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Stephanie Booth

@stephtara.bsky.social
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OG blogger from Switzerland. Cats. Pink. Judo. Chalet. People. Singing. ADHD. climbtothestars.org

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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nauseating to see how the media, cyberinfluencers and other mass manipulators are milking the « story » for all it’s worth to grab some exposure surfing on Ed Sheeran’s fame. Listen to music for a bit instead.
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nauseating to see how the media, cyberinfluencers and other mass manipulators are milking the « story » for all it’s worth to grab some exposure surfing on Ed Sheeran’s fame. Listen to music for a bit instead.
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
overcast.fm/+ABTLaY3KIss Podcast qui compense un peu la frustration d’avoir loupé le module consacré au suicide dans ma formation en systémique à l’IGB. Ça vous paraîtra peut-être contre-intuitif, comme souvent dans cette approche.
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Idées suicidaires : et si en parler sans peur changeait tout ? — Le problème à l'envers - Thérapie brève et solutions concrètes — Overcast
Idées suicidaires : et si en parler sans peur changeait tout ? Parler du suicide fait peur. Aux proches, qui ne savent pas quoi dire. Aux soignants eux-mêmes, parfois. Alors on rassure, on positive, on exhorte — « pense à tout ce que tu as à vivre »….
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Have you ever thought all our conversations about consent in relationships could be relevant to AI? confusedofcalcutta.com/2026/09/13/o...
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Of agents and trust and permissions
When I think about agents, I think of what permissions I have to give someone else in order for them to represent me, and what permissions I have to receive to be someone’s agent. Permissions…
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Construire une base dès aujourd’hui Ça bouge un peu. Dans le bon sens. Je profite de ma pause de midi pour écrire quelques mots. Vous savez ces changements progressifs que vous n'arrivez pas à attribuer à un seul facteur, mais où vous identifiez quand même des éléments spécifiques qui ont joué un…
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Construire une base dès aujourd’hui
Ça bouge un peu. Dans le bon sens. Je profite de ma pause de midi pour écrire quelques mots. Vous savez ces changements progressifs que vous n'arrivez pas à attribuer à un seul facteur, mais où vous identifiez quand même des éléments spécifiques qui ont joué un rôle? Voilà, on est là-dedans. J'ai pu passer à 60% il y a deux semaines.
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Relatable
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If this looks familiar, it’s because it is a repost of a tweet I posted five years ago bc yes, I am still thinking about it. Here’s the rest of the thread:
POST 2: It's the little things that truly cement this all-encompassing hellscape ✨🇵🇸

POST 3: I need to be clear that the summer camp was super fun most of the time and pretty in line with actual Christian ideals. Like besides a few weird counselors, I loved going there.

But also Texas is Texas and those
microaggressions are a daily thing for Arabs in the state.

POST 4: If you have a few dollars to spare, consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. PCRF.net
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”
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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 11/09/2026
The worst abusers of the blogosphere were its biggest critics like Andrew Keen epeus.blogspot.com/2007/09/jour... who I saw a few times epeus.blogspot.com/2007/06/keen...
Like Nick Carr, and before him Andrew Orlowski and John Dvorak, Keen is a professional troll. He has realised that combining overblown rhetorical attacks on the internet with a smattering of erudite sounding quotation gets him both newspaper commissions and a lot of links from bloggers, and he is making the most of it. Listening to his arguments, I had the feeling that he was clutching at so many straws so he had enough to build his straw man.

Among the things he said were that he's nostalgic for big media, that the web is not a viable economy for artists, and we need middlemen. Talent is scarce - the value is finding talent. Web 2.0 flattened media lends itself to corruption - media without official gatekeepers is untrustworthy. Youtube is becoming one long commercial break, where the 'best content is sponsored', that most of his evidence is anecdotal, people aren't as smart or as media literate as we'd like them to be and that online anonymity is corrupting (yet he plays along with the wholly fictitious Strumpette).

