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Waaay overshot on rows, I hate them so much. And happy I was able to find two more reps for pull-ups and excited to cross that 30lb milestone Now all I want is a big ol plate of chicken Parmesan and to sleep

2026.10.08 CAB

Rows
5 x 67.5
3 x 135.5 ❌
1 x 135.5 ❌
1 x 135.5 ❌

Next: 3 x 5 x 45

Pull-ups
5 x 14.25 ✅
5 x 28.5 ✅
5 x 28.5 ✅
7 x 28.25 ✅

Next: 3 x 5 x 32

Squats
5 x 118.5 ✅
3 x 178 ✅
2 x 207.5 ✅
1 x 222.5 ✅
5 x 237.5 ✅
5 x 237.5 ✅
5 x 237.5 ✅

Next: 3 x 5 x 240

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 23h

The way I stall before squats should be studied. I’ve never had to bail out so I think lowkey it takes a bit longer to psych myself up to start (I should probably do it one day just to remove that mental block)

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 08/10/2026

Speaking of drinking water … because I was just reminded, this Friday the drinking water is getting mixed with water from the Susquehanna because of the drought. Here’s the affected area

Map showing the area of Baltimore serviced by the Montebello Treatment Plant for drinking water

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 07/10/2026

It makes sense in hindsight but I didn’t realize that “pathetic” didn’t originally have a negative connotation

Screenshot for the etymology of “pathetic” from etymoline

pathetic (adj.)
1590s, "affecting the emotions or affections, moving, stirring" (now obsolete in this broad sense), from French pathétique "moving, stirring, affectingi (16c.), from Late Latin patheticus, from Greek pathetikos "subject to feeling, sensitive, capable of emotionại from pathetos "liable to suffer," verbal adjective of pathein "to suffer" (from PIE root *kwent(h)- "to suffer").

The specific meaning "arousing pity, sorrow, or grief" or other tender feelings is from
1737. The colloquial sense of "so miserable as to be ridiculous" is attested by 1937.
Related: Pathetical (1570s); pathetically. The pathetic fallacy (1856, first used by Ruskin) is the attribution of human qualities to
inanimate objects.

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 07/10/2026

Overall very good day. I’m excited for how hard tonight’s sleep is gonna be

2026.10.06 BCA

Deadlifts
5 x 135.5 ✅
5 x 271 ✅
5 x 271 ✅
5 x 271 ✅

Next: 3 x 5 x 276

Bench
5 x 90 ✅
5 x 180 ✅
5 x 180 ✅
6 x 180 ✅

Next: 3 x 5 x 192

Pull-ups
5 x 14.25 ✅
5 x 28.5 ✅
5 x 28.25 ✅
5 x 28.25 ✅

Next: 2 x 28.5, 1 x 28.25

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 07/10/2026

I don’t think I’ve EVER benched more than my body weight. Since I’ve started lifting again, I’ve gone from 150 to 175 but my bench has never gone past an incomplete three sets of 170. Today I did 3x5 of 180 and found an extra rep on the last set (apologies in advance for the angle)

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 07/10/2026

I must have tapped into the strength force today. I’m now deadlifting closer to 315 than 225. I’m for real on the way to three plating for deadlifts 👀

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 05/10/2026

INNANETAPE - VIC MENSA shd.app.link/9idrLJsRZ6b

Screenshot of INNANETAPE by Vic Mensa in the Manet app

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 05/10/2026

Just dope shit for a Monday

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 04/10/2026

Don’t know where I found that extra rep for bench (tried for 7 but had to do the roll of shame). I doubt I’ll hit 180 because I think my max is 170 but if no harm in trying. Shoot for the moon, land among the stars and allat

2026.10.04

Squats
5 x 117.5 ✅
3 x 176 ✅
2 x 205.5 ✅
1 x 220 ✅
5 x 235 ✅
5 x 235 ✅
5 x 235 ✅

Next: 3 x 5 x 237.5

OHP
5 x 51.5 ✅
5 x 103.5 ✅
5 x 103.5 ✅
5 x 103.5 ✅

Next: 3 x 5 x 104.5

Bench
5 x 84.5 ✅
5 x 169.5 ✅
5 x 169 ✅
6 x 169 ✅

Next: 3 x 5 x 180

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 04/10/2026

OHP is so fickle that I figured there was a good chance I lost some progress, but again, no issue. It was a little shaky but I managed to get it done

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 04/10/2026

Thought today would be the day something gave but surprisingly I pressed through. These squats did wipe me out though, I miiight have had one more on the last set but I didn’t want to tempt it

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 03/10/2026

JJBA still freaky as ever

Screenshot from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run episode 3 of a green and purple tinted Andrew Boomboom choking himself out with a red belt and the subs read "Right to the edge of blacking out!"

