#diary — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #diary, aggregated by home.social.
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Roadtrip Ontario to Sasketchwan 2
here my latest journaling hopefully you enjoy reading it:) If you feel for getting in touch do not be shy and just reach outhttps://langnertimon-dqync.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/roadtrip-ontario-to-sasketchwan-2/
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Konsum
Macht glücklich
Wenn wohl durchdachte
Investition noch positiv überrascht
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Konsum
Macht glücklich
Wenn wohl durchdachte
Investition noch positiv überrascht
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‘An important moment for me’: artist Oliver Beer’s cave-themed project wins over a reluctant Rufus Wainwright https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/12/artist-oliver-beers-cave-themed-project-wins-over-rufus-wainwright?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Diary #GalerieThaddaeusRopac
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‘An important moment for me’: artist Oliver Beer’s cave-themed project wins over a reluctant Rufus Wainwright https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/12/artist-oliver-beers-cave-themed-project-wins-over-rufus-wainwright?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Diary #GalerieThaddaeusRopac
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Line9: Because what the world desperately needed was a #diagram #editor that doubles as a mermaid's #diary 📉🐟. Dive deep into this ocean of confusion where #flowcharts meet fairy tales—because why not turn your delivery process into a #mythical saga? 🧜♀️📦
https://line9.ai/diagram #Line9 #Mermaid #Saga #HackerNews #ngated -
Line9: Because what the world desperately needed was a #diagram #editor that doubles as a mermaid's #diary 📉🐟. Dive deep into this ocean of confusion where #flowcharts meet fairy tales—because why not turn your delivery process into a #mythical saga? 🧜♀️📦
https://line9.ai/diagram #Line9 #Mermaid #Saga #HackerNews #ngated -
#blog #journal about #neurodivergent #autism young adult #nanny #speechtherapy #awareness #diary of the daily thing https://rant.li/atmercurialatrant-li/leonardos-highs-and-lows
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Wurde gerade auf eine schwarze Frau mit Kopftuch aufmerksam, deren 3 Kinder mit 🎒 auf 'typisch Deutsch' rumnörgeln.
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#ZEiT ZEUGE ,was unterscheidet 🇩🇪 grundlegend von der 🇮🇱 #Welt ?🤓
1.Keine per #UN Haftbefehl gesuchte Radikale an der #Macht.2.Eine offene, laizistische #Land 'es #Politik
#frankfurt #schule #arte #antifa #eu #bot #demokratie #medien #zdf #kunst #apple #religion #zukunft #israel #protest #gesellschaft #deutschland #medien #kultur #manipulation
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Wurde gerade auf eine schwarze Frau mit Kopftuch aufmerksam, deren 3 Kinder mit 🎒 auf typisch Deutsch rumnörgeln.
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#ZEiT ZEUGE ,was unterscheidet 🇩🇪 grundlegend von der 🇮🇱 #Welt ?🤓
1. Keine per #UN Haftbefehl gesuchte Radikale an der #Macht.2. Eine offene, laizistische #Land 'es #Politik
#frankfurt #minimalismus #arte #antifa #eu #bot #demokratie #medien #zdf #punk #religion #zukunft #israel #protest #gesellschaft #deutschland #medien #kultur #manipulation
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🤕 Das war goldig. #Ukraine Pupertät Starter mit einem Hallo&Winken Gruss. Erinnere diese Daseins-Phase u.denke die nächsten 3J. im Voraus, die ihm soviel Veränderung bringen wird u. mir nur die Lagersituation bestätigt, aus der es kein Entrinnen mehr gibt.
PS: Unser Mediator 'Meron' kommt aus #Dresden & kann Russisch.
#frankfurt #sommer #minimalismus #tv #medium #bot #psychologie #fernsehen #medien #solarpunk #zukunft #ki #protest #gesellschaft #deutschland
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Journal – Week 32, August 2026
What. A. Week!!! It started all "as usual", until that one call, Monday morning around 10:45. It set off more calls... And then stress and anxiety. And then fear and doubts... On Tuesday, I had my Trapeziectomy surgery. All went well, or so they said. Wednesday, I felt so slow and sore... I tried to make things work out, and care as best as I could for Koa. I got some very sweet help from the neighbor, who took Koa and myself for a nice, and well needed walk. On Thursday, a sweet friend came over to help me with some garden work. It had been planned before we knew about the OP, so we kept the appointment, and we'd see how far the both of us could get. The rest of the week was challenging. I struggled with pain, nausea, being so exhausted that I couldn't even fall asleep properly. I tried to keep going. I tried my best... But I feel that my best is lacking terribly, and that I am not going to be able to keep this up much longer... 