Saw M83 live recently. They put on one of the best performances I’ve ever seen

Carnivorous plants. They are always being eaten by something. Glad a few of them fought back.

Fuck yes!

You find a particular part of nature you enjoy photographing? I’m a botany nerd myself so I love to photograph macro flowers. But I’ve got some friends into birding too, much more difficult.

I have an awful lot of Pact clothes that are really comfortable.

From Turtle Island.

Wastewater - Separating liquids, solids, and gases for responsible re-use.

Botany - Learning about the natural world and how it relates to everything you know and love (i.e. without plants there would be no humans, chocolate is yummy, grasses feed the world, etc).

I have two obscure knowledge bases; botany and wastewater treatment. I can and have taught both to children.

Nobody expects a Spanish instance!

Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex

Listening to that right now, coincidentally.

I’ve found a nice home with Mint Debian edition. It has the right balance between stable and current that I prefer.

I’m kind of curious, I’ve tried Seeds over and over, but it’s unlistenable to me. Especially compared again Dear Science or Desperate. What is it you like about that album? I really want to like it because it’s probably the last of what we’ll get from them. Got any tips on appreciating it?

Jellyfin does.

Either Tool - Sober

Or

DJ Shadow - Nobody Speak

Wanted to fully experience life!

Grew up gaming. Stopped gaming for twenty years. Now I game again. I’ve had a great time. Climbed mountains. Traveled. All manner of relationships. Built a nice career. Now I find I can enjoy games without that, I’m wasting my life feeling.

All humans “waste” time. It’s odd to say reading is better than games. Or movies are better than TV. They’re all just mediums to convey stories. And really, there aren’t many original stories, just the same ones told over and over in different ways.

At least with games, you are actively participating rather than passively consuming. And yes I do read lots of complicated books, and watch fine cinema, and great television.

But I also garden, birding, botany, camp, etc.

The deluxe remaster game of the year edition really fixed most of the original flaws with LMS. It’s truly masterclass now.

All of these recommendations are great. I’m always pleased to see so many cinemaphiles. I like lists, and have found many of my favorites from them.

Ebert’s Great Movies List is perfect.

The Criterion Closet Picks, see the greats talk about the greats.

The Janus Collection has a lifetime of stuff.

I can confirm and I do use this feature of jellyfin. It works great. The reader is unusable. I use Librera for reading. It’s great, free, and open source.

So my flow is biblio, mam, library Genesis, Anna’s. Then to jellyfin folder that it reads automatically. Then I can download that to any device connected to the jellyfin server. Local is easy, abroad through tailscale.

Holy shit that’s commitment.

I took a long break from gaming (~15 years). Then when I came back too it I found all these great games that had came and went. So I started parsing through many of the most critically acclaimed games. I hit Arkane, and Dishonored was so incredible (and I got Prey with them in a flash steam sale for a few bucks), I thought I’d give it a try.

I will say it’s probably one of the best games I’ve played in my most recent gaming phase. It is a super solid sci-fi horror where you can engage. I do not like run and hide games, so this one fulfilled my criteria. The story is also classic sci-fi greatness.

It’s also one of the few games I’ve got an itch to play again.