Jesse

https://mastodon.social/@misc

Microblogging like it's 2009

Location: Cambridge, MA
Pronouns: ~ he/him

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2026-02-10 01:22:45 UTC

I think I need to get better at tooting my own horn

2026-02-03 12:08:05 UTC

Wow I was just minding my business and this popped up
Hell of a way to promise "no ads"
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/006/616/110/599/191/original/19da6318c62a0b6c.jpeg

2026-01-03 14:59:12 UTC

Boston
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/831/757/314/894/028/original/7f2740b1b42bc423.jpg

2025-12-28 01:56:59 UTC

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also there is this
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/794/707/664/776/441/original/8c80bef8db6e1f83.jpeg

2025-12-28 01:54:57 UTC

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1. My partner is a librarian yes
2. all librarians are hot, obviously
3. I heard about a book about how pop music broke the gender binary and a romance book about were-lochness monsters (the first being great and the second not)

2025-12-28 01:06:56 UTC

I am at a librarian party

2025-12-26 20:36:20 UTC

lol UPS just hit me with a $14.15 import fee for a "free" replacement part (15¢ for the stated value and $14 "brokerage fee")

2025-12-06 15:25:14 UTC

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I tell you this much, if the developer wants to make some money he should do a Bluesky client. They're starving over there

2025-12-06 14:38:01 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MonaApp/115587709653295121
Ambivalent about paying for another lifetime subscription for Mona. That said it's a great app, the developer needs to get paid, and if I still spent as much time here it would be a no-brainer.
#note16j7…g0u6

2025-11-14 14:16:23 UTC

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If it helps any I literally just got over the two month Cold From Hell that had me coughing to the point of throwing up!

2025-11-14 13:27:32 UTC

always slightly unnerved at how *little* I get side effects from the covid shots

2025-11-04 16:33:38 UTC

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a few of us still exist 😅

2025-11-04 16:27:48 UTC

got a little carried away and wrote a whole ass blog on how I’m voting in #CambridgeMA, hope this helps someone! Go vote today! https://misc-takes.ghost.io/how-im-voting/

2025-10-21 13:49:09 UTC

Holy shit sometimes your opposition just hands you a gift and all you can do is say "thank you" :)

2025-10-12 22:26:46 UTC

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Ended up at Bluestone Lane, which turns out to be a hoity toity sit down restaurant - but mission accomplished
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/363/545/449/604/598/original/87017aace4526a8f.jpeg

2025-10-12 19:58:24 UTC

Are there places in Harvard Square that will serve coffee in a mug? #boston #cambma

2025-10-08 12:54:04 UTC

Can anyone recommend someone who does windows in the #CambMA area? Our windows are a mess - missing panes, broken balances. We don't have a lot of money so ideally we can use what we have and not start over from scratch. #boston #CambridgeMA

2025-09-15 15:47:49 UTC

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Apple Mail in this case but it's also true in Outlook and afaict neither lets you change it.

2025-09-15 15:23:17 UTC

It's so obnoxious to make the default "send later" option 8 am for the next day and not provide a way to change it. I start work at 9 and do not intend to send a message otherwise.

2025-08-16 22:52:22 UTC

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Yeah no that was sarcasm — I’m aware, though I had forgotten the specifics. It seems people either don’t know or consider him somehow “naturalized” to the left. Anyway, I should have been more explicit…

2025-08-16 21:58:39 UTC

interesting to hear noted left journalist Dave Weigel on Majority Report say that Trump's actions are of course absurd but that DC does have a real carjacking problem, the cause of which is they stopped charging juveniles as adults

2025-08-15 23:28:59 UTC

Test driving a used Chevy Bolt tomorrow. Never bought a car before unless you count from my parents. Certainly never done a test drive. Any tips?

2025-08-13 11:52:33 UTC

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How has that shifted? Did you find a gym you're happy with?

2025-08-13 11:48:43 UTC

Curious to hear from people who were avoiding the gym because of covid, and have gone back. What do you do to feel safe?

