This is the second time I've gone to Vraca Park and a random animal insisted on giving me a guided tour. First time was a golden retriever. Amazing hospitality really

Well I'm officially a Linux person now, since I didn't want to switch to 11. Not feeling any compulsion to go back to Mastodon though so I think I'm okay, insufferability-wise

"After a late breakfast, I figured a late lunch would be fashionable." Absolutely, ma'am. Bless this real one.

Happy Monday from Sarajevo!

It's that time of year where all my Politics Guys turn into Football Guys for a while. Just gotta wait it out, they'll be back

*looks up at blood moon* *checks watch*

One of the nice things about Bosnia is that there are zero cybertrucks

If i wake up in the middle of the night i get to see all the posting happening live, and that's pretty exciting

Dropping the old person I aspire to be

Got my Encouraging Squash

Around Sarajevo

Fall vibes are incoming, took the duvet out of summer storage. Also woke up to dollar crashing vs the euro yet again. I'm going to get a consolation pumpkin.

The last day of Sarajevo Film Fest is a huge party, so ofc i went to a sparsely attended Brazilian dystopian movie at a screen far from the party. The Blue Trail is about a future where the Brazilian govt puts the elderly into camps because they interfere with economic productivity

Second to last movie of Sarajevo Film Festival: Blum. What a movie for our times. Yugoslavia built up so much on worker-managed enterprise, and fascism brought it down so quickly. I really recommend this one.

Another sports movie at SFF: the Track, a doc about the bobsled track above Sarajevo and the young athletes still training there. It's my favorite place to take visitors that they hate to go to, so it was great to watch a movie about it.

I'm late but Sarajevo Film Festival is on! The Lost Dream Team, about Yugoslavia's last national basketball team playing at the 91 Eurobasket as their country fell apart, was fantastic. The players didn't consider themselves political, and many didn't believe there could be war, but war came anyway

I eat pumpkin seeds with the shell, which i thought was normal but apparently makes me some kind of weirdo freak in Turkiye

Cats of Sarajevo

First big rain in Sarajevo after a long heat wave and the corvids have lost their minds

Hey @asimovssfmag.bsky.social is this for real? This is pretty disappointing if true.

Me going to school knowing full well I'm never going to have any friends

Putting WA on a PIP immediately

One of my parents' neighbors in the PNW, where there is abundant firewood, got ahold of some coal and burned it in their woodstove. It smelled so bad that the neighbors called the fire department. Stinking up the neighborhood to own the libs!

Turkey has had a few things adjacent to public grocery stores for a while. Public bakeries have been around for a long time, and we tried a public baklava shop in Ankara this year. Lots of free samples and the baklava was delicious.

News out of New York keeping me buzzed at 5am at an airport

Honestly exhausted of explaining to people in this part of the world (esp Turkiye) that it really is bad and it really will get worse. I think it might be news lag? Or lack of details? Or just the inability to believe that the US could fall so far? It's making me want to hide in a hole.

Gonna try this Turkish garlic shampoo, wish me luck

Mid city, mean kitty

You go out for rakı with your Turkish friends you might end up burying some stuff under a rose bush at midnight as part of some Anatolian pagan tradition, hypothetically

"What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?" -Howl, Ginsberg

Martha Mitchell called Nixon "a weak, insecure man—a conglomerate of nothing". The void is always hungry.

Love getting offered tea constantly in Turkey. This time even when waiting for take-out pizza.

I always get a little giddy going to a Turkish or American grocery store after shopping at Bosnian stores with their four vegetables for a long time

I thought I had dodged a trip to Ankara this year, so the universe had to go and grind my hubris into dust

I love getting art by Bosnian artists! This one is from Gallery Karačić in Sarajevo. The back says "Sarajevo Grbavica 2017 Lana B."

I wasn't previously traumatized by the Challenger explosion until I listened to the @swindled.bsky.social ep about it

Saw this on the tl and felt the satisfaction of a job well done

Most amazing outcome would be if this inspires France to finally implement some DEI programs out of spite

What if way to beat jetlag is to not, and be entirely nocturnal?

A lot of people posting their least favorite song today, but there's no way I'd give out that kind of compromising information.

Automatic add to a future Cascadia watch list

Looks like the air monitor at the embassy in Sarajevo hasn't updated in 3 days. There's really no bottom to the stupidity.

OpenStreetMaps so far keeping it real

My doctor in Bosnia told me at a follow up appointment: "You're good! Now you can smoke and drink again!"

Get their asses

Speaking as someone who has actually designed and carried out CRISPR modifications in the lab: lol lmao

Checking in with Straight Guy bluesky to figure out what happened today

No kings.

XJP-ass response