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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

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

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

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

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
I’ve always loved Fujifilm cameras as objects, partly because they have a sense of solidity and durability that reminds me of pre-90s cameras. I kept the X-Pro and two of my Fujicrons when I sold off my Fujifilm gear because I knew I’d want to take it out now and then just for the pleasure of shooting with a Fujifilm body and lens.

Probably not the most rational response in the world, but it bums me out that an eight-year-old camera that is othewise so durably built and so capable of making enduring images has that cheapening shortcut inside.

I found a local shop that does microsoldering, and I’m hoping they can provide a less expensive out. I’m surprised to have this feeling about that option that’s akin to how I’d feel if I had to replace a busted window crank in a vintage Mercedes with a drop-shipped 3D-printed part. Like, yeah it’ll work … I’ll just know it’s in there.— toot

The trick
It's a real source of strength for me to remember what it felt like to wake up in an Army barracks on the first day of Basic knowing I had a four-year desert to cross. I hadn't yet seen _Lawrence of Arabia_, so I eventually discovered "not minding that it hurts" all on my own.

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