2025-07-22 13:31:19 UTC

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yeah likewise, I would have expected you to be wearing a bike helmet and for tomatoes to be somehow involved

2025-07-22 13:13:16 UTC

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wait lol are you a short latinx man with a speech impediment cause that is exactly what happened to me

2025-07-22 02:18:51 UTC

I found it! someone had found it on the street. Find My led me to his house. Nice kid, gave him all the cash in my wallet https://mastodon.social/@misc/114892857756526438

2025-07-21 19:24:41 UTC

tempted to go back to wired earbuds with a dongle because I keep losing my goddamn airpods

2025-07-13 02:02:38 UTC

anyone know what this critter is that just flew in? and uh how we can get it to leave?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/843/461/718/728/073/original/d941bd8bc4119343.jpg

2025-06-04 01:26:13 UTC

the kind of day that ends with a bike falling on your head and you're like "yeah that tracks"

2025-05-25 18:22:51 UTC

Is there a project planning tool that lets you visualize your projects like a board game with winding paths? I feel like that would be fun

2025-05-21 20:46:42 UTC

Cape Cod coming out strong against electoralism
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/547/779/304/601/046/original/415a245bd6bd7fc9.jpg

2025-05-21 18:16:41 UTC

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Thinking I might try hanging out here more again, I kinda pulled away from social media altogether for a few weeks and now every time I go on bsky it just kinda bums me out

2025-05-21 18:14:36 UTC

hey

2025-04-08 23:42:08 UTC

I want calendar subscriptions to work where it's like you have a view that's like a menu of options, and then you can choose what to actually add to your personal calendar, and never see the rest again.

2025-03-11 17:59:41 UTC

One thing that is really helpful and clarifying in this moment is how many evil people are just fully revealing themselves as such.

2025-03-09 21:31:38 UTC

she's back https://mastodon.social/@misc/110578879804689660

2025-03-08 00:42:08 UTC

part of me is like “don’t spend any money because who knows if I’ll even have a job” and part of me is like “invest in useful goods because at least that’s real”

2025-03-04 16:20:39 UTC

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think so

2025-03-04 16:20:12 UTC

any recommendations for an Omnifocus book or video series or whatever? Zero part of me is excited to spend more on learning how to use this thing than I did on the thing itself, but I also still feel like I'm drowning

2025-03-04 16:13:44 UTC

how do I already feel like going back to sleep

2025-03-03 18:57:27 UTC

pro tip, signal is more fun when you change the icon to this
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/100/027/199/473/459/original/84a611a1c3295d5a.jpg

2025-03-03 14:57:37 UTC

from someone on Threads: "The cost of a new Tesla Model 3 it's actually LESS than the average new vehicle cost in America. About 37K vs 43K."
I'm sorry, and people are complaining about eggs? this is a dril tweet.

2025-03-02 04:48:13 UTC

just finished Scavengers Reign, found out it wasn't picked up for season 2, and I am so mad

2025-03-01 18:54:36 UTC

What's a good place that is not amazon to get esoteric usb adapters (like USB-A to USB-A at a specific right angle)

2025-02-27 23:27:17 UTC

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it has the grommets!
It also has a cable management tray and they said something about putting a power strip in it, but I feel like it doesn't have enough room. A lot of the space is taken up by the desk's own cables

2025-02-27 23:04:47 UTC

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I built it, so there's that. I just need to figure out the cable management

2025-02-27 23:00:42 UTC

😎getting an adjustable desk to help with executive function
😥realizing how much exec function is involved in setting the damn thing up

2025-02-27 15:06:50 UTC

Elon Musk feels like the boss that pops up after you beat Steve Bannon

2025-02-23 15:46:37 UTC

Hard to get to life and think all the "smartest people" end up on top unless you inhabit an airtight cocoon with other successful people

2025-02-22 22:52:03 UTC

It could get interesting if MSNBC tries (again) to pivot from being the lib network, and the prime time anchors just up and start their own thing. They'd get so much money.

2025-02-08 19:56:20 UTC

What are you all doing to save money?

2025-02-03 23:15:07 UTC

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Oh don't get me wrong, I think it's gonna get much worse before it gets better.

2025-02-03 22:13:57 UTC

Somehow feeling quite doomy and weirdly optimistic at the same time.

2025-02-01 20:25:55 UTC

folks, I laughed out loud
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/930/505/719/052/001/original/4d06af6f25052937.png

2025-01-30 12:22:28 UTC

In the aftermath of the election, one thing I kept hearing was variations on "history will now treat him as a normal President." And perhaps so. But I'm not ready to concede that. If only because we will need an equal and opposite reaction, and then some, to undo this damage.

