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posts from 2024 / 10

  1. https://missionlocal.org/2024/10/in-a-new-era-of-local-politics-some-democratic-clubs-fight-to-stay-relevant/

    The _________ (corporation name) Political Action Committee Democratic Club

  2. that the added text is in parenthesis is specifically great

  3. “Persons will HOB NAILS BOOT! ARE FORBIDDEN IN THIS OFFICE [By Order of Postmaster].”

    delightful effort made here at professional hand lettered sign making, jaunty !, etc, then ruined (or improved further) with an answer to the presumed "says who?” that looks like it was added when the sign was already on the wall by someone with a felt-tipped marker

    https://mastodon.ozioso.online/@DorotheaLange/113356285657110012

  4. looking at linkedin from time to time is like wandering into the wrong church where I don’t know any of the rituals (which for me would be any church, but I do know one set of rituals I don’t practice, at least) and seeing random people I know there, doing some of the moves

    damn you’re here? where is here? oh, they left. huh.

    hey, want to come to dinner? no? this is so weird

  5. the only robot i want in my life but can’t have is a chrome plated smokers robot

    https://octodon.social/@Taweret/113354194527885031

  6. Ultimately it’s a fun read and a break from the John and Zoe books and pretty mad at the same stuff a lot of people are on mastodon are mad about re: the other social networks, so, I’m glad I read it.

  7. cw: mens rights nonsense

    my point: so if you feel like you don’t need some old guy rubbing your nose in a “deuteragonist" (I had to look up the word for that) “hey look at this kid who is a twitch streamer who is kinda black pilled, don’t be lame like this”, because you yourself are also over that, maybe skip this one

  8. a few of my favorite very-online writers—but I’m think of Pargin and Jeb Lund (who for all I know don’t know each other at all) specifically here and not like, uh, Lockwood—are pretty good about using their veterans-of-forum-wars (or at least that era of online) past to be pretty strong voices for not being assholes on the internet.

    this is a lot of that

  9. 25: “I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom” by Jason Pargin ( https://static.macmillan.com/static/smp/starting-to-worry-about-9781250285959/)

    publisher’s hardback illustration for the hardback of “I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom” by Jason Pargin, as I read it. The book is black but the dust jacket is white with black caps sans in three descending rows along an arc ending on DOOM over a bright green splatbelow the title an illustration of the protagonist, a girl in a red hoodie and green sunglasses sits on a black road case labeled A NOVELI'M STARTING TO WORRY ABOUTTHIS BLACK BOX OFD00MJASONPARGINBESTSELLING AUTHOR OFJOHN DIES AT THE ENDA NOVEL

  10. I was gonna have a visual aid of a real pirate treasure map for this but it seems like real pirates merely wanted real maps, which were hard to come by back then

    makes a lotta sense I guess!

  11. an elaborate rude metaphor in which every landmark the dashed line loops around on weathered parchment before it eventually reaches the X-marks-the-spot is a pivot in virtualization stacks by the freenas people trying and failing to lose both the the annoying virtualization (jails, docker, kubernetes, etc) janitors inhabiting each landmark and the actual pirates who use their projects to power their NASs 🏴‍☠️

  12. convincing myself that my bad posts in chat, that even the people who used to reply to, have stopped replying to, to me, are still worth doing, for the lurkers

  13. Pressing the bubble on pop-°-matic® TROUBLE® is now AI.

    sales photo of the board game TROUBLE, which I played the heck out of when I like six years old, over a white void in the matrix or whatever. The box faces us in single point perspective in the top left and the game itself in red, green, yellow, and blue at a jaunty angle as if on a table in front of usthe entire premise of the game is that you can push on a clear plastic bubble in the middle to make a die role insidepop ° matic®Instrucciones del juego ingles y espasolTROUBLEBump others back in this Race-Ahead Game...But don't get caught or you're in Trouble!TROUBLETROVOURFeaturesPop-o-matic Dice RollerJust press the bubble and yournumber's up!Famity5+|25-35 | PLAYERSA WARNING:CHOKING HAZARO ThiS tY3800TROUGLE

  14. it would be nice a la “smoking or non?" at restaurants if I could make a reservation for outdoor dining and not arrive to find “outdoor” to be four walls of clear vinyl and propane

  15. kinda worry that sonos is never going to re-add direct stream urls to their first party apps or even fix the players to load the ones that are already there, and that think the fix is going to be a DIY sonos service app and not entire DIY controllers, which, unfortunately, seems to be the bias

    they are, otherwise, goldilocks pieces of hardware for my specific preferences, so broader alternatives are not interesting

  16. doodling on maps with satellites

    screenshot crop of a mapped walk in Strava detailing that I walked p much every path in the south-west corner of City College this morning, which means lots of doubling back, looping, taking each meandering path back to the same spot, each set of stairs on all sides of and round buildings, in the fog

  17. wtb a nudie cohn suit (or suits) for halloween and general casual wear

  18. 🚶🏽‍♂️

    🏁 what I’m considering Sunnyside (including City College like https://sunnysideassociation.org/the-neighborhood/ does seems greedy)

    City College has so many damned pathways that it’s going to take a bunch of tedious human pen-plotter meanders that I’m going to consider it its own thing, like I did w/ Laguna Honda which I already walked but Strava paused as I put my phone back in my pocket from the top of the trailhead so I gotta go do again at some point.

