Spring 2025

Now (and sorta now)

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2025-03-23

Computing updates: I've been really enjoying the process of migrating away from Apple to Linux! If ever there was a time for such a move it is today. And true to my usual practice of sharing details of this sort of thing I'm writing a series of posts documenting the process: Apple to Linux Journal.

Life updates: Staying in touch with the daily news of the move from the US to a not-too-democratic republic to a full on oligarchy/dictatorship. From shit to worse shit. I'm lucky enough to live near a beautiful natural forest that I can take long trail walks to sooth my mind. It's only a temporary distraction but I'll take it.

Micro Posts

2025-02-19

# Leonard Peltier is free. Democracy Now! post on YouTube

2025-02-05

# Worth a watch given the current moment we are in. Democracy doesn't exist in the United States: Chris Hedges | UpFront

2025-01-19

# Listening to This Machine Kills podcast episode 390 "We all live in the firestorm". They do a fantastic job of exploring the interconnections of the global polycrisis. I know a lot more about how the system works having listened. Illuminating.

2025-01-16

# Liberals in the US rightly criticize MAGA folk as being delusional in regards to the truth of Trump. But when I see those same liberals praising Biden while ignoring his ongoing support of genocide in Gaza I feel the deepest disgust. History will remember Biden for his role in genocide.

Why Aren't You In The Hague!: Journalists Dragged Out Of Blinken Press Conference

2025-01-12

# Reading folks' thoughts and reactions to the wildfires and connecting it to climate. I can't help but think most people are still pretty delusional about where we are at in this crisis and our chances for averting worst case scenarios. And, crucially, their lack of understanding of the steps we need to take. Uninformed and not at all serious.

2025-01-05

# I really enjoyed reading James Thompson's blog post about building the first pre-OS X Dock. Fun story and bit of Apple history. Also, Jason Snell's MacWorld article about OS X back in February 2000 where he highlights all of the big changes that were announced. I'm sure I read it back in the day, fun to re-read today on the 25th anniversary of the MacWorld reveal of OS X. I remember the excitement of the announcement and then installing the public beta. Good times.

2024-12-26

# Watched the ForeverNotes videos on YouTube and considering trying it out as a supplement to the OBTF that I've been happily using the past 9 months for a basic daily notes that primarily serves as a springboard for blog posting. A helpful minimal implementation of ForeverNotes might cover non-blog text for tracking projects that I would otherwise not add to Reminders app. Maybe deeper notes for nature studies like bird observations?

2024-12-22

# So, Luigi Mangione is labeled a terrorist by the same government that deliberately carries out a War on Children?

"In November, over a year into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, a report by the Gaza-based Community Training Center for Crisis Management produced a grim statistic: “Nearly all children in the embattled Palestinian enclave believe their death is imminent — and nearly half of them want to die.”

That's interesting.

# "What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass."
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

Recent Posts

2025-03-22 So, you're a frustrated Apple user looking for alternatives?

2025-03-17 Apple to Linux Journal - Linux troubleshooting successes!

2025-03-16 Apple to Linux Journal Series Home

2025-03-13Apple to Linux Journal - Can I replace Affinity Publisher with Scribus?

2025-03-10 We need a global foundation for an open source web engine

2025-03-07 Apple to Linux Journal: Moving email from iCloud to my own domains

2025-03-06 Linux Utilities: Autokey, Diodon and Ulauncher

2025-03-04 Linux apps for notes, blogging, coding and remote file management

2025-03-01 Building a reliable local cloud replacement for iCloud or other corporate cloud-based computing

2025-02-26 Apple, big tech, lock-in and the corporate colonization of life experience

2025-02-25 Apple to Linux Journal - a Week of progress

2025-02-22 Apple to Linux Journal - First Days

2025-02-19 Progress on migrating away from the Apple ecosystem

2025-02-17 When computing and tech are turned against us

2025-02-09 Becoming an Activist Part 2: The Memphis Social Ecology Project

2025-02-08 Becoming an "activist"

2025-02-07 Divided, we fall

2025-02-01 I didn't expect to be importing CDs in 2025

2025-02-01 The flip side of crisis is opportunity

2025-01-24 Micro.blog is a business not a community

2024-01-15 Days of ice and snow

2025-01-12 Wildfires in California explain the recent climate-art protests

2024-12-25 Winter Fungi

2024-12-19 Federico is rediscovering the joy of using the iPad

2024-12-17 Split gill mushrooms and other woodland treasures

2024-12-15 Sycamore Seed Pod

2024-12-12 There is a use case for Apple's Image Generation

2024-12-2 Update on using the OBTF and Textastic for publishing from the iPad

2024-11-23 Getting there together

2024-11-16 Tech pundits don't understand the potential for Apple's Image Playground

2024-11-15 American empire, settler colonialism and indigenous resistance

2024-11-13 "This is not who we are."

2024-11-08 Remain calm. But Prepare.

2024-10-31 Industrial battery recycling plant in nearby Fredericktown just burned down

2024-10-29 Why Siri works for me

2024-10-28 Rocking the boat

2024-10-25 The goodness of Walnuts

2024-10-24 The growing pains of the renewed small web

2024-10-18 Ta-Nehisi Coates

2024-10-14 Are climate delusions in Florida slowly breaking apart?

2024-10-11 Gaza Death Toll Perspective