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• Article: The Observer's "The new naturists: Why going naked in Britain is more popular than ever"
• Software: Threema Messenger (secure, open source, independent)
  • it's similar, but different to other messengers
  • main competitor (in my mind): Signal
    • what Threema does better than Signal:
      • greater transparency
      • based in CH, not U.S.
      • does not force updates down my throat (really hate this about Signal)
      • I can have an unlimited number of chats with myself for secure, multi-media notes
      • easy, straight-forward chat export
        • I can export any chat to a local, encrypted .zip file
        • this means I my data is truly mine and I can take it out at any time
          • I do not depend on Threema's client to access my chat data as with Signal
      • Full independence from Google thanks to their fully FOSS client (Threema Libre)
      • F-Droid support
      • Anonymous use possible: no phone number or email required
      • Video messages just as feasible as voice messages thanks to practical compression built-in
        • Telegram does this, too
        • WhatsApp, Signal don't support this as they record gigantic video files that in effect become impractical for this purpose
      • notifications actually work
        • this has been bugging me about Signal recently; my messages to certain recipients would only be delivered once they opened Signal on their device
          • even though all power saving and battery optimization had been explicitly turned off for Signal
          • used to work before the recent (forced) update
      • it's possible to share content into another app
  • well worth the one-time license fee
• Show: Brooklyn Nine-Nine (finished season 7)
• Book: Rapport by Emily Alison & Laurence Alison (so far so good)
• Stationery: Buddha Doodles Weekly Planner <--–— love my Weekly Planner, which I use to plan for self care
• Story: Homing pigeon ends up over 4,000 miles from home (BBC, The Guardian)
• Podcast: Being Well: Recovering from Complex PTSD with Elizabeth Ferreira (YouTube)
• Podcast: My Therapist's a Witch (Apple Podcasts)(Episode 1 on YouTube)
• Show: The Orville Season 3 (finished) (8/10)
• Podcast: Being Well: Complex PTSD and Developmental Trauma

• Book: Finished What is Life? by Paul Nurse 9/10

• Documentary: Extra feature about Star Wars' Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker on disney+
  • the amount of work that goes into these movies is unbelievable; so is the attention to detail.
• Buddha Doodles: these doodles are just absolutely lovely; can't overstate my appreciation of them
• Book: Finished Why the Germans Do it Better by John Kampfner 5/10
  • Review in The Guardian
• Book: What is Life? by Paul Nurse
• Music: Traitor's Exiled to the Surface (2022) and then their back catalog
  • very nice '80's-style straight and fast thrash metal
• Movie: Finishing all Star Wars movies in timeline order
• Tech: HP Dev One
  • a proper, affordable Linux-first laptop by HP
• Show: Man vs. Bee on Netflix 3/10
  • a new show with Rowan Atkinson. As I was watching the old Mr. Bean originals again I was hoping for maybe something similar. Lots of people seem to like Man vs. Bee. I fould it visually beautiful, like many modern shows, but lacking in substance and overall just okay. Was a bit disappointed. Maybe it would have been better to watch it with enough distance from Mr. Bean, which I adore.
• Show: Mr. Bean (the original live action show) on Netflix 8/10
• Show: Peppa Pig on Netflix
• Show: The Smurfs (original version) on Netflix
• Show: Old Enough! on Netflix (Japanese toddler show)
• Misc: Spoon Theory
• Comic: https://webcomicname.com/
  • one of my absolute favorites
• Software: Ubuntu Unity
  • Unity is back! (Well, it kind of never really went away, but this a promising return to form in my opinion.)
• Software: Ladybird web browser
  • a new browser with a completely independent engine
  • early, early alpha
  • very short HN discussion
• Software: Nyxt web browser
  • Lisp! Emacsy!
  • Couldn't run it yet (macOS seems a pain; libraries not yet updated for ubuntu 22.04), but I am very keen on trying.

• Movies: Star Wars timeline after Obi-Wan Kenobi (show), starting with the original trilogy.
  • Finished Star Wars (the movie)
  • Finished The Empire Strikes Back
  • Finished Return of the Jedi
  • Finished The Force Awakens 7/10
  • Finished The Last Jedi 5/10
  • Finished The Rise of Skywalker 8/10
• Music: A playlist of metal-based covers of popular songs
• Music: German old-school power metal band Metalium and their album Nothing to Undo (chapter six)
  • Reminds me of music I grew up with (Sacred Warrior, for example) with their wonderfully melodic, energetic vocal performances, and great guitar work.
  • Henning Basse is doing an amazing job at the vocals.
  • Stumbled upon them thanks to the aforementioned cover playlist, which contained their wonderful cover of Queen's Show Must Go On (YT).
• Music: Municipal Waste's Electrified Brain (2022) (straight-forward, hardcory thrash metal) 7/10
• Health: Intermittent Fasting, particularly 16:8 fasting

