Mike

Equinox skinny sasquatch

Alex Ross in the New Yorker: "You wake up and brace yourself for the barrage of toxic gibberish that constitutes the modern public sphere. Your e-mail is overrun with spam, scams, and smut. There are voicemails from no one about nothing. A glance at the news reveals that the President is continuing to spew lies and obscenities; that a trillionaire is peddling white-supremacist propaganda on a social-media platform he owns; that a chart-topping musical artist is praising Hitler, or apologizing for praising Hitler, or praising Hitler once again. Publications from the Times on down employ clickbait headlines that treat you like a starving rat in a Pavlovian experiment. A.I. systems simulate the experience of talking to an arrogant ten-year-old boy who knows far less than he thinks he does. When pressed, the chatbots admit that they cannot 'naturally understand human morality, dignity, culture, or meaning.' It all adds up to a continuous discursive tinnitus -- a buzz of random, fake, stupid, sinister chatter that nobody wants and nobody can stop."

Ronald McDonald has *two* golden arches.

11/11/23 #fotovorschlag Farbrausch

Copper and I off to do whatever it is we do

Friend went to take a picture of the red lizard and the two greenish ones popped out to get their picture taken.

Cool to see Malibu, Santa Monica, and Venice from above, my childhood playground. There's some weird geology north of LA, folded sediments. I'll have to look it up. The place we lived in the desert for a couple of years in the late 60's is unrecognizable, by me, anyway. 70's F here. Headed someplace a teeny bit warmer 🌴🐠🍹🥭🏝 Dreading the long flight, maybe I can sleep. I swore I'd never do it again, but 🤷‍♂️ LAX is just bigger, no memories of it from gate 69A. Could be anywhere.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social And their eye roll.

I'll finish this and go feed a cat. #crochet

I'm sad to report that it's a mad mad mad mad world was a lot funnier when I was 5, oh well 😆

My friend has a gecko in their bromeliad

Happy #Caturday from Geoff, who advises you to leave his tail alone on this special day.

#TextureTuesday 2023

"Maybe I have faith after all. Maybe faith is belief without reassurance. I'd like to borrow some of that. Have at it, though it ain't no picnic." Tom's Crossing #WhatImReading

Et fin.

Put this down for five minutes...

Friend's garden that I'm watering 🩷

I had a lyric on my mind today. Looking up a Talking Heads lyrical fragment can be a journey. Looking at a list of song titles... I take it for granted that I can dive into a discography like that, unimaginable when I was a kid, not just because they weren't a band yet. The weirdest part is that I couldn't find it and remembered it was Paul Simon. I could *never* have imagined confusing David Byrne with Paul Simon. These are the days of miracle and wonder 😆

Mildly apocalyptic out there today in the smoky heat, I've seen a few makeshift burnouses, I guess that's not that unusual for Eugene. Not a lot of flannel today. People more concerned with surviving the day than being bitchy about it. My not so glamorous life. But I wanted a globe from the thrift. Didn't find one, so it was me and my skein of yarn wandering through the smoker that is Oregon today. The low income routes have transit cops.

In the mood for some weird comics ☺️

Geoff

My defense against the afternoon

And the doily progresses 🙂

Chrystia Freeland on NPR: If you can't get along with Canada, who *can* you get along with?

This windblown immature horse chestnut on the front walk in no way implies that summer will ever end, I tell myself every year.

4 February, 2010

It's a bit early, but it always seems to come around Traffic, John Barleycorn https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pnkHP_v3CYw

'Farbe: Blau (kein Himmel)' #FotoVorschlag

I didn't do a thing today worth writing home about, that's fine, but I did get some of the rice I like to finish the soup. When in doubt, cook some rice. It's an organic sprouted brown short grain rice, sounds woo woo, but if it's there, why not 😆

I woke up this morning trying to say "synechdoche." I know how to say it, but not before caffeine. I kept stumbling midway through, it was kind of funny. No clue of the context of synechdoche, I think it has to do with the book I was reading when I fell asleep. But I like it when I wake up laughing, your turn next....

Zuke, 5 AM

It's another wild Saturday night. One of us is watching Hail Mary again, but they seem fine with it. I really like the German actor who plays the head of the project, I'd like to see some of her films.

Drawing the curtains against the sun isn't a thing I like to do

@NorcalGma2@sfba.social Sounds like it will be a really nice place to sit and watch the sunsets 😊

@kimlockhartga@beige.party I was always really fast, and then I noticed I was having a hard time getting through Out of Africa, even though I was liking it. It wasn't difficult. I was getting really frustrated, until I realized it was sending me off on trains of thought, and daydreams about the landscape, looking things up (pre internet), and that seemed like part of the experience of the book. Some books are fast for me others not. I had to learn to read slowly 🐌. This one is *really* slow for me, but I'm guessing it will pick up when I've returned to the present and get involved with the plot. It goes fast when I want to know what happens next, and I'm already getting curious.

@paul@oldfriends.live Omg, maybe it will be like a wildfire and everything will grow back renewed. Next year. 😳

Log sploot

@KayJanes@mstdn.social thanks, I'm happy with it. So much left to learn. Like how to make myself weave in all the ends 😆

@colorblindcowboy@mastodon.art I looked it up (library has it) and I had forgotten she wrote Babette's Feast (one of my favorite movies). I'm curious to read the book now.

@falcennial@mastodon.social Abigail Adams was kind of all right.

@kimlockhartga@beige.party I couldn't imagine it in 10 days. If anyone puts a hold on this and it doesn't renew, I'll just put a hold on it again, I do that a lot, but it was actually on the shelf, so I'm hoping nobody does 🤞

@bennomatic@appdot.net Nice.

@cobalt123@beige.party I've got the hardware, that's not the problem 😆

@dillyd@turtleisland.social There are a lot around here, one of my many favorites. The cones have such precise patterns. And bees *love* them.

Crickets are really loud out back. Such a relaxing sound on summer nights. The people that lived here before had a hammock out there, I was always waking up at 2 AM shivering and disoriented 😆

@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party I always think "oh, you found the honourable one?" But no.

@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world The Oxbow Fire was still a big deal when I moved to Eugene, 15 years after.

@catsalad@infosec.exchange noted.