hello miguel

  • Please don’t let me win this eBay auction

  • Escalator is a brand name!!!??? So the word “escalate” didn’t exist before the brand???

  • Bought a small square bit of chain mail for stubborn stuff on dishes and it’s working great!

  • Exercised for five minutes this morning for the first time in a long time yayayay

  • Ugh I had to buy a $28 4ft metal pipe to make a cheater bar for my $8 pipe wrench. The dang gas cylinder on my used Herman Miller chair was so stuck in the seat portion despite my blow dryer & penetrant spray. But it has been removed!! Yay fulcrums

  • When that Man is Dead and Gone (1941 Protest song against Hitler) by Lizzy & the Triggermen (2025)

  • “Stop using scripture like chloroform. Stop calling your fear “wisdom.” Stop pretending Jesus was crucified because he preached good vibes and personal growth.”

    Source: www.instagram.com/p/DTPD3Tp…

    STATEMENT FROM MATT MOBERG, CHAPLAIN OF THE&10;MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES&10;If you're a church posting prayers for peace and unity today while my city bleeds in the street,&10;miss me with that softness you only wear when it costs you nothing.&10;Don't dress avoidance up as holiness.&10;Don't call silence "peacemaking."&10;Don't light a candle and think it substitutes for showing up.&10;Tonight an ICE agent took a photo of me next to my car, looked me in the eye and told me, "We'll be seeing you soon."&10;Not metaphor.&10;Not hyperbole.&10;A threat dressed up in a badge and a paycheck.&10;Peace isn't what you ask for&10;when the boot is already on someone's neck.&10;Peace is what the powerful ask for when they don't want to be interrupted.&10;Unity isn't neutral.&10;Unity that refuses to name violence&10;is just loyalty to the ones holding the weapons.&10;Stop using scripture like chloroform.&10;Stop calling your fear "wisdom."&10;Stop pretending Jesus was crucified&10;because he preached good vibes and personal growth.&10;You don't get to quote scripture like a lullaby while injustice stays wide awake.&10;You don't get to ask God to "heal the land" if you won't even look at the wound.&10;There is a kind of peace that only exists because it refuses to tell the truth.&10;That peace is a lie.&10;And lies don't grow anything worth saving.&10;The scriptures you love weren't written to keep things calm. They were written to set things right.&10;And sometimes the most faithful thing you can do is stop praying around the pain and start standing inside it.&10;If that makes you uncomfortable-good.&10;Growth always is.

  • “The fact that it is always about individuals – even among the perpetrators – is underlined by Auschwitz survivor Rom Karl Stojka: “And people did this, just like you, you and me. These people did not come from another planet. […] They were human beings, just like us. And it was not Hitler who arrested me, not Goering, not Goebbels. The grocer, the janitor, the tailor, the shoemaker, the baker, they suddenly got a uniform, a swastika armband, and there they were, the master race…””

  • The audiobook while I shovel today is: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

  • Oh good the feels like is -6F/-19C

  • I remembered to put sunscreen on my face today

  • So happy I got KOReader and KOInsight set up on my used, jailbroken Kindle! DRM-free ebooks and detailed reading stats for me yayayayay!!

    A calendar on a mobile screen for the web app K O Insight shows reading time data entries with time values on specific dates, highlighting the 22nd with 00:52 minutes.

  • Make safari on iOS scroll at 120fps: birchtree.me/blog/how-…

  • Raise the wind shield wipers

  • Currently reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I’m a little over halfway thru and I’m like… where is this going? I’m not bored but I’m also not totally reeled in. Didn’t read a synopsis beforehand; just saw it on a list of “pained nostalgia/found-family” recommendations

  • Finished “Half-Off Ragnarok” by Seanan McGuire. What a fun read for a wintery day.

  • Fuck yeah. GWAR covers Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” youtu.be/I5XR48KLE…

  • Had an appointment and it took driving half an hour and parking in the parking lot for me to remember that I left my whole ass bag at home. Blechhhhhh

  • finally read all of Emily St John Mandel’s books! my last one was, “The Singer’s Gun”. what a great listen.

  • Wait they renamed Office to… 365 Copilot?? Wow

  • Man it’s hard to break this habit of always putting non-fiction in my eyeballs and earballs

  • “while the happiness ain’t certain / you know the heartbreak’s guaranteed” Los Campesinos! - The Order of Seasons

  • Yay digital calipers

  • How come in all these YouTube videos they hammer out the base from the chair so quickly???

  • Home alone vaping some THC-free CBD flower and singing “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” real loud while not figuring out how to remove the star-shaped base from my office chair

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