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I wish every Discord was just a forum instead.

There's a YouTuber I don't like that much, but do end up watching more than I'd like to admit.

Has there ever been a bigger lie than the MyChart notification that an earlier appointment is available?

Years ago I would have written a long blog post on the Nikole Hannah-Jones article, but these days that feels like a painful chore.

I thought Elon Musk straight up admitted that Hyperloop was invented just as a way to kill California High Speed Rail-- not replace it, kill it-- because it was never meant to work.

I'm pretty unconvinced that "it's the phones", but boy I absolutely think it's hogwash to suggest "it's the Common Core".

Declaring your art, music, or performances a space without politics is the same as declaring your art empty and pointless.

Drinking at nearly 40 is a total crapshoot.

As someone who watches TV, the return to weekly episode drops have been great.

The best songwriting shines through covers.

I am far from needing a new Apple Watch, so I've mostly not been thinking about its new AI listening feature.

Doomed to love apps for notes and todos without having any use for them.

I'm a trans rights maximalist.

I believe the technical term for Matt Mullenweg is "messy bitch".

Is there a bigger lie than Amtrak wifi?

Me: that Folio Society hardcover looks incredible.

With so many, ahem, load-bearing, open source and even specifically Linux projects out there, why the fuck is a distribution which is basically Arch + ricing + default applications collecting millions of dollars?

I don't know which phone I want or what I want to do now that the Upgrade program is over.

This episode of Ted Lasso was on its way to being my favorite until they dropes my absolute least favorite trope.

The End of History and the Final Girl is another absolute banger by Katherine Alejandra Cross who is fast becoming my favorite writer.

Do I buy a Switch 2 just to replay Ocarina of Time again?

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Of all my plans for this weekend I did absolutely none of them.

While that last post was not inspired by the passing of Wendell Berry, it has been running in my background cycles all week.

I'm only partly into There is no Antimemetics Division, but it feels quite apt to the moment.

Yeah, it was time for another order of Taharka Brothers.

A minor miracle-- I looked up a book I wanted to read and it was on Libby and available now.

I think I wrote my first song that has 9/8 time in it today.

It's clear that when it comes to climate change, we're past fucked.

The Gone World was a bonkers book in the best way.

And I'm now realizing my embed isn't working because of content security and bo one mentioned it all day.

After doing a fair amount of work on this site, I think I'm close to "done" with the features I knew I wanted.

Hugh Howey-- the silos are as old as the text said!

Dorena just released their first album in 13 years and it's great.

Both the new Russian Circles and the new Mastodon albums are great.

Ok, fixed the reply link in my feeds, I think, to not be in the feed I sent Micro.blog to syndicate elsewhere.

Finally booked time back in Mexico City for a few weeks this winter.

I'm pretty sure I now have more lines of code looking at who is hitting my RSS feeds than it took to get the entire v1 of this blog running.

Now that I'm reviewing logs for RSS feed fetching I can say with a lot of confidence there are a ton of bots and bad internet citizens out there.