So I'm "back" on Less Wrong, which is to say that I was surprised to find that I already had an account and had even, apparently, commented on some things. 11 years ago. Which feels like half a lifetime ago. More than half a my-adult-lifetime-so-far. A career change and a whole lot of changes in the world ago.

I've got a funny relationship to this whole community I guess.

I've been 'adj' since forever but I've never been a rat and never, until really quite recently, had much of an interest in the core rat subjects. I'm not even a STEM person, before or after the career change. (I was in creative arts - now it's evidence-based medicine.)

I just reached the one-year anniversery of the person I met on rat-adj tumblr moving accross the ocean for me, for love. So there was always going to be an [...]

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First published:
July 16th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4fnRkztaoRiQhrehh/on-being-sort-of-back-and-sort-of-new-here

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“On being sort of back and sort of new here” by Loki zen