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Articles about healthy living, my life, my interests (music, mainly) and philosophical questions about life.

The synthesizer goes HARD in these 3 songs

The synthesizer goes HARD in these 3 songs

What is the most badass instrument on earth? No, not the guitar, not the drums: the organ. Just listen to this and tell me this does not reach your soul. Which instrument is a good second? The synthesizer. Just like the organ, it can go extremely hard and loud. So

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Pissing the night away

I’m used to visiting the toilet quite a lot every day because I seem to have the smallest bladder of all mankind. “Maaike, I really don’t want to learn about your urination habits”, I hear you think. I understand, but I just wanted to write down this story,

About that time I was "blessed" by the algorithm.

About that time I was "blessed" by the algorithm.

Imagine trying to say things that contain nuance on social media in the year of the lord, 2024. Yeah, that shit doesn’t fly well with the algorithms. The algorithms decide if you will win the popularity contest on the internet, by pushing out your content to more people to

Coping hard.

Coping hard.

Something happened last week that made me realize something funny about myself: I am coping hard in one aspect of life. I always pretend I don’t care about things. I make fun of things. I ridicule things. But that’s a coping mechanism because honestly, I care a lot.

My 4 favorite heavy metal singers with angel-like cleans and super sick grunts

My 4 favorite heavy metal singers with angel-like cleans and super sick grunts

Let’s do something light-hearted for a change! If you know me just a little bit, you know I like my metal as heavy as it gets. That doesn’t mean that I don’t appreciate a lovely voice! I just appreciate it more when it’s offset with the

You are not enough

You are not enough

What capitalist society ingrains in us is highly toxic This question is keeping me up at night: when am I enough? With that, I mean: As a human being, am I good enough as I am right now? Am I doing enough useful things? Am I productive enough? What is

I lost something precious (without realizing)

Did you lose it too? It’s 2009. I’m getting on the bus to travel back to my student dorm. I just visited my parents for the weekend to catch up on things. I don’t have a car, so I always use public transit to reach the village