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@iChris Still do it every morning here. :) But yes, have had spills in the past (it can be hard to be fully ‘with it’ when coffee not yet made). ;) Having said that, I still like the haptic experience as part of my morning routine - it’s a part of ‘coming to life’ each morning and interacting with my day. :) (Where I could, perhaps, be convinced to streamline – my simple ceramic hand grinder: I keep looking for a good excuse.) ;)

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Holding & Letting Go by Malcolm Guite

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We have a call to live

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and oh, a common call to die.

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I watched you and my father go

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to bid a friend goodbye.

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I watched you hold my father’s hand.

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How could it not be so?

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The gentleness of holding on

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helps in the letting go.

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For when we feel our frailty,

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how can we not...

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Only a tenth of the way through Book 1, but really enjoying and charmed by Galahad and the Grail by Malcolm Guite, a poetic re-telling of Arthurian tradition and the beginning of a four-part series under the banner of Merin’s Isle: The Tale This Land Still Keeps.

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It’s very accessible and a welcome enriching...

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Some days you just lose an hour or two on computer issues that aren’t a problem until they’re suddenly a crippling problem ->

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Bose 700 UC headphones work fine and use everyday for years … Then one day the sound is fine, but the mic function has mysteriously disappeared from existence in the computer. Reboot...

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On our recent family road trip to Maine, did some audibook listening via the Libby public library app. I never read C.S. Lewis' Narnia series as a kid, but have been discovering them with my kids. We ended up listening to two from the series on the trip: The Horse and His Boy, and The Silver Chair.

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Enjoyed...

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Totally gonna give this a swing at next opportunity - Ribbie.tv, an 8-bit way to visualize the ball game. ⚾

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(via @shep)

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@shep Totally gonna try this out! - Sometimes like to watch a pre-empted network game on the MLB app, but this seems much more fun. :)

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Jeff Cavins provides a 20-minute overview of The Great Adventure Bible from Ascension Press, which powerfully embeds his Bible Timeline method with wonderful maps, charts, explanations, and cross-references turning what can be a daunting text into a highly accessible and spiritually fruitful treasure.

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youtube.com/...

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Like Proton Pass for personal use, but seeing good things about Keeper for business team use. (And have been less-than-thrilled with LastPass over the years - adequate but feel like could be notably better.)

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@amerpie Beautiful shot!

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Need to check your favicon? – Look no further: Favicon Checker.

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(Okay, so slightly niche, but still useful, product.)

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Finally getting around to rolling out Mythos Theme released by Matt Langford in Aug 2025 –

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As part of that, just learning that as of Oct 2025 he migrated his personal blog to Bear.

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Nonetheless, still appreciate his work and also seems like he may be keeping connections to the Micro.blog platform.

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I was today years old when I realized I could mark a text message thread as unread on the iPhone.

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Color of me tickled.

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@lex Agree on the ‘used bike that fits’ — As disproportionate bike is gonna make that much harder to pick it up. (Couple/ few inches difference may be non-issue - but eight is meaningful.) fwiw! :)

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HipCamp - Described as AirBnB for campsites

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(via Boston Globe, 26 July 2026 Sunday Arts section)

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“To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. The book-learning gradually dribbles away; problems melt and dissolve; ties are gently severed; thinking, when you deign to indulge in it, becomes very primitive; the body becomes a new and wonderful instrument; you look at plants or stones or fish with different eyes; you wonder what people are struggling to accomplish by their frenzied activities; you know there is a war...

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The Internal Revenue Service today announced a new automatic process to provide penalty relief for taxpayers with a history of filing and paying on time, reducing the need for them to request assistance.

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The new Automatic Exemption from Penalty will replace the long-standing First Time Abate administrative relief and is designed to simplify the process and reduce burden for those with a timely compliance history.

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Taxpayers qualify if they have a history of timely filing the return and paying any tax due in the three prior years (or 12 consecutive quarters for quarterly returns). When taxpayers...

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The grass isnt greener on the other side, its greener where you water it.

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An unexpected and insightful twist to an old favorite.

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“American leaders could learn from Kemi Badenoch” by Bobby Zirkin via Baltimore Sun

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Whether one agrees with every position she takes, Badenoch represents a style of leadership we could use. American leaders are increasingly timid, unwilling to tackle difficult issues and driven by the fringes of the electorate. In an era marked by political polarization, institutional distrust and growing public frustration, Badenoch continues to show something different: a leader prepared to defend principles, encourage debate and pursue policies grounded in opportunity. For those Americans seeking a new generation...

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@writingslowly LOL 😂 - Exactly: Let the bar be low, then you can actually make progress. 😀

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IRS workforce down 28% over last year, from 101k employees to 74k employees

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From TIGTA’s 9 Jun 2026 report:

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We also know that many departing employees were experienced workers with institutional knowledge and technical expertise that cannot easily be replaced. In our 2026 Filing Season memorandum to the IRS Commissioner, we warned that the IRS faces elevated operational risks for the season due to staffing shortages, delayed hiring, and significant backlogs. For example, key inventories waiting to be processed (such as amended tax returns and taxpayer correspondence) have significantly increased.

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Defi...

