aeryn

September 2025 (microposts)

A selection of posts I made on the internet.

2025-09-01 16:34

🖌️ Had some fun with my chisel-tip Posca pens today in art group. It's the first time I got to use them properly on some good paper. Last time I used them they shredded the paper I was using. I really love the way they lay down the colour. Really, really nice.

2025-09-02 15:05

Just saw my Mum for the first time since she was hospitalised a week ago. It was a big relief to see her, and hold her hand. She seemed happy to see us. I took some materials for her to draw with and she really seemed to light up when she made some marks on a page. I’m glad to see she’s in good hands at the hospital and hopefully will be able to see her again soon. Love you Mum 💜💜💜

2025-09-03 12:58

Just a FYI that Bear Blog has updated the way feeds are generated.. https://aeryn.me/a-note-about-the-feeds-for-my-blog/ 💭🖍️

2025-09-03 12:59

⛈️ Nice!

2025-09-03 22:26

@sven Love the vibe 🤩

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2025-09-03 22:32

@Chloeg That sounds delicious. And I haven’t had Horlicks in years! I forgot it existed.

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2025-09-04 11:03

😋 Sauerkraut is the best

2025-09-05 12:02

🦷 Had a good experience at dentist today. They were kind and friendly. Something I need so much from health/support professionals but is often severely lacking. … My mouth is a bit fucked up with missing or ground down teeth but I otherwise was given good marks for gum health, oral hygiene and brushing. Recent extraction is healing well. I'm booked in for some maintenance in a few weeks. It feels good to be looking after myself. And have good professionals helping me out. Nice 👍

2025-09-05 12:05

@keenan I really struggled with the first one. Gave up quite quickly. Maybe I’ll revisit

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2025-09-05 12:28

Album art for The Best Of by Elbow released 2017

This is me cheating a little. I’m not new to the songs on this album. But I am new to this compilation.

It was released in 2017 and encompasses a special decade of music by this wonderful band. I’m in heaven listening to this right now.

Unfortunately, for whatever reason I haven’t kept up with their recent releases and I need to correct that…

The Best Of by Elbow 🎵 #NewMusic

https://albumwhale.com/aeryn/new-music#album_47328

2025-09-05 20:29

📺 Watching Police Squad clips on YouTube on a Friday night 😂

2025-09-09 11:38

Being around people is exhausting 💭🖍️

2025-09-09 19:45

☺️ Had a great evening with the eldest. Fresh local wood oven pizza, tiramisu, Babylon 5 and a little stroll in the evening light. Serious autumn vibes and that rain in the air-smell. Yum!

2025-09-11 11:17

Album art for Love Over Gold by Dire Straits

🎵 #LifeIsASoundtrack : Love Over Gold by Dire Straits

A soundtrack of my childhood ~80s. This is one of those albums that’s about my parents as much as it’s about a time in my life. At some point they gifted me the CD, which I’m pretty sure I no longer have 😞. I wish I had kept it.

It just blew me away. A foundational piece of art in my life. And it seemed just normal that a song would last 14 minutes, tell a story, and take me on a journey.

It’s a beautiful album…

https://albumwhale.com/aeryn/life-is-a-soundtrack#album_47982

2025-09-11 17:38

I had a strange 9/11 coincidence today. I put on an album that I heard a few times recently but didn’t pay much attention to yet. Trying it out kinda thing.

Today decided to try it again. I put on my headphones and to my shock found the first few tracks feature news coverage and first responders’ radio audio from that day.

It was pretty difficult to hear it. It’s been so many years now but I still remember that day very clearly.

2025-09-11 17:43

I saw my Mum today. She is doing so much better than the last time I saw her. She is in much more appropriate care now. It was so good to see her.

2025-09-11 21:11

Shout out to Pika https://pika.page for the solid, attentive service and excellent product.

Even tho I already abandoned ship for another platform I highly recommend them for your blogging needs.

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2025-09-12 14:05

🌳 I made it out into the park for a photo stroll today. It smelled amazing there. Every time I go I have a Narnia-esque moment of stepping through a portal (railway bridge) and into a magical world. I took a flask of tea and chatted with a guy about herons. Got spooked by a caterpillar too 😱

2025-09-13 09:29

Just completed a 36 hour fast. Oof. It was a really difficult one. 😩 But I’m glad I did it.

So I’m treating myself to a bacon butty and a fat latte in Costa. 😋 Well done me.

2025-09-13 09:39

Album art for Origin of Symmetry by Muse

💿🐳 #NewMusic 🎵 Origin of Symmetry by Muse

Wow! This is one of those albums I always meant to buy. But back in those days, music was an investment that I couldn’t often afford. So aside from hearing various tracks on the radio I have basically let this album slide. Until now.

#NowPlaying - It’s kicking my ass and I’m loving it!

https://albumwhale.com/aeryn/new-music#album_48462

2025-09-13 09:48

@daveycraney Tooms is one of the all time classic X-Files episodes. Love that show so much.

My vote is keep going with the 100th of a Second project

→ X-Files

2025-09-13 15:32

This is a nice way of showing just a selection of photos from my Bluesky profile, using the Flashes app.

#photography https://app.flashes.blue/profile/aeryn.me

2025-09-13 23:28

🎮 Just played 3.5 hours Split Fiction with my eldest. Hilarity ensued. We are near the end now. Fun evening! There was a Vincent and Leo cameo too (we played that a while back). So awesome. MORE CO-OP GAMES!!!

