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Published: 07.07.2026 12:50 • click to open blogpost separately

Crow stealing another plant pot. Interesting idea of mine to start offering food to the crows on my balcony.

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Published: 07.07.2026 12:49 • click to open blogpost separately

Crow reducing my plant pot collection.

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Published: 04.07.2026 22:37 • click to open blogpost separately

Cards are being funny again. I made this set, ages ago, only Major Arcana. Usually don't use divination or anything but in very tumultuous times I ask the cards. My own set is the only one that works for me. And they are always funny. Deadpan. This time for example. What brought me here? The World. The Circle of Life. Haha. But ok. I get it. Hope this lesson will sink in and be my life-line.

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[h] Our gifs suck now [/h]

If you are - like me - communicating with loved ones on messenger apps mostly through gifs, you might have felt some irritation today. The gifs are gone bad. Thanks, Google.
[q] [i] Anyone searching for GIFs in apps like Whatsapp, Discord, Bluesky, or X might see different results than before, depending on the platform, or may no longer find familiar Tenor GIFs. Google shut down the API of its GIF service Tenor on June 30, 2026. This means external apps can no longer integrate the search library as they did before. However, Tenor will remain available for Google's own products, including Gboard, Google Messages, and Google Chat, as well as the GIF keyboard apps for Android and iOS. [/i][/q]
[i] Source: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Google-cuts-off-Tenor-access-Apps-must-replace-GIF-search-11350334.html [/I]

My most used messenger is Telegram and I have certain go-to search requests when it comes to illustrating gifs (e.g. "good morning cat" or "cat bicycle"), so I have an expected output of cute gifs to choose from. And let me just tell you, the "good morning cat" results were seriously lacking in cats! Lots of nonsense there! But even worse: there are no results for "cat bicycle"! How am I supposed to communicate that I am in my way riding my bicycle?!
So whatever gif-company replaced the Google owned Tenor API - it sucks. 
I guess I'll have to learn to use these old-fashioned emoji-precusors now. 
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#internet #enshittification

Published: 02.07.2026 10:19 • click to open blogpost separately

Our gifs suck now

If you are - like me - communicating with loved ones on messenger apps mostly through gifs, you might have felt some irritation today. The gifs are gone bad. Thanks, Google.

Anyone searching for GIFs in apps like Whatsapp, Discord, Bluesky, or X might see different results than before, depending on the platform, or may no longer find familiar Tenor GIFs. Google shut down the API of its GIF service Tenor on June 30, 2026. This means external apps can no longer integrate the search library as they did before. However, Tenor will remain available for Google's own products, including Gboard, Google Messages, and Google Chat, as well as the GIF keyboard apps for Android and iOS.

Source: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Google-cuts-off-Tenor-access-Apps-must-replace-GIF-search-11350334.html My most used messenger is Telegram and I have certain go-to search requests when it comes to illustrating gifs (e.g. "good morning cat" or "cat bicycle"), so I have an expected output of cute gifs to choose from. And let me just tell you, the "good morning cat" results were seriously lacking in cats! Lots of nonsense there! But even worse: there are no results for "cat bicycle"! How am I supposed to communicate that I am in my way riding my bicycle?! So whatever gif-company replaced the Google owned Tenor API - it sucks. I guess I'll have to learn to use these old-fashioned emoji-precusors now. ⊙⁠﹏⁠⊙ (⁠ᗒ⁠ᗩ⁠ᗕ⁠) (⁠ノ⁠｀⁠Д⁠´⁠)⁠ノ⁠彡⁠┻⁠━⁠┻ #internet #enshittification

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Published: 01.07.2026 21:59 • click to open blogpost separately

I like: Ceramics by N

Kiddo made these ceramics from my personal order - a dish for soy sauce and a thingy for little lava rocks to function as a diffuser. I'm immensely impressed because I remember my multiple attempts at ceramics at his age and I never had the patience or talent to create such even shapes and useful objects. And they are so pretty! #ThingsILike

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Published: 30.06.2026 22:51 • click to open blogpost separately

flat design is flat

Left: today Right: found via Google, description text reads: Kelloggs Pokémon Limited Edition Foil 2000 Vintage It's just not fun, the flat design. The "New" plague is killing me. It's so flat. No dimension, no movement. Imitating the shape of the generic white plate, for whatever reason. C H O C O L A T E F L A V O U R C E R E A L The cereal pieces are brown stars and orbs. Famous Pokémon stars and orbs. The right side has actual holographic foil! And different Pokémon cereals! #design

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Published: 25.06.2026 15:45 • click to open blogpost separately

I like: Lush Baklava Soap Bar

I am love with the scent of this soap! When I enter my bathroom the wave of floral sweetness gives me a jolt of happiness. To me it's the exact replication of the scent of the flower Ackerwinde. Almost sure that's not what Lush intended but it's fascinating. Every other time, though, the earthy note of the perfume comes through. It's intense and challenging, as earthy fragrances tend to be. Too much of it would be overwhelming but it doesn't linger to long and it only comes up occasionally. I love the variety and element of surprise. Between those very different olfactoral notes there's a soapy scent that I can only describe as signature "Lush". I've love Lush products because of this for nearly twenty years now and it makes me incredibly happy. Scent, you know? Magical. (And it looks fun with the green and swirls and golden layer. Doesn't remind me of Baklava in any way but that's neither here nor there.) #ThingsILike

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Published: 24.06.2026 14:05 • click to open blogpost separately

Global Warming

Just had to postpone my kids' birthday party due to incoming temperatures of at least 38°C the coming weekend. Noting this as a First.

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