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 "content_md": "# cotton buds\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.muji.eu/pages/online.asp?V=1&amp;Sec=5&amp;Sub=27&amp;PID=2470\"><img class=\"alignright\" title=\"Muji cotton buds\" src=\"https://notionparallax.co.uk/assets/4547315570393.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"287\" /></a>There is always a bit of a tension in my mind about being environmentally responsible, vs being a smelly hippy. Admittedly, the amount I fly probably negates every attempt to do anything else, but I can be a bit catholic about it and try and buy favour by doing little things.<br />\nFor a few years now I've been searching for cotton buds with paper sticks. It struck me that it was crazy to use a plastic stick. I'm not sure what the motivation to find a biodegadable stick is; to go off grid so I don't need to deal with council lunatics,  or to increase the efficiency of our sewerage system (ps, don't flush your cotton buds, it's bad), or if it is a fluffy desire to just save the poor fish from having to eat little sticks of pe or making pastel pick-up-sticks mountains in landfill.<br />\n<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"surfers against sewage - cotton buds\" src=\"https://notionparallax.co.uk/assets/cotton-buds-1-1-550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" />Anyway, I found the perfect thing at muji, paper sticks, corn starch packets, and a flat pack that goes in my case really well. All hail japanese cosmetic wizzardry. The good news for lazy people is that you can now get paper sticks on co-op and marks &amp;spencer cotton buds (albeit without the biodegadable outer packaging) so there is no excuse other than discognia or being a bad person for cleaning out your lug-oles with a plastic stick!</p>\n",
 "content_html": "<h1>cotton buds</h1>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.muji.eu/pages/online.asp?V=1&amp;Sec=5&amp;Sub=27&amp;PID=2470\"><img class=\"alignright\" title=\"Muji cotton buds\" src=\"https://notionparallax.co.uk/assets/4547315570393.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"287\" /></a>There is always a bit of a tension in my mind about being environmentally responsible, vs being a smelly hippy. Admittedly, the amount I fly probably negates every attempt to do anything else, but I can be a bit catholic about it and try and buy favour by doing little things.<br />\nFor a few years now I’ve been searching for cotton buds with paper sticks. It struck me that it was crazy to use a plastic stick. I’m not sure what the motivation to find a biodegadable stick is; to go off grid so I don’t need to deal with council lunatics,  or to increase the efficiency of our sewerage system (ps, don’t flush your cotton buds, it’s bad), or if it is a fluffy desire to just save the poor fish from having to eat little sticks of pe or making pastel pick-up-sticks mountains in landfill.<br />\n<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"surfers against sewage - cotton buds\" src=\"https://notionparallax.co.uk/assets/cotton-buds-1-1-550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" />Anyway, I found the perfect thing at muji, paper sticks, corn starch packets, and a flat pack that goes in my case really well. All hail japanese cosmetic wizzardry. The good news for lazy people is that you can now get paper sticks on co-op and marks &amp;spencer cotton buds (albeit without the biodegadable outer packaging) so there is no excuse other than discognia or being a bad person for cleaning out your lug-oles with a plastic stick!</p>\n",
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