Since you plan to hike the CDT you may have to contend with Trump Nazis @desertphile.bsky.social www.hcn.org/articles/the...

"NEMO! WHERE THE FUCK YOU ARE?!"

:) The wealthy shitting parasite elites don't live in the same world that the 99 percent of us do, so why not bring the 99 percent world to the wealthy shitting parasite elite? :) SOUNDS like a great idea! (Note the pun? LOL.)

:) Years ago I tried to purchase goat leggings and found them to be extremely expensive, just manufactured or Etsy made goat leggings of any quality were hundreds of dollars. The alternative was giving up my dream of going to work wearing goat leggings --sigh--

Mutations in the future will result in boys having three arms, likely due to the toxic sludge we dump everywhere humans exist. Strange that it is an extra left arm since that tends to not be the dominant arm among primates yet it was either that or re-acquire our historic prehensile tail once again!

"Repairing" bear damage this morning. I might bold wood or metal supports if I have them handy, it was difficult getting the lid out, but only if I have the materials on hand, I don't spend real money on it :)

"Now back off, fuckbag" -- The Butterfly Effect. Fascinating movie, convoluted but tied together with the only solution possible out of the mobius strip. If you haven't seen the movie, it touches on the abject futility of trying to chart the future as if any of us are in control of our own destinies

:) Children of Men. Humanity gave up hope when the playground laughter went silent and died. The "Homeland Security" prison camps for "illegal aliens" erupted in to violence but fell silent when the unexpected walked slowly through them, then resumed killing each other when the baby past :)

Paul took the boat out this morning

Moneypenny :) The only Moneypenny who fit the original novels

Listing slightly to port, the trash bin put in by Boy Scout Troop 210 decades ago needed to be set right. I flagged down 4 bike riders and asked for help shoving rocks under while I lifted and one guy helped :) He can put it on his resume now! Volunteer work!

Rattlesnake hiding places whacked this morning :) When the gate is closed people walk through the brush. Volunteers don't want you to get struck because that means we have to stand there and wait for the medical response which is mildly annoying, LOL :)

Leo Protsenko and his sister, from Ukraine, busking in California up north :) He mostly plays the piano while his sister are on the strings.

#fonebonefriday #madmagazine

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@desertphile.bsky.social These are the devices that will be located in the Dalton Wilderness Park, the router at around 2600 feet below Bluebird Ridge, Pavil Canyon at 1920 feet, and the computer at 720 feet. I have the router's solar panel. Copilot will config it www.amazon.com/dp/B0FLJW9HH...

@desertphile.bsky.social I am looking at KiCad, the open source circuit and board design software. I'm looking at the Meshtastic device's interfaces and a lot of existing I/O devices. I can get telemetry any time an animal crosses an IR beam in the tight canyon and record to a CSV file 4 miles away

Satire? I doubt it! @alfreds-mad-world.bsky.social

A grand niece -- This one gets outdoors and does things, science, technology, quad desert, museums, art.

Not quire MAD Magazine quality but good ;) @alfreds-mad-world.bsky.social

I need help straightening the trash bin, it is way too heavy for one person to do, the concrete mounting is very heavy. It needs 1 or 2 people to tilt it upright and another to slide rocks under it. Because it's listing, it looks unmaintained so people might not use it.

Before and after cleaning up trash and whacking at the Monroe Truck Trail parking along Glendora Mountain Road this morning. The City or County should be doing this, and should empty the bin instead of reliance on volunteers. Bin needs repair also.

Colleague of mine, Richard B., out having adventures on Mount Misery :)

Ryan Farmer in an action shot :)

LOL But he's a vampire! In some vampire lore, scattering mustard seeds forces a vampire to stop and count every single one, delaying them until sunrise.

LOL! His brother is a vampire :) So he's got a garlic T-shirt. :) This is about the amount of garlic I use on my #vegan pizza :)

@desertphile.bsky.social this is one you might like. Children of a negative frequency are unlucky, high frequency numbers are lucky, so lucky that their paths are predictable, even determined. Ancient technology bundled in to spoken words -- very interesting story www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgJc...

The Star Trek Universe

@desertphile.bsky.social Here is what the idiot software allowed me to create for a "unhinged, deranged world leader" an was informed that it was not allowed to make such image too vague and I told it "come on, you know who I mean" and it said it won't do real people so I said "Do Felix The Cat" :)

In a deep freezer, hidden beneath frozen chicken, police located Ernestina Lucero which, in court filings was a "chilling discovery." I p00p you negative, the documentation called the case "chilling."

And with AI, mediocre people can produce ever more mediocre "papers" that nobody will ever read or reference than ever before

Get out in Nature. No excuses.

We need more joy in our ugly world, but we need to be reminded that joy still exists

"There's no NO PARKING signs! Derp! So it's legal! Derp!" They need signs to tell them when to wipe their bottoms The wrecker squeak past without damaging a-hole's car, and medical / Fire Dept. equipment is often wider They park anywhere they want and cry when towed about how "there we no signs!"

This is neat, the 13 year old was winning against Anna Cramling :) who has a blitz rating around 1900 or something, with a GM mother. He was in the winning position then blundered his Rook to take a pawn not noticing Anna's Bishop. As soon as he took his hand off of his Rook, he saw it :) Woops!

Neighborhood Kitteh Peanut notes that it is a bit wet this morning but nothing he's worried about, he has a human named "Fred" that he can rub up against to dry off just a bit! He thanked me for breakfast then plopped down for some wet rolling around 🙂

Before and after, one hour this wet morning on Keiser Trail widening about 40 feet -- that's all I have time for since I must add named pipes this morning! Real world software does _not_ compete with hobby time in the forest 🙂

@desertphile.bsky.social I purchased this for $53 which includes the tax, "free" shipping. It allows me to connect with other MeshTastic devices, run the application on my burner phone, and the software is open source so I can alter the firmware for naughtiness www.seeedstudio.com/Wio-Tracker-...

@desertphile.bsky.social This might interest you on the ranch. Meshtastic. With a solar panel mated to an inexpensive mesh device (any where from $15 on up) you can establish 3 mile long links, line of sight for the cost of a solar panel to charge the mesh device www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGiN...

Though this is not the right month to remove Tree of Heaven invasive species, while I was on Wren Meacham Trail with tools to cut it down, I got what I could reach this morning. We really need to get volunteers up the canyon and use rap ropes to go get as much as we safely can.

Before and after of a narrow section of trail. The initial trail is difficult to see but there's a drainage off to the right which hikers could stumble in to if not careful (like everything else) so I got this widened on Wren Meacham Trail as the morning's last effort.

Before and after on the next section of Wren Meacham Trail. I had four hikers pass by, a lone hiker and then a group of three, all human, presumably. One guy said "I'd love to do this! I love nature" so he and his brother got my business card :)

Before and after on Wren Meacham Trail this morning, this is the first section worked on. Much of the trail is wide and safe, there are only two places where I believe it would improve safety to widen.

@xenubarb.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dSm...

@xenubarb.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM4E...

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