Colorblind Cowboy

It’s #Caturday. You know where the kisses go.

Enjoy your nighttime reading. I’ll be in Hell, if you need me. #Bookstodon

RE: https://mastodon.art/@colorblindcowboy/117346513483589212 Reading through “The History of Hell” and what’s amazing to me is how everyone — believer or unbeliever — has a narrative of Christian belief that’s not so much based on the Bible at all. But rather on an extended universe made by saints, scholars, prophets, and kings, who variously interpret, cope, confabulate, and write downright fantasy. Because that Bible is shifting sands of meaning and metaphor. Yet, as the good book says, the foolish man built his house upon sand.

@CindyWeinstein@zirk.us My girlfriend was really excited by that article yesterday. It freaks me out a little because how does one know the parts grew together correctly?

@AncTreat@sunny.garden 🖤 oh, Elvira. I bet that’s really a fun and interesting read. Tho I might just stare at the cover. 🫠

@CindyWeinstein@zirk.us#3GoodThings (some favorite literary quotations) 1) “A lot of sad, hurly-burly doings” — “The Mysteries of Udolpho” by Anne Radcliffe. 2) “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him … ” — “Julius Caesar” by Shakespeare 3) “‘Well you can’t help that,’ said the cat. ‘We’re all mad here. I’m mad, you’re mad.’” — “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll.” (This was a real struggle to choose)

Today is Severe ME Awareness Day. As many folks here know, my girlfriend has severe ME resulting from Long COVID. I can only experience it from the outside. But what I know is that It is not simply “being really tired.” It is debilitating. It is incredibly painful. It is hell. It is often not believed. But it is real. And those who have it deserve all our love, support, and advocacy. #SevereME https://www.sheffieldmegroup.co.uk/post/severe-me-awareness-day-8-august-2026

@fskornia@glammr.us uh oh. They haven’t provided a Samsung update. Apparently will in a few days. Until then, I’m blocked. Why did they roll this out before a weekend?

A sun dappled Winslow for #Caturday.

@intransitivelie@beige.party Mermaids reproduce in a vampiric fashion, pulling young sailors into the water, enveloping them in sea foam to create a kind of chrysalis. In the sea chrysalis the human males undergo changes to their biological sex and their lower extremities. When they emerge, the mermaids feed them on caviar until they are strong enough to live on their own. These young mermaids have no memory of their former lives. I only know because an orca ruptured my chrysalis.

A cat in the abstract for #WinslowWednesday. #CatsofMastodon

#ThrowbackThursday I was a cute kid. My horse, Horus (who went by “Vanilla” until I was old enough to understand the play on his name), was cuter.

Tabloid Belief I was too young to ask if she believed, The papers that spilled at her feet, With headlines of bat boys and elvis, miracle cures and UFOs, Her feet awash in that sea of ink Weighed by heavy shoes, those thick stockings rolled like elephant trunks, There was little else in that bare floored space, But the scuffs of six children she raised alone, Her husband taken by agents of the state, (Cont…) #Poetry

@handmade_ghost@sunny.garden @sunumbral@beige.party Every species has their bloodsuckers. I, for one, welcome the goth heron to the Bat Cave.

@frogglin@theblower.au New trams, you say?

@FknHannu@zeroes.ca Take my AI please!

Good morning from Grays Harbor where the thunder has ceased for the moment and the cat was quite snuggly. We are supposed to have a day of rain, as if this were the actual PNW, much needed by our plants and me.

@bob_zim@infosec.exchange @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social Everyone knows the extra vowels go at the end.

The eSIM is a stupid invention. The whole point of a SIM is that you can transfer your number to another phone if, for instance, a phone dies. You know what you can’t do with a dead phone? Transfer an eSIM. #enshittification

@CindyWeinstein@zirk.us @AmandaMarcotte@mastodon.sdf.org That needs to be carved in stone, put on every immigration court building, and dropped on Steven Miller’s head (metaphorically — this does not constitute a threat).

@jrbe@scholar.social @alice@lgbtqia.space And let’s not forget patterns.

