Luke O. @loppear@social.coop

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Alright the library books from the 1970s on hanging gardens and macrame have started rolling in...

More than a decade since I shutdown my last self-admin'd web and mail hosts, I'm looking at doing it again, a handful of nearly-static sites and some activitypub experiments. At the low end of needs and budget.

Not-unethical recommendations for a vps host?

Sometimes you just need to be calmly reminded of what you keep hearing and finding ways to deflect: this pandemic is going to go on for years.

(Hour long podcast with 3 guests, no transcript. The statnews link in the related reading is a reasonable substitute. All of these take a fairly level optimistic view, not focused on negative behavior or scary what-ifs. Normal will be new.)
https://radioopensource.org/plague-year-two/

Going to reinvent my interior decorating to be all jungle plants and steam punk. More bamboo and wicker than leather and victorian, but brass fittings and dials on anything that's not a bromeliad.

-> first draft in response to @ifixcoinops

Growing up in the foothills, every hole i had to dig was sure to have rocks, free rocks! Now living down in the swamp, not a stone to be found, at any price.
I scavenge old bricks for now.

Growing up in the foothills,
shoveling sure to find rocks,
a free wall at cost.

Now down in the swamp,
not a stone to be found,
name a price.

I scavenge old bricks. #smallpoems

Idk why KPFA's Making Contact doesn't do show summaries, but this episode last month was one of their excellent cuts from a documentary, in this case Mirrors Of Privilege on white folk waking up to needing to fix our own house, well worth a listen https://kpfa.org/episode/making-contact-february-7th-2021/

Got my first shot today, rest of family is wrapping up 2nds, so now the countdown to other folks wanting to hang out and see us is nearing...

Party penguins parade progress...

Dirt World Problems

You start shoveling and then keep going... our local gravel trucking fairy is back dropping 100 yards on our driveway. But his first load had an accident with the rear gate and made one big pile blocking the road. I have uses! Do I have the back for it though.

Compost shuffle day, about 1m² ready from last season, ⅔ yard & garden waste ⅓ food waste, and loaded up the compost bioreactor for a second trial.

Toxic individualism includes acting like we don't need all the help we get from bugs and worms.

Mis-identification, I guess this is a yeast colony (cryptococcus?) on muscadine sap. Huh.

Slime mold sliming.

Vultures roosting outside our window. I'd pick that tree too, guys, I feel ya.

Sewing today: juggling bean bags made from my old boxers. Glad my daughter enjoys watching me adjust the sewing machine as much as she wants to learn to juggle - filling them with beans was the obvious kid highlight.

@ntnsndr i saved your article to Pocket and opened it there to quite a shock...

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