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  8.                <title>2 Av Subway gets R211s...and the A train</title>
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  14.                <title>Some post election San Francisco thoughts</title>
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  20.                <title>My experience applying for Fair Fares</title>
  21.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/applying-for-fair-fares/</link>
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  26.                <title>My ideal note system</title>
  27.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/ideal-note-taking-system/</link>
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  32.                <title>Pharos printing with a VPN</title>
  33.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/pharos-printing-vpn/</link>
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  38.                <title>Rewarding digital brainery</title>
  39.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/my-digital-brain/</link>
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  44.                <title>I remember Hansel</title>
  45.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/i-remember-hansel/</link>
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  50.                <title>The Power Broker is 50</title>
  51.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/the-power-broker-at-fifty/</link>
  52.                <pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2024 20:11:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  56.                <title>My first week of classes</title>
  57.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/first-week-of-classes/</link>
  58.                <pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  62.                <title>NJT Fare Holiday Adventure: Day trip to Philly</title>
  63.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/day-trip-to-philly/</link>
  64.                <pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2024 22:53:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  68.                <title>Cloudflare Pages environment variables</title>
  69.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/cf-pages-env-variables/</link>
  70.                <pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 15:13:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  74.                <title>Week two in NYC: COVID-19</title>
  75.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/nyc-week-2/</link>
  76.                <pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:24:05 -0400</pubDate>
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  79.                    <description>Moving to NYC and then getting COVID</description>
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  82.                <title>First week in NYC</title>
  83.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/first-week-nyc/</link>
  84.                <pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2024 19:30:56 -0400</pubDate>
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  88.                <title>Creating a map of Civic Center</title>
  89.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/civic-center-map/</link>
  90.                <pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2024 17:32:24 -0400</pubDate>
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  94.                <title>cool websites</title>
  95.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/a-list-of-fun-websites/</link>
  96.                <pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 02:27:14 -0400</pubDate>
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  100.                <title>just read this essay</title>
  101.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/just-read-this-essay/</link>
  102.                <pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 01:51:49 -0400</pubDate>
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  106.                <title>Two weeks</title>
  107.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/two-weeks/</link>
  108.                <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2024 17:38:54 -0400</pubDate>
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  112.                <title>I'm addicted to my phone</title>
  113.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/addicted-to-my-phone/</link>
  114.                <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2024 13:58:47 -0400</pubDate>
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  118.                <title>Why I write on the Internet</title>
  119.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/why-i-blog/</link>
  120.                <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2024 03:51:49 -0400</pubDate>
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  124.                <title>Hindsight is 28c</title>
  125.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/hindsight-is-28c/</link>
  126.                <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2024 12:37:07 -0400</pubDate>
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  130.                <title>Tear down this highway!</title>
  131.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/book-talk-new-trains-for-the-mfl/</link>
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  136.                <title>I read too many books at once</title>
  137.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/i-read-too-many-books-at-once/</link>
  138.                <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 22:12:06 -0400</pubDate>
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  142.                <title>Bike wishlist</title>
  143.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/bike-wishlist/</link>
  144.                <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2024 01:18:29 -0400</pubDate>
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  147.                    <description>A healthier outlet for my desire</description>
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  150.                <title>One month till move in</title>
  151.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/one-month-till-move-in/</link>
  152.                <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2024 20:53:44 -0400</pubDate>
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  156.                <title>Turning 20</title>
  157.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/turning-20/</link>
  158.                <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2024 15:36:03 -0400</pubDate>
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  161.                    <description>I turn 20 tomorrow, on Amtrak.</description>
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  164.                <title>Amtrak packing list</title>
  165.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/amtrak-packing-list/</link>
  166.                <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 15:06:21 -0400</pubDate>
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  169.                    <description>My base Amtrak packing list</description>
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  172.                <title>Getting Kindle notes into Logseq</title>
  173.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/kindle-notes-logseq/</link>
  174.                <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2024 22:39:10 -0400</pubDate>
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  178.                <title>Cross Check Dreams</title>
  179.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/cross-check-dreams/</link>
  180.                <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2024 20:06:19 -0400</pubDate>
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  184.                <title>How to lock your bike</title>
  185.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/lock-ur-bike/</link>
  186.                <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2024 19:45:42 -0400</pubDate>
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  189.                    <description>How to not get your bike stolen and stop living in fear.</description>
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  192.                <title>Urban marathon</title>
  193.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/urban-documentary-marathon/</link>
  194.                <pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2024 14:23:33 -0400</pubDate>
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  197.                    <description>Takeaways from a documentary marathon that I embarked on this week.</description>
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  200.                <title>Web 1.0 Angst</title>
  201.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/web1-angst/</link>
  202.                <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:15:27 -0400</pubDate>
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  204.                
  205.                    <description>This was going to be about building this blog, but I rambled about community and my anxieties about finding it again after moving, and how I built this site.</description>
  206.                
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  208.                <title>Bernie the Dog</title>
  209.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/bernie-the-dog/</link>
  210.                <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:28:09 -0400</pubDate>
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  214.                <title>I went to Chicago and lost my headphones</title>
  215.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/i-lost-my-headphones/</link>
  216.                <pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2024 16:20:23 -0400</pubDate>
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  220.                <title>My current Logseq+Omnivore workflow</title>
  221.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/logseq-current-workflow/</link>
  222.                <pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2024 01:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  226.                <title>Petty tyrants in online communities</title>
  227.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/petty-tyrants/</link>
  228.                <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 20:59:12 -0400</pubDate>
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  230.                
  231.                    <description>Why do nice people turn into petty tyrants when given the admin role?</description>
  232.                
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  234.                <title>The Chinese Restaurant Story, or, A New England Vignette</title>
  235.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/the-chinese-restuarant-story/</link>
  236.                <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 13:40:05 -0400</pubDate>
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  240.                <title>Chicago and Home</title>
  241.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/chicago-trip-home/</link>
  242.                <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 16:51:40 -0400</pubDate>
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  246.                <title>Follow me here, not Twitter.</title>
  247.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/deleting-twitter/</link>
  248.                <pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2024 17:07:57 -0400</pubDate>
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  250.                
  251.                    <description>I'm deleting my Twitter accounts, so I figured I would write about how to follow this (and other) blog(s) so we can build a post-twitter world. It's easy, RSS feeds are cool.</description>
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  254.                <title>Speed Reassignment Surgery</title>
  255.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/speed-reassignment-surgery/</link>
  256.                <pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2024 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  258.                
  259.                    <description>I ride too fast, I get sweaty on every ride, I don't enjoy the world around me. I'm learning to love slow again. Jay is right: Slow is Forever.</description>
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  262.                <title>Relearning to read</title>
  263.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/relearning-to-read/</link>
  264.                <pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2024 11:18:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  267.                    <description>After burning out hard in high school, I'm teaching myself to read again.</description>
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  270.                <title>Meet Shrimp</title>
  271.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/shrimp/</link>
  272.                <pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 11:18:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  275.                    <description>My Crust Lightning Bolt.</description>
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  278.                <title>The Squeezy Bean, an Ingenious Invention</title>
  279.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/the-squeezy-bean/</link>
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  286.                <title>How do we stop subway surfing?</title>
  287.                <link>https://natalie.zone/blog/how-to-stop-subway-surfing/</link>
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