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Kae

@anspoka.cz
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Your favourite pragmatic poet, always angry or amused. When the cat allows also learning some bass, piano and spoken words.

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Kae @anspoka.cz · 29/09/2026
Ah, the waiting room at the allergist’s office. The place where nobody looks weirdly at you for sneezing.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 26/09/2026
if there is one thing that I suspect that the fine folks who make Bitwig seem to not understand as a concept it is horizontal scrolling.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 25/09/2026
Who said Chvrches have a new album out around here??? They seem to have lied to me. Ain’t got nothing new on Tidal, and a quick search confirmed it’s not out yet.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 04/09/2026
If you'd ask me if I'm into zombie films or series, I'd shrug and say: "not particularly, not really my thing". If you'd ask me to name zombie stuff I've seen, there'd be a surprising amount of titles. And I'd rate quite a few of them pretty highly as well.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 31/08/2026
Whilst showering I realised that the only events I've been to in the last few years are either music gigs or events that I'm performing at. The latter also includes house parties with more than 3 people attending.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 27/08/2026
because that's what I put in the roasting pan, too. I'm pretty sure this is not genAI, tho.
a glass roasting pan with lid off. In the pan there is lettuce, tomato, some herbs (parsley?), boiled tortellini(?), random strands, and what could be a couple of red onion rings (fresh-ish).
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 23/08/2026
Sure, I love my new Iiyama monitor, and the air purifier is also amazing. But from all the pieces of tech I've bought recently, the toaster is the one that brings me the most joy.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 22/08/2026
I guess I was really tired yesterday. Not only I accidentally fell asleep on the sofa (to wake up at 4 am, brush my teeth and go to bed), but I also dreamt about me feeling sleepy.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 16/08/2026
Before going on stage. After getting home.
A woman holding a bunch of papers with a rainbow colour heart sticker taking a mirror selfie in a dressing roomToasted bread on a plate
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 15/08/2026
I want to apologise to everyone on this tram with me. First for all the glitter I’ve shed. Secondly about the rather flowery smell that must be coming off me (the mf-ing glitter sprays, why can’t they make them odorless?? Surely I’m not the only performer who’d appreciate that).
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 08/08/2026
Whenever I go in for blood tests, the first question the nurse asks is if I am squeamish of the sight of blood. I always say no. When they proceed to stick the needle in my vein, I tend to look away. How would you feel when you need to do something precise, but there's someone staring at your hands?
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 30/07/2026
+36 Celsius in Prague. I am reminded that there are times when facial skincare consists of 3 actions: washing one's face, if going out - put on sunscreen, when coming back - put on after sun lotion (even if not sunburnt). alles. everything else is way too much for my skin to handle in this weather.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 30/07/2026
Well. Between the doctor, bookkeeper, some sort of a mechanic in road building company, I suppose the easiest would be the philandering drunk corrupt government official.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 29/07/2026
Jewellery is a word I am never sure how to spell. I don't even know why, because it's not even that hard like accusation (which I can spell just fine) or one of those words where it's either double r and a single s or double s and a single r in it and everyone just guesses which scenario this time
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 28/07/2026
I’m not really a fan of Spiderman. I might have seen 2 or 3 movies that I don’t really remember. I’m also not a fan of Nicolas Cage. But hear me out: Nicolas Cage as Spiderman is the best.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 28/07/2026
I once had an office buddy, we’d go to the pub every Tuesday, talk for hours. I didn’t know his name for the first 2 months of this. I had missed it from the first introduction, and it just didn’t come up later. I found his name out later when he emailed me about some work shit
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 23/07/2026
Loot drop after defeating me: - cat fluff - notebook with poems in - mostly unworn glasses - cat fluff - asthma inhaler - oxymeter - cat fluff - paracetamol - prescription antihistamines - cat fluff
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 16/07/2026
The storm is finally here. The thunder is so loud and just keeps on going that the kitto woke up and wants cuddles. Finally. This is how my birthday should be. Even if technically the 15th has ended according to the calendar. But I’m still going to go with it as I haven’t gone to bed yet.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 15/07/2026
As every year - happy birthday to my first book. The day my own writing became real to me (and a few others I suppose). I had no idea that it will lead to so many other amazing things, including but not limited to the bass guitar.
A hardcover book (The Book I Owed to Myself by yours truly) on a chair with ornamental pattern. In the background is a window with drawn curtains, and a cup of tea on the windowsill. Photo by my friend Adriana Cahova
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 05/07/2026
Sunday morning k-pop dance lesson must be followed by pastries, right? Right? Right.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 03/07/2026
Every time someone compliments me on my hair (style or colour), I always proudly boast that I did it myself. Then I usually make a joke how when AI takes away my dayjob, I have a plan B as a hairdresser. People always ask: why do you think that won't get replaced?
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 14/06/2026
This whole after performance emotional state is a lot. On one hand I’m exhausted and my brain is a bit out of it, but in a good way. On the other - I wish I had tomorrow off as well to do more creative stuff because I have New Ideas. Maybe in August.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 13/06/2026
Oof. I might actually and really and actually end up performing poetry tonight. To other people. Low key I can’t wait for it to be over so I can get back to the band stuff.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 13/06/2026
I’m on a tram, making way to the venue where I’m supposed to perform tonight. I clearly haven’t been on a tram during daytime on a weekend for so long. This is freaky shit. Some people have their noses bleeding, others are already drunk and loud. And the odd posh lass demonstratively suffering.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 08/06/2026
Can anyone suggest me more poets or writers on here to follow?
