Here’s my current closet layout. The vertical box represent a corner– I get an L-shape of our shared U-shaped closet.

After going through my clothes, I have quite a few open spots I need to organize a bit better.

What’s funny is that Elsa still finds this hopelessly disorganized, at least partially due to the fact that I do not organize my hung clothing at all. While they’re separated somewhat by “casual” and “formal”, within “casual” I have no color, type, or seasonality organizing. It’s all just hung up, and I can see everything just fine anyway.

TIL: Micro.blog API really doesn’t like it when you put a large SVG in-line in your post versus using the <object> syntax with an already uploaded file.

How is it almost 2025 and my Mac still collects all of my iMessage notifications that I long saw on other devices?

Anyone know if Shawn Blanc is doing ok? Tools and Toys hasn’t had new post in two months and his personal site hasn’t had a blog post in a year (I was checking to see if Tools and Toys was shutting down).

Also, anyone have any good recommendations for a site like Tools and Toys?

Having the largest Patagonia store here in Baltimore is great. I found a tremendous winter coat in the outlet section for greater than 50% off. It was “irregular”, but myself, Elsa, and an employee couldn’t identify anything off– which the employee said was virtually always true.

Matt Gaetz also slept his way to the top. It just turns out for the GOP to do so you have to be a child predator.

It’s really simple. I will not abandon trans people or immigrants to win.

What’s the point of winning if we’re not going to protect vulnerable peoples’ rights to exist?

And what’s the point of influencing culture if not to ensure those people are no longer vulnerable at all?

Skepticism cannot persist when met with empirical evidence. Vaccine and climate deniers exist, skeptics do not. To be skeptical is to be in a state of uncertainty absent proof. Denialism, often motivated denialism, should not be rebranded as skepticism or heterodoxy.

Does anyone else say “that’s enough” out loud when stopping a YouTube video that’s going way long and repetitive to pad out its run time? No, just me?

I see people outraged on the internet all the time about things which simply do not register for me at all. There’s something wild about someone absolutely unhinged about a thing you don’t (and even when pointed out, wouldn’t) think twice about. I’m thinking a lot about that post election.

I’ve made it down to two unread items in my RSS reader for the first time in forever. Tomorrow is going to be RSS 0 day, I can feel it.

This was an adorable jalopy parked by the gym.

I keep seeing the video of the New Zeland MP who starts a Haka on the floor. I feel like each time it’s more and more affecting. Even half a world away, and as distant physically and culturally that I am, the meaning and power of their protest hits like a 2x4.

Honest question— are there childhood vaccines that were no longer commonly administered in the US in the late 80s because we had largely defeated that disease that I should be begging my PCP to give me now?

Please tell me someone at YouTube knows how shit their app has become on tvOS.

This is really getting dark.

I know I’m mentally exhausted by the very idea of work because nothing feels like more of a hell hole than opening LinkedIn.

I am asking this without any sarcasm or ill intent— has Trump announced a single nomination that would have passed muster during any other president’s term at any point since say, Carter?

Sinclair media is such a cancer on Baltimore City and its schools– this is a remarkably good faith settlement from City Schools.

Kakistocracy has to be the Merriam-Webster word of the year.

I think the Democrats are seeing that they were punished for stimulus that supported government and industry– we made sure people kept their jobs and kept getting service (or expanded service) from the government. That probably resulted in a small amount of inflation– most of it was almost certainly supply chain issues– but also is a part of why economic growth continued strong and employment stayed solid. It’s part of how our recovery from the pandemic was mostly “things are normal or better for now”.

So many people who benefited from these policies, short and long term, didn’t perceive their benefit. In almost every way, the country would have been worse off if we used all that money to give individual checks, possibly including inflation. And yet, something tells me that it would have resulted in a landslide Democratic victory and a sense that they had fought effectively for the working class.

Inspired by The impact of ARP on inflation by Kevin Drum.

This should be a triumph we’re handing off to Harris, instead, Trump will take the credit for everything that has already been accomplished.

I cannot believe how huge my Tele and Dr. Z sound. Oh yeah, with the BSRI Magawa in between. Still, fucking heavy for a guitar and amp probably better known for country music…

If you needed to rot all week, that’s fine. If you need to rot all next week, that’s fine too. Take your time.

With the time I control, I kept doing the things that bring my life joy even if I didn’t feel like feeling joy. For me, this turned out to be a huge help.

Tone knobs were made for the Telecaster.