Very tempted to write a serious tea drinker's guide to books on tea Many books that show up in recommendations are fairly regurgitative, and yet the list of deep, fascinating books is quite long

nominious

I wish USPS would actually deliver the mail instead of skipping days for long periods at a time

What happened within Barnes & Noble over the last couple decades? The public narrative was that they were done, totally cooked, going the way of Blockbuster, for years. Their bets smelled bad! Worse Kindle clone? Stores collapsing? ...now this. How the turnaround? Anyone seen an in-depth writeup?

Chicago’s efforts to keep housing affordable in Woodlawn falls short as the Obama Center nears opening. blockclubchi.co/4tk80fN

Oof

i'm off to see the larp con the wonderful larp con of [redacted]

I wasn't using Facebook before it wasn't cool

Picked up the accordion again and jumped into Perpetuum Mobile by Penguin Cafe Orchestra. So much fun, I've missed this

A friend who is moving just gave me this teapot?? Very pretty and pours excellently. 300-350ml-ish. My struggle for a good low ratio pot has unexpectedly ended! #teasky

Hyper Light Drifter vinyl ughhhhhhhhh

back from a long trip will miss hanging out with my people over there... chicago is so far away

brb going here and not coming back

flying to san diego to visit the biomechanic for a tuneup

The connection is clear

I have gongfu'd the puerh that was in your cupboard and which you were probably storing for retirement Forgive me they were delicious so strong and so aged

I am realizing I have strong opinions about gaiwan aesthetics. It's easy for cheap gaiwans to be B tier, even A tier if they're especially nice. But standout stuff is hard to come by. Gah

Increasingly fond of very simple qinghua cups

this tea presentation vessel is supposed to be a swan i think i think they maybe..

the most enchanting part of spring: the speed at which flowers bloom this one went from nothing to full bloom in just two days

sidewalk lettuce

My strongest teas would kill you, traveler. You can't handle my strongest teas. You'd better go to a seller that sells weaker teas.

A first attempt at leatherworking. The leather is nice, and my handiwork needs improvement to do it justice. I have a small mechanical balance that weighs up to 100 grams (with surprising accuracy!) but it came in an awful plastic thing. Well, now it has a leather version!

1999 guiqing varietal liubao #teasky

Prepping for Lyttle Lytton this year. This is what I submitted last year. "Many of the girls at Camp Lansleydale had natural names - Onyx, Sequoia, Hawaii, Chestnut - but not John; he was named after a shitter."

They've got it all figured out in life, huh?

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life is skittles and life is beer

roasted some tea and now the house smells like nuts

Getting so mad about how hard this search for a tea tray is that I might end up making one myself

having some shuixian huangpian. it's fine.

Lots of people talking about that SpaceX lithium detection on reentry. It's an important study. How much lithium is it? How much is a problem? The original article does not measure, lithium in the upper atmosphere is virtually unstudied, and the article cited only discusses aluminum and chlorine.

Klingon High Council, I know that my family name is still in disgrace. It is not necessary that you send me annual reminder emails. Worf

I am about to be sick and probably lose my sense of taste/smell :( Been sitting here for the last hour debating what tea I should have, given I probably won't wake up tmrw being able to taste it...

Does anyone know for a fact that these essential services are actually at risk? I ask because manufactured equipment and machines are often on supplier contracts, in which case they'd potentially still get components even though b2c might suffer

I'm not a fan of how many new faces I'm seeing in the tea space recently who are being funneled straight into the puerh storage rabbit hole

Android please, not once in my life will I ever utter the phrase "He'll yeah"

“We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend”

'24 huiyuankeng buzhichun

Throwing chenpi in liubao really does clear the sinuses. I was some mix of skeptical + thought if it worked it would be because it's gonna come out vicious. Wrong on both counts!

I think it's a bit strange that reading posts inhibits my desire to share shit. I wonder if I have a divide between "places where I contribute" and "places where I read only," and if so, whether scrolling moves Bluesky from one bin to the other

Wen Zitong's orchid dancong is possibly one of the only teas I've had that I would change nothing about

Excited for this year's biluochuns and maofengs Last year's BLCs were all utter train wrecks [still tasty], but I think by memory something fucked with the harvest. Maofengs were better but I KNOW it gets better. Optimistic for a good year.........

It's always a good day when I get to have three teas

Apparently wild camellia taliensis does not naturally produce caffeine, theoretically making taliensis-only teas caffeine free

ORT 2025 yelaixiang - three solid steeps, interesting citrus/oily/mineral/salty/bourbony direction. Fun to try out, not their peak but pretty enjoyable

EOT 90s duoteli. Not sold on this one. Confusing experience. Promising aroma but very wet / fermented taste. Dry leaf color seems odd for 90s stuff. Piled too hard then then aged too dry? Maybe I'm totally wrong, too? Feels like it could be better than I'm giving it credit for.