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Cake day: July 30th, 2024

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  • I have a feather pillow from Ikea that is a few years old at this point and it still fluffs up just as good as the day I got it. I wash it once or twice a year during the warmer months in the washing machine on a gentle cycle with a wool detergent and let it dry outside in the sun while regularly fluffing it and turning it around so it dries evenly and thoroughly.

    While I don’t like how feathers are harvested I also don’t like how pillows with polyester filling get lumpy after a while and need to be replaced or repurposed because they stop providing adequate neck support. I’m crafty and have used pillow fillings for sewing projects and stuff like that, but already one pillow is enough filling for lots of projects and I can’t craft enough to repurpose all so inevitably a lot would still end up in the dump.

    All the while my parents still have some feather pillows from when I was a child that are still perfectly fluffy. So as log as I take good care of them, they will hopefully last me decades.






  • Ich bin zwar relativ schnell auf digital umgestiegen wo ich mir dann Handschriftlich in OneNote Notizen gemacht hab, aber umso schöner die Notizen waren (also z.B. die Formeln separat in rot aufgeschrieben und wichtige Sachen in einer anderen Farbe) umso besser hab ich es mir gemerkt. Bin rückblickend auf manche Merkzettel auch irgendwie immernoch stolz.









  • Not that obscure, but most orange cats are male since the orange gene is tied to the x-chromosom, so male cats only need one copy to appear orange. Female cats have to have the orange gene on both x-chromosom to be fully orange.

    And usually only female cats can be calico/tortoise since the orange gene is co-dominant, so if they only have one copy of the orange gene both the orange and black will be visible.

    A seemingly male calico/tortoise cat is usually intersex and sterile.