An aging, distracted, anarchic contemplative who lives on a farm with donkeys, works in #solar, advocates for #degrowth and anti-fascism, practices #Vajrayana #Buddhist #meditation.
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Last Notes npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ In case you missed it: getting the #shingles #vaccine lowers your risk of dementia later in life by 20% and even slows the progress of the disease for people already suffering from Alzheimer’s. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Happy Saturday, all. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ A friend brought us some eggs from her chickens and boy are they colorful. I’ve seen lots of egg colors before but she has just three hens. I’m thinking she’s dyed some of them. Or she’s been feeding them magic chicken feed! ✨ #Chicken people: weigh in on this! npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Donkeys in love. It involves wrestling and some neck biting. Relatable. #asstodon npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ RE: https://zirk.us/@impermanen_/116268821800495961 npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ I’m looking to hire an artist for a small project. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116053742685475452 npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ It’s like a portal to a better world. #asstodon npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Donkeys: Whatchu doin goofy human? npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Arturo the burro here to ask the important Valentine’s Day question: npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ What’s the story, morning glory? #asstodon npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ An EMT to my sister-in-law, who’s a pharmacist that works in the ER: “I’m having a hard time getting lidocaine these days.” npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ His impressively loud brays aren’t the only way Arturo communicates. For example if he wants to let me know the watering tubs are frozen or empty he knows how to say that silently and quite specifically: first he stares at me until I give him eye contact. Then he looks briefly at the thing that needs attention, pointing with his eyes and ears. Then he looks back at me to see if I got the message. He repeats this as needed until I start to move in a way that shows I got the memo. #asstodon #blep npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Buenos días a todos! Bonjour tout le monde! Good morning, all! npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Distraught spouse, naked and dripping from the shower, demands you remove a spider from the house. It’s 19° F outside and there’s a foot of snow. What do you do? npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ A small joy. I found a second hand copy of a book my grandmother published in 1930. It's a collection of French short stories intended for teaching French to English speakers. Someone evidently commissioned a small print run from a print-on-demand shop in India a few years ago and now a copy is on the market. It even has a nice sewn leather binding. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ The donkeys wish you a Happy New Year, kiddos. We’ll get through this together. #asstodon npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ A friend and fellow donkey lover gave us a pair of #asstodon mugs as a gift and they’re so damn cute. The donkeys’ heads emerge mischievously from your beverage as you take a drink. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Good morning and a very #asstodon Christmas to all who celebrate npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ All the equines stop and marvel at the truckload of happiness that just pulled up. #asstodon npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ This on the other hand… 😬 npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Nothing like having the right equipment for the job npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Time to go buy hay. It’s $290 for a bundle of 24 bales that will feed three big animals for several weeks. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ How to achieve peak amplification for your bray when the human is inside the barn. #asstodon #CrankItUpTo11 npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Getting together with spouse’s family reminded us how eccentric we are. Hanging out with normal people (suburbanites with Facebook accounts and smart TVs) is so disorienting. We have so few common reference points. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Good morning, all. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Good morning, all npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Evening donkey zoomies! #asstodon npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ I don’t ride the old boy any more but we go for short hikes together. Got out this morning ahead of the weather. Good time had by all. #horses npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Wow! Aurora borealis in southern Colorado! First time I’ve ever seen it this far south. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Oh hi there ✌️How’s your Saturday? npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ The 430 lb donkeys don’t accept the idea that their 1000 lb horse buddy gets a lot more food than they do. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Stood a long time this morning in the cold air, watching the full moon slowly sink into the purple mountains. Just feeling carried along by this most ancient dance. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Don’t worry, babe, it’s gonna to be ok. #asstodon npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ The mini donkeys: always plotting their next diabolical scheme. Don’t be fooled by their cute behavior or their adorably stubby legs. They are pure evil. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Autumn in the Sangre de Cristos ❤️ npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ The phrase “imperial core planet” comes to mind. 