I’ve started selectively blocking JavaScript with a Safari extension, mostly on news sites. Just can’t take the garbage anymore, like banners and auto-playing videos. Most of the web is just unusable anymore, in my experience. Can we start over?

Is participation in the Micro.blog timeline an all or nothing affair?

I saw the update about post-specific sharing for cross-posting, but what about right here on the Mb timeline? @help

Yesterday at the park.

I experience this thing where people talk over me all the time at work and it causes me to not want to speak up very often.

I work overwhelmingly with women and I find my experience ironic given that the media has focused on men dominating work discussions in recent years.

Every once in a while, that sentimental feeling creeps in, and I miss the friendships and relationships that have come and gone.

I know those relationships wouldn’t be the same today, even had we stayed in touch. I’m not the same person that I was. But I’m still in there, even if just a little.

Folks on the East Coast are getting a small taste of what the West Coast has experienced every year since I moved here in 2015. Here’s a screenshot I took in September 2020. At one point we were over 1,000 ppm here in the Tualatin Valley.

This is what I mean about men’s sizes not making sense to me anymore. This is a 2XL. I realize I’m not exactly a small man, but this is cotton and will shrink. In what universe should a 6 ft’ tall, fairly average-built man, be wondering if maybe he should be buying a 3XL?

As humans, we get so easily accostomed to things. Whether great or awful, almost anything can become normal.

One bummer about not being an early adopter of Micro.blog is that my first name is taken as a username by someone who posted 4 short updates in 2017/2018 and hasn’t posted since. Fists to the sky, @bryan.

One of my favorite lyrics:

A good woman will pick you apart

A box full of suggestions for your possible heart

But you may be offended and you may be afraid

But don't walk away, don't walk away

“Land Locked Blues" by Bright Eyes

After napping on me for 2 hours, she was all cheery this afternoon.

Having been on Bluesky for a couple weeks now, I can see that it’s turning out to be a carbon copy of Twitter. Mastodon still seems way more positive to me.

There are few things I miss more than summer weekends on a lake somewhere in northern Michigan. Seeing everyone’s pictures this time of year sure doesn’t make that any easier on me.

Oregon has a lot going for it, but that kind of lake cottage experience just isn’t one of them.

You folks who put links to longer blog posts in your timeline posts, how do you do that?

I know if I post a longer one, it will automstically put the URL, but how are you pre-emptively doing that when the post apparently hasn’t been created until it is?

What’s one band you used to listen to (or still do) that never got any traction in terms of popularity?

One rabbit hole I find myself in sometimes is looking up bands who disbanded or who had one or two hits and then faded away. Often you can still find a few of the former members on YouTube.

Neil Young is often quoted with the lyric, “It’s better to burn out than to fade away.” I choose neither.

In a former life, I thought I wanted to be a big-time musician, but I’m glad I wasn’t. I’d much rather have the humble life I’ve lived in relative quiet and near total anonymity.

That Bill Burr bit where he talks about his wife finding open days on the calendar and filling them up with shit? No truer words have ever been spoken.

First harvest.

Just learned there’s a Zappa documentary from a couple years back on Hulu. Guess I know what I’m watching this weekend.

https://www.hulu.com/movie/a3d996df-569c-4e33-be35-f18667a8dd1c?play=false&utm_source=shared_link

I sat in a fast food joint for an hour recently because our wifi was out and it is shocking how many delivery orders I watched get picked up. People are really out there spending $50 on fast food delivery.

In today’s algorithm headaches, three artists Apple Music just won’t stop trying to play for me as a middle aged dad:

1. Fleet Foxes
2. Iron & Wine
3. Bon Iver

I wish they had a ‘block’ button.

People at 80% area median income spend 20% of their monthly budget on cars in the U.S. #cnu31