Caption contest: baroque angel pointing to the numbers

I just bought a replacement watch band and NOW I'm "part of the Garmin family"? What the heck does the last four years of actually wearing your watch mean to you people?!

Phone etiquette is so bad. People call 3-4 times repeatedly in succession instead of leaving a message. The number of times people leave voicemails without a name is bizarre, like I'm dealing with some kind of sovereign that has no need to condescend to introduce themselves. Or when I answer, they just start issuing their demands without so much as a greeting. It's harsh, graceless, and discouraging. We live in a coarse world.

Gm Of all the possible January 12ths you may have gotten, this is the only one you actually get Gm

Q: What is faith? A: Resolutely shutting your eyes to scientific fact. Q: What is the human intellect? A: A barrier to faith. Q: What are the seven Christian virtues? A: Respectability; childishness; mental timidity; dullness; sentimentality; censoriousness; and depression of spirits. Dorothy Sayers #quotestr

Just a peridodic reminder #TIDAL has nostr integration

Music on TIDAL

Nora Fischer & Marnix Dorrestein - A. Scarlatti: O Cessate Di Piagarmi (Arr. Voice & Electric Guitar)

Listen to A. Scarlatti: O Cessate Di Piagarmi (Arr. Voice & Electric Guitar) on TIDAL

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Our Lady of Guadalupe: the stories behind the story

The first accounts of Our Lady’s appearances to Juan Diego were written long before the Franciscans understood the native tradition.

Remarkable creature #birding

Any strong feelings about #linux distro Sparky? My machine running #Ubuntu is struggling to keep up in the GNOME desktop environment and I'm looking for a light weight distro for 15 year old hardware.

Spotify for Creators

A THANKLESS MISSION - Homily for the 29th Sunday by Father Nick Blaha Homily Cast

Pray for missionaries

#homily #sermon #catholic #mission #missionary

Nostr is ususable on desktop for me. At least with my current Brave/Ubuntu/Windows arrangements. Everything was great until I started logging in with - nsec . app - instead of the Alby extension. If it weren't for #amethyst, Nostr would be competely inacessible for me.

So I was offline for a few days and came back to a note about a massive #linux vulnerability. I noticed the cups libraries were updated but I'm wondering if this was the fix? #asknostr

Slowly making headway on converting some old school computers that will soon be obsolete (can't run Windows 11) into personal servers with @Start9 #startOS This one was a thorny task... after getting the RAM upgraded to 32 GB and swapping out the old hard drive for a 120GB SSD that I had laying about, I had to fiddle around with boot drives and all sorts of nonsense I don't really understand until (with some help from the Telegram support channel) we got it working. Maybe I'll put some of these up on the Nostr marketplace here on #coracle soon....

Playing around with zap.cooking and got a clunky version of a great recipe posted.

zap.cooking

Apple Roses

Nice puff pastry dessert, savory and great for fall

This was dessert for my godson's baptismal anniversary. Make Baptism great again... I wish I could remember where I found this online, but all I have is a link to the original images saved in my note file. #catholic #cooking #recipe

Edward Moran, Ship at Sea, Sunset

the purpose of a system is what it does

Luff up and touch

Estoy sentado en el suelo de una habitación desocupada, el retrato de una joven no deja de mirarme mientras una vela se consume dando vida a la estancia. Ignoro el tiempo transcurrido, menosprecio el que vendrá. Es fácil sentir cerca la muerte admirando el pábilo doblegado especulando de manera vaga cuando reinará la noche. (Javier Solé, poema “Estancia en penumbra” Del libro de poemas “Las hilanderas”) #español #poesia #poemas #catolico

Pope? Or, Nope? #catholic #pope