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August 2, 2025

34 and Counting

Homemade chocolate chip cookie cake with purple frosting and a tea light candle.

I turned 34 this month. Ended up blogging about it: https://priyajsridhar.com/34-lucky-beginnings. The cake in the photo was for my younger brother’s birthday. I made a chocolate chip cookie cake and added purple food coloring to the buttercream frosting.

It’s been a month of contemplating. There has been time for that with the heat. I also did some traveling and spent a few days with a friend.

Age is supposed to bring wisdom. We learn from our mistakes and explore new experiences. Fleeting time has us appreciate the little things, like a sunset on a clear night or the bag of candy you find among your presents.

It feels like age had jaded me instead. I treat people more warily these days, though still wanting to make friends and be nice. It makes me feel that the world I once believed in, with social contracts and expectations, never existed. The rules have changed, far too much for my liking.

I hope I’m not too jaded, while also gaining the ability to read people better. Part of me wants to believe in the benefit of the doubt. The other part knows better. I guess that’s a part of getting older.

Patreon:

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Medium:

‘Careless People’ is Traumatizing and Demoralizing. That’s Why Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Want You to Read It | by Priya Sridhar | Counter Arts | Jul, 2025 | Medium

How hard is it to get tech bros to behave themselves? Very.

Batman Villains That Should Get Their Standalone Films | by Priya Sridhar | Permanent Nerd Network | Jul, 2025 | Medium

Rogues to the Spotlight

10 Years of Nightmind on YouTube. A friendly four-eyed cat talking web… | by Priya Sridhar | Permanent Nerd Network | Jul, 2025 | Medium

A friendly four-eyed cat talking web horror.

https://medium.com/counterarts/what-the-horror-game-gigglelands-themes-say-about-american-farming-worship-c41173697544

https://medium.com/counterarts/itch-io-has-suspended-thousands-of-nsfw-games-without-means-of-download-or-preservation-cad01221c2aa

Superjump:

Should You Bare Your Soul in Fireside Feelings?

Real conversations with real strangers

Clarkesworld:

Wilderness Resurrection and Compromise by Priya Sridhar : Clarkesworld Magazine – Science Fiction & Fantasy

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Wilderness Resurrection and Compromise by Priya Sridhar

Blog:

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Perspective Shifts - Priya J Sridhar

What does it mean to shift perspective? Pain. Because you have to trust that someone who voted for hate doesn't want you dead.

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