James

30-something, 🏳️‍🌈, 👬, living just outside of Washington, DC. May occasionally toot, boost, or otherwise engage with explicit material (with content warnings)

General interests include baking, cooking, tiki, Irish trad fiddle, cycling, backpacking, starting to get into table top RPGs.

Also exploring my sub, kink side. Leather, wax, tactile, sensory, bondage, and estim.

Most posts autodelete after 2 months.

2025-06-23

@redrummy I can't find it on youtube anymore 😭

2025-06-23

@redrummy Was I the lone Patti LuPone vote?! I loved watching the concert version on YouTube, it cemented my love of Patti.

2025-06-23

@motoridersd ooh, the Venture X does look like a good alternative. Shame that the travel credit is only towards travel booked through their portal though. I got used to the CSR automatic credit for all coded travel (that included parking fees at my office).

2025-06-23

Well, Chase has massively increased the annual fee for the Sapphire Reserve card (again), and the new benefits are definitely not worth it for me. Anyone in the US know of a good alternative rewards credit card that comes with Priority Pass?

#creditcard

2025-06-22

Despite the heat (or maybe because of it), I'm smoking a set of spare ribs for dinner. I've never done ribs before, but they're looking pretty good! 😁

Thinking of maybe a potato salad and some jalapeño cornbread with honey butter to accompany.

2025-06-22

@gruff I just came across an "autodubbed" video today (of a Quebecoise cheese maker) and it was so...wrong sounding. I'm sure it was somewhat accurate, but I'd rather see the auto translated subtitles while still hearing the original language so I can catch the speaker's emphasis. You can pick up a lot more nuance from tone that would never come across in translations.

2025-06-22

@robdaemon @motoridersd I love the look of it though! Bummer that the range is so bad for what should be THE road trip vehicle.

2025-06-21

🥵🥵

A chart showing the heat index over the course of the week. Highs range from 34°C at the start of the week to 42°C. Highs remain 39°C or higher for 6 days in a row.
2025-06-21

I'm so glad I had my new heat pump installed this past week, it's been working great -- it's so quiet!

Especially since we're expecting this coming heat wave in the next few days, where high temps will top 100°F (37.8°C) three days in a row 🥵

2025-06-21

Up at 430 this morning. Overheating because I'm dehydrated. Woke up panicked about work shit and in my half awake daze somehow became fixated on the idea of "fuck it, I should just try to be a CTO". WTF brain?! I don't want that!!

2025-06-20

@socalgecko that first season was NOT subtle about the mushroom thing 🤣

2025-06-20

@thickurt i like it!

2025-06-19

@motoridersd I tried a pinterest board a while back for stuff, but I HATE pinterest as a platform so I don't really use it. I wonder if there's something in Nextcloud that would work similarly.

2025-06-19

@motoridersd I legit cried. But it was so good

2025-06-19

Hello, wind!

2025-06-19

Ooh, this storm looks like it'll be a fun one. Brace for impact 😅

A reflectivity radar map of the Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia area. A large band of heavy storms approaches Washington DC, with a lot of lightning strike indicators. Two boxes covering much of the area show severe thunderstorm warning regions.
2025-06-19

@thickurt yay new gym!

Gonna convince your gym buddy to join ya?

2025-06-19

@Furball that's some A+ passive-aggressive snark, love it. Sorry it was directed at you though 😂

2025-06-19

I have an urge to really change up how I present myself -- different fashion, more interesting wardrobe -- especially now that I want to explore sewing more stuff of my own.

But I have NO IDEA where to start.

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