"Haunted Church" by Rose Blossom Punch View original
Timeline
This is an active timeline of what I'm up to online. It encompasses the various places I post and should stay up to date.
November 2025
Some brief thoughts on why you should give LUX by RosalΓa a listen.
"No Halo" by Sorority Noise View original
someone shared Rosalia's Lux album on bsky today, about how good it is. It's not a genre i normally go to (Pitchfork describes it as avant garde classical pop) but I decided to give it a try driving around with my daughter and we were both
"you broke me first" by Tate McRae View original
A picture of Chicago from someone who loves it. Read this and be ready. oglink: https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago
Northern lights from NC. Not really visible with naked eye but a camera with 3s exposure really picked up those pinks. They arenβt at all visible in the southern sky. Really lovely color! #nature #northernlights https://some.pics/6914006c05f15
Robert shared about his music setup this weekend as well. It uses a combo of Roon and Qobuz and I appreciate his thoughts on not being a musical packrat! oglink: https://www.canneddragons.net/cleaning-out-my-closet/
November is fully here and fall is coming to a close. Here's some of what I found interesting in the last week!
I feel this. It's worse and or more complicated when friend equals family. Regardless this is an accurate summation of America right now. oglink: https://tadaima.bearblog.dev/life-as-an-average-american-right-now/
π§° Installed a eufy smart lock with only minor injuries. Feeling accomplished.
Gonna finally setup my home office to be more than just a surface for my laptop. Any cheap but quality monitor, keyboard, mouse suggestions? Work machine is a MacBook Pro and personal is an Air - would want compatibility with both if possible.
I've successfully got my wife, parents and one other important group chat moved to @delta . I call that a win!
I love music and how I engage with it is almost as important. This is how I've figured out to listen to the magic.
β Breaking a minute from the day job to vote. It was just local elections but they all matter. If youβve got elections in your locale, take a minute to go vote!
@cory looking at cadence for mac - does it access playlists that are on the server?
It's been a couple of weeks...but I'm back!
Setup my own delta.chat relay today! Was easier than expected. Moving family/friends to delta (or at least making the attempt). Let me know if you want to connect there!
The final product (while shredding and as simple tacos with a tomatillo guac and cilantro on corn tortilla)https://cdn.some.pics/mbjones/68fd901ef3fde.jpghttps://cdn.some.pics/mbjones/68fd8fad0daa2.jpg
Progress is being madeβ¦
Smoking a hatch green chili marinated pork butt for tacos for my birthday dinner later today.
Kids asked what I listened to as a kid and #fiveironfrenzy came to mind so I played some. βGet Your Riot Gearβ came on and dang that song from like 1998 hits now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=1ZoFdabP6KhHs1FT&v=WrDo2qM6yms&feature=youtu.be
It was a busy weekend! We spent Friday downtown because my daughter had a teen event at an indie bookstore so we hung around at a local coffee shop with our son. On Saturday we spent the afternoon at the No Kings protest doing what needed doing. On Sunday we
Appreciate a lot what Cory has done here. This is an unprecedented time that demands to be documented. Things like this help that that process immensely. oglink: https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/analyzing-the-domains-and-sites-of-an-authoritarian-regime
"We Will Rock You" by Queen View original
Out with my protest sign today. https://some.pics/68f404f9e1679
Great turn out in #winstonsalem today!
Heβs blown away by the response to this and is just $7 from his goal! Thatβs so wild and awesome! Thanks so much to those that have gotten popcorn! https://social.lol/@mbjones/115379437625561946
If anyone is needing fancy popcorn, my son is selling for scouts! You can order onlline here: https://ordering.campmasters.org/PopcornOrdering/Home/Index?UnitUserId=2791dcb7-5269-ee11-a859-000d3a3cfc9b and it helps his cub scouts troop!
"The Woodpile" by Frightened Rabbit View original
Is the USA a Christian nation? History tells us the answer and it's clearly no, no matter what a Christian nationalist tells you.
I love reading about peoples systems they develop for themselves. Ben's plaintext management system is great! Go give it a read! oglink: https://bentsai.org/posts/text-is-best
another day, another week. here in you'll find a life update, some links worth checking out and some interesting images from social media...
