Re- #intro / #introduction I am a software engineer and have lived in the Chicago area my whole life. I have been on fediverse since 2017. This
is my personal account. #StarTrek , film, gaming, politics, music, #Chicago. See @wakingrufus@mastodon.technology for my tech account. See my pins and bio for more.
My #Criterion Challenge 2021 Recap: https://wakingrufus.neocities.org/criterion-2021.html
My year-end music list: https://wakingrufus.neocities.org/music-2021.html
Shout out to my album of the year: To See the Next Part of the Dream by Parannoul
My dad and I had a chat yesterday and we were, in our typical way, reading the world for filth.
My dad then talked about how if the unions were as strong today as they were in his day, we’d be in a much much better position to crack these greedy, murderous, cruel bastards right in their noggin.
And I realised that not only does he have a very valid point, that’s the first time any elder of mine has said an In My Day statement and I’ve agreed with them.
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Good riddance to Ken Griffin https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/06/23/ken-griffin-illinois-richest-man-moving-citadel-headquarters-to-miami/
happy Captain Picard Day to those who celebrate
I know people shit on The Good Place and the politics of both it and its creator but if you’ve seen the show, the people who run the real good place (Paul Scheer and his crew) are the perfect distillation of democrat brain I have ever seen in media
Your mastodon theme of the day:
guitar rag (1948) - crazy tooters
https://archive.org/details/78_guitar-rag_crazy-tooters-g-pietro_gbia0129207b
btw here's an article about how a book by a computer nerd about his armchair beliefs about cities became the fundamental assumptions of sim city and from there many other games in the genre
I have lived in the Chicago area my whole life. This
is my personal account.
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