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at time of publication, ava is 22 years, 9 months, and 24 days old

which is 719,482,056 seconds old

now, ava is recovering after spending all day playing Minecraft. ava is enjoying the silliness of Minecraft, especially modded minecraft. ava was working on a factory powered by sourdough.

Oklou – blade bird

tat

noun – (uncountable, British) Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets.

Tat is a word I’ve borrowed from British English after a childhood of watching YouTuber Ashens unbox cheap plastic toys, gizmos and gadgets. Tat joins a pantheon of similar words: knick-knack, trinket, tchotchke, bric-a-brac. But tat feels the most straight to the point. Tat. It feels closer to junk, crap, or shit. Stuff made to fill tips. Tat.

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at time of publication, ava is 22 years, 9 months, and 17 days old

which is 718,966,253 seconds old

now, she would compare herself to a stone rolling down a hill. ava had a coffee negroni that tasted like orange chocolate, and feels rejuvenated after seeing some friends.

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smally

adverb – In a small way.

Smally is a word I discovered browsing the page, English terms with rare senses. It’s not hard to see why smally is smally used. The combination of -ly suffix with the double L ending of small makes for an awkward derivation both in speech and print. But there’s something ineffable about smally that endears me to it greatly. Smally loved, smally spoken—smally charms me to no end.

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