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What's good y'all. Me, @Su_ch_is_life and @DaveDumps are organizing a mini event for the community where we’re screening movies, hosting a music performance and having a panel discussion. We're renting out a cinema but since space is strictly limited, we need an accurate headcount before finalizing the venue booking https://forms.gle/AtR2N4XfS5VCCXcU6

when people tell me i can get this or do that, if i do this or do that, i just tell them if they do it for me, i will pay them. i no longer have the energy or time to go about things myself. better to compensate someone else.

Night :)

Odit is now 500 strong on playstore 💪. me glad ❤️

i was very close to initiating a fight this one time at the start of this year at a tailor shop. if you know me, im possibly the least confrontational person in a room. but this one dude i had asked to fix up a couple of my pants had said he’d do it for an aggressive price and i agreed if he did it in the same time he promised. he didn’t, a couple of times. weeks had gone by and he hadn’t fixed any of them after promising every time he would finish it in a week. every visit was making me angrier and angrier. at the very end i decided to take back my pants and go to a different tailor shop and he had pleaded with me to give him some of the cash. he had used scissors to trim the length of one of the pants and that’s what he was asking money for. i told him i wouldnt and upon inspecting the pants, i didnt find one, i went back, asked him for it, told me that was all i gave him, so i just went on a rage and sort of started looking myself, i was sort of disorganizing and wrecking things while the guy was yelling at me, i found my pants, and i remember pushing him and calling him a thief, (the pants were expensive lol) and proceeding to bait him into a fight, shoving, and provoking him more, police came though before anything could happen. a few steps from that tailor shop i had found another one with a pretty sincere guy, i gave it to him and asked him when, he said he'd fix them and give it to me in 3 days, and even mentioned a specific time for me to come and drop by, and called out a higher markup than the one before, i complied, because for one i didnt believe he would do it, i was under the assumption that he was going to do the same thing to me, to my surprise he didnt. i go to that tailor shop often, and possibly had given this guy so much to work on, including stuff for sets, and more. and i never argue with price the point is ... if you know there's a business that people often deal with but somehow dont have the best experience with, you can just setup shop next to them, for a higher markup even, and just even better customer service, and better setting of expectations will do tremendous ... i mean look at safari, how people flocked to it, after it started, they are on track to break-even next year. IMAGINE.

actually diving deeper into this hole.

this is where the cat went btw lol. im so happy she's in a loving and supportive home now.

ጓድ got her new crib. shot and edited by rue. #ጓድ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o34ORyUZFf4

Heaven's case still haunts me. I remember signing a petition back then too. However, our legal system seems to misunderstand that it is only her who had been wronged. This is the least we can do. But let's do it. And in due time, we will be louder. Fuck the men who continue to be more barbaric than a prehistoric rock, and the law which keeps emancipating them. Things are so bad that the next petition that comes up is for criminalizing marital rape 🤦‍♂ [Petition]

to sum up this framework: i don't architect or engineer the goal or task at hand, i tend to it, water, and shine on it consistently, its not new, but its heavily personalized and adapted from many other ideas obviously

something thats really helping me write this essay is scholarxiv.com (shoutout to @dagmawi_babi)

for instance one of the plants in the philosophy bed is writing down the thesis for this framework, the fruit is an essay. plant expires if i dont water or tend to it for two days

like anybody of these days, i have a vibe-coded app to help me manage it. for instance these are the beds.

i have recently made some sort of framework for myself with regards to managing and maintaining my life. it’s built around the concept of being a gardener. where every idea, thought, habit and where it is in terms of conception is a seed and requires some tending, some watering, some sunshine which are all metaphors for prioritizing, documenting and time-blocking. you can grow these seeds to plants, and they can have fruits. a group of plants can be grouped to their own independent soil beds.

i really think it’s important to be as vocal as you can towards the things you want. not to all people, that’s a mistake. to yourself and to the people that are somehow willing to collect around that fire and help grow and contain it. the simple warmth that emanates from that burning fire you started manifests a form of energy that will bind you at the hips with one another, this we call love. this we call community.

my primitive desire right now is coffee lol