alyth

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[–] alyth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If your markdown files look anything as cool as your website once personalized I'm sure they will look absolutely wonderful :)) aw that's a cute idea about the livestream!! i'm happy that badgers got the Reilyh badge 🪱🦡 (this badger is eating his favorite food, an earthworm) thank you for taking the time, too. very pleasant talking to you.

[–] alyth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

all my worries are on a piece of A4 paper.

I like that image a lot! That's a very beautiful way to think about it.

I also like all the senses that are involved in it. There's the visual creativity you have with the letters or ink, but also the smell of the paper, the sound of the pen scratching against the paper, and there's very few distractions. I find it all very soothing. And of course the little doodles that live in their own little world in the margins. :)

I wonder why they started doing that.

I read about it in a big book about badgers at the library, but unfortunately I can't remember if they theorized about the reasons. It's one of those books you can only consult on premises though, so I don't have it on me right now. The next time I'm there I'll take another look at that section!

Badgers can sometimes be quite tough indeed, especially male badgers can have brutal fights with each other. On the other hand they'll sniff and cuddle and clean each other. Generally, they are rather shy. I was watching a badger webcam and the young cubs sleep in a little pile, it's very cute..

I'll give you another fact I read from the book - Often badgers grow up and live in the sett they were born it. But over time, if a sett becomes too crowded, some will choose to leave their clan behind. They'll live alone or try to be accepted into a different clan.

[–] alyth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Thank you for your reply as well :) Freestyling it sounds really good. I hope you get something out of it whichever method you employ! You certainly seem to have a knack for it and I'm glad you see it too. Sometimes I write because it feels very relieving to write letters onto paper. Btw on a totally different note, did you know that badgers are known to live in groups, or as couples, or on their own? They have lots of different styles of living and it's hypothesized they only learned to live in groups recently. This doesn't really have anything to do with anything but I like badgers and hope you might appreciate a little badger fact!

[–] alyth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I went to a café and sat down with the book I'm currently reading and bought a coffee and a crêpe. It was very much worth it! I'll do that again.

[–] alyth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (7 children)

To be honest I find your writing rather captivating. I think you make the reader feel quite close to the emotions you are describing. You say you have a lot on your mind.. Have you ever considered writing a story?

[–] alyth@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Well, I had a 6 hour train ride ahead of me so I decided to finish the book and I'm glad I did.

spoilerI still stand by my criticisms of the book, which are:

  • The cheap "deus ex machina" in the form of Colonel Sanders giving Hoshino all the answers, and Nakata always knowing where to go. It takes the suspense out the plot.
  • The overdone sex scenes. Of course there's the motive of the Œdipus myth, but this goes overboard. Teenagers don't usually end up sleeping with whatever woman crosses their path and I certainly don't need elaborate descriptions given the age of Kafka and the young Ms. Saeki.

Nakata's passing surprised me. After Colonel Sanders' appearance, I'd thought the characters are invinicible. But now Hoshino is thrown into cold water and we get some suspense back.

I think the book gives a deserving end to both Nakata and Ms. Saeki. Until their meeting I hadn't noticed just how strongly they complement each other with both of them being empty in their respective ways. Their end seems to match the theme of closing what was opened after they have undergone their respective journeys.

But one of my favorite parts of the book is in the last chapter: When Sada asks Kafka if he's seen the soldiers. Up until that point, I'd made a distinction between two worlds. There's the real world where we have the library, the cafes, the motorway stops. Then there's the dream world where Kafka meets young Ms. Saeki or where we find the village in the forest. Sada comes into the novel as a more or unless unrelated character dwelling in the real world. With this one simple question he provides (to my judgement at least) the first hard evidence that there is no such distinctions. Both the tangible and the intangible dreams are part of the same reality.

Oh, and Hoshino is just delightful! I wish him well.

spoiler--___

 

I've been reading "Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami. I ploughed through the first 3/4 of the book but now I'm on page 478 out of 615 it's very much gone downhill for me.

spoilerNakata is my favorite character in the book and I loved the journey with Hoshino. But since Colonel Sanders turned up, it seems to fall into a repititve pattern where Colonel Sanders tells Hoshino what to do and we watch him do it - no uncertainty, no suspense, just following orders. I'm also bored with how Nakata suddenly seems to know exactly what to do with complete conviction, which seems very much contrary to his childlike mind in the first part of the book.

As for Kafka's arc, I find the philosophical discussions with the other characters anything but engaging. The sex scenes between a teenager and a 50 year old are just disgusting.

Is the ending worth it? I'm reading the French translation, sorry if the characters have different names.

[–] alyth@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Most western countries have committed genocide or invasion in very recent history. Either in the context of WWII, colonialism or economic interests. Countries don't magically change over night. Wouldn't it be more surprising if they didn't support their ally?

[–] alyth@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Who cares about some billionaire's opinion. I would assume he restructured his portfolio and wants to see some gains.

[–] alyth@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’ve given up entirely on relationships at this point

Perfect! You'll meet your person when you least expect it. There's a big day coming for you.

[–] alyth@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

A lot of them unfortunately, at least in Europe every other news article quotes a politican's Twitter post

[–] alyth@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I used Babel for a bit. The quality seems good. There's little to no gamification, it feels like a digital version of a classic language learning textbook. They offer around 12-13 languages up to level B2. If you decide to purchase a lifetime subscription, it's on sale every couple of months for 130-180 USD.

 
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XDG_CONFIG_HOME (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by alyth@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
 

The template of this meme is that of the man who cheerfully points his hand at a butterfly, asking "Is this a pigeon"?. In this meme, the man has been covered with icons of the applications IntelliJ, VSCode, Chromium and Signal. The butterfly which he points to is overlaid with the caption ".config". He asks "Is this a trash can?" At the bottom of the image, we see the command du -sh executed on the directories .config/chromium/ and .config/Code, yielding file sizes of 1016M and 83M respectively.

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Back to Square 1 (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by alyth@lemmy.world to c/depression_now@lemmy.world
 

Removed, I'm sorry

 
 

Change up your routine. Find new hobbies. Meet new people. Learn new things. 2-6 weeks later, I feel once again that this is a complete waste of energy. Nothing I've ever done in my life has ever amounted to anything. I always return to this point. Just one more cycle, right? Just one more, haha? Just keep trying, right? This is all totally going to get better, right?

 

I'm 25 now. My friends are either 18-19 or 45-60 with nothing in between. It's been like this my whole life.

 

I don't

 

Thoughts?

 

As a kid I would get stung by nettles all the time. Like, how stupid was I?

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Sarajevo & moi - PILLS (2023, Electropop) (sarajevoetmoi.bandcamp.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by alyth@lemmy.world to c/alternativenation@lemmy.world
 

Previous posted to Lemmy as an unidentified song. https://lemmy.world/post/14659357

Known in the Lostwave community as "Find the Switch": Find the Switch on WatZatSong

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