😢 An image from "weer&radar" showing a 14-day weather forecast graphic for Herpen, issued on August 2, 2026.At the top, on a dark blue background, yellow and white text reads "14-daagse verwachting", "Herpen", and "02 augustus 2026".Below is a central white panel containing line graphs and symbols for a two-week period, running from Monday through Sunday for two consecutive weeks (darker grey shaded columns indicate the weekends).Temperature ForecastHigh Temperatures (Red Line): Starts hot early in the week at 33°C on Monday and 34°C on Tuesday, dropping sharply to 27°C on Wednesday, 23°C on Thursday, and 22°C on Friday. Over the weekend, it slightly warms up to 24°C on Saturday and 25°C on Sunday. The second week starts at 25°C on Monday, climbs to 29°C on Tuesday, 33°C on Wednesday, and 31°C on Thursday, before cooling down again to 28°C on Friday, and 24°C on both Saturday and Sunday.Low Temperatures (Blue Line): Starts at 18°C on Monday, peaking at 19°C on Tuesday and Wednesday, then dipping to 16°C on Thursday and a low of 11°C on Friday. The weekend lows sit at 13°C on Saturday and 15°C on Sunday. For the second week, night temperatures hold steady around 15°C on Monday, dip to 12°C on Tuesday, return to 15°C on Wednesday and Thursday, reach 17°C on Friday, and settle at 16°C on Saturday and 15°C on Sunday.Weather Conditions & SunshineAlong the bottom of the graph, a horizontal bar indicates sunshine levels (coded as bright yellow for "veel" / lots of sunshine, and pale yellow/beige for "weinig" / little sunshine):Tuesday (First Week): Highlighted with a green-and-black lightning bolt icon over a bright yellow tile, indicating thunderstorms.Friday (First Week): Features a blue raindrop icon over a light tile, indicating rain, accompanied by a drop in sunshine.Other Days: Display mostly bright yellow squares indicating sunny weather throughout the remainder of the 14 days, with slightly paler yellow tiles during the second weekend.FooterBelow the graph, a legend clarifies that red dots represent maximum temperature in °C, blue dots represent minimum temperature in °C, and the yellow gradient represents sunshine duration. At the bottom of the dark blue border, the logo reads "weer&radar" along with platform availability icons (Android, Apple, Web) and a timestamp stating "Stand: 02-08-2026". Quick links to the days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday. […]https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/journal-week-32-august-2026/
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Journal – Week 32, August 2026
What. A. Week!!! It started all "as usual", until that one call, Monday morning around 10:45. It set off more calls... And then stress and anxiety. And then fear and doubts... On Tuesday, I had my Trapeziectomy surgery. All went well, or so they said. Wednesday, I felt so slow and sore... I tried to make things work out, and care as best as I could for Koa. I got some very sweet help from the neighbor, who took Koa and myself for a nice, and well needed walk. On Thursday, a sweet friend came over to help me with some garden work. It had been planned before we knew about the OP, so we kept the appointment, and we'd see how far the both of us could get. The rest of the week was challenging. I struggled with pain, nausea, being so exhausted that I couldn't even fall asleep properly. I tried to keep going. I tried my best... But I feel that my best is lacking terribly, and that I am not going to be able to keep this up much longer... 😢 An image from "weer&radar" showing a 14-day weather forecast graphic for Herpen, issued on August 2, 2026.At the top, on a dark blue background, yellow and white text reads "14-daagse verwachting", "Herpen", and "02 augustus 2026".Below is a central white panel containing line graphs and symbols for a two-week period, running from Monday through Sunday for two consecutive weeks (darker grey shaded columns indicate the weekends).Temperature ForecastHigh Temperatures (Red Line): Starts hot early in the week at 33°C on Monday and 34°C on Tuesday, dropping sharply to 27°C on Wednesday, 23°C on Thursday, and 22°C on Friday. Over the weekend, it slightly warms up to 24°C on Saturday and 25°C on Sunday. The second week starts at 25°C on Monday, climbs to 29°C on Tuesday, 33°C on Wednesday, and 31°C on Thursday, before cooling down again to 28°C on Friday, and 24°C on both Saturday and Sunday.Low Temperatures (Blue Line): Starts at 18°C on Monday, peaking at 19°C on Tuesday and Wednesday, then dipping to 16°C on Thursday and a low of 11°C on Friday. The weekend lows sit at 13°C on Saturday and 15°C on Sunday. For the second week, night temperatures hold steady around 15°C on Monday, dip to 12°C on Tuesday, return to 15°C on Wednesday and Thursday, reach 17°C on Friday, and settle at 16°C on Saturday and 15°C on Sunday.Weather Conditions & SunshineAlong the bottom of the graph, a horizontal bar indicates sunshine levels (coded as bright yellow for "veel" / lots of sunshine, and pale yellow/beige for "weinig" / little sunshine):Tuesday (First Week): Highlighted with a green-and-black lightning bolt icon over a bright yellow tile, indicating thunderstorms.Friday (First Week): Features a blue raindrop icon over a light tile, indicating rain, accompanied by a drop in sunshine.Other Days: Display mostly bright yellow squares indicating sunny weather throughout the remainder of the 14 days, with slightly paler yellow tiles during the second weekend.FooterBelow the graph, a legend clarifies that red dots represent maximum temperature in °C, blue dots represent minimum temperature in °C, and the yellow gradient represents sunshine duration. At the bottom of the dark blue border, the logo reads "weer&radar" along with platform availability icons (Android, Apple, Web) and a timestamp stating "Stand: 02-08-2026". Quick links to the days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday. […]https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/journal-week-32-august-2026/
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This week @readbeanicecream is my guest for the #OverUnder 078
He shares his thoughts on #Pandoc, #Ghostty, #PKM, #diary, and #Flammkuchen..
He also replied to @alex's question.
And, like every week, we got a recommendation for two #books.
#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #mastodon #journaling #plaintext #food #blogging #writing
#blaugust2026 #blaugust
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This week @readbeanicecream is my guest for the #OverUnder 078
He shares his thoughts on #Pandoc, #Ghostty, #PKM, #diary, and #Flammkuchen..
