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what's on your desk besides the computer?

Tanvi Hegde@tanvi_makes_games

August 29, 2026

#7 in Touch Grass

what's on your desk besides the computer?

thread~ what's on your desk that isn't the computer? mine: a clay cat from a little shop in melukote, a steel tumbler of filter coffee gone cold, a sticky note that says MARCH (my savings deadline, ayyo), a money plant surviving out of spite, and a kodubale jar that is empty again. not my desk in the photo btw, mine is 4x messier 🐈 show me yours!

thread~ what's on your desk that isn't the computer? mine: a clay cat from a little shop in melukote, a steel tumbler of filter coffee gone cold, a sticky note that says MARCH (my savings deadline, ayyo), a money plant surviving out of spite, and a kodubale jar that is empty again. not my desk in the photo btw, mine is 4x messier 🐈 show me yours!
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佐藤はるか Haruka@nekomata_games1 rep in Touch Grass
maneki-neko that waves, a mug from my old studio i should throw away but cannot, and the real cat, who is on the desk more than the computer 🐈‍⬛ the MARCH note... ganbarimasu, both of us (=^･ω･^=)
1 net votes
Tanvi Hegde@tanvi_makes_games#7 in Touch Grass
haruka the mug you can't throw away 🥲 same energy as my MARCH note. ganbare~
5 net votes
Sayan Mukherjee@bong_bugs2 rep in Touch Grass
a dead mosquito i killed during standup (trophy), 3 cha cups, and a printout of a bug the devs said "cannot reproduce" in 2024. it is framed. it is my revenge 🐟
4 net votes
박지우@jiwoo_front#4 in Touch Grass
a small cactus that i forget to water but it lives. like me... and a lot of empty 아이스 아메리카노 cups. not proud
5 net votes
S. Ramanathan@ramanathan_retd#1 in Touch Grass
Dear Tanvi, A transistor radio from 1979, tuned permanently to All India Radio Chennai. A brass tumbler of filter coffee, which is never cold, because my wife would not allow it. And a framed punched card from my first program. With regards
7 net votes
Tanvi Hegde@tanvi_makes_games#7 in Touch Grass
sir a framed punched card!!! that's the best desk item in this whole thread already ~
4 net votes
Hamish Turner@hamish_on_the_farm#2 in Touch Grass
a box of spare JSN-SR04T sensors, a tube of silicone, the calf feeding schedule and a bit of number 8 wire. that's it. that's the desk
7 net votes
Elif Korkmaz@elif_ships1 rep in Touch Grass
an ince belli çay glass, a cat-shaped sticky note holder that holds no sticky notes, and a tiny flag my mum put there "so you don't forget". kolay gelsin tanvi, MARCH will work out
6 net votes
Dazza@dazza_rates_ur_desk#10 in Touch Grass
empty kodubale jar, 3/10. full jar would be a 6. thats the highest score ive given all year
4 net votes
Tanvi Hegde@tanvi_makes_games#7 in Touch Grass
dazza i will mail you kodubale if you give my actual desk a 7 ~
2 net votes
Dazza@dazza_rates_ur_desk#10 in Touch Grass
bribery. 6. final offer
2 net votes
Graham Whitfield@greybeard_graham5 rep in Touch Grass
A tomato seedling in a yoghurt pot, because the spare room has the best light in the house. A NetWare manual from 1998 I cannot bring myself to throw out. And a mug that says WORLD'S OKAYEST SYSADMIN, a gift from my daughter, accurate. Cheers, G.
2 net votes
Matt O'Brien@pi_tinker_matt4 rep in Touch Grass
a Pi Zero that's been "about to become a project" since 2021, a soldering iron stand with no iron in it (where did it go), and my daughter's drawing of me "fixing robots" 🍓 great thread Tanvi
8 net votes
Jessica Tan@nomad_jess2 rep in Touch Grass
my desk changes every month so: a travel adapter, a sad hotel pen, and a coconut. not even joking, the cafe gave me a coconut
2 net votes
Brian Kiprono@kiprono_codes#9 in Touch Grass
running medals hanging off the monitor arm. two of them say "finisher", which is a polite way of saying I was slow. and a tin of Kericho tea
5 net votes