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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 23h

Great news! Horace has gained weight since his previous vet appointments and he's looking healthier for real and not just in my hopeful imagination. Will get test results later today or tomorrow to confirm but I am so relieved. Stress levels immediately down by like 15%.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 04/10/2026

I did it. I got the outside Halloween decorations up at the beginning of October. Now I just need to get some mums for the planters. 🎃👻💀🕷️

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 30/09/2026

These hydrangeas we planted two years ago bloomed this unexpected bright magenta-y purple this year. Some of them are darker, almost like a red wine color. I swear they were a much paler pink last year, but I'm into it. I hope they get huge and cover the whole back section of the yard. 🤞

A large, bright purpley-pink hydrangea bloom.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 25/09/2026

Got an idea that would just mean bumping up the timeline on my plans (totally doable) and would take about a day to set up (& free, since I already pay for it.) Driving to VT after work and will be back late tomorrow night. Want to have a call on Sunday to talk about it?

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 25/09/2026

I have some thoughts but don't wanna be the unsolicited suggestions friend.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 21/09/2026

Still thinking about hazelnoot

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 17/09/2026

Oops! The part where the handsome black and tan tabby so obviously misses me, his beloved housemate, seems to have been left out of the alt text. :p

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 16/09/2026

Yes! BBC NL is the only channel that isn't news we can watch/listen to while cleaning out my uncle's house. I keep confusing the characters because they were suspects in the previous show I hadn't realized had ended. So many are set on islands. So many plots involve cults.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 13/09/2026

Hazelnut in Dutch is hazelnoot and I think that is the cutest and would be a great name for a pet.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 13/09/2026

No wonder my uncle had so many sets of cups and saucers and teapots. So many visitors. Oh! And we successfully re-homed all of his plants. No orchids neglected on our watch.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 13/09/2026

Today I hung out on a cool houseboat my uncle's friend built himself. We had homemade jam and mocktails with syrup from their blackberry harvest. (Zo lekker!) Then coffee with other friends at the now mostly empty house. It's been good to chill after so much organizing and cleaning.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 11/09/2026

I drove my uncle's car with its Dutch display text and strange icons and even weirder controls to get lunch and go to the hardware and grocery stores and we survived. 🥇🏆💪

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 10/09/2026

The ladies are even closer today. I love when they do little hop-skips in excitement over arriving at the grass they couldn't reach the day before.

Black and white and brown and white cows munching grass in a field directly next to my uncle's deck. You can see cattails in the irrigation ditch between the properties.

Some cows are closer. A brown and white one is looking at the camera.

Now a mostly black cow is making eye contact with the photographer. She appears younger than some of the others in frame.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 07/09/2026

Everyone speaks so cruelly of the distraught onion man tasked with holding his brethren as they await the chopping block. But his sorrow speaks to me.

White ceramic onion with a man's crying face. His open frown and a little hole in his pointed head/hat allow for air flow. A single tear forever on his cheek. A treasure.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 07/09/2026

Approx four million gorgeous teapots in my uncle's home and this wretched thing was his daily driver. (He did use the cool ones for company, at least.) New rule: Use your nice things yourself.

Lime green ceramic teapot with THEE across the front in a basic serif font, sitting on a star shaped warmer with a tea light candle. I hate it.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 06/09/2026

Holy shit there are thousands of books in the little apartment next to the garage. In a dozen languages, about languages, the history of languages, learning Dutch, German, English, Spanish, Japanese... and I'm not through a quarter of them. What do I do with them all?

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 06/09/2026

Was awake for over 24 hours and tried to reset by staying up until this time zone's normal bedtime for, like, kids at least, but then was thwarted by the world's loudest mosquito three hours ago. It is 6am. The mosquito is tireless and insatiable and has my respect.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 05/09/2026

Two decades of capturing Beaver the cat's best angles. These are my faves so far because he developed/printed them himself.

A b/w photo he developed himself of him and his beloved cat Beaver who moved to NL with him from Germany. They are sitting in a wicker chair and she is mid-jump off his lap.

B/w photo of Beaver the cat. She is a tabby with big eyes and her ears are in a "really?? More photos?" position.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 05/09/2026

I'm helping my mom clean & pack up my Uncle Fred's house in the Netherlands. I'm gonna make a thread of things that make me smile even though this is rough. First up: photos. There are thousands of photos & slides from decades of travels and good times.

Three color photos on a wooden tabletop of my Uncle Fred looking cool as hell in the 70s. He is a white man with long dark hair and black framed glasses, and some hip fashions, like a dark suit and a leather jacket.

Black and white photo of my uncle Fred smiling at the camera resting his head on his hand, leaning on a table. He is shirtless and wearing a watch.

