Our neighborhood typewriter repairman retired, and the New York Times put it on the front page of the web site! www.nytimes.com/card/2025… @ihnatko@twit.social

But what about her emails?

I haven’t listened to any Shins records newer than “Wincing the Night Away” (2007). A newer song came on, and I could tell immediately it was them, but it has a distinct Morrissey (the Smiths) vibe which I hadn’t heard from them before. www.youtube.com/watch

I love that Gruber is sharing his Mac automation hacking, AND I love that he’s promoting MarsEdit and Keyboard Maestro as he does. daringfireball.net/2025/03/k…

Just published Black Ink 2.4.1 for Mac, featuring a fix for the Web Puzzle Chooser and several other fixes. redsweater.com/blog/4197…

I swam all last summer in our local, beautiful, Mystic Lake. As summer ended, I tested my curiosity about cold-water swimming by continuing the habit into fall. I wound up swimming all season, including the bleakest winter days, and now it’s getting warmer. 40F water feels easy compared to 35F!

Some of America’s previously beloved Democratic representatives don’t realize that, by voting for Trump’s despicable budget, they’re doomed to be disdained forever.

In front of my kids, I burst into a random, unexpected Hip-hop inspired rap about a boring situation they were discussing. Instead of covering their eyes and fretting their “lame dad”, the older boy said “I’m glad that music degree isn’t going to waste.”

I am glad that the list of yellow-bellied representatives who votes YES for Donald Trump’s, and the GOP’s wet dream budget, did not include my reps, Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey. www.newsweek.com/full-list…

Imagine this guy at your child’s funeral. It’s not as preposterous as you think. He’s pushing policies that will result in the death of Americans here and abroad.

If you got yourself on Trump’s “good side” today, you failed.

I only became a Democrat after Trump was elected the first time. Before that, I had always registered as a Green and/or Independent. Chuck Schumer’s decision to side with Trump makes me unwilling to align any longer with this party.

The better sign of intelligence is not the ability to answer hard questions, but the willingness to answer simple questions.

If you read any history of fascist or similar regimes, a recurring theme is “good people” don’t realize they’re supporting a systematic purveyor of evil. At this point all “good people” in the United States need to ask themselves if they’re actually on the right side.

I was advising somebody today about email services, and I remembered how I switched to Sendy several years ago. Unlike MailChimp or Campaign Monitor or SendGrid, Sendy leverages whatever service you want, for example Amazon SES, and can be MUCH cheaper. sendy.co (affiliate link)

“With Democrats’ help” should never open another news headline again.

If voting NO against the GOP’s budget were “giving Trump exactly what he wants,” then Republicans would be voting NO.

I only became a Democrat after Donald Trump was elected the first time. I had been independent/green my whole life, but decided it was time to focus on resistance. I’ll leave the party if Schumer and “his” Democrats support the deplorable House resolution. He’s squandering our only bit of leverage.

Another one unearthed by @Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu … my vanity won’t let me resist. I found the shirt at an SF thrift store. It says “VIVA STO. NINO”, which I came to understand means “Viva Santo Niño” or “Let Live the Holy Child” or “Dude, Holy Child, Amirite!?” Anyway I loved that shirt.

20 Years. The hat hasn’t aged a bit.

Wow, who knew @Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu was the definitive archivist of my hotness?!? mastodon.social/@Eggfreck…

Tom Brand dug up this photo of me as part of another quip.

My response: This is from my “Complete Unknown Surfer” phase. What if Bob Dylan moved to California instead of NYC?

First rule of aging: you will always look back at pictures of yourself from 10 years ago and think that you were hot.

Any elected Senator or Representative who believes this is a time for pragmatism, a time to “play by the rules”, is dreadfully unaware that the walls of democracy are crushing in before them.

Defy Schumer. Call/email/form your Senator now. Do not let this weak-ass leader succumb to Trump/Musk.