@CindyWeinstein@zirk.us Abolish FIFA.

@catsalad@infosec.exchange Ask my rabbit, who thinks one is too many.

@jpaskaruk@growers.social But is the answer you get correct and worth the bottle of water it took for you to get it? If the content was scraped from someone else’s work, and they’re not getting even the site visit or attribution? A tool is not just a tool. The ethical nature of its source matters. Ivory piano keys from elephants. Blood diamonds from exploited human labor. You use the AI answer, you use the data center. You can’t just decide the two are unconnected because you don’t like the system.

@LibrarianRA@worldkey.io I want one of those.

@grammargirl@zirk.us I’m sorry. So many things come with middleage, and so few of them good. Why can’t we have the energy we had when we were young to deal with all the crap when we’re older?

@sunumbral@beige.party @kimlockhartga@beige.party Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen will make you work. I haven’t read OoA, but her Seven Gothic Tales is so euridite, I was constantly looking things up in the Bible, The Inferno … One of my favorite books, but a trap in a trap in a trap.

@AncTreat5358@lgbtqia.space I would say definitely a cry for a creative outlet. Experiment and see. It doesn’t have to be perfect. Definitely could be AuDHD. That obsessive quality. Either way, I’d suggest giving it a try.

@AncTreat5358@lgbtqia.space Yikes! Glad you made it even with the transit gods conspiring against you. Or maybe blessing you in the first case.

@jpaskaruk@growers.social There’s all kinds of ways to have a sunny morning. Sometimes you want a growl.

Today’s neighborhood mystery: A whole-ass semi truck came to take away this one small plastic container from a house. It took a pallet jack, so clearly it was heavy. I’ll take right or wrong answers for this, but please differentiate.

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online :blobfoxlurk2owonotice:

Does anybody want to come cook us dinner? You don’t have to actually do it. We live at the end of the world. It’d just be nice if someone wanted to.

@plzupgrademe@fedi.txw.ca @fskornia@glammr.us no, but one would think not to update an entertainment app before a weekend when people want to watch movies and your employees are (or should be) off.

@AncTreat5358@lgbtqia.space 🤞 Good medical help is so hard to find these days.

@CatsOfYore@mastodon.social Please tell me the cat is named Jim.

Winslow would like to remind everyone of the importance of a good stretch (if you are able). #CatsOfMastodon

@jpaskaruk@growers.social But wouldn’t that be a copy of a faulty copy and potentially introeuce more errors? Lord. I’m trying to imagine this as an exercise for writers.

@mattsheffield@mastodon.social But still, a total of 60% don’t think so, which is a good sign. Unfortunately, a lot of those folks are concentrated in big cities. Gerrymandering and the electoral college give the true believers a disproportionate edge in politics.

So, #TechQuestion: Do wifi routers ever show false positives for new devices on a network? Last night my XFinity app notified me an iPhone 17 had joined our WiFi network. We do not own an iPhone 17. We use a lengthy, randomly generated password (it’s not WINSLOW), but I reset the router and changed to another password — just to be safe. Just a random blip? Or a nefarious actor in our sleepy town?

All things considered, the last nine months have been incredibly shitty. But, hey, we have a great cat, and I’m still sober.

@lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net @mattsheffield@mastodon.social It’s odd to pair up “don’t believe in jesus” and “won’t return to earth.” I grew up in a liberal presbyterian church, and there wasn’t a lot of second-coming talk. My parents were devout, but I doubt they gave much consideration at all to Jesus returning as an event.

@alice@lgbtqia.space Peacocks are on Instagram and they only post selfies.

@NickGates@friendsofdesoto.social Happy marriage day! Now go storm a prison.

@Darkphoenix@universeodon.com I once went to pick up some furniture from a guy. And while he was helping me tie my hatchback down, he told his wife, “I was reading this morning about a knot that always comes untied no matter what.” I was thinking, “please, don’t be thinking about that knot right now.”

I almost forgot to post for #WinslowWednesday! Not a great photo, but I’m still just in admiration of his agility and fearlessness. #CatsOfMastodon

@ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social This is so well done.