Extreme Philately!

My accountability blog (formerly "The secret diary of Essaressellwye, aged 36 1/2")

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Accountability post w/e October 10, 2025

Write

Make basket

Replace house slippers

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Accountability post w/e October 3, 2025

יום כיפור

Write

Model Pratchett head

Animate

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Accountability post w/e Sept 26, 2025

ראש השנה

Pick up new computer and load up software

Price tablets bought

Model head

Write

Make med appt

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Accountability post w/e Sept 19, 2025

Write

Pick up rest of area around desk

Replace house slippers Deferred to October

Look into replacements for Notion Changed mind

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Thru Sept 12, 2025

Pick a writing project Lion Historian

Do character design for animation

Model the head for the printing project defered until I get a new computer

Pick up area around desk

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Next Tuesday is the beginning of the end of the beginning of the mayoral election. (Final results won't be available until July 1st, I believe).

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Final results will be available July 22. Hopefully earlier, because Board of Elections employees wil be working 12-hour days making them available

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Take me, for example. I'm into X-TREME YOGA.

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This speaks to me for some reason

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Pay phone bill

Make arrangements for electric bill

Write 5 pp

Get baseball tickets

Catch up on menu planning

Fix printer

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Accountability post w/e March 26, 2023

Call dentist

Ask about EV

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Accountability post w/e March 5, 2023

Add card on Amazon

Write 5 pp

Put in for the 7th

Get kitchen stuff (after 3/1)

Pay down (by 3/3)

Call dentist

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Accountability post w/e Feb 26, 2023

Ask

Pay down — postponed for reasons entirely within my control

Put in for the 7th -- postponed for reasons out of my control

Call dentist — postponed for no particular reason

Get back about the tickets

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First!

A Facebook friend linked to this Salon piece describing a Paul Krugman op-ed from The New York Times—I swear there's a horse under here somewhere—in which he takes loud exception to the "Republicrat" notion, pointing out the differences between the parties.

I'm actually a firm believer in voting for the candidate, not the party, for executive positions such as President (the calculus gets more complicated with members of legislatures and other bodies; a Republican-controlled legislative house will advance Republican—ergo harmful—policies, even if the specific Republican who represents me has only sensible ideas), though, for what it's worth, a LessWrong post I cannot find suggests there's little practical distinction between voting for the candidate and voting for the party. This seems to somewhat be Krugman's point: the announced and possible (and refused, for that matter, such as Elizabeth Warren) Democratic candidates have positions very similar to each other's, and starkly different from those of the announced and likely Republican candidates.

I often see dimesworthers, in the places on the internet where I spend my time, and they annoy me out of proportion to a reaonable amount. Dimeswortherism is a reflection of privilege, a position available to people for whom the only issues are abstract. I suspect some of them are insincere, or at least aren't thinking their opinions through; they confuse "both major parties are to the right—or left, as the case may be—of me" with "both major parties are the same." To people whose day-to-day lives are highly vulnerabl to reasonably likely state action, the differences are clear.