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    There is not a redeemable one in the bunch

    Senate candidate Sam Brown endorses Trump for president

    I didn’t expect different, but it hits when they say it out loud.

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    January 12, 2024
    Tags: sam brown | politics

    The best snack

    I can walk you through a maze of reasoning when asked about my favorite foods. What a terrible question, making me choose among all the great things I’ve had the pleasure of eating over the years. It honestly feels cruel.

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    January 12, 2024
    Tags: snacks | bloganuary | popcorn

    Past or future? I know which one I prefer

    Today’s Bloganuary prompt: “Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?”

    There’s virtue in both. I view myself as someone who at the very least strives to be self aware. Your mileage may vary with regard to how I’m doing at that, but it’s something I actively work on.

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    January 05, 2024
    Tags: time | bloganuary | future | past

    I'd really love more time

    My biggest stressors on a daily basis are related to my management of my time, and how I feel I am losing more and more of it to obligations. My mornings are currently scheduled in a way that has forced me to give up an activity or two that I should be doing. I just don’t have the time in the morning to do them along with the other things I have committed to doing. In the evening, I have other obligations that occupy my time until well into the evening in general.

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    January 04, 2024
    Tags: gifts | bloganuary | time

    Glitch is a great-looking place to start

    Count me in on this renaissance. I clicked through thinking I would read about, you know, what’s happening. It’s interesting, but that’s not what I got. Instead, I finished reading, nodding along, and got to the bottom of the page, where there is a link to Glitch.

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    January 03, 2024
    Tags: blogging | anil-dash | glitch

    A brief higher education journey

    Today’s Bloganuary question is “What colleges have you attended?”

    My answer is simple and long, if I care to make it long.

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    January 03, 2024
    Tags: bloganuary | education | college

    Bloganuary: Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you?

    I came across the Bloganuary prompt website, which gives you a writing prompt for each day in January. I’m going to try to do it here, and use it as more than a fun blog prompt. I plan to use it as a bit of a journaling tool, because that’s what I’m supposed to do here. So away we go.

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    January 02, 2024
    Tags: bloganuary | journal | playtime | play

    Don't mess with Mammoth Hot Springs

    Steam rises above the terraces ground with water runoff at Mammoth Hot Springs, inside Yellowstone National Park

    I can’t believe I only missed Pierce by a couple of weeks! He was cited on November 1 of this year for trespassing by apparently leaving the walkway at Mammoth Hot Springs inside Yellowstone National Park.

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    December 29, 2023
    Tags: yellowstone | pierce brosnan | mammoth hot springs

    EO (2022)

    Cover art for the 2022 movie EO, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski

    I had some idea how this would go, but not nearly to the extent that it is so sad. The opening scene immediately put me on edge. EO was dead, or really hurt, being loved by a companion, tears in her eyes, only to have EO pop up alive to applause from the audience they were performing in front of. I had a sick feeling from the dead donkey that never went away.

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    December 27, 2023
    Tags: eo | jerzy skolimowski | donkey

    Journalists can take control, they just need the tools

    I can’t help but think that with the recent revelation that Substack will not ban nazis, and the movement that it was in response to, and the subsequent follow-through by the Substackers Against Nazis, we’re at another point in the social media timeline where the people who are doing the work of journalism, independently, really, really need the tools to go fully independent.

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    December 26, 2023
    Tags: open source | journalism

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