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Finished reading: Excession by Iain M. Banks đź“š

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@sindresorhus.com Thanks for sharing this. I’ve been unhappy with the update but didn’t know there was an alternative. It’s one of my most mission critical apps and I’m annoyed it’s regressing.

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Week note - vi: object.computer

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Making dumb bumper stickers is my true passion and art. I’m selling some. If you’re not in the Portland area, I can ship them for a few bucks.

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Legally speaking, the Unipiper owes me nothing. The Pickle is a goddamn thief though.

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www.facebook.com/share/1CA…

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Thank you {{pharmacy_name}}.

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Week note - v: object.computer

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I’ve had a sprint of sci-fi novels (a brief obsession with the Inquisitor trilogies by Dan Abnett & a run of Culture series novels) I’d like to read some recent literary fiction. Any suggestions?

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Using my recovery time to watch movies and do LEGO. I’ve owned this, unfinished, for an embarrassing amount of time. I’m excited to find a place to hang it.

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Belated #caturday post. What with the holiday and all… or something. Labor resting and all that. Just look at my cat. His name is Jinx.

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We’re calling our trip off early because the back pain I’ve been experiencing turned out to be shingles. Happy it wasn’t my gallbladder or something. Here’s a few photos I managed to catch.

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Currently reading: Excession by Iain M. Banks đź“š

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Week note - iv: object.computer

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Currently reading: Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks đź“š

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Finished reading: The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks đź“š

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Week note - iii: object.computer

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@spencer.place I loved SU. What made it good was the the dopamine hit of finding something “cool.” There was a great deal of trash and occasionally pushing the button sifted out something amazing.

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I would open it when I was bored and the usual things (gaming, forums, etc) couldn’t scratch the itch.

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Finished reading: Ravenor Rogue by Dan Abnett 📚 — I think that’s enough Warhammer books for a while.

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@lacroixshotgun.bsky.social I can’t argue with that.

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@pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social I feel this. The calves on Seattle cyclists should be studied and admired.

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@lacroixshotgun.bsky.social Lemme get that human skin salmon

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I think I have to admit defeat again with Orion as a browser as a daily driver. The 1Password extension continues to be unreliable, which is very frustrating. On top of that it seems like I am getting more frozen tabs and poorer performance than my initial go around. Back to Safari for now.

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I visited Minneapolis for the first time over the weekend and I have to admit I was jealous of their cycling infrastructure. So many protected bike lanes. My jealousy was tempered by the fact I was constantly drenched in a thin layer of sweat from the humidity though. Jealous perspiration.

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@jtp.bsky.social I know American Sign Language so my hand say hi. Saves me on the AI subscription.

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Week note - ii: object.computer

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@manton +1 to Connections. This feels clearer.

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@thomas.camp It looks like the primary artist is Vee Chanting Qian! This page has a collection featuring their awesome designs.

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Kick flippin’ pine goes hard. www.veeqian.com/pdx-airport

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@thomas.camp #PDX people: help me make my dream come true.

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I need a giant sticky note character from the PDX in my house.

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@councilorkanal.bsky.social as my councilor, you have the power to create a better world, one in which each day I come up greeted by giant PDX sticky note. Dan Ryan could never.

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I demand that PDX start selling merch with the absolute banger characters they’ve created. I would fight a person for one of the giant sticky notes featuring these little weirdos they hung during the construction.

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Even this serene donut dude on the wifi landing page is great.

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Look I know there’s a lot of bad things happening in the world right now, but what really grinds my goat is email apps in 2026 defaulting to adding a “sent from phone” type line to your signature.

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No one receiving it cares and nobody sending it wants it. Stop it. This is crime.

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Lately I’ve been enjoying more newsletters. Some favorites include Dense Discovery, Citation Needed, and (rip) Naive Weekly.

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I’m always looking for weird and interesting newsletter recommendations if you’ve got any to share.

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One change I’ve made is trying to replace my doom scrolling habit with Kagi’s small web tool. It’s a spiritual successor to StumbleUpon that takes you to a random indieweb page. It’s been fun to see so many personal sites I’d otherwise never encounter.

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kagi.com/smallweb/

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I pulled the trigger on a Kagi subscription and moved my browsing back into Orion. Orion still has rough edges, but Kagi’s search is a superior product. The biggest hurdle was psychological. My brain’s knee jerk insistence that search should be free.

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I’m pleased with the latest design changes I made to my blog. I’ve been collecting inspiration from other small web blogs for a while and finally implemented a few vanity features. My favorite: switching my footnotes to a “marginalia” style.

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object.computer/colophon/

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Watched: Over Your Dead Body 🍿 - 3/5

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@justinpot.com POSSE is the way! indieweb.org/POSSE

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@rbreich.bsky.social Not good Robert. Not good.

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@russ41.bsky.social I’ve heard and felt similar. Unfortunately a lot of people go to therapy and don’t do the work. I can also imagine it’s even easier to do that when you’re fabulously wealthy and there’d be therapists happy to take your money and tell you what you want to hear.

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@russ41.bsky.social I can’t imagine what it was like for Jonah to grow up as a fat dude in the media spotlight where his fame was so closely associated with his body in a media landscape so critical of fat bodies, but he needs therapy not martial arts.

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@leftcoastreads.bsky.social Maybe it’s because I grew up in the tri-state area but the first thing I associate hardcore music with is straight edge.

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@manton I’m excited to see what you come up with. I’d love Micro.blog to be flexibly integrated into the ATProto in more ways.

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@thomas.camp My partner is a bagel snob. She’s a bagel snob in the sense that if your bagel doesn’t have seeds on both sides, you’re immediately out of the running. She’s from Long Island.

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I realize our powers combine into the worst kind of “east coaster living on the west coast.” We’re not wrong though.

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@pip Love this.

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@thomas.camp The Big Obsidian Flow at Newberry Volcanic National Monument is… a big ass flow of obsidian. I’ve never seen anything like it before.

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The whole monument area deserves more attention and I feel foolish having lived so (relatively) close without knowing how great it is. I can’t wait to go back again

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@thomas.camp Summer Lake is my favorite hot spring in Oregon. It is totally worth the drive to experience it. It has some of the darkest skies I’ve ever seen.

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The nearby refuge has just a mindblowing amount of birds and is a vital home for many migratory species. It is stunningly beautiful.

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@thomas.camp While Hart Mountain is a ways out there I can’t recommend it enough. A beautiful high desert grassland with herds of pronghorn — the American antelope. Over 400 sq miles of refuge.

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Camping is free and the hot spring campground is magical. We saw a ton of shooting stars while soaking.

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#oregon

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@thomas.camp Our rough itinerary:

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Hole-in-the-Ground & Crack-in-the-Ground
\nSummer Lake Resort & Summer Lake Wildlife Refuge
\nHart Mountain National Antelope Refuge & Hot Springs Campground
\nThe meeting spot of CA, OR & NV
\nNewberry National Volcanic Monument

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My wonderful partner planned this and it was amazing.

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@thomas.camp That’s the best question and I’m absolutely going to use it in the future.

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@thomas.camp Close! Not in order but we are at Hart Mountain Refuge, Summer Lake, and some other spots thereabouts.

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@fischer.bsky.social I-5 should be converted into a bike lane.

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@seth.computer Also - 👋 I was an early Zapier employee (#14) looks like y’all are still up to some cool stuff.

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