This was supposed to post to my Microblog via OwnYourSwarm but I don’t know how to set up my theme etc. to make it look like a checkin and I’d appreciate any help #MicroBlog / #IndieWeb / #micropub geeks can offer.
(I fished for help with this about a month ago but there were no bites.)
The early nerd gets the… something. I’m tired.
🎧 “The One” by Taking Back Sunday (2023) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
It’s good. I’m happy it’s good.
It came from something sad:
“This song came from a riff that bassist Shaun Cooper wrote the day he lost his grandmother while she was in a nursing home at the start of the COVID pandemic.”
But it’s something more than sad. This line especially gets me:
Still, the words that I can’t say go on and on and on and on
It’s okay if you don’t like it, but I am not accepting any yucking of my yums at this time, thank you for understanding.
📷 Found my old Fringe hoodie while putting some stuff away. It’s pretty beat up, but a great reminder that it was one hell of a good show.
I do not want spoilers but I would appreciate anyone seeing Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny giving me a 👍🏻 or 👎🏻. I’m going to see it in the theater either way, but Crystal Skull was… fine. I’m just hoping the last Indiana Jones film with Harrison Ford is much better.
The Supreme Court has struck down the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness in Biden v. Nebraska (PDF).
I haven’t read through the entire opinion yet, but it appears the majority relied on the entirely fictional and opportunistically deployed major questions doctrine. More at SCOTUSBlog.
Narwhal dev declining to answer whether he made a deal with Reddit is him confirming he made a deal, as is Reddit’s line that they don’t disclose discussions. Some will pay $4 to $7 a month for their favorite Reddit app, but most won’t, or can’t. Can’t fault narwhal for surviving, but it feels icky.
Do you realize how much of Live Aid Freddie Mercury spent playing air guitar? Just one of the true gods of rock, air guitaring for what must have been half their 21-minute set, one of the best rock sets of all time, in front of 72,000 people. You love to see it.
😁 Hey thanks @jmj@social.lol for the tip on getting my status.lol crossposting to Mastodon working again!
Everyone on social.lol should check out Joanna’s app status.log:
📚 Finished: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980), ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Yesterday I finished reading The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams.
️Maybe not as ruthlessly original as, well, the original, but better than a Vogon poem.
Let the naysayers say their nays. Sure, it’s no Hitchhikers, but nothing was before, and nothing will be again. Unless we’re all living in a loop. In that case, Hitchhikers will, eventually, be Hitchhikers, again, er, for the first time.
I read it to my 1- and 3-year-old a little each day or so at bedtime. As I said when I started reading this book, I changed some words and skipped a few bits, but they could tell it was pretty silly, for a more a grown-up book than they’re used to.
Bottom line: It’s worth a read, which is a fair bit better than any of us should be saying about a lot of what’s written these days.
Including book reviews. 🙃
Read about my personal ratings framework for more information on my star ratings.
Now I have three Bluesky invites. Let me know if you’re interested!
🔵 Now I have three Bluesky invites. Let me know if you're interested!
CEO Steve Huffman’s bumbling, slow-motion destruction of reddit would be a huge loss to collective knowledge on the web.
Without the ability to append “reddit” to most queries, Google Search is mostly worthless unless you’re looking for sponsored content or SEO-abusing nonsense results.
My 3-year-old just asked me if Mark Hoppus is me on this video of Blink 182 playing I Miss You at Coachella 2023.
I took this photo tonight while leaving work at 18th and Market Streets in Philly. It doesn’t really show how thick the air was, and it’s only slightly better at home in Princeton. Be safe everyone.
Jeri Ryan, the actor who plays Seven of Nine on various Stars Trek, favorited a post of mine on Mastodon today.
That’s it.
That’s the whole blog post.
“Lawyers’ vile emails exposed”
Sometimes I write a long, angry blog post about a thing, fully intending to post it all for the world to see, but then I save it to my journaling app, and just post a link to what prompted the angry draft while I decide if I should make my angry thoughts public, whether I should edit them a bit, whether the anger is productive or will just be seen as virtue signaling.
This is one of those links. 1
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The New York Post broke the story, but I’m a fan of supporting that rag with even a single link on my minuscule blog, so I’m linking to the Daily Beast re-write. You’ll find the Post link there easily enough if you want it. ↩︎
It’s a whole vibe.