2026-03-27 20:57:00
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2026-03-27 01:27:18
Some things I practice:
Things I sometimes "forget" practicing:
Some things I don’t practice:
Things I never forget:
Don’t practice writing. Write.
2026-03-27 00:03:00
IKEA sells playmats - like the "tiny town" playmats common in preschools. Some of them are extremely Scandinavian. I think you will find some of them interesting.
I know I did - because I bought one of them as the main rug for my living space. I'm 37 years old and I have no kids. I just think the rug rules. We are reorganizing our entire apartment after moving out for seven months, and I thought our new seating area could use a rug. The kids' rugs are much cheaper, so I joked we should look there... and now here we are.
First, I'll show you the playmats I did NOT pick.
The VALLABY rug. Thowbacky, simple, small. 3'3" by 4'4". 25 US dollars. That's around $1.76 per foot of rug!! I assure you, that's an insane deal at IKEA. Most of the adult rugs we saw on-site at the store cost upward of $200 USD, with some around $400 or more.
The LILLABO rug. The buildings here are depicted top-down... a little perspectival complication for growing minds. This one is 2.4583' by 4.3645', which is something around 10.729 square feet. At 15 bucks, that comes out to around $1.40 per square foot of kid rug!
The HUSSPARV rug. This one has a mix of perspectives... some stuff is side-on, and some stuff is top-down. Whimsical! It's a land of leisure... there's a pool, and a beach, and a patio, and a swing, and a farm and a hammock and a greenhouse. How nice! I'd like to spend time here. Once again, at 25 bucks, the rug is cheaper by the foot than anything an adult can buy for their floor at IKEA. It's around 3.27' by 4.35', or 14.24 square feet. That's $1.76 a foot!!
Behold the MARKKRYPARE rug.
Now this shit is getting good. Look, I did not buy this rug. I just think it's insanely good/funny that the Swedish design brains are selling a black, white and grey minimalist playmat. It is perfect for the family who wants to keep their house looking like a modern interior design obelisk. This is the playmat for mothers who wear a Steve Jobs turtleneck and make their kid wear a matching one, too.
I think this rug is so funny that I kind of wanted to find an excuse to buy it... but then I remembered that people would probably not "get" "the joke" if they saw this rug on my floor. Placing this rug outside the context of the other rugs denies it the crucial dumbass context. However, this rug costs only ten bucks, which makes it the best rug deal I have calculated so far at IKEA: 2'5" by 3'3", or 7.85 square foot. That's around $1.27 USD per foot!!! Damn, kid rugs are THE deal for rugs at IKEA!
I actually bought the most expensive playmat at IKEA.
It looks like satellite imagery, okay? That rules. You can pay someone hundreds of dollars to embroider you wall hangings that look like this stuff. It's also much, much bigger than all the other rugs I have posted here today - like, it's 5 foot by 7 foot. It costs $160. I'm getting so tired of calculating these numbers exactly, so I won't. It's a weird egg shape. Rest assured that it is the most expensive playmat IKEA sells.
And yes, they're definitely selling this as a "playmat" rug... but I do not think it looks like a playmat! It looks like a rug for map nerds! When I was a kid, I wanted a picture of a train station and a road and a house on my playmat. I did not want an abstractly-rendered hedgerow. I was not looking for a rug which accurately depicted the terrain of Europe as seen from a drone. I had a dumb little brain and I wanted to drive my hot wheels to the hospital, or whatever. Adult me is the target audience for this, not a baby. Any adult who buys this should be honest that they are buying it for themselves and not their kids.
While I was trying to figure out what was going on with this weird abstract satellite imagery "playmat," I found something even funnier than the black and white minimalist playmat: this bizarre video of a very pained, frightened-looking woman "reviewing" the GREJSIMOJS product line that this rug comes from.
I was absolutely losing it for this entire video. She really wants to review these products as if they are an interior decoration line for adults, but they are very clearly for babies, and she also looks like the IKEA marketing liaison is standing behind her camera pointing a gun at her. She looks fucking terrified. Her facial expression is like nothing I have ever seen before. What is going on????
Anyway, That's the story of my rug. I don't even have it yet! The rug is so popular that they were completely out of stock at IKEA and I had to have it delivered.
Rest assured that I await the rug in eager anticipation. I am absolutely certain that anyone who sees it in my home will think it is a Rug For Adults. I was certain of this even before I saw the Adult Baby Furniture IKEA Influencer Youtube Content. And I am trying, desperately, to remain certain of it now that I have seen her video...
2026-03-26 07:12:00
“crab mentality”
crabs in a barrel,
but since when did crabs ever,
belong in barrels?
2026-03-26 06:30:00
I just read a BBC article about Meta and YouTube being found liable of intentionally building addictive social media platforms, and it's made me think about my own habits.
The outcome of the trial isn't surprising, as even without the ruling, it's easy to see how it can pull you in.
Since I've been spending less time on Instagram and more time blogging, I've definitely felt a difference in my mood.
Blogging feels like the opposite of doomscrolling. You're making something, thinking through your own ideas, instead of scrolling through a feed designed to keep you hooked. You are the one in control.
Not everything needs a big takeaway, but for me this one is important: notice how social media makes you feel, and remember you get to choose how you spend your time.
I might just go and delete my Instagram.
2026-03-26 05:00:00
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For the past couple of years there has been a boom of people selling courses on every possible existent subject on this good green Earth. Dropshipping, digital marketing, trading, NFTs, crypto, investing, opening a bussiness, you get the idea. Something from which you could make money, preferably a lot of money and as soon as possible. I've also seen a myriad of masculinity courses after which you would become (allegedly) an alpha male, having both good looks, money and, most importantly, women. Speaking of good looks, apparently, there are courses on looksmaxxing which teach you, among other delusions, to smash your bones so they regenerate stronger and more defined.
The recipe is almost always the same: target a group of vulnerable people and promise them your course will make them rich in a blink of an eye. While I understand that one might be at some point desperate for some money, I don't understand how one could keep falling into these types of scams. And if you're not at the last straw, why even bother in the first place?
No, a course will not teach you how to1 trade, or how to be "masculine", or how to not be socially awkward, or how to open a business. For some, maybe a degree would do, for most of them only getting out there and actually trying and failing things will do.
Please, don't spend your hard-earned money on a course that promises to make you a Übermensch with minimum effort. More often than not, it's AI slop sold to you by some of the dumbest people. Besides, for many of those topics, why would one increase the competition and such cutting his own profits?
You can reach out by sending me an email or leave a message in my guestbook.
In the majority of cases, anyway, as the "teacher" is usually just a con-artist.↩