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I don't really want a phone. I want a tricorder.

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I'm just gonna make and begin selling all the weird shit I wished existed. Or at least stuff that I think would make the world more interesting if such things existed.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Fun personal Canada fact: a family friend's mother sewed the first Canadian flag as we know it today. She sent us some flag pins to my brother to give to his classmates when he did a report about it in school.

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Social media. Still hard to say how I feel about this prolonged experiment re: dabbling in it. Only use any of this has been to me is putting me in touch with people I go on to have prolonged lovely asides with.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Got a lot of things going on, but sometimes it's nice when all of my irritation focuses on one thing, and I gain the illusion that one thing will solve all of my problems, at least for a little while. Today, it's shelving and a bigger workbench.

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I'm not necessarily saying I'm out of touch with popular entertainment, but I maybe spent my walk home from work trying to remember what type of sport the Superbowl is without Googling it.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Incomprehensible dreams interrupted at crucial moments. Meanwhile, a persistent seagull clearly wants something.

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Quality Bluesky right here, you mention a Star Trek ep and the writer is there to comment. Top tier social media experience.

submitted 87 days ago • 22 comments

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

submitted 30 days ago • 310 comments

One thing Rs did very effectively in Biden years was freak out about every price increase or shortage, even if it was obviously transitory. Like a hair on fire panic about a hack of a gas pipeline, the baby formula panic, etc

submitted 30 days ago • 38 comments

This is effective training and organizing. More of this please. Make these bastards curse your name like a villain shaking their fist in a Saturday morning cartoon.

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

When we say "wild goose chase" we should change it to mean "the problem will now start chasing and biting you"

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

I'm always sad whenever a storm takes the remaining leaves off the trees in autumn, but after that? Bring 'em on. I love a good storm.

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When I make a mistake and don’t die instantly I’m like. Ok. I won’t learn anything from this

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I'd love to see Wyoming, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. All for different reasons, but I'd eagerly visit any of them at short notice.

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The period between Halloween and begrudgingly accepting the approach of Christmas is peak "feeling like I'm in a crime noir film while walking in the rain at night" season for me.

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picturing one of those giant buzzfeed headlines like "I Can't Stop Thinking About the Will of Landru"

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It bothers me that I can't recall the last time I saw a snail. Or slugs, for that matter.

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Got a job in a computer shop, nine to five, to help a family member while they go through cancer treatment and surgery. I'm beginning to get into the spirit of it; was able to help a neighbor of mine today assess what they actually need for a long-overdue upgrade.

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Had maybe about fifty crows follow me down the road today. It's never not funny to me that passers-by look at my crows with a look of confusion and fear like it's some kind of harbinger of doom, instead of a harbinger of noisy crow friendship.

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A hearty congratulations to my new neighbour whose unit is immediately next to the wall I have my bed against. Their passion for vigorous interior decorating all throughout the night is inspiring. I especially like the energetic thumping and slamming of things.

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

I think my favorite flavor of tech remains "free stuff kept out of landfills". My first desktop PC was assembled from stuff found in boxes labeled "FREE!" on the side of the road. I kept a RAM stick as a memento.

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

Had a dream about uFL connectors last night. Not sure if there's a dream dictionary entry for surface mount connectors. Maybe too niche?

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i just described trying to figure out life stuff when a friend is doing the same as "synchronized orrerys" and that... that is deeply correct.

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PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they're certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start: go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off

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Kind of a lot of things are going to need to happen more or less instantly.

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If you see this, post a bird. Very specific bird here. This is Edwin, and I adore him.

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