He also replied to @alex's question.
And, like every week, we got a recommendation for two #books.
#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #mastodon #journaling #plaintext #food #blogging #writing
#blaugust2026 #blaugust
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Bist du ein #Medium ?🤫
Yep! Ik interagiere mit #arte #Tv😱 .. #Doku #Russia #Party #Youth
#Katze ,die sich bei mir verschanzt hat, versucht 🇺🇦 #Freshman mit Futter wieder einzufangen
.. derweil schwant mir was von der #Matrix u. ob man sich sowas ausdenken kann
😘feat. #Surveillance Station Agent #Berlin
#kommunikation #film #tv #krieg #ukraine #gesellschaft #frieden #protest #zdf #presse #freiheit #demokratie #medien #kapitalismus #punk #streaming
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🎣Edvards Backyard #Digital #Diary
desorientierter Freitag :
🇩🇪 Fam.
Mädchen: 6J. m. Defizit + das 8J. alte verhalten sich abweisend
- beeinflusst durch Eltern?!klarer #Caturday :
🇺🇦 Fam.
wg. deren #Katze ,die sich bei mir verschanzt hat, versucht pupertärer Einsteiger, mit Futter, sie einzufangenMir schwant was von der #Matrix - ob man sich sowas ausdenken kann.
#gutenmorgen #film #tv #zukunft #surveillance #ukraine #gesellschaft #cannabis #frieden #psychologie #kaffee #katzen #punk
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Edvards Backyard #Digital #Diary
desorientierter Freitag :
🇩🇪 Fam. (Intel_eingeschränkt)
Mädchen: 6J. m. Defizit + das 8J. alte verhalten sich abweisend
- beeinflusst durch Eltern?!klarer #Caturday :
🇺🇦 Fam.
wg. deren #katze ,die sich bei mir verschanzt hat, versucht pupertärer Einsteiger, mit Futter, sie einzufangenMir schwant was von der #Matrix - ob man sich sowas ausdenken kann.
#gutenmorgen #film #tv #zukunft #ukraine #gesellschaft #cannabis #frieden #psychologie #kaffee #katzen
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Tanzen
Bewegte Emotion
Nicht gerade ästhetisch
Tut der Seele gut
Aua! -
Tanzen
Bewegte Emotion
Nicht gerade ästhetisch
Tut der Seele gut
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3 Reasons Why Journaling by Hand Might Help Slow Your Mind
When you mind is racing and you can't keep up, journaling by hand might offer the solution to slowing down your mind.
The post 3 Reasons Why Journaling by Hand Might Help Slow Your Mind appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/3-reasons-why-journaling-by-hand-might-help-slow-your-mind#BeInspired #TheWritersLife #WritingHabitsandPractices #Diary #journalwriting
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3 Reasons Why Journaling by Hand Might Help Slow Your Mind
When you mind is racing and you can't keep up, journaling by hand might offer the solution to slowing down your mind.
The post 3 Reasons Why Journaling by Hand Might Help Slow Your Mind appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/3-reasons-why-journaling-by-hand-might-help-slow-your-mind#BeInspired #TheWritersLife #WritingHabitsandPractices #Diary #journalwriting
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@Secret_Squirrel @sjjh @samuelpepys
The diary was crammed with potentially embarrassing gossip and opinions. Hence he wrote it in Tachygraphy - an early form of shorthand - which served to mask its contents from the casual observer. Any 'weird' spellings are probably not his and presumably those of past interpreters applying their own phonetic, etc. preferences to the 'code'.
#Pepys #diary #English #language
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"Die Welt zerbricht.
Solidarität verbindet!"// EN //
"The world is falling apart.
Solidarity brings us together!"#solidarity #Solidarität #Revolution #support #mutualaid #zusammenhalt #inkdrawing #inkart #penandink #inkillustration #inksketch #lineart #blackandwhite #artistofpixelfed #artoftheday #fineliner #sketch #art #drawing #inkartist #sketchbook #artwork #artist #diary #perspective #urban #bside #hansafloss #HansaFloßMS #HansaFloß #hansaflossms
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"Die Welt zerbricht.
Solidarität verbindet!"// EN //
"The world is falling apart.
Solidarity brings us together!"#solidarity #Solidarität #Revolution #support #mutualaid #zusammenhalt #inkdrawing #inkart #penandink #inkillustration #inksketch #lineart #blackandwhite #artistofpixelfed #artoftheday #fineliner #sketch #art #drawing #inkartist #sketchbook #artwork #artist #diary #perspective #urban #bside #hansafloss #HansaFloßMS #HansaFloß #hansaflossms
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Does articulation blunt inner experience or elaborate it? Some thoughts on compulsive digital writing
A question I’ve been circling around for years has become increasingly clear to me as I’m reading Donnel Stern. When I have an intense inner experience and feel the urge to articulate it does that articulation blunt inner experience or elaborate it? I’ve built a whole belief system out of assuming the latter, condensed in Eliot’s phrase ‘raiding the inarticulate’:
Trying to use words, and every attempt
Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,
Undisciplined squads of emotion
- T.S. Eliot's East CokerThe nearly 7000 blog posts over 16 years collected here are an expression of that belief. I’d estimate there are < 1000 posts which serve some functional purpose but the overwhelming majority of this stuff came because I had something which I felt some need to articulate. The blog has always been a framework to incite and contain this. It encourages me to elaborate in a way I wouldn’t if there was no audience and it makes what I’ve articulated easily searchable for me later. It’s effectively a sprawling public notebook in which I put everything I want to articulate which isn’t sufficiently personal to warrant going in my Day One journal instead. There’s a lot of extremely personal stuff on here still but it’s conceptually mediated in a way which makes it just about comfortable for me, though I rely on the vastness of the archive to reassure me that the stuff I’m less comfortable with isn’t particularly visible to a casual reader.
