At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I\u2019ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I\u2019ll revisit my social media posts serves, I\u2019ve found, as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. Some items\u00a0show up\u00a0on disquiet.com before this post, in which case I don\u2019t repeat them. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at\u00a0post.lurk.org\/@disquiet<\/a>), and I\u2019m also trying out\u00a0a few others<\/a>. And I generally take weekends off social media.<\/p>\n \u25b0\u00a0When you\u2019re auto-transcribing a rough draft of an interview and \u201cVery strange indeed\u201d comes out as \u201cQuest spring and jundee,\u201d which is very strange indeed<\/p>\n \u25b0\u00a0Robert Plant is playing Hardly Strictly Bluegrass<\/a>, a late announcement. He was incredible the last time he played the festival.<\/p>\n \u25b0\u00a0It\u2019s fun to make a good joke on Instagram (where I am @dsqt<\/a>). Philip Glass posted this photo of a work-in-progress<\/a>, and if you look closely you\u2019ll see the actual music has been blurred out. I don\u2019t think any comment of mine on Instagram has gotten more than a handful of likes previously.<\/p>\n \u25b0\u00a0I know I live in a heavily and longtime Russian (among many other cultures) neighborhood<\/a> but this is the first time in 30 years I\u2019ve seen someone wearing a Dostoyevsky t-shirt.<\/p>\n (Someone humorously replied<\/a> online: \u201cOh you like Dostoyevsky? Name five of their songs.\u201d)<\/p>\n \u25b0\u00a0No music at the barbershop today, but there was this nugget:<\/p>\n Customer: \u201cWhat\u2019s longer than three?\u201d<\/p>\n Barber: \u201cFour.\u201d<\/p>\n \u25b0\u00a0Animal control caught the apex kitty<\/a> so it\u2019s safe to end the week with a walk to the ocean. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n \t\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/disquiet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/pg-1-1120x830.png\")
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