains is no doubt going to be a good day!
- my cats KNOW when I'm anxious. They curl up next to me :)
- knitting is such a good thing. I make sure to always put it down when I feel good about it. Somehow that makes me feel good when picking it up again.
- I'm so proud of 1.5 months of constant blogging!
- Having a delightful visit to a thrift store. Didn’t buy anything but saw so many cute things.
- Mint tea is the best.
- It’s getting colder and that means snuggly kitties.
- Insomnia isn’t a good thing, but starting to build a html/css website from scratch in the middle of the night really is.
- Cat sleeping on my leg, snoring
- Making wonky doodles and posting them without worry
You cannot make billions of dollars without hurting lots of people. And you can’t hurt lots of people without, in some sense, believing that they’re not really people.
Cory Doctorow (from https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/24/cory-doctorow-on-elon-musk-ai-bubble-bosses-cruel-fantasies)
#quote
I'm currently in denial of getting a cold, so it's good to focus on good things!
- the sun streaming into the bedroom.
- the way the light turns her fur almost brown, despite looking black otherwise.
- stardew valley is such a delightful distraction
- bought some new jigsaw puzzles for a winter of puzzling. I discovered I had done all the puzzles on my shelf except one :)
- did some yoga despite having a bit of an off day
- am still keeping up with daily blog posts
- I've once again proven that coffee really helps me manage the fatigue side effects of my meds. I'm so happy!
- I finally own Hollywood, Ending by John Green.
- Being in the heart of Amsterdam again was the greatest joy of all of yesterday. My husband had to go there for work and I hitched a ride :)
it's bandcamp Friday! The perfect day to buy indie music! All proceeds will go to the artists.
Here are two of my posts with recommendations:
https://pika.page/posts/bandcamp-friday-recommendations
https://sylvia.studio/posts/bandcamp-friday-recommendations-part-2
I will respond with the album (or albums) I'm buying today!
#BandcampFriday
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@neatnik@social.lol I miss that too! I so love that people nowadays are all over the internet building their own websites again on places like Neocities :)
I didn't realise how much I missed the early internet until I rediscovered my 2004 website, and put it up again :)
Fell in love with html/css all over again.
- Got my Covid jab today
- Had an epic nap afterwards
- Woke up with a cat face right in front of me. He immediately rolled on his back and curled up his paws
- Coffee is the nectar of the gods and it helps me manage the constant fatigue so much better (this alone is worth a blog post!)
- I'm SO happy that I'm a natural list maker. I'm planning our first airplane trip in many many years and everry time I get anxiety about it I can dive into my lists and know I have everything under control!
- I'm so happy I found more wool to fuel my nålebinding experimentations!