Phil
@tangero.bsky.social
He/Him | Regionrat by birth, Naptowner by circumstance, soon to flee to the Northeast
Just be good to each other
Just be good to each other
It's frightening how quickly you feel a difference when you remove social media from your phone. I've opted to not engage with Insta at all, while bsky and facebook (with news feed blocker, so just groups) are still on desktop for me. Tying the internet to a place makes it less omnipresent
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
It's frightening how quickly you feel a difference when you remove social media from your phone. I've opted to not engage with Insta at all, while bsky and facebook (with news feed blocker, so just groups) are still on desktop for me. Tying the internet to a place makes it less omnipresent
Why does every shonen have to have a friggin exam arc
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Why does every shonen have to have a friggin exam arc
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tech companies continually learning people don't want these things
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
tech companies continually learning people don't want these things
Another day, another package that was a day away from being delivered by UPS that got left on a truck and ended up in Michigan, somehow
November 21, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Another day, another package that was a day away from being delivered by UPS that got left on a truck and ended up in Michigan, somehow
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it's weird to live in a world where a new 'worst thing you've ever imagined' happens at least a few times a month and it's easy to let it all run together and just sort of wash over you and go totally numb to all of it so you don't freak out because you still have to do laundry and go to work.
November 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
it's weird to live in a world where a new 'worst thing you've ever imagined' happens at least a few times a month and it's easy to let it all run together and just sort of wash over you and go totally numb to all of it so you don't freak out because you still have to do laundry and go to work.
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"no opinion" is in fact an opinion, and usually a dogshit one, especially when it comes to "our country is gonna bomb another one to do regime change"
November 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"no opinion" is in fact an opinion, and usually a dogshit one, especially when it comes to "our country is gonna bomb another one to do regime change"
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The way these two stories are casually listed in one sentence is a perfect encapsulation of just how little Americans are paying attention
November 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The way these two stories are casually listed in one sentence is a perfect encapsulation of just how little Americans are paying attention
The one thing that lockdown actually took from me was my local symphony was supposed to do the live soundtrack to Star Wars 7 like two months after it all started. Hearing the brass live as the X wings skim the lake on Takodana would have been worth the cost of admission
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The one thing that lockdown actually took from me was my local symphony was supposed to do the live soundtrack to Star Wars 7 like two months after it all started. Hearing the brass live as the X wings skim the lake on Takodana would have been worth the cost of admission
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Stop using AI
Stop supporting people who do.
Stop supporting people who do.
November 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Stop using AI
Stop supporting people who do.
Stop supporting people who do.
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Fwiw my wife works with a nonprofit that serves lower-income families in the Boston area and the amount of gratuitous and destructive cruelty now being dealt to the folks she works with is totally insane.
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Fwiw my wife works with a nonprofit that serves lower-income families in the Boston area and the amount of gratuitous and destructive cruelty now being dealt to the folks she works with is totally insane.
*looking at new game*
"PvE"
Oh cool!
"...vP"
Welp, never playing that and it'll be dead in a year
"PvE"
Oh cool!
"...vP"
Welp, never playing that and it'll be dead in a year
November 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
*looking at new game*
"PvE"
Oh cool!
"...vP"
Welp, never playing that and it'll be dead in a year
"PvE"
Oh cool!
"...vP"
Welp, never playing that and it'll be dead in a year
Driving across the country teaches you things
Like that, in spite of having all sorts of taxes for infrastructure including one of the highest gas taxes in the US, Indiana might well have the worst roads east of the Mississippi
Where is the money going
Like that, in spite of having all sorts of taxes for infrastructure including one of the highest gas taxes in the US, Indiana might well have the worst roads east of the Mississippi
Where is the money going
October 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Driving across the country teaches you things
Like that, in spite of having all sorts of taxes for infrastructure including one of the highest gas taxes in the US, Indiana might well have the worst roads east of the Mississippi
Where is the money going
Like that, in spite of having all sorts of taxes for infrastructure including one of the highest gas taxes in the US, Indiana might well have the worst roads east of the Mississippi
Where is the money going
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Mike Pondsmith and Hideo Kojima basically predicted the entire last twenty years.