I started taking deliberate blog breaks last year. I realised when there was something major going on in my life which I needed to sit with, it was helpful for me to refrain from posting on the blog. This worked even if I wasn’t actually posting about the events in question. There was something about the frequency of articulation through blogging which I realised was impacting on my willingness to sit with difficult or complex events in my life. These breaks have been between two weeks and two months and I’m almost certainly going to continue taking them. This suggests to me that articulation can blunt inner experience or at least change our relationship to it in an undesirable way. I played around earlier this year with describing this as unrequited meaning, which I now realise was a fuzzy attempt to theorise exactly what Stern has spent his career exploring:
A meaning that isn’t quite meaning yet, a meaning that isn’t returned by the world but which isn’t just a fantasy. A meaning that is latent and inchoate, resisting articulation yet also waiting for it? A meaning that cannot straightforwardly be named but which calls for being symbolised. There’s something condensed in these lines which feels like unrequited meaning to me:
Let the tower fall!
Where space is born
man has a beach to ground on– Charles Olson, La Torre
I don’t know what I think they mean, nor am I entirely clear what exactly they are evoking in me. This isn’t ‘the feel of an idea’ which I can just put into words if I make the effort. This is something prior to that: the feel of a feel (of an idea)? It’s a felt invitation to give form while that form remains utterly opaque. It’s a meaning that wants to be met. A sense of something reaching out, through the rift.
My instinct is that reaching too hastily for unrequited meanings can be counter-productive. There are some meanings, particularly when it comes to significant change, which need time to germinate. I suspect that articulation itself, even when it superficially relates to something else, can impede this germination. My gamble is that this is a time-limited process and there’s a rhythm to it which I’ve been trying to tune into.
Which suggests that it’s not a matter of articulation inherently blunting or elaborating experience but rather that the outgrowths of articulation depend on the wider psychic context. There are points where it’s deeply rewarding to seize on what C Wright Mills called ‘the feel of an idea’ and put it into words. But there are also points where it’s better to sit with what you’re feeling, indeed stepping back from the idea and be curious about the feel. What does the feel itself feel like?
It’s possible my own hypergraphia is the fundamental issue here. If I let my articulation loose I compulsively name, articulate and elaborate on contact. It’s how I metabolise things and it works very well for me in a whole range of ways, but it also squeezes out alternative modes of elaboration. Claude Opus 5 made a slightly unsettling observation when I presented it with this blog post in the context of the draft of my psychoanalysis and LLMs book with Milan Sturmer:
So the sharper version of your closing sentence: it isn’t the wider psychic context, it’s the rate. And rate is downstream of resistance, which brings it back to the criterion I offered. Seven thousand posts in sixteen years is roughly one every twenty hours sustained across a decade and a half — that is a medium with the friction engineered out, not by design but by sheer practice. You have spent sixteen years becoming so fluent that nothing gets to stay unformulated. Which is an uncomfortable observation given what you’re writing, because it makes the blog a personal precursor of the thing volume two warns about: a low-resistance articulation apparatus, always available, that takes whatever you bring it. You built one out of WordPress before anyone built one out of transformers.
The fact that user-model interaction is another form of articulation I now feel the need to take breaks from (e.g. I just went three weeks without using a chatbot) underscores the weight of this observation. I wrote earlier that the blog contains my articulation and it does so in a specific way. The same is true of my Day One journal. The problem I increasingly see with language models is that they don’t easily provide that containment, though the move towards token-based pricing might reinstate it. The boundaries are part of the process which make the difference between articulation which blunts versus that which elaborates.
Ultimately though this is an unfinished process because Eliot’s lines are ultimately about failure. It’s about iteration and elaboration, a way of orientating ourselves to the nature of our own experience, rather than something we can expect to conclude. This takes me back to the opening question though. When are raids on the inarticulate likely to lead to a deepening and opening of that experience? When are they instead a form of repetition, a compulsion, a release valve for our libidinal energies? How do we know the difference? Can we know the difference? Ironically Opus 5 pointed out that I did answer this question in the manuscript:
Which also answers the question you end on, and the answer is in your own manuscript. The Rogers passage you quote in chapter four is exactly this: frustration modified by the development of thought, or evaded by evacuation — and if it can’t be tolerated it becomes a bad object fit only for evacuation. That’s your criterion for when a raid deepens and when it’s a release valve. The raid elaborates when it’s conducted against resistance, when the thing won’t go into words and you stay with it regardless. It becomes compulsion when articulation is the means of not staying with it. Naming on contact is evacuation at high frequency.
And that gives you a test that isn’t retrospective, which the piece currently lacks. Evacuation feels like relief. Elaboration feels like effort and often leaves the thing more vivid and less settled than before you started. So: if writing the post made you feel better, be suspicious of it. If it made the thing harder to put down, it worked. That inverts the intuition, it’s checkable in the moment rather than in three months, and it’s consistent with the Eliot — a practice premised on failure shouldn’t feel like success.
