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Nice to see the profile in courage from Thom Tillis of North Carolina resulting in a drunk with no relevant experience being put in charge of the Dept. of Defense.
After years of having one and never using it my LinkedIn account is gone in the purge of social media accounts. Maybe I'll change my mind on that one in the next two weeks but not likely.
Thank god there is football on this weekend. Certainly more entertaining than the rest of this week has been between Trump and micro.blog/omg.lol.
Super excited to see the announcement of the Kurzweil K20 series synthesizers at NAMM 2025. I owned a K2000 back in the day and its VAST synthesis architecture was way ahead of it's time. It's great to see a modern version!
I've said what I have to say about the current Indieweb dust-up and the absolutely shitty behavior on display. This type of thing is what finally pushed me off of social media today. The zealotry of the Left I am seeing on Mastodon and Bluesky is alarming. This

Crusaders and Zealots (was Torches and pitchforks)

(updated below. title updated too to make Adam Newbold feel better) (related post here) I will start this post by saying Manton Reece doesn't need me to defend him. Over the years he's been a leader in the Indieweb space and always known for being very

A reminder: my micro posts have their own RSS feed

Since I'm not on social media I'll just be yelling into the void here in micro posts. To keep the noise down from my main RSS feed I removed posts tagged with "micro" and put them in their own feed: https://blog.jasonkratz.me/

Off of social media completely

I did not intend to make some grand announcement of leaving social media but for anyone who I regularly talked with on Mastodon or Bluesky who might wonder where I went this is where. People have absolutely lost their minds and it's just gotten worse since Monday. I

The end of Schwan's home delivery

Yelloh, the frozen food delivery service formerly called Schwan’s Home Delivery, which had once been known for its reach with rural Americans and its direct-to-consumer business model, is closing its doors on Friday after decades of decline. I refuse to call it "Yelloh". It's like

Restoration Done Right

From Michelle Nijhuis in Conservation Works: On October 16, just three weeks before Election Day, biologists from the Klamath Tribes and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife spotted a Chinook salmon swimming upstream from all four Klamath dam sites — the first salmon seen in that part of the basin