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Alright, so I survived the Hobonichi 2027 drop day online ordering frenzy. Now I have to survive the pre-event registration frenzy for the business conference I’m going to next month. 🫠

There it is. While you struggle to afford groceries, or find any that are edible, and pay thousands more every year in gas, rent, utilities, childcare, and healthcare, they are laughing all the way to the bank. 

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I want a $300 leather jacket, tonight. I could just steal it, but if you say that's illegal and wrong, then YOU make me a leather jacket by tonight. I'll pay you what I'd pay my fence which is $15. Can't do it, huh?? Seems stealing is superior after all 😏😏😏

Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take

Went to the post office today to pick up mail. Got to thinking about their financial strains and what life would be like without them. Idk, post offices seem more like community experiences compared to the busyness of SF Express. Just another thing that we might lose in our pursuit of convenience.

Whenever I notice myself doomscrolling on YouTube recently, I swap over to my other account where my algorithm has decided to give me an endless flood of software engineering and data analytics tutorials. I don’t understand everything they’re saying but I feel much better.

Some positive publishing news to counter some of the doomerism: total book sales, and adult fiction specifically, increased in 2025. Print was 73% of market and digital audio/ebook 22%. (I guess the remaining is physical audio?) www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Publishing Sales Hit $32.5 Billion in 2025

Total estimated industry sales rose 2.5% over 2024, according to the year-end report from the AAP, and the number of books sold inched up 0.4%, to 3.15 billion units.

publishersweekly.com

Really rooting for Alex Eala but damn, the rowdy kababayans need to take it down a notch. Yelling in the middle of a serve and a rally is in such poor taste. Can’t be acting like that while also proudly waving the Philippine flag.