John Sullivan @johns@librem.one

"Whatever you do, always
give 100%. Unless you're donating blood." --Bill Murray #quote

how long until we say "email, it's like ActivityPub"

I've learned a lot over the last 9 months about how running a small retail business truly is a constant battle against grifters, many of them large and institutional. Today's skirmish -- the bank's new "cash deposit processing fee", assessed because I GAVE THEM TOO MUCH MONEY.

"The Detroit Electric car company withered until it finally went out of business in 1939"

Don't worry, your login wasn't exposed, just your SSN (and we'll wait till almost the end of the page to tell you that). To make up for it, here's some free credit monitoring, maybe. https://www.getevolved.com/about/news/cybersecurity-incident -- better evolve a little more.

#Apple rejects MS-DOS emulator from the App Store? https://lifehacker.com/tech/apple-rejects-pc-emulators-from-app-store Seems like a long time to hold a grudge?

In my household, among other roles, I am definitely Senior Vice President of Avocado Operations. What are your titles?

This happened recently in my store:

Me: Nice to meet you, My name is John.

Customer1: Nice to meet you too, my name is Janet. And what's your name?

Customer2: I'm Gary.

Siri: HI, MY NAME IS SIRI.

"I would like to get in touch with you.
Please advise if I am contacting the right person."

"Spinoza didn't have a fridge / Joan of Arc didn't have a fridge / and me and Greg don't have a fridge" --Anselm Berrigan, "The position of the planets on the human forehead" #poetry

In case thou were't wondering how the paper wrap on the bottom of an Impossible burger fries up, the answer is beautifully golden brown.

Any good #poetry podcasts out there? Where people discuss poetry. Less interested in people reading poems in entirety.

Just lost another hour of my life to leading zeroes in spreadsheet cells, combined with the find and replace interface in #LibreOffice Calc that I just can't seem to wrap my head around. I still don't know why Calc was mysteriously inserting a space in front of every '0, or what I did to convince it to stop.

You can have it done slowly, poorly, or with attitude. Choose 3.

Finished The Rupture Tense by Jenny Xie. Starting Zero Star Hotel by Anselm Berrigan, which I think I probably absorbed some of when it came out in 2002 given proximity to him then, but record keeping is sketchy. #poetry