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Owning two Pixel phones running GrapheneOS made me both chuckle and tear up a little. It’s such an amazing operating system that I’m planning to start making monthly donations to support the project.
I had my Pixel 6a since early May 2023, but yesterday I upgraded to a Pixel 9a because the speakers and earpiece microphone on my 6a had started to fail badly, and the battery was showing its age.
I’m glad I made the upgrade, and now people can hear me clearly on the phone again.

Calamus 19 Mind you the timid models of the rest, the majority?
A declaration of intellectual independence and a celebration of brotherly love. Honestly this poem feels a little clumsy to me, I can see why Whitman struck the awkward introducing lines in later editions.
As always, looking for the gay content:
Yet comes one, a Manhattanese, and ever at parting, kisses me lightly on the lips with robust love.
And I, in the public room, or on the crossing of the street, or on the ship's deck, kiss him in return
We observe that salute of American comrades
But I can't in all honestly read this use of "kissing" as erotic. Here the public kissing and the "salute of comrades" makes me think it's more of a fraternal kiss.
Which doesn't exclude a romantic kiss as well, or an erotic one. What's so vital about Calamus is how Whitman blends masculine sexual love with the love of comrades. I think both meanings are latent in every poem.

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Moin! Es ist leider wirklich so schön hier. #nofilter #Uckermark #project25

I should probably post more here. Been kinda busy lately, and thanks to my new phone (Nokia 3210) not to often busy on social media :-)

Peter Hook tonight in #Buffalo. Never gonna see New Order live, so this will do.
My best pics of the band are from other people.

Rest in peace, Sammy - my little fur nose... You are unforgotten and above all: irreplaceable!
My heart is full of pain and sadness...😢 😭
Sam "Unixdog" - Sept. 8, 2008 - May 23, 2025
#dogs #dogsofmastodon

Calamus 43 O you whom I often
A short and sweet love poem, Whitman at his most writerly. The spare and simple words have a light musicality that's often missing from his more didactic blank verse.
The literal meaning is Whitman telling someone how his very presence inspires feelings of love. It's so short and precise I'm just going to quote the whole poem.
O you whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you,
As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,
Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.
I love the lack of action. Whitman simply wants to sit in the same room as his beloved, a quiet devotion I appreciate. And that phrase "subtle electric fire". Electric had a different meaning in pre-Edison America but it works both ways.
Mostly this poem is just a lovely mood.
(The linked video and commentary are more than usually good.)

Calamus 40 That shadow, my likeness
An odd little poem to find in Calamus. I like it, I connect to the existential doubt.
How often I question and doubt whether that is really me
The self Whitman is unsure of is the quotidian self, the one that works and talks and shops. What does he embrace as the real him?
among my lovers, and carolling my songs, I never doubt whether that is really me.
There's our lusty Whitman, finding his true self in his lovers and his poetry.
PS: this poem introduced me to the lovely word chaffer.