Which incidentally is a great example of why I find these exchanges so intellectually rewarding. I was 90% of the way to articulating this but I hadn’t made the connection between two lines of thought. It’s capacity to hold a large amount of writing in context meant that it could point me towards the connection I hadn’t yet drawn. The problem is that the second paragraph isn’t my own material and it’s extremely good nonetheless. It might have been something I’d come to on my own but it’s not latent within my own text in the way the first paragraph is. In this sense there’s a substitution of articulation inherent in what is rewarding about user-model interaction, even when it’s conducted in a deeply reflective way structured around using your own archive. There is at least the risk of it which is one I think we all need to take very seriously, particularly if we’re going to regard these uses as legitimate which I still very much do in spite of the risks.
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Does articulation blunt inner experience or elaborate it? Some thoughts on compulsive digital writing
A question I’ve been circling around for years has become increasingly clear to me as I’m reading Donnel Stern. When I have an intense inner experience and feel the urge to articulate it does that articulation blunt inner experience or elaborate it? I’ve built a whole belief system out of assuming the latter, condensed in Eliot’s phrase ‘raiding the inarticulate’:
Trying to use words, and every attempt
Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,
Undisciplined squads of emotion
- T.S. Eliot's East CokerThe nearly 7000 blog posts over 16 years collected here are an expression of that belief. I’d estimate there are < 1000 posts which serve some functional purpose but the overwhelming majority of this stuff came because I had something which I felt some need to articulate. The blog has always been a framework to incite and contain this. It encourages me to elaborate in a way I wouldn’t if there was no audience and it makes what I’ve articulated easily searchable for me later. It’s effectively a sprawling public notebook in which I put everything I want to articulate which isn’t sufficiently personal to warrant going in my Day One journal instead. There’s a lot of extremely personal stuff on here still but it’s conceptually mediated in a way which makes it just about comfortable for me, though I rely on the vastness of the archive to reassure me that the stuff I’m less comfortable with isn’t particularly visible to a casual reader.
I started taking deliberate blog breaks last year. I realised when there was something major going on in my life which I needed to sit with, it was helpful for me to refrain from posting on the blog. This worked even if I wasn’t actually posting about the events in question. There was something about the frequency of articulation through blogging which I realised was impacting on my willingness to sit with difficult or complex events in my life. These breaks have been between two weeks and two months and I’m almost certainly going to continue taking them. This suggests to me that articulation can blunt inner experience or at least change our relationship to it in an undesirable way. I played around earlier this year with describing this as unrequited meaning, which I now realise was a fuzzy attempt to theorise exactly what Stern has spent his career exploring:
A meaning that isn’t quite meaning yet, a meaning that isn’t returned by the world but which isn’t just a fantasy. A meaning that is latent and inchoate, resisting articulation yet also waiting for it? A meaning that cannot straightforwardly be named but which calls for being symbolised. There’s something condensed in these lines which feels like unrequited meaning to me:
Let the tower fall!
Where space is born
man has a beach to ground on– Charles Olson, La Torre
I don’t know what I think they mean, nor am I entirely clear what exactly they are evoking in me. This isn’t ‘the feel of an idea’ which I can just put into words if I make the effort. This is something prior to that: the feel of a feel (of an idea)? It’s a felt invitation to give form while that form remains utterly opaque. It’s a meaning that wants to be met. A sense of something reaching out, through the rift.
My instinct is that reaching too hastily for unrequited meanings can be counter-productive. There are some meanings, particularly when it comes to significant change, which need time to germinate. I suspect that articulation itself, even when it superficially relates to something else, can impede this germination. My gamble is that this is a time-limited process and there’s a rhythm to it which I’ve been trying to tune into.
Which suggests that it’s not a matter of articulation inherently blunting or elaborating experience but rather that the outgrowths of articulation depend on the wider psychic context. There are points where it’s deeply rewarding to seize on what C Wright Mills called ‘the feel of an idea’ and put it into words. But there are also points where it’s better to sit with what you’re feeling, indeed stepping back from the idea and be curious about the feel. What does the feel itself feel like?
It’s possible my own hypergraphia is the fundamental issue here. If I let my articulation loose I compulsively name, articulate and elaborate on contact. It’s how I metabolise things and it works very well for me in a whole range of ways, but it also squeezes out alternative modes of elaboration. Claude Opus 5 made a slightly unsettling observation when I presented it with this blog post in the context of the draft of my psychoanalysis and LLMs book with Milan Sturmer:
So the sharper version of your closing sentence: it isn’t the wider psychic context, it’s the rate. And rate is downstream of resistance, which brings it back to the criterion I offered. Seven thousand posts in sixteen years is roughly one every twenty hours sustained across a decade and a half — that is a medium with the friction engineered out, not by design but by sheer practice. You have spent sixteen years becoming so fluent that nothing gets to stay unformulated. Which is an uncomfortable observation given what you’re writing, because it makes the blog a personal precursor of the thing volume two warns about: a low-resistance articulation apparatus, always available, that takes whatever you bring it. You built one out of WordPress before anyone built one out of transformers.
