Republican nCongress is not so hot on oyster restoration. https://www.whro.org/environment/2026-07-17/congress-could-open-chesapeake-bay-oyster-sanctuaries-for-commercial-harvest
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Dismal Manor Gang
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06#introduction Dismal Manor Gang is retired moocher Dave and his former racing #greyhound Missy and Rocky. We live in the Dismal Dominion (Virginia low country). Dave takes pictures, listens to #jazz and #newgrass music, and is making a futile attempt to train his dogs and grow a garden.
We are officers of hidden rank in #ZSHQ and enjoy #coffee on #PalsPorch. Dave is a #Dune fan. Muad'Dib!
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@AsahiLinux@social.treehouse.systems
Cautions not to trust Disk Utility App when working with disks.
App has only partial support for the underlying commands.
Use Disk Utility terminal version to list your slices (sorry, my BSD is showing).
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@RestlessLipSyndrome@mastodon.world
Or this one? With difficulty. #greyhounds
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@indi@mefi.social Ahoy. Nice snoot. You look a lot like my former consort. Red Queen Missy. #greyhounds
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@MarioEijkemans@mastodon.social Nice moggy.
Looking back over our shoulder in the candy floss pink light of Tuesday’s sunset.
I’m working on supper on demand. #greyhounds
https://apple.news/A_OrAuOeMRhWYJPnYPiau7A
My job is safe! #greyhounds #robots
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@Sempf @cmccullough Amen. Abandoned my Facebook account in 2016.
Dismal Chef gave me too much waffle yesterday. I’m stinking out the residence as gut bacteria are fermenting up a brown fog. #greyhounds
Dismal Thomas and Dismal Gardener built IKEA Tuesday afternoon. I hid. In the red room.
Mr Sycamore wanted his street side photographed.
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@bark_maul@mas.to That’s a “Mischief managed” face though. #greyhounds
Wednesday’s Naughty or Nice outlook … don’t believe the bluebird of happiness.
Severe weather in the Great Plains.
Excessive rain in an arc from Houston to Washington.
And unpleasant heat and humidity over much of the country Wednesday.
Cue “Stormy Weather”
#NastyOrNiceOutlook #SevereWeather
NWS Wakefield Thursday Forecaster’s Discussion
Extreme Heat Warnings are issued for parts of Southeast Virginia, including Tidewater, due to expected Heat Indices of 110 or greater.
1) A major heat wave will continue today through Sunday, breaking down by late this weekend. This could be the most significant in magnitude and duration since July 2012 for most of the CWA.
2) Temperatures will gradually trend closer to normal late in the holiday weekend and beyond, with a more unsettled pattern.
Tuesday’s sunset is candy floss and bubblegum.
Good thing I still have my winter coat on. That purple on the weather hazard map is a freeze warning. Them’s for agricultural interests mostly that may have plants in the ground — tobacco and peaches especially.
Those not treated to overnight freezes can worry about wildfire ignition and spread. That’s the second color ashore.
And blowy on the bay and offshore waters.
#VAwx @NCwx #greyhounds
While Artemis 2 crew was trying to describe a lump of moldy Brie without out using the words “gray”, “green”, or “cheese”
Mr. Pecan heard King Trump talking about the demented leader with nuclear weapons and thought Trump was talking about himself.
The #FUGLY has returned with a vengeance. Chew each breath thoroughly as humidity is high and winds are light.
Today’s forecast is for afternoon and evening thunderstorms possible with isolated strong storms.
Saturday’s advisory are for today’s storms and for continuing #HHH#VAwx #NCwx #SevereWeather
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@mathowie @TidalFlats
140,000 people around the world are Tesla. Only one of them is Elon Musk. Former Tesla folk are out changing the world for the better.
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@TidalFlats
We’ve got you beat for gloom!
😜
Sunday’s Nasty or Nice outlook begins with the US radar composite. It’s a complicated tangle of fronts with some rain showing.
#NCwx #VAwx #NastyOrNice #SevereWeather
Dismal Butler changed the duvet cover Tuesday.
Collar City April Fools. 3 more weeks of crazy before spring.
Especially good Purple Haze today. #Blueberry #porridge #SlowFood
Incoming. Gadget reports lightning 5-7 miles out at 1457q. #VAwx.
Thunderstorm incoming around 1455q per NWS Wakefield duty section alert.
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@genecowan @mathowie Not unmasked, came out of the closet.
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@sixcolors
Now if only John will fix text panes so geezers can read them. This geezer is getting cross with Apple.
And will Apple be brave enough to provide driver writer’s documentation for Apple parts? Would love to migrate the M1 iMac to Linux when it is sunsetted.
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@concretedog use coffee kit prior to attempting the repair.
Apparently, it is to be a bit breezy today. #VAwx
The Regional Greenhouse Gases Initiative is similar to the SO2 market used to manage SO2 emissions that caused acid rain.
Keep in mind that the utility customers always pay because that’s where the revenue comes from.
If your emissions are lower than RGGI quota, you can sell credits. The idea is to encourage use of lowest heat-rate generation and harvesting of energy from environmental sources (wind, solar, hydro). The trading market worked well for acid rain . https://www.whro.org/environment/2026-04-06/virginia-set-to-rejoin-rggi-as-utilities-prepare-to-pass-the-cost-back-to-ratepayers
Some lightning near Newport News. That one is a drive by. Storms further back may visit us.
Heat warnings for Wednewday through Friday. Thunderstorms Friday. Include access to cooling and shelter in your weekend plans.
Saturday’s Nice or Nasty outlook is for Deep South thunderstorms and monsoon rains continuing in the Sonoran Desert. New aengland enjoys a Camelot summer day. #NastyOrNiceOutlook
Brushless excitation has long been used in AC TurboGenerators for reliability and efficiency. The trick is to wind two machines on the rotor shaft, the motor armature and an exciter generator. A second stator winding creates the exciter field. This field is controlled to adjust the strength of the rotor field which controls the machine’s back EMF presented by the stator.
This trick dates back to the 1960’s. A GE friend introduced me to it in the early ‘80s. https://apple.news/A4e3qYxNJR4iwUZzNQ1uodA
Gabe Kahane with Roomful of Teeth just released a recording of “Elevator Sonds” — short amusing confections for your distraction from “things that matter” and “words that must be said” Apology to Simon & Garfunkel. NPR pitched on Sunday Morning Edition
Ward Carroll 3PM (1500q) livestream on F15 Strike Eagle WSO recovery and exfiltration. A bit of drama getting officer out of a hot LZ. #IranConflict
Bonus story from our Planet Money friends. They do long-form reporting on the economy — Bill Phillips is noted for his insight into things economic. https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2026/04/07/g-s1-116575/how-bill-phillips-used-flowing-water-to-model-the-economy
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@Sobtanian I hate it when they do that!
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@gnome@felipeborges.eu Sounds like Boxes is a cousin of MacOS UTM App. I have Asahi Fedora Cosmic Remix running in a UTM environment. It can do the morning mail and credit transaction checks.
Will have to take a look at Boxes.
Looking for life after Apple Support ends for my M1 iMac.
Fireflies!
NHC has its weather eye peeled on an Atlantic coast rainmaker. https://www.weather.gov/akq/Tropical
The excessive rainfall blob has changed shape. Storms are starting to pop in the 757 as prophesied. Flash flood watch just went live. #vawx
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@caseyliss Tom’s montage took me back to video from 60 years ago from Chicago & LA!
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@marcoarment@mastodon.social YoLink? They have a clever idea, a MagSafe mount. A stick-up cres steel sheet and a refrigerator magnet.