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I've been using Firefox since it was called Netscape, and before that I was using Mosaic. Nowadays, I'm also using Safari (and Vivaldi) but I still can't imagine not using FF as my default browser. More exactly, FF with the uBO extension, which is another nice gift to all of us — a bit like FF pop-up blocker was back then.

I would have loved if they had released an anniversary icon for FF. Too bad they did not, but that's probably just me getting old, all nostalgic and sentimental :p

Unfortunately, calling police in America may put you in danger. It’s one of the many, many reasons I’ve left. I don’t think people quite understand what it does until they’ve lived in other, safer places.

That is not how the system is supposed to work. I never went to the USA and probably never will (there are a lot of reasons and people that would make me want to go mind you, but there are also way too many things I'm just not OK with). So, like I said I really can't tell but if that is like you say, that's very problematic.

I mean, there must be some legal authority to call for help. Self-defence, adding violence to already too much violence, can't be the only solution a State has to offer to threatened citizens. If that was, what use would there be in such a State?

I started reading 'The Country of the Pointed Firs' by Sarah Orne Jewett. And I love it.

I never heard of that author before, only opening this book because an author whose work I appreciate a lot said his own appreciation for her. So far, I only had time to read the first four chapters but I think I can safely say I was already hooked after the first few paragraphs.

BTW, the book and a few others of hers are freely available on the Project Gutenberg, if you don't mind reading ebooks: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/202

Real Marseille soap (savon de Marseille, as we say here in France) is a great 100% natural soap that is not agressive to the skin. But beware if you try to buy some, as there is a vast majority of cheap knock-off edit: that aren't Marseille soap at all.

I don't know how things go in the USA but in my country if anyone was to threaten to kill me, like a real threat not some shit talk, I would call the police and they would deal with that. Even more so if I told them I have a disability of some sort and can't defend myself.

Also, you need to contact a social assistance office, or whatever you may have like that in your town/region/state, because you need to get away from them and be able to sustain yourself. A change that will most certainly take a lot of your energy and focus — one more reason to let the police deal with the death threat.

And in the walking vein, good shoes are essential. If you can’t afford new shoes then good insoles are the next best thing

100%. And I should have mentioned it as, back when I started to walk daily, I almost gave up because of the shit shoes I was using. They were hurting my feet and my back and they were reducing my endurance, like really. Investing in decent shoes (and orthopaedic insoles made for my feet) changed everything. I probably would never have started walking as much as I do without those. Money very well spend, in both case.

J'ai d'abord pensé que c'était un poisson d'avril. J'aurais préféré.

Si c'est la faute aux méchants terroristes ou aux assassins qui trainent à tous les coins de rues, pourquoi donc n'ont-ils pas déjà voté une loi pour interdire l'usage des camions, ou de tout véhicule motorisé?

Bref, on a les législateurs (et trices) qu'on mérite. J'ai un doute sur l'orthographe de 'con mérite'?

I don't care about making money with my hobbies, I do them to help me feel better and have some good time. As a whole we're all already way too focused on making money, at least that's what I think.

• Long walks. Daily. This is the (second) best change I ever made into my life. I would encourage anyone, even more anyone that is like I was (in a very bad physical and mental shape) to give steady walks a go. Start small but don't give up even though It's hard to begin with, and slowly increase the distance you walk and your steadiness. It's so much worth it. I was a potato couch but nowadays I could not not go out for a few miles walk at least once a day (as much as possible I'll go everywhere I can by walking instead of using any mean of transportation). It also helps in the head, immensely as far as I'm concerned.
• Writing &
• Reading. Reading and writing should never go without the other as far as I'm concerned. Read (like you write) widely, don't be afraid to read stuff you don't normally read, or stuff/author you don't like (there is a lot to be learned when confronting your own thought to those of people you don't agree with), or read unpopular stuff.
• Sketching/painting. I'm not an artist, I don't care I just enjoy doing it. I try to do more of that outdoor, while I'm out walking)
• DIY, making stuff with my hands (book binding, woodworking,... those come and go along the years) & also
• Fixing stuff. Reducing the amount of waste we create by making our stuff last a little longer.
• I had to quit model making, but I liked that a lot.
• Music.

Shower & soap (savon de Marseille) with a washcloth thingy that is not too soft. Natural deodorant (pierre d'alun). End of the process.

Unless one should also consider making faces in front of the mirror part of the daily routine, say while one is shaving or brushing one's teeth? Asking for a friend that, quite obviously, is not as adult and as serious as I am.

iPhone SE. I would use a smaller model of iPhone, if there was one. I need a phone I can easily take with me, not some aircraft-carrier sized high-tech device ;)

So 99% is practice, and the 1% real work is horrible despite that much practice 😭. The only other thing is my sketchbook. Which is an assault to the eyes.

Don't be too harsh on yourself. My handwriting is 100% trash, like it really is. Back in school, I was driving every single one of my teachers crazy just because I could not write. Did not prevent me from earning a living writing, and to write daily ;)

As for my own sketches, well, let's just say I won't win any art competition. That, I can tell you confidently. But I can also tell you I enjoy sketching tremendously. So, I'm fine with my lack of prize-winning perspective ;)

Sketching sounds like a short form activity but it takes me surprisingly long to do a simple drawing.

If you're anything like me, it's not a surprise: I need time for everything new... not to learn the stuff itself but to assimilate it and to make it some kind of a second nature, something I just do without worrying or thinking too much about it.

I don't know if this may help you, but that's helping me, so here it is: recently, I decided to add daily sketches in my journal and since I journal almost every single day, I notice any page/spread where I have not added at least one sketch. And I mean sketching absolutely anything provided that it grabs my attention (be it IRL or on the Internet, like this mushroom whose picture I saw that day on Lemmy) — I blurred the journal parts ;)

Nice! And welcome to dark side... dark only because of the many inks, obviously :p