👻 Dead 🍂 Oak 💀 @redoak@social.coop

y'all ever get that heartache for a kinder, softer, more equitable world?

Oh, I should mention: I am currently a freelance Django developer, but I'm *very* interested in finding a few like-minded folks to build a development co-op.

Especially interested in building secure and/or federated versions of the items on this list: https://dymaxion.org/essays/pleasestop.html

don't recall if i've posted about this before but a thing about me is that i'm like obnoxiously bad at picking favorites in almost any category. like it's painful to me to elevate one kind of jam above other options for a PB&J. and i usually say "i'm super glad we get to enjoy a variety of jams in our PB&Js" and like. i get this is weird and trivial but also it feels very important to me

also there are approximately 8 Wendell Berry poems that can be summarized with that line lol

i'd posit that nearly every single farmer is also a lover.

a lyric that's gotten stuck in my head because it's just the most phenomenal come-on i've heard in a song in ages, is when Bo Diddley says "I look like a farmer, but I'm a lover!"

not literally right now - this second i'm listening to emmylou harris and playing a video game - but i'm #nowreading 1491 by Charles C. Mann. it's interesting to note that a lot of the "revelations" from the subtitle are pretty well known (at least in certain of my circles?) by now, 15 years after publication. still, it feels like a nice introduction to a lot of history that's often swept aside, and a corrective to the mainstream understanding of human history in this hemisphere.

ayup

i think tonight i'm gonna have a drink or two and play Spiritfarer

Expesto pastronum

yeah, i stayed up way too late thinking about coding and birds, again

here's a couple pics to help ID my mystery bird from wednesday. after consulting my pics & notes and Sibley, my #1 guess is now Ruby-Crowned Kinglet but i bet someone here can tell me for certain. @birds

the early my morning jacket records where it sounds like jim james is singing in an elementary school bathroom but the mic is in the hallway? fuck. yes.

i am a hopeless glutton for reverb. i love echoes, resonance, lingering overtones, just go to town with that shit and i'll eat it up