Shmick Shmoisen
@sshmoisen.bsky.social
Suburban Minnesota, south of the river. Coaching, Reffing, Hockey, Baseball, SciFi, Fantasy, Clinical Research. Oh, and pretty sure ADD.
kicking around lots of thoughts in my head, not long form, but also not short form either. Time to dust off the old half-assed blog? what's a good platform these days?
August 13, 2026 at 8:58 PM
kicking around lots of thoughts in my head, not long form, but also not short form either. Time to dust off the old half-assed blog? what's a good platform these days?
Huge internet outage in MSP for almost 90 minutes now. MSP airport is in a ground stop as ATC office is offline. Flights are reportedly being diverted out of MSP airspace and no radar coverage available. Government buildings and early voting centers reporting outages.
August 6, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Huge internet outage in MSP for almost 90 minutes now. MSP airport is in a ground stop as ATC office is offline. Flights are reportedly being diverted out of MSP airspace and no radar coverage available. Government buildings and early voting centers reporting outages.
Between the general public response to the mangione case and to de-flocking city cameras, it's pretty amazing to see comment sections and public discourse in agreement.
We want healthcare and we don't want surveillance.
Seems like a slam dunk platform, if any politicians are paying attention.
We want healthcare and we don't want surveillance.
Seems like a slam dunk platform, if any politicians are paying attention.
I'm not sure what I think of the collective response to today's assassination (that's what it was).
I don't think I've ever experienced this before aside from news of war criminals and terrorist deaths. Nearly every social media platform has the same sentiment.
I don't think I've ever experienced this before aside from news of war criminals and terrorist deaths. Nearly every social media platform has the same sentiment.
August 6, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Between the general public response to the mangione case and to de-flocking city cameras, it's pretty amazing to see comment sections and public discourse in agreement.
We want healthcare and we don't want surveillance.
Seems like a slam dunk platform, if any politicians are paying attention.
We want healthcare and we don't want surveillance.
Seems like a slam dunk platform, if any politicians are paying attention.
Migrating my cicada-frost index:
1st cicada to 1st frost (Dakota Cty)
2015: Jul28-Oct12 (11 weeks)
17: Jul24-Oct10 (11)
18: Jul4-Sep28 (12)
19: Jul12-Oct11 (13)
20: Jul4-Sep10 (10)
21: Aug6-Oct22 (11)
22: Jun30-Sep28 (13)
23: Jul3-Oct11 (14)
24: Jul19-Oct15 (12)
25: Jul31-Oct8 (10)
26: Jul15-?
1st cicada to 1st frost (Dakota Cty)
2015: Jul28-Oct12 (11 weeks)
17: Jul24-Oct10 (11)
18: Jul4-Sep28 (12)
19: Jul12-Oct11 (13)
20: Jul4-Sep10 (10)
21: Aug6-Oct22 (11)
22: Jun30-Sep28 (13)
23: Jul3-Oct11 (14)
24: Jul19-Oct15 (12)
25: Jul31-Oct8 (10)
26: Jul15-?
July 16, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Migrating my cicada-frost index:
1st cicada to 1st frost (Dakota Cty)
2015: Jul28-Oct12 (11 weeks)
17: Jul24-Oct10 (11)
18: Jul4-Sep28 (12)
19: Jul12-Oct11 (13)
20: Jul4-Sep10 (10)
21: Aug6-Oct22 (11)
22: Jun30-Sep28 (13)
23: Jul3-Oct11 (14)
24: Jul19-Oct15 (12)
25: Jul31-Oct8 (10)
26: Jul15-?
1st cicada to 1st frost (Dakota Cty)
2015: Jul28-Oct12 (11 weeks)
17: Jul24-Oct10 (11)
18: Jul4-Sep28 (12)
19: Jul12-Oct11 (13)
20: Jul4-Sep10 (10)
21: Aug6-Oct22 (11)
22: Jun30-Sep28 (13)
23: Jul3-Oct11 (14)
24: Jul19-Oct15 (12)
25: Jul31-Oct8 (10)
26: Jul15-?
