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What's on your desk that makes it *your* desk?

Most of us spend a lot of time at our desks. So I'm curious, what do y'all have at your desks that truly makes it your desk? Anything goes, no matter how fancy or mundane it is!

I recently treated myself to this semi-cheap tea set, because sometimes it's nice to just take my head out of the code, make some nice tea, and just get a bit of a mental reset before continuing with work.

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Thaísa Vieira

Cat food! I have seven cats and I made a cozy pitstop for them on my desk, it's a relief to pet them.

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Jess Lee

lol!

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Ben Halpern

I'm not near my home desktop so no pics, but I have some little figurines I've had around forever. They're just important to me because they've been sitting there forever.

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Jess Lee

I usually have my phone propped up doubling as a little photo frame of recent photos that would make it definitively 'my' desk if we needed to identify it in a lineup, but what actually comes to mind is my embarrassingly filthy lens cloth that I swear by and use everyday 😂

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Martin Baun

My ultra-wide monitor :P
Best thing I've invested in for my work-at-home comfort. Makes me feel like
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Eckehard

My head

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Pandita

I have a cinamorroll figurine to hold my phone and the amazing cloud wrist squishy thing. When I'm worried I just look at cinamorroll's cute face and relax a bit ✨

oh! and I have sticky notes that remind me to blink 😂

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Keith Solomon

At home, I have a catch-all tray built out of LEGOs for thumbdrives, pens, etc that my son made when he was 5 or 6…I was worried when we moved that it was gonna get destroyed, but it made the trip and only lost the minifig that’s on top.

At work I have a Tech Deck ramp and skateboard that one of my co-workers gave me after I finished therapy for a hand injury.

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Andrew Baisden

PS5

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Kassandra Karan

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A bunch of old cameras that I use as fidget toys

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Joseph Redman

Melodica, cus ADHD!

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