living cemetery

living cemetery hi! it’s me, Alina. you might notice this newsletter looks a little different… well, i feel different.

i posted a newsletter about walking at the cemetery in my first months of motherhood
alinatrifan.substack.com/p/living-cem...

visiting Chatsworth with my mum and dad. i'm so lucky to be a bus ride away from the Peak District.

park life

i was finally sufficiently sleep deprived to have my crypto wallet drained, so that's the end of my adventure in nft land

it begins

nothing makes me more disappointed than the opening of yet another vape shop

a stylish black duck
and a reminder to put sunscreen on your feet (i didn't)

living cemetery

girls wear stripes

heatwave by dame on Apple Music Playlist · 56 Songs

i made a playlist for the heatwave

Diego Luna Guest-Hosts Kimmel, Talks Immigration Diego Luna is guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live this week and for his first monologue, the Mexico native spoke about immigration and what he’s experienced and observed in the US and LA during his time here. Diego steps

Diego Luna guest-hosts Kimmel and talks about immigration, saying of the US and Los Angeles: “This place is a powerful example of what’s possible, of what can be achieved when we put empathy first.” [kottke.org]

June 2024! walks at the cemetery while being freshly postpartum and caring for a newborn. wild times.
waited one year for a good time to sit at my computer to edit these photos and you know what... that time never came. so this is the best i can do right now.

i'm alive

by the brook

Severance: Music To Refine To Apple TV+ is streaming an 8-hour remix of the Severance theme by ODESZA that is perfect music for your innie to refine macrodata to. The workday-long video is a 23-minute mix that’s looped and set to footage from the s

Apple TV+ is streaming an 8-hour remix of the Severance theme song that is perfect music for your innie to refine macrodata to. Legit adding this to the work music rotation. [kottke.org]

"but actually, above all it is teaching them that mama loves them." 🥹

i'd like to know your three people

today i spent a good chunk of time thinking about any three famous people i'd like to have dinner with. factors to consider: 1) i'm too shy to function 2) me liking their art is not a sufficient requisite

i'd like to have dinner with Emma Chamberlain, Lorde and Maria De Filippi.

i'm sorry but adding alt texts looks like a perfect job for AI, not me

there are two new things in my life. one is a red light led face mask and the other are asmr videos that put me to sleep. is this what they call aging gracefully?

i mourn his past tweets and persona

that's so fun!

Padua, December 2024

a northern Italian landscape

i'll be so much more interesting when i won't be sleep deprived. you just wait

my mum holding my daughter

the first winter flower i photographed in 2020