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From Ben Sasse in 6 Feb 2026 WSJ op-ed, Politics Should Be More Like the Super Bowl

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American politics work best when they accommodate more casual fans. Don’t mistake this for mushy middle indifference. American politics should be a place for citizens who care, show up, argue passionately about policy, but then keep on living life. Today, that approach is being crowded out by the perpetually enraged. There’s painfully little room left for those who believe that political life matters, but know that it isn’t the center of the universe.

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America works only if we remember that government is the source...

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Interesting take:

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“Do I Have to Post More on Social Media to Grow My Agency? – Nope. There’s a much easier way.” by Dan Mall

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His idea:

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The strongest marketing I know for agency owners is to make a list of 100 potential clients and send each one a well-written pitch.

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Check out for more details.

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Annoyance is the price we pay for community.

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Kristin Bell in this excerpted short from a chat with Builders Movement:

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Our mission is to overcome “us vs. them” thinking and solve problems together. We equip people to uncover hidden common ground and build on it - with lasting solutions that reflect the will of the people.

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During his time on the Supreme Court, Breyer said that there was an unwritten rule that was critical to helping justices make progress while deliberating difficult and complex matters of law.

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“Nobody speaks twice until everybody has spoken once,” Breyer said. “It’s a very good rule for any small group. You have to listen to what other people are saying and see if you can work with that.”

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That rule, he said, helped the justices to stay civil even in the face of sometimes fierce differences of opinion. Breyer, for example, remained good friends with fellow justice Antonin Scalia, even though the two had...

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Examining that puzzle reveals that the real subject of debate isn’t AI but anthropology. Every technological system presupposes some notion of what human beings are. If we are merely biological machines—producers, consumers or data points—then superior computational systems threaten to eclipse humanity. But if we possess an intrinsic dignity that transcends utility, efficiency and economic value, if we are distinct from machines, then technology can remain servant rather than master.

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From Robert Sirico’s commentary in the WSJ on Pope Leo IV’s first encyclical letter “Magnifica Humanitas”

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Eric Church’s UNC Commencement Address — Masterfully done with life lessons for both new graduates and students of life.

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Tune and re-tune the six strings of your life:

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youtube.com/...

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@news No pun intended 😉

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Earlier this year, the IRS announced new “Business CAF” numbers and ways to manage taxpayer authorizations at the tax professional entity level (and not just tax professional individual level)

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Still working through details, but this has the potential to make things much more practical and efficient for both...

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“Intuit to lay off over 3,000 employees to refocus on AI” (via TechCrunch)

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The memo by CEO Sasan Goodarzi said the layoffs are meant to reduce complexity by simplifying the company’s corporate structure and help it focus on AI efforts, according to Reuters …

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Intuit, however, hasn’t been perceived as a beneficiary of the AI boom, with its shares consistently underperforming in the broader S&P 500 over the past 12 months. The company has been caught up in the broader current of worries that traditional software-as-a-service firms will not be able to keep up or compete, as new and upcoming AI products...

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All writing is re-writing.

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I heard this quoted a couple months back, and it keeps bubbling back up in my memory – Provides some solace as I find my first draft of anything so lacking. :)

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@manton Thank you! 👍

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@news Thank you! 👍

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@news Thank you!

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@manton Also have very much enjoyed this ad, as has my wife. She describes the voice as a grandma’s encouraging words towards creativity. I had wondered whose voice it actually was - thanks for sharing! :)

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@curiouskyle Makes me think of the Peter Drucker quote:

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> “Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two–and only two–basic marketing and innovation functions. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs. Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.”

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@manton Appreciate these types of tweaks (and similarly-inspired ones in recent months) that ‘design’ for the reality of user’s lives, and not packaged corporatism. Thanks for working to keep that forefront. 🙂👍

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@manton To be fair, I love em dashes too — most under utilized punctuation in my opinion. 😀

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@iChris I started exclusively using the time and temperature options on the dryer partly for this reason. And after a couple feedback loops, I was able to ensure predictable dryness at a predictable time (instead of the constant additional run time ‘cause the machine thought it was ready when it wasn’t). :)

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@manton Gotta love old signs! :)

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@petebrown Beautiful 🌛

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@manton Very succinctly said.

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And every once in awhile, there’s that rare soul that somehow manages to stay authentic.

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But it’s in spite of, not because of.

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@iChris You know, at first I thought you were referring to syntax and couldn’t imagine how that could be the case … then I realized it was something else entirely. :)

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@harrisong If helpful I’m using NewsBlur (for subscribing to feeds + web reading) with Reeder Classic (for iOS reading) and it’s been doing the trick. :) (NewsBlur may help achieve a savings.)

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@klandwehr Quick note - I think your Libri.fm link is accidentally pointing somewhere else (TickTick app). Fortunately, easy enough to find true link. :)

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@manton Gonna second a look at the Tumblr editor - I think they got a lot right back in the day, and part of why I stayed on that platform so long even after the original dev team moved on.

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@iChris What a great reflection on the Internet, blogging, and humanness. Thanks for sharing. :)

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@manton Wonderful game concept and so admire Nintendo’s ability to continuously be creative in new and unique ways! 🕹️

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@markstoneman Very interesting read - thanks for sharing & will be posting as well.

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