{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Jess Nickelsen","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/herself","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"7690","username":"herself","bio":"I'm Jess -- I live in Wellington, NZ. Once-Washingtonian. Writer, mum. Jack-of-all-trades IT person. Cats, books, pens + stationery, cameras, clouds, tabletop- and video-games, plus other miscellany.\n\nMy longform blog's at discombobulated.co.nz","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":301,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Jess Nickelsen","url":"http://discombobulated.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://micro.blog/herself/avatar.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"88501863","content_html":"\n

Currently reading: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine 📚

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Finished reading: I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan 📚

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Books refresh: discombobulated.co.nz

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Books refresh: discombobulated.co.nz

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More tweaking: discombobulated.co.nz

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To say I “enjoyed” this piece isn’t quite right, but it was really interesting (and disturbing) to see what it’s like for journalists in Ukraine right now. Report and Survive: Ukraine’s Young Journalists Investigate Through the War’s Most Brutal Winter | OCCRP

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Blog tweaking: discombobulated.co.nz

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Back home after a weekend away… a couple of big black-backed gulls keep visiting every morning. They watch as I make coffee in the kitchen and I have to throw them scraps on the driveway.

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Year in books for 2025: discombobulated.micro.blog

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Sometimes life is hard: discombobulated.co.nz

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@davidmarsden I often think I might like zombie movies, and then I watch one and remember I don’t like zombie movies.

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@tones Gorgeous!

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Back to morning mages after a break at Christmas; the view out from the bed where bird song is filling the trees; Steve in quarantine after somehow getting Covid.

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Finished reading: DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD. by OLGA. TOKARCZUK 📚

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@rudigermeyer lovely! Those lights look so cozy.

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A walk from a few days ago, looking at the progress of the shared walkway / cycle path around the bays!

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Sometimes life is hard: discombobulated.co.nz

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Things I can talk about with some degree of confidence: discombobulated.co.nz

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Finished reading: Never Say You Can’t Survive by Charlie Jane Anders 📚

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Chemo 3 done and dusted: discombobulated.co.nz

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Currently reading: Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk 📚

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Comments update: discombobulated.co.nz

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Finished reading: Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park 📚

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Life notes \"faces : discombobulated.co.nz

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@adactio what instrument is that one nearest the camera? It looks beautiful.

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@mbkriegh that makes sense. I think we are already at that gated community stage! Everything else is veering into Wild West territory!

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@restlesslens oh that’s dreamy! I love it.

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Writing in Emacs: discombobulated.co.nz

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@mbkriegh I like this quote, but I think we are already at a tipping point in terms of reality confidence. It’s so easy to see an official-looking headline or quote, even just in skimming, and have that impression add to a general state-sense… I hate it!

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@miguelmanalo I’m sorry about the crying but here’s hoping the library part is good… :’(

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@jmj <3 thank you!

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@kaa love those moody clouds!

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Checking in: discombobulated.co.nz

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First cycle: discombobulated.co.nz

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Currently reading: Red Shift by Alan Garner 📚

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@keenan woah! Sounds so cool!

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@christianselig charge your phone! Hehehehe.

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@amit all the same, this is lovely!

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@ianbetteridge AI is definitely emerging as the technology that investors want but no one else does…

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@JohnPhilpin nice!!

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@jsonbecker ugh, appalling. And the new catastrophic headlines just continue to whizz by.

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@JohnPhilpin that’s not New Zealand…is it?

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@dwalbert yeah! The good old days of writing to ad breaks! 😅 Seriously I love Twin Peaks—I watched it age 13 when it came out and own it on DVD as well…due for another watch though Bob still scares the life out of me!

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@Miraz Oo, interesting! Thanks!

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@gregmoore beautiful!

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@jayeless no worries! I am terrible at keeping up with mentions 😭 so I understand completely, hehe.

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@danielpunkass thanks!! It’s a boat shed across the road from my friend’s house!

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@nitinkhanna I wish I could accidentally delete all of my email!

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@antonzuiker it’s interesting, eh!!

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@Archimage that’s been a bit thin on the ground these holidays…

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