2025-09-14 11:18

💭🖍️ I woke up feeling good. I woke up feeling happy. I woke up feeling joyful. I woke up to dancing. I woke up to music. This is my Sunday and this is how I started my day.

2025-09-15 18:42

🖌️ Fun times again in art group with the Posca chisel tips. I really love them and I'm gonna have to get more colours soon. Then we had afternoon tea and cake. Very good day. But I'm totally socialled out now.

2025-09-15 19:20

💿🐳 #NowPlaying Insomnia (Radio Edit) by Faithless

🎵 OOOOOOOOOF!! https://albumwhale.com/aeryn/song-blast#album_49448

2025-09-16 13:29

🚕 Wow. Uber sent me a super passive-aggressive email asking me to "Please review and comply with our Ratings Policy". I feel I've done something wrong! Honestly can't stand this company. The way they transparently manipulate fares depending on my payment method is gross. So greedy. Yuck!

2025-09-16 13:35

My personal policy for rating services is either I give 5 stars, or I don't rate. Unless there's been a real concern. Most of the time these corporations want to force you to rate a real person. When it's almost always shitty business practices that cause problems, not service workers.

2025-09-16 13:39

I mean trying to rate 4 stars for some reason just inevitably puts you in a situation where the corporation turns into a needy cry baby that just needs to know “where we went wrong”.

Ugh! Go away, you already have my money and almost 100% guarantee I’ll use you again because (spoiler) monopoly!

2025-09-16 18:14

📺 I love The Original Series so much.

2025-09-16 19:51

@sven That’s awesome! They look really well made.

I love Vero’s zines. I have a few. I’ve been thinking about making my own one day. It feels a very wholesome thing to make. - she is inspiring me. Now you are too. :)

→ https://dahlstrand.net/2025/09/16/had-a-lot-of-fun.html

2025-09-16 20:12

Not sure who this might actually be interesting to.

But-

My goal is to have the blogs crosspost to this mastodon account and my Bluesky too.

And the newsletter is for folks (like my parents) who might want a more curated, less frequent look at what I’m up to. And don’t want to deal with feeds or socials.

It’s all slow progress. And I can hardly be bothered to tinker recently. I just want to create…

2025-09-17 19:54

🎮 Love this game… #PluckySquire https://bsky.app/profile/thepluckysquire.bsky.social/post/3lz2e2rktt22m

2025-09-17 19:58

Feeling under the weather tonight. Not sure why, or whether it’s a food thing or not. I hope I get better by the morning as I want to visit my Mum in hospital tomorrow. 🤞

She has family visiting every day and twice tomorrow so it’s ok if I can’t go. But I really miss her a lot. ❤️‍🩹

2025-09-18 19:05

I visited my Mum again today in hospital. We had a nice time. We sang some songs together and ate cookies. I love spending time with her so much, but super sad to see her like this. Breaks my heart.

I came home and crashed hard. I’m not very stable at the moment and masking heavily just to get stuff done which is exhausting. Executive function is low and I’m feeling emotionally burned out and isolated.

I need some food but I don’t have any energy.

2025-09-21 18:09

🖖 I'm a doctor not an escalator — Bones, 2267

2025-09-22 20:24

😊 I have eaten too much. Photo walk, pizza, tiramisu, snacks, Babylon 5 with the eldest today. A good day. But knackered.

2025-09-22 20:28

💻 But wrestling with Lightroom today has been the opposite of fun. I was trying to create a new catalog with 180K files. It had a memory leak or something. MacOS must have been close to some kind of Thing and paused a few apps including Lightroom. Never seen that before.

2025-09-23 07:41

🥹 My kid starts Uni today. So proud of him!

2025-09-23 20:06

🎥 Just watched Nicolas Cage in Pig. Really good film and totally not what I was expecting

2025-09-23 20:20

💜 I visited Mum in hospital this morning… I took a coffee picnic with me: a flask of foamless latte, real ceramic mugs, and shortbread too. It was really nice to treat her a bit and have a proper coffee with her. Really hoping she can go home soon. Seems like she might be almost ready but will need a lot of care. I think staying in hospital too much longer would hold back her progress. Love you Mum 💜💜💜

2025-09-23 20:34

@combatdavey Twitter should be rolled back to 1 character

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2025-09-23 20:49

@macmanx Yeah! I regret not paying much attention during the first half hour. I put it on as a background movie with low expectations and got sucked in. One of his best performances. Totally mesmerising. I will need to rewatch.

→ Pig

2025-09-24 11:58

Fuck. I hate medical appointments beyond reason. I left the doctor crying this morning. Change is on the horizon and I don’t like it. But it’s just been a very hard year and visiting the doctor just seemed to add to that.

I treated myself to an amazing breakfast in a local cafe to soothe my soul. Eggs Benedict with ham, side salad and a good strong, black Americano. I love this little cafe. It’s only been open a few months. Unfortunately they play really bad elevator music at quite a high volume. Otherwise it’s such a welcome addition to local businesses for me. We need more local, family-run places; less franchises and corporations.

When I get home there should be a delivery of Posca chisel tips waiting for me. Nice…

2025-09-24 23:35

🎮 Just completed Jusant. It's a cozy climbing story set in a beautiful vertical landscape. There's a real feeling of up and DOWN, which makes it pretty unique. I think I'm gonna go for the plat, I'm probably not too far off.

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