What's your favorite way to exercise?

Apparently, my daughter was given an assignment to use generative #AI to create a poster / cover for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court in her English class. She took offense to this and asked if she could just do the assignment by hand or digitally using one of her #art apps. She was told no. So, my daughter decided to take a stand and not do the assignment. We support her decision completely. Asking someone who lives for creating her own art to use AI and refusing to accept anything else is inexcusable.

It's the time of year that everyone gives their hot takes, metaphors, and whatever on voting. Fine, here's mine.

No real change is ever cemented at the ballot box. Actual changes in the way governments work comes from months and years of hard advocacy, organizing, resistance, protest, work inside the system, work outside the system, work jumping in and out of the system, and so forth.

Voting isn't to set change in stone. It never is and never has been. What voting is best at, particularly for folks wanting radical change, is setting the conditions for organizing.

Whatever you'd ideally like to see out of the next Congress, you will go insane trying to find a candidate that does just what you want them to do. And in effect, it's kind of lazy.

**Vote for the candidates you think you can (with others!) move closest to your most important positions.**

That's how shit gets done.

“It’s a poor worksman who blames his tools” has always been complete nonsense. No-one complains about imperfect tools faster and louder than a master. A master will yank a cheap or damaged tool out of your hand and yell at you for not blaming it yet

Cheap, lousy tools come from middle managers who don’t know how to do your job. Blame the hell out of poor tools and those who demand you use them

#NWS uses a Slack channel to connect all of the Coordination Warning Areas (places that your local weather office covers for forecast and warnings) within a given state. My state, #Oregon has four NWS offices that cover different parts of the state: Portland, Pendleton, Medford and Boise.

It was a way to provide storm reports that meteorologiats could use to improve models. No longer. They just want us to send them a message in Slack. At least #CoCoRaHS is still a thing.

Wow, today #NWS decommissioned their iNWS website and systems due to cybersecurity vulnerabilities. They now want us to submit storm reports via their Slack channel.

PDF of service change announcement from National Weather Service: https://www.weather.gov/media/notification/pdf_2026/scn26-92_iNWS_Decommission.pdf

#wx #NWS #weather #iNWS #NationalWeatherService #StormReports

If anyone is going to #seagl2026 #seagl , on Saturday, Im giving away a whole bin of Mac minis and small form factor PCs perfect for little home #linux servers

I don't like PHP. I used to work as a professional PHP programmer, and after that, I *really* don't like PHP.

But - even if this thought is deeply disconcerting - PHP is critical infrastructure at this point. And the people who just worked their arses off to fix vulnerabilities in PHP systems are deserving of respect and solidarity, even if you think the PHP language is bad.

(Many of those people also don't like PHP).

IMPORTANT VULNERABILITY DISCLOSURE: sometimes I feel sad

🌱 Skill-up: Intention, Inclusion and Learning Design

Join us for an interactive session exploring intentional hospitality, inclusive learning design, and creating welcoming classroom environments.

📅 Thu, 29 Oct 2026
🕐 08:00 UTC & 20:00 UTC

🔗 Register: https://pretix.carpentries.org/community-events/community-sessions/856/ and https://pretix.carpentries.org/community-events/community-sessions/857/

Seems like a good day to remind people that blaming tools that have been maintained by underpaid devs or volunteers or with little to no support for decades - or worse, blaming those underpaid devs or volunteers - without assigning any responsibility or culpability whatsoever to the negligence of companies that have made millions or billions or hundreds of billions of dollars off the backs of those underpaid devs or volunteers' work is picking a side.

Thanks to the techfashbros for getting me to:

Vastly reduce my online activities/footprint.

Read actual physical books.

Produce art instead of just consuming content.

Buy local.

Spend more time with friends in person.

Question if the benefits of the Internet outweigh the harms.

Question if the benefits of capitalism outweigh the harms.

Bravo.

I look forward to seeing all of them getting everything they fully deserve.

Mini candy bars too expensive. Going a different way for trick or treaters this year.

These are the last of my paintings from 2025. I need to start scanning my stack of paintings from this year so I can post those too. I like scanning in batches but it causes me to be a little 'behind' in what I post, vs what I've just finished or am actively working on.

#Watercolor #AbstractArt #JordanLynnGribbleArt

One more memory from the Bayerischer Wald . Aaaand: this is one of the reasons why we like this region: it's so lush green and vivid and ... not so steep. The vegetation is just different. And so it's simply another kind of experience.
And that spot was just .. beautiful. The stream, the little path, the green, the light, the ferns, ... It's a good spot to just stand still and enjoy.

#photography #bayerischerwald #nature #bayern #landscape #hiking #wandern

Here is a big ❤️ to all admins now fixing the internet.

Most people won't notice, but we know you are there!

🫶

#php

I am reminded again how in 1935, the US Congress passed a tax law that created a new top tax bracket of nearly 80%.

That tax bracket contained exactly one person, John D. Rockefeller, and was designed to stop him from causing so much trouble.

In case anyone needs the precedent.

Happy birthday to Ursula K. Le Guin. "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

instructions unclear, upgraded my servers to #php 4

The PHP #security issue shows once again how much our society relies on mostly volunteer work.

Look at PHP Foundation @thephpf finances:
https://opencollective.com/phpfoundation#category-BUDGET

- Reimbursed $67K on development work this year
- Received: $642,755 last year

Compare these numbers with the amounts companies have made with products & services built upon #PHP. Our digital foundations are built on the backs of #opensource volunteers. Governments & companies need to invest in our common digital infrastructures.