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Chris H

@cherdt.bsky.social

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Hello stranger. I live in the Twin Cities, which is how you pronounce Saint Paul. I spend too much time in front of the computer when I should be on my bicycle. I work in infosec. he/him/his

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Chris H @cherdt.bsky.social · 5d

People share links all the time and I have to say:

Y'all put up with way more mediocre content than I am willing to tolerate

Chris H @cherdt.bsky.social · 8d

I was weirded out by numerous people stopping outside my house to take pictures today

Then I realized the maple out front is peak fall color right now, a spectacular specimen

Chris H @cherdt.bsky.social · 13d

There's always been a gilded palace at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave

Chris H @cherdt.bsky.social · 13d

When I read that O Superman charted in the UK 🤯

Chris H @cherdt.bsky.social · 13d

You're an Alaskan pollock. You find yourself caught in a net. Oh no, you say. I'm finally caught! My untimely demise because I'm highly prized and delicious!

Er, well, says the fisherman. You'll actually be mashed up and turned into imitation crab. Sorry to break it to you.

Chris H @cherdt.bsky.social · 14d

I am way ahead of my cats with basic snap-traps (I deploy them in the basement where the cats aren't allowed)

Chris H @cherdt.bsky.social · 14d

The literal and figurative demolition of the White House

Chris H @cherdt.bsky.social · 16d

Written poetry has given us line breaks and stanzas and SHOUTING and (e e cummings)

which both augment

and subvert

the form

Chris H @cherdt.bsky.social · 16d

My neighbor posited that poetry is the most democratic of art forms

If you can read and write, he said, you can create a poem

But it's even more democratic than that, poetry is an oral tradition!

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Chris H @cherdt.bsky.social · 19d

When I first heard a co-worker say he won the meat raffle at the bar I thought that meant he hooked up with someone!

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Chris H @cherdt.bsky.social · 19d

Anyone who calls themself a "thought leader" I'm not following

Chris H @cherdt.bsky.social · 20d

If you mean Abogados it's typically very quiet there

Chris H @cherdt.bsky.social · 26d

"Intentionality and presence toward labor is a luxury. To be able to put time and labor into things other than pure productivity is something we're pushed away from"

Do the tools that help make us more productive make work less fulfilling? What would William Morris say?

mndaily.com/295657/opini...

Opinion: Faster means faker

Faster means faker. We’re losing access to our simple material pleasures as convenience culture sucks the joy out of everything good and enriching. Our simple material and hedonistic pleasures are...

mndaily.com

Chris H @cherdt.bsky.social · 28d

I enjoy both those things but I have never paired them and your endorsement has me unconvinced!

Chris H @cherdt.bsky.social · 29d

The things I despise most about running events are the DJs and the music. It's too much that early in the morning.

However, if they're going to be there, I do expect them to play "Gonna Fly Now" (the theme from Rocky).

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