Weeknotes 10: RAW photo processing, Wet Leg, Lou Barlow, the collapse of the U.S.
We were waiting for our food at Pho Luca’s on Thursday night and this giant parade of cyclists rode by. I used the Not Boring !Camera app to snap a RAW photo and later ran it through RNI Films set to Agfa Optima 200 Warm. I like the result!
Making things vs. just sitting around
Wouldn’t it be better if the rest of this post included stuff I had actually made myself instead of random things I found and listened to? Huh.
Music
Wet Leg — davina mccall
Bill Callahan — Cowboy
Lou Barlow playing “K-Sensa-My” on his podcast — Hearing Lou get out the baritone ukulele again is a cosmic event like when certain planets only align every 40 years.
Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death | The Guardian
Painstakingly pieced together from hundreds of small notebooks, most of the new works are thought to have been written in the bohemian bistros of Montmartre in Paris where Satie worked as a pianist in the early decades of the 20th century.
Links
Liberty Lost podcast — Easily the most wrenching podcast I’ve ever heard. Leave it to Jerry Falwell to twist any potentially good parts of adoption into something evil.
2025-06-30 Emacs news :: Sacha Chua — When you read Emacs News, visit the blogs and Mastodon profiles of people who write things that stick out for you. You’ll find interesting folks this way!
https://awfulwoman.com/ — I love Charlie O’Hara’s homepage layout. Just a list a posts.
Framework 12 and ElementaryOS — This guy covered all the things I was wondering about: build quality, the keyboard, assembly, and the comparison of Elementary OS to macOS. Plus, those laptops aren’t that expensive.
Andy Craig on H.R.1 — 119th Congress (2025-2026) | Bluesky
Tax cuts for the wealthy are not and should not be the headline focus here. They just voted to create, on an incomprehensibly massive scale, a combination of secret police and occupying army dedicated to a project of ethnic cleansing and suppressing dissent. That’s where we are.