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Distinctive Static

I'm a chemist who likes making things, coding things, and fixing things. I care about people, the earth, and sustainability. 🧪🧫🧬🔬☕ 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️

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Socially Unmoored

Human brains love to find patterns and make connections, and nothing speaks comfort to the human brain more than routine. So it shouldn't shock anyone that social scripts, commonly considered 'manners' or 'social etiquette' might be comforting to the human brain.

Tilting at Windmills

Anxiety and low self esteem create enemies out of thin air. Anxiety and low self esteem create enemies out of friends. They always assume the worst of people. Assuming the worst of people is mean.

Ouch

I have been musing on why people enjoy reading about terrible humans and terrible relationships. I often see people using it as a way to avoid forgiving themselves their choices, and instead reinforcing this learned helplessness that insists there was never a choice at all.

I Love Lovecraftian Horror

Lovecraftian horror: horror, but the thing portrayed is something that would scare the pants off Lovecraft himself- while the thing portrayed would be seen as vaguely endearing to anyone who is fond of octopi.

Ghost links to localhost in docker + portainer

Okay, so you got ghost going on your domain, you got that set up with Let'sEncrypt, but then you click the "home" button and everything goes white with the nice "can't go there" localhost url. What gives? Go to your portainer container,

The New Distinctive.Coffee

Not at all sure what I'm doing at the moment, but by god I am fucking doing it.