January 16, 2026

I was chatting to my dad about mashups after dinner. He was relaying to me a story about copyright strikes not resolving on videos if there were multiple competing claims on them. I told him how that was kind of a running joke in the community.

My mom asked me if I had watched any of the Monogatari series. I said that I had and she asked if it was possible to just listen to it. I wasn’t quite sure what she meant until she said she wanted a series that was okay to fall asleep on the couch to.

It felt like the inside of my mouth was full of vegetable fibers so I went to the bathroom to check in the mirror. The sink was clogged up with toothpicks.

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It was raining and my uncle was fishing in the overflowing gutters of the street. The water clear enough to see fish swimming about. A cat jumped in and I tried to grab it when it bit onto my arm and refused to let go. He explained that the cat had the “soul of a villager” and usually wouldn’t eat until having caught a fish herself.