One day I will see this mop bucket and not immediately start singing Ready for the World’s 1985 synth-funk hit. Today is not that day.
💉 Just got the 2024–25 COVID-19 vaccine!
Our first time growing heirloom tomatoes, and the Japanese Black Trifele is a winner. 🍅 Sweet and smoky taste with a silky texture.
@anniegreens On their website, they have a way to measure your nose bridge so you order the right size. That’s what I used.
😷 My Flo Mask Pro (https://www.flomask.com/) arrived and it’s way more comfortable than I expected, even more comfortable than my usual KN95. I’m impressed!
2024 Week 35 Notes: Gotta Restart Somewhere: https://www.cygnoir.net/2024/09/02/week-notes-gotta.html
🌧️ Rainy and 62ºF: I'm delighted by this weather! I was built for overcast skies.
@starbreaker Look at you, supporting my mental health! 🥰 (thank you)
Social media timelines stress me out. One of the best things about Micro.blog is the ability to subscribe to an RSS feed of posts from the people I follow. I don’t have to stay anxious to stay informed.
@adam Anyone who says they can have a community without a CoC is affirming (unintentionally or otherwise) that they don’t support people with targeted identities participating in their community.
Moody grapes. 🍇 I’ve been in quite a mood lately, or set of moods, none of them particularly good. Struggling to meet expectations and responsibilities while not sinking into self-pity.
During my workday, I try to take short breaks outside away from everyone so I can take my mask off for a minute. I spotted this broken mirror on one of my breaks.
@sgtstretch Agreed!
Finished watching: 📺 The Umbrella Academy (2019) - ★★★☆☆
All in all, a mixed bag with extremely fun moments. I understand why time travel had to be a part of this story, but I can’t shut off the parts of my brain that try to figure it out. https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/75006
This feeling of chasing the car of my own life as it speeds away. Slow it down so I can catch up.
Yesterday’s Micro.blog Analog Tools meetup featured the intersection of analog and digital, archiving for retrieval, and much more! 🖋️📓🗂️ We’ll meet again in September. Let @jessekelber and me know if you’d like to join us! https://www.cygnoir.net/notes/5ecb037b346951f7d90a97356cf106.html
@penaddict Relatable. I watched “Death and Other Details” and am still trying to figure out if Rufus was writing in a Traveler’s Notebook or a Plotter.
The reminder for the next Micro.blog Analog Tools Meetup has been emailed, now co-hosted by @jessekelber! 🖋️📓🗂️ If you’re not on this list and would like to join us, let Jesse or me know. https://www.cygnoir.net/notes/5ecb037b346951f7d90a97356cf106.html
The way I gasped. This looks AMAZING 🤩
From: @yurnidiot
https://mstdn.social/@yurnidiot/111994355343040858
@valerie Cheers 💜
@valerie Oops, you’re faster than I am!
😌 A few days off work, and I’ve found myself again. There’s a lesson here: I’m sacrificing my life to my job. Now, how to fix it?
@valerie I believe in you!
@BestofTimes True. One of the perks of being a librarian. ☺️
I love traveling and hate choosing which books to bring. 📚 This trip I’ve chosen Kelly Link’s “The Book of Love”, Yōko Ogawa’s “The Memory Police”, and Haruki Murakami’s “The City and Its Uncertain Walls”. Vibe: untethered and disconcerting.
@jason I would also love to know if there is a way to get my photos widget to stop featuring my selfies. It’s getting awkward 😬
@deponentVMB So precious 😻
@jason But I’m asking why your homescreens are always so beautiful 😭
Time to put those fancy pens to use, analog friends: let’s write some Postcards to Swing States. 🗳️ I ordered mine a couple of weeks ago, right before a surge in sign-ups put them on pause, but they’re starting to send postcards out again now. Join me! https://www.turnoutpac.org/postcards/
Finished reading: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 📚 Another calm, meditative exploration of connection and what it means to be human. Ishiguro’s writing is so good it’s like a magic trick; I’m torn between experiencing it and tearing it apart to see how it’s done. https://micro.blog/books/9780593318188
@cheribaker Thanks for letting me know. I’ll be eager to hear how you decide which posts to cut and paste.
@ddanielson @cheribaker Hi, Dave! I wondered where you went. Thanks for the encouragement.
@cheribaker Hooray! Are you starting fresh, or were you able to import old blog entries? I’m pondering a move, myself.
@curtiscchen Napping is the bullshit antidote!
@curtiscchen Sorry about the other shit blowing up. 😞
@cheribaker What about cohost? https://cohost.org
🎙️ 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. https://overcast.fm/+AA9URK_vlHI
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.
kelly jensen https://wellsourced.substack.com/p/youve-already-been-living-the-project
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. https://pnwpenshow.com
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!
@chadkoh I’ll take a look at mailbox.org. Thanks 👍🏻
@aloysius Thanks 👍🏻
@will Thanks for the recommendation. Do you have to use Proton’s app or can you use your own mail client?
@kevbob I won’t do HEY, so Proton Mail is looking like the current frontrunner? How can that be? Remember when there used to be more of these? ::feeling ancient::
@kevbob ugh, I’m looking for an alternative now too. If you find something great, lmk?
@philomath Good luck!