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\n \"yellow\n
\n

A butterfly coming in for a landing.
\n
\n#dailyphoto #oregon #insectphotography #flowerphotography

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@manton Thanks! It was an experiment (both in lens and processing) but I think it turned out well.

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“Sepia Daisies”

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“Beneath Notice”

\n

Apparently the tiny fly is too tiny for this orbweaver to care about.

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\n \"Suggestively\n
\n

Just a brontosaurus in a field of daisies.
\n
\n#dailyphoto #oregon #eugeneoregon #flowerphotography

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“Preening”

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Duck cleaning up on a cloudy day

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I’m fairly sure that the actual lesson of the recent Anthropic brouhaha is that AI models cannot be made safe. Even a thorough testing and licensing regime would leave ample space for rogue actors to leverage open source models. That genie is thoroughly out of the bottle.

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If you need some Sunday Presidential-adjacent entertainment, may I recommend this 30-minute trashing of the Trump Phone from a tech guy who actually got one, rather than the embarrassing spectacle on the White House lawn.

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“Transient Art”

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Ran across this while out hiking the other day

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“Rose Wallpaper”

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Just playing around this morning: Olympus E-PM1, Zuiko 45mm f/1.8 lens, pre-dawn street lighting, SOOC JPG using the \"grainy b&w\" art look.\n#dailyphoto #eugeneoregon: larkfarm.com

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“Salsify Morning”

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“Into the Unknown”

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“Caged Tree”

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Bread in the bread machine. Prunes newly stewed. More coffee beans ground.

\n

I guess I’m all set for breakfast tomorrow.

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\n \"\"\n
\n

Eugene has a plethora of Little Free Libraries. This one caught my eye while I was out and about hiking today.
\n
\n#dailyphoto #oregon #eugeneoregon

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@dwalbert Alas, although I’m out hiking today, I don’t move that fast! Enjoy the fresh bread though. Maybe I’ll make some myself when I get home.

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If we’ve entered the bread and circuses era of the decline of the American empire, when the hell do we get the bread?

\n","summary":"","url":"https://larkfarm.com/2026/06/13/if-weve-entered-the-bread.html","date_published":"2026-06-13T12:25:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Mike Gunderloy","url":"https://ffmike.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F09%2F1736181.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ffmike"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-13 12:25","date_timestamp":1781353523,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://c.im/@happilyretired23/116742786836286946"]}},{"id":"92101750","content_html":"

“Oregon VIsta”

\n

From Cougar Mountain looking across towards Diamond Peak (where I hope to stand later in the year after more snow melts off).

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“Eugene Victorian”

\n

The Shelton McMurphey Johnson House on a recent sunny day.

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\n \"a\n
\n

Rose season is in full bloom around here, if you will pardon the expression. Caught these ones in our yard at the tail end of blue hour.
\n
\n#dailyphoto #oregon #eugeneoregon #flowerphotography #roses

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“In the Pink”

\n

Another one from the Owen Rose Garden

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So now we have the world’s first trillionaire.

\n

I can’t afford to fill my gas tank.

\n

People elsewhere in the world are literally starving to death.

\n

Something is deeply, deeply wrong here.

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“Morning Reflections”

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Lowell covered bridge just before dawn.

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“Pollen Bonanza”

\n

A shot from the Owen Rose Garden, one of our local treasures.

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“Passing Train”

\n

Because trains are cool even if you only get a glimpse of them from way above and far away through a telephoto lens.

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\n \"\"\n
\n

Just a couple of crows sharing a snag while I was out hiking around Kitson Ridge today.
\n
\n#dailyphoto #oregon #birdphotography

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@mitch My own internet is pretty free of AI slop. But: that’s because I only read a few carefully chosen sites, and never look at things like Facebook feeds. I’m not missing content that I already like. What I’m missing (and used to have) is the joy of serendipity and discovery of new things.

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@JohnBrady @dwalbert I could talk about bootstrapping the OS on to a Heathkit H89 I guess. Or the horrors of using cassette tapes for storage on a timeshare system. But we’re gonna drive all the kids out of the room at this rate!

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The long-term experience does tend to give some perspective, for sure. Also: I don’t see how anyone learns to code these days! It was easier when you could understand everything from the logic gates on up.

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@dwalbert Oh yeah, I remember those giant drive platters…used some at Wang Labs at my first real industry job. Also used punched paper tape there for data transfer…I got to know hanging chads long before they were a political issue.

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@manton Just realized that I did my first coding literally 50 years ago. It’s been interesting watching things evolve. I think overall programs have gotten both more capable & buggier as hardware capacity exploded and layers of abstraction stacked up.

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@manton There are times I wonder whether applications today are really 1000x better than the ones we used to shoehorn into 64K. But I should probably go out and yell at clouds instead of dwelling on that.

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@manton Or just skip the intermediate steps and get a payment chip implanted in your flesh!

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@MitchWagner I handcode. And only for Pixelfed posts (which are syndicated to micro.blog).

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@manton Way back when I used to run a print magazine, I offered lifetime subscriptions. They were priced high - so the value proposition was “you can show you support this project in a meaningful way” rather than “you will ever see this as a better financial deal than just subscribing every year.” Enough people bought them that it made a difference to me.

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@mitch Never has the word “autopsy” been more appropriate for a political party’s future.

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@johnjohnston Thanks! The Pacific coast is one of the reasons I enjoy living in the Willamette Valley….90 minutes in one direction to the ocean, 90 minutes in the other to snow-covered mountains.

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@genehack Well, thanks! TBH I missed the focus a bit, and I shouldn’t have had a CPL on the front of the lens. But it’s better than the other 20 shots! Always more to learn.

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@BonnieRue Thanks! I’m pretty sure this is the variety called “Tolmie’s Pussy Ears” and you can see why.

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@manton Convenient, thanks! For what it’s worth, looks pretty icky under dark mode in Firefox or Chromium (boxes get darkened, text doesn’t, so it’s black-on-dark-gray).

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@mitch A technology that already exists - just not widespread in general business/consumer environments (yet).

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@mitch Good luck.

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@genehack Close. Delta Ponds bicycle bridge in Eugene.

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@rom Don’t forget Digg - they came back (and then went away again due to a bot onslaught).

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@dwalbert Less than an inch long. I’m pretty sure I could take him in a fair fight. :)

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@manton To be fair, when I started blogging it included buying a server & colocating it at my ISP, hand-crafting HTML, and selling ads to pay for it all. I am IMMENSELY glad to no longer be dealing with any of that! (So thanks again for keeping micro.blog easy & affordable).

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@manton Fortunately for micro.blog’s financial health, I have absolutely NO desire to build my own blog software.

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@mitch I wish I had a more optimistic view. I suspect the oligarchs assume they can continue to find ways to buy off enough of the oppressed class to stay in power (janissaries, anyone?).

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@mitch I’m fairly sure this doesn’t get resolved short of punitive wealth taxes or guillotines. It’s all been a downward spiral at least since the “greed is good” days of early LBOs.

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(And as someone who clawed his way into reasonably upper-middle-class status, I’d be glad to have much of my wealth redistributed provided that it was across the board. Musk, Bezos, et al should be forced to live on the average income in this country, just like everyone else).

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@rom Still trading at 3x what it was a few days ago though, so the supply of bigger fools isn’t exhausted yet.

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