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#3GoodThings 4.8.2026

• One more sleep to Adventure and my bags are packed and waiting by the door!
• Carry-on bag arrived on time this afternoon and is everything I needed.
• Except the backpack slide buckle was sewn on wrong and the strap doesn't tighten. It was too late to return it, so I sewed it in place. I reported the issue and LL Bean still refunded me the full price without a return.

My mother. The unintentional comedy genius.

@joewynne@mindly.social @dillyd@turtleisland.social I think he was talking about changing instances but I haven't heard anything since before our trip. Has anyone checked #Pixelfed?

@dingodog19@sfba.social @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social Looks like between June 26-July 2

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social Thank you AGAIN for your service. :earth_americas:

@helveticablanc@merveilles.town This is gorgeous work!

@lydiaschoch FEDI FIELD TRIPS!!

@bethroots@mindly.social Gorgeous!

@dillyd@turtleisland.social Funny thing. I've been thinking about @RiversideBryan@pixelfed.social @riversidebryan@firefish.lgbt all day long today.

@jkirkendall@wandering.shop I found a new card! THANKS

@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social I sincerely hope this motion passes.

@futurebird Whoa. That's cool.

@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social Currently reading: Everybody wants to rule the world by Django Wexler. Favorite books? I give every new parent a copy of The monster at the end of this book. I still have my Narnia books. Piers Anthony's On a pale horse and Sarai Walker's Dietland rearranged my thinking in ways I never expected.

@NunavutBirder@mas.to I have no idea who he is, who else he played for or even what sport it is, but the idea of rejoining your fave team so you can retire from there is absolutely awe inspiring!! This is #HappyNow in action!

@WataruTenkawa_1 Being deeply in love with hobie has led to all the other things on the list. ❤️🦄❤️ #40YearsMarried

@vees I only got called once because I absolutely believe in jury duty. hobie was getting summoned every 6 weeks for a couple of years. He hated the idea and couldn't do it anyway because of his travel job. During jury selection, I was asked if I knew the defendant. I answered, "I do not. But I took a real estate class with the woman beside him." I was selected for the civil case involving real estate. And the jury hated me but finally agreed with me. And the judge was pleasantly surprised by the jury's decision.

@scribblanitea@cupoftea.social Ouch. Sending love and light

@djtoebeans I feel ya.

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange Yep. I spent hours researching sewing machines and all the quick links were attached to Amazon. When I made my choice, I carefully wrote the model down and went to the manufacturer's website to order. Came from Amazon. Showed up on my credit card as an Amazon purchase.

This song is just such a glorious mood. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=83bKhqp_7Sk&si=kFyrXpx75CS5Cdh7 #tunetuesday #rentfreetracks

@AngelaPreston@toot.cat I could live there.

@Lizette603_23@mastodon.social It is super fun to say.

@Axomamma@mastodon.online @grammargirl@zirk.us Oh! Thank you both for explaining!

@Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social If it says, "I'll wait/I'm here", you should send it. ❤️

@BeautifulSunPhotography@sfba.social Well planned. Too many don't allow room for the grief.

@benlockwood@ecoevo.social cluesbysam.com

@popcornreel@mas.to I can't even formulate a response.... 😡😡😡

@andrewt@mathstodon.xyz @emilymbender@dair-community.social @MicroSFF@mastodon.art Too true!

@ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us @Azuaron@cyberpunk.lol @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io I will never, ever forgive Hollywood for the movie, Pay It Forward.

And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it. When Trump is gone, they will still be here. Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous. That morning is coming. Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say. He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true. He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad.

@emaytch@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social This is not a thing I have ever considered before but what a brilliant use of search!! #AhaMoment

@dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud Love, love, love this!

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io Yep. When I was 13 or 14, a woman followed me into the bathroom screaming about how my parents needed to whup my a$$ for holding hands with a black boy at a skating rink. It was scary but unimportant. The thing that freaked me out is that when I told my dad and my friend's father what had happened, suddenly her dad remembered some event that meant she couldn't stay over. He had come to the rink with her overnight bag. I was never invited to their house again.

Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him. Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart. JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn. These men are something more painful than monsters. They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again. Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing. Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less. That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him.

@GuerillaOntologist@social.coop @afewbugs@social.coop LOL. I was pretty much going to say the same thing. If a conference can find a sponsor to offer ANY form of healthcare for attendees, I would be way more excited to attend. Heck, can you imagine if they were offering Cologuard kits?!?

@NCConnect@fedigroups.social If you're using I-95 between Wilson & Rocky Mount - be aware the Highway Patrol is stacked up 6 deep in some of their hidey holes. They have big plans today!

@afewbugs@social.coop @PatternChaser@mas.to I consider myself a Quaker but as a member of a very small group, I have not gone through the discernment process.

@peemee@aus.social Take my money!!! And now I wait 2 months for delivery #TotallyWorthIt

@Professor_Stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place Weirdly, as a GenXer growing up with the daily fear of nuclear war, living so close to the BIG TARGETS made things easier. We might see a bright flash but more likely we wouldn't even know it happened. BONUS! - We wouldn't have to live in the Mad Max times.

@PaulDitz@todon.eu Positives are Super Positive!

@miffyhelen@beige.party @Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social @Irenetherogue@beige.party hobie and I dated for 2 years. I broke up with him so often it was ridiculous. He would take me home and make sure I got in the door and drive away. The next day when he got off work, he would call and ask what time he should pick me up. The first couple times, I would remind him that we broke up and that I was horrid. He would say, "OK.... .... See you at 6?" Sometimes, I wouldn't talk. Sometimes, we'd sit in the car and stare at the ocean. And sometimes we'd "make up". And he always showed up the next day.

@lindenshieldarts@mastodon.social Lovely. So freaking talented!

@joewynne@mindly.social That's a new one for me.

@StaceyCornelius@zeroes.ca Yeah, I gave up on that one.

@Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social Definitely not fair. But still... hurrah for her!

@RiaResists@mastodon.social I try as hard as I can to #boycottamazon but I put that flag up in 2020 along with my pride flag and the US flag (higher). I have found a local replacement for the pride flag but can't find the other. I wound up buying 2 from the bad place when they were on discount. Fingers crossed I can get them local next time.

@StaceyCornelius@zeroes.ca You are definitely going to have to chat with support.

@danstafford@mastodon.social It was very Next Gen to me and it grew on me just as Next Gen did. I'm really hoping that we at least get to see S2 since it's already been filmed. Definitely signed the petition.