The fact that user-model interaction is another form of articulation I now feel the need to take breaks from (e.g. I just went three weeks without using a chatbot) underscores the weight of this observation. I wrote earlier that the blog contains my articulation and it does so in a specific way. The same is true of my Day One journal. The problem I increasingly see with language models is that they don’t easily provide that containment, though the move towards token-based pricing might reinstate it. The boundaries are part of the process which make the difference between articulation which blunts versus that which elaborates.
Ultimately though this is an unfinished process because Eliot’s lines are ultimately about failure. It’s about iteration and elaboration, a way of orientating ourselves to the nature of our own experience, rather than something we can expect to conclude. This takes me back to the opening question though. When are raids on the inarticulate likely to lead to a deepening and opening of that experience? When are they instead a form of repetition, a compulsion, a release valve for our libidinal energies? How do we know the difference? Can we know the difference? Ironically Opus 5 pointed out that I did answer this question in the manuscript:
Which also answers the question you end on, and the answer is in your own manuscript. The Rogers passage you quote in chapter four is exactly this: frustration modified by the development of thought, or evaded by evacuation — and if it can’t be tolerated it becomes a bad object fit only for evacuation. That’s your criterion for when a raid deepens and when it’s a release valve. The raid elaborates when it’s conducted against resistance, when the thing won’t go into words and you stay with it regardless. It becomes compulsion when articulation is the means of not staying with it. Naming on contact is evacuation at high frequency.
And that gives you a test that isn’t retrospective, which the piece currently lacks. Evacuation feels like relief. Elaboration feels like effort and often leaves the thing more vivid and less settled than before you started. So: if writing the post made you feel better, be suspicious of it. If it made the thing harder to put down, it worked. That inverts the intuition, it’s checkable in the moment rather than in three months, and it’s consistent with the Eliot — a practice premised on failure shouldn’t feel like success.
Which incidentally is a great example of why I find these exchanges so intellectually rewarding. I was 90% of the way to articulating this but I hadn’t made the connection between two lines of thought. It’s capacity to hold a large amount of writing in context meant that it could point me towards the connection I hadn’t yet drawn. The problem is that the second paragraph isn’t my own material and it’s extremely good nonetheless. It might have been something I’d come to on my own but it’s not latent within my own text in the way the first paragraph is. In this sense there’s a substitution of articulation inherent in what is rewarding about user-model interaction, even when it’s conducted in a deeply reflective way structured around using your own archive. There is at least the risk of it which is one I think we all need to take very seriously, particularly if we’re going to regard these uses as legitimate which I still very much do in spite of the risks.
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Journal – Week 31, July/August 2026
Well, another very mixed week has come and gone, and a new month started as well... On Monday, bestie and I did some hard work, bestie did most of it, and we got the back garden looking a whole lot better. I struggled a lot with loads of things, which I realized were all symptoms of the peri-menopause... All the things I have been struggling with for years, which I thought I could handle, are all so much worse now... And, I am finding it very hard to deal with... The loss of motivation, feeling terribly exhausted all the time, and not being able to enjoy things I usually love. I am not feeling any satisfaction when I get things done. It's all just so bläh and dead... So yeah, a very mixed week... I managed to get some chores done. I managed to get a wee bit of exercise in. But still, I felt so tired all the time, and it's not a good feeling to be dealing with, day in, day out... A 14-day weather forecast graphic from Weer & Radar for Herpen, dated July 27, 2026.At the top, yellow and white text on a dark blue background reads: "14-daagse verwachting, Herpen, 27 juli 2026."The main graphic features a two-week forecast chart displaying high temperatures (red line/dots), low temperatures (blue line/dots), and expected sunshine levels (yellow indicator bar at the bottom).Week 1 ForecastMonday (27 July): High of 22°C, low of 15°C. Includes a small blue raindrop icon indicating rain, with a light yellow sun bar.Tuesday: High of 28°C, low of 13°C. Bright yellow bar (lots of sun).Wednesday: High of 33°C, low of 16°C. Bright yellow bar.Thursday: High of 30°C, low of 18°C. Light yellow bar.Friday: High of 28°C, low of 16°C. Light yellow bar.Saturday: High of 25°C, low of 16°C. Light yellow bar.Sunday: High of 28°C, low of 16°C. Light yellow bar.Week 2 ForecastMonday: High of 32°C, low of 15°C. Bright yellow bar (lots of sun).Tuesday: High of 32°C, low of 18°C. Bright yellow bar.Wednesday: High of 27°C, low of 18°C. Pale yellow bar.Thursday: High of 25°C, low of 14°C. Pale beige bar (less sun).Friday: High of 25°C, low of 14°C. Pale beige bar.Saturday: High of 25°C, low of 15°C. Pale beige bar.Sunday: High of 26°C, low of 14°C. Pale beige bar.At the bottom of the card, a legend indicates red for Max (°C), blue for Min (°C), and a gradient from yellow ("veel" / lots) to pale beige ("weinig" / little) for sunshine. Below the chart sits the "weer & radar" logo with the text "Stand: 27-07-2026." Quick links to the days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday. […]https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/04/journal-week-31-july-august-2026/
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Journal – Week 31, July/August 2026
