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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 12h

They weren't wrong. Truck is now working but half my face is sunburned and I am driving to Devil's Tower.

Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 12h

Fixing the head unit in my truck. Firmware instructions are like, look just trust us, it's going to work but it's going to get real 'Close Encounters' there for a bit.

Firmware upgrade instructions including "Automatically the update will start on the decoder, you will notice the screen will start to turn blurry and bright for 15-30 seconds. It will get back to normal when finished"

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it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you know how much has to have gone wrong for me to not like the internet

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 26/09/2026

Updated my ebook library with the classic mayflower covers of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser books (the "good covers" as we call them)

Classic 60s/70s style fantasy book covers showing daring deeds of swords and sorcery. Semi naked barbarians fighting monsters, wiry thieves scrambling from giant snakes, etc. etc.

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 25/09/2026

bring me a full baked ham to an interview or bring me nothing

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Liz Edwards @lizaledwards.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I saw this screenshot going around, found this detail charming, looked more into the game (I've never played a Silent Hill) & decided to buy it. Btw these are the "unimportant" background assets AI idiots think AI should be used for

Screenshot of a Twitter post by Val / @shegoingtogloat - it's a Silent Hill screenshot showing a close up of a cork board. On it, a paper says "Welcome to Shorefront Family Clinic" in a classic wiggly 3D font style. The tweet text is: Is this a Silent Hill asset made using PowerPoint lol"

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 24/09/2026

graffiti i'm drafting now so I'm ready to spray paint it on the walls of a decaying luxury bunker as I step over a gucci clad skeleton and loot the last can of fruit cocktail left on planet earth

“The cornerstone belief of the last techno-oligarchs was that they would be good guys as soon as they finished pillaging. Gambling addicts rolling the dice on societal destruction, they kept at it believing that just one more roll would solve everything and redeem them in the eyes of the world.”

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 22/09/2026

Got bit-perfect lossless audio configured on some living room speakers yesterday & felt PRETTY PLEASED WITH MYSELF so for my hubris our HVAC condensate pump died at 4am (RIP lil pump). I replaced it without complaint as I took it to be the price the universe required for my high quality tunes.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

this is a bit of an obsession of mine especially here in charlottesville. the cost of commercial real estate is prohibitive if you want to experiment and the city seems categorically opposed to small lots and small units that could allow people to start businesses without a huge capital investment

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 20/09/2026

Homer, We represent ShippingNewz - the New Review of Maritime Trade and Shipping and were deeply impressed by your - Catalogue of Ships - Itemized manifests We are excited to include that in our next issue at no cost to you. Your unique voice will provide you with real impact and market exposure

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 19/09/2026

Ok Europe, hear me out: REVERSE MARSHALL PLAN to rebuild the US's basic education and fund a pushback against techno-oligarchy. Pretty sure this is in the world's best interest as well as ours.

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 18/09/2026

beets.io now generating proper biographical dates for composers as well as the composition year for specific tracks. may tackle jazz eras after this...

a file listing showing listings such as "Handel, George Frideric (1685–1759)" with a track titled "01 (1717 Handel) Water Music, Suite no. 1 i"

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 17/09/2026

More than half the time I'm using the SD card slot on my macbook for micro sd cards so I *finally* gave in and ordered a flush fitting micro sd adapter. Honestly for a high micro SD card user it's great, wish I'd done it sooner. Always in the macbook, don't have to pull an adapter out of my tech kit

micro sd card with a flush fitting adapter next to a macbook and an mp3 player

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026

I think the entirety of the U.S. corporate press needs to be burned to the ground and replaced with perhaps some Krispy Kremes and a few new roller rinks until we can figure out how to rebuild a media that actually serves the public interest

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 16/09/2026

I have been telling people about the far-right owners of ULINE for a while and suggesting you use EcoEnclose as an alternative. I have used a 1,000+ of their boxes + packing material. I didn't realize I could give you a $20 coupon (off $50+)! (Disclosure: I also get $20. I will use it wisely.)

refs.ecoenclose.com

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 16/09/2026

ooh, I like this take - all the elements are present, so call it what it is: not liminal (which was never quite right, tbh), but gothic for a new generation of people who don’t remember why we built that shit in the first place, or what it was supposed to be *for*

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 16/09/2026

I don't know if writers on bsky care about this or not but this post sold me the book (just bought it). What really worked for me was the fact that it had a couple pages posted. Have now officially lost track of # of books I've purchased because of bsky, so I guess we're a real social network now.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 15/09/2026

I have to write down agendas of meetings I take and with whom while traveling for work. Even though it’s per diem when international. A non-academic then spends time deciding whether or not I was engaging in academic work while traveling for work. I bet if we cost it out, per diem costs less.

chronicle.com

Opinion | Higher Ed’s Middle-Manager Problem

It’s time to get serious about administrative bloat.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: buckaroo banzai and the hong kong cavaliers will no longer be opening for ed sheeran www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAgn...

