Shout out to the person I saw dressed as Ramiel from Neon Genesis Evangelion while trick-or-treating. Respect for finding paint with a reflective sheen.
Shout out to the person I saw dressed as Ramiel from Neon Genesis Evangelion while trick-or-treating. Respect for finding paint with a reflective sheen.
Is EVE from WALL E a Disney princess?
You don’t have to be a computer programmer to take back some agency in controlling your data. @Mtt provides a useful list of some basic steps you can take to regain some control over who harvests data about you.
Following up on a previous post. Here’s the progression of fall through the viewpoint of the maple in my front yard from September 29 to October 29. 📷
Just an addendum to my previous post about Bruce Hornsby: while I get the sense that Bruce S probably occupies a larger cultural space as the bard of the working class - just the casual way Hornsby swings between love ballads and biting social commentary is rarely replicated.
Parents leave all sorts of small indelible marks on their children that last a lifetime, and from my mom I’ve held onto an affection for Bruce Hornsby & The Range.
Hey, as someone who parents a 4-year-old, and with Halloween upon us once again: if you invented fun dip you have a lot to answer for.
I have used Spotify for 🎵 and am considering toggling back to Apple Music. It’s got me thinking about app UX. I’m not sure why, but Music (iTunes) just feels more tactile in my brain when I scroll through it. I’m not sure if this relates to design choices or the fact that I used it for decades after getting a scroll wheel iPod in high school.
Current Fall color spectrum.
Something I appreciate about regularly riding public transit in a Midwest college town is the wave or expression of gratitude frequently directed towards the driver at stops.
You should subscribe to Alan Jacob’s Micro.Blog newsletter because weekly you’ll be introduced to fun and thought provoking stuff like this Cal Newport quote.
This morning I saw a senior citizen with a cane, on the curb, in an inflatable animal costume, with signage promoting the No Kings rally happening downtown later today. Punching all the squares on my U.S.-in-2025 bingo card.
Some recent above-the-horizon views. 
This site is so delightful. https://miniature-calendar.com/251014
:camera: Here’s a progression of fall colors as shown by the maple in my front yard from September 29 through today.
Sockel and the Trump administration are justifying treating asylum seekers as hardened criminals — heavily militarized raids, rough and abusive arrests, extended detention in facilities under inhumane conditions* — while also claiming that because these are civil matters, the government isn’t obligated to give them the full slate of due process rights. The courts seem largely okay with this. That doesn’t mean we should be.
(*Most of these things aren’t really acceptable treatment for hardened criminals, either.)
It’s true that the courts have ruled that undocumented immigrants do not have the same full complement of rights that legal residents and citizens have. But thus far, the courts have been clear that immigrants — including undocumented immigrants — have the absolute right to be heard and to adequate due process when it comes to deportation.
If you spend way too much time on social feeds you’ll occasionally get a peak behind the algorithmic curtain. I have a Reddit account and people.com is clearly trying a new engagement strategy, but they overplayed it. All at once different morbid stories tangentially related to any subreddits subject started showing up all at once. Just a cascade of links to stories about absolute gutter level human behavior.
It’s the tabloid aisle on steroids. It’s like staring into the abyss and it winks at you.
Lotta swirling commentary in all my social feeds about whether the better response to our political moment is to focus on short term power brokering or to stand in the principled light of truth and my mind just keeps drifting to my favorite fictional representation of the debate in Lincoln.
Never settle.
As part of comprehensive budget negations that ultimately passed the state of Michigan included a 24% whole sale marijuana tax. Reporting I’ve read on the budget indicates that the state expects $420 annually from the tax. That can’t be a coincidence right?
Some recent efforts to slow down and pay attention.
Regarding the speeches delivered at Quantico yesterday my mind drifts to this scene from Battlestar Galactica.
But if the generals were paying attention during minute 44 of the president’s speech Tuesday, they would have heard the fleeting but unmistakable sound of something new. Something different.
It was at that moment that the president recounted a conversation with his defense secretary: “I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.”
We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military, the president of the United States said.
On an almost daily basis, thousands of words pour forth from the president’s mouth. Sometimes, he tucks in a wild insight about the direction he is taking the country.
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Sometimes you cook the food, and sometimes the food cooks you.
(I’m a bit late, but..) Come quick, Animagraffs dropped a new video!!
Slowly starting to bump into those time-humbling experiences, like throwing on some skates for the first time in 15+ years at a rink birthday party your kid got invited too.
