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Peace with Glass: jadespace.net

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I love that it’s 32°F/0°C and we get new flowers daily.

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Most days I am like\nBut some days I am

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Trader Joe’s really brings it for flowers, but my wife takes it next level in arrangement.

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Weihnachtstod, “Christmas death,” is traditionally celebrated in Germany on the first Sunday after New Year’s Day by “casting out” the spirit of Christmas anxiety with hot cocoa and inviting calm and order into the home. But since we have a second story deck, I like to go big.

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Sublime sweet potato chai at Ashville Chocolate, subtle sweetness, lightly spicy, a treat too good for this world, yet here it is.

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Is this a glitch? Is Charlie Brown Thanksgiving the new U2 album? Or is Apple testing content insertion into the watchlist on the Apple TV app? Don’t eff with my queue, Eddy Cue.

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#AppleTV

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At Dobra Tea in Asheville, green tea for my wife, I partook of Masala spiced(!) chai, cut with milk and dark, dark chocolate sugar. Three cups later my chest is vibrating like a tuning fork–love it!

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I’m pretty sure psych grad students are doing A/B experiments between the smell in the orthopedist’s office, which smells like someone set off a lysol bomb, and the lobby of the medical office building blaring 80s pop music through ceiling speakers.

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One last fine day. If only human senescence was as beautiful (and quick) as a Japanese maple.

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Along the French Broad River in Ashville, a chain leak fence repurposed as community art and therapy. Tie a ribbon and let it go.

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Reconstruction of the Black Creek Greenway is leaving it less green, deconstruction of the trees that overhung the trail being well underway. It used to be a shaded valley stroll during summer days, and maybe it be will again in 50 years, glad I got to experience it, sad I will not again.

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Fish are nice, but these turtles got a real Gamera vibe at Pine Knoll Shores aquarium.

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From the mountains to the sea, the Pine Knoll Shores aquarium covers a lot of exhibit ground in North Carolina, this being a sleepy screech owl all screech out.

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Ten seconds of video from the Pine Knoll Shores aquarium because river otters.

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#Animals

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A Gulf Fritillary doing brunch outside the Pine Knoll Shores Aquarium on Emerald Isle, NC.

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#Butterfly

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Another Sandpiper at Emerald Isle with acquaintance in background–there are no friends among beach feeders.

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Getting a close-up with a Sanderling at Emerald Isle takes patience, or its evil twin obession, and some ancient personal tech, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-QX10 lens camera attached to an iPhone 16e.

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Looking a little more weathery early in the morning at Emerald Isle doesn’t close the beach for breakfast.

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A surprising number of deer strolling about Emerald Isle. I guess they prefer the off season for beach vacations too.

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Emerald Isle, not exactly sunrise, four minutes later, but still.

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They blend right in.

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Tis the season to enjoy fried dough with sugar, lots of sugar, and pumpkin spice while hiding from my wife.

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Looks like it’s Boogen season.

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#RickandMorty

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A sign of the times at the downtown arts festival.

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@manton Het two-year anniversary was in May, so my guess is that was the minimum tenure for any severance deal. Hitler Grok timing was maybe just serendipitous for her exit.

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@manton The themes UI isn’t very friendly, but Micro.blog is really about user content and ownership. That’s what the service really delivers on at an affordable price.

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@manton Reading that post, contemplating the effort, if ever a feature cried out for AI assistance it’s Micro.blog themes.

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@thisness After three weeks, I can say the battery life and reception are better than the iPhone mini it replaced. The camera is good in the day and adequate at night, 2X telephoto instead of macro is a fair trade, and I really like the camera (action) button. $599 is the biggest negative.

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@manton I use a Tablo DVR with my antenna. The new four-tuner models are regularly on sale at Best Buy for as low as $109, no subscription fee for guide data either.

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@manton I’m with you to the end, but the Committee for Public Safety seems to be speaking pretty loudly. There are so many quotes from Robespierre to choose, but I think “pity is treason” pretty much sums the moment.

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@danharmon.bsky.social I don’t want anyone to die or lose all their shit—not even James Woods—but we are all forced participants in the same climate disaster reality show. So is it more cruel to tell people they can’t go back to the way it was or that they can? Fuck—I didn’t mean to piss you off, sorry, backing off now.

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@danharmon.bsky.social Disaster begat Superstition and Superstition begat Cognitive Dissonance, otherwise people would not rebuild homes and businesses in a climate disaster zone.

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@gruber.foo How does stating the obvious benefit Canadians or anyone else? From tech CEOs to prime ministers, blue ball caps with “Realpolitik” will be the response to MAGA orange for the next four years.

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@heathercampbell.bsky.social The good news is all of us climate refugees in waiting only have to avoid the worst of it until we die…okay, so maybe not good news….

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Time for some brownie explosion cheesecake and THC—good news!

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@heathercampbell.bsky.social Unfortunately, disengaging from platforms used by hundreds of millions—billions for Facebook—more easily normalizes loathsome ideas through lack of opposition.

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@manton Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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@heathercampbell.bsky.social I’m sure Skynet is kicking itself for sending Schwarzenegger back in time to terminate Gray Davis’ career and impregnate a maid when all it took was cross-wiring social instinct biases between learned experts on sciences and people who drink raw milk and eat horse paste.

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@heathercampbell.bsky.social The multiplayer in Resistance: Fall of Man was insane. Dozens of players, no latency, PS3 delivered like no other console had to that point.

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@caseyjohnston.bsky.social I mean, in terms of seeking immortality, having one’s head cut off and put in a bucket of liquid nitrogen for a couple of centuries looks less unpleasant.

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@gruber.foo At the very least, the Cowboys need to give back the “America’s Team” branding. I mean, if that moniker now goes to a team with high expectations that always disappoints, I’m a fan of the Cleveland Browns.

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@caseyjohnston.bsky.social Oddly, if you have an Apple News+ subscription, you also have access to WSJ.

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@caseyjohnston.bsky.social Like all djinn, it depends on the wish and phrasing. I wanted to replace my iMac icon with “a steampunk filing cabinet with drawers open and papers sticking out and an ornate computer display on top.”

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Poof.

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@caseyjohnston.bsky.social Need to flip and add obligatory, “how’s it started/going” meme fontage. Or maybe–deep cut–Alex Kipman watching porn on HoloLens.

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@caseyjohnston.bsky.social Responding to your justifiable skepticism of the Vision Pro,
\nall problems, usability, weight, motion sickness, price—mostly price—eventually will be solved by not Apple.

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Mac -> Microsoft Windows
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\nVision Pro -> ??? (hopefully not Meta Quest)

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@caseyjohnston.bsky.social Time. It took 11 years for the Mac to find mass popularity. It was called Windows 95.

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