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 02/10/2026

Also playing with a new “progression” algorithm. Curious how much I have left in the tank so I’m just gonna use the last set to do as many reps as I can

2026.10.01 CBA

Rows
5 x 60 ✅
5 x 120 ✅
5 x 119.5 ✅
7 x 119.5 ✅

Next: 3 x 5 x 135.5

Deadlifts
5 x 119.5 ✅
5 x 239.5 ✅
5 x 239.5 ✅
7 x 239.5 ✅

Next: 3 x 5 x 271

Pull-ups
5 x 14 ✅
5 x 28.25 ✅
5 x 28.25 ✅
5 x 28.25 ✅

Next: 1 x 28.5, 2 x 28.25

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 02/10/2026

One thing I appreciate about me is my body’s recoverability. Last time I was in the gym was 09.14 (depression had me on the couch after work) so I was mentally prepared for me not to just pick up where I left off. But today I showed up and did just that 🦾

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 25/09/2026

Never have I ever had a grape snowball that wasn’t purple

Lime green colored snowball … but less grape flavored?

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 24/09/2026

Wooow I’m realizing I’ve only been listening to Novacane and Swim Good for years because those were the only tracks available on streaming. Still a 10/10 project

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 22/09/2026

New CD finally came in the mail and I’m really digging the inside

Gabriel Jacoby’s “gutta child” CD on my countertop

Inside of Gabriel Jacoby’s “gutta child” CD on my countertop. The left side is a pic of Gabriel shirtless in a durag wearing boxing gloves and the right is the cd but it’s stylized to look like a rim

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 21/09/2026

This is so funny to me. Down with photorealism, make games more absurd

Scene from Marvel’s Wolverine where Mystique is like hacking a mainframe or whatever, and Wolverine is looking over her shoulder but I have the Animated Wolverine skin on

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 18/09/2026

Have not read enough (read: any) on afropessimism to truly speak on how I about this but this was so interesting

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 15/09/2026

Ca$ino - Baby Keem shd.app.link/SiQuL5Eds6b

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 15/09/2026

empathogen - WILLOW shd.app.link/IN9556jwr6b

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 14/09/2026

Finally got to go to one and for a 10/10 album

The front of a baseball card sized green card with pink stats that reads “EVENING RITUAL” at the top and has a picture of Anderson .Paak presumably doing a jumping split

The back of a baseball card sized card pink stats that has the setlist of Malibu by Anderson .Paak

SIDE ONE
The Bird
Heart Don't Stand A Chance
The Waters
The Season/ Carry Me

SIDE TWO
Put Me Thru
Am I Wrong
Without You
Parking Lot

SIDE THREE
Lite Weight
Room In Here
Water Fall (Interluuube)
Your Prime

SIDE FOUR
Come Down
Silicon Valley
Celebrate
The Dreamer

TOTAL TIME
1:00:56

And then a black box at the bottom that contains

Brandon Paak Anderson

February 8, 1986
Oxnard, California, U.S.

Released
January 15, 2016

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 10/09/2026

“Awful” truly in the original sense of the word. My brain knew I was looking at millions of years of the Colorado eroding the land but you can’t help but be stunned all the same. It’s like driving to the ocean and then suddenly boom, expanse. The colors, the width, length AND depth. It’s beautiful

Excerpt from Chapter 9 of Darkwater by W.E.B. Du Bois

It is a sudden void in the bosom of the earth, down to its entrails-a wound where the dull titanic knife has turned and twisted in the hole, leaving its edges livid, scarred, jagged, and pulsing over the white, and red, and purple of its mighty flesh, while down below down, down below, in black and severed vein, boils the dull and sullen flood of the Colorado.

