/Notes
these are my previously posted status updates or notes. some of them are posse'd, some are blog-exclusive.
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📝 status.drafts
podiboq @ Mastodon: My Drafts action allowing you to post to status.omg.lol was updated : the action will now post the complete draft, and will not only accept one or two lines as before.
📝 if you want to post to status.lol (and mastodon) using drafts, this is a great action to do so. just input your omg.lol username and api key the first time the action is used.
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🧸 toys
🧸 talking about pokémon, and shared interests, instead of buying the game i'm going to buy some plush toys for the baby now.
- 😈 pokémon
- 🍿 spin-off
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👨💻 cssgpt
👨💻 i didn’t know any css before customising my bearblog. most of the code was written by chatgpt, but since it made so many mistakes, i still ended up learning a lot!
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🐻 bearblog
🐻 well, just 8 days after this status, most post have been moved from pika to bearblog. so much for me 'not having any free time'.
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💬 the ceo of rss
Brent Simmons @ Mastodon: “There is no CEO of RSS.”
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whatsapp
jeremyburge @ threads: “WhatsApp usernames are on the way, but the top tier feature would be linking two different phone numbers to the same username/account. […]”
a top tier whatsapp feature would be feature-parity on all up-to-date versions of whatsapp instead of a/b(/c)-testing audio transcriptions, liquid glass and other design changes.
- ⛓️💥 mastodon
- 🚬 idiot
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🐻 pikabear
🐻 after spending hours importing everything to pzumk.pika.page, i have now played around with bearblog and what can i say... i'm glad i don't have the free time to move everything again!
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🚨 siren
🚨 last night, warning sirens echoed across hamburg. it turned out to be a technical error but where did the police clarify it? not on any official app or website. no. on twitter. the official apps were 45-60 minutes late and everyone’s (rightfully) pissed off.
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🥕 weather
🥕 time flies when you constantly get threatened by your weather app. already 9 years with CARROT! highly recommended if you’ve never used the app before.
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☔️ rain
☔️ lots of rain today. perfect day to stay home and keep our star wars rewatch going before diving into the newer series.
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🍰 excuses
🍰 as if anyone ever needed an excuse for cake, but today’s excuse is my wife’s birthday.
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😷 flu
😷 everyone around us is sick, friends and family. luckily it hasn’t caught us yet. i really don’t want the two month old baby to get its first flu already.
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👤 pfp
👤 i have just added another slash page to my site. it’s /pfp and includes the hall of fame of profile pictures i’ve been using since 2010(!) and i’m pretty proud i managed to find all these images.
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📱 store
📱 going to our apple store to check out the new iphones today. i should probably disable apple pay on my watch and phone and also leave my wallet at home.
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☀️ sidewalks
☀️ we enjoyed the hot and sunny weekend in leipzig after essentially staying at home in hamburg with the newborn for almost 8 weeks. but holy sh∙t , leipzig has the worst possible sidewalks for pushing the baby in a stroller. we did a 16 km walk through the city on saturday and most sidewalks were really annoying. also: not enough places to sit down.
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🧳 packing
🧳 first time traveling with the baby. so much more to pack now, so much more to think of, even if we’re just going for a few nights.
also happy we’ve picked the perfect sunny days between weeks of bad weather!
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🧊 freeze
🧊 the last time i had to freeze my duolingo streak was september 25, 2024. almost made it to 365 days without freezing but totally forgot to do a lesson yesterday.
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🏞️ ig
🏞️ when importing old posts to this blog, i found this stash of instagram pictures from 2013, most of them have a filter and were uploaded with #photooftheday and #vscocam. i’m not sure i’ve ever used vsco or just used their hashtag. pretty sure these were my first ever instagram posts actually tagged #photography, after only uploading images of my food before. sadly, those food pictures are long gone, i'd like to have them where i put those 2013 ig posts now: in my /shoebox.
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👶🏻 time
👶🏻 how’s the baby already 6 weeks old?! they didn’t lie when they said time flies when you have kids. way faster than i expected.
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☑️ letterboxd
☑️ an update to this post: i did it! letterboxd's support was very helpful. i'll start to import my movies from imdb to my letterboxd account.
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🦁 boy
🦁 welcome home, little boy.
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🍓 season
🍓 we. love. strawberry. season.
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🧊 26
🧊 apple’s beta season is pretty wild this year. most people seem to hate the new liquid glass design, but while I don’t think it’s perfect, i actually like it.
