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Feb 16, 2026: where to post I'm coming across the problem of not knowing which blog to post to after I write something. I now have three separate blogs.1 I have a more "polished" blog that I sometimes post longer and more refined pieces to. And I've been experimenting with https://micro.blog, which allows for micro-blogging …
Feb 15, 2026: Pretty in Pink, 1986 - ★★★ It’s Duckie’s world, we’re just living in it
Feb 15, 2026: Getting pretty hooked on water coloring kits. Had no idea this was a thing til recently
Feb 15, 2026: Don’t write for length Something I really appreciate about Bear Blog (and personal blogging in general) is that there’s no intended audience involved. When I write on here I’m just writing to write. I’m trying to write a lot more in general. And publish what I write. I don’t know that I have a specific goal.1 Maybe write …
Feb 13, 2026: Tech I Use Right now, as of 21 minutes ago this is the main tech I use: Email, Docs, and Drive: Proton Email. I love Proton so much I pre-purchased 3yr of my subscription in support (which normally I would not recommend doing for services, but I trust and support them and want them to succeed. Plus, email is …
Feb 13, 2026: Valentines' Week This Valentines Day Eve, here is a list of things I have been grateful for lately: My health and body Crushes on strangers Public transit and a city that actively uses it The thought that there is so much love in the world and that love is a wonderful feeling Trinkets Good books
Feb 13, 2026: Playing around with Bear Blog and it’s delightful. But also can’t do nearly as much as Micro.blog (while somehow being more expensive). So hard to justify a switch! Not sure why I have my Ghost Blog at this point..
Feb 13, 2026: instagram methadone I have tried for years to curb my instagram usage. And after trying everything, I’ve finally found something that works. I call it Instagram methadone, but it’s really just the instagram web app. If you struggle with getting off instagram too, you should try it! Here’s how it works: delete the …
Feb 12, 2026: The Testament of Ann Lee, 2025 - ★★★½ I think my favorite part of this movie was the rabbit holes it sent me on afterwards. It was a decent movie but kind of incoherent in its plot.
Feb 12, 2026: Blogging to the void on micro.blog feels so much more fulfilling than true social media, don’t know why. Maybe because there is literally no objective to gain an audience? You’re just writing to write
Feb 12, 2026: Watched: The Pitt S2E5, 11:00 A.M. 🍿 The Pitt is just The Bear in a hospital setting I’ve always said this.
Feb 12, 2026: LLMs inherently are just distilling knowledge to an average output. So whenever companies complain about this ultimately they’re just complaining that their product is being used as designed. www.nbcnews.com/tech/secu…
Feb 11, 2026: Watched: Companion Basically a black mirror episode. No complaints
Feb 11, 2026: Did not finish: Enshittification by Cory Doctorow 📚 The theory here is incoherent.
Feb 11, 2026: Did not finish: The Age of Extraction by Tim Wu 📚 Might try it again later. Love Tim Wu but this book got weird when it started talking about AI
Feb 11, 2026: Whatever happened to the TLDR? In the world of LLM-generated slop summaries, I’m constantly wondering: what happened to the good old fashioned TLDR? That TLDR was often a sentence or two. shorter than the new trend of an AI-slop summary. It required the writer to sit down and think about their post. They had to distill things …
Feb 8, 2026: Finished reading: There Is No Antimemetics Division This was the type of book that’s so unique you wish you had come up with the plot. Truly original. Great book. I don’t know that the last 100ish pages really tie together with the rest, but still a 5/5 star read.
Feb 6, 2026: Currently reading: There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm 📚
Feb 6, 2026: How to outsource all your thinking to a large language model birdsSee that bird over there? What is that? There’s a new app that can tell you! You can just point your phone at that bird and a large language model will tell you: “why, that’s the common crow! You are so smart for asking me this question.” You are very smart, you know …
Jan 24, 2026: At this point Walz not calling for the arrest of ICE agents signals that he passively approves of what Trump and Bovino are doing. Same goes for all the Minnesota political figures. “Abolish and arrest ICE” is the centrist take.
Jan 20, 2026: American hegemony ending at Davos is an extremely funny outcome
Jan 17, 2026: Yet another reason to DeGoogle www.404media.co/google-ha…
Jan 13, 2026: All of the people who have spent years talking about “protecting us from tyranny” are suddenly completely absent. Reason is devoting energy to columns on if Renee Good broke the law, CATO is focused on Iran, FIRE hasn’t run a single article about the free speech issues
Jan 13, 2026: Soon so many people with platforms to speak out against the Nazi takeover of America are going to pretend they were against this all along and that they spoke up, when in reality they did nothing but watch
Jan 13, 2026: Some 2026 privacy resolutions #privacy 2026 Privacy resolutions There are a lot of things I have been far too lax about with my own online privacy in the past. And while that true anonymity may be impossible to achieve, it's actually very easy/practical to take a ...
Jan 13, 2026: 2026 Privacy resolutions I saw a great post on Privacy Guides the other day on privacy resolutions for 2026. Achieving true anonymity and privacy in our modern world is pretty much impossible.[1] But I do think there are a lot of things I have been far too lax about with my own online privacy in the past. And while that …
Jan 12, 2026: The other two In my rant about Google I suppose I left out the other two “alternatives”. Kagi Kagi spits in the face of privacy with its manifesto and disregard of even basic GDPR protections. But the results are pretty good. Kagi is seemingly the only search engine where you can search “US …
Jan 12, 2026: Every so often I decide that it is finally time I de-google my life, and this time I even got far enough to switch away from Gmail (which as it turns out I don’t miss at all). But somehow there are still no good search engine alternatives — and Google itself isn’t even that good!!
