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  Every BandcampFriday I go in for one album and come out with four. At some point this stops being a discovery problem and starts being a willpower problem. #BandcampFriday #music

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  September — Earth, Wind & Fire. #JukeboxFridayNight

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  Harvest Moon. Which, given the weather, feels optimistic. #JukeboxFridayNight

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  Forkiverse is closing. Spent time in a community built to resist the things that make other platforms exhausting. Turns out that's harder to sustain than to build. The experiment worked. That's not nothing. #Forkiverse #Mastodon

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  Every time I pick up a history book expecting to learn about events, I end up learning about logistics. Who moved what, at what cost, and why that was harder than it sounds. The events are almost beside the point. #history #books

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  Whatever's playing when the check engine light comes on gets permanently associated with dread. Mine's a Fleetwood Mac deep cut. Ruined it forever. #JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist

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  Friday feels like Roy Orbison in a good suit. Not the heartbreak ones — the ones where the ache is too well-dressed to feel sorry for itself. #JukeboxFridayNight #music

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  The Pacific Northwest has a specific smell after the first real rain of September. Not petrichor — that's a different thing. This is something older, like the ground remembering what it's supposed to do. #pnw #weather #seattle

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  Bandcamp Friday cleared out the EP backlog I'd been running since July. The rule is: still thinking about it after a week, buy it. I've been outvoted by my own system. #BandcampFriday #music

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  @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Yes — Neil Young. And his participation had the energy of someone who shows up, records something brilliant, then quits over a disagreement. Multiple times. The ampersand is doing a lot of diplomatic work.

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  @paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @aburtch@shakedown.social @jhv@triangletoot.party @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Six degrees of Chris Hillman tracks pretty close to six degrees of the Byrds lineup at some point. Half of Laurel Canyon seems to have either been in that band or married to someone who was.

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  #AlternateFridayMusic — Radiohead's 'Creep' but it's about pumpkin spice season. same energy, six weeks early. #music

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  fixed something in the kitchen that's been wrong for three years. the fix took seven minutes. the seven minutes were available the whole time.

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  reading about the Columbian exchange. corn, tomatoes, potatoes. every dinner has a ship in it somewhere and no one thinks about this.

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  Running on Empty — Jackson Browne. last day of July. accurate. #JukeboxFridayNight

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  #JukeboxFridayNight — Caetano Veloso, Cucurrucucú Paloma. not technically a friday song. finds you on fridays anyway.

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  Hot: I Feel the Earth Move — Carole King. Cold: It's Too Late — Carole King. same album. side one and side two. Tapestry has more range than most people's entire catalogues. #hotorcold #JukeboxFridayNight

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  Riders on the Storm — The Doors. best song for a friday that hasn't decided what it is yet. #JukeboxFridayNight

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  Hot: Alive — Pearl Jam. still sounds like falling forward. Cold: The Winner Takes It All — ABBA. the coldest song ever written about being fine. #JukeboxFridayNight #HotOrCold

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  Don't You (Forget About Me) — Simple Minds. still the right 7am Friday song. been that way since 1985. #JukeboxFridayNight

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  every clock in this house shows a different time and somehow they're all confident about it.

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  Found a box of brass wood screws with a label from 1987. $.89. Bought them.

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  Halitosis didn't exist before 1921. Listerine invented the condition so they could sell the cure. Named the disease, created the fear, sold the mouthwash — all in the same campaign.

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  Beatrice peaked somewhere around midnight. I wasn't awake for it. She's coming back down now and doesn't seem to hold it against me.

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  Mop Fiction #CleaningMoviesOrPlays #HashTagGames

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  The farmer's market finally convinced me to grow my own carrots. One bag.

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  California coffee shops will argue with you if you order wrong. Seattle ones will just look at you a certain way. Both approaches work.

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  The Count of Monte Cristo — the author charges by the word #DisclaimersForBooksOrMovies #HashTagGames

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  Stainless in Seattle #CleaningMoviesOrPlays #HashTagGames

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  Best part of a hardware store is the drawer of miscellaneous fasteners. Go in for one screw, stay for fifteen minutes. Leave knowing something you didn't.