    Bonus, I can start from Balboa Park BART for a while now.

    A map of San Francisco, Balboa Park BART along the center-bottom, Glen Park BART in the top right corner, 280 bisecting along the two, and the entirety of Sunnyside’s streets (and most alleys) marked with a purple trail. I’ve also decided to walk the front paths of City College rather than loop down to Ocean Ave to square off the ‘hood because it was prettier.

  19. lol at the worldbuilding you get mid-book explaining why multiples are absolutely taboo:

    a planet colonized libertarians who named their planet Gault gets invaded by a another libertarian who keeps cloning himself and militarizing until he’s taken over, and nukes the first ship to come see what’s going on

    The nearest other planet realizes they have to nip this in the bud and sends a ship into Gault at .9 c.

    cya shitlord

  20. 24: "Mickey7”, by Edward Ashton ( https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250275035/mickey7)

    picked up after a friend who had already enjoyed it linked https://x.com/mickey17movie/status/1836197947668860958 in discord, very fun, read it in a few days.

    Discord chat log review from a friend, who, now that I’ve read the book, I’m not sure I agree with re: “its about capitalism”, but it’s definitely about a guy whose job sucks, and it gets a pretty good chapter-long jab in at libertarians which is always vital to the revolution.Screenshot reads:Mickey 7 is a fun read, it's about capitalism and a guywhose job sucksI mean the director did Parasite

    The cover of Mickey7 on paperback, as I read it (almost, I got my copy far enough along that it has “soon to be a major motion picture” on it too)An astronaut is on a spacewalk over a ringed gas giant w/ a nondescript moon over a mostly dark nebula filled star field (which has nothing to do with the story and is kinda hokey but “look at me I’m Science Fiction” gets the job done I guess. The title “MICKEY” is in white along the top with a particle effect that everyone seems to be doing (which makes sense on like, 4k+ TVs to show off but otherwise is just kinda a sand look or snow? idk), while in the center taking half the height of the cover is the number 7, author name in smaller print along the bottom.

  21. (yeah I know all about the ol’ harry connick jr video, but if you don’t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI-CU2VTVic)

  22. my recall for the scales is fine even in every other common CAGED position

    the tempo is fine

    playing with a metronome clackin’ on the 2s and 4s is brutal! I feel like someone trying to jump rope just slamming themself in the leg.

    metronome: clack clack clack clack clack…

    me, trying as hard as I can: clack THREE clack ONE clack THREE clack TWO clack FOUR clack FUCK

    metronome: clack clack clack clack clack…

    if I manage to come in on a correct one I’m fine and it feels fine

  23. have been watching a pile of Harris’s student’s. TILFBH specifically gells with me, and so I’ve watched and re-watched the first few https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebepc8lYrKs without an instrument, or with an instrument but not a metronome, just kinda singing or playing along as I watch, trying to hear the secondary dominant (the C#), and the Major stuff and so on

    today I felt ready to pickup a guitar and dig out my metronome for the first exercise here, the blues

  25. 23: "Moonbound”, by Robert Sloan ( https://www.robinsloan.com/moonbound/)

    p good! kinda Y.A. and a little slow to start but w/e, fun ending

    The cover of Moonbound, by Robert Sloan s I read it. An illustration of a red clouded sky has a tear in it through which the moon and night sky are visible over a green earth

  26. does it like 00 flour and salt? sure looks like it

    photograph of a 6qt fermenting tub this morning with neapolitan pizza dough (100% 00, 65% hydration) I used sourdough starter instead of my usual SAF instant. The dough isn’t exactly flat but it’s at about .75 qt? maybe .5?

    photograph of the same 6qt fermenting tub this evening, 11 hours later, risen to just over 2 qt.

  27. my intent here, from the get go, was to use the starter for pizza dough but the bread was good enough and easy enough that I’ll probably also be making it on the regular too (I’m already looking forward to having a loaf on hand the next time I make coq au vin)

    I’ve already got a never-miss “water the house plants” Sunday morning ritual to add the starter to, and almost all of the equipment and techniques from pizza making transferred well

  28. made my first sourdough country bread ( https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/pain-de-campagne-country-bread-recipe, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL6ogX38NcY) yesterday after following instructions from King Arthur to make my own starter ( https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/sourdough-starter-recipe), after @skinnylatte mentioned how good PJ Hamel’s recipes are ( https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/113105640187688460)

    plenty of room for improvement, but very much not bad!

    photograph, top down, of a round loaf of sourdough bread sitting on a medium oxo plastic cutting board which is itself on a white kitchen towel w/ a blue stripe on it. the loaf has three vertical slashes and two horizontal slashes and is a dark brown to black in places, just how it should be afaik

    photograph, looking down at a round loaf of sourdough bread that has been cut in half, one half propped up so that the open crumb faces the camera, sitting on a medium oxo plastic cutting board which is itself on a white kitchen towel w/ a blue stripe on it. A long serrated bread knife is next to the loaf on the right.the crumb consists of bubbles large and small, scattered throughout, surrounded by with a very thin but hard crust

  29. sitting at chase center eating dinner at Gott’s the night before last and U.S. football was on the giant wall TV and I couldn’t exactly follow what was going on but it included a timeline of a player’s multiple concussions over the past few years, seems bad, idk