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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

We went to the pumpkin patch this morning. Found a lot of fun and funky pumpkins. Didn't bring home a single "normal" pumpkin.

It's a selfie of me! I'm holding a light yellow pumpkin that's covered in warts. I'm wearing a ridiculous jack-o'-lantern T-shirt but instead of a mouth it just has a crazy handlebar moustache

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@jaredwhite I've heard good things about Hetzner. I know a few of my friends use them.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@lowqualityfacts Congrats! And thanks for all of the silliness you add to the world.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

It's October! Just in case you were looking for some spooky synthwave music for your Halloween enjoyment, I have this created this Electroween playlist for you. open.spotify.com/playlist/5kxJtLI9f… youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOUxvzOy… #Music […]

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I swear I haven't even thought about that song in at least 20 years. No idea why it would suddenly surface in my brain...

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

This morning I was having a dream where I couldn't remember the name of the band that sang that song "Fly" back in the 90s. Then I woke up, and resumed what I was doing in the dream (which I think is a first? Oh wait, peeing dreams). Anyway, I finally remembered. musiccloud.io/6gbEN_wZ […]

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

There was some fun fog this morning on the dog walk. #fog #PNW

rays of light emanate through the fog and into the darkness from a maple tree that has grown branches all around a street light outside my house.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

A few weeks ago a mustache sticker showed up on my desk, and I was like, what am I gonna do with this? But I just now realized that its purpose is vandalism. So now I've got to keep an eye out for some political sign with someone's headshot on it that I can affix it to...

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

MARANATHA is a band I came across in January, when they had just released 2 songs. Now they've released an entire album and it's really good. The genre is like electronica tinged heavy rock/metal with some epic soundtrack mixed in. Definitely influenced by Sleep Token but not as heavy/esoteric […]

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Drinking a hopped cider at The Gorge White House outside of Hood River, OR #Cider #HoodRiverFruitLoop #CurrentlyDrinking

A glass of cider on a metal table with some trees in the background

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Had to take a load of layers off of the Element instrument cluster just so I could resolder a couple of wires in order to get the dash lights working again. What a PITA. Also now I gotta put this all back together... #DIY #CarRepair #HondaElement

All 5 layers of the instrument cluster laid out on the floor of my garage

Up close photo of my shitty solder fixes

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🍁 Δράκακηϛ ⚜️ @drakakis.thecanadian.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Canadians don't scare easy … but there's one creature that terrifies the bravest of souls …

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@jcrabapple yeah, and I learned about some new (to me) bands because of it too.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@spikybaddie you can reduce the perception of sweetness by adding bitterness, maybe dose it with a bit of strongly brewed tea until it's somewhere you prefer. That won't reduce the amount of sugar you're consuming, obviously, but might make it more palatable for you. As far as making it […]

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@jcrabapple this is a tough one. I also really like Pennies, but I think I'm gonna go with Porcelina of the Vast Oceans. Have you seen the new tribute album? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yyi0dHi5YM…

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@jcrabapple The Smashing Pumpkins Weezer The Rentals BT Rammstein Sublime The Offspring KMFDM They Might Be Giants Radiohead Underworld Goldfinger The Refreshments Everclear Massive Attack Blind Melon Röyksopp Pearl Jam White Zombie ATB The Crystal Method Third Eye Blind The Mighty Mighty […]

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Lars Marius Garshol (en) @larsga.snabelen.no.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

The books have finally arrived! They've been available from online stores for a while, but now I *finally* have my own copies. After years of being in progress, it finally feels like this book is published. Next up: start signing and mailing copies.

Photo of a stack of books titled "The Power of Beer", next to an opened cardboard box with DHL tape on it. The stack and box are on a table, and next to them are a pair of scissors.

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Lars Marius Garshol (en) @larsga.snabelen.no.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

My new book is finally out! A short, readable overall history of beer tracing the long lines in the development of beer. Seeing history like that inevitably brings out an overlooked side of the history of beer: beer as a source of massive power. Please repost! […] [Original post on snabelen.no]

The cover of a book titled "The Power of Beer: How Thirst Drove Us From the Stone Age to the Industrial Age". The cover image is a foamy glass of beer on a throne.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

The rest of the hops have been harvested. Time for a beer, I think. Also, I have homegrown hops in the freezer going back to 2020. I apparently need to brew hoppier beers or something... #HopHarvest #Hops #HomeBrewing

Traditional selfie of me screaming inside a hop bine.

All of the Glacier hops hanging in my garage taking up a ton of space.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Well, I did it. It looked cool, but it was an annoying pain in the ass. I should have bagged the hops, but then it wouldn't have looked as cool, LOL #HomeBrewing #FreshHops

Fresh harvested hop cones, branches and leaves all yeeted into the kettle

The hop branches in the kettle after I stirred them all into the wort

A pile of cooked hops that I've pulled out of the kettle with my stirring stick

The aftermath, hop branches at the bottom of the kettle as it's almost fully drained of wort. It drained super slow as a few cones made their way into the valve...

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

So I cut all of the flowering branches off of the larger central bines. This should be more manageable and will hopefully fit along with the immersion chiller.

