ah fuck fellas. we’re once again learning that the only way out (being comfortable with a new skill) is through (being bad with it first and learning from your mistakes)

thrifted leather jacket from goodwill — ran out of leather conditioner halfway through, but can’t believe the before/after difference

oh shit oh fuck I haven't skeeted in five days how will they know I'm a real person

it IS red and we WERE right but the two minutes when someone else said, “are we sure it’s not a white circle with a red border instead of the other way around” were harrowing

local woman contemplates the fragility of memory after a bar trivia question about the color of the circle surrounding the panda in the panda express logo

Luminous night sky, table set on the veranda of a framed wooden house/villa overlooking a lush garden and expansive view of the water (fjord?)

Harald Sohlberg

Summer Night

Oslo, 1899

(no disrespect to the 14 bots who followed me, a nobody and a stranger, before having liked or posted a dang thing. except also huge disrespect because cmoooonnnn)

note “presence” does not imply following. we’re in it for a no-notes love of the game (where “love” can also be understood as “reluctant acceptance”)

reporting in to the bsky mines to establish myself as a real whole person with an internet presence