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Weekend road trip to D.C. to pack up Malia’s belongings. Stopped to see uncle and aunt, then south to Staunton River State Park. Clouds so no stars (park is Dark Sky designee) and rains this morning stymied my plans to hike. Black bear as I left. Drove blue highways through Virginia and home to NC.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/2026/08/02/weekend-road-trip-to-dc.html","date_published":"2026-08-02T16:51:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Anton Zuiker","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/activitypub/mistersugar","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F12%2F562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"antonzuiker"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-02 16:51","date_timestamp":1785689483,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94948839","content_html":"Thom’s Guide to Tokyo - Supergranular
\n\n\nWhen I’m asked for Tokyo recommendations my standard answer is that you should just go there and walk around.
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Shared this long and rich set of recommendations with my children and they immediately said they want to visit Tokyo.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/2026/07/30/203959.html","date_published":"2026-07-31T00:39:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Anton Zuiker","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/activitypub/mistersugar","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F12%2F562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"antonzuiker"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-31 00:39","date_timestamp":1785458399,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94919501","content_html":"@manton I have that same green iPod in a drawer. I’m intrigued. What are you making?
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/antonzuiker/94919501","date_published":"2026-07-30T15:51:36+00:00","author":{"name":"Anton Zuiker","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/activitypub/mistersugar","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F12%2F562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"antonzuiker"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-30 15:51","date_timestamp":1785426696,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94864735","content_html":"@AndySylvester i see it in Micro.blog.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/antonzuiker/94864735","date_published":"2026-07-29T17:38:14+00:00","author":{"name":"Anton Zuiker","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/activitypub/mistersugar","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F12%2F562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"antonzuiker"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-29 17:38","date_timestamp":1785346694,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94821700","content_html":"I may not have added my feed to the Micro.blog sources correctly. Now I’ve selected the import option so let’s watch this flow to M.b and Wan Smol Blog. This has been a test.
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","summary":"I've added my feed from RSS.storian to my Micro.blog account so that posts I write here will show up in my M.b timeline, and so also on Wan Smol Blog. This will be the first.\n\nYesterday Dave Winer wrote about how he sees the network evolving:\n\n\" People will want to run all-size workgroups.\"\n\nI've be...","url":"https://rss.storian.org/?id=2","date_published":"2026-07-29T00:33:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Anton Zuiker","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/activitypub/mistersugar","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F12%2F562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"antonzuiker"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-29 00:33","date_timestamp":1785285185,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94821701","content_html":"Who will use this? smol.zuiker.com
","summary":"","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/2026/07/28/who-will-use-this.html","date_published":"2026-07-29T00:33:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Anton Zuiker","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/activitypub/mistersugar","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F12%2F562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"antonzuiker"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-29 00:33","date_timestamp":1785285185,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94813681","content_html":"@manton @manton is the integration live? I have an instance of RSS.chat on my own server and am ready to try it.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/antonzuiker/94813681","date_published":"2026-07-28T20:54:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Anton Zuiker","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/activitypub/mistersugar","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F12%2F562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"antonzuiker"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-28 20:54","date_timestamp":1785272074,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94795154","content_html":"Mushrooms on the woodchip pathway to my work studio. The Seek app identifies these as Golden-gilled Gerronema (Gerronema strombodes). The MushroomExpert has a long writeup.
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","summary":"I'll start with my version of 'Hello, world' and the common Bislama greeting used up and down the Vanuatu archipelago.\n\nMy name is Anton Zuiker and this is the first post on my own installation of the new RSS.chat software.\n\nDave wants RSS.chat to be a coral reef. Having snorkeled reefs in Vanuatu, ...","url":"https://rss.storian.org/?id=1","date_published":"2026-07-28T01:16:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Anton Zuiker","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/activitypub/mistersugar","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F12%2F562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"antonzuiker"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-28 01:16","date_timestamp":1785201362,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94821702","content_html":"Olsem wanem? smol.zuiker.com
","summary":"","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/2026/07/27/olsem-wanem.html","date_published":"2026-07-28T01:16:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Anton Zuiker","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/activitypub/mistersugar","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F12%2F562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"antonzuiker"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-28 01:16","date_timestamp":1785201362,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94707548","content_html":"Dinner date at our favorite pizzeria in Carrboro. Came back and kittens are doing great in the secure chicken run. Though, there was a curious owl perched in the tree above. It silently flew off when Erin approached.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/2026/07/26/dinner-date-at-our-favorite.html","date_published":"2026-07-26T23:24:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Anton Zuiker","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/activitypub/mistersugar","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F12%2F562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"antonzuiker"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-26 23:24","date_timestamp":1785108242,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94703892","content_html":"Fascinating article in the NYTimes: A Once Outlawed Māori Art Form Is Alive and in the Flesh (gift article). Of interest to me because of that great novel I read recently, The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson, in which tā moko is a key part of the story.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/2026/07/26/fascinating-article-in-the-nytimes.html","date_published":"2026-07-26T21:10:43+00:00","author":{"name":"Anton Zuiker","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/activitypub/mistersugar","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F12%2F562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"antonzuiker"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-26 21:10","date_timestamp":1785100243,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94702699","content_html":"I won’t win awards for carpentry skills but I’m proud of this project. All juniper posts were gathered from our property. It’s solid enough to last a few years, I hope. Inspired by the DIY instructions in Hentopia: Create a Hassle-Free Habitat for Happy Chickens.