Jan 11, 2026: For all the discourse on bullying etc., bluesky really does feel like pre-2016 twitter in a lot of very good ways
Jan 11, 2026: Even as a non-technical user, micro.blog’s atproto integration is pretty nifty.. Seems to connect with Ghost too?
Jan 9, 2026: Firmly believe that the plural of Brussels Sprouts should be Brussels Sprout, like Attorneys General
Jan 8, 2026: How to embed a Bluesky feed on your site I am shocked there is no easily accessible guide to this so I thought I'd create one. Bluesky does not have the ability to let you embed a profile feed on its own. But it's super easy to embed a Bluesky profile feed on your site using a third party tool: You can just use a script from …
Jan 8, 2026: What's this blog In 2026 I want to write more. Recreational blogging is a common New Years goal. And I’d like to join the cacophony of voices shouting into that void. My hope for cruciferousgreens.com, the newest casualty of my domain-acquisition habit, is to finally have a little low-stakes place for my …
Nov 10, 2025: Either Schumer can’t control his caucus and so he should resign as majority leader, or Schumer worked behind the scenes to allow Dems to cave and he should resign as majority leader
Aug 2, 2025: The Fantastic 4: First Steps, 2025 - ★½ Meh
Jul 31, 2025: Opus, 2025 - ★★★ Don’t understand the hate, Ayo Edebiri and John Malkovich nailed the acting here. Story could have been deeper but thought it was a fun watch
Jul 19, 2025: Eddington, 2025 - ★★★ I guess Ari Aster really wanted to make a Quentin Tarantino movie
Jul 16, 2025: The Phoenician Scheme, 2025 - ★★★½ Loved it, but didn’t have quite as much charm as older Wes Anderson movies
Jul 16, 2025: Superman, 2025 - ★★★½ It was cute but not groundbreaking
Jul 16, 2025: Sorry, Baby, 2025 - ★★★★½ One of the most incredible portrayals of trauma I’ve ever seen
Jun 13, 2025: Materialists, 2025 - ★★ Cute movie with terrible writing and a ton of continuity errors
Jun 12, 2025: Mickey 17, 2025 - ★★ Wanted to like it a lot more than I did
Jun 12, 2025: The Life of Chuck, 2024 - ★★★★ Beautiful story, weirdly put together
Jun 12, 2025: Friendship, 2024 - ★★★★ Horribly cringy and I loved it
Jun 10, 2025: 150 tanks 50 aircraft 34 horses 2 mules 1 dog 6,600 soldiers
Jun 7, 2025: I’m getting war flashbacks from 2020 because of this oh my god
Feb 6, 2025: Confused by this. I thought racist posts was the qualification to work for DOGE? Were his posts not racist enough? I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry …
Jan 16, 2025: Can someone smarter than me explain why this wouldn’t just cause people to smoke 17x as many cigarettes? " Without nicotine, a cigarette is just smoldering leaves wrapped in some fancy paper." www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Mar 2, 2024: Dream Scenario, 2023 - ★★★★½ Last 20minutes where cliche and stupid, the rest of the movie was fantastic
Feb 13, 2024: Killers of the Flower Moon, 2023 - ★★★★½ I loved it, but not very much actually happens in this three and a half long movie.
Dec 29, 2023: Kajillionaire, 2020 - ★★★★½ Really my only complaint was the casting. Why have such famous actors if you’re going to make them seem indie
Dec 29, 2023: Saltburn, 2023 - ½ Never have I ever seen a movie so desperately trying to fake authenticity as this one. This feels like all the major studios tried to clone the heart of their favorite indie films, and they ended up with vapid overproduced trash.
Nov 4, 2023: Fingernails, 2023 - ★★★ I’m sure the poly people hate this movie
May 3, 2023: @jay.bsky.team @why.bsky.team want to make sure you all are aware of phishing schemes like @wellsfargo.love on here. Because of the DNS identity verification these are going to pop up a lot I’d imagine
May 1, 2023: I see we’ve started to litigate Jacobellis v. Ohio on Bluesky. I feel like @why.bsky.team’s approach unfortunately kind of is the only way to go on this without getting bogged down on “I know it when I see it” 🙃 This is how it starts: the half-smart idea that you’re only going to ban “boobs, dicks …
Apr 30, 2023: I wanna be the next SNL cast member And here’s why I should be a contender 👇
Apr 30, 2023: When I grow up I wanna be mutuals with @kenklippenstein.bsky.social
Apr 29, 2023: blues(lavoj žiže)ky
Apr 28, 2023: a lotta yall still dont get it ape holders can use multiple slurp juices on a single ape so if you have 1 astro ape and 3 slurp juices you can create 3 new apes
Apr 28, 2023: what about skeetz with a z Guys, please don't let "skeets" stick The experiment in decentralized naming decisions has resulted in the worst possible term How about skoots? Can we bring back skoots? Bluesky OGs, help me out here, remember skoots?
Apr 28, 2023: btw when u skeetpost about me this is who you’re skeetposting about
Apr 28, 2023: they should make a version of bluesky where people like my skeets