August 11, 2026

• downtown for melvins show — toot

  

August 10, 2026

• Too bad. SMS is so much faster than their app. — toot

  

August 8, 2026

• Oh good we get em-dashes back from the received wisdom people. — toot

August 7, 2026

• I went from “No Man’s Sky is tedious,” to “Animal Crossing is cozy, tedious, also dystopian,” to Pokopia: “Minecraft + Animal Crossing + Pokemon, but a post-apocalyptic tale of ecological collapse.” You spend your days being nice to Pokemon, making things, and wondering where all the humans went. — toot

  

August 5, 2026

• New Sleep album next month. Based on the two early tracks, I’m on team “This Is Fine.” — toot
• When my boss is trying to wrap up a 1:1 and asks if there’s anything else, I’m going to do my HAL impersonation and say, “one decision is genuinely yours.” — toot

August 1, 2026

• Well, huzzah. Apparently the X-Pro3 just needed to sit with a fresh main battery for a day. It retained all its settings without a main battery overnight. — toot

July 31, 2026

• I decided to spring for the Swytch locking battery mount. A little snug with the foldylock, but it all fits and I don’t have to carry the battery around for grocery runs. — toot

  
• tech people are like “Well, we had a bamboo problem, so we introduced rats. Then we had a rat problem so we introduced snakes. Then we had a snake problem so we dropped poison-bearing mice from planes …” — toot

July 30, 2026

• As an old leftist I have plenty of time for “young leftists have figured out that getting & holding power requires more than language policing & demands to be kind.” With that has come an unapologetic smashmouth swagger. But also this is like living in the timeline where Twitter acquired Congress. — toot