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#goodmorning from my walk to the rail station.

This looks super promising. I’ll switch out my MIL and parents Eeros with this eventually.
https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/ux7

UniFi Express 7 - Ubiquiti Store
Mesh-scalable, super-compact 10G Cloud Gateway with integrated 6 GHz WiFi 7. Plug-and-play Whole-Home WiFi with true 10G Multi-Link Operation, intelligent placement guidance, and effortless mesh expansion with additional nodes.

Actual 🔆 sunbeams in a local park in Wick, Scotland.
#SilentSunday

Spent way too long debugging why iCloud Calendar invites from my son’s iCloud Custom Domain account never reached my Google Workspace inbox or Google Calendar.
Turns out my email address is also my Apple Account, so iCloud appears to route invitations internally instead of sending an email. Inviting a separate alias that isn’t associated with an Apple Account worked immediately.
Is there a way to force iCloud Calendar to send invitations via email instead?

Cowboys $19M moves reek of Maxximizing cap space as trade precursor https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/09/03/timing-of-cowboys-19m-cap-space-creation-reeks-of-trade-precu…

will and idea

Kidnapper executes victim in front of sheriff’s deputies in Chino Hills
A kidnapper fatally shot a victim in a car trunk during a Chino Hills traffic stop Wednesday night,
moments before deputies opened fire, authorities said.
Deputies were responding to reports of gunfire and cries for help when they stopped the vehicle,
initially unaware the shooting was part of an ongoing kidnapping.
The driver and victim died at the scene, while a passenger surrendered.

Kidnapper executes victim in front of sheriff's deputies in Chino Hills, authorities say
An investigation into a report of gunshots ended in a deadly confrontation Wednesday night, when authorities say a kidnapping suspect executed their victim before being killed by deputies.

#thickTrunkTuesday #graveyard #tombScrolling

Unfinished Business 🕯️
未尽的事业 🕯️
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Hello everyone.
I am taking a social media wellness break from posting my Weekend #Plankton Factoids for the boreal summer. I hope you have the opportunity to do something you enjoy over the season as well. Until then ❤️.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Too $hort:
🎵 In the Trunk
#Too$hort
https://macmodhi2ndpage.bandcamp.com/track/in-the-trunk-ii-rm
https://open.spotify.com/track/2JaGw7dXV7yo4Pl1ZQvf2e

Rev Jason Churchill of St.Luke Lutheran Church speaks at Ithaca rally against I.C.E. yesterday
#photo #photography #portrait

kinda want a cool qr code https://icqr.com

World of "environmentalism", "sustainability" and "recycling"...
I may have to send a perfectly fine car to the scrapyard cus of a tiny piece of metal. : D
(Trunk won't lock, the replacement part is unobtainable and without it, the car will be rejected by APK and no longer street legal)

The first record of the parable commonly known as the "Blind Men and the Elephant" showed up around 2500 years ago, in a Buddhist text from India. At this point it's pretty commonly known. I assume that most folks reading this will be familiar with some variation of it.
If not, it's essentially a story about people who have limited information making assertions about something: one man grabs a tail and says, "it's like a rope," another the trunk and says, "it's like a snake," a third the leg saying, "it's like a tree," and so on. Later variations are less kind to the men, having them not simply report their findings, but fight over them. The first English translation draws a parallel to religion.
This comes to mind for me, because social media has a tendency to incentivize us to make those hard assertions, to dig in, to argue our perspective as part of a spectacle. Free and federated social media isn't structurally that different from corporate media, so the incentive models built to maximize engagement by maximizing conflict tend to leak through the similarities in the user experience and the conditioning of other platforms.
I didn't really come here to critique the fediverse, but rather to remind everyone, "no one sees the whole fucking elephant." We are limited and there are necessarily some things so big they will never be individually comprehensible. Any system that relies on us all agreeing cannot possibly respond to those big things.
We can see that concretely if we look at the difference between "democratic unity" and "diversity of tactics." In the first model, everyone either agrees or gets forced to behave as though they agree (at least on some issues). That's how liberal democracy works. Diversity of tactics (which systematically described, for example, in the "St Paul Principles"), on the other hand, let's people align on goals without needing to agree on exactly how to achieve them. The reality being that often there are multiple "correct" paths, and sometimes those paths can only work if multiple paths are taken in unison.
No one sees the whole elephant. We won't even see the elephant later. People will still be arguing about the elephant long after it's gone. But if you want to get rid of the elephant, you're gonna need to accept that you can't comprehend it all and you're gonna have to figure out a way to work together that doesn't require a unified approach.

