Akron has all the basics. But I drive to Cleveland / Columbus / Pittsburgh for events.

I realize the point people are trying to make, but living in a blue city in a red state we get a lot of what we don’t want forced on us. The thousands of people at pride last week and Porchrokr the week before are how I see Akron. (pics not mine)

This definitely puts the the stuff Vance was saying about Ohio cities recently into context

And I missed it! I need to follow The Nightlite better

What perfect album came out when you were 16?

But we can't be free, till we learn to laugh at ourselves. Once you look in the mirror and see just how foolish we can be. Laughter is inevitable. And from laughter comes wisdom.

Reality check.

Americans are upset at house Democrats and want you replaced with activists

They were like $30 and work just fine

Mine Brother printer came with a low capacity toner cartridge. I found a two pack of full capacity knock off replacements on amazon, and I’m still on the first one two years later.

Depends on if you’re going to start advertising for your Only Fans.

Hah, maybe it’s because I’m old now and the weather here makes me want to stay inside

I follow a feed of anything mentioning Cleveland. I moved to Akron from Arizona, and driving 20 minutes to do anything seemed normal there, going more than a couple miles from my house seems like a trip here.

Holy crap there’s a word for the messed up string of friendships that I got overly intense about in my 20s?

That’s how it worked on early Twitter. And it feels more like a community conversation to me that way. Seeing the cool people those who you follow interact with just helps to find more people to follow.

They just went to unstaffed QR code parking at the public market in Cleveland, but the new AI ordering in drive throughs is worse. I said one word wrong on an item that a person would’ve just picked up on, and when the robot told me they don’t have that I just said good bye and left.

Is the urban rural divide here more extreme like everything else has been lately? I’ve only been in Akron for a couple of years.

My job had sodagate when we put in an open access fountain. People abused it so bad they had to limit it to one fill with a meal and lock it when the cafeteria wasn’t staffed. One guy would show up with a gallon jug to take home with him. It was basically subsidized diabetes.

I’m very close to being that nerd. There’s enough friction and inconvenience that both Linux and mastodon are good ideas I haven’t bothered with in a while.