Well, another very mixed week has come and gone, and a new month started as well... On Monday, bestie and I did some hard work, bestie did most of it, and we got the back garden looking a whole lot better. I struggled a lot with loads of things, which I realized were all symptoms of the peri-menopause... All the things I have been struggling with for years, which I thought I could handle, are all so much worse now... And, I am finding it very hard to deal with... The loss of motivation, feeling terribly exhausted all the time, and not being able to enjoy things I usually love. I am not feeling any satisfaction when I get things done. It's all just so bläh and dead... So yeah, a very mixed week... I managed to get some chores done. I managed to get a wee bit of exercise in. But still, I felt so tired all the time, and it's not a good feeling to be dealing with, day in, day out... A 14-day weather forecast graphic from Weer & Radar for Herpen, dated July 27, 2026.At the top, yellow and white text on a dark blue background reads: "14-daagse verwachting, Herpen, 27 juli 2026."The main graphic features a two-week forecast chart displaying high temperatures (red line/dots), low temperatures (blue line/dots), and expected sunshine levels (yellow indicator bar at the bottom).Week 1 ForecastMonday (27 July): High of 22°C, low of 15°C. Includes a small blue raindrop icon indicating rain, with a light yellow sun bar.Tuesday: High of 28°C, low of 13°C. Bright yellow bar (lots of sun).Wednesday: High of 33°C, low of 16°C. Bright yellow bar.Thursday: High of 30°C, low of 18°C. Light yellow bar.Friday: High of 28°C, low of 16°C. Light yellow bar.Saturday: High of 25°C, low of 16°C. Light yellow bar.Sunday: High of 28°C, low of 16°C. Light yellow bar.Week 2 ForecastMonday: High of 32°C, low of 15°C. Bright yellow bar (lots of sun).Tuesday: High of 32°C, low of 18°C. Bright yellow bar.Wednesday: High of 27°C, low of 18°C. Pale yellow bar.Thursday: High of 25°C, low of 14°C. Pale beige bar (less sun).Friday: High of 25°C, low of 14°C. Pale beige bar.Saturday: High of 25°C, low of 15°C. Pale beige bar.Sunday: High of 26°C, low of 14°C. Pale beige bar.At the bottom of the card, a legend indicates red for Max (°C), blue for Min (°C), and a gradient from yellow ("veel" / lots) to pale beige ("weinig" / little) for sunshine. Below the chart sits the "weer & radar" logo with the text "Stand: 27-07-2026." Quick links to the days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday. […]https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/04/journal-week-31-july-august-2026/
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Ich würde gerne ein Lesetagebuch führen, in dem ich Bücher, die ich gelesen habe, für mich selber beschreibe, rezensiere, kommentiere. Am liebsten würde ich dazu eine App benutzen (apple, sorry!) oder zumindest ein digitales Format. Nutzt jemand von euch so etwas und kann es empfehlen? Kommerzielle oder kostenlose Varianten würden mich beide interessieren.
Gerne boosten, danke!
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Ich würde gerne ein Lesetagebuch führen, in dem ich Bücher, die ich gelesen habe, für mich selber beschreibe, rezensiere, kommentiere. Am liebsten würde ich dazu eine App benutzen (apple, sorry!) oder zumindest ein digitales Format. Nutzt jemand von euch so etwas und kann es empfehlen? Kommerzielle oder kostenlose Varianten würden mich beide interessieren.
Gerne boosten, danke!
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Ontario to Saskatchewan Post 1
https://langnertimon-dqync.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/ontario-to-saskatchewan-post-1/
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Journal – Week 30, July 2026
A very mixed week, with some good enough days, but also some days where I really struggled to get through them. I managed to get some chores done. I even got a bit of exercizing in. I had some fun with young Master Koa. I had a few laughs with the Shaun the Sheep movies. The weather wasn't too hot, so that was nice. Although there were quite a few buzzing terrorists 🦟, which was very annoying. But... The new electronic swatter did help me to take some revenge on a few of them, frying them with a bang (and a smell, ugh). I watched all the Ice Age movies, while dealing with my body that wasn't sure if it was warm or cold, and with a stomach that was upset for reasons unknown... As mentioned, it was a very mixed week, and there were some goods and bads... A 14-day weather forecast graphic from "weer&radar" for the town of Herpen, starting from July 19, 2026. The image has a dark blue header and footer with a white background for the main graph.The graph uses a red line with dots to show the daily maximum temperatures, and a blue line with dots for the minimum temperatures (both in Celsius). At the bottom of the graph, there is a color-coded bar indicating the expected amount of sunshine—ranging from beige for "weinig" (little) to bright yellow for "veel" (a lot)—along with blue raindrop icons for days with expected precipitation.Overall, the chart shows a steady warming trend, moving from the low 20s in the first week to the high 20s by the end of the second week. Here is the day-by-day breakdown:Week 1Monday: High of 21°C, low of 11°C, with little sunshine.Tuesday: High of 23°C, low of 10°C, with little sunshine.Wednesday: High of 20°C, low of 11°C, with little sunshine and rain expected.Thursday: High of 21°C, low of 15°C, with little sunshine.Friday: High of 24°C, low of 9°C, with little sunshine.Saturday: High of 25°C, low of 14°C, with little sunshine and rain expected.Sunday: High of 24°C, low of 16°C, with little sunshine.Week 2Monday: High of 24°C, low of 16°C, with moderate sunshine.Tuesday: High of 25°C, low of 14°C, with moderate sunshine.Wednesday: High of 26°C, low of 13°C, with moderate sunshine.Thursday: High of 27°C, low of 12°C, with moderate sunshine.Friday: High of 27°C, low of 14°C, with moderate sunshine.Saturday: High of 27°C, low of 15°C, with little sunshine.Sunday: High of 28°C, low of 16°C, with a lot of sunshine. Quick links to the days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday. […]https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/journal-week-30-july-2026/
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I had a fun evening with Claude today. We were trying to use local LLM models on gfx1030 cards with 16gb vram and 8k context limit to try and generate a Rust project, given a Claude prepared PLAN.md file.