😅 npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ I sometimes do research at the Colorado College campus. It’s a private college but they let members of the community use the library. The campus is so beautiful and peaceful and the students seem preternaturally chill. I love the library but immediately feel out of place here. You can viscerally feel the wealth required to attend, the huge endowment fund is like an invisible dome that separates the place from the rest of the world. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Manuel left that cone on his butt for the longest time. I think it made him feel special, like he had something that Arturo did not. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ ______ SLOW ______ npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ wow. I’m wild about those sculptures. A lovely PNW tribute. And they really come into their own at night, don’t they? npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ A fairly nice sunset if I do say so myself npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ The aspen in Southern Colorado are 👌 right now. Such a beautiful day. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ It’s both comic and sad. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ that sliver of a moon! npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ I guess we’re going to try finding a freelance developer on Upwork.com. Don’t want to use LinkedIn, which feels cursed. Looks like any way I do this I’ll be sifting through a pile of resumes like a recruiter, which I’m not. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ The mountain mahogany have deployed their graceful spiraling seed plumes. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Arturo: Don’t mind me, I’m just going to lie on your neck for a while. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ I think that’s exactly the variety. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ The donkeys trim the grass very nicely but they leave these tansyaster “bouquets” popping up in the field. Either the flavor is as bad as the flowers are pretty or they just like the way the flowers liven the place up. #asterdon #bloomscrolling npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Mmmwah! 💕 npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ A lot is written about #solar energy as a response to the climate crisis. Less about its role in our political crisis: the fight against fascism. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ The #asstodon thing has expanded beyond the Fediverse to the point where friends and relatives and people we barely know text us pictures of donkeys they encounter. Here are some wild burros that accosted a friend of a friend of ours who was out fishing in South Park, Colorado today. Descendants of the burros that worked as pack animals during the Colorado gold rush of the 1850s. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ ✅ Meditated 📿 npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ what a glorious day! The Cascades look so much wetter than the Rockies and the plant life so unusual by comparison. But the drama of hiking through dense forest to reach treeline and suddenly entering this wide-open alpine environment is the same. Love it! npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ [George] Jackson argues that U.S.-style fascism is a kind of perfected form—all the more insidiously hegemonic because of the marriage of monopoly capital with the (racialized) trappings of liberal democracy. As he declared: npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ I’m never left unsupervised in the barn. #asstodon npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ And the view right now, which merits a panorama shot. Not sure how the wide aspect ratio will display but here goes! npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Lots of sky drama today, starting with the fiery sunrise… npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ It’s been a quiet news day today in the US 😉so, maybe we’ll check in on donkey world for an update? npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Losing myself in this wondrous print we received in the mail from the Denver Art Museum. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ while the DOJ’s official stance on the remedy was that Chrome should be spun off as a separate business, it would hardly be a surprise if Trump privately intimidated a judge like Mehta and he felt too vulnerable to rule with appropriate force. Nor would it be a big shock to learn that Pichai and Trump are trading favors when they meet privately at Mar a Lago. Trump wants to appear tough on Big Tech publicly while quietly keeping them in his pocket with plausible deniability. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ I remember thinking human knowledge would advance when it was at everyone’s fingertips. Now the books are being burned in the data centers. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ A fine looking Sunday slime mold for you. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ The sun shining back at the sun. #bloomscrolling npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ I’d like to know more about this. Do you have a reference you recommend to read? npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ We have to work at both problems, Gerry. I agree that the most urgent is for the industrialized North to stop producing crap we don’t need and to respect the boundaries that make our life in the planet possible. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ I really like Gerry, who is a degrowth advocate like myself and we mostly agree. We badly need to cut consumption in the industrialized world and we are doing the opposite. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Somehow missed this: npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ The donkeys and horse are unanimous: the new teff hay is the best ever! 🎉🥳🙌 npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Good morning, all. Got anything good for us? #asstodon npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ They’ve decided it *might* be safe to stand in the same room as the traffic cone, just to get out of the hot sun. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ I finally acquired a new traffic cone for the donkeys and presented it to them. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ I love this field so much. I would paint it if I could. Humans never set foot here as far as I can tell, even though it’s right next door to us. It’s beloved of the deer, elk and wild turkeys, perhaps in part for the benign neglect. