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Just try your best, try everything you can
And don't you worry what they tell themselves
When you're away

Today I decided to name my moody GI.

Güd Schlitz

Funny, as someone who works with PDFs every weekday, I loathe the format more than almost any other. adweek.com/creativity/adobes-hilarious-office-space-sendup-starring-hasan-minhaj-is-a-tribute-to-30-years-of-the-pdf/

"There is no difference between afterward and afterwards. Neither is more correct or incorrect than the other, and both appear throughout the English-speaking world."

WHEW.

grammarist.com/usage/afterward-afterwards/

I have an Instagram account so I can see what my wife posts. (Bike racing accounts kind of snuck in there afterward.) I don't have a FB account. I don't know my Insta password and tried to recover it the other day but never got the recovery txt/email/whatever.

I don't know how to find Threads and I don't care.

Jai Hindley won today's stage of the Tour de France and took the yellow jersey. This is exciting for a number of reasons. He's already only the 2nd Australian to win a grand tour (the '22 Giro d'Italia), and now the 8th Australian to wear yellow at the Tour. It's exciting to potentially have a 3rd serious contender for the overall. And he's got a great name and seems like a good human. I played some Australian music in his honor today.

Ugh, I miss The Sundays. They're getting me through this afternoon.

independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/july-4-mass-shootings-gun-violence-b2369953.html

It's getting the point where the only viable option I have to keep my family safe is to figure out how to leave the USA. Last night as the (illegal) fireworks near my neighborhood went on well past midnight, they were interspersed with automatic gunfire. I was waiting for a bullet to come through the roof or a wall.

Potentially unpopular opinion: I don't like Apple's emoji designs. I prefer whatever I get on Ubuntu. Don't use Windows enough to know or care about those.

Reason: they're a little over-designed and shiny, and conflict with the current design trend of flat and more monochrome. They feel left over from Apple's skeuomorphic design days.

In general, I dislike the fact that any software maker can implement their own emoji designs. It's unwanted cognitive load. I dislike Discord's as well.