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Has anyone made the comparison between Bo Gritz and Tim Ballard before? Wanna be action heroes, far-right grifters, Mormon and then not Mormon?

The far right's bullshitting heroes: Before there was Trump, there was Bo Gritz

Bo Gritz died quietly and mostly forgotten last week. But the legacy of his deeply fascist action-hero ethos--especially the militia movement he led, which eventually morphed into MAGA--not only lives on, but now dominates our world.

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A replacement nib from Monteverde/JoWo is ~$24-30. A new Ritma is ~$40-$50. Their MP1 is ~$52-60.

New finer nib, or new pen with finer nib ... I'm not really breaking the bank.

My daily writer is a Lamy with a fine nib. The new pen is a Monteverde Innova with a JoWo medium nib. I'd heard when I bought the Lamy that their nibs write wider, so I thought a medium nib from JoWo would be about the same, maybe a little wider. I was wrong. It is wider than I was expecting.

*spits*

😂

I think the fountain pen math works out to buy the pen, right?

Now the question is whether to go fine or extra fine on the new nib.

Or ... hear me out ... do I buy 2 new pens. One with a fine nib, and one with an extra fine nib ... 🤔

I could buy just the nib and spend less money, but then I'd have a nib not on a writing instrument. It's not a bad nib, I just want something finer for my daily use.

Or, for a little bit more I could buy a new pen with finer nib and have different nibs on pens that I can use for different things!

I need someone to check my math.

I bought a new fountain pen with a medium nib. I like the pen, but the nib creates a line that is too thick for what I was wanting from this pen.

They sell replacement nibs. The cost is about half the cost of a different new pen with an interchangeable nib.

a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands together . Alt: Leonardo DiCaprio is wearing a suit and clapping. It’s a clip from The Wolf of Wall Street.

Well done 👍

At any rate, I replied, added the shipper to the To: line, moved the HR person to the CC: line, and asked the shipper if they could pass the tracking number along to me so I could watch out for the package.

You're not getting out of this email string that easily.

They responded to tell me another coworker shipped it and that I could follow up with them for the shipping info.

That's a little strange, right? Why wouldn't they just add that person to the email string and ask them to pass the info along to me? Why make me ask again?

Another day, another strange email interaction with coworkers.

HR was supposed to have sent me a package to my home a couple weeks ago. It never arrived. I asked about it and they said they'd check the tracking and ship me another. I asked for the new tracking info so I could watch out for it.

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Today's U.S. jobs report is out. I made this chart showing total jobs added/lost (non-farm) going back to 2024, and separated out the federal jobs added/lost to highlight the impact of DOGE.

DIEP flap reconstruction is what my wife had too!

Just a reminder that my DMs are here whenever you're ready and want to reach out.

A partial rainbow against an overcast sky above a stand of evergreen trees bathed in that wonderful golden hour sunlight that was able to make it through a break in the clouds.

1 year clock starts over as of yesterday afternoon when I spotted this beauty ...

Remember when the church would print "Teachings of the Presidents of the Church" books and you'd study one president for the year in EQ or RS?

A collection of 52 discourses of Eliza R. Snow ... 52 weeks in a year ... 🤔

The Rise of Mormon Extremism: A LIVE Discussion with Benjamin Park and Leah Sottile YouTube video by Benjamin Park, Historian

Here's the YouTube link. We'll be going live at 9pm ET, 7pm MT. www.youtube.com/live/pzWyl2q...

Folks: a reminder that tonight I'm hosting a LIVE discussion with @leahsottile.bsky.social. We'll dig into the varieties of Mormon extremism in the recent decades--you know, all the groups that have been the focus of so many HULU, HBO, and Netflix documentaries. It should be fun. (In a morbid way.)

all torpedos and submarines get transformed back into sandwiches. rockets? all made of arugula now. MOAB = Mayonnaise Optional Amazing Bread.

my first book (2020) was about online neonazis and my second book (2024) was about christian theocrats. they gained strength, voltronned and became a government. my third book (2027) is going to be a history of notable sandwiches so i hope this means we will be governed by sandwichocracy

I call on Elon to prove reading his algorithmic feed on X is safe.

I call on Meta to prove that wearing their cameras on eyewear is safe.

I call on RFK Jr. to prove that working out in denim jeans is safe.

(see how this can work?)

I'm old enough to have a copy of Preach My Gospel peppered with "investigator" terminology throughout. I haven't checked exhaustively, but I think they've completely scrubbed it out of the current version.

This is the precautionary principle in action folks. It can be weaponized against anything you don't like. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precaut...

The Rise of Mormon Extremism: A LIVE Discussion with Benjamin Park and Leah Sottile YouTube video by Benjamin Park, Historian

I’ll be doing my first-ever livestream on YouTube tomorrow March 4 at 7 pm MT with @benjaminepark.bsky.social , author of American Zion. We’ll be talking all about extremism in church history, Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell, the Bundys, etc. Join us!
www.youtube.com/live/pzWyl2q...

Hey this is tonight!

The particular email that prompted this was one where I asked for confirmation of something. Does the thumbs up mean "confirmed," or "thanks for asking, I'll look into it and get back to you," or "that's a good question, someone else is looking into that," or ...?

If the response can be simply "thanks" I would rather just not get a response at all if that's all that is warranted.

Dear Microsoft. Please remove reactions from Outlook. A thumbs up on an email gives me nothing I need from the person I sent the email to. They should know better, yes ... but also, they shouldn't have the option. Stop enabling them.

Thank you.

Amen.

(Better than any of the testimonies I heard yesterday ... sounds more delicious too)