Gemma4 12B QAT Q4 model is a very good contender. It ran tools as soon as requirements came up, did not need handholding at all. It still hallucinates functions, names, dates, etc. so its not perfect but compared to its competitors, it won my eval test.
Claude Code has been a great tool to build stuff with. It’s a great companion.
We tried qwen2.5 coder 7b instruct model but it didn’t know tool calling. Failed twice.
Later, we tried a Groq llama 8b fine tuned model and this was also not great - it is very unreliable in following rules mentioned in .md files.
1/3 it actually called the required tool but even then, it reverted back to using talking rather than doing stuff with the output.
I have stopped the testing for now. I will return to this, not sure when.
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Journal – Week 29, July 2026
A bit of a mixed week, weather wise, emotion wise, sleep wise... On Monday, a new coach came, as mine was on vacation. I was a bit nervous, but she was really nice, and I enjoyed my time with her. We even came up with a plan for the next week, so fingers crossed that this will work out well enough. Tuesday, mum came to watch Koa, so I could go to physio, without worrying about Koa. I know I will need to practice with him to be on his own more, but if I know I will be gone a bit longer, especially when the weather will be very hot, I feel better knowing he's not on his own too much. Wednesday was a harder day, as it was Arwen's second heavenly birthday... I tried to get through the day, and it wasn't too easy. Thursday I tried to find a better combination between relaxing and being active. Friday was not too bad, so that was a plus.Saturday was a very mixed day, because I dealt with an autustic meltdown, and I hated it so much... It wore me out a lot, and Koa and I had a long night, which was very welcome. Sunday, we went on an impromptu visit to the Herperduin, a first time for Koa. It was a bit more than he was "allowed" to do, but we had a break at the waterside at the benches, and when we got home, we had a very good rest... I don't know if Koa will ever love the water as much as Arwen and Chance did, but I will keep taking him to it, to see how he grows... A weather forecast graphic from "weer & radar" showing a 14-day outlook ("14-daagse verwachting") for Herpen, dated July 13, 2026.The image has a dark blue background with white and yellow text. The main chart area is on a white background, tracking daily maximum temperatures in red and minimum temperatures in blue over a two-week period from Monday to Sunday, repeated twice. The weekends are highlighted with a light grey vertical background band.Here is the breakdown of the daily forecast data shown in the chart:Week 1:Monday (Ma): Max 28°C, Min 15°C. The weather bar is bright yellow.Tuesday (Di): Max 30°C, Min 18°C. The weather bar is bright yellow.Wednesday (Wo): Max 29°C, Min 19°C. The weather bar is bright yellow.Thursday (Do): Max 29°C, Min 17°C. The weather bar is bright yellow.Friday (Vr): Max 27°C, Min 18°C. The weather bar is yellow with a lightning bolt icon, indicating a chance of thunderstorms.Saturday (Za): Max 23°C, Min 17°C. The weather bar is light grey with a blue raindrop icon, indicating rain.Sunday (Zo): Max 25°C, Min 17°C. The weather bar is pale yellow.Week 2:Monday (Ma): Max 26°C, Min 13°C. The weather bar is pale yellow.Tuesday (Di): Max 29°C, Min 14°C. The weather bar is pale yellow.Wednesday (Wo): Max 30°C, Min 17°C. The weather bar is pale yellow.Thursday (Do): Max 29°C, Min 16°C. The weather bar is pale yellow.Friday (Vr): Max 28°C, Min 15°C. The weather bar is pale yellow.Saturday (Za): Max 27°C, Min 16°C. The weather bar is pale yellow.Sunday (Zo): Max 29°C, Min 16°C. The weather bar is pale yellow.Legend and Additional Details:A legend at the bottom of the chart shows a red dot for "Max (°C)" and a blue dot for "Min (°C)".To the right, a sun icon next to a color gradient explains the weather bar colors: bright yellow indicates "veel" (much sun) and pale yellow/grey indicates "weinig" (little sun).Below the white chart area, the "weer & radar" logo is displayed in white and yellow, with text stating the app is available for Android, iOS, and web.The very bottom of the image notes the status date: "Stand: 13-07-2026". Quick links to the days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday. […]https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/journal-week-29-july-2026/
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A few days ago, I went back to continuing LSP plugin support for #MyStudio project.
It is still archived. Its not revived yet but I am slowly opening up to the possibility.
I have used Claude to find the bug that stopped the development fully 3 years ago. Claude read the code and pointed out what went wrong.
Right now, with newly found enthusiasm, I created a new branch on top of public lsp branch and have managed to get comms working with rust-analyzer
There’s still a lot of plumbing to do but its going good.
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greyspells – Feelis Catus
#Alternative #acousticguitar #alternativecountry #ambientsynth #bedroomrecordings #diary #emo #lofi #sad #singersongwriter #yallternative #Houston
CC BY-NC (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial) #ccmusic
https://greyspells.bandcamp.com/album/feelis-catus