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ This guy. No end of mischief. Yes, I’m talking bout you, Piccolo. #asstodon npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ “We have to face it, Arturo. Sometimes the humans are just… sigh… stupid.” #asstodon npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ when they aren’t bonking each other with it or playing tug-of-war they try to interfere with the administration of public safety. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ When mom moved into the nursing home I inherited things that she inherited when her parents died and some that *they* had likewise inherited from *their* parents. Sentimental stuff only: diaries and photos dating back 110 years, the rest all sold or given away long ago. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Before bedtime the donkeys put all their favorite toys away. This cracks me up every time. #asstodon npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ I wondered when this would come up and here it is. Someone is finally calling attention to the fact that the pollution regulations that Trump's flunkies are eliminating were actually crafted to give industry certainty about how much pollution they could emit and to limit the public's ability to sue for damages under common law. That protection gone, it may actually be *more legally costly* now for many companies to pollute instead of less. https://www.eenews.net/articles/killing-epa-climate-rule-could-backfire-on-industry/ npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ If you have a favorite Wim Wenders movie, what is it? Either way boosts appreciated. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Good morning. <boop> npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ So ICE raided a construction site in our neighborhood and two of the workers tried to get away. They got in their truck, hit one of the ICE vehicles and drove off. The ICE officers *opened fire* on them. They abandoned their vehicle in the neighborhood to try to escape on foot. So now we’re all ordered to “shelter in place” and “stay away from windows” so the swarming gestapo can shoot up the place with a free hand. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Your morning #asstodon has arrived. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ “Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before—more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.” npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ She works for days on a large piece, which I notice gives her a sense of accomplishment, and movement as well as transporting her imagination out of the boundaries of her room. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Mom is almost 87 years old and for the first time since she was a teen is finding she can no longer keep a journal. She didn’t say anything about it for a long time but when she finally told me she started crying. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Ok this is much too somber and earnest for the weekend. Please give your answer but with “wrong answers only.” npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ What do folks do who depend for their living on being highly creative, more or less on a schedule (artistically, scientifically, or pragmatically, like solving unsolved problems)? npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Arturo sneaks a kiss on Manuel while they watch me prepare the evening feed. If you’ve been following for a while I’m sure you’ve noticed: these burros are a lovely old gay married couple. #asstodon npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ This is the one-room schoolhouse that’s in our neck of the woods. The sign reads: “Black Forest School, built in 1922 with donated land-logs-labor, one teacher - grades 1-8” npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ This year we’ve seen Mariposa lilies. They don’t always bloom but they grow from bulbs that can live for over 30 years. Hard to grow in a garden, I’m told. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Storm clouds… with donkey, of course. #asstodon npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Grazing animals are fully-autonomous self-driving solar-powered lawnmowers. They can go literally for years without being plugged in or gassed up! npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Order up! <ding!> Two chonky donkeys! npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ Good morning, all. A shimmering blue mist hovers above the ground in every little clearing. #bloomscrolling npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ It’s clear that the pace of technical innovation has been slowing for decades. Compare how people’s lives changed 1900-1960 to the period from 1960 to now. It’s obvious. And contrary to extropian hype, “AI” is slamming the brakes on innovation. It’s an incredibly conservative, backward-looking, purely extractive technology that is already choking on its own excrement. Look at SpaceX which has trouble with engineering tasks we performed perfectly in the 60s on a tiny fraction of the resources. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ “Sorry. We brayed. You didn’t bring us a carrot in time. Now we have died.” npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ We have a friend that’s an #immigration attorney in #LA and she’s losing her shit. Her work with clients is being used to kidnap them. They’re grabbed if they appear for a hearing, regardless of the judge’s ruling. And even if with her help they were adjudicated to live and work in the US decades ago, the record of that fact is used by ICE to kidnap them. So her phone is ringing off the hook *and* all the tear-gassing and gunplay and kidnapping is occurring at her place of work. npub1q68u3jwh6ruz0snw2pt8dcyexyfvttrq6x8fr5r9x4r464dtpd5sgydzt8 impermanen_ 🕊️ My wife was one of the first women to receive an architecture degree from Berkeley in the mid 70s. The buildings for the architecture and engineering programs only had restrooms for men. She had to go find a building that contained secretaries. One professor told her to her face that he would not give an A grade to a woman as a matter of policy, so she should be extremely happy with her A-.
