Jim Donahue

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Dogs. Baking. Music. Movies. Books. TV. The occasional joke.

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Of all the many dumb jokes I've made on various social media sites over the years, this is in my personal top 5. Heck, top 3.

Whenever an email begins "I'd like to gauge your interest in ...," my eyes immediately glaze over.

We are now officially a banana republic.

Of all the many dumb jokes I've made on various social media sites over the years, this is in my personal top 5. Heck, top 3.

Got a new bank card in the mail. The back says "Not valid unless signed," but the signing area is impervious to every ballpoint pen I own. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Seeing "bad actors" in a news story (in the sense of someone with ill intent, criminal or otherwise) always makes me think Tommy Wiseau is under investigation.

From a column I'm posting today: "There are also global data privacy regulation frameworks, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), ... Germany's Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG), ..." German is such a musical language!

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Saturday! Join me for a streaming celebration of the recently departed with Martin Mull, Donald Sutherland, Shelley Duvall, Bill Cobbs, and more! Features! Shorts! Music! Glamour! Glitter! Fashion! Fame! Starting 8pm Central on 7/13 at app.kosmi.io/room/@dekkop...!

How Taylor Swift chose to honor my birthday.

OMG! If I wanted my timeline to be 90% people arguing with trolls, I'd go back to using X.

Doing a lot of unfollowing again. (Not you! I'll always follow you!)

With Overdrive, when I suggested my library system get a particular e-book, I was successful 90% of the time. It has never happened with Libby's "Notify me" function.

OK, I'm behind on these things, but the S2 finale of "Reservation Dogs" is super moving. I got all teared up.

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What are red states mad about now? Oh.

What's Jim Listening To? for 7/9: Streaming: A YouTube playlist of B-sides by Prefab Sprout. Paddy McAloon has made it clear that he doesn't want an official B-sides collection to be released, and I simply don't get it. Not all gems, but some great songs here.

Doing a lot of unfollowing again. (Not you! I'll always follow you!)

Literally every day since I ended my NY Times subscription has made me glad that I did that.

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Has anyone seen an explanation for why AI makes up fake letters and can't spell when using real letters on graphics (like those awful Kindle "books")? It doesn't do this in text, as far as I'm aware. That seems so strange to me.

What are red states mad about now? Oh.

@jessrock.bsky.social I was wondering if you've been getting this one too. bsky.app/profile/othe...

The latest AI crapfest Amazon has repeatedly promoted at me. "Inne waley tiips to ling sustaiinably."

Norma Tanega, "You're Dead" (1966, I think?). youtu.be/Zd2Prf-D-_8?...

What is your favorite TV theme song that already existed as a song before the show was created? (Like The Wire using “Way Down in the Hole.”)

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What's the best episode of television you've ever seen?

What’s the best episode of television you’ve ever seen?

This Jill Sobule song continues to be relevant. Heard Babe Ruth was full of malice Lewis Carroll I'm sure did Alice youtu.be/xlsAdYjUzI4?...

Heroesyoutu.be Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Heroes · Jill Sobule Pink Pearl ℗ 2005 Eagle Rock Entertainment Ltd Released on: 2005-01-01 Associated Performer, Vocals, Guitar, Synthesizer, Digital Piano, Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer, Mixer, Producer: Jill Sobule Associated Performer, Piano: Neil Rosengarden Associated Performer, Bass Guitar: Michael Rhodes Associated Performer, Drums: Mickey Grimm Associated Performer, Clapping, Voices: Cast Of Thousands Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer, Mixer, Producer: Brad Jones Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer, Mixer, Producer: Robin Eaton Studio Personnel, Engineer: Jason Lehning Studio Personnel, Engineer: David Henry Studio Personnel, Engineer: Eli Shaw Studio Personnel, Mastering Engineer: Steve Hall Composer Lyricist: Jill Sobule Composer Lyricist: Robin Eaton Auto-generated by YouTube.

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"I spent a lot of money in that CVS, often multiple times a week, week after week, for years. If I wasn’t their very best customer on the consumer good side, I would like to meet my competition. And they drove me away, while providing me no mechanism to tell them why." itself.blog/2024/06/15/w...

What is the economy even for?itself.blog In my household, I am in charge of keeping us stocked with cleaning products and shared toiletries. For many years, this has been remarkably easy, because there is a CVS Pharmacy two blocks from our h...

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We should make the "this is fine" meme our new national flag.

When did "impacted" kill off "affected"? Well, maybe not killed, but I bet I see "impacted" 10 times as often as "affected."

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I've seen enough -- this is the most radical, dangerous, arrogant, out-of-control Supreme Court in American history, and it needs to be treated as such. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...

The Radical Roberts Courtopen.substack.com The current Supreme Court of the United States has just cemented its place in history as the most radical Supreme Court ever. For a century and a half, that dishonor has gone to the antebellum court l...

What's Jim Listening To? for 7/1 LP: Renaissance, "Ashes Are Burning" (1973): OMG, "Carpet of the Sun" is unbelievably beautiful. Scored for $1.99 at Mr. Cheapo's on Saturday! Only a few pops.