diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f6528c8..881467d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # bink
 
-serverless microblogging for tilde.town!
+serverless microblogging for tilde.town! bink is a small project i threw together in one day.
 
 ![screenshot](/screenshot.png)
 
diff --git a/bink.py b/bink.py
index 71e14bd..0ce9c61 100755
--- a/bink.py
+++ b/bink.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ max_body_length = 64_000
 
 helptext = """see https://git.tilde.town/nebula/bink for details
 --help: show this message
---pipe: user stdin as post content. ex `echo "hello!" | bink.py --pipe`
+--pipe: use stdin as post content. ex `echo "hello!" | bink.py --pipe`
 --dump: print all posts in a json object"""
 
 try: