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@jeremymdoan.info Remarkably specific advice… doesn’t seem wrong tho

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2026 Reads: London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe 📚

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What a story.

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2026 Reads: The Absent One by Jussi Adler-Olsen 📚

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Apple event: new iPhone camera seems nice, but I miss last year’s orange color. New Apple Watch Ultra is tempting but I don’t need to spend the $$$. iPhone Duo seems impressive but $2k starting price? LOLOL.

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@ReaderJohn I think Capon is a bit of an acquired taste. I, for one, love him, and The Supper of the Lamb might be my favorite. Good luck as you give it another shot!

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Watched: The Christophers 🍿

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This is an under-the-radar but really good film. Ian McKellen should be sneaking into the Oscar discussion for this one.

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2026 Reads: Murriyang by Stan Grant 📚

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@patrickrhone You gotta write it down if you’re gonna be able to cross it off!

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2026 Reads: A Community of Character by Stanley Hauerwas 📚

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@jaheppler Happy Birthday! Football game started a little rough but the final score looks just fine. #GBR

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2026 Reads: Jack the Bodiless by Julian May 📚

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Golly, what a story.

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Went for a run at 6 AM and it was already 78F outside with 80% humidity. On top of doing leg day at the gym yesterday afternoon… kinda feeling it right now. Oof.

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@granades.com If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my wife’s cast iron work over the past couple years, it’s not to expect that a hobby can suddenly turn into a profit center. They call it a labor of love for a reason, I guess.

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Going back to listen to an old favorite while working this morning: Sufjan Stevens’ sound track for The BQE. Most Sufjan fans I know favor his vocal stuff, but I’m the biggest fan of his instrumental compositions.

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@karanslade.bsky.social A chariot of fire and then bears… sounds like you might have a prophet on the loose. What’s next on Elisha’s timeline?

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As a #Cubs fan I both enjoy seeing them whoop up on the Brewers and also have this nagging feeling we’re gonna be wishing we could’ve banked some of those runs for later in the series. #MLB

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@bcbsara.bsky.social Feels like one of those games where you wish they could just mutually agree to invoke a mercy rule and end early. Cubs might pitch a position player before they’re done, too.

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Good golly, the Brewers have a position player in to pitch in the 7th. #Cubs look like they’re just taking batting practice. Not gonna feel bad about running up the score a bit on the division leaders. #MLB

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Green Chucks to go with my acolyte robe this morning. It’s Ordinary Time, after all. Very tempted to find them in all the various liturgical colors. ⚓️

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With my 6.6 mile run this afternoon I am up to 74 miles for the month and just broke 500 miles for the year. The most I have run any year in my life, and there are still 4 months to go!

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@drose I decided finally to start alternating weights with my running… yesterday was my first lifting day. Definitely need a run today to loosen things back up.

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Reminder to myself that when I’m cranking up my keto diet again, my body isn’t as fueled as I’d expect when I go run.

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This PSA brought to me by a 4-mile lunchtime run that was way harder than I anticipated.

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I just about choked on my coffee.

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@sethdmichaels.bsky.social The point of having two missile keys….

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@patrickrhone Such a massive loss, not just to the music world, but to us all. Her Imagination Library program has given away over 300 million books to young readers. Amazing.

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@drose The Pacific Northwest! I got a job with Boeing earlier this year with the agreement we’d move out to the Seattle area after the youngest graduates.

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@chrishubbs.com Heh I’m not sure. I mean, I’m excited for her senior year. She’s worked very hard and it’s paying off. But life is sure gonna change.

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@drose It’s going to be a busy year for us - we will be moving halfway across the country after she graduates in May - but I don’t want to speed through it and miss the experience. Every day has its own joy.

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Last first day of school for us here as the youngest starts her senior year of high school. Where does the time go?

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@joshuapsteele We have one. My wife made the choice on what to get, so I don’t have any background on its relative value vs other brands, but I’ve used it on occasion and it’s very nice.

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@leemc.bsky.social I dunno… we include it in the creed every week at my Episcopal church.

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With the kid back at college my home office gets moved back up out of the basement. I had kinda forgotten how nice it is to have sun coming in the windows while I’m working.

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2026 Reads: The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen 📚

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@chrishubbs.com I did end up reading books 2 and 3. They were solid. Not my favorite fantasy series ever, but worth the time to read it.

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@bencollins.bsky.social This is the Ken Ham (Answers In Genesis) response. Ham’s follow-up is that God was there, and God told us about it in the Bible, so we should believe what the Bible says about it. (which of course he says means humans and dinosaurs were co-habitants)

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@jocelynl.bsky.social Agree it could be both. Your intial post just suggested that 1 wk w/o power wouldn’t happen in a majority white town, and I was pointing out that it already has. If there is a significant racial corellation to the recovery effort, that’s not good.

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@misty.granades.com Good god, yes

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@samthielman.com If somebody were gonna plan a sneak attack on us, they would just need to schedule it for about two days after the next GTA release date…

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@jocelynl.bsky.social Sometimes a derecho like that just destroys so much infrastructure it takes time to rebuild. In 2020, we in (very white) Cedar Rapids, IA were without power for almost 2 weeks after a similar storm knocked out everything. It might be climate change, too, not just racism.

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@jeremymdoan.info She’s having a bit of a busy summer… guess she wanted to get all the work in before having a baby?

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@amerpie Raising that young man right.

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2026 Reads: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy 📚

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Beautiful writing. Horrific story. Astonishing book.

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@adamprocter My one visit to India was certainly an experience. Here’s hoping you have smooth travel and a great time.

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Today we drive 2 hours to Des Moines for the youngest daughter to get senior pics at the Iowa state capitol. Then 2 more hours on to Nebraska to move the middle kid back to college. Middle kid is basically moving out for good this year. My heart is not ready for this.

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It’s always a good day to support a Ben Shive Kickstarter campaign.

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www.kickstarter.com/projects/…

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The Cubs with a nice W against the Nationals and the Brewers get swept by the Padres… suddenly the Cubs are only 3 games back in the NL Central with a lot of baseball left to be played. Should be a fun last 6 weeks of the season!

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#MLB #Cubs

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@zo-e.xyz I’m gonna guess “tripping”

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OK, that’s kinda cool: just saw that I got my first patent issued! It’s obscure, unlikely to be used for anything substantive, and belongs to a previous employer, so I probably won’t even get the plaque for it. But it’s my idea, with my name on it. Neat.

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A good chuckle at church this morning as a sweet older lady from the vestry stumbled over the church picnic announcement and said the vestry would be providing the meat and the condoms.

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(Why is “condiments” such a difficult word, anyway?)

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⚓️

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2026 Reads: Mrs. Dalloway (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Virginia Woolf 📚

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