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“Don’t forget, we’re having some fake inflation because of the fuel, the energy prices,” the president told the Nevada crowd.

\n
\n

Well that’s a great comfort to those of us who can no longer afford to buy gasoline.

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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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“Hearts”

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\n \"Rocky\n
\n

It was snowy and dramatic atop Spencer Butte this morning.
\n
\n#dailyphoto #oregon #eugeneoregon

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“The Barn”

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@MitchWagner Remember a few years ago when the right-wingers thought liberal Catholics should be denied communion for daring to disagree with the Catholic Church on abortion? I guess their faith in the Pope has slipped since then.

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\n \"\"\n
\n

A camas lily on a drizzly day.
\n
\n#dailyphoto #oregon #eugeneoregon #flowerphotography

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A C.S. Lewis quote that comes frequently to mind these days:

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The practical problem about charity (in our prayers) is very hard work, isn’t it? When you pray for Hitler & Stalin, how do you actually teach yourself to make the prayer real? The two things that help me are (a) A continual grasp of the idea that one is only joining one’s feeble little voice to the perpetual intercession of Christ, who died for those very men (b) A recollection, as firm as one can make it, of all one’s own cruelty wh. might have blossomed, under different conditions, into something terrible. You and I are not, at bottom, so...

\n
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Stock market stupidity is out of control: Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 300%

\n

I’m gonna tell my bank I’m pivoting from housework to AI and see if they’ll float me a few million dollars in return.

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“Hands Across Eugene”

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“Poppy”

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@genehack You realize, of course, that if that becomes a popular sentiment private equity firms will rush to invest in new guillotine startups.

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\n \"\"\n
\n

The audience is missing in this view from inside an old barn at Mt. Pisgah.
\n
\n#dailyphoto #oregon #eugeneoregon #monochrome

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“Quizzical”

\n

But then, does a slug have any other expression?

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“Baby Elephant”

\n

Or perhaps a young fern frond.

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“Seep Monkeyflower”

\n\"a\n","summary":"","url":"https://larkfarm.com/2026/04/14/seep-monkeyflower.html","date_published":"2026-04-14T13:43:17+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":"2026-04-14 13:43","date_timestamp":1776174197,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://c.im/@happilyretired23/116403353354954128"]}},{"id":"88228269","content_html":"

“Rainy Day Flower”

\n

A Baby Blue Eyes bud faces towards the invisible sun.

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“Chocolate”

\n

The Chocolate Lily is one of the oddest-looking spring flowers around here.

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“Layers of Rock”

\n

Spencer Butte in the background

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“The World Outside”

\n

Spent a chunk of a cloudy day shooting in black and white. Some of it turned out OK.

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\n \"two\n
\n

Sometimes you just need a buddy to lean on.
\n
\n#dailyphoto #oregon #eugeneoregon #fungiphoto

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“Toes”

\n

Rough-skinned newt imitating a prehistoric monster.

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“Water Spheres”

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Rainy days always make for nice botanical pictures

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\n \"\"\n
\n

This rough-skinned newt was just hanging out on the Wild Iris Ridge trail this morning.
\n
\n#dailyphoto #oregon #eugeneoregon #newt

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So we’re going to fix the Iranians blocking the Straight of Hormuz by…blockading the Straight of Hormuz.

\n

This isn’t four-dimensional chess. It’s one-dimensional pattycake.

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@MitchWagner If you’re a standards purist, then yeah, Atom feeds are probably more correct.

\n

In practice as a user and consumer of both I very seldom see any difference. Readers have to support both as a matter of necessity.

\n

There was a time when I’d get involved with these battles over what is Wrong on the Internet. I’m quite happy that time is long past.

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@MitchWagner Atom/JSON = RSS reinvented by people who think Dave Winer is a flake.

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Too good not to pass on: www.inprnt.com/gallery/p…

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@MitchWagner According to Wikipedia they had their own ideas about branding:

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> In 1892, Smeed improved the property and changed the name to Hotel Eugene. It was again changed to Hotel Smeede in 1907, with the extra ‘e’ added to the hotel name for embellishment, and in 1914 it became the Smeede Hotel.

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“The Wall”

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“Trapped in Amber”

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It’s been a fair while since downtown Eugene had a facelift.

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@MitchWagner Arguably we’d be better off if all of the current administration would focus on deranged UFO theories and just let the real world alone.

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@rom I need to get on that too. Fortunately my current subscription doesn’t expire until September. Considering Proton as a replacement.

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@manton Done, and seems to have just worked withoutt drama. For what it’s worth, 0.91 still shows in the dropdown as “recommended.”

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@MitchWagner I dunno, I’ve never had to actually call him for one. But it’s comforting to know he’s available.

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He also answers email quickly and is happy to discuss my questions in detail.

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It should come as no surprise that this is direct primary care, ie “concierge medicine.”

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@MitchWagner For anything severe, I’ll be calling 911. Closest fire station with ambulance is less than half a mile away. Closest ER is 20-30 minute drive.

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On the plus side, my doctor is willing to make house calls.

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@MitchWagner And yet somehow Eugene - a city of nearly 200K people - has no emergency room. I can’t help thinking we’ve lost the plot here, if a market this size can’t even attract enough investors to enshittify it.

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@rom I’m shocked, SHOCKED that intellectual property theft is going on in this establishment.

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@ffmike A closer look at topo maps has convinced me I can count on stream access late on the first day of hiking. Dumping half that water weight before I go. Trying hard not to replace it with extra camera gear!

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@ffmike Also carrying 4 liters of water, which is 8 pounds right there. But I’m planning a ridgeline route where access to streams may be tricky. I’ll be carrying at most half that when I hike out.

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@ExtralocalYokel Relatable.

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@MitchWagner Maybe you missed the news about how the war criminal running DoD has ordered all his underlings to fire as many lawyers as possible. The words “panic” and “coverup” spring to mind.

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@manton Doesn’t surprise me. Apple’s relentless lack of support for older products is what soured me on their ecosystem.

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@artkavanagh Well he was looking into it last fall.

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@MitchWagner Easy enough to find out. The real question is whether enough plumbing exists to connect Ziggy’s in-game chat to your micro.blog :)

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@MitchWagner I stayed long enough to fall out of the sky on to abandoned land. My inventory was still full of all the things I had when I left, though some of them seem to no longer work. Linux client is actually pretty functional. I may go back some day when I’m really bored and play around some more. Ziggy Figaro is still in my contacts list.

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@MitchWagner At least I built my own virtual McMansions :)

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SL is still out there. Every once in a while I get tempted to drop in.

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@thedimpause Love the mostly-synchronized birds. There’s always some character who refuses to get with the program.

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@MitchWagner As someone who one threw a Great Gatsby-themed party in Second Life…I resemble that remark.

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@nikvaleeva Very nice!

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