I can’t hear the synth in “Won't Get Fooled Again” now without thinking of F-18s. Well played, Tom, well played.

Why do kids always get sick at night time? #parentstr

Not only are Arbutus trees beautiful during the summer, with their peeling bark hues and smooth skin, apparently you also get a show during fall with these bright berries. My fave tree. Lucky to be in this part of the world. #treestr #nature #grownostr

Happy 40th birthday, Intel 80386! Launched October 17, 1985. I remember my Dad getting us a 386-SX20, which I soon broke by flipping the voltage selector on the back of the PSU while hunting for a volume control. I never confessed, shamefully.

This is just one of many simple ruses to get defined subsets of the populace to embrace digital ID. Why yes sir, with your imprinted bar code you may now enjoy Sam’s six-toe’d dancing girls.

Late season and the bees are slowing down, often spending many hours just resting on these chive flowers; some mornings we might find four or five on this plant having slept there overnight. #beestr #homesteading #farming #nature

There were no liquidation events in my hardware wallets today.

I am quite content in the knowledge that my dull, unimaginative use of financial products without leverage will never result in my “being rekt”.

Anyone out there running Omarchy? I seem to have fallen down a rabbit hole and now all I want is a beautiful Linux.

Omarchy

Omarchy

Beautiful, Modern & Opinionated Linux by DHH

UK: we’re just not doing renewables right yet, apparently. A few more windmills and hundreds of miles of countryside defiled with (more) pylons should fix it, Ed. Energy is life. No coincidence the mind virus has this as a primary outcome. #energy

Today in the rural citadel: russet picking, community apple festival, transfer of barn swallow droppings to raised beds for winter fertilizer, planting of garlic (round one). Tomorrow: church with the family, planting of garlic (round two). Constructive weekend. How are you faring? #homesteading #fall #grownostr #foodstr

They pushed a new Covid batch out didn’t they. Feels like my head is in a vice.

City of Vancouver closing its equity office. First this stuff vanishes from private business, then government orgs, and finally, many years later, from the colleges and universities. Though that’ll be a long haul.

CTVNews

City of Vancouver shutters Equity Office

The City of Vancouver has closed down its Equity Office, according to an internal email viewed by CTV News.

Trying to close an investment account with a major Canadian bank, the branch can’t do it (actual people standing in front of you can’t do it!). No, I must phone and wait in a queue for *an hour* to speak to someone in India. Ah, trad-fi. It won’t be missed.

Just upgraded from an Apple Watch to my father’s old Casio digital. * tells the time * doesn’t need to charge every day * doesn’t need annoying upgrades for woke wallpaper and emoji sets * at almost 40 years of age gives the middle finger to planned obsolescence * connects me in time and space to a parent, no longer with us, and a better decade, manufactured late eighties #freedomtech