Aviator Coffee. ☕️
Congress needs to reclaim its rightful role in declaring war. We all know this and yet somehow we’ve let one man control far too much. 🇺🇸
Airport train in Atlanta. Here for the weekend!
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• Joe Crawford
Triple feature
Triple feature of the day— Weather Underground (2002) One Battle After Another (2025) Running on Empty (1988) Previously: Running On Empty, Movies Owned Which Can Predictably Induce Crying
Podcast: Why men hate the Dems. I tell my perspective of MeToo, and how that imho created enough anti-Dem energy to push Trump over the top. Polls won't tell you how the Dems got the rep of being the party run by women to cancel men, but I'm sure if we could cure that somehow, we could do everything we need to do to get American democracy working again. I did this in response to a Frum podcast where he and his guest conclude that the young folks are making a big mistake, they don't want the same old bullshit people coming back into power. Frum and Miller thought that the young men don't want was democracy, foolishly (I would agree) but there is real anger there, I know about it because I have it too. I still vote for Dems, but I also fear what happens if we snap back to the political correctness of Kirsten Gillibrand.
2022: "And while we were effectively silenced in the public debate, men do vote and that's a private thing."
Another point -- I don't think any of us realize what an un-democratic US will be like. When the things that make us furious these days are just the normal way of the USA. I got that from listening to a New Yorker podcast yesterday about the Iranian perspective of what's happ...
If you want to heal the country, watch out for ways you add division, and stop. It's probably the biggest power any of us has.
BTW, I know Al Franken is an idiot. We're all idiots.
Traveling this weekend, going to send details about the RSS beta in the morning. If you signed up on this form, note that I didn’t consider asking for a Micro.blog username… Make sure you use the email address registered on Micro.blog or you won’t be able to access it.
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• Joe Crawford
starfish piling solidarity
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• Joe Crawford
Email: Amazon Wishlist purchases MAY expose your address
I’ve had an Amazon wishlist linked from my website for years. Many years. I had a few folks who I helped out with website help or other kinds of technical help buy me stuff from my Amazon Wishlist. It’s been a while, but up until today it’s been linked from my site for decades. Part...
This Week in the IndieWeb
February 20-27, 2026
Recent Events
From events.indieweb.org/archive:
1RG's Side Project Social
Thursday, February 26 at 6:00pm
TORONTO, Ontario: 1RG
Homebrew Website Club - Eastern
Wednesday, February 25 at 6:00pm
Online! Zoom!
Front End Study Hall #047
Tuesday, F...
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• Chris Aldrich
The Deluxe Steelcase Field Notes Notebooks Archive
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Last day of early voting in Texas. Looking at my sample ballot and got super confused for a minute reading the propositions… A few of them are strange, then realized I was accidentally looking at the Republican side. 🤪
Why men hate Democrats and more Boomer blowback
As before I asked Claude.ai to do a synopsis. I corrected one factual error (informing it, waiting for a new version, not correcting the writing). And I think it may have missed the big points of both, but I will respect its opinion. As always if you really want to know what...
I’ve been critical of Instagram forever, and stopped posting on principle 9 years ago, but still it’s good to see Meta’s new work on alerting parents to a teen’s search about self-harm. The way Meta is handling this seems reasonable. Might’ve saved lives if it was in place years ago.
When I write a comment on someone else's blog I want it to automatically be on my blog. It should just appear to be on theirs, the original and only copy of the writing appears on mine. A truly distributed system.
I bet Jeopardy champions would make great software developers. Their intelligence, ability to stay calm and their incredible memory, all are needed to squeeze the last bits of performance from software.