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Today I am "one more 'til 50" years old

Readers: I'm processing a LOT of stuff these days, and I'm reading some recommended books by Black authors about the structural racism in our nation, so writing here on the blog will be... sporadic. Brain is full, do not have concrete opinions to post right now.

My wife gets awfully competitive when we play head-to-head Ticket to Ride #games https://www.daysofwonder.com/tickettoride/en/

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Wow, Phil Vischer, creator of the wildly popular (in the 2000s) Veggie Tales christian kids series and voice of Bob the Tomato, made a video discussing the history of race in America:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGUwcs9qJXY&feature=emb_logo

It's amazing, and I'm going to link to some similar videos from black creators, but thought this is a great intro for us white evangelicals who are just getting our heads straight.

TFW you're teetering on the edge between using the #microformats library to find h-cards and their properties and writing an entirely new wrapper to make finding #webmention comments "easy"

Cynicism, sarcasm, and snark are defense mechanisms against difficult feelings, and I'm trying to set them aside and "sit with" the things I'm processing right now.

One thing I remain impressed about with #golang: I almost never see "alternate libraries" for things like http, networking, html parsing. The builtins are good and well-documented, and there's a culture of using what's provided.

“I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group.”

https://nationalseedproject.org/Key-SEED-Texts/white-privilege-unpacking-the-invisible-knapsack #bookmark #racism

White public radio host Peter Sagal shares about (1 instance of) the education white people get in this country https://twitter.com/petersagal/status/1274004959017697280

It's #juneteenth and some of my day is going to be spent educating myself #blacklivesmatter

Juneteenth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth #bookmark #holidays #blackhistory

There's simply too much variation in this (5-song) playlist. I better bring that down to the 2 songs I'm crushing on right now.

I might be hitting the wall on my Jekyll-inspired storage system for #goldfrog. GoldFrog uses Jekyll-style markdown posts as the "system of record", but read into SQLite for serving/searching content #webmention activity add a new type of data that I haven't figured out how to store yet.

Back to a nerd topic: implemented some of the #webmention server in my blog software this evening, and rearchitected the storage layer with an interface to make testing easier #golang

There a LOT of error cases when writing a #webmention server implementation #indieweb #goldfrog

Thought: Capitalism destroys culture because nothing has value beyond profit derived from its consumption.

We're number one #arizona #transmission #covid19 @dougducey

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Soon we are headed out to California for 5 days just to get out of Arizona for a bit. But this is not "vacation", this is "move the quarantine temporarily to another state". We realized this morning that planning family #travel is more complicated now, with way less mental energy available to plan.

What used to be pretty standard "get us out of the house for 5 days" activities now feel like huge tasks which we have to accomplish with our brains 94% occupied by #covid19 #blacklivesmatter #racism, and other current events. Just the idea of cleaning house (for the pet-sitter) feels insurmountable.

it-aint-pretty tags: covid19 title: Arizona and COVID19 - it ain't pretty twitter_id: "1272883580348194817" twitter_url: https://twitter.com/steveivy/status/1272883580348194817

Governor Ducey - please take action NOW #covid19

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Side effect of doing most of my social media posting starting at my own site... refreshing monkinetic.blog to see if there's new content #meta