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“Going goblin mode” means watching an episode of DS9 🖖
As USAmericans celebrate independence day: solidarity with all indigenous peoples, lands still under colonial rule, and peoples targeted by empire.
⚽️ What was the worst? #MastodonFC
- Refs
- Berhalter
- VAR
🎶 Listening to Hum’s “You’d Prefer to Be an Astronaut” album and I keep thinking “how were you making post-hardcore way back in 1994?”
🦇 every once in a while, I think about how bats fly using their fingers
Ok you gearheads. Riddle me this:
is there a good backpack with a backpack?
I’m thinking something like:
near backpack has clothes, etc. outer backpack has laptop etc.
This exists for outdoors (I can put my little dayhiker on my backpacking pack), but I’m not sure if a good traveler version exists?
⚽️ let’s go! #USMNT
📚 Sharing for no reason:
(and because I posted this on my micro.blog, I just automatically got an archived copy of the post!)
I often think there is a problem with my rip of this track, but it’s just how the first moment starts.
(NIN - A Warm Place)
Another shirt update (probably one of those crypto-fascist brands like Grunt Style):
It’s ok to be American
My dude: you are not oppressed.
Saw somebody with a bunch of religious-iconography tattoos and a shirt that said:
pray for peace prepare for war
One must decide whether to live into their faith or abandon it when it’s hard.
(Yes, I know there is history behind that and similar phrases.)
I am “blinded anytime I turn on a lamp”-feet tall.
📚 The Coddling of the American Mind
Read: The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Recommended
My Reading Highlights and Notes
INTRODUCTION The Search for Wisdom
Finished Reading: Radical Respect by Kim Scott 📚 Recommended
I’m not sure there was anything entirely original here, but it was well-organized and well-argued. I’ll be getting my own copy as a reference.
Looked at tinylytics and one of my best “performing” posts was one with criticisms of micro.blog (ahead of the notes announcement) that I took down pretty quickly as I thought better of it.
Perpetually saddened that conflict “sells” so well.
Read: The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne 📚 Recommended
I kinda got the it figured out early on, but it was still good fun.
my spouse and I both surprised each other with a copy of Hues and Cues today 🤭💖
Review: Boox Palma
I hedged and waited for months, but finally got the Boox Palma.
I’ve had it for a few days and it’s doing exactly what it’s supposed to:
keep my phone out of my hand
I’ve left my phone in other rooms many times at home. I’ve taken walks without it. I even left my phone in the car at a concert (and took an OCR of the schedule to refer to in the Palma). Between a watch with cellular ability to catch me in an emergency, and this Palma, the desire to have a device to “do stuff” or “just in case” fades away.
The OS is based on Android and it’s a little sketchy, but I’m only going to use this for reading, and am locking it down otherwise.
Oh, and of course I’m reading much more, too.
To that end, I’ve installed:
Most of these work great! There have been a couple hiccups:
- Kindle and Readwise don’t play well together with highlights on the e-ink. Readwise adds a tag for any highlight color that’s not the default neon yellow1, and neon yellow doesn’t show up well on the default layout in Kindle. I worked around this by switching to the “dark mode” theme in Kindle and sticking with the default highlights.
- Micro.blog/Epilogue doesn’t support passwords2, so you have to hand copy in an app token or risk turning the Palma into pocket computer with email and web browser, defeating the purpose of the device!
Reader has been the standout winner. It has access to all my saved articles, important newsfeeds, and my DRM free ebooks (including a great collection from Standard Ebooks). In addition, it has a lot of smart extra features, like “volume buttons for page turn” and other quality-of-life improvements over other article, feed, or book readers.
I’m very glad I got this, and kicking myself a little for waiting so long.