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 08/06/2026
Frankly, I am surprisingly calm for someone who has to get on a stage and perform this Saturday, but I haven't finished the second poem nor have I practiced the first one much.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 21/05/2026
The neighbours have been drilling, hammering and whatnot since 8:52 am. Interrupting the normal morning sleep hours of kitto.
Black and white cat showing a small blem, looking disrupted. On the right is a mic stand, a sheet stand, and a glass of water. On the left there’s a microwave. Behind the cat is a framed b&w photo.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 14/05/2026
My main conflict with the Czech language is that I like vowels and they don’t.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 14/05/2026
“I am interested in networks” and “so I got chatgpt to write my thesis on that because how can anyone expect me to write 60 pages” feel like mutually exclusive states of mind to me. But apparently I’m being unreasonable. I feel the most sorry for whomever needs to read and grade that thing
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 12/05/2026
Years ago I saw a poster for an Editors’ gig in Prague. I pointed it out to my friend, but he didn’t seem excited as he didn’t know the band yet. The time it took for me to introduce them, the tickets were already sold out.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 12/05/2026
I was recently called "not mainstream" in a very emphasised tone. Also, as a sincere compliment. Why? Because I am a woman with short hair. I did not know what to say to that. Not a thing came to my mind as an appropriate response.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 27/04/2026
I keep getting reminded about this comment throughout the day. And I think of all the times I’ve been adopted and accepted as part of the core community in a bar. Most of them started by me drinking and reading a book there 4 nights a week, and everyone just got used to having me around.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 22/04/2026
I’m a bit hungover and didn’t sleep much, yet I made it to the office. As per the tradition, this calls for a takeaway soy latte. Then I remembered that I shouldn’t be having coffee (because Nickel), and then I remembered that I really should not be having soybean products (same). And then I got sad
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 16/04/2026
I came home and found out that I have misplaced two of my top half undergarments (not that it's any of your business, but yes - right here in my flat). I can't find them for the life of me. Which means I have to do laundry more often. On the list of the emotions I feel happiness is not.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 16/04/2026
Yes, I’m on my way to the allergy clinic, why do you ask?
Pedestrian walk with houses on the left side and blooming and blossoming bushes and trees on the other side.Pedestrian walk further on, houses on one side, flowers, trees and other allergens on the other
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 10/04/2026
I suppose water’s tastier this way. And yes, it is a Vegan Beer Fest UK 2016 glass.
Black and white cat drinking from a plastic pint glass. She’s got one paw on the desk. The background features a sheet stand with an open notebook with a pink sticky note on it.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 08/04/2026
I don't hate my dayjob. I don't even dislike my dayjob. But I am fucking tired of working in tech, and I wish I could afford to do something else. And it's not even just about the agentic AI and shit like that. I'm mostly just tired of the boys clubs all around me. Which tbf these days include AI
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 05/04/2026
I miss beans. Fucking Nickel.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 01/04/2026
I've discovered a serious flaw in the universe: no matter how many new summer clothes I buy, the weather doesn't seem to get better.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 28/03/2026
As you may or may not know, it's quite cold again. So, as an appropriate response, I have cut my hair quite short again. Much to the clear dismay of kitto, who cannot for the life of her understand what the fuck is happening and why is hooman shedding so much all in one go.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 23/03/2026
Why are antihistamines either making me extremely sleepy or frustratingly insomniac? In other news: the seasonal allergy season has started.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 14/03/2026
I was watching this Chinese series and there's a scene where the ex asks: why do you choose this new guy over me? how could you? and the answer is pretty much: because you tried to kill me, kidnap me, other truly appalling shit. unlike this dude who just kept showing up to help me out.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 13/03/2026
I have two questions: 1) why does it smell of fertilizer all around the building? I'm not talking small scale, but rather impressive. 2) what do people do with their "old" soil? the stuff that's obviously depleted of nutrients and resembles sand more than soil.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 28/02/2026
Notes from someone living across the hall from a flat being renovated: drilling at 9 am on a Saturday vs drilling before 8 am on a workday - why choose, do both!
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 26/02/2026
I accidentally opened the browser app on my work phone to see a wiki page on Newtonian mechanics. Now I have a few questions for myself, none of them judgemental, mind, I just would like to remember what happened that day.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 25/02/2026
***/Just a quick one some days I think of death as a smoke break as the one I wouldn’t come back from that moment when I excuse myself to go and take my coat, go outside and just keep walking to never come back to the party
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 25/02/2026
***/I went I lost something in the dark so I went to retrieve it as one does but the dark felt so calm and I decided to stay for a bit Josie, can you see the adaptation to the darkness where things can be so real you can actually sense them and I decided to stay longer
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 24/02/2026
Sometimes letting people at the new job know that I was mistreated at the previous one leads to them all stand up in alert and get set go to lunch if I do A Stare and say that I'm hungry.
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 21/02/2026
Last night I played some piano. That relieved some of the built up frustration and tension. This morning I woke up a bit more rested and a bit less pissed off. But the neighbours keep drilling. Really, guys, on a Saturday?
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Kae @anspoka.cz · 20/02/2026
Lately I’ve been v pissed off. In general. So much so that I can’t even write it down in a poem.
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