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My downstairs neighbor made getting back into playing the cello his 2024 resolution and it's so nice on this first 2025 Sunday afternoon to hear him practicing. He's gotten so good!

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: burning arrows, sharks on cocaine, whatever they distill, stultifying disappointment, cheap willow ware, sultry summer

US politics 

Feel like the culprit might have worked backwards from the image of a cyber truck on fire outside a Trump hotel

On this day in 1983, the ARPANET network officially switched to using the TCP/IP protocol, effectively creating the Internet.

"January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet. Prior to this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other."

https://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit07/internet07_02.phtml

#internet #technology #history #OnThisDay #OTD

In 2025 I'm going to just start calling ~all this~ World War III, it's time

ripcorp.biz/episodes/2024-corp just under the wire please enjoy the annual 2024 Year In Corporate Deaths episode with Tim Hwang

my 2024 highlights 

- some of my friends had babies
- I worked with some artists to bully an art nonprofit into giving away a total of $60K to Palestinian artists and organizers
- the movie I Saw The TV Glow
- saw @kissane and fam IRL for the first time in 5 years
- Luigi Mangione happening

Menustration complaint posting 

Perhaps this exhaustion is a result of massive blood loss, she realized after several hours of massive blood loss

youtu.be/jnyyuxPBPeg?si=do8uDa blown away that this was 13 years ago but as the year comes to a close and rousing anthems are needed here is one of my favorite performances of The Mountain Goats' "This Year", with guest vocals from Craig Finn. I was in the audience at this show, it was great.

It's a little weird to have a parent haunt you via current events

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my mom said that the radio (NPR I think?) coverage of Carter's death included a clip of my dad reporting on the Camp David Accords which was kind of a weird jolt while driving but neat

It takes a lot for me to post anything about AI. This really must be stopped:

"the [Biden] White House is drafting a plan to open up public lands for the construction of #AI #DataCenters along with power plants to fuel them. Environmental regulations would reportedly be eased to facilitate faster construction, and the power plants would be fueled by fossil gas"
https://truthout.org/articles/gas-exports-and-ai-boom-poised-to-spike-energy-prices-for-consumers-under-trump/

#Energy #FossilFuel #LNG

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: incomprehension, most sensual aunt, clarifying, regarding, nothing glamorous, so embarrassing, man-o’-war, avenue of research, proper amount

I know it's too soon to adopt another dog but I also have definitely been repeatedly checking an NYC rescue's social media for updates on a dog whose countenance reminds me a lot of Kitty

astrology nonsense 

aw man, i was doing my annual adding of mercury retrogrades to my 2025 calendar and one starts on my birthday

I think this joke format is already very dead but: Richard Kind Lookalike Contest

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This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.