WHUUUUUUMMMPPPPHHHH. !

A couple of not seen so many times at all. Indigo Bunting and Redheaded woodpecker pairs.

Birds and sunshine can make happy and appreciate life more. 🤩

Sailboat obscured

ABSOLUTELY FUCKING ABSOLUTELY

In the most 1776 manner, Do Not Tread On My/Any Library 🐍

SANCTUARIES AND REPOSITORIES OF KNOWLEDGE MUST EXIST !

Because Library is a safe place.

Just getting started here again. Hang the hell onto your judgements already

I FEEL YOU MAN. !

From my time on the farm and living this.

Slimy and so totally hard to move when you as the person has to move them. AAAUUUGGGGHHHHH. !

In the end , they are cute.

Newborn calves are:

- very cute

Newborn calves are also:

- very slimy

- not aware that they have legs

- not aware that their legs all work at the same time

- unsure what shapes are or how eyes work really or what a cow looks like

- totally useless at yielding to body pressure

- completely willing to follow anything warm, and taller than them, provided that it moves and smells kind of like a cow. Even if the only reason it smells like a cow is because it was touching them.

- still pretty cute

I go into the woods and trails and DO NOT ! ! ! Want to hear your music. The woods and trails have their own voices. That’s what I want to hear.

I will find you if you are disturbing the trees, critters (fur or feathers) or ME. I will first ask politely for you to stop the noise you are producing. The next steps are to be determined, but that noise should stop.

Took off for a couple days. One day we did get to do hiking. These are from Starved Rock state park. The upper then lower ends. The river (Illinois) then canyons. River actually shows a grain barge going through the locks. Then Council Bluff (which from this aspect is a cave) A Native American site 8000years old. ! Yes we took the dog. That reoccurring person is my partner, who just can’t stay out of my photos. Ha !

Ha. !

That’s where it is.! I swear, just got distracted for a moment waiting on the modem to log in.

Some (older/ancient) peoples will understand.

An observation hiking, Out and about a couple days ago.

Not all that unusual of a sight, except that was in Wisconsin on January 17th (above the 45th parallel) , the temperature was 34F. The only time the temperature was above 27F in the previous nine days and every day since. That little guy should be hibernating this whole time. ! Today started out at -3F. It’s COLD.

You cannot imagine how much I wish this!!!!!

I started with computers, hacking a Commodore 64, building my own board for new chips,

When there were no mice to click. ! You had to type everything. And write your code to make it work.

When I got a power Mac and access to real processing chips, I thought I was in heaven.

Now there are so many barriers to doing any of that, and they tell me this makes it better for me !

NO, IT DOESN’T. !

When I actually buy something I get to do whatever the fuck I want with it, because I bought it. !

I take complete responsibility for doing risky things. That’s all on me.

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Enshitternet

The old, good internet deserves a new, good internet

I miss the old, good internet, but I don’t want to bring it back.

I want a new, good internet. One where users can’t be locked in because we make it legal to:

• reverse-engineer products and services, so you can leave a social media platform but still send and receive messages from the people you leave behind;

• jailbreak your devices so you can remove antifeatures like surveillance, ink-locking or repair-blocking; • move your media and files out of the silo whence they originated and into any player you want.

I want a new, good internet where we constrain the conduct of tech companies, banning unfair labor practices, deceptive marketing, corporate hostage-taking and other forms of rent-extraction.

I want a new, good internet where it’s both illegal to impose bossware on your employees, and where those employees can legally hack the bossware their bosses shove down their throats.

I want a new, good internet where creative workers and their audiences can reliably connect with one another, where news reporting isn’t held hostage to extractive processes.

I want a new, good internet where we seize the means of computation so that the digital infrastructure that connects our romantic, personal, political, civic, economic, educational and family and social lives is operated by and for the people who use it.

-Enshitternet: The old, good internet deserves a new, good internet