Bike camping

With friends like these who needs enemies! I hope no one is fooled by Trump’s using antisemitism as an excuse to attack academic freedom and to go after Muslims. Rather than making the country safer for Jews he is doing the exact opposite.

Gravel riding in the Painted Hills of Oregon.

Now Trump can just blame all the unpopular cuts on Musk so his base won’t desert him.

Test ride to see if I can still get up the hills on my loaded bikepacking bike.

Heather Cox Richardson’s been going on about how the Ukraine drone attack is a game changer in warfare. Really it was just the Trojan Horse ploy. They hid the drones in prefab housing being shipped into Russia.

Today’s harvest

tcha Timanwi. The highest peak in the Oregon Coast Range.

Looking over orchards and vineyards from the old scenic bike trail on the Columbia Gorge.

Robert Kennedy Jr is a quack But not all of his ideas are wrong. Please read my blog post about how some good could come from his efforts to make America healthy again.

The peacocks paid a visit this morning. There were six of them.

If you want to end war you've got to sing louder.

My kind of road.

The news this morning said today is the 50th anniversary of "the fall of Saigon". The fall of what? You mean Reunification Day as they celebrate it in Vietnam? It made me wonder what they call American Independence Day in England? Ungrateful colonist rebellion day? Perspective is everything.

Rainbow Trail - South Island - New Zealand - 2017

Here in western Oregon most drives are generally courteous. But there are occasional angry MAGAts in their big pickup trucks trying to run you off the road. They don't even know why they're angry. They just see a cyclist and assume you're a liberal and therefore to blame for all their problems.

My bike posing by the Willamette River.

Almost 3 years ago. Iconic bikepacking adventure.

I had a lovely bike ride today despite two drivers trying to run me off the road. It made me realize MAGAts are still angry. They won, the got their man and he’s doing all the awful things they want, but a lone cyclist on a country road is still a threat to them.

I verified some of my friends using this. It was not working all that great at resolving handles. However if I looked up their DID first it would work with that.

Mt Ashland from the Bear Creek Greenway

Imagine there's no country The convergence of Einstein and John Lennon

I went down to the demonstration - part 2 My thoughts after attending the second Hands Off demonstration on the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution. Please share with your friends if you like what I have to say.

Trump's war on intelligence When he's not busy sending innocent people to concentration camps, or attempting to destroy the world's economy, Trump has been waging a war against our education systems. What's the real end game here?

Bear Creek and Mt. Ashland from the Bear Creek Greenway bike path.

Drupalsky module overview Here is a project I've been working on that integrates Bluesky in a Drupal site. If you use Drupal and Bluesky I'd like your opinion on whether there is a use case for this.

I went down to the demonstration The Hands Off anti-Trump demonstrations were a great show of numbers, but will it make a difference? Is there anything we can do to turn the tide at this point?

Another great view of tcha Timanwi on today’s bike ride. Highest point in the Oregon Coast Range.

I'm pretty sure Trump's goal is to crash the economy, and bring suffering and hardship upon his followers, just so he can get the pleasure of seeing them continue to make excuses for him and grovel at his feet.

Fahrenheit is the human scale

AI Rings Of Power Most people know about the Rings of Power from "The Lord of the Rings". In this piece I compare the irresistible power of the rings, and how they eventually enslaved those who wielded them, to today's AI. Please read my blog post and comment here.

Are we all part alien? I'm a big sci-fi fan. Much of today's reality was the realm of sci-fi not that very long ago. So I really enjoy when I see a new study that lines up with something I remember from a sci-fi book or show.

Trump’s gestapo is out there, and they don’t even wear brown shirts.

Yesterday, after reading about this here, I posted about this on Facebook. But they promptly removed it as not meeting their "community standards". www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

Meta has spent over a decade shaping political outcomes while dodging responsibility for its role in extremism & democratic backsliding. Now, a former insider details the recklessness at the company’s core. “Careless People” pulls back the curtain on Meta & Yael Eisenstat shares the takeaways.

Detours, rabbit holes, and accomplishments For the past month or so, I've taken a deep dive back into tech stuff and web development, after being retired for almost 10 years. This post summarizes what I've been working on. Probably of little interest to people outside the web development community.

Have I mentioned that I'm really into bicycle touring and bikepacking?

Starting to cut close to the bone now. 😠

@jay.bsky.team 's interview from SXSW was truly inspiration, but unfortunately well over the head of the average social media user. Only a tiny minority of social media users will ever be able to host their own PDS or build their own feeds. How can we create an environment that works for everyone?

Imagine an opposition party in which every member, one by one, stood up to wave a cane at the felon dictator, getting thrown out one by one, disrupting the whole thing. Al Green is a hero. The rest of them a bunch of wimps.

Jesse is his generations Dylan youtu.be/nQLWpPy_1eo?...

They have installed the wealthiest man in the world to dismantle the country for himself and his fellow oligarchs. They plan to burn the country down to pay rock-bottom prices for the ashes. A fire sale. jesspiper.substack.com/p/i-know-exa...

This made my day.

Once again it's important to remember that everything Trump does in front of the cameras is just a smokescreen to take the focus off of what's really going on. Now that the world is so outraged about his disgraceful treatment of Zelenski, less attention is being paid to Musk robbing us blind.

Dogs I'm pretty sure dogs are tuned in to a collective consciousness. A hive mind. What one dog knows, every dog knows. Ever since I got bitten by a young pit bull in Mississippi last year, it seems like dogs are all on the lookout for me when I'm out riding my bike.

Excellent article explaining a lot about the immigration issue. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/m...

I finally found an #atproto PHP library that really works. github.com/shahmal1yev/... From Eldar Shahmaliyev in Baku, Azerbaijan no less.

I was only 10 years old when I first heard Jerry Butler belt out "For Your Precious Love" with Curtis Mayfield, but it made a life long impression. - apnews.com/article/jerr...

After a couple of rainy days struggling with some code that's still not working, I got in a nice 34 mile bike ride today to reset my brain.

“Mitch McConnell won’t seek re-election in 2026” - “my work is done here. I have accomplished my ultimate goal of destroying the country.”