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Apple to Linux Journal - a Week of progress I’m feeling really good about this move. My sister has observed of my personality that once I have made my mind up on something I don’t fuck around and it’s generally true. Once I decided that I needed to migrate away from Apple it became my focus. I expected most of the process to a couple months but I’ll likely be mostly…
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For the forseable future I’ll still be doing shorter posts here but longer posts have moved to a new hand-rolled labor of love. First post: Begin Again I’m not sure how well this will work out, this experimental next phase for my website and blog. This is the first time in a very long time that I’ve decided to return to an entirely manual blog. In a way it feels like returning…
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A blogging experiment that started with a bang of excitement but ends with a whimper A story which begins with me excitedly experimenting with building a static blog for a client then dreaming of doing the same for myself only to realize I’m likely stuck. After finally adding dark mode to my Beardy Guy Creative website a couple weeks ago I suppose my attention shifted to thinking a bit about…
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Tiny Life Journal - Sunday morning health notes My first encounter with Covid seems to be finished. Feeling better today, much improvement. Sore throat mostly gone and I feel mentally alert. So, assuming continued improvement, Covid symptoms will have lasted a full 5.5 days, Monday night till Saturday evening. My guess is I would test negative for Covid today or tomorrow. Will wait till Tuesday so…
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A reminder: Do not assume that the technology and building methods of the Global North are “better” or the ideal. Thesolarpunkgardener on Tumblr Another video from the original creator on TikTok.
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Exposed to Covid on Saturday afternoon. Symptoms set in last night. My first time with the Rona and in a way I guess I’m strangely relieved to have finally caught it so I can get it over with.
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Writing for The Conversation, microbiologist Jennifer DeBruyn describes how our microbiome lives on after after we die, becoming a “necrobiome” to recycle our human cells into new life . I find a kind of deep comfort in knowing that my body is a community of organisms. It is a biological fact that affirms my feeling and understanding of connection to the life around me. It’s not…
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I’ve spent the past week experimenting a bit with a more active process of seeking out new blogs and have been pondering writing a post about the process as well how I’m logging discoveries. First though, I’ll share this post because it prompted me to actually start writing the post I’d been thinking about. Discovered via BearBlog’s Discovery page , it was just a…
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Tiny Life Journal - Treating myself to a cup of iced sumac tea! Though, really, it’s very tart and tastes far closer to lemonade than tea. A fairly common small tree around rural Missouri and much of eastern North America, sumac produces large bunches of seedy red berries that hang from the branches by mid to late August. This particular species is Rhus copallinum commonly called winged…
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This. Well said. Ben Werdmuller: “Reeeeeally wish there wasn’t a…” - Werd Social Reeeeeally wish there wasn’t an American imperialism part to this speech. But it’s too much to ask for there not to be. She is still a universe better than Trump, and than most Democrats. I’d love for America to think of the world in a different way, where America is a participant rather than the enforcer…
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Tiny Life Journal - I took a walk in the woods yesterday in search of pawpaws. I didn’t find any but I did come across a few Cardinal flowers in and near the dry creek bed. A nice surprise! I’d seen one several years ago in the area but not since. What’s notable is that these flowers are a favorite food source of the ruby throated hummingbird which, while in flight and feeding,…
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This seems important: Major Union Backing Harris-Walz Joins Call for Palestinian American to Speak at DNC | Common Dreams The United Auto Workers—a major union backer of the Harris-Walz presidential ticket—added its voice Thursday to the growing chorus demanding that a Palestinian American be invited to address the Democratic National Convention in Chicago over Israel’s U.S.-backed assault…
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Do the Democrats believe Palestinians are lesser humans? That seems to be true given the difference in who is being allowed to speak inside the DNC. Israel gets a voice. Palestine does not. DNC Tells Uncommitted Delegates There Won’t Be Any Pro-Palestinian Speaker | Truthout
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Tiny Life Journal - While on a bike ride back in June I noticed that there were paw paw trees growing along the road. I have no idea why I’d not noticed them before. They were right there! In any case, I kept a lookout for flowers and fruit. I didn’t see any flowers but finally spotted a few fruit recently. I harvested one a several days ago and I ate it yesterday. Oh my was it…
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I wonder about the folks that are still praising Biden, what will you say when the ICJ changes its ruling from plausible genocide to genocide. At what point, if ever, do people acknowledge that Biden knowingly, willingly supported and aided genocide? Do Palestinians not count as people?
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Democracy Now reports that during President Biden’s speech on the first night of the DNC, a few delegates were able to briefly unfurl a banner that read Stop Arming Israel. Other delegates attempted to take the banner which was then taken away by convention staff. The delegates were then forced out. So, that’s democracy in action huh? Only approved signs and cheerleading? No dissent, not…
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Morning porch time. Unconventional use of the Logitech Combo Touch Keyboard with back kickstand resting on the keyboard as a stand. Easily balanced with weight on the pillow. Perfect for reading, screen at eye level. If I want to type, it only takes a second to attach. iPad modularity for the win.
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Love this post and the whole site. So personal and cozy. TheSmallWay.txt | the library of alexandra i like “the small way;” it fosters my need and desire to contribute and grow the personal web. i want more people to understand that interacting with other websites doesn’t have to be based on comments or reactions or likes. i like showing folks how to trade pixels with one…
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Tiny Life Journal - I have a large forehead. It’s not a receding hairline, always been like that. I won a jar of mayonnaise at a party once for largest forehead. True story. And my eyes are not symmetrical. My eyebrows are out of control. I am unkempt. Year-by-year I am disappearing into the surrounding woodland. I am becoming that weirdo in the woods I’ve always dreamed of becoming.…
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A harrowing recounting of Antifa activists countering fascists and thoughts on the bigger picture of America pre-2024 election. CrimethInc. : Charlottesville, Revisited—2017 to 2024 : What Can a Moment of Peril Tell Us about Our Own Dangerous Times? Seven years ago, anarchists and other anti-fascists converged in Charlottesville, Virginia to oppose the “Unite the Right” rally. The organizers of…
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Rosie enjoying the porch on Caturday (though technically from a week ago, whoops). Also, Cosmo looking into the distance wistfully, my guess wondering about his lunch.
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This is disgusting. These people are terrorists and racist colonizers. It fits well with the history of genocide and land theft perpetrated by the US. Our support is the US doing what it always has while pretending to advocate democracy. Israeli Settlers Rampage in West Bank Town, Killing 1 and Setting Houses Aflame | Truthout Dozens of masked and armed Israeli settlers descended upon the…
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Never. They won’t ever admit it. On micro.blog and elsewhere there were a few folks insisting Biden was totally fine. It was a very bizarre loyalty play we see with MAGA loyalists. Shut up and get in line, no time or space for disagreement. They were wrong. It’s a problem of denial of reality that we still see on other issues like the genocide they want to pretend isn’t…
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Tiny Life Journal - A view of the countryside from my morning ride. The mix of fields and forests over the gentle rolling hills of Madison County never disappoint. Not in the image, an immature (2-3 years old) bald eagle seen in a nearby field.