It is awful. There can be nothing like it. It is the earth and sky gone stark and raving mad. The mountains up-twirled, disbodied and inverted, stand on their peaks and throw their bowels to the sky. Their earth is air; their ether blood-red rock engreened. You stand upon their roots and fall into their pinnacles, a mighty mile.

A pic of the Grand Canyon on a cloudy day, highlighting some of the cooler colors of the rock

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 09/09/2026

Also I’m usually not one for selfies but … I was looking goodt this trip

A hotel pic of me in beige shorts and a black sleeveless shirt

A bathroom pick of me with a long sleeve white shirt and a white bandana

Airport bathroom pic of me in my blue reading shirt and grey shorts

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 09/09/2026

Also vacation was so nice. My second time at the Grand Canyon, but first time with my girlfriend and her mom. Pictures almost don’t do the Southwest justice, it’s just so beautiful and grounding. Gears already turning on how to incorporate more nature and camping in my life

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 09/09/2026

Overall not a first bad day back

2026.09.09 BCA

Deadlifts
5 x 117 ✅
5 x 234.5 ✅
5 x 234.5 ✅
5 x 234.5 ✅

Next: 3 x 5 x 239.5

Bench
5 x 84 ✅
5 x 168 ✅
5 x 168 ✅
5 x 168 ✅

Next: 3 x 5 x 168.5

OHP
5 x 50.5 ✅
5 x 101.5 ✅
5 x 101.5 ✅
5 x 101.5 ✅

Next: 3 x 5 x 102.5

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 09/09/2026

Most surprised by these because OHP has been so finicky (I have it dialed in at +1lb increments because it’s so sensitive) but these came out clean. I think like 14 more sessions and I’ll be using 35s

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 09/09/2026

First workout back from vacation and I was worried that I wasn’t gonna go 3 for 3 but we managed 🦾 definitely felt these deadlifts in my lower back and looking at the vid, I think I may be unnecessarily overextending but got it done

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 03/09/2026

With fall right around the corner, curious why autumnal hobbies people enjoy? Swimming has been fun and I think it’d be very easy to keep weightlifting and do another physical activity, but I think it’d be fun to do something that stretches my creative muscles as well

Fall Potential Side Quests

Creative
- Radio station
- Album
- Maybe one song to start
- Voice lessons at Baltimore School of Music
- Learn an instrument
- Drums
- improv
- Chess

Active
- Dance class
- Volo football
- Archery
- Indoor bouldering
- Boxing
- Rollerskating
- Skateboarding
- obstacle course racing
- Danneyball /hj

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 31/08/2026

Restaurants using AI generated images for their menus is quite literally stomach churning. I’m sorry but what about this is inviting me to eat this food???

A local restaurant’s menu using ai generated images so instead of actual burgers and sandwiches, it just looks like unnatural worms

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 31/08/2026

I won’t larp because the Milestones comics I’ve read and are most familiar with are Static and Blood Syndicate. But this is the story of Icon: - Black - Superman level power (in Young Justice, there’s a joke that Supes thinks he might be kryptonian) - landed on earth during pre-antebellum slavery

Icon (a Black man in a red superhero costume and a green cape and glowing eyes) floating above rubble

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 30/08/2026

Brown Sugar - D'Angelo shd.app.link/V44UNTDK15b

Brown Sugar by D’Angelo playing in the Manet app

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 30/08/2026

RIP D’Angelo (the Dolly tribute was also nice)

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 30/08/2026

Sunset HAD to have been a paid actor because this song with that golden hour? 🧑🏾‍🍳💋

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 30/08/2026

He was such a vibe

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 29/08/2026

Today was rooough. I think I didn’t time the caffeine well so I was just drained by the time I got to squats. Got it all done, but I’m just tired and hungry now

2026.08.29 CBA

Bench
5 x 81.5 ✅
5 x 163.5 ✅
5 x 163.5 ✅
5 x 163.5 ✅

Next: 3 x 5 x 166.5

Squats
5 x 117 ✅
3 x 175.5 ✅
2 x 205 ✅
1 x 219.5 ✅
5 x 234.5 ✅
5 x 234.5 ✅
5 x 234.5 ✅

