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How does BlueSky feel about LibGen? 🤔

I do want to start using BlueSky more but I really have such niche interests that I don’t know where to start.

I don’t really know how to use social media. I kinda just talk into the void and hope that whoever reads it is even remotely interested.

I really love this!

Semester 2 of college starts in 2 days. 🥴

I used to use Arch, by the way.

I ended up choosing Fedora as my Linux distribution.

I’m happy I did so.

I haven’t used GNOME since 2008/9 and it’s smooth as butter.

The hardest thing to replicate has been foobar2000. Fooyin comes close, but DeaDBeeF is the only one I could stick with.

Tauon was pretty but buggy.

Never thought I’d be an emacs guy

I’ve been in college as a 37 year old man and it’s… different. I haven’t been in school since I was 14.

The ads on Duolingo that say “get super to learn faster”

My thoughts: most of the time I spend waiting on this app is for the ads after literally every two minute lesson.

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There’s something ironic about a website called disconnect.blog being offline and disconnected and offline lol

I’m a foster kid. I don’t have actual family aside from my kids. So I make an effort to show them as close to a family as I can build.

I need to start jumping on these phony trends. Get a water based cookbook self-published by tomorrow. Hit tiktok running

It’s soup and they’re calling it something else. Why are we broken as a society?

I love riling people up with opinions

I wonder if it works now

Just finished Jay Rubin’s translation of End of the World & Hard Boilrd Wonderland by Haruki Murakami 4/5

Such a lonely and tired ride. I don’t know if it’s the point in my life that I’m at or if we’re all this tired, but I connected with the protagonist(s?) just on his (their?) exhaustion alone

Kingdom Come 2 is an amazing game but my best game purchase of 2025 so far has been Victoria 3

I swear, these modern games are so unfocused that they all feel the same

Europa Universalis 5 announcement more exciting to me than GTA 6

I spent my whole adulthood wishing I could be the adult who genuinely gets upset about anime but I can’t bring myself to do it

In other news, I finally got a copy of Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves and it is such an intimidating book

I saw somebody got an early copy of @lordgrimdark.bsky.social’s The Devils at a bookstore and I’m so very jealous

I just checked out Fable and StoryGraph and it was the same thing. Goodreads isn’t better than those two apps, but at least it feeds me books I’ll actually read.

One of the downsides of a lot of the book / reading apps is that they’re mostly aimed towards a female demographic.

If the algorithm is working, why am I being fed romance incessantly?

My current read is Haruki Murakami. I’m more likely to read about the shape of a woman’s ears than a man’s abs.

Everything is fanfic when you really boil it down

How did I only now just learn that the infinity symbol is just math for “infinite number of solutions” or “0 = 0”?

My brain always likened it to a number or something like that.

I’m studying for my high school degree as an adult, and I’ll just say this about math: linear equations and systems of equations is the sudoku of math. It’s like getting brain scritches.