Ian Campbell
@iwcampbell.bsky.social
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Keweenaw born and raised; Michigan alum x 2; historian of the Russian Empire at UC Davis. Happiest in the kitchen or on a trail. Personal account; opinions my own.

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They do, in fact, yearn for the mines. And the fields, when mines are unavailable.

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catfishing.net
#475 - 6/10
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What can you do? Great game, great series, in baseball shit happens

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One thing is that I believed in Flaherty that whole inning and was not texting congrats to my Ms fan buddy after the first AB

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Playoff hockey is like a firing squad. Playoff baseball is like lethal injection but they can’t get the dosage right

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Postseason baseball only not the most stressful experience in sports because postseason hockey exists

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I also wish they’d kept Skub in for another batter or two. Unless he was saying he was totally gassed…

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He can coach baseball too! There are layers to this!

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(I did coconut milk instead of heavy cream. It’s good!)

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Every so often I try to follow this account because she’s occasionally funny and discover that no, it’s impossible

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Between this and our tendency to immediately regress to the mean after scoring > 5 runs, it’s hard to feel optimistic

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(Pork chops, balsamic apple hash, roasted potatoes, a side salad, and one of the midgrade Trader Joe’s wines: the bottle that says “I’m more into you than 2 Buck Chuck would indicate but I also make $14000 a year.”)

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I cooked a recipe from Men’s Health on an early date with a lady when I was in grad school. I didn’t do any better than ok and I’m not sure what kind of vibe it set?

But the intent was there and it was from the heart. I made it again the evening I proposed.
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The one I actually find the most depressing is where it cuts to what is clearly a young couple on a first date cooking dinner in their apartment and the camera zooms out to show a prompt of something like “what’s a good first date recipe that doesn’t show I’m too invested” and chatgpt outlines it
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There's this ad where the guy asks AI what he should make for his sunday BBQ, and tbh it really depressed me. Make what sounds good to you? What you're craving? It feels like fully abandoning your personhood to have a computer assign you something like that. You're alive, live in your body and mind.

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Providing Skubal with the run support he is accustomed to I guess

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Yikes.

But yeah the other thing that is happening now is that previous owner apparently decided that all the stuff you need for a dishwasher -- air trap or high loop, separate GFCI outlet -- is woke nonsense. We learned this when getting delivery of a new dishwasher.

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@lizzieozzie.bsky.social he glued some of the wiring associated with the HVAC system. GLUED.

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I think he hoped that I would learn by watching him, and I very much did not. Or what I learned was that it's worth paying professionals if you're not prepared to put in some serious time.

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Watching my dad -- genuinely a very skilled amateur, and very serious about planning and codes -- do this growing up may have given me a false impression of the standard most do-it-yourselfers work to.

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Yeah that's two fixes this month, now, made more complicated by the fact that the previous owner tried to do some things himself that he absolutely should not have. Makes you wonder what other surprises may be lurking!
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Home ownership means among other things a constant low-level rage against the previous owner of the house
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[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!

Our statement:
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I envision an oatmeal bar as something like a froyo place: choose your own toppings and pay by weight

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Two concepts for celebrity-themed oatmeal bars: Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Gruel Intentions; Rick Astley’s You Know the Gruels and So Do I

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Home ownership means among other things a constant low-level rage against the previous owner of the house

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one of the worst insults i've ever seen on twitter was an egirl threatening to have sex with a rival's father and "give him a child he'll actually love"

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catfishing.net
#473 - 6/10
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Wife’s weekly demand that I return from trivia “with [my] shield or on it” starting to feel pretty literal