\n
Chicken run now has a fresh layer of wood chips. Until we build a new coop to replace the decaying kit coop, no chickens until we add pullets next spring. Erin will use the enclosure to train the kittens to stay close to the house and away from the coyotes (new fence around yard will help).
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/2026/07/26/chicken-run-now-has-a.html","date_published":"2026-07-26T20:33:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Anton Zuiker","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/activitypub/mistersugar","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F12%2F562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"antonzuiker"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-26 20:33","date_timestamp":1785097980,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94659168","content_html":"Now I’m sitting on the sofa, sipping Yunnan golden tips supreme and listening to latest album from Iron and Wine (pretty sure I saw Sam in the hair salon yesterday when I was getting my haircut and hearing about my stylist’s trip to Machu Picchu and Galápagos).
\n","summary":"","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/2026/07/25/now-im-sitting-on-the.html","date_published":"2026-07-25T21:51:37+00:00","author":{"name":"Anton Zuiker","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/activitypub/mistersugar","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F12%2F562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"antonzuiker"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-25 21:51","date_timestamp":1785016297,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94659084","content_html":"Erin and I finished constructing the chicken run. She told me I’ve been at this project for two years. I gathered the juniper trunks for the posts, a buddy helped me secure the side wire fencing. Oliver helped along the way. Today I added the last top rails and we secured chickenwire on top.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/2026/07/25/erin-and-i-finished-constructing.html","date_published":"2026-07-25T21:47:53+00:00","author":{"name":"Anton Zuiker","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/activitypub/mistersugar","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F12%2F562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"antonzuiker"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-25 21:47","date_timestamp":1785016073,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94658799","content_html":"@manton oh, cool. I ate lunch in Bastrop once but didn’t know about the bookstore (or it was closed, can’t recall). I do read Ryan’s blog.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/antonzuiker/94658799","date_published":"2026-07-25T21:37:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Anton Zuiker","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/activitypub/mistersugar","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F12%2F562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"antonzuiker"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-25 21:37","date_timestamp":1785015462,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94293971","content_html":"@ayjay even FIFA is in a stupor by this game - they’ve stopped showing is celebrities.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/antonzuiker/94293971","date_published":"2026-07-19T21:06:47+00:00","author":{"name":"Anton Zuiker","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/activitypub/mistersugar","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F12%2F562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"antonzuiker"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-19 21:06","date_timestamp":1784495207,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94285179","content_html":"\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/2026/07/19/the-demon-next-door-in.html","date_published":"2026-07-19T17:15:09+00:00","author":{"name":"Anton Zuiker","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/activitypub/mistersugar","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F12%2F562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"antonzuiker"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-19 17:15","date_timestamp":1784481309,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94285119","content_html":"In a more immediate sense, invoking demons can be a means of dehumanizing and delegitimizing political enemies, which has often been a precursor to actual warfare and political violence. “It’s a very useful way to get around the Christian imperative to love your enemy,” Matthew Taylor, a visiting scholar at the Center on Faith and Justice at Georgetown University, told me.
\n
The True History of New England’s Stone Walls
\n\n\nPeople love walls, especially the weather-grizzled, lichen-blotched stone walls that crisscross the woods, hills, fields, and gardens of New England. I am one of them.
\n
I was just in Rhode Island and saw thes stone walls. A few year’s ago here in North Carolina, I gathered up and placed granite stones on the property line between our old place and new, and I was thinking of gathering more for a wall. I did leave spaces for the turtles to cross.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/2026/07/19/the-true-history-of-new.html","date_published":"2026-07-19T17:13:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Anton Zuiker","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/activitypub/mistersugar","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F12%2F562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"antonzuiker"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-19 17:13","date_timestamp":1784481188,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94206086","content_html":"Finally felt good enough to finish a blog post about our trip to Acadia National Park. Highlights include meeting Drupal creator Dries Buytaert on the trail (I also reference my appreciation of @manton and other CMS developers). If I’d felt better I’d have eaten better in Portland, too. [fixed link]
\n","summary":"","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/2026/07/17/finally-felt-good-enough-today.html","date_published":"2026-07-18T03:17:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Anton Zuiker","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/activitypub/mistersugar","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F12%2F562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"antonzuiker"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-18 03:17","date_timestamp":1784344640,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94143978","content_html":"Tonight in the forest outside there are two young owls begging for food with their screeches. Every year I hear a single juvenile, so two out there is pretty cool.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/2026/07/16/tonight-in-the-forest-outside.html","date_published":"2026-07-17T02:33:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Anton Zuiker","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/activitypub/mistersugar","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F12%2F562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"antonzuiker"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-17 02:33","date_timestamp":1784255602,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94058264","content_html":"Even though I wasn’t feeling well, I was glad to have been able to see The Heavy Heavy at Ocean Mist in Matunuck, Rhode Island. They put on another good show. Fun music.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/348/2026/img-7928-m.jpg\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/2026/07/15/even-though-i-wasnt-feeling.html","date_published":"2026-07-15T18:00:19+00:00","author":{"name":"Anton Zuiker","url":"https://smol.zuiker.com/activitypub/mistersugar","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F12%2F562.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"antonzuiker"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-15 18:00","date_timestamp":1784138419,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94058122","content_html":"Departed in the pre-dawn ocean air of Rhode Island, arrived back in North Carolina, and immediately hit with a head cold. Allergies to this humid home state, or new symptoms of last week’s (self-diagnosed) cyclosporiasis while in Maine? Either way, added misery.
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