Andrew Keen's real sleight of hand is that he evokes the best of newspapers and contrasts that with the mass of the web. He says that most musicians won't make money from the web, ignoring that hardly any make money from the label system he defends. Like Carr, his worldview is wholly coloured by survivorship bias.I've realised why I got quote so cross with Andrew Keen and the way he portrays the net as 'corrupting'. Pagan Kennedy's essay on MySpace reminded me, and Tom's passionate defence of his blog against PR slummers who want to use him as a mouthpiece confirmed this thought. There is a temptation online, and that is to go slumming - to pretend that you can abuse people's trust and emotions without fear of personal consequences, that people online are somehow not real and so you can toy with them and remain above it. A while back at Making Light, Lucy Kemnitzer explained this well:

Slumming isn't going to a seedy place. Slumming is taking your superior attitude and your certainty that the world is your Disneyland in with you. It's looking at the people who work there as performing monkeys putting on a show for you. It's being cushioned by your privilege. It's thinking that if the place is raided, surely you will be passed over because you're not one of those people. It's running a narration in your head where you are the normal observer, and those guys are the freaks.

You can do it almost everywhere. I've seen people do it on an ordinary residential street in a city, going into a corner restaurant or working man's bar as if it were the Exotic And Dangerous Gangsta Exhibit at a Los Vegas theme hotel. I've seen people do it at a flea market in an ordinary rural town. Or at the weekly get-together of a community, where they danced and sang and gave each other presents (a pow-wow). I saw people doing it at my college, thanks to a former Governor and President calling it a cross between a hippie pad and a bordello.

Here's a clue about how not to go slumming when you enter a place: shed your privilege and your pretensions to superiority. If they play music that isn't to your taste, maybe it's because they hear something in it that you don't, so listen. If they're presenting an image you find disturbing, maybe you're not looking at it right.Here's a clue about how not to go slumming when you enter a place: shed your privilege and your pretensions to superiority. If they play music that isn't to your taste, maybe it's because they hear something in it that you don't, so listen. If they're presenting an image you find disturbing, maybe you're not looking at it right. If you can't get out of your own skull while you're there, maybe you belong somewhere else.

When Keen (p76) cites Michael Hiltzik and Lee Siegel (both journalists who got caught in sock-puppetry online - posting hagiographic comments about themselves through pseudonyms), it is not their perfidy he condemns, but the Internet as enabler. In fact, it is their slumming and condescension that is the problem - their longing for freedom from consequences of their actions that led them astray. Keen himself is a knowing troll, trying to be the Simon Cowell of Web 2.0, and behaving like a pantomime villain to get web conferences to boo him. The ultimate example of this kind of slumming was Michael Skube's polemic against blogs, profoundly rebutted by Jay Rosen. Pagan Kennedy's tone is dancing around the edges of slumming - she starts out with "OMG drunk teenagers", but the article comes to realise that people online are human too, and makes fun of her own original attitudes.


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The girls in question would not have been slumming if they had been going to drink the drinks, chat to the patrons, or see the dancers. They weren't. They were going to watch themselves drink the drinks, chat to the patrons, and see the dancers. It's like Kundera's definition of kitsch - the last layer of self-observation determines the definition.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And my family had it easy! We aren’t Muslim so no visible indicators like a hijab. I look white as hell. My brother can pass as something else. We both have our dad’s family nose, but that’s not noticeable to the average American. And despite all that, it still sucked.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Shoutout to my mom for always making sure my brother and I knew about our background and had a connection with our family even when the culture barrier made it hard btw. She’s the realest and I love her and so does everyone who has ever met her.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is so real. The shit people would say to my white mother was so heinous that she cut off multiple friendships within days of the attacks. A lot of people asking if my dad knew the hijackers or about The Plan. Oh, and my mom thought he’d died in the towers while being asked all of this.
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Bon, j’écris quoi comme livre? Vous aimeriez lire quoi? (Lâchez-vous)
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Les soirées fraîchissent
Juju roulé en boule.
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Passing thought: maybe I should use this less active time in my life to write a book.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you use AI in any way, read this thread.
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Les Répliques @lesrepliques.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Féminicide en Italie : le choix de l'illustration par Le Parisien de Lorena Isceri et Federico Vella. L'assassin a enlevé son ex-compagne avant de la jeter du haut d'un pont et de se suicider
Féminicide en Italie : le choix de l'illustration par Le Parisien de Federico Vella et Lorena Isceri. L'assassin a enlevé son ex-compagne avant de la jeter du haut d'un pont et de se suicider.

