cally [he/they]

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Cake day: September 14th, 2023

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  • Do you ever just realize that everyone is in space right now? Like, sure, there’s an atmosphere, but other than that you’re basically out there. The air around you is sky. The vacuum around you is universe. When you take a closer look, there are universes within universes, whole worlds of microbes, like the ones on the very surface of the keyboard I type this on - on the larger scale, ecosystems of stars, being born, evolving and dying - like in a cosmic “firework show”. But they don’t tend to affect each other, I think. They’re so far away…

    And then, there’s us. We’re so small yet so big. Does that make us special or just mediocre? To an ant we are giants, to a star we don’t exist. Why does consciousness as we know it only exist in the middle of sizes? Maybe because it’s “as we know it”, and of course we only really know what things are like at our scale? Maybe sapience is subtle, and it can only be detected when you spend every moment dealing with it. Perhaps atoms are kind of conscious, and brains are the shape they make such that their consciousness field constructively interferes. Idk









    1. Switching consciousness with a creature from my dream and realizing I won’t exist when the dream is over (because I thought I was the weid red rectangle creature). Creepiest one by far, and I was in front of my neighbor’s house in the dream.

    2. Bumping into miniature Jupiter in an infinite space train, then getting haunted by black and white demon faces - which caused me to wake up very scared.

    3. Partially lucid dream where I flew on a carpet to Japan and then language-learning books started falling from the sky, and I ran to grab as many as I could. Also, it wasn’t actually Japan, it was just weird grid-like suburbs with no houses, just concrete and small patches of grass. I don’t remember what happened after grabbing a bunch of books.





  • I would buy the right-handed pencils, because I’m right handed. You shouldn’t buy mismatched pencils, below is a story showing what happens.

    the story

    Left-handed pencils for 20 cents each - Right-handed pencils, 5 for 1 dollar

    My friend Paul bought a pencil at this exact store. He’s left-handed, but the store had somehow ran out of left-handed pencils. So, being the smart-ass he is, Paul thought:

    — Golly! I’ll just buy a right-handed one. It’s a great deal, even! 5 whole pencils, all for one dollar!

    That was his gravest mistake.

    He picked up the pencil with his left hand, as usual. It beeped thrice, rang a bit, then exploded. He lost his left arm, and only survived because he received immediate medical attention.

    This is what happens when you use a mismatched pencil. It may not look like it at first, but which hand you use them with matters. Spread this message.