Pete Brown
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The new Castle album is some pretty great metal.: https://explodingcomma.com/2024/09/07/the-new-castle.html
Pete Brown
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@MetalheadDana This has a real Earth vibe to it. Good stuff—thx for the rec!
Pete Brown
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I stand by my opinion that everyone being able to immediately post whatever they happen to think—possibly for the entire world to see—is, on the whole, maybe not great.
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
On likes and boosts: https://explodingcomma.com/2024/09/07/on-likes-and.html
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
May you live long enough that the edgy, confrontational music of your youth comes to be classified as Dad Rock.
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
@gabz Kid A
Pete Brown
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@cory btw was it you that posted Wormrot the other day? Gave them a listen yesterday and they’re FANTASTIC 🤘
Pete Brown
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@cory 💯
Pete Brown
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On the one hand, someone else cleaned up the kitchen after dinner and I didn’t have to do anything.
On the other hand, all of the plates are facing the wrong way in the dishwasher, the forks are where the spoons are supposed to go, the different styles of glasses are all mixed together every which way, and now I have to rearrange it all so it’s right.
Pete Brown
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@jake4480 I unironically *love* this movie. Also, if you’ve never watched it with the commentary track, it’s a treat.
Pete Brown
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@cory I’m gonna be the one person on the Internet who thinks you haven’t missed much.
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
You don't get to call yourselves "the People Team" unless you're treating and talking about employees as actual people rather than fungible resources. Until then, I'm going to keep calling you HR.
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
@bixfrankonis looks pretty cool tho
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
“Letting off steam” is a bad analogy.: https://explodingcomma.com/2024/08/31/letting-off-steam.html
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
The local movie theater in here in town is having a Stephen King film festival that runs all of September and it is reminding me that there are a lot of really terrible Stephen King films.
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
🎵 This new [Concrete Winds album](https://album.link/i/1750046206) that is out today is absolutely BONKERS intense.
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
🎵 Everything Squared - EP by Seefeel (https://album.link/i/1751958705)
Pete Brown
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🔗 We Don’t Need Another iPod for Streaming TV, We Need An iTunes:
"The real game changer will be when one of these players can truly unify the streaming experience. Meaning, they create a simple and single UI which gives you easy access to anything and everything you want to watch. Not hunting and pecking through various streaming apps; a single interface based around content. It sounds so simple because it should be so simple. But ... https://explodingcomma.com/2024/08/29/we-dont-need.html
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
🎵 Altars of Madness by Morbid Angel (https://album.link/i/63616899)
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
Hey Apple, if I reply stop to an unwanted robotext, I *still* want to be able to also be able to delete it and report it as junk. TBH I should **always** have the option to delete and report a message as junk, regardless of how much I may have interacted with it.
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
My hot take on this "40% of riders are evading bus fares!" story that all the NYC media are flogging is that busses (and trains) are a public good and *no one* should have to pay any fares to ride them.
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
🎵 Patio User Manual by Etelin (https://album.link/i/1752571700)
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
Stuff I should be upset about versus stuff I want to be upset about: https://explodingcomma.com/2024/08/26/stuff-i-should.html
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
While it's cool that tasks created and assigned in an M365 Loop doc show up on the assignee's ToDo list and Planner board, I am getting pretty annoyed that if you assign multiple people to a task, one of them marking it complete marks it as complete for everyone. I understand why it happens but it's annoying.
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
🎵 Fortitude by GOJIRA (https://album.link/i/1553446829)
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
It really sucks that everything in this store is stuck behind a paywall.
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
🎵 Blackwater Park (20th Anniversary Edition) by Opeth (https://album.link/i/1562352313)
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
🎵 Gas by Gas (https://album.link/i/1753966586)
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
Alien: Romulus is a pretty good movie.: https://explodingcomma.com/2024/08/22/alien-romulus-is.html
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
While I like all the things Josh Shapiro is saying I cannot stand the way he is saying them. It's like someone crammed the brain of a televangelist into a high school debate team automaton. I don't get why people are so jazzed about this guy and I'm super glad he's not on the ticket.
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
Never underestimate greed and ignorance.: https://explodingcomma.com/2024/08/21/never-underestimate-greed.html
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
@thegibson Nah, I’m *sure* it was something from out here in western Mass, right? RIGHT? 🤣
Pete Brown
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I'm pretty sure that the last time I watched the roll call at the DNC was in 1992. It is just as silly now as it was then, and still hilarious and fun.
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
@ddanielson Yeah, it wasn't great but it could have been A LOT worse. I ended up getting stung 6-7 times and fortunately I am not allergic. The bag I just happened *not* to pick up would have been much worse.
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
@bixfrankonis that just happened to me like five posts above this one in my timeline
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
@HailsandAles despite Swedish melodeath not generally being my bag, I enjoyed the DT album when I listened to it earlier this morning. And this Vile Rites record is quite good!
Pete Brown
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@jbaty 💯
I have my grandmother’s 100+ year-old iron griddle. We use it at least 2-3 times every week.
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
@amerpie I support this and would like to subscribe to your newsletter
Pete Brown
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@mcc I love this idea. Sadly, in our local district, it’s basically “Here’s how GSuite works” and the IT staff is three people running around trying to keep the all the aging Chromebooks working.
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
@starbreaker 100% agree. I think LinkedIn is functioning as intended, and that is the problem.
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
@amerpie I’m a big fan of this app!
Pete Brown
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@inthehands also, so that every time I open or close the dishwasher, I accidentally start it.
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
@gabz It was Van Halen’s 1984 for me, and my parents were SUPER upset about it.
Pete Brown
@petebrown@social.lol
@anniegreens LOL yeah that would be way too much to try to get the text to align with the lines on the card. I’d have to release the platen from the line spacing lever for each line individually.