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  I just listened to a 20-minute interview of a very Christian politician because the FCC didn't want me to see it. Hah. It was really well done and entertaining. I like the positive spin on the bible, and how he uses it against hate. A bit preachy at times but that comes with the career choice. Seems quite the opponent for the other guy known for mostly corruption. (Jimmy Kimmel interviewed James Talarico.)

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  More and more, I see people sharing Google Share links here. I hate it. Now I either have to go to the page myself and search for the e.g. article or I have to accept getting tracked by Google. Can I have the scratchy peep of a 56k-modem back but in exchange, the internet is usable again?

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  I'm so spent, I'm ignoring open messages from at least three people. If I'm ignoring you: I am sorry. I'll get back to you as soon as I have some spoons.

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  What a day. The fruit press is absolute junk. We'll need a new one. Sad. I hope the fruit lasts. I climbed a tree. Properly. I shook branches. I turned the press wheel at full strength. I saved a bread dough by making pizza. I am spent.

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  This sunflower had it rough. We had to help it with a rope or it would've fallen. It still bears plenty of seeds. Anything green is turning yellow, though, and the ants haven taken the plant over to farm aphids. They don't touch the seeds, so we'll see where this goes. I'm curious to see what happens.

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  27.5 liters of juice later, I fall into bed. But it sure is the good kind of exhausted.

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  I used to really like typing animations, so episode titles and such that appear word by word or even letter by letter. Now, I first think of bots... Damn, I hate (gen)AI.

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  I often wish I wouldn't notice the everyday discrimination everywhere. We're watching a rather chill cooking show on German public TV. It's relaxing, makes me want to cook. But all the casual -isms... One host announces all females as „the dear XY“ while men get just their name. Every time, it's only women left, it is a big deal. Then three men get to the semi final and not a word. Old and young people get patronized. It's sad, really. And if a nonbinary...

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  After 50 liters of apple juice through the manual press yesterday, today's a rest day. Naturally, this means I just harvested some more hops and cleaned up quite a few things.

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  Great. I've got some ginormous parasol mushrooms prepped and breaded to go onto the grill, and now there's rain and a stormwarning. Well then, to the kitchen. 18-centimeter burner vs parasol...

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  Why didn't you tell me how delicious elderberries are? (Do I have to add a warning now that they are toxic raw?)

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  Yesterday was great food. We still had porcini left from our foraging the day before, so we had those for lunch. For dinner, I breaded some parasol mushrooms with potato mash from our harvest. In between, a quick trip to the hardware store. And then I just quickly wanted to pick the peaches but kept finding more little gems. Can't all days be this calm and delicious? #gardening #mushrooms

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  What's the modern equivalent of wearing pants for female-read people to protest gender stereotypes and prescribed roles? As a male-read person, this would be wearing a skirt, painting your fingernails, glitter, even a pink shirt. (A big shout-out to the feminists who wore pants when this was protest!) #nonbinary

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  Today, I have to drive 1.5 hours to the MRI examination for my colon, waiting room, actual MRI, then 1.5 hours back. There is an MRI machine about a quarter of an hour away. But the next appointment is in December...

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  A heap of chickens to fluff up the timeline :) #KatesChickens

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  The neighbor cat starts meowing happily when the car can be heard in the distance. Loudly, very off-tune, but definitely happily, and only for the correct car. I love it.

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  I'm rather cynical-sarcastic today. Anyone wanna tell me how cute their pet is?

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  Just a quick reminder: if you want food in your garden this winter, it's high time to think about it. Some cabbages and other brassica can still be planted, some are a little too late. Chard, radishes, some things will still work. And while your in your seed boxes: it's soon time for spinach and corn salad. (And to my friends in the Southern Hemisphere: sorry. I know this doesn't apply to you. On the bright side: you get to start thinking about summer planting instead.) #gardenin...

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  Maybe I'll just upload my novels to my website as free .epub and call it a day. All those damned shop systems suck in one way or another. I'm not making any money anyway and this way more people might get to enjoy my stories. Hmm. But if I do that, I really can't justify translating them to German, and I really wanna do that.

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  Phew, a simple GP visit really is day-filling... Due to three road closures, it took almost 1.5 hours to get there. Then I waited a while in the sun outside the practice. Almost 1.5 hours back, short stop at the post office. Day over... But: I felt as if I was listened to. And I got two referrals for further checking. And we have a hypothesis for what's going on. And I've got my next prescription settled.

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  I have to leave for my old/new GP in an hour. I'll have to tell them things that sound impossible, made-up, like utter nonsense. The solution would be to touch me. Many medical people have refused to touch me before, claiming to believe me, later telling me it's impossible. I am trying hard to not be too skeptical. This doctor has always tried to listen, to help, to believe. They have not disappointed me. Hopefully, that'll stay true today.

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  Forecast says it'll rain for three days now. So far, the lightest of drizzles. Will we get water this time?

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  Do I install DaVinci Resolve Studio again because I know how to use it or do I try kdenlive?

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  During the heat wave last week, which was much less extreme here than in other parts, multiple workers at the local grocery store went home because their metabolisms couldn't manage the heat. I don't want to know how many people are close to collapsing but don't stop and go home while no one even notices a thing...

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  I chopped free an old pear tree last fall. With more light, it is recovering well and carrying dark red fruits. I'm excited! #gardening

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  Germany just raised minimum wage. The only news coverage is on how expensive this is for the producers. I don't care. What I care about is that even this half-assed raise might mean that a parent gets to eat a full meal instead of going hungry for their children, that someone can build an emergency fun, or that someone can move out because they are no longer as financially dependent. If these were the stories we shared, people might think differently about raising minimum wage.

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  A lawyer sends me an ad-filled email with offers for stuff from bankruptcy auctions. Apparently diesel products are all the rage now. How did they get my email address? Well, apparently a US company gave it to them... Data Privacy really is dead...

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  The chicks behaved and respected statistics: five hens and five cocks. Number eleven was still too small to be sure. You can tell by their wings. Yeah, really. I didn't expect that one either. #KatesChickens #chickens

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  One can drive for miles here and see essentially nothing but bare dry soil and canola fields. Monocultures and dead soil for as far as the eye can see. The irrigation systems are spraying over canola in perfect rows of perfectly standardized plants. And people think this is pretty...

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  Chick party in the polytunnel. #KatesChickens