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"Nostalgia… ain’t what it used to be."

#film #quotes #cinema #memory
A film still from Andrei Tarkovsky's "Stalker" An image of three men in a dilapidated room, worn by time, and decayed by the elements. the floor torn up and flooded with water. One man is looking outside of the decayed room, standing on mud. The other two men are looking at him.
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Another doctor's appointment for my partner, another trek around the grounds, for me, looking at shapes and patterns and colors and thangs.
#photography #nature #abstraction
A photograph of a greyish branch with a couple of tufts of green moss in the center foreground. The background is composed of an assortment of yellow, brown, umber partially dessicated leaves creating an abstract pattern of points, angles, and edges. Several dozen silvery water droplets beaded on multiple green leaves on a plant with reddish stems.
November 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Almost forgot I took this pic.
Found this specimen around my apartment complex earlier this Autumn before the little critters got to it.
A nice Amanita Somethingorotheria (muscaria??)
#fungi #mushroom #pnw
A photograph of a mushroom with a white stem and an orangish-red cap speckled with white spots nestle in some dead, light brown pine needles and grass.
November 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Coming off the train at my local station last night, I noticed a totally not-ominous, very welcoming piece of the station's #publicArt installation while leaving.

#goodnightmoon #publictransit #pnw #lynnwoodwa
A photograph of a piece of public art. A bluish-grey circular face/moon looking very serious and stern. The image is behind a pane of six panes of glass with numerous lights reflecting from and through the glass
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Realized that I had, somewhat absentmindedly, taken another picture while waiting outside at different doctor's appointment this afternoon. Figure, I'll thread it with the previous "Doctor's appointment" pic. Wasn't intending it to be a thing, theme, or project […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
A photograph of a greyish-brown tree trunk that appears to have been sheared in half vertically. The trunk starts in the center third of the image and goes up vertically to the right. In the center of the pic, the tree splits into three thick branches. Inside the trunk are a number of striated lines of wood looking a bit like a geological formation. In the background is a black chain link fence in from of green foliage
November 6, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Since upgrading my #django 5.2.7 projects use #python 3.14.0, I'm seeing a new warning message when I stop the locally running #werkzeug instance:

I'm not noticing any issues or change in performance. Perhaps something to look into for curiousity's sake later.

#NoteToSelf
^C/home/kbowen/.pyenv/versions/3.14.0/lib/python3.14/multiprocessing/resource_tracker.py:297: UserWarning: resource_tracker: There appear to be 1 leaked semaphore objects to clean up at shutdown: {'/mp-quqg3tbx'} warnings.warn(
November 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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#silentsunday #fungi #photography #pnw #larrabeestatepark #mushroom #nature
A closeup photograph of five tiny grey mushrooms growing within a bunch of golden pine needles, dropped brown leaves. A number of brown branches cross the image
November 3, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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As part of their attempt to dissuade reckless behavior in the park, I can appreciate the State Forest Department's little homage to Magritte: "Ceci n'est pas un sentier", I guess?

#larrabeestatepark #hiking #pnw #warningsigns
A photograph of two warning signs on a post of a two board fence behind which is rough forest and underbrush. The top sign is white background with red type in large letters at the top "FALLING CAN BE DEADLY" in the bottom, again in red, but tiny lettering "Please stay on the trail." In the middle is a black pictagram of a human stick figure falling sideways left off of a ledge. The bottom sign is grey with the letters "NOT A TRAIL" painted on it.
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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#silentsunday #photography #pnw #larrabeestatepark #nature #seascape #abstract
A photograph looking down towards the water's rippling edge. The majority of the image is of light brown, weather and sea-worn sandstone rocks smoothed down to rounded surfaces. A worn, darker brown tree trunk is wedged between a group of rocks on the left middle of the image. The water is lightly rippling out in multiple directions from the rocks.
November 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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#silentsunday #photography #pnw #larrabeestatepark #nature #seascape
A photograph of a weather and sea-worn sandstone rock outcropping in the immediate lower foreground and right side of frame. Looking out north across a stormy #SamishBay. In the distance are some #SanJuanIslands on the horizon with low hanging storm clouds
November 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Awesome day today!
Got to take one of our semi-annual trips up north with my daughter and her husband. Despite the pissing down rain, we headed up into #skagitvalley onto #chuckanutdrive

