@BestofTimes I'm also struggling with the new Overcast. I used to be able to reorder playlists, especially important in the new design, and I can't figure out how to do it anymore.
@pratik Huh, that’s interesting. I assumed any “political” posts wouldn’t be featured in Discover.
🎙️ Listened to the “If Books Could Kill” podcast re-release of the episode on “Hillbilly Elegy”. I read parts of the book when it came out, and couldn’t understand why it was so popular, so this was an interesting listen.
Project 2025 isn’t theoretical. Those of us working in libraries, schools, and universities have been under attack for years. Get informed and fight back.
Moms For Liberty now has more power than actual librarians or educators to decide what is or is not appropriate for classrooms and libraries. That’s not accidental.
That’s Project 2025.
The next Micro.blog Analog Tools Meetup has been canceled because I won’t be able to host it. 🖋️📓🗂️ If you’d like to be a backup host for future meetups, please reply and let me know. See you in August!
Day two of the PNW Pen Show was calmer, shorter, and over far too soon. 🖋️ The lesson of the weekend is how much I need to have a life outside of work that includes creativity and joy.
First day of the PNW Pen Show was wonderful. 🖋️ It was such a bubble of shared joy (and my phone notifications are so curated) that I missed all of the day’s news until I arrived home.
Halloumi with corn, cherry tomatoes, and basil, a quick and easy vegetarian dish for a summer weeknight. 🥘 I love the teeth-squeakiness of halloumi. When combined, everything together tastes like it was drenched in butter.
Raspberry-almond clafoutis. 🧑🏻🍳 Not pictured: raspberry freezer jam. I’m trying to keep up with the canes this year!
Portraits of the Bottlebrush Brothers, our smiling sweethearts. 😺😺
Finished reading: The Future by Naomi Alderman 📚 If you dream of a world free of the rampant, unchecked greed of tech behemoths, this is the novel for you. Wonderfully complex characters and a thrilling plot. I loved it!
Today’s reading: “What Juneteenth Means on a President’s Plantation” by Crystal A. deGregory, PhD. Thanks to Anti-Racism Daily for the link.
Finished reading: The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work by Simone Stolzoff 📚 This was an important read for me, in a phase of my career marked by overwork. Especially resonant: the chapter featuring Fobazi Ettarh.
@help I've added "about" text to some of my recommendations, but the text doesn't show up where I've embedded my recommendations lists on my blogroll page. I've searched the Micro.blog Help Center but haven't found instructions on how to do this.
@pratik Thanks for your review! I'm no longer tempted, and missing my Sidekick even more now.
@adam Love seeing lil' friends doing their things. 🐝 I call the big bumblebees "flower puppies".
Today’s Micro.blog Analog Tools meetup featured notebooks, both blank and pre-printed, of all sizes. Quite an array of types and purposes! 🖋️📓🗂️ We’ll meet again in July. Let me know if you’d like to join us!
@bapsi ach noo! This happened to a friend a few years ago and I dusted off my book-binding skills to reattach the book block to the spine. Looked wonky but it got them through the rest of the year. You up for a book repair adventure?
@annahavron Hard to beat bacon and shallots together. Although a good vegetarian substitution might be tempeh bacon!
The reminder for the next Micro.blog Analog Tools Meetup has been emailed. 🖋️📓🗂️ If you’re not on this list and would like to join us, let me know!
One-bowl apple, yogurt, and maple cake, another gorgeous gluten-free recipe from Cannelle et Vanille Bakes Simple. 🍰 I’m ready to make it again right now!
@annahavron So clever! I will never worry about holiday breakfasts again!
@bapsi Gorgeous spread! 😍 Which planner are you using? I love the different sections.
My first attempt at a “strata”. 🥘 If you have a bunch of people to feed for breakfast, and some time the night before to assemble it, it’s a good recipe.
@patrickrhone So glad you enjoyed it as much as I did.
@UndamnedOne I am so sorry. 💔
@toddgrotenhuis Oblation Papers & Press in the Pearl District!
@toddgrotenhuis Ah, no. But it’s a lovely library!
@toddgrotenhuis o hai, you’re in my town!
Last night, heading for a quiet night inside, alone, when I heard the neighbors laughing and playing in the street. I stepped out of my front door and was invited over: dinner outside in the waning sunshine, bug bites, silliness, a bit of night-gardening. Practicing saying yes.
☕ This morning’s cuppa: Cascadia Breakfast from The Jasmine Pearl Tea Company, black and puerh teas with whole coffee beans, carob, and chicory.
Today’s Micro.blog Analog Tools meetup featured bags of all sizes, shapes, and purposes. 🎒 All the better to carry our analog tools! 🖋️📓🗂️ We’ll meet again in June. Let me know if you’d like to join us!
☕ This morning's cuppa: Golden Assam from The Jasmine Pearl Tea Company here in Portland. It's lighter than our usual Scottish Blend, and it's growing on me.
Twenty-six years of writing online! 🎉 The “on this day” plugin isn’t surfacing my first post, so here it is. In it, I recount my first bout with depression and internet addiction. It feels both dated and prescient. But hey, I’m still here.
My second attempt at gluten-free rosemary focaccia had better results texturally, but still wasn’t the taste experience I wanted. 🍞 I’m looking for a better recipe. Any gluten-free bakers out there willing to share theirs?
Today’s baking project was the rosemary focaccia recipe from America’s Test Kitchen. 🍞 Results were poor. I learned not to use yeast too far past its best-by date, and also to use the specific all-purpose gluten-free flour blend ATK specifies, or else.
The reminder for the next Micro.blog Analog Tools Meetup has been emailed. 🖋️📓🗂️ If you’re not on this list and would like to join us, let me know!
After some deliberation, I replaced the battery in my iPhone 12 Pro. 📱 Its battery capacity had degraded so much over the past three years that I had to carry a backup battery everywhere I went. Now I won’t feel rushed to upgrade to a new phone.
Finished two drop-stitch scarves recently. 🧶 I love Malabrigo yarn.
