PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they're certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start: go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off

back on

I am now watching the final Holomyth full collab on my phone in the pitch blackness of my living room. It feels strangely appropriate.

Sitting in my driveway to post after going out to investigate, I just saw a power co truck go by hauling a new pole.

Yup. Pole down on the road out of town. They must have had to shut off the power to this section to make the situation safe for the emergency and repair crews.

The power just went out. I wonder if that has anything to do with all the sirens that have been racing by on the road out to the lake in the last few minutes. The relation would seem to be backward, but...

:(

Cider donuts always make me think of going to Ballston Lake with @mzmegazone.bsky.social#nostalgia

Oh, so that's where his office is.

Oh, cool! I first heard of King/Queen's Messengers in, of all things, Simon Winchester's biography of Joseph Needham, THE MAN WHO LOVED CHINA (UK title BOMB, BOOK & COMPASS), where one appears as a sort of guide on Needham's first visit to wartime China. It sounded like they were a pretty big deal.