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📆 calendars
📆 9 months ago i wasn’t ready to give up fantastical, but after using it for over 10 years, i’ve now switched back to apple’s default app, which has become good enough for my needs in ios 26.
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🤰 life
🤰 everything’s ready for the baby, and now we’re just waiting. before i start my three months of paternity leave, i’m using up my remaining vacation days after quitting my job again, for the third time in less than a year. fun times!
- 🍜 noodles
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🍼 dad
🍼 wow, i’m going to be a father this year! 2025 is going to bring some massive changes to our lives. the to do list just got longer and our nights are about to get much shorter soon, but i haven’t been this excited in years!
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💍 forever
💍 choosing the rings we will wear for the rest of our lives.
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🍽️ defamation
🍽️ my legitimate google review about a bad experience during an expensive dinner in october was deleted TWICE for DeFaMaTiOn 🤪 we were already wondering about the consistently positive reviews before and during our visit…
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🔑 mom
🔑 i just remembered something totally random: 20 years ago, when i wasn’t allowed to use the family computer if my mom wasn’t home, i could tell from the sound of her keychain whether it was her or another neighbor coming home. of course, i broke the rules and used the computer while she wasn’t home!
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⌚ upgrade
⌚ new watch, who dis? finally trying the apple watch ultra (2). looking forward to a much longer battery life. What else can i expect when upgrading from a series 7?
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🔋 cheap
🔋 don’t get cheap batteries for your airtags. had to get new ones for all of them because they drained within a month…
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🐈 algorithm
🐈 training my bluesky discovery feed algorithm to only show me pictures of cats.
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📱 no upgrade
📱 after this year’s apple event, i figured i'm not upgrading my iphone 14 pro for at least another year. i did some research and ordered a leather case from berlin’s wiiuka, which might be comparable to bullstrap in the us. i’ve only had this case for five days and even though i usually love going caseless, for the first time in years, i don’t want to take it off – it feels really nice.
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🗓️ calendars
🗓️ after they made it a little bit better with ios 18 i have tried to use apple’s calendar app again for a week or so, but i still can’t move away from fantastical.
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🤖 siri
🤖 siri uses two different (german) voices on my homepod. when i ask her for tomorrow’s weather i get her old voice, when i ask her how the weather will be in hamburg at 5 am on monday i get a newer and nicer voice.
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🥶 freezing
🥶 from 30°c on sunday to 7°c this morning. i’m not ready for summer to end.
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📵 awkward calls
📵 the number of times i’ve accidentally hit the video call button in whatsapp is way too high and always at the most awkward moments of a conversation.
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🐻❄️ lost
🐻❄️ i have already watched it multiple times and i know most people don’t like it but holy smoke (pun intended), it’s already been TWENTY YEARS since the first episode of LOST aired?!
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🏴 en
🏴 by the way, i switched to english and i'm (re)posting most toots from status.lol, a omg.lol service called "statuslog" for short status updates. i wanted to check out omg.lol and at the same time be more active on mastodon. this kinda helps so far. sometimes i just want to get some thoughts out like i did on twitter from 2009 to 2019!
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💩 ux
💩 why’s everyone destroying their user experience this year? never used the sonos app, but you know what’s worse than their’s and overcast’s update-fiasco… (app-ocalypse?)
the new twitch app.
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🌷 ブーケ
🌷 my girlfriend is on her sabattical in japan, currently in tokyo. i have navigated my way through a japanese flower shop website and ordered flowers to be delivered to her hotel room.
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📱 f*ck
📱 it’s been a while since i destroyed a phone.
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✈️ bye
✈️ leaving paris.
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🇫🇷 bonjour
🇫🇷 arriving in paris, france.
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💬 whatsback
💬 after a little more than two years i’m back on whatsapp. it’s just not feasible to not use whatsapp in germany when you have a social circle that depends on the app. i don’t want to be left out anymore.
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😷 masks
😷 i didn’t expect that just four days after the mask mandate ended on long-distance trains, literally no one would be wearing a mask on the train.
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📝 toot
📝 i’d like to t̶w̶e̶e̶t̶ toot again like it’s 2010, but so far i’ve deleted everything instead of posting it. the reason i hesitate to hit send might be that i think nobody cares anyway. maybe a topic for my next session with the psychologist.
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🐥 quitter
🐥 until recently, i would have been pretty sad if twitter suddenly disappeared. when i signed up in 2009, it quickly became my favorite social network. by now, i can hardly think of anything i care less about, since i feel very much at home on mastodon – thanks in part to ivory.
