this is what u get when u work as a “barista” for over a year at sbux (👎👎) but u leave with no transferable skills at all
the thing is I don’t even like ”good“ coffee. i take my coffee hot and black - I love diner style percolator burnt coffee too…
if anyone has any tips on making French press coffee please lmk. I can’t seem to make it taste good and shitty like diner coffee and end up spending money on it every other day on campus
Mar 11, 2024
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from the teachers lounge. if you don’t work in a school well then shoot… maybe sneak into a hotel and help yourself to their complimentary breakfast? Make yourself a waffle while you’re there and relish the opportunity to do the 180° flip thing with the iron. Make sure to grab one of those individually packaged maple syrups because it’s essential that this plain cup of black coffee is paired with something sweet. I’m not a businessman. I’m a romantic. Warm homemade banana bread with cold butter for me today :D diner coffee with a short stack works too.
My dad was staying at a hotel and there was this guy who kept complaining about the shit coffee that’s always burnt and my dad was annoyed because “some people like the taste of burnt coffee” I am my fathers child…
If you have a coffee maker at home, ignore everything but the title I guess.
Mar 7, 2024
i honestly never make coffee at home, except on weekends sometimes. i treat it like daydrinking on a summer day, tossing my grocery cupboard free coffee definitely not suitable for french press into my french press without measuring, letting it seep while i cook a protein of choice, finish eating fruit and that protein, piyring the coffee into my stained and broken bowie mug, drinking it too fast while watching a random music video... post too many words online, clean my floors
Mar 1, 2025
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no one should be forced to drink bitter and sour bean tea. try french press, aeropress, or v60. buy locally roasted beans. go to your local coffee shop for recommendations and inspirations.
skip keurig, starbucks and pre-ground. have a great time instead!
Feb 8, 2024
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I made a Goodreads account recently and it asked me to rate some popular books I’d read before. Little did I know, every time I ranked a book, it would give me 5 more similar to that one, and then 5 more from that, and on and on until a neverending phylogenetic tree of books emerged on my screen.
I was on FaceTime with my friend as I did this, and we compared which books we’d both read, ones we loved, ones we got forced to read in school, ones we read as preteens, etc. But half an hour in and no end to the Goodreads algorithm, but stuck in The Very Hungry Caterpillar-y children’s book branch of the algorithm tree that I couldn’t escape, I started to get mad. So I command-Q’d chrome and called it a day.
This week I went back to organise my To Read list and to purge all the loose one-book memos on my notes app. My professor recently gave me her recommendations on queer literature and I wanted to properly organise them. On my profile it said I’d already read some 100+ books and I’d given them all 5 star ratings. Ok well now that’s pissing me off. Why is there digital clutter on my brand new account, and why did I give all that information to them anyways.? I love to categorise, but did I really need to log my readership of the individual 39 Clues books?
I feel similarly about when I first downloaded letterboxd and it made me go down a similar never ending algorithm of potential movies I’d watched before. I did spend an unreasonable amount of time swiping through those movies trying to remember if I really did watch Horton Hears a Who in 2008(?) or not.
Why do I feel the need to share this with the algorithm? genuinely what purpose does this serve me? Why am I volunteering memories from my 7 year old self when I learnt English by reading Geronimo Stilton books for the first time?
Anyways, I deleted all the past data from my Goodreads account. There’s only logs from my current reads, and the list of books I want to read next. There’s comfort in organising and seeing your life laid out in list/grid categories, like unlocking achievements on video games - oh did you know I read so and so and yeah I was a pretentious little bitch in high school and every YA book I read in 2013 has gotta be logged and
But there’s another type of comfort in keeping that information away from the internet where they’ll find a way to use that data against you. I can‘t think of a single occasion I’d need personalised ads for the chick-lit books I read in primary school but I know the algorithm is going to eventually find a way to sell my nostalgia back to me somehow… I‘m going to open any of my little apps and see hyper specific #ad on my screen.
I know I’ve given so much of me away online already - and look what I’m doing right now(!) , sharing my interests and recommendations to strangers online hah .. I won’t lie about the fact that it brings me joy to live online - it’s been my playground for so much of my life - Like sorry I am literally the internet explorer -But there was a time before I lived on the internet. I don’t think they need to know everything about Then.
I recommend not giving up everything about yourself to the machine
Mar 8, 2024
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Holding a physical paperback is one of the Core Experiences of reading pleasure— but the option of having your book at all times, no matter the lighting, body position or situation, is going to make you so much more likely to read.
The way you can read for 5 minutes, text your friend, check notifs and seamlessly come back to your page is kind of brainrot but you know what. Idgaf :33
For me, the convenience of skipping a trip to the library and just downloading an epub file is one of the purest indulgences of instant gratification… very gluttonous but it feels very Nice
Mar 8, 2024
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Rawdog the sound of society while you walk… the tea is crazy
May 17, 2024