2025-01-29 20:10:40 UTC

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hmm
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/913/458/692/214/846/original/f3a56725a86f3552.jpeg

2025-01-29 20:10:07 UTC

googles "how to do a general strike"

2025-01-27 16:01:43 UTC

damn I was driving when this earthquake hit and didn't feel a thing - probably just assumed it was normal #Boston roads

2025-01-25 15:26:14 UTC

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No working together, I want Fortress Massachusetts

2025-01-25 15:25:41 UTC

Any deep blue state governors and mayors who aren’t visibly going to the mat to protect their people need to be feeling the heat of a primary challenge starting now.

2025-01-24 23:15:31 UTC

Well, I hope I didn't wait too long to see about getting a new passport

2025-01-17 14:17:06 UTC

been doing more of that "remembering that I remembered something to do but not what it was" thing and don't care for it

2024-12-30 02:26:51 UTC

Gonna try to paint a room by Tuesday night and I've never done this before, TMA

2024-12-27 16:13:23 UTC

Ok so I want to surprise my wife by painting our bedroom while she’s away for a long weekend. Need to pick a paint. Managed to get her to pick a color without arousing her suspicions that anything is eminent. So far so good. Minor glitch though: it was a Sherwin Williams color and when I went to the store with my dad he thought their prices seemed ridiculous.

2024-12-22 01:53:02 UTC

ok my wife wants to watch a corny Christmas movie, what is one that is relatively good or so bad it's good

2024-12-19 21:55:06 UTC

Just got a call from someone from someone who "works with Eversource customers" about getting on some government program to get my home energy supplemented with solar … it seems kind of legit, but also weird? Anyone know about this?

2024-11-28 14:03:23 UTC

Are there any good "lower end" (not too much over $1000) ebikes that are lighter weight? I got a used Rad Power folding bike which I love, and I want to get my wife an ebike of her own - but I think her main hesitancy is how heavy they are.

2024-11-17 20:04:35 UTC

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Pretty optimistic *enough* people will recognize this and act on it even if they don't.

2024-11-17 18:33:45 UTC

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I agree, and I'm hoping this gives us some space to apply the knowledge we've gained, and build/prepare toward that in the coming years. Easier when we can be thoughtful and focused, when it's not on us to respond to short term emergency of saving the world from Elon Musk.

2024-11-07 11:37:02 UTC

Desperately need to catch up on sleep. Thought this would be the night but body said nah

2024-11-06 13:12:33 UTC

I am 40 and I vow to keep better care of my health because I intend to outlive this shit.

2024-11-06 11:29:36 UTC

I guess I'm gonna be crying a lot today huh

2024-10-27 22:43:03 UTC

I think Trump is gonna lose but we really gotta do something about all these Nazis.

2024-10-25 21:33:05 UTC

I was gonna not drink through the end of the month, and I have been enjoying the mocktails and edibles, but tonight is already testing my resolve

2024-10-11 15:20:26 UTC

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Yeah I think like @npub1z7r…28lv said you have to request it, and I don’t want a sales person looming over me, the whole point of these stores was supposed to be a low pressure place where you can try out things that have to be experienced to be appreciated.

2024-10-10 16:53:19 UTC

What is even the point of an Apple Store if you can't walk in and try a Vision Pro?

2024-09-19 15:21:46 UTC

I like this. They should make snack food versions of all kinds of dried pasta.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/164/897/867/707/418/original/07d6e126a47a8d0c.jpeg

2024-09-11 13:11:58 UTC

It's important to note in all of this that Haitian food is really fucking good

2024-09-09 20:13:33 UTC

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lol I could just trade up to a 13 Mini though... but yeah

2024-09-09 20:09:58 UTC

I was sure I was gonna get a new iPhone this year but now I'm like why not try and make it another year?
The camera stuff is cool, but the only real problems I have with my 12 Mini now are battery life and overheating…

2024-08-26 14:44:33 UTC

Someone on my zoom kettlebell class today had covid and wtf

2024-08-19 16:51:03 UTC

I still think the big opportunity in microblogging is recognizing that it's gonna be fractured for the indefinite future and making products and services to help people manage being in multiple places

2024-08-09 06:48:12 UTC

I've always gotten insomnia very rarely but I'm afraid that's starting to change. Not a fan!

2023-08-11 23:06:17 UTC

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Starting to think this guy is literally Keyser Söze

2023-08-11 23:04:05 UTC

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lol that is an excellent question