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🐘 mastodon
🐘 slowly unfollowing everyone on twitter who’s already active on mastodon. i’ve already replaced tweetbot on my homescreen with mastodon (currently using “ice cubes” but looking forward to tapbots’ ivory)
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😷 quarantine
😷 now i know why i was feeling so bad. there goes my plan for the weekend… and a 10-day quarantine starts.
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🤔 instagram
🤔 i have now reactivated my instagram accounts, three years after deleting them. first of all i wanted my username back, but i also feel some kind of emptyness not knowing where to post photos after i wasn’t convinced of pixelfed.
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🏙️ home
🏙️ after breaking up with my gf last year, i’m now finally moving out, back to my home town. she’s helping me move my things which is nice.
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💉 shot
💉 just received my first covid vaccination shot.
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🤔 keychain
🤔 who needs expensive airtag keychain holders when you can just drill a little hole? i don’t expect this to hold forever, though. but for now, it works.
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📱 upgrade
📱 new (i)phone, new me. my first white iphone is a 12 pro max.
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💬 whatsapp
💬 after struggling for a year or two with the idea of deleting whatsapp, but not doing it for several reasons, i informed my contacts yesterday that starting in february i will no longer be reachable on whatsapp but instead on imessage & signal.
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🤓 til: whatsapp
🤓 til: you can mute whatsapp ‘stories’ to move them behind a drop-down menu.
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🎶 music
🎶 just cancelled my spotify subscription after trying apple music for the last 2 months. i was able to move my playlists with a third-party app called songshift.
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⌚️ upgrade
⌚️ upgraded from apple watch s3 to s5.
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🔗 telegram
🔗 i’ll share links and articles i find interesting and readworthy on my brand new telegram-channel. this will be an experiment.
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📱 upgrade
📱 upgrading from an iphone 7 plus to a smaller but newer iphone xs. like always i immediately installed the beta version of the upcoming ios.
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🚣♂️ boat
🍔 visiting my new favorite burger place in lüneburg and walking around the town.
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👤 facebook
👤 i’ve not been using it for years anyway, but i have now finally deleted my facebook profile. i’ll definitely not miss it.
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☀️ carrot
☀️ it’s frakking sunny again, isn’t it?
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🧲 magnet
🧲 nice, this picture is now selling on magnets in hannover.
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⌚️ upgrade
⌚️ upgrading from an apple watch series 0 to a series 3
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😈 go
😈 gotta catch ‘em all
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📱 💥
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⌚️ waterproof
⌚️ r/watch doesn’t want to get their apple watch s0 wet. apple doesn’t say it’s waterproof, but you can wash it without problems.
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⌚️ watch
⌚️ looking forward to using apple’s smartwatch!
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🌫️ focus
🌫️ my iphone camera does not focus anymore. every single shot is blurry.
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🎮 gta
🎮 i’ve been playing gta v online all morning, sold cards and finished missions, made $50k in-game. when i logged back in this evening, my character was gone and with it all the progess i’ve made earlier. this already happened last week.
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ℹ️ app
ℹ️ i’m now on App.net, user number 33833. thanks for the invite, @imyke!
- 📱 upgrade
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🙅♂️ re:
🙅♂️ re: the colleague who didn’t want to meet after i gave him money for the iphone 5 on launch day. i got my money back and he’s not telling the truth why he didn’t want to meet or brought me a phone. i’m not doing that again.
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📱 5
📱 an old colleague was standing in line for the new iphone 5 at hamburg’s apple store today, and i gave him money to buy one for me but he didn’t. he’s also not wanting to meet to give me my money back. i’m pretty sure he’s trying to scam me. stay tuned.
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👽 curiosity
👽 did i really just watch the live stream of the landing of the curiosity rover on f*ing mars on my iphone in a train in germany??
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🥾 hike
🥾 went on a nice little (12.1 km) hike with my mom and my gf today. we had very good weather and got something to eat halfway through. took some photos with halide’s process zero feature.
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🌐 fox
🌐 in 2018 i wrote about switching from google chrome after 10 years of use back to firefox. it’s now 2021 and i’m still using firefox. haven’t looked back to chrome once.
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🆔 pzumk
🆔 new name, who dis? i have finally streamlined my online-identity and changed my different usernames on all websites, forums, social media platforms to pzumk!
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📱 first
📱 just got my first iphone. it’s a black iphone 4s with 32gb.
