This is what the fungi see, the roots of the trees on the plane above.

Trump handling the economy like one of his businesses

COMING UP: Judge Immergut has set a hearing for 10 pm ET tonight (!) on Trump's effort to circumvent her temporary restraining order re: Oregon national guard deployment by calling up the federalized California national guard.

I just caught the first whiff of that fall odor - wet tannins, beneath one of the giant maples. It smells like childhood.

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Swords to plowshares is a journey we can all take in some fashion.

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Autocrat does what? This used to be a serious country is.gd/huqA46

I barely slept but I’m on my way to connect with the mushroom folk! Come see me and my fungi watercolors!

Mushrooming in the Alpine this past Sunday we didn’t find much, it was too dry. Heavy smoke from the burn east. Wonder if the antique remains of an oil change were related to the SNOTEL site near by. Which, btw, did you know they use a low frequency meteor scatter ALE type data link? Exotic!

We ordered a different breed of chicken recently and I have to say they’re darn ugly. The two photos show each of our breeds at one month old -/+ a few days. The regal birds are now adults, I’m curious how the new crew will turn out.

A brief compilation of the animal farm.

I’ve never gambled, it has no appeal to me, and I don’t have a taste for American sports culture either. That said, gambling is the enshittification of sports. Ponder the extravagant cost of going to a sports game and the immense emotional capital fans invest when the match is fixed, total farce.

Imagine

7:01. He's here. He's early. He's watching. He's eating. Since he appears to be spending more time here, I put in an outdoor receptacle for his heated mat. Nights are getting chilly.

After four weeks in detention, ICE dropped removal proceedings and released one of the firefighters detained while fighting the Bear Gulch fire. Credit to the legal team for challenging the due process violations and shame on ICE for being total shit heads.

Money bag Homan what?

A healthy spider population

x.com/omarelakkad/... True of so many things at the moment.

The media is generally failing at nuance as I see reporting that this setup could “disable” NYC’s network. That would be an unlikely scenario, more probable this was infrastructure for hire, charging toll rates for users to obfuscate their origin. Or, it was owned/operated by a well financed…

So many radios…

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Imagine sending your children to die for a country that would refuse you the truth of how, and why and through what errors of leadership. Hegseth’s loyalty pledge implies just that future, one not unlike that of present day Russian parents. What liberty would be left to fight for?

(Taps the sign) “No feeding the corporations whose morals are made out of claydough”.

I’m no fan of needlessly sowing our expeditionary oats overseas though it was a far better option for exercising our killing machine than waging war against our citizenry. “Oh look a MAM with a weapon”, you mean an average American?

Disney still sucks.

Oh look, hunger in the United States no longer exists! /s KPBS: USDA cancels survey tracking how many Americans struggle to get enough food https://www.kpbs.org/news/health/2025/09/22/usda-cancels-survey-tracking-how-many-americans-struggle-to-get-enough-food #hunger #usda

Bag man Homan

A massive cat ponders what stellar’s jays taste like.

I look forward to the day this woman meets her comeuppance.

In my book if you’re close enough to the blast to be covered in your battle buddies blood, you were too close to the blast. Fuck off mace.

With any luck the tape will come out of the fat bastard taking the bribe. Any pretext that we have a functioning legal system has gone up in smoke, manufactured crimes for thee, cash in a bag for me. Indict money bags Homan

On September 4, Pam Bondi's DOJ obtained a guilty plea from a top aide to Ras Baraka, Al-Tarik Onque, for doing precisely what Tom Homan allegedly took $50K to do. According to his statement of offense, Onque took $7.5K in bribes. www.justice.gov/usao-nj/medi...

Wasn’t it only nine months ago that the Trumposohere was proclaiming the economic genius of Milei with Musk pantomiming his chainsaw kink? That’s aged as well as leftover sashimi.

There’s still time to register for tomorrow’s public hearing on a general order for data centers. This general order is specific to projects near East Wenatchee, Malaga, and Quincy that use diesel-powered emergency generators. Learn more at ecology.wa.gov/dcgo

Of paper tigers… Real estate is expensive, electricity is expensive, commuting every day to an office that adds no value is an antiquated friction.

Wild child found some fat reishi after fishing on the Sol Duc. Salmon are running strong but no luck.

On schedule the rain began at dark. When at dusk each day I lead the flock to the barn I’m noticing that darkness is coming much earlier. A time of year to keep a headlamp in a chore coat by the door. It’s enriching to be responsible for these 35 animals.

Oh FFS

I was about to haul an old foam mattress to the dump then I saw the potential for an up cycled archery target ( cut four ways and stuffed into a bulk bag)

Surprise me not, cheap trick Homan is another hypocritical low life criminal.

A bill has been introduced in congress to mandate AM radio receivers in all new vehicles. Apparently some EVs have skipped AM due to interference from poorly designed electronics. I don’t have a lot to say other than it would be a loss if we couldn’t tune into crop reports while in the Midwest.

Found some old meat hooks, google says they’re French but google lies.

I did not know. There’s a fat Uline catalog on our counter right now. Bummer

Magicians who walk into the forest shortly return bearing fruit of two big & perfect Ganoderma oregonense (western red reishi). It’s a prized medicinal that very briefly is soft enough to eat, otherwise makes an excellent tea with a rich almost cacao like flavor. Keeps well dried, good in stock.

Walks like fascist, talks like a fascist, acts like a fascist, but I’m the terrorist? #antifa

As an open question I wonder about the potential for forming ad-hoc consumer syndicates loosely organized on a kickstarter type platform. Suppose 50,000 consumers in the market for widget/SAAS X, banded together to insist on equitable ToS or negotiate price. We do it elsewhere, why not the market?