I follow some really cool people on Bluesky and Mastodon — people whose opinions I greatly respect. But I find that, like every social media platform, so much of what's posted (especially by good people) is about Things I Should Be Angry About. It starts to wear me down. 😢

And then there's #mississippi with a state senator who has a very different view of #contraception: www.wlbt.com/2025/01/22/m...

"[T]he bill would make it 'unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo'."

Good thing times have changed — we've made such progress in the last 100 years. Imagine reading about people getting measles, chicken pox, mumps, diphtheria, or whooping cough today. #vaccines

Oh, wait.

(sigh) It didn't take long for BlueSky to become yet another place for people to tell me what I should be outraged about. 😢

Not sure what's sadder: Living someplace where jars of peanuts have to be labeled "Contains Peanuts," or living someplace where people would be angry if they weren't.

Neato: I was ripping a bunch of old 78 RPM when I came across a song called "Look for the Silver Lining" by Irene Audry & Sam Ash. It's the basis for "Look for the Union Label" — the song of the Int'l Ladies Garment Workers Union!
MP3 here: fllw.me/3Pi1x3G
#oldies #78RPM #IreneAudry #SamAsh #ILGWU

Small things that have made an unexpected and outsized difference in my quality of life:
Instant hot water thingy for the kitchen (coffee, cocoa, oatmeal...). A #bidet (came in handy during early Covid).
A high-end #mechanicalkeyboard and comfy mouse. Good pens to write with.
Yours?

All right, I'm going to say it. I don't understand the over-the-top enthusiasm for the Lamy 2000 #fountainpen. I mean, it's a fine pen, but it certainly not exceptional. It doesn't write as well as my Pilot Metropolitan, for example, nor some other of my pens. Someone explain the love to me!

So I thought, "How hard can it be to add scent to my fountain pen ink?" The answer is that it's super-easy. Barely an inconvenience.

I put a teeny drop of Dawn into a 1-oz bottle of water-based ink — Noodler's in my case — then added 5 drops of essential oil. It works perfectly! #fountainpens

Inbox zero, baby! (No cheating — everything's deleted or filed. W00t!)

If I said that Donald Trump was going to appoint Joe Rogan to head the FCC, we both know you would hesitate before concluding I was joking.

Every #bunny that's adopted or sold should come with a free soldering kit.

Apparently #costco had to recall 80,000 lb of butter because it wasn't labeled "Contains milk".

@verizonwireless.bsky.social 5G isn't all that I hoped for.

#warner2024

Really disappointed with #royalcaribbean — it's 2024 and it still allows smoking on cruise ships. Venting the casino into the promenade is a Bad Idea. #cruising #bermuda #secondhandsmoke

If I was the #Kodak Corporation, I would be pushing film and film cameras as the solution to the issue of fake / #deepfake photos. Just sayin'.