Chris Ptacek

I am sort of looking for less commercialization in my own social media, so I don't want to contribute to that on anyone else's, really. Happy to talk shop/coffee/coffee shop. :)

It feels like a logical progression, to me.

Anyone else see a radical addition of ai accounts filtering into your meta? It’s all “fake harmless” posts, like “congrats on a 60th anniversary” before and after fake pics, and then a bunch of pro Leon and hard right wing nonsense.

What a damn shame. I have to archive anything of worth and bail.

Dialing in this morning. A little happy place (even though this shot is channeling a bit much)

YouTube video by voidzilla embracing the void

the pastor that gave the benediction at Trump's inaugural was flogging his own memecoin scam minutes later lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnY3...

Okay. I’m gonna make an attempt at populating my bsky, to hopefully get what I used to get elsewhere without operating on ZuckMusk nonsense. If you have any account recommendations for news, comedy, insight, or anything, I’ll appreciate them immediately.

Also, ugh. Blech.

I am not preaching sour grapes, but I just can’t believe that half(ish) of the country is truly just fine with Orange. I wrap my head around it and then it unravels. Sure, there are trolls and weirdo… but IRL is not an echo chamber. People are not like this. People don’t accept this behavior.

We need a different button than a heart for indicating agreement, liking a post. But fully agree.

Hard to find / trust meaning in polls these days, for some inexplicable reason.

There is no way I can believe that 59% approve.

I bunkered enough of it a few years ago, I probably have 3 years worth before I run out. :)

Coffee oatmeal stout

Neighbor brewery knocked it out of the park with this beer. Oatmeal stout with cacao and vanilla, and a nice Chiapas coffee that we took to like a light medium modern espresso roast for it. I don’t imbibe as often as I used to, but I’ll make exceptions. Prost!

Many coffee seeds.

Trying to train the algorithm to only play me the music that the too-cool-for-school woulda listened to in 1985. I roast better coffee while applying a different demographic’s angst music.

Let’s get tacos on Saturday. Opposition tacos.

This is the best cat. If you can’t see him because vision is hard, let me know and I will give to him skritches in your name, so he knows how much you respect him.

18 batch coffee roast day. That’s not so many hours but it’s a lot of concentration and a lot of “I could manage this green coffee dust better” thinking. So here’s Eddie, the distinguished individual I had to ditch when I went to work.

Coffee mug, guitar picks, guitar. Coffee mug is what’s important, friend-o!

Took that Costa Rica natural home to try on a home drip machine. It’s really good, but not weird enough yet. I’ll make it weirder. BTW, favorite mug. From Sunergos Coffee. Made by Sunset Hill. They refuse to make this design anymore. We’d buy hundreds. Oh well.

I forgot to do the alt text. Coffee, slice of yummy carrot cake. Should be scratch and sniff. :)

I planned to basically do a Chicago “carrot cake crawl” for my birthday, and it fell apart. My baker buddy came through for me big time. :)

IS IT, THOUGH?

Pyrex beakers on scales, making pourover coffee

QA on a natural process Sarchimor from Costa Rica. We’ve had Aguilera Brothers naturals on and off for 8 years now. And every time I get a new coffee, it’s literally back to the drawing board. I think this one wants to be bright, and have little wisps of strawberry and watermelon.

Hello World.