There are satanic message in Stairway to Heaven on reverse but not here :-)

Here, all is fine.

Sheesh.

(Yet)
once (and forever) again;

Am seeing folks cry out for an email (read: internet) host who is not utterly enshittified.

Me:

Have wrongfully imagined that folks wanted this, ,

for decades.

Also me:
I just can't do it anymore.

llms

Seems *all* computational resources are mere llm-vs-llm now

for the benefit of no-actual-people.

is all just dogshit-on-your-shoe
that kills everything,
esp the ecosphere.

finishing up mowing for this week,
hopefully, for the year.

&

Yeah
I too,
have dogshit on my shoe!
(and the wheels of my mower)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VedG_Ihr66I

&
I am
your superman!

Dispatches from ColdComfort, at the foot of the hollar in central PA.US

...

been crazy-nice weather this autumn.

headed out into dense fog this am to pursue my trade as 'lawnmower man'.
Odd how many car pilots don't grok the utility of lights in limited visibility.

shrug.

my few remaining clients?:
profs at the BigU.
&
*all*
Russian/Ukrainian, other east-european.

*ALL*

Want solar-powered, electric, grass maint. to keep the grass-police at bay

make of that what u will.

@neil it saddens me that the art of the handwritten html letter is dying out in our generation

Solar power IS nuclear power. It's just the reactor is really really far away.

These are Amazon's bots. Larger ranges, and a lot more of them, the fuckers.

100.20.0.0/14
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#AIBotBlock #Amazon #AWS

Most software features I see these days, my response is "go the fuck away, nobody asked."

Happy birthday to the first woman to earn a doctorate in science, physicist and professor Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti (née, & known throughout her life as Bassi, 1711-1778). I’ve shown her surrounded by the sort of state-of-the-art instrumentation she would have used in her lab to investigate electricity: an electrical machine, conductors, an aurora flask, a luminous discharge tube, a Lane electrometer, 🧵1/
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4436745646

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #physics #linocut

Legitimately the best bathroom-designation sign I’ve ever seen

Shame on Me!

don't want to share:
&
that's why I will.
...

verbal altercation with a 'bro' (maybe 1/2 my age) behind the wheel of a verizon 10ton bucket truck.

I didn't *want* to argue?

Just asked (given he was just sitting there, diesel idling) if he'd move so I could pull in & tilt my pv panels to charge my batts.

he wanted to argue.

'Bro! No!

you don't want to move?
Don't.

but ffs!
Don't try to fight me

You can't carry that!
I'm srs!

never,*ever* pick a fight w/an old local!"

kidz

"friendly cards will turn"

Is there any device more emblematic of our drift from sanity than the leaf-blower?

No better than a broom at it's essential function, wasteful of fuel, polluting air and sound, requiring maintenence (lubrication is another fossil fuel product, a pollutant), etc., it's a microcosm of the stupid parts of our civilization.

ShortEssay:
Leaf-Blowers.

They're terrible.
..

I own 3, have owned 8.

Of 3, I use 2 often.

1 of which is a convertable vacuum:shredder & gutter blower, & 1 is a crazy powerful leaf blower attachment for a combination tool.

*No One* is going to pay to have leaves raked & driveways/walkways broom swept.

We call these:
(pay attn:)
Energy Slaves.

mine (purity alert!) are battery powered, mostly pv charged.

Still Slaves.

*SLAVES!*

Please, @me if you want,
but I've walked this road before.

3hours
at a clients place this (what was imagined as) am

leaves!

Wow!

I was concerned at 1st
but
yeah, there is still a sidewalk, driveway, & house. I did eventually find them all.

Autumn mulch-mowing? Yeah, I do that.
This?

sheesh.

shit

my EL wire rig doesn't work..

prolly that crap potted voltage regulator

my bad

&

I really needed it

handing out TorT 2morrow nite

i know what and why but the phrase “cost of living” really bothers me as a political phrase

bro it shouldn’t cost anything to live. we should be living in community and taking care of each other. our whole thing is so fucked

“affordability” and “cost of living” are alien phrases from rich people

Afore mentioned old netbook?

a bootleg vinyl rip mp3 of Paul Simon's 'Graceland' (prolly limewire)

I xferred to my ph.

been listening to it on repeat all (fk'n) day.

A seriously good bit of art, that.

Def an artifact of it's day.
In ways I didn't grasp, even then.

27th October

All of the weight
Of the north
Tipping away from the sun
My long shadow
Points to the moon
And the hunter
Home from the hill
And the end of summer
Is a silver light
That in the night
was so bright
Fades now into the blue
And the greys
Of shorter, colder days.
The geese are here
They’re tall
and watchfully grazing
Facing into the ragged breeze
And here with me
Here is where I long to be.
#poetry

Lol!
pic made rounds.

local market vendor spotted it & txt'd:

"How much?"

me: 'lol! u tell me!"

she got a larger lot of 'baby' ginger from a grower a bit over an hour (by car) away
&
sold out same day.

huh.

Maybe this is a thing?

I've grown ginger for over a decade now.
&
have no idea why.

dear friend:
she finished her phd (botany) here, gave us her 'experiments'.

I tended & propogated them 4 yrs, each worse than the last

started frm seed 8yrs ago, better.

i keep doing it!