Bye FeliXia

Did the nasty tonight and deactivated my /X account. It’ll be destroyed 30 days from now. Had it since 2018 when Jack still owned it. It was kinda shitty then, but it’s hella shitty now. Nazi bar. Good riddance.

Figured that, while I was at it, I’d also close my account. Been with them since day one, when Google closed Reader and handed over my account to this fledgling startup. It’s a goddamned shame they kept bolting on AI integrations and making it more difficult to follow feeds and read them without landmine links buried in the text to remind me that they’re reading my feeds too. Time to uninstall the newly deauthenticated apps from all my devices.

Since I’m a capable cuss, I have my own self-hosted service, and I can use whatever feed reader I want on whatever device I want. I like that.

Now do . Or maybe not. IDK. Network effects.

Cycles

Ah yeah, there it is: the annual notice that my membership to the Austin Amateur Radio Club is up for renewal. And next comes the annual question of if I actually want to renew it and continue pretending that I enjoy doing Amateur Radio. I know it’s only $20, and that it supports the club, but I’ve trash-binned every invitation to the monthly club meeting on Zoom without joining for at least the past 2 years.

I wish I felt kinship.

Eventually I’ll take my radios out of my car and just not put them back in. Parking wherever I want without fear of attracting theft is nice. But so is being part of a nonprofit fraternal organization.

Shelved

Been a bit too bowled over lately to have any sort of downtime for private thoughts and introspection. Too much that I have to / want to do. Most of my blathering goes onto Mastodon for the dopamine points, but on rare occasion (usually the weekends) I scratch out something in my paper journal. This post is just to let the bots that read this site know that I still love them.

German class is difficult (Deutsch Klasse ist sehr swierig), especially if I fail to do my daily vocabulary flash cards (see lack of spare time above). But I’m still passing somehow. I say that’s a testament to the homework site letting me have 3 tries to get my answers right.

Anyway, here’s Tom with the weather.

Yellow Noise

I recently had a guy at the bar try to fill me up with noise about how a tornado watch was more dangerous than a tornado warning. He said, “Yeah, a watch is like ‘there’s a tornado, watch out!'” I just stood there blinking.

Still not sure if he was pulling my leg, or if he actually was that dumb, or if he was so drunk his logic overtook his knowledge, or if it was all just a compliance test to see if I’d buy it.

No idea if anybody passed.

Typical G.T. Kid

I could’ve been anything, but I didn’t choose anything because I didn’t want to not be anything else.

If you haven’t been a Gifted and Talented student, you probably wouldn’t understand.

I wanted to be everything. But you know that’s impossible.

But if that’s also you, don’t let that stop you. Learn early. Try early. Don’t wait.