• Book: What is Life? by Paul Nurse
• Animation: The Smurfs on Netflix
• Show: Get Organized with the Home Edit (2) on Netflix
• Music: Impellitteri's Screaming Symphony (speedish melodic metal with great vocals and leads)
• Show: Nobody's Looking on Netflix (Brazilian comedy)
• Show: Old Enough! on Netflix (Japanese toddler show)
• Software: Using org-compare.el to implement random choice elements in my custom time and life management system in org-mode (2)
  • found through: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/24270/org-mode-pick-random-task-from-custom-agenda-view
• Service: Proton.me <-— proudly locking users out of their mailboxes since 2016
  • this has been a problem for so long, it's sad to see it's still a thing (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)
  • doesn't matter whether you pay or not, by the way. The auto ban does not discriminate.
• Show: G.L.O.W.
  • a bit sad that they never got to end the show properly with their final fourth season
  • one day I might very well cancel my Netflix subscription simply for how they keep cancelling shows I like
• Video: YouTuber XYZ's very impressive deepfake ROOMBO
• Documentary: These two National Geographic documentaries on North Korea
• Music: Impellitteri's Impellitteri, Stand in Line, and Grin and Bear it (melodic, sometimes speedish heavy metal)
• Podcast: NPR's Throughline: The Characters That Built China
• Show: Obi-Wan Kenobi on disney+
• Movies: Star Wars timeline after Obi-Wan Kenobi (show), starting with the original trilogy.

• Book: What is Life? by Paul Nurse
• Show: Love on the Spectrum on Netflix (U.S. version)
• Music: Decapitated's Cancer Culture (2022) (technical extreme metal)
• Audio Book: Doing Psychotherapy: A Trauma and Attachment-Informed Approach by Robin Shapiro
• Software: Thunderbird (email client) and its built-in PGP support for sending and receiving encrypted emails
  • I feel Thunderbird really lowered the threshold for using this. Now even not tech-savvy relatives can use it (after initial setup). Thank you!
• Show: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window on Netflix
  • I did not realize this was meant to be a parody. Took it seriously and kept getting more and more confused, especially at the end. Then read up on it and found out it was meant to spoof the genre. Wish I had known this going in. Things would have made so much more sense.
• Show: Mr. Bean on Netflix
• Show: Baby Fever (Skruk) on Netflix
• Game: Buddha Doodles: The Game
  • Lovely little game with beautifully designed and printed Buddha Doodles cards. Very worthwhile.
• Animation: The Smurfs on Netflix
• Show: Get Organized with the Home Edit (2) on Netflix
• Programming: elisp
• Music: Meshuggah's obZen

• Book: What is Life? by Paul Nurse
  • I have just begun reading this book, and have just finished the first chapter, on cells. What they are, how they make up both the lowest form and the buildings blocks of life, and how they are, in a way, like us, while at the same time creating us. Now on to the next chapter, genes.
• A few articles about the quest to find physical explanations for spacetime and, by extension, everything
  • A Quantum Origin for Spacetime
  • One Lab’s Quest to Build Space-Time Out of Quantum Particles
  • A Physicist’s Physicist Ponders the Nature of Reality
  • Thanks to this blog.
• Show: Love on the Spectrum on Netflix (the Australian version!)
• Music: Decapitated's Cancer Culture (2022) (technical extreme metal)

• Balance: Meditation & Sleep mobile app (software)
  • They got me with their first-year-free offer. Currently on day 17.
• The Morning Show on AppleTV+ (TV show).

• Logseq (software) <— really getting into this local-first, text-file based outliner
• Clojure (programming language)
• Seventh Angel: Lament for the Weary (music) (old-school, doomy, slightly progressive, massively underrated thrash metal album)
• Seventh Angel: The Torment (music) (lovely old-school, slightly progressive thrash metal ablum; this is my favorite of the two) (check it out on YouTube)
• Trialing Bearable (software) for mood tracking.
  • Not too happy about this being a mobile app only, but if it makes tracking and processing easier, so be it.
• The Morning Show on AppleTV+ (TV show).

• Ernst H. Gombrich: Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser, vorgelesen von Christoph Waltz (audiobook)
  • German audiobook version of Ernst Gombrich's A Little History of the World.
• Logseq, a "privacy-first, [local-first,] open-source knowledge base" (software)
  • "Logseq is a local-only, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base." (https://logseq.com/blog/about)
  • It's as if Workflowy, emac's org-mode (really powerful!), Roam, and Obsidian had a child.
• Necronautical: Slain in the Spirit (music) (wonderfully melodic epic black metal from England)
• TextMate, a wonderful text editor for the Mac (software)
• Mac Power Users (podcast)

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