I just saw this about New Mexico and universal child care. Fantastic. https://www.governor.state.nm.us/2025/09/08/new-mexico-is-first-state-in-nation-to-offer-universal-child-care/

Surreal... Yes, and it looks like where one might listen to silence.

Fantastic!!

The Hurricane path I like to see as I turn to NOAA to see what's ahead for Florida.

Sounds like good advice to me: "STEELMANNING The opposite of "Strawmanning" (the misrepresentation of your opponent's argument in order to defeat it), "Steelmanning" an opponent's argument is to express it in the strongest form possible, potentially even better than they have! This will often […]

@johnrakestraw Congratulations, John! What a beautiful story. I love a good story of conversion and love. https://johnrakestraw.com/post/retrospective-conversion-and-a-story-of-celebration/

@ellane Did you ever get into Emacs? I connect my last try at it with you somehow. I read someone else who uses it--someone else I respect (like you) and I think I may have actually taken it seriously this time. I don't know about Org, but it's a good editor and may do some things I'll like […]

4 days to go! From dynamic CMS to Bash Static Site Generator - a BSD-friendly project. https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/04/07/launching-bssg-my-journey-from-dynamic-cms-to-bash-static-site-generator/ #eurobsdconadvent #eurobsdcon #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #zfs #pf #runbsd

Life is finite Prioritise joy 😊 That's it That's the toot

I saw something disturbing this morning. One of my clients showed me an email. They use Gmail for their emails (on their own domain) and download them locally. The email officially came from their company president, giving the purchasing department orders to immediately pay an invoice of around […]

Some Florida good news... Democrats won both contests for legislative seats in a special election Tuesday in the western part of Orange County. State Rep. LaVon Bracy Davis, D-Apopka, won the race for State Senate District 15 with more than 72% of the vote. She replaces Geraldine Thompson, who […]

Oh, that's a beauty!

Good Afternoon, #bsdcafe Good Afernoon, #illumoscafe There's a specific reason I'm publishing this piece today. But no one will get it. Enjoy the melody anyway! https://song.link/y/5oAOLS2d_dM #music #mastoradio #fediradio #fedimusic #jukebox

Martha puts out a couple of these writings each month. I read everything I can find by her. This one is her pondering on a section of Thomas Merton's Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander. I love the nice audio surprise near the end. https://spore.social/@shrinkthinks/115052866601456291

@nlowell This podcast interview of Paul Loomans was a nice review of his book, I've Got Time, with some additional insights/emphasis on points. https://www.relay.fm/focused/228

@liztai I thought of you as I listened to this podcast today. I'm so glad someone reminded me about Radiolab. I used to listen to it and stopped. I'm back! They have such interesting stuff and this is something I had never heard of. "...China’s technological renaissance almost didn’t happen […]

I may be weird, but I trust a person who comes to look at an apparatus that isn't working properly and tells me after spending a half-hour with it that it is their fault. Last time they worked on it they forgot to turn back on the watch-a-ma-doodle. It's fine now. No charge, of course. And I […]

@nlowell Do you get the Loomans newletter? I got one this morning that I love. Made me wonder if you saw it too, because I thought you'd like it as well.

I attend a couple of Martha's offerings regularly and have been to several workshops. I get a lot out of reading what she writes. Here's a chance to see her and ask questions or just listen. https://spore.social/@shrinkthinks/114921263664398931

Having fun working out doing writing in a terminal. In Linux and BSD I can shift to a nice big black and white terminal with Ctrl Alt F1 (or other number) Changing back to the Desktop on my system uses F7. Anyway in my earliest Linux experience that terminal was all I had for a few months. (as […]

Awhile back I installed FreeBSD on a separate partition on a Laptop that I have Windows and a couple flavors of Linux on. It was a chore with lots of looking things up on the fantastic FreeBSD manual and forum. I learned quite a bit. The install was pretty easy, but then I had to install Xorg […]

@m2m I enjoyed reading https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/handshake/ Way to tame the beast! For over 25 years I've run Linux as my main system. But... I have always done it on a dual boot system. Currently I boot into Windows to run Adobe Digital Editions for maybe 10 minutes approximately […]

