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The Citadel Cafe Ep. 496!
tinyurl.com/tcc496

Joel, and Stephen dedicate the entire episode to their review of James Gunn’s #Superman, then speculate on the future of the #LEGO Icon’s #Transformers lineup. | #SupermanMovie #Superman2025

So, last week I *finally* decided to try going 100% gluten-free. And I feel pretty amazing.

Having digestive issues almost my entire adult life, I’ve cut out so many different “trigger” foods over the years. But I had never fully cut gluten—I like bread too much. So, this is a little bittersweet. 🥲

My long-term desire for a long and healthy life is often thwarted by my short-term desires for doughnuts and pizza.

I was just putting Orin to bed and he said, “I don’t know how to use my life,” so now there’s three of us in the house like this.

I only caught a glimpse of Apple’s WWDC keynote today but from what I saw, the new unified OS looks are pretty darn slick. But oh, how I long for Apple Mail to just attach file to email messages, like every other sane email client on the planet. Seriously. What’s with the inline attachments?!?

The recent court documents showed that Google's internal testing demonstrated that significantly worse search results would not harm their business operations. This apparent immunity to quality concerns stems from the company's dominant market position, which the recent federal court ruling addressed. "Since Google doesn't have any real competition, it can make the best information hard to find, forcing users to stay on Google for longer and interact with more ads," Papadimitriou said. "This is dangerous for consumers, most of whom think the best results appear first." The strategy appears to be working from a business perspective. The study suggests that poor organic search results actually benefit Google's bottom line in two ways: they make paid advertisements more valuable to users seeking accurate information, and they force users to refine their searches multiple times, exposing them to more advertising in the process.

For everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.

And just like that, due to a faulty fire alarm system at the office, I’m working from home again. I’ve been told it might be anywhere from a few days to months. 😳

I have mixed feelings about it. It’ll be nice to be home but it took a while to get used to being back at the office. Now I prefer it.

Photo of Purdy’s Wharf office buildings, Halifax, NS, taken from the Woodside ferry.

It’s a bit cool out but still a top-of-the-ferry kinda morning. ☺️

The Citadel Cafe Ep. 491!
tinyurl.com/tcc491

Joel, and Stephen share their thoughts on #CaptainAmerica Bave New World, and the season premiere of #DaredevilBornAgain. Plus, Stephen is learning Korean, and Joel is digging fossilized #LEGO bricks. #Podcast

Ah, finally starting nine days of staycation. ☺️

Work has been busy, so I have been looking forward to this for a while.

The Citadel Cafe 487:
tinyurl.com/tcc487

Joel Duggan, and Stephen discuss Act II, and Act III, the final episodes of #Arcane. Joel has been playing around in the FICS*MAS holiday event in #Satisfactory, and Stephen has some handy, productive apps to share. #Podcast

Latest useless mental tangent: creating my own phonetic system for writing English. 🤦‍♂️ #likeimnotbusyenoughalready #ithinkitsactuallyprettygoodthough

Holy [insert favourite swear word here]. There is a special place in hell for men who urinate on public toilet seats and don’t wipe it off. Seriously.

The Citadel Cafe 486:
tinyurl.com/tcc486

Joel, and @stephenesc.bsky.social discuss the premiere episodes of #Arcane as the series returns to Netflix for its second, and final season. Plus, Stephen has a documentary reccomendation. #ArcaneSeason2

Finally decided to try teaching myself to touch-type in my 40’s. So far… painful AF. 😭 #colemak

Congratulations! 🥳

The Spawn Chunks Episode 300!!!
tinyurl.com/spawnchunks300

@JoelDuggan & @Pixlriffs celebrate 300 episodes of The Spawn Chunks with an extended, all listener Q&A – but first – Tricky Trials has a release date, ender pearls now portal, and #Minecraft is coming to Netflix. #Podcast

Stick Season by Noah Kahan on Apple Music Song · 2022 · Duration 3:02

Current earworms, courtesy of Noah Kahan:

“Stick Season”
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and

“Northern Attitude”
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WOW. WHO COULD HAVE FORSEEN THIS???

Marvel’s ‘The Fantastic Four’ Lands Its Cast: Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach The full cast for Marvel Studios' "Fantastic Four" has finally been announced.

Marvel’s ‘The Fantastic Four’ lands its cast: Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Hey, @elkhorn95.bsky.social ! 😃 Nice to finally see a familiar face here on BlueSky. ☺️

Do you cross-post here or have you started using it more exclusively?

The Citadel Cafe 473: Blue Eye Samurai | The Citadel Cafe Get more from The Citadel Cafe on Patreon

Once a month, I join my friend Joel Duggan, as a guest on his #podcast, “The Citadel Cafe.” In episodes 473, we chat about exploring decentralized social media, lowering your expectations for movie sequels, then gush over the new Netflix series, Blue Eye Samurai.

🎧 Listen here: tinyurl.com/tcc473

Lesson learned. 😎

This is both interesting to me and an excuse to test the “Quote” feature of BlueSky. I’m curious to see if the repost count stays attached to the original post or, since I’ve quoted it instead of reposting, does the count reset on my post ?

Interesting. I didn’t know that Frendica could interact with BlueSky. That’s good to know. Thanks! 😃

And yes, I know I could look it up, and I have. I’m just more curious to hear what active users of each platform think and what resources they may have read to choose one platform over the other.

Some posts I’ve read seem to be pretty passionate about the whole #Mastodon vs #BlueSky debate. But if BlueSky is also to be fully decentralized in the end, are there any real advantages to one platform over the other? If so, could someone point me to and article/post explaining it? Many thanks!

Space Typography xkcd.com/2863