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coffee, guitar, nature, & tech | founder & chief coffee nerd Ross Street Roasting | Eau Claire Co. WI
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This passage from The Dispossessed is hitting so hard #scifi #ursulaleguin

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Hey friends - The world sucks but the answer is not less comedy, it’s more. Not less art, more. Make it angry. Make it funny. Make it beautiful.

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Started watching the #SNL 50th special and honestly the biggest emotional impact for me was seeing GE Smith playing his Tele 🥲🎸

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Northern #Wisconsin is gorgeous y’all

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I’m about 2/3 of the way through Maynard James Keenan’s bio published in 2016. Last year I read Dave Grohl’s. Of the two, I gotta say that Keenan’s is waaaaay more interesting to me. (cont.)

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Is the banking system in the US coming unglued rn? There are like 3 separate system-to-system issues fouling up my personal and small business finance solutions; across different banks, connectivity platforms, and end user solutions. It’s bad

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I like how it took 20+ years for enough people to be convinced that a USB plus should 1) be the same in both ends and 2) have no “up” or “down” way to plug it in

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I love that there’s an entire season’s theme of The Wire that’s predicated on a Bon Jovi song lyric - #livinonaprayer

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Look, I’m not a sedentary person, so I’m always a little annoyed when I get up and go pee and my watch is like “Yaaaaay!!!”

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This hits close to my current professional home. Every software professional’s nightmare, especially given the people impacted… arstechnica.com/security/202...

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It wasn't super obvious in that last post, but I do consider the American Right, as a movement, an "enemy"

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

I’m not a person that believes shouting about politics into the void of social media is a good use of one’s limited time on earth. But I’m also not one to stick my head in the sand & I’m not happy with how things are going in that sphere. I am, however, a believer in Loving Neighbors & Enemies

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Reading Maynard Keenan’s 2016 biography and something strikes me: The Midwestern cultural mileau of someone 15 yrs my senior is far more similar than someone 5 yrs the other direction

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

I used this feature to try and make coffee in a drip coffee machine by volume (# of tablespoons) vs my typical & superior method of using volume. It was wrong, there was a bit of a mess, but I did have coffee to drink that tasted a bit too strong but still good. 4/10

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Antelope Canyon in northern #Arizona - Incredible

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Someone told they have a friend that’s excited about AI because it could someday make money obsolete And I struggled to keep a straight face so hard y’all

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Okay, the other night I did my occasional “Friday night spaceout scrolling” and, for the first time, this platform had mire of my attention than Meta’s equivalent That’s progress

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There's this scene from Bradley Cooper's 2023 Bernstein biopic, "Maestro," where they do this LOOOOOONG performance scene in a cathedral. I don't think about it frequently but when I do, I seriously think that's one of the most emotionally moving scenes of a movie I've ever watched. It was amazing

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The coworking space I belong to in Eau Claire uses my business’ #coffee - Happiness on multiple levels ☕️💕

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