Beardy Guy Musings

2025-02-08 Becoming an "activist" In these early days of the new Trump administration we've experienced something entirely new: The early days of fascism or an attempt at fascism and we seem largely unprepared and confused about how to respond.

2025-02-07 Divided, we fall I gave up on the two party system decades ago when I realized that any pretense that the US was democratic was just that, pretense.

Worth a watch given the current moment we are in.

2025-02-01 I didn't expect to be importing CDs in 2025 If you had told me 4 years ago that I'd be importing cds in 2025 I would have scoffed but here I am, importing CDs.

2025-02-01 The flip side of crisis is opportunity Remember: they want us to be afraid.

2024-01-24 Micro.blog is a business not a community Rather than get into the details of the recent (and ongoing) dust-up between Manton, Vincent and Adam it occured to me that it might be more helpful to write about something no-one (that I've seen) has m…

Listening to This Machine Kills podcast episode 390 "We all live in the firestorm".

Liberals in the US rightly criticize MAGA folk as being delusional in regards to the truth of Trump.

2024-01-15 Days of ice and snow An ice storm rolled through here 10 days ago and then a few days later, snow.

Reading folks' thoughts and reactions to the wildfires and connecting it to climate.

2025-01-12 Wildfires in California explain the recent climate-art protests Remember the outrage and confusion when climate protesters threw soup on works of art by Van Gogh and others?

I really enjoyed reading James Thompson's blog post about building the first pre-OS X Dock.

Watched the ForeverNotes videos on YouTube and considering trying it out as a supplement to the OBTF that I've been happily using the past 9 months for a basic daily notes that primarily serves as a springboard for blog posting.

2024-12-25 Winter Fungi Oak Mazegill, Fomitopsis quercina Found this interesting little fungi, perhaps Dacrymyces spathularia Fan-shaped Jelly Fungus

So, Luigi Mangione is labeled a terrorist by the same government that deliberately carries out a War on Children?

"What's the function of a galaxy?

Bernie Sanders on Elon Musk and oligarchy in the US.

Enjoying my morning coffee and listening to an inspiring interview with Deenaalee Hodgdon, Co-Executive Director of Smokehouse Collective in the podcast Landback for the People.

I'd started to write a post on the lie we tell ourselves about being a civilized nation that solves its problems through politics.

Qasim Rashid on Mastodon: Dylan Roof killed 9 Black people with the motivation to incite a race war—NOT charged with terrorism.

2024-12-19 Note: This was originally written as a comment in a thread at the Mac Power Users forum which is, as the name would indicate,a community of Apple nerds.

This guy is burning a righteous fire on the violence of economic class war.

Recommended: Vulture by Lee Weyland.

Recommended: United Health by Jessie Welles.

2024-12-17 Split gill mushrooms and other woodland treasures My daily outdoor work in past weeks is the removal of invasive honeysuckle and autumn olives.

2024-12-15 Sycamore Seed Pod A furry, soft little Sycamore seed pod, so beautiful when viewed up close.

I'm too easily distracted.

This post by Robert Evans about Luigi Mangione is worth a read.

2024-12-12 There is a use case for Apple's Image Generation I'm sure the tech pundit meme regarding Apple's AI image generation being broken and useless will continue.

# On the question of violence as a solution to our problems, I'm generally agreed with the Liberal Redneck's take that fits with many others: "You can only push people so far before they push back with the barrel of a gun, in broad daylight, to near unive…

2024-12-02 Update on using the OBTF and Textastic for publishing from the iPad I've been using the OBTF (One Big Text File) for about eight months now and I'm still finding it very useful as a daily starting point and home base for all note taking, journa…

I've been listening to the From Under the Shadow podcast the past few days.

A local writer friend wrote this a couple days ago and I've found myself going back to it several times to enjoy the layers and tangles of it: Hachures.

Reading Molly White's post-election post Wind the clock and want to recommend it.

I deleted my Facebook account nine years ago.

Other recent additions to my Blogroll: NDN Collective Red Nation Podcast

Added the North American congress on Latin America to my Blogroll.

Thinking about Leonard Peltier this morning.

I love the photo and explanation of the differences between the Hubble (visual light spectrum) and Webb (infrared spectrum) on yesterday's Astronomy Picture of the Day.

It's 30°F this morning, 52°F in my cabin and I'm layered up to keep warm.

Annie Meuller has reshared a post she originally wrote in 2017: The problem with individuality.

Over the past few weeks the mostly male tech pundits have been going out of their way to discuss just how bad Apple's Image Playground is.

I began my morning with a recent episode of The Red Nation podcast, a panel discussion, Indigenous Peoples’ Day vs.

Long overdue, I've begun updating my blog roll to include podcasts, blogs and websites by indigenous people who continue the struggle against the ongoing white settler colonialism rooted in the US.

Let's get this out of the way right off: what we have right now is exactly who we are and who we've been since the first days of Europeans setting foot on the Americas.

Have we finished our mourning?

Reposting this: Community organizing and active citizenship .

If You Force Me to be Your Property I Will Become a Wood Chipper Leslie J.

Thinking this morning about community mutual aid projects.

Perhaps I'm going too far off the deep end but I keep seeing people referring to the notion of getting through the next **four years**.