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postrox

@postrox / postrox.tumblr.com

sacra oxidant troy; postie, he/him

about postrox...

postrox, he/him -- feel free to just call me postie

I am interested in...

  • finding new ways of learning and understanding
  • making new friends in friendly ambitious nerds
  • metacognition and ontology
  • breaking out of depression
  • cognitive science

I am not interested in... (1 warning, then a variable length block)

  • any scale of drama
  • wild vitriol (rather rare)

Other addendums.

Although currently a sideblog, this is still a very personal off-hours blog. Please respect my interests and avoid "double-dipping" topics from my older blog.

My "homegrown by postie" has my best work so far, which I can partially chalk up to actually using the Tumblr compose box and entering that mental context. Posts with the additional "personified day" tag are special, though I'm not quite revealing that yet. :)

--postie

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Being poor makes you so crazy. I've never been able to afford nice kitchen stuff, right? Well, my partner just got me my first mug that's microwave safe, and I've been microwaving everything in all of god's creation in that thing. Hang on a second.

I fucking hate my piece of shit phone. It's always suggesting these scary emojis, like, yeah, when I accidentally hit the emoji button, I wanted SCORPION MONKEY to show up. Thanks so much.

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these new bots are NOT OK. Them having actual tumblr names is giving me psychic damage. I feel like curling up in a corner and crying.

yesterday "remainingforefinger" followed me and the fact that this ISN'T a nonbinary autist from Poland who works as a dentist's assistant, but A BOT, makes me want to SCREAM.

Pour one out for this choice bot url

protip: if you have pagination enabled on your Tumblr dash (which genuinely does help curb the infinite scroll temptation), it also applies to your private Likes page. the number in the URL is a Unix timestamp, and you can really granularly drill down into specific dates -- good if you want to clean out your likes, add to sideblogs, refresh old likes, etc.

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5 Minutes, 5 Words - #161

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Exonerate /ɪɡˈzɒnəreɪt/ (v.) - (of an official body) absolve (someone) from blame for a fault or wrongdoing.

The investigating board exonerated Vanessa after she was accused of cheating during a running race by a rival's coach.

Contumacious /ˌkɒntjʊˈmeɪʃəs/ (adj.) - (especially of a defendant's behaviour) stubbornly or wilfully disobedient to authority.

Mark was contumacious in co-operating with the police after being accused of stealing $50,000 from his employer's house.

Ignominious /ˌɪɡnəʊˈmɪnɪəs/ (adj.) - deserving or causing public disgrace or shame.

The teenagers' terribly immature behavior was ignominious to their families.

Perfunctory /pəˈfʌŋktəri/ (adj.) - (of an action) carried out without real interest, feeling, or effort.

Maya attended the event as a perfunctory obligation.

Sagacious /səˈɡeɪʃəs/ (adj.) - having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgement; wise or shrewd.

The sagacious hiking leader sensed danger in the journey ahead and turned everyone back to their starting point, saving everyone from a deadly landslide that occurred an hour later.

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Definitions from: Oxford Languages.

IPA Phonetic Transcription (UK English) from: tophonetics.com

Sentences are fictitious, though they may be based on real issues that occur across the world.

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