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Or possibly I have tried Mi Lan Xiang instead of Zhi Lan Xiang? Seems likelier. Falling down a tea rabbit hole here, as one does.

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Also, I broke the lid of my previous small glass teapot, so I bought a new one: Hario's Cha Cha Kyusu Maru in the smallest size. I don't know if I like it. Getting the strainer out without burning your fingertips is a challenge.

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Thanks to the shop I bought this from, Teepolku (teepolku.fi/fi/ju-duo-za..., in Finnish) for educating me. Hat tip also to some English-language resources: - Teapedia (teapedia.org/en/Dan_Cong) - New York Tea Society (www.newyorkteasociety.com/post/what-is...)

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Apparently, dancong teas are a group of wulong teas from the Fenghuang Mountains in Guangdong. (Where is Guangdong? Give me a map.) I have drunk Zhi Lan Xiang, another dancong tea, before. I don't always like dark wulongs, but this one was really nice.

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Sunday morning tea: Ju Duo Zai (2024), a Fenghuang dancong tea. Did I know what a dancong was before I tried this? Well, I knew it was a wulong tea. Success?

A cup of wulong tea. There is a tea tray with a teapot and other accoutrements in the background.

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Always a nice sign when the governance of a country becomes a circus.

This is the "round kitchen sink" approach to design. I hate it, thanks.

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First they made the tabs in Firefox float, thereby making them not look like tabs. Now they've rounded the corners even more, thereby reducing usable space. A fantastic choice, surely, given people's propensity to have 50 tabs open at the same time.

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I have to ask, does Mozilla understand what a tab is?

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Snake Ring Silver | Kalevala

This one, except in bronze. Which would apparently mean sourcing it second-hand. (Why do brands discontinue the best things? Grrr.) www.kalevala.fi/en/products/...

kalevala.fi

The silver Kalevala Serpent Ring, based on an Iron Age example, is suitable for both women and men.

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I've wanted a snake ring since forever (even though, as established, I don't wear rings), but frankly a tentacle one would be even better.

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I would start wearing rings just to wear that one.

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The worst timeline. The. Worst.

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At least your jewellery game is spot on! (And your hair colour, ofc, but my eye went straight to that squiggly ring.)

SI = an obscure term that no one, especially no one in the scientific or technological fields, has ever heard of before; totally means "super intelligence", trust me

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anehan @anehan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

SI: widely known abbreviation, especially in the scientific and technological fields Trump: never heard of her

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The second steep turned out better.

anehan @anehan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sunday morning tea: Jin Jun Mei (2025), a black tea from the Wuyi Mountains in Fujian. I've drunk Wuyi rock teas before, but I don't think I've drunk black teas from there before. I'm trying to get used to brewing tea in my gaiwan. I definitely steeped this one too long.

Pablo Barría Urenda @pbarriau.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Yeah AI is one of those artifacts of modern civilization that present an illusion of sentience as a way to distract from its deleterious effect on the world, much like brand accounts in social media or podcasters.

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anehan @anehan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not this comment getting a like from a sound effects account ffs 🤣

anehan @anehan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One of the reasons I don't like audiobooks is that it's far too common for the readers to do different voices. I can't stand that. Sound effects are like that times thousand.

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Yes, this. It also seems to me that admitting that paywalled content should be licensed means also tacitly admitting that any copyrighted content should be licensed. I mean, if you steal a bicycle, it really doesn't matter whether the bicycle is locked or unlocked. It's still theft.

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So it's really refreshing seeing someone from the SW world talk about the ethics of it all.

But sometimes I feel like I'm living in a split reality: the literary world, where people see the ethics issues with LLMs, and the tech world, where they are so often thoroughly neglected.

All the other reasons are good: the code quality issues, the feeling of alienation from your work, the lost opportunities for skills development, the stress that comes from taking the best part of software development out of software development, &c. I agree with all that.

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I've seen a lot of software developers talking about why they don't want to use LLMs to code. Usually their reasons are to do with code quality, &c. And then there's Jake Wharton on JetBrains' YouTube channel saying: "They're built on the largest copyright infringement in history."

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Now the fucking assholes at fucking Meta are forcing fucking AI on motherfucking WhatsApp. Fuck Meta, and fuck this timeline, seriously.

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The only time I've ever had hair this short was when I was cutting my hair myself.

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My hair is shorter than any hairdresser has ever cut it, yet there was no hand-holding required. I just told her that, unless she shaved it all off, there was no way she could cut my hair too short, and she believed me.

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anehan @anehan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Went to a new hairdresser yesterday, and I may have struck gold.

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It should be illegal to be this funny.

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anehan @anehan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm living vicariously through you. Also, salted caramel is the best.

anehan @anehan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

That looks far too tasty. I'm jealous now.

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anehan @anehan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Also, the gaiwan might be plain and utilitarian, but the teacups? Handmade, one-of-a-kind? 👀

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anehan @anehan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Fine, I may have succumbed to the lure of new teaware. In my defence, I had some specific holes in my teaware collection.

A white, plain gaiwan and two handmade teacups. One of the teacups is made of white porcelain, the other one is beige ceramic. There are five bags of tea in the background.

Keeping my fingers crossed for you all. 🤞🙏

The case went to the supreme court before the conviction was overturned. At the same time actual police officers can be racist in FB groups with thousands of members without any consequences. Fuck this timeline, truly.

Not because the politician wasn't a fascist and a racist (the court admitted the descriptions were factual), but because the words used were derogatory. Somehow an actual court essentially said that you can't call a fascist a fascist because it's not nice.

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I'm reminded of a court case from 2019 where a journalist had called a right-wing politician (who had been harassing this journalist) a nazi clown and a racist in a restricted FB post and was convicted of libel.

Headdesk. Facepalm. What the everloving fuck.

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A quick googling tells me that this is the first time SD could become a government party. I'm like, envious that it's taken them this long (fuck the Finns, truly), but also like. Shit. I wish you didn't have to deal with this shit.

anehan @anehan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

That sounds absolutely horrifying, in so many ways. Not that I know the contents of what they've been sending, but I can easily imagine. So racist and homophobic shit, etc. And to add insult to injury, the targeting based on truly shitty xenophobic profiling? And they can just get away with it???

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But it's not just that. These days, I attend lectures in lecture halls that have been named after big donors, many of them businesses. Am I attending a university or a business PR camp?

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anehan @anehan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As a newly-minted Computer Science student, there's something dystopian in the way businesses are centered at universities now. I don't remember it being this bad 20 years ago when I was studying English, though maybe CS was always prone to this more than the humanities. I don't know.

anehan @anehan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Right?!?! RIGHT?!?!?! 😡😡😡🤬