Dave

Politics has been destroying my sanity, work has been outrageously stressful, and now I'm sick with who knows what. No shock I guess that I'd have a weakened immune system but man, I really didn't need another thing dragging me down.

Squarbles coloured versions

This reminds me of a toy I had when I was a kid- "Squarebles" square marbles. boardgamegeek.com/image/974435...

Ahh another person out there with a 360 cam! Great stuff man! Those three Harlem hills can really wear you down but looks like you stayed positive :)

How did it go?

YouTube video by djlemma 2025 NYRR Fred Lebow Half Marathon

Ran the #fredlebowhalf last weekend, wore a #GoPro, shot a time warp video, took the footage and put some captions and chill music under it, and this is the result- youtu.be/X4DfU1KhnJ8?...

Well yeah but now you have me second guessing my taste, I know I’ve suggested that book to people before so there may be some folks out there thinking ‘damn, @djlemma.bsky.social has no idea what makes a good book’ 🤪 it’s really fun being insecure, lemme tell ya.

It’s been a long time but man, I really remember enjoying Snow Crash. Maybe my standards are low? Maybe I need to re-read it?

I liked Diamond Age too.

Hopefully maybe some of that purging can start in two years….

Well the new message definitely goes to the bootlicking side of the scale. Sigh.

Do you read it as bootlicking or as an ultimatum? It seemed like the original goal was to force TikTok to sell to one of those companies that donated a million dollars to the inauguration fund, but now the pressure is on Trump to backpedal and just let TikTok continue as before with no sale

Hell yeah. I don’t even know what’s out these days but there’s always something

From what I hear you may also want to delete off Messenger as well. I hear from unreliable sources that it's the worst for vacuuming up all your data, but even if that's not true it's probably worth deleting off your phone.

Worried about AI taking over all your favorite media and not being able to know that humans are behind the art you enjoy?

Perhaps it's time to go see some live theater!

Feeling particularly empty right now, but hey, at least I have an extremely long work day planned that I probably wont get home from until 2am!

I will try to have a more positive attitude… next week. For now I am gonna be a lil salty.

Of course the very obvious downside is I don’t know many people on here :(

Interesting thing about Bluesky vs certain other platforms- I don’t get tons and tons of suggested friends all the time, since Bluesky doesn’t own all the social media platforms.. and also I don’t think it asks people to share their phone contacts. Kinda refreshing in a way

Maybe it's worth starting with some Cosplay Photography to help the algorithms along? This is from a couple years ago at NYCC when I put in extra effort and toted a lighting rig along with me on the subway into the con. It meant not much exploring the floor that day, but I got some good photos!

Haven’t really started using Bluesky yet- I suppose I don’t NEED social media but I used to enjoy some of those sites that have now become ensittified cesspools. So, like… Bluesky, fill my feed with stuff about running, photography, cosplay, art, music, I need all the fun&creativity I can get