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🎾 Just got done with my first attempt to teach my kids racquetball!

We've been using an iOS app called Stuff to help manage simple family stuff asynchronously. Here's my thoughts about it!

Wrote my personal review of 2025 here: https://krrd.ing/2025-in-review/Enjoyed revisiting the good parts of the year. There were more than I thought as it’s hard not to see past the dumpster fire.

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a look back at 2025

Some (spoilery) thoughts on Stranger Things, now that the story is told.

Listening to Djo on the way to the theater to watch the Stranger Things finale. Can’t wait to see how the ride ends!

I was bad about weeknotes this month so instead...I have a month notes!

Love to read year in review posts! This is a great inspiration - I'll see if I can get mine done before 2026. oglink: https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/2025-in-review

Yordi is so right - "Let's all try to go out of our bubble a little more. There's a whole world to discover outside its boundaries." There's so much good music out there! oglink: https://yordi.me/outside-the-bubble/

Tornado warning in Indiana over Christmas week was not on my bingo card but here we are.

@FediTree will try again!

To those that celebrate - Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays!! To those that don’t, I hope your weeks are great too!

@feditree happy holidays!

Here, I try to verbalize where I've been in regards to personal knowledge management and the tool I've settled on for the next season going forward.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115720918933458152There isn’t any space a “well meaning” white dude won’t try to colonize. Jason shares below the playbook. Speaking as a white dude, we should be quick to listen without defensiveness. Active decolonization makes the world a richer space. If what we hear

my albums of 2025 - the big list!

RE: https://social.lol/@mbjones/115698612923333567Special thanks to @cory, @jcrabapple, @endonend and @jasonm who have all inspired listens on this list! Follow them if you don't already and want good leads on music, life and anything else!

My favorite songs of 2025

RE: https://social.lol/@humdrum/115698151986933102glad to help!! even more glad it's self hosted :D

@hiro that omega swatch is a dream! #want!

This post has been a work in progress for several weeks. 🤦 December is almost here. The last couple of weeks have been very busy. Two weeks ago, we headed to the Carolina Renaissance Fair and had a blast as a family. As a family we love dressing up and going

"Reliquia" by ROSALÍA View original

👾 Stranger Things day!

I just realized the gallery is weirdly off center in this but that's gonna have to be a tomorrow problem.

I saw Chris Staples and Verity Den tonite and it was a ton of fun!

The open showcase band Verity Den was quite nice! Looking forward to Chris now.

Getting ready to see Chris Staples live on his album release tour! Love live music!

"Haunted Church" by Rose Blossom Punch View original

Some brief thoughts on why you should give LUX by Rosalía 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 aren’t 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/

🧰 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.

✅ Breaking a minute from the day job to vote. It was just local elections but they all matter. If you’ve 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 made…

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. “Get Your Riot Gear” 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!

He’s blown away by the response to this and is just $7 from his goal! That’s 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. Haven’t 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 “Let’s Game It Out” 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. I’m 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?

😡 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 that’s horrendous. My kids won’t even touch it. So frustrated.

“How do I calm the anxiety I’m feeling watching my country fall prey to the lies of fascism? I create.” 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 I’d do if someone I interviewed left the omglol community and decided on “not much of anything” 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 book  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