We took a nice walk down to the water in #larrabeestatepark to check out […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
A photograph looking out onto the water with cloudy skies. On the background to the left is the shore with mostly evergreens and a rocky shore. In the mid ground is a rock outcropped that extends out into the water. In the foreground is a person in jeans and a green hooded jacket standing on some deeply work sandstone.
November 2, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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A couple of concrete wall and branch texture photos I took this afternoon while waiting outside a doctor's office.

#photography #textures #pnw #everettwa
A photograph of a weather-worn grey streaked wall covered in thin, sprawling darker grey branches. The branches have smaller light reddish sprouts coming out of them and away from the wall. In the center right is an elbow pipe that comes out of the right side wall and down into the leaf covered earth. The small patch of earth (~2ft wide) away from the wall is bounded by a deep green moss covered curb. A closeup photograph of a deeply weather-worn and scarred grey concrete wall. A thin vertical grey line runs from the height of the image separating the right third of the image from the rest. Five thin branches run from top left down toward the right center. Another, smaller group of branches run in the same direction starting at the left middle and also run diagonally down to the right. All of the grey branches have tiny, reddish branches that are sprouting away from the wall.
October 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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In a moment of whimsy, I managed to catch Anu hamming it up for the camera.

#seriouscatisserious #catinbox #catsofmastodon
A photograph of a brown and black striped cat with a white chest sitting in a cardboard box with its ears pearked up, staring off to the right.
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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It's, finally, been pissing down rain all day. Everything is damp and soaked. Gutters are overflowing.
This is the Pacific Northwest that I know and love.
I want seven days and seven nights of this deluge. Bring it on!

#pnw #wawx #seattle
Picture of a gutter overflowing with an evergreen tree in the background
October 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Happy Birthday Nico(Christa Päffgen) 16 October 1938

I was, initially, going to go basic and listen to Chelsea Girl. But, I'm feeling Desertshore a bit more today.

Do you have a must listen Nico song?

#music #OnThisDay
A picture of a blonde woman with bangs down to her eyes standing in front of a microphone. In the background is a man in black holding a guitar
October 16, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Damn. It a beautiful, blinding full moon out tonight.

#crappyphotography
Crappy pic of a full moon between several tree branches with four bright rays radiating out from its center
October 7, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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I've been reading Stuart Gilbert's translation of Camus' The Plague. I'm finding it quite precient and soothing.

I initially came across Gilbert's work decades ago with his "James Joyce's Ulysses". A sort of Kabbalistic key of correspondences and associations […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
In fact, like our fellow citizens, Rieux was caught off his guard, and we should understand his hesitations in the light of this fact; and similarly understand how he was torn between conflicting fears and confidence. When a war breaks out, people say: “It’s too stupid; it can’t last long.” But though a war may well be “too stupid,” that doesn’t prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves. In this respect our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn’t a thing made to man’s measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to an- other, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they haven’t taken their precautions. Our townsfolk were not more to blame than others; they forgot to be modest, that was all, and thought that everything still was possible for them; which presupposed that pestilences were impossible. They went on doing business, arranged for journeys, and formed views. How should they have given a thought to anything like plague, which rules out any future, cancels journeys, silences the exchange of views. They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.
October 2, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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#rip Danny Thompson 1939-23rd September 2025

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/24/from-kate-bush-to-pentangle-to-t-rex-the-late-danny-thompsons-musical-brilliance-knew-no-bounds
#music #jazz #folkmusic
Who was Danny Thompson? Was he the man who brought jazz to British folk as a founder of Pentangle, as a collaborator with John Martyn, with Nick Drake, with June Tabor, the Incredible String Band and more? Was he the bringer of class to the mainstream, recording with Cliff Richard, Johnny Hates Jazz, Rod Stewart, T-Rex and others? Was he the elder adding gravitas to the recordings of younger pop experimentalists and formalists: ABC, Everything But the Girl, Graham Coxon, the The, David Sylvian, Kate Bush and Talk Talk?
September 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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IIRC, first time getting crypto spam in my #github notifications this morning.