Réplique de Foncé de Souche : Si je me fais tuer et qu'un journal publie une photo de moi en train de faire un câlin à mon assassin, je vous jure que je ressuscite pour aller massacrer la rédaction
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Jay @jaylboh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is what we’re dealing with.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 07/09/2026
You can tell this is true because when Michelle Obama made healthy eating and exercise her issue as First Lady, this same movement failed to coalesce around her and in fact she met a ton of resistance from the same people who made RFK Jr possible
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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
One of the best investments we could make *right now* would be to nationalize all public utility companies; electric, water, even internet, etc. Pay them fair market value or whatever, but privately owned utility companies simply should not exist. And they’re fighting us on everything. Fuck ‘em
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 07/09/2026
Don't fight a chimpanzee. The chimpanzee will fucking kill you.
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Notre « magnifique » renouée du Japon…
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Alert Juju
Juju the cat spotted something.Juju the cat spotted something.Juju the cat spotted something.
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Manton Reece @manton.org · 06/09/2026
I think I would really like the foldable iPhone. But at over $2k, I can’t justify blowing that much money on a phone. It would be a crazy business expense when I could put that money back into Micro.blog hosting or paying people. Other folks may have different priorities, and that’s fine! 💰
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/09/2026
So, several months ago, when it became clear that the Anthropic settlement was designed to slice up payouts between the author and the publisher, I sent an email to them via my editor that, as the sole copyright owner of the works in question, I expected them to forward any payment they get to me.
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Long Juju
Juju the cat.Juju the cat.
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We can tell. And we don’t tune out because we could tell. We could tell because we tuned out.
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.theverge.com/tech/988536/...
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1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project | The Verge
The controversy surrounds David Heinemeier Hansson, who has posted strident anti-vax and anti-immigrant views.
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The ocean is real but zooming in on a water molecule does not show you a mini ocean #emergence
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Insightful. A constructive look at self-labeling in psychiatry which sheds some light for me on the identity aspect that always bugs me www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/o...
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Opinion | I’m a Psychiatrist. I’m Hearing Something New From Young Women.
Step 1: Take it seriously, not literally.
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
🤬 Fuck nazis www.flyingpenguin.com/dhh-nazism-f...
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DHH Nazism Funded by 1Password VP Who Wrote “Honest Security” | flyingpenguin
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
😳😲 overcast.fm/+ABLPtsqdPGs Yikes, hadn’t heard the details.
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A.I. Is Outsmarting Its Creators — The Daily — Overcast
When OpenAI’s agents went rogue in July, they demonstrated ingenuity and drive beyond what many experts had imagined.
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The path to MAHA and not vaccinating. Stories of real people. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The MAHA Custody Battle | The New Yorker
A father wanted to vaccinate his children. Their mother didn’t. Then the kids got sick.
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Chilling overcast.fm/+AAyIOylN8Jg
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100 Objects #15: Bundy Clock — 99% Invisible — Overcast
How the time clock not only ignited a revolution in workplace efficiency and surveillance, but transformed our relationship to time itself.
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Chilling overcast.fm/+AAyIOylN8Jg
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100 Objects #15: Bundy Clock — 99% Invisible — Overcast
How the time clock not only ignited a revolution in workplace efficiency and surveillance, but transformed our relationship to time itself.
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Reading recommendation: Lexicon by Max Barry www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...
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Lexicon by Max Barry | Goodreads
At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, …
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Plus de 26 ans que je blogue… et vous? L’article d’hier: climbtothestars.org/archives/202...
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Pavé à l’abri des particules fines – Climb to the Stars
Je profite que le programme de mon samedi soit chamboulé par les fumées de l’incendie de Thévenaz-Leduc hier soir pour écrire ici. Comme toujours quand je n’ai pas écrit régulièrement, …
