Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Snow

    The weather report yesterday said there was a 60% chance of snow, from noon to midnight or so. I guess it was Tokyo's turn, since the north of Japan has been a winter wonderland for a few weeks now.

    My SO and I had to run some errands yesterday and did it snow for a while, but I didn't think it was going to settle. I woke up early this morning to find a few centimeteres of snow on the ground, and of course it's quite cold. Too bad I don't have any snow boots.

  • Why silent spaces start to feel natural

    Sometimes it’s not that we dislike quieter places. It’s that our system has been trained to live “open” by default.

    Open tabs.

    Open feeds.

    Open visibility.

    Open exposure.

    After a while, constant exposure stops feeling like exposure. It just becomes “the air”.

  • When Subtlety Starts Feeling Good Again

    There’s a quiet thing that happens when we spend a lot of time around “high-impact” inputs: strong flavors, strong colors, strong opinions, strong hooks.

    Over time, the nervous system adapts.

    It isn’t wrong.

    It’s just plastic.

  • Clean Inputs, Clearer Mind

    Some people are careful with food sourcing.

    Others are careful with finances.

    But information sourcing often gets treated as… optional.

    Not because people are foolish—

    because information doesn’t arrive looking like “a diet”.

  • snooze

    I missed the psychedelic world.

    Today I sampled a new batch of magic mushroom. Freeze dried snooze berries. They are very strange looking mushroom, they look very tasty, and are chubbier than the normal long bodied small cap type of mushroom.

  • Transforming Pressure Into Growth

    Pressure is real.

    And sometimes it’s not optional.

    But there’s a difference between:

    - pressure that strengthens you

    - pressure that scrambles you

    The difference is often not the size of the load, but whether the load is being metabolized — or just endured. When pressure stays unprocessed, it leaks into the system as:

    - urgency theater

    - brittle communication - compulsive distraction

    - “I can’t start” fatigue

  • Regain Control of Transitions

    Most people don’t lose direction in the middle of a normal moment.

    They lose it in transitions.

    The in-between spaces: - waking up

    - switching tasks

    - leaving one context, entering another

    - emotional spikes

    - “I’ll just check one thing…”

  • Rebuilding Connection & Trust

    In a chaotic world, a lot of people are not “cold”.

    They’re overloaded.

    And overload often looks like: - short replies

    - skepticism

    - withdrawal

    - misread tone

    - loss of trust

    So rebuilding connection usually isn’t a speech.

    It’s small proof.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Doing Not Much Tweaking

    I theorized about a setup with notmuch, and I had even implemented it partway on one of my systems, but the reading/writing part wasn’t quite there yet.

  • Reclaiming Digital Agency

    And drift has a cost:

    - the sense that time is disappearing

    - the feeling that choices are being shaped for us

    - dependency on formats, platforms, and “one place” monopolies

    - a low-grade fatigue that looks like “I can’t even start”