The opening words from every review of pizza and bagels in my town.

Is Harvard really the only university so far to resist?

One more reason to get into roasting your own. Green coffee beans keep for up to a year.

Democrats who keep talking about "working across the aisle" seem to have forgotten that the republican party abandoned that idea back in 2007 with the rise of the tea party. They have played obstructionist politics ever since.

Seriously. I think it only took me 5 minutes and I hadn’t even had coffee yet.

My bingo card of grift is sure getting full fast!

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I still hold Google responsible for kneecapping RSS.

I totally forgot about the MX aggregator!

I’ve been using Feedly since the death of Google Reader.

Not that I'm a big fan of Meta, but their Llama LLM is also open source.

I'm still a die hard RSS consumer (no thank to you Google Reader), and thankfully there are still a good number of blogs and news sites out there publishing their feeds. It's everything you want social media to be - completely algorithm and ad free and the exact opposite of today's walled gardens.

I look forward to the yearly Merry Mixmas album drop from DJ Riko. He's not on Bluesky yet, but you can check out the album on his website: djriko.com or YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyZ7...

You Belong Here: Let Me Count the Ways
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Here in #SantaBarbara County we are abundant in people and places that offer up that sense of belonging.

Despite all the marketing I receive from Amazon, I somehow managed to miss this:

Thanks for that!

I love that my feed is full of things I want to see again.

Slowly making my way back to the light 😁

It was one of your posts that finally got me over here!

I'm happy to see a lot of familiar faces over here so far. I didn't bother asking friends for an invite before things opened up, so I realize I'm a little late to the party.

Hello world!