@itstheraybear.bsky.social yes please

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Hey y'all. Appreciate everyone's kind words on the post, and I share your dismay too. I... I feel weird faving replies here, but I want to thank everyone who read and found something resonant, who shared the piece, drew connections, or shared their stories. ❤️

also angular machines like leg extension/curl should label their stacks in *torque*. Nobody knows how heavy "11 lbs" on a leg extension. Give us ft lb or N m figures we can take from machine to machine.

Tidal's sign-up process was a lot easier than Apple's. Library is smaller--I lost about a hundred songs in the playlist migration. Tidal-hifi (https://github.com/Mastermindzh/tidal-hifi), a third-party Linux client wrapping the web player, was straightforward to set up, and it does FLAC, plus […]

Been trying out other audio services this afternoon. Most of my friends are on Apple Music, and we trade links to songs often, so I wanted to be there too. Broad library, but it only does 256 kbps AAC on Linux, and there's no first-party client. I did pay for Cider, a cross-platform Electron […]

Things I learned from State Farm today:

- My 50 lb ebike can no longer be insured by a personal articles policy. It is now understood to be an automobile.

- Specifically, it's a *motorcycle* auto policy, because like bicycles are only ridden in summer (!?)

- If someone gets an ebike and […]

@pupatlas.bsky.social D'awww I love this photo of you two

I'm donating to Block Club Chicago and ICIRR this week, if anyone wants to join in.

@BlockClubCh is doing exceptional journalism and resisting ICE in the courts.

https://blockclubchicago.org/

ICIRR runs a hotline for immigrant and refugee assistance, sends observers to record abuses by […]

I try not to post political stuff too much, cuz we're all stressing the fuck out over it, and seeing too much of that in your feed can be a real drag. And because of the fractal nature of the Fascism Tire Fire, talking about any specific action raises the implicit question of "well what about […]

@iotapup.bsky.social I'm ready for the 2025 reboot of 1932 to be cancelled in its second season, thank you