Stone Temple Pilots on the radio at lunch. Havenβt heard them in a looooong time.
"Over the Hills and Far Away" by Led Zeppelin View original
an addendum to my last post on firefighting...
October has come! Here is the first week notes of the month!
are you going to be a firefighter? an arsonist? or maybe a fire marshal???
@wq i'm so jealous of you at FF. lol. I really wanted to go to either it or Best Friends Forever fest but alas it wasn't in the cards this year. Hope it's a blast! I'm living vicariously through your pics!
Seriously considering this humble bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-heroes-in-halfshell-books Anyone have any thoughts/reviews of the TMNT comics??? Loved the series and movies when I was a kid
This week was good because my wife got not 1 but 2 job offers. On the same day. Within an hour of each other. They were both really good offers and the decision seemed to be just about as traumatic as the job search itself but she decided and starts
"747" by Kent View original
"Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen View original
Sometimes it feels like βLetβs Game It Outβ is in charge of the government and I look outside expecting to see a giant wooden plank bobbing around in the air.
Updated the body font on https://krrd.ing this evening to hopefully make it a bit more readable. Iβm not a design guy but I try.
For the second weekend in a row it was just me and the kids. Last weekend my wife had a book club retreat and this weekend she had a ladies sunday school retreat. For the second weekend in a row we had a crappy "Friday Night Dinner" experience.
shouldn't we all be against fascism?
π‘ Fav pizza place changed GF crust since we last visited. It was the best in town but they did away with it and replaced with a cauliflower crust thatβs horrendous. My kids wonβt even touch it. So frustrated.
βHow do I calm the anxiety Iβm feeling watching my country fall prey to the lies of fascism? I create.β This is part of the posture I want to have. https://www.threads.com/@matthewpaulturner/post/DOv-chdAOEI
Give to St. Judes if you are just going to do a donation but if you are planning to buy popcorn this month, consider getting it from my son to help with his scouting stuff here: https://ordering.campmasters.org/PopcornOrdering/Catalog
All of these privacy and security tips are useful! You might know some or all but try to incorporate any you don't know! oglink: https://blog.phunky.tech/2025/08/privacy-and-security-tips-for-the-average-person
Love reading detailed setups like this. John's detailing of what it takes to host a delta chat relay is great reading and is inspiring me to consider trying as well... oglink: https://runtimeterror.dev/self-hosted-chatmail-relay-for-delta-chat/#fn:2
breathe out - release the week. breathe in - prepare for the next one. it's weeknotes time!
a lament about an ugly day. sorry not sorry about ignoring capitalization rules today.
the most challenging part of migrating off of icloud? figuring out what to do with the photos. this is the culmination of what i've figured out for that...
It's kind of hard to believe August is over. It's also kind of hard to believe the week is already over. While we are at it, it's also hard to believe we live in a time where the US president is declaring war on
Remembering that time I turned a rubber band into a ninja turtle. Michelangelo I presume. https://some.pics/68bcdb1a4e2d6
I love this reflection on blogging. It's beautifully written and captures some of what it feels like to blog and maintain a "fortress". oglink: https://meadow.cafe/blog/a-fortress-called-blog/
some thoughts about a conversation overheard in a coffeeshop and an encouragement for church to embrace its call to expose empire for the sham that it is.
Love this missive from Nick about how he uses omg.lol! Check his out while I consider writing my own! oglink: https://www.nicksimson.com/posts/2025-how-i-omglol.html
As today closes, August closes. That's hard to believe as it's been a busy month. This week was no different from the others. My wife had 3 second interviews and 1 first interview this week which is great. Our daughter broke her first bracket in her
After 6 months with Immich I'm giving self-hosting ente a try. After a day I can say the mobile experience is **a lot** better and the backup experience is easier too. It's interesting that they push so much off on to the apps though rather than
Some musings on community that came from starting a re-read of Torture and Eucharist by William Cavanaugh.