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Buckaroo Banzai End Credits (Textless Version)

YouTube video by ManticoreEscapee

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 15/09/2026

You know it, reviewer for that epic thrash album "HARPS OF THE ANCIENT TEMPLES"

A review reading simpy: This is some heavy shit

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 15/09/2026

Submitting my amendment proposal for the International System of Units: 1 KRAFT == 10 STREISANDS == 100 FAFOS

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 15/09/2026

30% done w/my classical music reorg. Very pleased with how my beets config (w some little python helpers) is managing the library so far Period (Ancient/Medieval/Baroque/etc) -> Composer -> Work -> Track with composer & COMPOSITION DATE (the best) Next 2do: add composer years to their folder names

A listing of classical music composers and works with "1880 Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia" highlighted

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 15/09/2026

(most mens influencer podcaster voice possible) I'M OUT HERE VAX MAXXING. VAXXXXING. MAX VAXXXXXXXING (getting my seasonal boosters for influenza and covid which are now available, go get 'em)

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 13/09/2026

Making meal prep for my son's lunches and giving them names like "Spiced Mush Beef with Noodles" or "Sustaining Chicken and Roast Veg on Rice" and realizing that they could all be straight from Breath of the Wild. So basically: curious to see if my son gets a stamina buff from any of these.

cooking scene from the video game breath of the wild with a large cooking pot on a fire and characters making food.

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 12/09/2026

To the user who messaged me in 2009 at 3am on the last.fm message system to let me know a website i ran was down: thanks, sorry, just seeing this. site is back up now.

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 12/09/2026

To the user who messaged me in 2009 at 3am on the last.fm message system to let me know a website i ran was down: thanks, sorry, just seeing this. site is back up now.

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 11/09/2026

so excited by how well my beets path code works on all this. i *really* like knowing the musical period and composition dates at a glance. I also like being able to easily set the periods on unusual compilations like the Kronos Quartet Lachrymæ Antiquæ album.

various classical music albums shown in a computer file listing, with meta data including composers and dates in the filenames.

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 11/09/2026

Tweaked my beets.io config to sort, path, and title my classical music albums the way I've always wanted to. Still a shallow enough hierarchy to be navigable but includes a ton of composer oriented information (composer parent folders) along with track composition dates.

A set of folders with classical music period names (Medieval, Baroque, Romantic, etc.) and subfolders for composer (Erik Satie), album, and tracks with the track composition date).

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 10/09/2026

Looked at the stuff on the table just now and realized I am just actively rejecting so much of the modern “technology as subscription services” stack that I have regressed to the early 2000s and it feels... good.t

table strewn with objects including a paper street map, a hand held radio, a couple mp3 players and some 80s looking headphones, some photographic slides.

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 09/09/2026

me removing the networking hardware from our smart tvs

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 08/09/2026

planning out this week's family dinners and found this note which is the sum total of my chicken rice bowl recipe lol (i believe I mean "combine in approximately equal measures" but who knows)

a close up photo of two asian sauces: garlic chili sauce and oyster sauce

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 08/09/2026

Recently read Peter Watts' Maestrom (Rifters #2) and he was tackling issues like "what if we had AI that seemed smart but was really just LLMs and they formed agentic swarms communicating on covert channels" about a quarter century before that became a thing (not a spoiler)

goodreads.com

Maelstrom (Rifters, #2)

An enormous tidal wave on the west coast of North Ameri…

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 07/09/2026

Let me introduce you to the hottest new trend: MIN-MAXXING. Instead of obsessively optimizing a single facet of your life you just put in the minimum, normal amount of effort and stop acting like a complete freak about things.

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 07/09/2026

Q How did you fix that thermal throttling issue? A "Active Cooling"

a desk fan pointed at a laptop supported by a stack of books

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 06/09/2026

for family game time tonight we started "The Roottrees Are Dead" (we just finish The Incident at Galley House a little bit ago, loved it). Very fun to play as a group since we all remember different details.

an illustration from a video game showing newspaper with a photo of three women and the headline "the roottrees are dead"

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 05/09/2026

It's 2026 and if you went back in time & told me I'd expend effort to revert my music & podcast system back to 2006 methods I wouldn't have believed you (but I also had higher hopes for the tech industry) beets.io + swinsian for music, simple podcast manager, sed, rsync, iconv doing the xfer work.

a retro looking black music player about the size of an old ipod, clicky wheel and buttons on front.

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 04/09/2026

all the scissors in my house have different names, some purely utilitarian (trauma scissors) some point of origin based (tokyo hands scissors). Trying to explain to my kids why I call these the DEAD AGAIN SCISSORS

a set of chromed metal scissors balanced on my hand

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 04/09/2026

Ok, I did the dialect quiz and despite having lived in Seattle and overseas for decades it correctly tagged me as a Wisconsin boy, but I bet 90% of that was the question "do you call it a water fountain or bubbler?" mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

US map with heat map on top of it centered on wisconsin

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sometimes I’d have more staid friends ask “what do these marches change?” and then have to explain that they’re not the point, they’re to get people to connect for change, and for some people to be introduced to the possibility of change.

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 04/09/2026

I checked twice and still managed to adjust the links on the wrong side the first time. Good news is I am now very fast at swapping links in and out.

a watch with a link band being adjusted with a removable pin on the table.

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 04/09/2026

If anyone wants these (I should figure out a cheap way to drop them in an envelope for folks since i have a stack of them and they are nice and durable... recommendations? etsy for a dollar?) here's a quick PDF share: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

drive.google.com

SHARE - Google Drive

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