"don't give up on asking our representatives to do something meaningful towards climate change! that's a defeatist attitude."
Me:
Me:
July 16, 2026 at 7:06 PM
"don't give up on asking our representatives to do something meaningful towards climate change! that's a defeatist attitude."
Me:
Me:
I implore you all to go to a MN Townball game this summer. It's about the only real, cheap entertainment left out there. There's about 20 games going on any given night, some get crowds of a couple hundred people.
July 11, 2026 at 1:05 AM
I implore you all to go to a MN Townball game this summer. It's about the only real, cheap entertainment left out there. There's about 20 games going on any given night, some get crowds of a couple hundred people.
Some kids found a decayed bone and teeth on the bank of a lake back in my hometown.
In the same park as this historical marker. And the Fairmont historian is honestly saying there's a chance that this may not be just a legend.
www.fairmontsentinel.com/news/local-n...
In the same park as this historical marker. And the Fairmont historian is honestly saying there's a chance that this may not be just a legend.
www.fairmontsentinel.com/news/local-n...
July 10, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Some kids found a decayed bone and teeth on the bank of a lake back in my hometown.
In the same park as this historical marker. And the Fairmont historian is honestly saying there's a chance that this may not be just a legend.
www.fairmontsentinel.com/news/local-n...
In the same park as this historical marker. And the Fairmont historian is honestly saying there's a chance that this may not be just a legend.
www.fairmontsentinel.com/news/local-n...
Reposted by Shmick Shmoisen
For my baseball trivia-heads. News from Minnesota townball, a 5K inning.
faribaultlakersbaseball.blogspot.com/2026/07/sect...
faribaultlakersbaseball.blogspot.com/2026/07/sect...
July 10, 2026 at 12:09 AM
For my baseball trivia-heads. News from Minnesota townball, a 5K inning.
faribaultlakersbaseball.blogspot.com/2026/07/sect...
faribaultlakersbaseball.blogspot.com/2026/07/sect...
I have missed a lot of interview and food review viral content because I simply cannot withstand watching and hearing people eat.
I've had extreme misophonia for as long as I can remember and I do not believe that treatment is necessary.
All of you loud chewers just need to stop eating.
I've had extreme misophonia for as long as I can remember and I do not believe that treatment is necessary.
All of you loud chewers just need to stop eating.
June 30, 2026 at 8:39 PM
I have missed a lot of interview and food review viral content because I simply cannot withstand watching and hearing people eat.
I've had extreme misophonia for as long as I can remember and I do not believe that treatment is necessary.
All of you loud chewers just need to stop eating.
I've had extreme misophonia for as long as I can remember and I do not believe that treatment is necessary.
All of you loud chewers just need to stop eating.
Reposted by Shmick Shmoisen
I'm very glad Rep. Kean was able to take time off of work and get treatment for his depression. Rep. Kean also voted for the OBBB, which will kick Americans who need to take a month from work to seek mental health treatment off of Medicaid because they're "able-bodied adults".
June 30, 2026 at 6:02 PM
I'm very glad Rep. Kean was able to take time off of work and get treatment for his depression. Rep. Kean also voted for the OBBB, which will kick Americans who need to take a month from work to seek mental health treatment off of Medicaid because they're "able-bodied adults".
I've been sending a bit of time on here to get acclimated and slowly build the feed. I've been flipping between x and here to try to find some of my old favorite accounts/follows from the migration but it's not a direct translation.
*into the algovoid*
I don't even know where to go for social media anymore, which really tells me that the dead internet theory is no longer theory.
I don't even know where to go for social media anymore, which really tells me that the dead internet theory is no longer theory.
