Shawn McBurnie
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Shawn McBurnie
@shawnmcb.bsky.social
Musician, software engineer, social justice nerd; he/him.

brb updating pronouns
May 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
@naomikritzer.bsky.social the dice I just got strangely resemble those. I'm going to chalk it up to Feral Serendipity.
January 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Thank you once again for your work here! I did some digging myself. Nothing to correct and nothing to add, other than the obvious "you are far better at this than I am."

It's refreshing to expect to be happy with the outcome regardless of who wins.
January 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Void where prohibited?
January 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I like long-form blogging a great deal. (I read fast and have very little interest in being pithed.)
January 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Where can I purchase free time? Not only an awesome gift, but I have to sell too much of my own...
December 23, 2024 at 4:13 PM
I never knew you were a Sconnie
December 13, 2024 at 2:43 AM
My own wallpaper aesthetic is best described as "goth Morris"

I don't foresee it becoming any cheerier in the next few years, and that's OK.
November 18, 2024 at 5:21 PM
"most"

I have it on the best authority that I can identify that star formation peaked around 10 billion years ago and it's all been downhill since then

it's going to be quiet and dark eventually - however: our migraines will likely have passed by then
November 18, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Reposted by Shawn McBurnie
so here is the thing, the people who have trump the win did not vote for this. they voted out of a magical belief that trump would lower prices and make them rich. the gap between what they voted for and what trump will deliver is the space for political opportunity! bsky.app/profile/fkes...
This is what the country voted for. Sad.
November 18, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Valid. I would just like not to be living in the midst of all three at once.
November 16, 2024 at 6:40 AM
Now Paul is a real estate novelist
Who never had leisure to marry
And he's talkin' with Davy, who's still in the Navy;
For the rest of his life he will tarry...
November 16, 2024 at 6:14 AM
Having off-gridded in two different environments (Maine and Tennessee) I can't second the neighbors part hard enough. We as a species spent a ton of points on cooperation and mutualism. Ignore that and you're asking for a bad time.
November 9, 2023 at 8:07 PM
I was going to offer a protip but it's really more a "did this, hope I never have occasion to again" tip: a sturdy stick, if available, can be used to either nudge (and annoy) or, more productively, pull a snapper out of the roadway once it has latched on.
November 9, 2023 at 7:59 PM