Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I have been thinking a lot lately about making space for people who are inconvenient to me in various ways, but are not harmful, and could use support. This is not a vague post. It's a topic I am exploring to work out an internal rule system about it. 110
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I really miss my cats. Since they both passed back in April, I'm realizing more and more how regulating they were for my brain when I was home alone. 141
Reposted by HalTwin Cities Geek @twincitiesgeek.com · 22/09/2026Have you been thinking about self-defense? After exploring a number of different options, one of our writers shares what she's learned over the years—both practical facts and personal philosophy. #TwinCitiesGeeks twincitiesgeek.com/2026/09/gett...twincitiesgeek.comGetting Started with Personal Self-DefenseSelf-defense is a recurring hot topic. Maybe you have considered buying pepper spray, tasers, knives, or other tools. Maybe you want to attend martial arts classes. Or maybe you're considering buying… 022
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I googled Ed Shareen and listened to some of his music and now I understand why I didn't know who he was 010
Reposted by HalJohn Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Looking for a free way to support your favorite authors? 8338167
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Before anybody starts talking to me about moving away from Plex you should know I got a Lifetime Plex Pass years ago when they were super cheap. And I know I can run Jellyfin simultaneously but I don't want to manage two sets of metadata and two disparate permission sets. 120
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Flashed LineageOS on my old Nvidia Shield tablet and just like that I have a functional tablet again 130
Reposted by HalAcid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Remembering Sister Rosetta Tharpe, born in 1915 in Cotton Plant, Arkansas. Here she's performing "Didn't It Rain" at a train depot in Manchester, England in 1964. She's often called the "Godmother of Rock & Roll" and influenced future music icons like Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Elvis Presley. 14982152046
Reposted by HalMaris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I can't believe I had to sign an open letter about this, but Mark Ruffalo IS NOT antisemitic. Nor is speaking out against a genocidal country. Nor is protesting corporate greed. variety.com/2026/film/ne...variety.comMark Ruffalo Defended by Hannah Einbinder, Joel Coen and More Than 170 Jewish Figures After Paramount Accuses Him of Using ‘Antisemitic Tropes’ — Read the Open Letter (EXCLUSIVE)Joel Coen and Todd Haynes are among more than 170 Jewish figures who have signed a letter in support of Mark Ruffalo amid antisemitism claims. 152124401
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Grief throughout one's life directly correlates with quality and volume of friendships. We mourn because we have loved. The remedy is not fewer friendships. It is more. Collect young friends like Pokémon cards. They are all shiny. 070
Reposted by HalRyan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 22/08/2026you wouldn't survive the opinions of a group chat of queer people 1201
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Target is and has been functionally the same Wal-Mart but for a majority of people who don't want to identify as consumers who shop at Wal-Mart. I said what I said. ItsTheSamePicture.jpg 040
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"History" Channel update: Oak Island treasure still elusive Nobody knows wtf is up with Skinwalker Ranch People Alone in Canada are cold William Shatner explains nothing 030
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 18/08/2026LOL, transactional @zoominfo.com emails have an Apache SpamAssassin score of 10. I couldn't figure out why I wasn't getting verification emails, and had to go look at the email server. Whomp whoooooooooooomp. That's so bad. 020
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Another day, another post explaining basic internet security to Facebook users. (Shit like: don't post publicly on Facebook the specific date and time when you are not going to be home with your children. Yeah.) 110
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 17/08/2026My Pixel 5 still works just fine, but the battery started bulging last week. And the device has been EOL so long that there are no parts to repair it anymore. So I guess I am getting a newer phone now. I am not happy about it. Feh. 000
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Remember back when being casual or even good friends with a person didn't require literal daily updates on everything they were thinking 010
Reposted by HalTalon Fast @talonfast.com · 21/07/2026Incredible things happening in Toronto 111451432
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Turns out my midlife crisis involved finally buying a subscription to History Hit. 110
Reposted by HalRob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 18/07/2026based on the trailer alone I don't think Chris Nolan even played Mario Odyssey 544926767
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I would like to upgrade the quality of my couch from "found it free on the curb" to "paid 50-to-100 bucks on Marketplace". The space it needs to occupy is kind of a weird shape, though, so this could take a while. 030
Reposted by HalGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/07/2026One thing I would love is if, when a straight white guy “sees the light” and joins the left, he would volunteer for a community group and like knock doors for someone who’d been on the left for ages instead of immediately wanting to be the candidate. It’d be like a litmus test for if they’re serious 183936685
