Dion

also bought hard copies incase of any future megacorp censorship

we just rewatched and it holds up

What’s crazy to me is I remember helping paint that banner and it feels like not that long ago while also feeling like 3 lifetimes ago.

Hands Reaching Up From Hell, Wat Rong Khun Temple, by Chalermchai Kositpipat, 1997

On a related note, the shop is coming together nicely and it’s an understatement for me to say this is a dream come true.

the group of death for the upcoming world cup will just be all the individuals who die mysteriously in ICE custody.

its definitely a lot of planning and even more printing. pretty wild how long it takes actually.

Marvel's Red Skull

i always knew you were a big nerd.

red skull fan over here

A top-down view of a neatly organized tool drawer inside a black US General tool chest. The drawer is outfitted with a black Gridfinity-style grid base, holding modular bins that sort various tools. On the left side are screwdrivers arranged by size and color. In the center are precision drivers, bit sets, and a digital caliper in labeled compartments. On the right side are metric wrenches organized from largest to smallest, along with hex and Torx key sets in small Gridfinity bins. Labels reading “SCREWDRIVERS” and “WRENCHES” are placed along the drawer’s bottom edge.

3d printing good.

A trophy winning celebration.

If you know, you know.

Power cream

Moo

Internet worked overtime to make Edmond Fitzgerald super annoying. And they succeeded. Congrats everyone who took an awesome folk song and legend and made it incredibly unbearable. Internet remains undefeated.

Can’t wait to talk to local dem organizers about this, because I know the response is gonna be “see we need to move more to center” like they haven’t been paying attention at all.

oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter

Turbo fuck

I’m so glad we kept America great

i didnt ask for this society

Getting an (incorrect) $1100 tariff bill from UPS and dealing with their import brokage to correct this so my items get released has FULLY JOKERIZED me.

I mean it was also very bad but taking a moment to appreciate the good is required for my own mental stability

Moonflower finally bloomed in our garden

Large mouth bass caught in the neighborhood pond with my new ultralight rod

Got access to the highest point in Petoskey and went up to see the view on the wonderful little traverse bay.

Ultralight sunrise fishing on quarton lake

August was good.

I don’t really think that’s fair to say. It goes well beyond romanticizing.. you’re talking tens of thousands man hoursof free sweat blood and tears equity that dozens of people have put into the club for next to nothing. People are well invested into the club beyond emotionally romanticizing it.

It is a cultural problem within the front office, and it is one that has been ever present as we relentlessly pursued growth into the USL. I think the large investments made into the club in the last 6 to 12 months, have also greatly impacted the culture of the club and its FO.

Agree there are challenges with scaling. My issue isn’t even with the growth or this challenges with scaling, but it seems that the club just keeps making the same mistakes over and over again with regards to how it treats it staff and it doesn’t matter who they are and that is not due to scaling.

I can’t keep supporting them like I would a community club. A community club wouldn’t do that. This is not what we envisioned when we put in all that equity. I understand businesses have different needs as they grow, but you can’t stray from your principles in pursuit of growth. Tough times ahead.

I wouldn’t support a restaurant or grocery store that does this. I wouldn’t be the customer of a service business that overworks and under pays their employees. The club supports good causes but the way it operates behind closed doors is really disappointing.

So no more special treatment. I try to support companies that have values and principles they stick to. And the repeat history of overworking their staff, of really bad exits…(past owners, past players (many club legends), coach stuff and front office people)...

They got special treatment for a long time from myself and many others because they still tried to include others in the process and they were a “community club”. But it’s become increasingly clear they don’t give a shit what supporters think. They are gonna do whatever benefits them.

Personally, and I think a lot of people are increasingly feeling this way, If they are gonna go full business I’m gonna treat them like the business they want to be. I don’t support small businesses that treat their employees like they have.

No one asked for my opinion or take on the current status of DCFC, but I’ve been sitting here quietly watching everything play out. The club has changed, no surprise, this is what happens with growth. And I don’t begrudge that, but it has become more and more the thing we never wanted it to be.