At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I find knowing I’ll revisit my posts to be a positive and mellowing influence on my social media activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media.
▰ The house stereo in this cafe is playing one cover song after another, and it’s a bit like being transported to an alternate reality where different people wrote and performed all these songs. That said, I like our reality better. Or liked — perhaps I’m stuck here forever.
▰ Pro tip: something is likely wrong with either your headphones or software if the speech-to-text tool you’re using keeps transcribing everything you’re saying as “[gunshots] [gunshots] [gunshots]”
▰ “Your experience order number is …”
▰ A very good evening, April 23 (Andrew Pekler, Jan Jelinek), also featuring Chris Otchy as the opener:
▰ Dunno if this Apple case I got on eBay for my aging iPhone 13 is legit but it’s more legit than the previous iPhone case I got on eBay
▰ Hyper-local* post: the macapuno ice cream at Polly Ann in the Sunset District is extraordinary, entirely distracting me from the chocolate with which it shared a small cup
*San Francisco
▰ I’d like to play more video games, but I end up reading novels. I’d like to listen to more podcasts, but I end up listening to audiobooks.
