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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 03:26:08 JST Adrianna Tan

   I once heard my mom say her greatest peripheral parenting achievement (other than the big ones) was that she managed to teach me to eat anything anywhere, pee anywhere, and not be afraid of insects

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 03:31:49 JST Adrianna Tan

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     In general I was brought up with a minimal level of ‘disgust’. It was never in life life to be disgusted at food, people, things that I didn’t know, or creatures. Even today, I score pretty low on ‘disgust’. Very few things scare me.

     But out of all of that, ‘pee anywhere’ is the secret superpower. You have not lived until you’ve peed on a moving train in Indian railways sleeper class, squatting toilet, one knee to prop and close the door and the opposing arm trying to use the water bucket that’s chained to the toilet to clean yourself.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 03:35:07 JST Adrianna Tan

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     This is maybe why when I went for my job interview I made it a point to touch the giant isopod, and that’s when I knew it was the place for me

     https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/giant-isopod

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 03:41:16 JST Adrianna Tan

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     More than anything, I think this afforded me great freedom and fun.

     I was able to stay easily and happily in 100 rupee hotel rooms as much as I am able to enjoy nice hotel rooms today. I was able to see the world very easily and partake and participate in many celebrations and rituals. I’m always a little perplexed by people who are quite obviously judgemental of other people’s cultures and foods; if it is something I have never seen, I want to see it.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 03:45:55 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • vxo

     @vxo yep, but there’s a way you need to move your body with the rhythm and speed of the train to control the flow, to avoid that, lol

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     vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 03:45:56 JST vxo

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     @skinnylatte
     Is said toilet basically a hole in the floor? I'd read stories about that and how you had to try to avoid blowback if the train was at high speed

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 03:48:48 JST Adrianna Tan

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     I generally feel that I can be dropped in any town or city in the world, including the ones I have never been to, and usually by the end of the day I would have had delicious food, friends, and a place to stay and then a ticket on to my next adventure.

     I’m now aware that this relationship that I have with the world and the people in it is something that I really cherish. I genuinely adore everything about everything. I wouldn’t describe myself as an optimist at all, but that is still my default world view. I like that, actually.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 03:50:39 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @vxo not surprised :/

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     vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 03:50:40 JST vxo

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     I saw some mention on a Facebook thread about how there are certain trucks here in the US that no one wants to work on because with trucking companies screwing their drivers out of breaks and holding them to impossible schedules, some of the owner-operator slaves have resorted to cutting a hole in the cab floor to use as a squat toilet, with the substances landing all over the transmission and suspension below.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 04:01:16 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Laura

     @laescude I would like to!

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     Laura (laescude@mastodon.cr)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 04:01:18 JST Laura

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     @skinnylatte If you ever come to Costa Rica this will definitely be the case

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 04:03:08 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Ganga

     @LifeTimeCooking skills!!

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     Ganga (lifetimecooking@mastodon.au)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 04:03:09 JST Ganga

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     @skinnylatte Yay yes, I have lived! Not only on squatting ones on trains (and elsewhere) in India, but while wearing a sari 😄

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     🍂🌬️Robot Diver🌊 (robotdiver@starlite.rodeo)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 04:17:13 JST 🍂🌬️Robot Diver🌊

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     @skinnylatte

     I think this is also how I learned to pack light. The less you carry with you the more you can experience, both literally and figuratively.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 04:17:13 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • 🍂🌬️Robot Diver🌊

     @RobotDiver true. You sort of learn you don’t need a ton of shit

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 07:25:15 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Don Whiteside

     @donw haha! if she did she would write it in chinese and i would translate it. not a bad idea!

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     Don Whiteside (donw@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 07:25:16 JST Don Whiteside

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     @skinnylatte Does she have a parenting book? I’d buy an autographed copy if she could tell me how to get my boys to stop flipping the f out when a bee is within 100 yards.