A very shy squirrel. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. July, 2026. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm MC14. #laarboretum #squirrels #animal

I don't take photos of animals often, but every now and then we are visiting the #TiergartenNürnberg and I bring the camera to see if I can capture a scene that's worth taking a photo.
#nürnberg

Switched from Ice to Thaw, it actually works, been dealing with non-working menubar manager for too long.

#thickTrunkTuesday

Despite oil spills in Nigeria’s mangrove forests, Shell continued operations, documents show https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/despite-oil-spills-in-nigerias-mangrove-forests-shell-continued-operations-documents-show/

Despite oil spills in Nigeria's mangrove forests, Shell continued operations, documents show
Global oil giant Shell continued operating a compromised pipeline in Nigeria’s Niger Delta despite knowing it posed a pollution risk in the surrounding coastal wetland environment, newly disclosed internal company communications reveal. The emails and memos, reviewed by Mongabay, show senior leadership knew of the poor conditions of the 97-kilometer (60-mile) Nembe Creek Trunk Line […]

The Aspiration of History 🌠
历史的热望 🌠
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My fellow Mastodonians, can we all give this idea a little bit of praise, please?

Canada anemone (Anemonastrum canadense)
#BloomScrolling

was trying to remember some weird avant-garde dance company i saw in taipei ~2013. chatgpt searched my old foursquare checkins calendar and found me checking into the national theater 12 min before an Ultima Vez performance lol
this is why i still use swarm

Elephants have all the best jokes. And some serious junk in their trunk.
#AnimalsSuperPowers
#HashTagGames

After getting our new fridge, we packed our cycles and did a nice loop in the neighbourhood. It's been a bit warm but with enough water it went quite well.
Enjoy your Saturday!
#cycling #BikeTooter #tegernsee

Parts VIII ⚙️
部分 VIII ⚙️
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in other news, my @… X finally shipped!
pretty excited. i built custom family dashboards for this thing months ago, so sometime next week i’ll finally find out whether all that overengineering survives contact with actual e-ink hardware.

and some sort of hieroglyphs graffitied on a dead tree by boring beetles, for #texturetuesday

Meet Natalie Harp, the aide so close to Trump she once rode in an SUV trunk to accompany him (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/18/politics/natalie-harp-trump-aide
http://www.memeorandum.com/260818/p141#a260818p141

Perfection Because It Doesn’t Exist 🗿
完美因为完美不存在 🗿
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Perfection Because It Doesn’t Exist 🚪
完美因为完美不存在 🚪
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Summer Social with work, which is more than two dozen people now. So much bigger than it used to be.
Enjoyable enough. The boss picks pretty good people, all of whom I'd otherwise not meet at all really being remote. Beats working for a day.
This time a painting session. Drawing a picture. Here's how we draw this particular picture.
Everyone's painting ends up much the same, within a pretty tight variance. All end up with something that's not displeasing, even though hardly anyone paints normally, even the graphics people.
The key here I think is the subject of the image. Something easy to draw is key. Very few curves, mostly straight lines, easy vivid colors. Easily identifiable subject even if it's drawn badly.
If your lines and form are wobbly and weirdly angled then yeah, that's indeed what these trees are like. You just draw a slightly different tree.
Sky, haze, and ground in acrylic. Then chalk up the tree-trunks for some reason, before painting 'em white. Add some trunk-shade and flecks, do grass then flowers.
Easy recipe. Everyone gets a passing grade. Nobody's embarrassed coz they can't draw a nose.
Good first painting session since school. Maybe I'll do another one in another 30 years.
#art #painting #acrylic

At end of service:
1. The Swamiji holds up each idol for all to see (as someone announces the idol),
2. wraps the idol in silk cloth,
3. appreciates the idol and places it in a wooden box covered in deer skin [such a box is on the floor, in front of the Swamiji].
4. An assistant puts the boxes in a silver trunk.
#photography #amateur #photoMontag #FotoMonday #Hindu #ritual

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #StreetSounds
Seiji Oda, Trunk Boiz:
🎵 GO DUMB
#SeijiOda #TrunkBoiz
https://open.spotify.com/track/5eS0osV4ztBNZ6kd2wUP74