Would like to not live in that timeline, but oh well!
Would like to not live in that timeline, but oh well!
September 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Mike Pondsmith and Hideo Kojima basically predicted the entire last twenty years.
Would like to not live in that timeline, but oh well!
Would like to not live in that timeline, but oh well!
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Paul Cezanne
The Bend in the road
1905
oil, canvas
The Bend in the road
1905
oil, canvas
September 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Paul Cezanne
The Bend in the road
1905
oil, canvas
The Bend in the road
1905
oil, canvas
This isn't speaking from a place of PC elitism but, genuinely, what is the value proposition of current generation consoles anymore? $7-800 plus 100/year to play online is just asinine
Like, you can get a pretty solid PC for that kind of $, and that lets you use GOG and Steam. I just don't get it
Like, you can get a pretty solid PC for that kind of $, and that lets you use GOG and Steam. I just don't get it
September 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This isn't speaking from a place of PC elitism but, genuinely, what is the value proposition of current generation consoles anymore? $7-800 plus 100/year to play online is just asinine
Like, you can get a pretty solid PC for that kind of $, and that lets you use GOG and Steam. I just don't get it
Like, you can get a pretty solid PC for that kind of $, and that lets you use GOG and Steam. I just don't get it
Comments on a video I saw recently show there's a surprising paranoia from a nonzero number people about oily rags spontaneously combusting
While it's good that people are cautious, only certain oils (like linseed) polymerize exothermically which can cause ignition, not just the presence of oil
While it's good that people are cautious, only certain oils (like linseed) polymerize exothermically which can cause ignition, not just the presence of oil
September 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Comments on a video I saw recently show there's a surprising paranoia from a nonzero number people about oily rags spontaneously combusting
While it's good that people are cautious, only certain oils (like linseed) polymerize exothermically which can cause ignition, not just the presence of oil
While it's good that people are cautious, only certain oils (like linseed) polymerize exothermically which can cause ignition, not just the presence of oil
As someone for whom coffee was a load bearing portion of their daily routine, it really chaps me that switching to tea and generally reducing my caffeine dependency has genuinely improved how I feel and especially how I sleep and now I wouldn't have it any other way
September 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
As someone for whom coffee was a load bearing portion of their daily routine, it really chaps me that switching to tea and generally reducing my caffeine dependency has genuinely improved how I feel and especially how I sleep and now I wouldn't have it any other way
YouTube shorts has chosen to remind me how darn good of an episode the Heroes two-parter was in Stargate. Show had a lot of range and could pull off some great emotion when it wanted to
August 26, 2025 at 2:52 AM
YouTube shorts has chosen to remind me how darn good of an episode the Heroes two-parter was in Stargate. Show had a lot of range and could pull off some great emotion when it wanted to
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“I voted to blow up the sun. Now I am pale and pasty, and it’s not fair.”
The audacity of this woman is breathtaking.
Like, we're supposed to feel sorry for *her* and how her life is being impacted, yet she's a "Proud Conservative" who voted for this.
What did she think was going to happen?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
Like, we're supposed to feel sorry for *her* and how her life is being impacted, yet she's a "Proud Conservative" who voted for this.
What did she think was going to happen?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
Opinion | I’m a Conservative. My Disabled Son Needs Medicaid to Live.
www.nytimes.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“I voted to blow up the sun. Now I am pale and pasty, and it’s not fair.”
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Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
August 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
It still blows my mind that the radio host I heard every morning in my dad's car was Steve Downes, who just casually moonlit as the Master Chief in Halo. 97.1 is such a special station in Chicago, really world class in terms of programming
August 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
It still blows my mind that the radio host I heard every morning in my dad's car was Steve Downes, who just casually moonlit as the Master Chief in Halo. 97.1 is such a special station in Chicago, really world class in terms of programming
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I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.
Getting older is realizing the original herb Ricolas are the superior lozenge and it's not even close
August 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Getting older is realizing the original herb Ricolas are the superior lozenge and it's not even close
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