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Doing things makes my body hurt so much the next day. I seem to have slightly more stamina than a couple years ago but this is still a thing. I am paying now for the pride festival yesterday. 150
Reposted by HalTwin Cities Geek @twincitiesgeek.com · 27/06/2026Twin Cities Geek is at the Geek Partnership Society booth at Pride all day today! Find us at #523–524 in the orange area, along the north side of the tennis courts. #TCPride #TwinCitiesGeeks 0121
Reposted by HalDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I finally figured out why AI causes such a visceral reaction in thinking humans: I am writing my book chapter on PLAY, and AI is the opposite of play. We play for the joy of the process, not for the outcome. Yes it is nice to win, to have the art/ poem, but the point of life is to play. 181196328
Reposted by HalDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 06/07/2025one of my favorite running bits on PARKS & RECREATION was the myriad of baroquely and increasingly racist and deranged murals in the Pawnee City Hall, and then I moved to Minnesota and 2019 and realized that our state flag was literally the PARKS & REC mural bit 🤷🤷🤷 412315
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I just found out they make zip-up 3-ring binders with carrying straps now. Back in the '90s when my middle school said we could not use backpacks anymore, I DIY'd one of these with my sewing machine. 11-year-old me could have been rich. 030
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 13/06/2026"Look at this thing and be mad!" is the absolute worst genre of social media account. If you follow an account or page what's content is mostly this, please unfollow it for your own mental health. Really, please, think critically about this. It matters. 040
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 13/06/2026There are two kinds of physical tiredness: Sleepy and floaty and groggy or Gravity feels extra powerful right now 010
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Prediction: When venture capitalists stop subsidizing AI to the degree it has been, tokens will get very, very expensive and every company will give a directive to eliminate as much non-essential AI as possible. 140
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 01/06/2026If you were wondering how many radical queers are on Mastodon, every year I post a pile of bricks for Pride there and every year it goes viral lol 020
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Being gifted in memory means you carry things with you in ways most people don't. It requires a higher skill level of emotional processing to deal with in a healthy, non-toxic way. 030
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 29/05/2026ADHD/face blindness pro tip: Don't ever say, "nice to meet you". Instead, say, "happy to know you." That way if you've already met in the past it still applies. Now you can be super slick like me in this specific circumstance. I'm 40 and full of this kind of practical wisdom now. 260
Reposted by HalThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 28/05/2026NEW ESSAY — In the Middle Ages, rumours spread across Europe of a strange hybrid creature, half-animal, half-plant, known as the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. Thom Sliwowski traces the roots of this fabled zoophyte: publicdomainreview.org/essay/animal... 514342
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 27/05/2026In part because of health challenges and in part because of all of the immense losses of the past year, I'm finding it so difficult to care about CONvergence #CVG2026 volunteering this year. But I made myself do some stuff this month. 140
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Somehow Twin Cities Geek got on a PR distribution list specifically promoting Finnish game developer news. Not a complaint. 040
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 18/05/2026The more I age, the more uncomfortable clothing seems to be. Or just having anything touch my skin. Energy based life forms don't have this problem. 110
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Keep killing keyboards with my apparently aggressive typing. Should probably stop being a cheap mf and invest in one with hot swappable switces 020
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 03/05/2026My neighbor Julie shared some durian fruit with me. Anyway white girl likes durian, that is all. 020
Reposted by HalLaurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Many people crying in Minneapolis today and some of it is the emotions of being together at things like the parade and some of it is allergies and some of it is Joe Ryan getting hurt and leaving the Twins game. 3242
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 28/04/2026How's this for a flex? My phone is EOL (which means they're never gonna push AI anything onto it 😎) 020
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 25/04/2026It's not easy to get me actually mad at you, but it's not impossible. I suppose I would just say: if you observe that I am genuinely prepared to hurl vitriol towards an individual, take note. It probably will occur offline. 010
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 24/04/2026When I talk to a person my age or older who seems to have the same opinions that I had when I was a teenager, I kind of just stop listening to them. There's no way I can shove 20+ years of growth and learning into that conversation anyway. 180
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Last night at a house party, someone asked me whether I believe in miracles, so I told her I believe in quantum entanglement, which satisfied her. 060
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 19/04/2026The problem with responding to your DMs is once you do it everybody sends back even more messages that you now have to respond to. 130
Hal @tlhinganhom.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I think folks who experience nostalgia for a lot of things likely had a very different first couple decades than I did. 040