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A very special app, kind of like Co-Star but with personality tests instead of astrology. The last personality test you’ll ever have to take! I’m very much a skeptic and usually highly resistant to downloading new apps, but Dimensional’s stylish approach to psychometrics is deeply satisfying, and I’m always stimulated by their insights. Using this has actually improved my understanding of myself and others— it’s more fun with friends!
Mar 27, 2023
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✨For when you want more than Co-Star snark but not full blown self-serious astrology.
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🌙Did you know CO STAR is AI generated and designed to abuse its subscribers with fear tactics, using astrological scare tactics to create buzz? And The Pattern is also AI bullshit. If you actually want real astrological readings from an app, inclusive of meditation practices and journal prompts, tailored to you, with an audio format read by the astrologer herself, CHANI, then get this app. There are also hundreds (dozens?!) of meditations and affirmations recorded. I fall asleep to her voice every single night. Also +++ she’s queer and cool and this is her life’s work. Worth every penny.
Aug 7, 2023
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🖊Invented by Japanese graphics editor Non Ishida in 1987, Nonograms are addictively elegant visual logic puzzles and IMO the perfect bedtime wind-down activity. They’re kind of like a cross between Sudoku and a paint-by-number. I do them every night on my Nintendo Switch via a game called “Pic-a-Pix Deluxe,” but nonograms.org is also a good entry point. Start small and work your way up— you can even print them out or hand-copy them onto grid paper if you want to go really trad.
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🇰I’ve been a diehard K-pop stan since 2018, and even starred in an MTV documentary in 2020 about my experience. Getting others to understand this part of me has been a struggle at times, but I’ve learned that the greatest weapon in my arsenal is the stage mix, a type of fanmade video that compiles multiple live broadcast performances of one song (“comeback stages”) into one seamless and dazzling spectacle. As opposed to music videos, which can sometimes freak people out with their hyperreal overproduction, stage mixes actually convey the energy that makes K-pop so addictive: the passionate chanting of the audience, the (questionably) live vocals, the unmatched professionalism and synergy, the intense eye contact. You get a comprehensive picture of the group’s stage presence and visual identity; it also helps that the trippy match-cut transitions have a very hypnotizing effect. These should be viewed in the highest resolution possible.
Mar 27, 2023
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🍚A dietary program I invented to get me through inexplicable phases during which I lose my appetite. Instead of not eating (BAD), I will eat:This is designed to be the gustatory equivalent of a sensory deprivation chamber. Eventually you’ll begin to crave all kinds of complex and rich foods, duck and octopus and mushrooms and horseradish and finally having them will be like going from black and white to Technicolor. Going through this process always makes me so grateful for the insane variety of foods we have available to us in our modern world, like it actually makes me want to cry just thinking about how we live in the yummiest time in human history. Works best if you prepare all the white noise elements in advance and just kind of graze mindlessly between them like a cow in a pasture.
Mar 27, 2023