I 3d printed and painted this guy.

My mother died from cancer three weeks ago. I held her face and stroked her hair as she passed away. I whispered to her the entire time, I told her that she’d done a great job, that she was loved and safe and that I hoped she had an easy journey. It’s a transformative thing to watch someone you love take their last breath. Hardest thing I’ve ever done and I’m proud and honored that I was able to bear witness to her transition out of this life. Heartbroken and shattered, but also proud. Fuck cancer.

Couple weeks back, but this is still one of the things I’m most proud to have ever done in my life

My friend works security at a bar. He texts me a pic of a guy sitting at the bar wearing a shirt with some SS lightning bolts, and said the girl he was with was wearing them too.

They’re not otherwise causing a problem, so the manager won’t let my friend kick these guys out, but he really wanted to.

I’m at work, probably 5 miles away, and I can’t leave to go start a ruckus. But I like this bar and I’ll be damned if I let Nazis get a foothold there.

So I think through my options. I remember that the bar has a jukebox with an app you can queue songs up on. I open up that app and see that I, for some reason, have a ton of credits on there.

And even better, you don’t actually even need to be at the bar to play songs there.

So I begin queuing up every anti-nazi, anti-fascist, anti-racist song I could find.

According to my friend, after a couple songs he got visibly frustrated and steps outside to have a cigarette as All You Fascists Bound to Lose comes on (sadly the jukebox did not have much Woody Guthrie, so I had to settle for the Billy Bragg and Wilco version)

He comes back inside and is created with Youth Against Fascism by Sonic Youth.

I keep it up. I find a version of Bella Ciao to play, Racist Friend by The Specials, This Is America, etc.

This bar has their jukebox set to a family friendly mode, since they also operate as a restaurant during the day. This limited my options somewhat, but I managed to put together a pretty solid dozen or so songs.

He starts looking around the bar, trying to figure out who is playing all this music obviously targeted at him. Of course I’m not even in the same town, so he finds nothing. My friend is keeping busy checking IDs and such at the door and occasionally texting me an update.

At some point in the middle of this someone queued up a single kid rock song, and I strongly suspect it was them.

It only took about an hour and they decided to close out their tab. He walks out to Michael Jackson’s They Don’t Care about Us.

But that’s not the end of this. I’m on a warpath now. I fire up a throwaway Google account and leave a 1 star review of the bar complaining about the Nazi. This causes a bit of stir with the management, and my friend is successfully able to argue for more authority to throw Nazis out.

Nazi punks can fuck off.

I managed to… um… not die… cuz a part of me really just wanna kms for some reason…

I got back in bed cause it’s cold AF outside and at work.

I have a 20 week streak going for exercise, both cycling and lifting weights, with 77 days total that I’ve exercised on. For the last 8 weeks, I’ve been active for at least 25 minutes every day of the week, even if it’s just walking the dogs. My blood pressure is down an average of nine points and my pants are getting loose again.

Today was rough. It was a bit too cold and windy for good cycling, and the route I picked (because I thought it would be better protected from the wind) had a lot of hills. I only managed to ride 12 miles in the same amount of time it normally takes me to ride 15.

But goddamn it, I did it anyway.

Might qualify more for !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world but I recently replaced the oxygen sensor on my Subaru all on my own, after 3 years of putting up with a check engine light.

I made @Ulrich@feddit.org lose their shit and go on a mass reporting spree on my comments. 🤣

reminds me of that scene in clerks 2

I made fun of OpenAI so hard, it made some super geek puke all over the counter. Where do we keep the mop and bucket so I can have Elias clean it up?

I improved one of my boardgames with 48 unique 3d printed spaceship designs

Just like to say thanks for making this post. Provided me with at least 15-20 mins of entertainment, plus these kinds of posts seem to bring everyone together in a wholesome way.

In terms of what I’m happy about recently, not much, but I have a little time off from work atm, and I treated myself to a new guitar pedal. Sounds great and I’ve been loving playing around with it the past couple days. Managed to start learning some songs I’ve been wanting to play for ages. It’s satisfying nailing guitar tones or interesting riffs.

I replaced my 3-beers-a-day habit with a new bicycle-30-miles-a-day habit.
Still kind of an addiction, but one I can live and raise a son with.

About a month ago I got a new job with a bunch of very smart people. This week I was making some tests about how good some architecture designs where and some tools we could use to ease our work.

Today I sent a text detailing everything about the tools, which was best and how we could structure everything to use it to its fullest potential and how we could make some grear documentation with it.

2 (out of the 3) people I admire a lot where impressed by it and left comments and heart emojis. And my boss told his boss I’m really good and “A damn lucky find” :D

I wound my own common mode choke to reduce noise in the power line for my mobile radio

Finished this lil guy 🖖 Probably the last job of the year

I just wrapped my kids’ Christmas presents and put them under the tree. I really took my time this year too.