June 29, 2026 at 7:40 PM
I've been sending a bit of time on here to get acclimated and slowly build the feed. I've been flipping between x and here to try to find some of my old favorite accounts/follows from the migration but it's not a direct translation.
Reposted by Shmick Shmoisen
I used to do a thing where I'd run/bike/hike on all of the extreme or weird weather days.
-28 F real temp? bundle up and run a 5k
Super Wolf Moon? Nightime long run
102 F plus humidity? 20-mile bike
I'm glad I got that out of my system in my 30s...
-28 F real temp? bundle up and run a 5k
Super Wolf Moon? Nightime long run
102 F plus humidity? 20-mile bike
I'm glad I got that out of my system in my 30s...
June 29, 2026 at 3:41 PM
I used to do a thing where I'd run/bike/hike on all of the extreme or weird weather days.
-28 F real temp? bundle up and run a 5k
Super Wolf Moon? Nightime long run
102 F plus humidity? 20-mile bike
I'm glad I got that out of my system in my 30s...
-28 F real temp? bundle up and run a 5k
Super Wolf Moon? Nightime long run
102 F plus humidity? 20-mile bike
I'm glad I got that out of my system in my 30s...
Coffee and Stormlight on the front porch while my grumpy, deaf, senior dalmatian growls at the morning delivery drivers.
June 27, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Coffee and Stormlight on the front porch while my grumpy, deaf, senior dalmatian growls at the morning delivery drivers.
Shoulda put a roof on it
June 27, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Shoulda put a roof on it
*tunes in to watch my first fifa world cup game in recent memory*
"We're the red and white team, right?! Right??"
"We're the red and white team, right?! Right??"
June 26, 2026 at 2:54 AM
*tunes in to watch my first fifa world cup game in recent memory*
"We're the red and white team, right?! Right??"
"We're the red and white team, right?! Right??"
went back to x to grab my tweet from almost 4 years ago informing the void that House of the Dragon has characters without any redeeming qualities on either side and that we're not supposed to like any of them.
Which is a bad premise for a spinoff tv series that has an incomplete story to boot.
Which is a bad premise for a spinoff tv series that has an incomplete story to boot.
June 25, 2026 at 9:27 PM
went back to x to grab my tweet from almost 4 years ago informing the void that House of the Dragon has characters without any redeeming qualities on either side and that we're not supposed to like any of them.
Which is a bad premise for a spinoff tv series that has an incomplete story to boot.
Which is a bad premise for a spinoff tv series that has an incomplete story to boot.
"Video Assessment" was quite painless. Took about 25 minutes.
9 questions: 6 required video responses (limited to 3 minute recordings each), 3 were written response questions.
Very general yet specific experience questions applicable to the role.
Tech worked seamlessly.
9 questions: 6 required video responses (limited to 3 minute recordings each), 3 were written response questions.
Very general yet specific experience questions applicable to the role.
Tech worked seamlessly.
just got a "video assessment request" for an initial screening interview for a job I applied to 8 months ago.
unfortunately/fortunately it's a job I really wanted, and still do, and it actually aligns with my experience.
but do I want to work for a company that takes 8 months to hire?
unfortunately/fortunately it's a job I really wanted, and still do, and it actually aligns with my experience.
but do I want to work for a company that takes 8 months to hire?
June 25, 2026 at 8:21 PM
"Video Assessment" was quite painless. Took about 25 minutes.
9 questions: 6 required video responses (limited to 3 minute recordings each), 3 were written response questions.
Very general yet specific experience questions applicable to the role.
Tech worked seamlessly.
9 questions: 6 required video responses (limited to 3 minute recordings each), 3 were written response questions.
Very general yet specific experience questions applicable to the role.
Tech worked seamlessly.
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I think fans of sports teams should normalize pressuring billionaire owners to divest from things that actively harm their communities.
Keep yelling at billionaires, tbh. It’s possible some of them can be shamed and/or are smart enough to listen to customers for business reasons.
