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natural wine

i haven’t had alcohol in a looong time but i’m taking a week off from being an la stoner and becoming an nyc wino

@dakotablue

Mar 24, 2024

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buying six bottles of wine to have on hand as gifts

I haven't had a drink in 20-ish months and plan to keep on abstaining But when I saw these gorgeous bottles of Beauty & Chaos Red Blend at Target for 80% off, I knew I had to stock up for last-minute gifting Already gave away the first one — apparently it was fantastic

@mattshawsome

Oct 16, 2024

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Day time wine testing on a NYC double decker red bus..the wine tasting you have to do on your own but being on the bus is very fun.

I feel like when you’re living here you never do the cliche touristy stuff. A friend of mine got tickets to ride the double decker bus around the city and brought a flask, I feel like it’s a fun thing to do once in a while, especially your own wine tasting with friends. The bus lets you off in midtown, I wish Jimmy’s corner was still open because that was my all time favorite bar. RIP jimmy.

@aaron-wiggs

Sep 23, 2021

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learn to scrape the internet

you people seem cool so i try to avoid too much nerd/code/tech talk but here we go anyway. 🤓 one of the most useful skills i have acquired as a coder is the ability to steal things from the internet. there is so much stuff on the web that you ostensibly are supposed to pay for, but with a little coding know-how you can scrape the relevant data, download it to your computer, keep it forever and never pay a dime for it. Or maybe pay for it once but be able to cancel your ongoing subscription to it. I have used this skill to steal / borrow / archive: - workout videos from a paid yoga app - cocktail recipes - food recipes - music - library books - instructional materials - graphical source material for making art Depending on what you’re doing, this can require more or less technical skill, but likely less than you expect. this is also a thing that chatgpt is very good at walking you through, if you ask it for help. it feels especially rewarding to learn a new skill in service of saving yourself money, too. Even if the content in question is free, it’s nice to know you’ll have it for eternity even if a provider goes out of business, and it enables you to search/organize/manage the content however you like (with no ads, paywalls, etc). it’s a useful exercise in digital literacy that demystifies a little bit of the technical world that surrounds us, and it always gives me a thrilling little frisson of “civil disobedience” or at least naughtiness.

@heumann

Apr 28, 2024

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Stubbornly continuing to pronounce a word wrong in your head

i still read hyperbole as “hyper-bowl”

@heumann

Mar 18, 2024

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ios animated stickers

so first of all, if you didnt know, you can press and hold on stuff in a photo on your phone and create "stickers" you can send in imessage. but i just discovered you can press and hold on a "live photo" and get an animated sticker i am going to be so annoying in chats with this feature (I don't think pi.fyi supports gifs/animations so visit link to see example)

@heumann

May 5, 2024