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
[Suisse] Important, à signer! act.campax.org/petitions/ga...
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Garantir l’accès à la psychothérapie – de l’aide plutôt que des obstacles | ACT by Campax
Les psychologues-psychothérapeutes disposent d’un diplôme universitaire en psychologie et ont suivi une formation postgrade de plusieurs années en psychothérapie, reconnue au niveau fédéral. Le diagnostic et le traitement des troubles psychiques font partie de leurs compétences fondamentales.   L’expertise psychiatrique est importante. Cette collaboration devrait toutefois intervenir là où elle est nécessaire sur le plan clinique. En effet, la psychiatrie connaît elle aussi déjà des pénuries...
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Pavé à l’abri des particules fines – Climb to the Stars
Je profite que le programme de mon samedi soit chamboulé par les fumées de l’incendie de Thévenaz-Leduc hier soir pour écrire ici. Comme toujours quand je n’ai pas écrit régulièrement, …
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Pavé à l’abri des particules fines Je profite que le programme de mon samedi soit chamboulé par les fumées de l'incendie de Thévenaz-Leduc hier soir pour écrire ici. Comme toujours quand je n'ai pas écrit régulièrement, j'ai eu depuis mon dernier article des dizaines d'idées de choses à dire et à…
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Pavé à l’abri des particules fines
Je profite que le programme de mon samedi soit chamboulé par les fumées de l'incendie de Thévenaz-Leduc hier soir pour écrire ici. Comme toujours quand je n'ai pas écrit régulièrement, j'ai eu depuis mon dernier article des dizaines d'idées de choses à dire et à écrire au fil du temps, certaines de passage, d'autres plus tenaces, toutes aux abonnés absents à l'instant.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Greg really is one of the best reported-columnists covering this era right now. He gets info and actual news others who work in the commentary space simply don’t I love the fusion of strong opinion/perspective but backing it up with unearthed information and original reporting
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
On me rapporte que ça sent jusqu’à Montpreveyres et Savigny
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Lausannois, fermez bien vos fenêtres, rentrez vos animaux, la fumée de l’incendie est sur nous, si jamais. Il y a une alerte sur l’application AlertSwiss.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 25/08/2026
Almost every former NFL player who died between 2016 and 2021 and allowed their brains to be evaluated were found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, stark evidence of the toll repeated head impacts can take on athletes.
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Chronic Traumatic Brain Damage Widespread in Former NFL Athletes
Almost every former National Football League player who died between 2016 and 2021 and allowed their brains to be evaluated were found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, stark evidence of the toll repeated head impacts can take on athletes.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 25/08/2026
In lieu of flowers, Dolly Parton’s family is asking for donations to her Imagination Library, which has distributed over 330 million books to kids. [imaginationlibrary.com]
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Home
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I've been anti-football for a while (sacrilege for a native Alabamian) because of CTE, which probably affected one of my younger brothers who died a decade ago. i think part of the reason it's been so consistently dismissed is that CTE victims are mostly Black men. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/u...
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At Least 1 in 4 NFL Players Gets CTE, Major New Study Finds (Gift Article)
The actual prevalence, researchers said, may be much higher.
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I am living my new shrunken life The one where a few hours make a day Where a walk in the park is worth a hike It feels like half the life I had before Scratch that — not even half, it’s thinner too And bumpier, with potholes and broken parts I am living my post-accident life The one I believed…
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I am living my new shrunken life The one where a few hours make a day Where a walk in the park is worth a hike It feels like half the life I had before Scratch that — not even half, it’s thinner too And bumpier, with potholes and broken parts I am living my post-accident life The one I believed would be just for a while I feel less sure now, it’s a pretty slow crawl I took so much for granted I didn’t think I was I’ve been patient, hopeful, optimistic I still am But now I’m also starting to be scared.
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Victime d’excès d’arrosage 😢 (crassula au premier plan) La différence entre savoir ce qu’on doit faire et réussir à le faire
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Mon gentil Juju
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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I dont think we end up being who we thought we’d become.
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