This podcast helped me understand what a term I keep seeing means. If you listen, you will hear it spoken by Cory Doctorow. "Author and activist Cory Doctorow joins us to discuss The Internet Con, his call to reclaim internet control from Big Tech. From locked-down platforms to the illusion of […]

@SamuraiSakura Your story is a warning to me about thinking that a platform is going to continue to give me what I thought I signed up for. What would happen if Amazon dropped the ball like this? Something for me to think about. https://basic.bearblog.dev/when-tech-hardware-becomes-paperweights/

@ellane Ha! I was in a situation a few minutes ago where I had to use a program called visudo in a terminal. I had to edit a file and this was the only way to do it. I made the edit and then looked up how to save and quit in vi, because I forgot after 20 some years. And there it was and made […]

I found out about the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Skyviewer this morning on Science Friday podcast. All I can say is "OMG!!" https://skyviewer.app/explorer

Wow!! It must have been quite an experience viewing this unveiling from dark to light.

I'm thinking I might like to make a digital garden section on my website. It is currently set up as a blog with a static site generator. I'd like to put notes of interest that I'm thinking about and may want to write a blog post about. I don't want these notes to be a part of the RSS or in the […]

I have to confess something. I occasionally boost something. I feel guilty about doing that, because I have boosts turned off and don't see other people's boosts. Well, I do see them if I go to their profile to try to find something they've posted in the past. Then I have that long scroll […]

Ellle and Toni doing Mrs. Robinson. Near the end Toni does a great guitar picking addition that I love. These two put something out at full moon each month. Another winner in my book. Of course, I'm old and love Simon and Garfunkle... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWuOZGCzZhQ

@johnrakestraw has excellent notes on books he read last month. On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle sounds amazing. What a great selection of reading, John! Reading your notes was enjoyable and enlightening. Thank you for putting that together. https://johnrakestraw.com/reading/may-2025/

Tomorrow will probably be another #bssg release day - and this will be a HUGE release 😉 Stay tuned.

I'm doing this Web Accessibility Course. So far I'm getting acquainted with a variety of disabilities and am amazed at how people are able to use computers in different ways. I'm hoping to learn a bit about making information accessible on my own website […]

“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” […]

I'll be attending this discussion on Saturday, the 31st. I'm getting excited after seeing some of the posts by Elizabeth Honer about this. https://www.whatashrinkthinks.com/discussion-dream-work-and-active-imagination-as-creative-dialogue #dreams #art

@johnrakestraw "Hypernormalization" - John's thoughts on this word and its meaning puts into words what I didn't even know I was feeling. It's so concise and by the first paragraph I realized I'm experiencing it. Thank you, John! https://johnrakestraw.com/post/word-for-the-day-hypernormalization/

@stefano I'm curious about BSD and have an extra laptop with dual boot Windows and Linux. Thinking about trying out FreeBSD. Just for fun... https://binsh.dev/multi-booting-freebsd-linux-and-windows/

My "Bookmarks" on this feed is quite full with articles to read. I've been busy with other things and have some catching up to do. I'm looking forward to seeing what goodies are there.

I let go of Jekyll or it let go of me. I needed to change to another static website generator and luckily I had been introduced to one before Jekyll let me down. I had a small problem with the different RSS feed address and posted an inquiry. Stefano (@stefano ) the author of BSSG, added the […]

Hate will age you. In an ugly way. It doesn't just live in the mind, it settles in your bones, creases your face, and weighs down your spirit. It's a slow corrosion of joy. It drags down your soul and fold bitterness into your presence. Let that shit go 🚮 you'll glow better without it in your […]

@stefano I enjoyed your old post where you mention your first personal computer. https://my-notes.dragas.net/2023/03/20/old-article-20-years-of-computing/ I touched my first keyboard in a class using a Data General with a few terminals hooked up in 1983. I got my first PC, also a Commodore 64 […]

Table mountain is nice but the Drakensberg is epic 🏞️ Video by: https://www.instagram.com/drakenscapes