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andrewducker at 12:00pm on 03/06/2026 under 3dprinting, ai, catholicism, design, disability, funny, law, links, memory, ohforfuckssake, relationships, scifi, short_story, society, technology, uk, viaswampers, writingandrewducker at 12:00pm on 02/06/2026 under biology, birds, chemistry, earth, links, magnets, metabolism, natureThe weather has been overcast and wet the last few days. But the strawberries still know that June is here.
Yesterday afternoon, V was outside inspecting the garden (as they do every day) and said the strawberries were a few hours away from being ripe.
And later, long after I'd forgotten they said this, they went out again and when they came back and handed me one red strawberry.
I ate it, delightedly. Well, I took a picture of it and then ate it. First Strawberry Day is like a holiday for me.
Today, when I was mired in work, they came in with a paper towel in their hand, which held another strawberry.
I told them I hoped they were getting some too. But only after I'd grabbed this one as well, heh. They said they hadn't yet.
I'm a little sheepish that my excitement about strawberries is so great that I am getting all the earliest fruits of their labor! But I know soon that there will be more of them in the fridge than any of us eat before more come along to join them.
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June 1st, 2026: This comic is inspired by dogs! May they forever be countable. – Ryan | ||
I had a strange dream -- an older man I knew I'd been close to and was saying goodbye to knowing I'd never see him again -- that didn't literally include a loved one dying but once I woke up I was convinced that was what the dream was trying to tell me, about a specific person.
I don't think it's a premonition or anything, but it still felt unsettling in the early hours.
Not least because in waking up from it I managed to thrash around and knock over my alarm clock and water bottle next to my side of the bed and, in the process of picking them up again, kicked poor D in the shin as he lay newly-awake and startled in bed next to me.
I don't think I've ever had a premonition really, but I find such things so interesting.
I remember once when I was in high school my mom told us one morning she was convinced she'd heard a voice saying "Get ready" but she couldn't think of anything it would've been telling her to get ready for. She seemed a little taken aback as she was telling us this. And I don't remember anything happening soon after that would have explained it; we didn't find anything special that we needed to "get ready" for. These things probably happen so much more often than the few that do "line up" for some narrative. But we are pan narrans: we remember what makes a good story and what doesn't ends up as just static in the background.
Our pattern-matching brains find meaning where there isn't necessarily any, and pareidolia can be aural as well as visual. Our dreams are partly about filing away the information we have acquired and it isn't at all surprising for mine to highlight that a very old man who's been very ill for a long time might die. Dreams are still so little-understood, and sleep in general. More things than are dreamt of (so to speak): sleep paralysis and "exploding head syndrome" (which is the best explanation I've found for something that happened to me regularly as a kid; I used feel like I was waking up to the sound of a racecar zooming by).
Last year I read a book about the British premonition bureau and really enjoyed it.
But I really wouldn't have been surprised if I'd gotten an e-mail from my mom today telling me that Les had died. The feeling can be so strong, and feel so otherwise-inexplicable, that we think it must have been driven by some real event out there in the world. I think especially in times like this when we dream about someone dying we want to think that it's not just our brains conjuring up something awful, as if we've made it more likely by imagining such a terrible thing. As if we're bringing it into the realm of the possible. But I don't think any of that.
I do think it's a sign of how stressed and miserable I've been feeling for the last week, ten days. My mood just crashed hard near the end of last week for some reason.
I slept very well during the heatwave that I know disrupted a lot of people's sleep, but now that it's cooled down I'm the one taking up the burden of restless and wakeful nights. And shit like bad dreams -- especially ones that make themselves known in the waking world, even if it is having to make sure my alarm clock's okay and my boyfriend's shin isn't badly affected by me thwacking it -- just feels bad! It set me up for a bad morning: I had an argument with a security guard making it harder for me to get to transgym, I got disoriented on the way back because I had to exit a different way, during my post-gym shower I got shampoo in my eye (the "good" eye of course) and it hurt all day, I was sure I'd lost my bluetooth headphones... (luckily they did turn up later, but sheesh).
It feels like a lot of change is in the works for both me and my household, from our bodies to the literal structure around us, like solar panels and doors, and I think I've found that (understandably but very annoyingly) overwhelming.
Some of the chanfe has meant medically-necessary dietary changes which are not for me but are having an impact on me by making it even more stressful to plan/make dinner on work days (much less eat it).
Change is coming at work too: either I'll be a manager or I'll have a new manager (probably). Luckily the deadline for that has been extended from tomorrow to about a fortnight, so my indecisiveness and/or lack of executive function to pursue applying for it doesn't necessarily rule me out like I was beginning to worry it might.
cosmolinguist at 03:42pm on 31/05/2026I've got a new-to-me phone (~5 years old instead of ~10 years old and not charging properly) and, while the transfer went pretty smoothly, it still feels like some combination of getting new prescription glasses and moving in to a new house.
andrewducker at 03:33pm on 31/05/2026 under micropostIntermittently I would like to bring forward a single instance of a regular payment.
Normally transfer money from A to B on the 17th, but this month you want to do it 2 days early? Tough, you have to make the early payment, wait for the later payment to go through, and then get it transferred back.
Ah, the wonders of nature.
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andrewducker at 11:06am on 31/05/2026 under micropostChildren are having a very loud conversation with each other on the bus about where babies come from.
I'm hiding three rows back.
andrewducker at 12:00pm on 30/05/2026 under ai, bigotry, healthcare, history, housing, lgbt, life, links, moon, nature, obituary, poetry, rome, starwars, transgender, trees, uk, unions, viadanieldwilliamcosmolinguist at 11:14pm on 29/05/2026 under bodies!V has the conviction that chronic illness should prevent prevent you from ordinary illnesses -- allergies or colds or whatever -- I would like to offer my own observation:
I have somehow acquired a blister on my foot at rhe same time as my eczema, which is also on my feet, is flaring.
This feels excessively unfair. (Especially because the blister is in a spot on my heel that there's no point putting a bandaid on because it'll immediately fall off due to how skin moves.)
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