Keep yelling at billionaires, tbh. It’s possible some of them can be shamed and/or are smart enough to listen to customers for business reasons.
Dodgers fullfill $1 million pledge in response to ICE raids. Owners divest from prison group.
Free and unlocked here: www.aol.com/sports/dodge...
Free and unlocked here: www.aol.com/sports/dodge...
Dodgers fulfill $1-million pledge in response to ICE raids, owners divest from prison group - AOL
The Dodgers followed through on a pledge made a year ago, donating $1.1 million to two foundations supporting those impacted by immigration raids in the Southland.
www.aol.com
June 24, 2026 at 7:21 PM
I think fans of sports teams should normalize pressuring billionaire owners to divest from things that actively harm their communities.
Keep yelling at billionaires, tbh. It’s possible some of them can be shamed and/or are smart enough to listen to customers for business reasons.
Keep yelling at billionaires, tbh. It’s possible some of them can be shamed and/or are smart enough to listen to customers for business reasons.
just got a "video assessment request" for an initial screening interview for a job I applied to 8 months ago.
unfortunately/fortunately it's a job I really wanted, and still do, and it actually aligns with my experience.
but do I want to work for a company that takes 8 months to hire?
unfortunately/fortunately it's a job I really wanted, and still do, and it actually aligns with my experience.
but do I want to work for a company that takes 8 months to hire?
June 24, 2026 at 4:05 PM
just got a "video assessment request" for an initial screening interview for a job I applied to 8 months ago.
unfortunately/fortunately it's a job I really wanted, and still do, and it actually aligns with my experience.
but do I want to work for a company that takes 8 months to hire?
unfortunately/fortunately it's a job I really wanted, and still do, and it actually aligns with my experience.
but do I want to work for a company that takes 8 months to hire?
Had to buy them to make sure we're not yet totally encapsulated in the matrix and surrounded by AI advertisements.
They're real. Taste like lemon cake. Not sure how many illegal food dyes were used but worth it.
They're real. Taste like lemon cake. Not sure how many illegal food dyes were used but worth it.
June 23, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Had to buy them to make sure we're not yet totally encapsulated in the matrix and surrounded by AI advertisements.
They're real. Taste like lemon cake. Not sure how many illegal food dyes were used but worth it.
They're real. Taste like lemon cake. Not sure how many illegal food dyes were used but worth it.
When I started reading The Stormlight Archive, my friend who lent me the books suggested finding "short and fun" books for in-between to break it up a bit.
Despite having an out of control TBR pile, I fell for the marketing and hype of Dungeon Crawler Carl and decided to give it a blind shot.
Despite having an out of control TBR pile, I fell for the marketing and hype of Dungeon Crawler Carl and decided to give it a blind shot.
June 22, 2026 at 7:24 PM
When I started reading The Stormlight Archive, my friend who lent me the books suggested finding "short and fun" books for in-between to break it up a bit.
Despite having an out of control TBR pile, I fell for the marketing and hype of Dungeon Crawler Carl and decided to give it a blind shot.
Despite having an out of control TBR pile, I fell for the marketing and hype of Dungeon Crawler Carl and decided to give it a blind shot.
when your airline is considerate enough to notify you that your flight out of Nashville is delayed BEFORE you get to the airport. #rednecktaco Martin's BBQ Joint
June 18, 2026 at 6:48 PM
when your airline is considerate enough to notify you that your flight out of Nashville is delayed BEFORE you get to the airport. #rednecktaco Martin's BBQ Joint
Following The Witcher, I finally dug into Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive. This was a ride, mainly because this was my third try to read book 1.
June 17, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Following The Witcher, I finally dug into Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive. This was a ride, mainly because this was my third try to read book 1.
Prosecuting a group of people and labeling them as anti-fascists is the most hilarious way to admit to fascism.
June 16, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Prosecuting a group of people and labeling them as anti-fascists is the most hilarious way to admit to fascism.