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		<title>state of the blog, two: re-socialized</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I haven’t been giving this poor blog the attention it deserves, I admit it. Other shiny things have captured my attention for the moment, tho the cycle of indifference will inevitably circle back around and you’ll once again wonder where I find the time to fill these pages with so much drivel. I am a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What did you want this year …but not get? It was something ineffable.&#160; Because all I really wanted this year was some kind of reassurance, clinging to the frosty winter air, that the raw stupid of modern society might be waning, that people have started to see through the fog of misinformation and impending societal [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Describe your 2025 in politics, culture, and the universe? No. Ugh. Ok.&#160; I’ll bite &#8230;a little bit, for the blog. I was doing a little experiment the other week. I had a perfectly good reason to post a pointless video clip on social media the other day, but I didn’t want to use my main [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 02:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is your perspective on the culture of 2025? Can I write what I really want to write here without getting put on a list somewhere that prevents me from crossing borders? Hmm… I mean, you’re online. You’re almost certainly reading this on a screen, in a web browser, through a magic wire that connects [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>social games, three</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I spent an hour curating.&#160; Look, I’m sorry: If you follow me and I follow back, that’s the powerade of what is supposed to make social media work—but if I open up the feed and literally the only thing you do on there is repost angry memes and incite capital-lettered ranting commentary above links to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2025 15:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have been writing code for nearly as long as I have been using computers—which, ugh, it sparks my nostalgic angst fuse to write it but that was in grade school in the nineteen eighties.&#160; To that point, I have been coding increasingly more and more these last few years, and making more and more [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>social games, two</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We all start to sound a bit like junkies when we ponder aloud the idea of fleeing the social platforms once and for good, weaning ourselves off our feeds, setting limits and goals and self moderation parameters, or screaming digital curses to the gods of going cold turkey. It has been a week. A fucking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2023 02:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This may seem a bit silly, but I started editing together little one minute videos of my dog and posting them on Youtube. We go for a long walk, explore some trails, capture some 4k footage on my phone or go pro camera. I have a couple of these that I did with my last [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Welcome to the Fediverse</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2022 04:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[December 16 of 31 December-ish posts I think it&#8217;s fair to say that for anyone who has been online this year, 2022 has revealed itself as another parade of madness in the growing poli-cultural mishmash that we call modern society. I&#8217;ve decided to take a year long break from corporate social media for my forty-sixth year on this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>when they go high (tech) we go low (tech)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2022 15:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[December 1 of 31 December-ish posts. Oh, how those billionaires-who-shall-not-be-named would factor into a good political-type post that I&#8217;m sure would attract all sorts of readers like wasps to a honeypot. How would I&#8230; should I describe my 2022 in tech or tools? As the year wraps up I&#8217;ve dabbled in what I&#8217;m (right now) [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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