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Just a December Sunday desk scene.

Standalone post link: Daily Picture- December Sunday Desk

Used my favorite spatula to make eggs with onions and peppers for me, and plain for a breakfast burrito for my son.

This spatula, in addition to being a great spatula, always makes me think about Malla, Chewbacca’s wife, cooking the Life Day meal in the Star Wars Holiday Special. I’ll admit, it’s something that’s far more fun to just think about for a minute than it is to actually watch, but I feel everyone should watch it at least once.

And I just learned from the Wookieepedia that her full name is Mallatobuck.

Standalone post link: Daily Picture- Cooking with Malla

The things you don’t say accumulate.

The things you don’t buy don’t accumulate.

Standalone post link: Accumulation

Transcription, but with some misspellings corrected: (not ‘moomlight’ because I like that too much)

‘Friday, November 19, 2021
5:10 am at my desk
in the cloud-obscured
moomlight (and
maybe earth-shadow
obscured moonlight of
the eclipse still, but
I can’t tell.) And I
can’t really see what
I am writing now
so this is an
experiment.

‘I can’t fall back
asleep and I can’t
really see the eclipse
so I figured I would
try this.

‘I just took some
pictures / video
that I hope are
eerie but either
way I think I will
like them.’

Standalone post link: moomlight notes and pics

This site now aims to be the contemporary equivalent of enigmatic handmade publications hoarded in a drawer.

Standalone post link: On Some Emily Dickinson Shit (Fascicles in a Drawer 2022)

I’m curious how Mormons¹ who play Animal Crossing: New Horizons are responding to the new café.

• Does anyone refrain from having their character drink coffee in Animal Crossing, so as to avoid even the very appearance of evil?

• Have kids been caught by their parents drinking coffee in the game and had the game confiscated or banned?

• Are any Mormons going bonkers drinking cup after cup of coffee in Animal Crossing because it’s “just a game” or “doesn’t count?”

• How does someone’s stance on coffee in Animal Crossing compare to their stance on violence and gore in other video games?

• Is drinking coffee in Animal Crossing ‘Word of Wisdom pornography?’

• Am I overthinking this, or at least thinking more about it than I ever would have back when I was a Mormon?²

I was always jealous when one of the island residents would be walking around the island with a cup of coffee or hot cocoa.

But it turns out that now that I can, drinking coffee in Animal Crossing is not all that satisfying. Doing almost anything in Animal Crossing is not all that satisfying for very long, to be honest.

Drinking real coffee in real life is generally satisfying, though.

Standalone post link: On Virtual Coffee and Mormons Who Play Animal Crossing

Your art is more important than your audience.

– so says my A.I. / algorithmically generated horoscope today, the notification popping up while I was mid-contemplating just how to curate collections and microthoughts such as these on this website, and whether to continue to do it just for myself or reconnect somehow with a social media network for the possible benefit or irritation of unknown others.

I still haven’t decided.

Standalone post link: Your art is more important than your audience

Yay holidays! Yay traditions! Yay America! Yay humans! We’re the best! We’re smarter than turkeys!

Standalone post link: Yay Thanksgiving!

I Made the World’s Blandest Facebook Profile, Just to See What Happens

by Kaitlyn Tiffany in The Atlantic

It seems like not many people are talking about this aspect of why Facebook is so horrible because it is also horrible in so many other ways. This is actually one of the main reasons I finally deleted my Facebook account, though.

I didn’t have a ton of “friends” (230ish, which I’m sure is below average for someone on Facebook for over a decade) and most of them didn’t share much that was real (or if they did, the algorithm didn’t see fit to share it with me), so my feed was filled with so much inanity and corporate stuff, and I still just scrolled through it compulsively, hoping something interesting would happen.

You can see this article had a different headline when I first encountered it in the Apple News app (another demonic time suck if you aren’t mindful and deliberate about finding quality content there - you have to dig to find things like articles from The Atlantic.)

After this I did find one more person talking about this, again via The Atlantic, but this time one of their new newsletter authors, Charlie Warzel in his Galaxy Brain:

What might the Facebook conversation look like if it more readily acknowledged Facebook for what it is: a vast algorithmic wasteland? Infinite channels, but nothing on.

Facebook’s Vast Wasteland

by Charlie Warzel

Standalone post link: Reading Link: Facebook Sent Me Down a Centrist Rabbit Hole

Writing the Great American Email

(Published this new ‘longer thing’ in the Features / Longer Things area of this website.)

Standalone post link: New Longer Thing: Writing the Great American Email