Just finished Somebody Somewhere Season 1. Loved this a lot. 📺
You can watch the first 8 minutes of Severance season two on Apple TV+
Nah.
Not interested.
Give me all of it or give me nothing! Nearly time. It’s been a while though, the last episode was April 8th 2022. 2 years 8 months!
As i’m British, my kids running around the cinema would have terrified me. Except the cinema was empty apart from us, so I tolerated it. We enjoyed Mufasa though. I mean, I did. The kids were mostly enjoying the empty cinema.
Neijuan is the Chinese term for “involution”, a concept from sociology that refers to a society that can no longer evolve, no matter how hard it tries. Applied to the individual, it means that no matter how hard someone works, progress is impossible.
What is neijuan, and why is China worried about it? | China | The Guardian
I need to think about how I feel about Day of the Jackal. Seems to have set up season 2 though. Also, I was sad that River did not flow.
Finally circled back on this and have today’s entry will be the first day of year 2. Some entries are sparse but glad to still be doing it.
Smith & Burrows - When The Thames Froze - YouTube
So tell everyone that there’s hope in your heart
Tell everyone or it’ll tear you apart
At the end of Christmas day
When there’s nothin' left to say
The years go by so fast
Let’s hope the next beats the last
Always Go To The Funeral : NPR
Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing.
What’s Your Word for 2025? - Nicholas Bate
Reposting this so that it’s in my head to think about.
Hot pot and 油茶 from yesterday. I remember when I first saw Lyra eating yóu chá and I remember thinking it looked weird. I still think that, but now I think it’s delicious too. A kind of porridge made from rice with spices, chilli and topped with crispy rice noodles.
I strongly dislike how Apple Music Replay doesn’t open in the Music app.
Chinese railway stations are interesting.
They are always massive spaces that could accommodate many more people than you see there. Though, I guess, sometimes it must be busy. This station is for a city an hour from us. As well, the experience is more like an airport. You need ID to get in and can only go down - the seating sits over the trains - to the platform just before the train leaves.
Reasons I update: To get rid of the red circle.
Reasons that I should update, but don’t: Security
Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
Tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.
William Martin
I wander in a city that feels ghostly, depopulated, even when bodies are on the street
Rewatched the last episodeofe of season 1 of Silo in preparation for season 2. Also, trying to forget reading all the books.
New Silo! 📺
*Joy of missing out
Do not like the new Signal icon colour.
It wasn’t working and I switched it off and on again, and it worked.
Hit read all on my rss feeds today. Time to start again.
A small book about a boy whose parent who’s sick, with a fantasy turn. I will be thinking about this for a long time I think.
feeling stressed and overwhelmed,
despite nothing specifically happening today,
I guess it’s just it’s just the weight of everything.
Wordle 1,242 2/6
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Apparently having help from a 6 year old helps