Next: 1 x 5 x 235, 2 x 5 x 234.5

Pull-ups
5 x 12.75 ✅
5 x 27.25 ✅
5 x 27.25 ✅
5 x 27.25 ✅

Next: 3 x 5 x 28

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 29/08/2026

Oh that's fun. Our city's website is down

Screenshot of http://baltimorecity.gov/. Instead of the homepage, it's showing "Resource not found"

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 28/08/2026

Throwback to a time in my life where I swore by Google Play Music and it had it loaded up with mixtapes: Vic , Underachievers, Lupe, Logic. Used to run to Datpiff and r/hiphopheads every Friday

Screenshot of INNANETAPE by Vic Mensa playing in the Manet app

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 27/08/2026

Stopping for tonight. Added that search bar so now (despite the placeholder saying just artist), I can filter by artist or album title. And then added a little side filter based on ownership just so i don't have to scroll to find stuff. After this, mobile layout so i can use it out and about

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 27/08/2026

Overall a good session. Still hoping this rebuild helps break through my 170 bench plateau. Might need to throw in some shoulder mobility/stretches day before the gym

2026.08.26 ACB

Pull-ups
5 x 12.75 ✅
5 x 25.75 ✅
5 x 25.75 ✅
5 x 25.75 ✅

Next: 3 x 5 x 27.25

Bench
5 x 79 ✅
5 x 158 ✅
5 x 158 ✅
5 x 158 ✅

Next: 3 x 5 x 163.5

Deadlifts
5 x 112 ✅
5 x 224.5 ✅
5 x 224.5 ✅
5 x 224.5 ✅

Next: 3 x 5 x 229.5

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 27/08/2026

Arbitrary goal of a 225 is right around the corner (this is 224.5) Also it’s always funny to watch these videos afterwards and here what the gym’s playing because I was listening to Meg and Doechii😭

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 26/08/2026

Cool things happening. So I turned my albums feed (blacksky.community/profile/moda...) into its own web app so I can quickly see which ones I skeet the most so I can buy those first. The cool thing is that Jellyfin has an API so I can highlight which albums I already own. Might add a search bar🤔

Screenshot of recordmendations.modamo.xyz, showing a 4 x 5 grid of albums, with some having a green border to denote ownership

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 25/08/2026

Overall a good day. Squat is almost back to 235 and we’ll see how this bench reset goes. Hopefully it breaks my lil plateau

2026.08.24 BAC

Squats
5 x 117 ✅
3 x 175.5 ✅
2 x 204.5 ✅
1 x 219 ✅
5 x 234 ✅
5 x 234 ✅
5 x 234 ✅

Next: 3 x 5 x 234.5

OHP
5 x 49.5 ✅
5 x 99.5 ✅
5 x 99.5 ✅
5 x 99.5 ✅

Next: 3 x 5 x 100.5

Bench
5 x 73 ✅
5 x 146.5 ✅
5 x 146.5 ✅
5 x 146.5 ✅

Next: 3 x 5 x 158

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 25/08/2026

Knocking on 100lb’s door with my OHP, currently at 99.5lb

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 23/08/2026

Now that a basic version of recordmendations.modamo.xyz is up, gonna try to make weekend visits to Sound Garden or cop from Qobuz if they don’t have it

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 22/08/2026

Another mixed but overall good session. Squats are feeling tough but doable as I try to get back to 235. After that +28.75 attempt, I was flying at +23. Trying to break bodyweight for bench is proving to be a challenge, so gonna do a slight reset and rebuild

2026.08.22 BAC

Squats
5 x 116.5 ✅
3 x 174.5 ✅
2 x 203.5 ✅
1 x 218 ✅
5 x 233 ✅
5 x 233 ✅
5 x 233 ✅

Next: 3 x 5 x 234

Pull-ups
5 x 11.5 ✅
5 x 23 ✅
5 x 23 ✅
5 x 23 ✅

Next: 3 x 5 x 25.75

Bench
5 x 84.5 ✅
4 x 169.5 ❌
5 x 169.5 ✅
4 x 169.5 ❌

Next: 3 x 5 x 146.5

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modamo @modamo.xyz · 22/08/2026

Never thought I’d surpass my little sister as the family Willow stan

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