All of the flowering branches in a keg bucket and the big leafy bines laying on the floor next to it

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

The idea is to cram this into the kettle at the end of the boil. I'm not sure this is going to work...

Flowering hop bines hang in a large loop from the ceiling in my garage. It's about 3 feet by 2 feet in size. I'm probably going to have to cut it up to fit it in

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Who's dumb ass idea was it to harvest hops in the middle of brewing?? #HomeBrewing #FreshHop #HopHarvest

A dumb ass (me) with a couple of flowering hop bines around my neck with my brewing equipment in the background

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John E Bartley, III K7AAY (D) NSSAR📎▼🐸 @503bartley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Have an old PC you'd like to use again? Have Linux questions? There's a Free Clinic to help you with #Linux & a try-before-you-install-it test drive of Linux. Sun 9/20 1-5PM, Albina Branch Library, 205 NE Russell St Portland OR calagator.org/events/12504... #PDX #PortlandOregon #PortlandOR

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Portland Linux/Unix Group's Monthly Linux Clinic

That PLUG Clinic you like is coming back into style! The PLUG Clinic returns again this month on September 20, from 1pm-5pm. We are back at the Albina Branch Library this month. If you need help with...

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

@pete I'd love to know about something like this. It would be nice to be able to turn off boosts in list feeds as well.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I need to plan my next brew day, I'll be harvesting my hops soon, so I was thinking maybe I should brew a full bine fresh hop saison. Don't bother picking all the cones, just stuff the entire flowering bine into the kettle. Thoughts? #HomeBrewing #Beer #FreshHop

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

@larsga this was really interesting and informative, thank you for sharing!

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Lars Marius Garshol (en) @larsga.snabelen.no.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Did people once drink beer every day against thirst? Lots of people believe it, and some have heard that it's "The Great Medieval Water Myth." Video of a talk I did last year at Norsk Kornølfestival where I deep dive into the subject and find quite a lot of stuff that will, I think, surprise […]

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

@ambientspace Backsweetend it was just alright. It's not boozy tasting which was a little surprising, but didn't really have a ton of other flavor either. This is the highest I've pushed this yeast. Now I kinda want to find the upper limit of this stuff, lol.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

@ambientspace right?? I added a bunch of sugar and a little acid to the sample and that made it drinkable... I'll probably end up feeding this to the still. Pretty crazy to get that much abv out of wild yeast though...

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

I think this is the lowest FG I've ever witnessed. This is a second wine I made on the Riesling and Chardonnay grapes in 2024 and just dropped a load of extra sugar on it to see what would happen. I expected a sweet wine, apparently they yeast didn't care […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

a FG hydrometer floats in a white wine sample inside a narrow test jar. The reading at the surface indicating a gravity of 0.985.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

My in laws went to Iceland recently and brought back this dried fish for me (among other gifts, they don't hate me). It smells so strongly that even sealed inside two ziplock bags I can still smell it when I open the cabinet it's in...

Icelandic dried fish inside of two ziplock bags

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

@jcrabapple Holy shit, that sucks. Those poor truck drivers :(

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

@larsga ahh, well at least the end is in sight! I'm looking forward to reading it.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

If any winemaker tells you that their process is sanitary, they're lying to you. Grapes grow in a field, there's bugs on them when they're harvested. It's impossible to keep fruit flies away from the action. I do this by hand so it's certainly worse for me […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Destemmed Moscato grapes waiting to be pressed for juice. They're obviously already fermenting.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Moscato harvest; not the prettiest looking grapes this year, but that doesn't mean they can't make good wine. And if they don't, then it will turn into Pisco. #WineMaking #Moscato

A big green bucket full of Moscato grapes

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Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

TAKE YOUR BALLOTS TO A DROP BOX THIS NOVEMBER. Don't use a mailbox. Use a ballot drop box, because the US postal service is _already_ fucking with ballots. This is not a guess, theory, or extrapolation, this is an _observed fact_. Here's the Thurston […] [Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net]

The Problem with Mail Delivery

By law, we must certify the election by a specific deadline. For the primary, that date was August 18, 2026, two weeks after Election Day. Any ballot that arrives after this date cannot be counted, even if it was mailed on time.

We are seeing two main problems with the post office:

* Slow Mail: Many people mailed their ballots well before Election Day, but the ballots sat in post office sorting centers for weeks. In one case, a ballot was mailed in late July but didn't reach our office until after the August 18 deadline. It took 19 days to arrive, so it could not be counted.

* Ballots sent Between Counties: In Washington State, you can drop your ballot into any official drop box in the state. Other counties collect those ballots and mail them back to us using USPS Priority Mail. In the past, this worked well. But this year, mail sent on August 5 didn't reach us until August 24, six days after the deadline.

So far, our office has received 70 valid ballots that arrived after the certification deadline. This has never happened before, and it means those votes could not be counted. One ballot took 19 days to reach us.

What We Are Doing for November

No voter should lose their vote when they’ve followed every rule.

To fix this for the November election, we will no longer rely on the post office to send ballots between counties. Instead, our team will personally drive to neighboring counties to pick up and hand-deliver these ballots ourselves. Even though this costs extra money and time, it is necessary to make sure every vote counts.

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