Black and white 1970s photo of my uncle Andy smiling at a table holding a cigarette and wearing a robe looking very suave and a bit like a movie star.

B/w 60s photo of my uncle Fred and his bestie. She's in a long hippie dress and he's in bells with a cool jacket. They're leaving a hotel during one of their many adventures.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 28/08/2026

Also it takes up so much less space than Windows. Boots so fast!

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 28/08/2026

I don't have a Framework laptop but I wiped an older model Dell that and installed Linux Mint and there's not really anything I need to do anymore that I can't do on it with open source applications. Mint is probably the friendliest distro for new folks. I dig it.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 26/08/2026

They seem to understand that the power lines are an everyone problem. I think the disease killing all the trees is too. Having my trees treated but not the neighbors on all sides would be pointless. This needs to be a community effort before they weaken and fall on houses _and_ power lines.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 26/08/2026

My city contracted a service to trim the trees encroaching on power lines. Yes, sure, do that without destroying them, thank you. But can we also bring in an arborist to do something about the blight that has spread across the local trees and caused a premature Autumn leaf fall in August?

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 14/08/2026

Look at these cool lino prints. 👁️ Can you guess which one called to me the loudest? AND And and there's a book about folklore? Yesssss

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 14/08/2026

Yooo this is so good!! I knew it would be and you know I love being correct! 🙏

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 03/08/2026

I've not kept a gratitude journal but if I did it would be mostly "very glad the bathrooms have regular doors."

Cat muzzle peeking through very slight gap in wooden pocket doors

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 30/07/2026

I love everything about this!!

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 25/07/2026

Horace investigating the cool new nightlight less than a minute after I plugged it in is a delight I didn't anticipate. Excellent.

The shadow of Horace (a cat with a tipped ear) silhouetted against a projection of the moon on the ceiling.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 23/07/2026

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A daily word game. Each letter gets 5 uses. Except the gold one, which is always required.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 21/07/2026

100% understand. I had to move here for work and, well. Several notes. It is very 🌲green🌲 and scenic at least. I still find myself going "oh damn" when I drive around a bend into a postcard.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 20/07/2026

We are Garfieldin' ahead of schedule on a Sunday night.

Black and tan tabby cat laying on a couch with his front legs extended over the edge, lookin' glum.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 10/07/2026

For real. Have you had those enormous autumn crisp grapes?

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 02/07/2026

Was digging in the fridge for a moment and turned back around to find Horace on the counter chomping on my freshly washed rapini as bold as can be. An unrepentant broccoli rabber!

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 01/07/2026

I'll write more myself soon but I liked this memorial post from his opera friends of 30+ years.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 01/07/2026

On my uncle: "Since 1995, Fred has been an indispensable part of the Spanga theatre scene; staring dead in a bathtub with a burning cigarette in his hand in Gianni Schicchi, [...], and this summer, no longer as the barber in Der Rosenkavalier. No more Fred in Spanga." www.operaspanga.nl/en/

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 22/06/2026

Did that all that just fall through the chimney?! On its own?

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 13/06/2026

I swear every time you mention anything about your new place it feels like maybe we are kinda neighbors. If we are (!?) then yeah, super chilly and windy spring this year. My farm share was mostly greens and radishes this week. And carrots from overwinter storage. Late start this time.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 10/06/2026

How is your writing published? Are we talking blog posts or eBooks? I think I saw a thing like that for pdfs/common eBook formats but I'd need to dig. For blog posts it would depend on your platform. Easier on a diy website to, say, inject code that traps crawlers in a maze of garbage for example.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 08/06/2026

My new phone's battery has been good for nearly two days so far on a not-even-full charge. And its still only down to 70%. Amazing.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 02/06/2026

“Thank you for your suggestion. For more information related to your idea please read the FAQ linked next to the Provide Feedback link you are familiar with.” ~ definitely not me, and most certainly an AI assistant that must’ve picked up the tone of your submission. I’ll make a note.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 30/05/2026

I was having a pleasant day and once that thought occurred to me I panicked and have been bracing for the tides to turn.

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hoodie full of spiders @fatalizm.net · 24/05/2026

Horace (left) and Nibbles (right) — named by the shelter. I don’t know how Horace got Horaced but Nibs would delicately pull each kibble from her bowl and drop it on the floor to eat individually. Took forever to finish her meals. Animal Control had named her Stubs but the shelter was kinder.

Two snaps of two cats taken in quick succession while the dilute tabby on the right was hollerin’ and the black and tan larger of the two on the left ignores her. There’s a pale curtain behind them that somehow isn’t visibly covered in fur.

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