This YT feels like necessary watching. It's not easy & the frank discussions of genocide could be triggering (take it slow or don't watch if so). It's important for understanding the current situation though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwpanShgOp4
"Crush" by Indigo De Souza View original
When I started the omglol interview series on my blog I wondered what Iβd do if someone I interviewed left the omglol community and decided on βnot much of anythingβ because the people in the community are open, welcoming, inclusive and sincerely worth knowing. Some links might go stale
"Untitled 1/2" by The Appleseed Cast View original
"Middlename" by MxPx View original
Once again, it's been a week!
"Fall Semester" by The Get Up Kids View original
"Unfinished" by Mineral View original
Last week's reflections about Bob Sutton's bookΒ The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't reminded m... oglink: https://experimentaltheology.blogspot.com/2025/07/it-should-not-be-so-among-you.html
How did Jillian Michaels become a CNN-certified slavery scholar? The answer is in Joe Scarborough's text messages. oglink: https://www.contrabandcamp.com/p/the-great-un-blackening-how-trump?r=1sqa3e&triedRedirect=true
"Fun's Over" by Drug Church View original
I thought I'd detail my process of self hosting ghost, in case it'd help anyone. It's required quite a bit of tinkering to get fully setup (but half of that is probably self-inflicted).
"Round Here (1994/Live At ElysΓ©e Montmartre, Paris)" by Counting Crows View original
one more that likely won't ever get any sort of studio release: Post Malone doing smells like Teen Spirit with former Nirvana members: https://youtu.be/pB7Cmayu56g?si=-L5dA4-HOlVRpFSXcc: @cory you might appreciate this one too
Because @cory reminded me of it, I'll share this epic Sufjan song that I've never seen released anywhere. It's called Majesty Snowbird and it's 10 minutes of glorious instrumentation and vocals.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGiat_6BFI0
Here's another to chill with this evening. Round Here by Counting Crows performed in Paris in '94 with extra verses and lyrics. Just stunningly beautiful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eZrfzybFTs
Revisiting some thoughts on power and privilege and how we can navigate it all.
"More Than a Feeling" by Boston View original
It's been a week...
When making friends as an adult is basically a group project with no deadline. oglink: https://notes.jeddacp.com/on-making-friends-as-an-adult/
"Don't Stop Believin' (2024 Remaster)" by Journey View original
I realize that my wife is probably the only person that will care about this but I've officially added a "Subscribe" button on my site. It'll get you long-form posts & Weekly Roundups in your email. https://krrd.ing/
I'm a tinkerer. That's not ever going to change. I see something interesting to try and my eyes light up and I say, "oooohh.." A week or two ago Ghost 6 came out and I thought, "oooohh..."
Starting to worry things might get very bad, very soon oglink: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/im-worried-it-might-get-bad
"Forward Motion" by Relient K View original
Got Ghost 6 mostly setup and I migrated my 11ty site to it. Sorry to those following in feeds but you might need to update again. Links conveniently on the homepage. Because of the Ghost 6 activitypub integration Iβm trying to decided how to post links here still. And
Web dev at the end of the world, from HveragerΓ°i, Iceland oglink: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/followup-on-trusting-your-own-judgement/
oglink: https://www.jack.bio/blog/wafflehouse Bit of a sticky situation.
oglink: https://blog.basementcommunity.com/preserve-unsaved-changes-on-bearblog/ Is this you: "OH FUCK!!! I just accidentally closed my browser and I forgot to save my Bearblog post. All that progress is lost!!!" First of all, stop...
Link: https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/i-made-a-music-app I've been using [Navidrome](https://www.navidrome.org) to stream music for a bit now. It's lightweight, snappy, stable and does everything I need. It lets me stream my own music, mark things as favorites and [track my
Link: https://neatnik.net/remembering-anne-sturdivant/?v=1 Anne Sturdivant, who was known online as Apple Annie or @anniegreens, has passed away.
"American Teenager" by Ethel Cain View original
"Saturn" by Sleeping At Last View original
"90s Kids" by Jax View original
"It's All Gonna Break" by Broken Social Scene View original
"Some Alone Time" by No Spirit View original
"Come Heroine" by TouchΓ© AmorΓ© View original