Rafa 🦤

Website: "You seem to be using an ad blocker/VPN, please disable them to continue"

Me: Or, I could just close this window and go do something else.

One of the kids graduated last night! They graduated from a small highschool in rural Arizona. You'd expect things to be very conservative given the political climate in the US but the school doubled down on the inclusivity. The keynote speaker, who was great, was introduced as living in California with her wife and they did the prayer in Spanish and Navajo. I'm sure this doesn't seem like much if you're sitting in a cozy bookstore in a big city but for the rural West, this is huge.

Thinking about my mom today. Her dad was an oil prospector in Southeast New Mexico. She spent her childhood bouncing from one mining camp to another. She had a tough time when she was young, dealing with with poverty and depression. She was incredibly creative and capable eventually earning her doctorate and becoming chair of the Art History department at UNM. We weren't always super close but I never doubted that she loved me. Miss you Mom. ♥️

Well, there it is. I activated my flip phone yesterday. It's clunky and awkward but I guess that's the point. Next stop, nirvana. 😂

Zotz burrito. #caturday #catsofmastodon #Zotz

I made pink lemonade. Of course, I don't actually know what goes into pink lemonade and this turned out more crimson than pink. Either way, it's great! Here's the recipe:
In a 2c Pyrex measuring cup mix ¼c sugar, four dried jamaica* flowers and 1c of boiling water. Stir and let sit until cool. Dump this into a quart jar with the juice of two lemons and a bunch of ice. Top it off with water, close the jar and shake. #food #drink #recipe
(*In English, jamaica is hibiscus or roselle.)

Want to know something crazy? I think that scorpion sting cured my tendonitis. To be fair, it was starting to get better before I got stung so maybe I didn't notice it getting better during the two days my body was on fire. OTOH, I was trying to sweat it out so I wasn't exactly taking it easy. Maybe my body's response to the poison also took care of other inflammation as well?

Tired: AI Agents
Wired: Indifference Engines

I just realized that I live in a country that thinks it's more dangerous for children to see a woman's nipples than it is for them to watch someone be brutally murdered.

Tech Bros: Sure, you dinosaurs might not be onboard with our AI agents. Calling them "Mediocrity engines" and "An unmitigated global disaster". But, who cares? Young people love AI!
Young people:

#music #folk #LukeNickle

https://youtu.be/Z_mzYS-ET8o

My Corto Maltese book came in the mail! I'd better get my work done quick so I can spend the rest of the day reading comics! #comics #CortoMaltese

Quadriceps tendonitis? Looks like I've got some rest days coming up. Getting old is hilarious... 😮‍💨

My flip phone is arriving today! Honestly, I'm kinda scared. I know it's silly but I've had a a smartphone since the original Moto Droid dropped almost twenty years ago. I need to break free but it's going to be a big change.

It's no secret, I'm happy drinking instant coffee. (If you need to go block me, I understand.)
Café Listo is my new favorite. From El Salvador, it's got a nice roasty flavor with no burnt bitterness. The name is kind of a play on words, meaning either "Ready Coffee" or "Smart Coffee". Finally, I can buy it at the grocery store in town which makes it cheap and easy to get. Yum! #coffee #CafeListo

Did I just get radicalized?
#music #edm #VulvesAssassines #punk

https://youtu.be/hKEO25r1h28

I ditched my smartphone. But the camera on my flip phone is garbage. I got a Sony alpha NEX-5. Ancient but, by my standards, a ridiculously premium device that packs plenty of pixels. What it doesn't do is all the cool post processing. I'm used to the high contrast, over saturated images that Google photos turns out. I need to find some decent software to replicate (some of) that. What do you use for processing your photos? I need something fairly simple that runs on *nix. #photography

Video games the way God intended. #retrogaming #GameBoy #DragonQuest

A wrote a poem that I like. It's called:
Bluejay Doesn't Know About the Zendo
It wouldn't fit here so I put it in my Gemini capsule. It's about Buddhist practice, sort of. If that's your thing, check it out.
#Buddhism #Taoism #poetry #smallweb

gemini://sdf.org/ipxfong/bluejay.gmi

The Internet: Check out this cool new Smart...
Me: Nope!

To be clear, if you love smart devices and appliances, that's great. Do what makes you happy. They're just not for me.

I smile every time a scammer texts a link to my flip phone.

Zotz wants you to know that his vision is actually fine and that he deserves two treats for putting up with me. #catsofmastodon #cats #Zotz

Fluffernutter?

My wife made oatmeal cookies. I just ate six in rapid succession. I feel like I'm starting on a spirit journey... Psychedelic? Transcendental? I'm not sure... But that was a lot of cookies. 😵‍💫 #food #cookies

I wrote a poem that I like. It's called:
Bluejay Doesn't Know About the Zendo
It wouldn't fit here so I put it in my Gemini capsule. If you can't view that, I also put it on a web page. The poem is about Buddhist practice, sort of. If that's your thing, check it out.
#Buddhism #Taoism #poetry

https://ipxfong.sdf.org/bluejay.html

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