Went to look at it just now and it appears to be hidden & can't see or delete it. Even though the GUI indicates I have one unread message in my inbox.

Turns out I need to get the […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
~$ gh api notifications | jq '.[] | { id, title: .subject.title, repo: .repository.full_name }' { "id": "19103530299", "title": "Gitcoin Announcement | $15M Github Developer Fund 2025", "repo": "Gitcoin-Developer/gitcoin.com" } ~$ gh api --method DELETE notifications/threads/19103530299
September 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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[politics, USPol, US Politics]

On the separation of Church and State(and, specifically, public funding for religious schools).

I'm not a lawyering sort of fellow by any stretch of the imagination.

My eyes, admittedly, frequently glaze over when I attempt to […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
The Supreme Court devalues democracy. Thirty-seven state constitutions block public funds from supporting religious entities. Richard Schragger, Micah Schwartzman & Nelson Tebbe, Reestablishing Religion, 92 U. Chi. L. Rev. 199, 211 (2025). The Court aims to federally-repeal these state constitutional provisions. The Court’s beliefs meddle with local and state governments. Forcing states to send public funds to religious entities federalizes public policy. By unprincipled fiat. See also New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) (zero to superpower). Taxpayer funds now flow to religious institutions. So, the government collects money from nonbelievers (under the threat of jail), and uses some of it to support religion. And since not all religions will receive public funds, the government forces minority faiths to support other faiths, or else. The Court twists text, history, purpose, precedent, and public meaning to offend the First Amendment’s character-of- government structure and the Constitution’s separate sovereignty structure. As it steamrolls both, the Court says nothing about church- state separation and federalism principles. The Court’s nevermind stance to the structural features of the Constitution “has unfolded with little engagement with, and occasional
September 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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My partner not wanting to be hassled for autographs at a local food establishment:
#priceoffame
A photograph of a woman in a grey hooded sweatshirt with the hood pulled over her head wearing large, bug-eyed sunglasses. She is sitting at a table in a restaurant with her arms folded across her chest.
September 18, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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My daughter and I a little over sixteen years ago on the Edmonds waterfront as the Sun sets over the Olympic mountain range.
#pnw #photography #edmondswa
A photograph of the silouettes of two people walking from right to left. One person wearing a cap is walking on a small ledge and towers over the other person walking behind her. The sun is setting just below and to the left of her. A ferry boat is entering the picture from the right passing behing them on the water. A park bench in the foreground.
September 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Found myself updating vim powerline & cleaning up some crufty, ancient configs.
This managed to break powerline working inside of Python venvs.
Adding the following line to my `/etc/vim/vimrc` configuration got powerline working properly again:

#vim #vimplugins #python
Confguration lines in /etc/vim/vimrc: python3 import sys;sys.path.append("/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages") python3 from powerline.vim import setup as powerline_setup python3 powerline_setup() python3 del powerline_setup
September 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Spent a part of the morning preppin', choppin', cuttin', peelin' and assemblin' a pot o' tofu vegetable soup. I got a bit carried away and now have a pile of napa cabbage, bok choy, cauliflower, and extra zuchinni on the counter with no room left in the pot! […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
A close-up photograph of a white enamal pot of vegetable soup. There is tofu, zuchinni, green beans, carrot slices, some mushrooms, and tomatoes in an orange-reddish broth.
September 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Mom's last night in #keyna. Now it's on to Tanzania for a week.
When she puts her mind to it, she can take a good picture. I guess it's difficult not to with this view. Beautiful!

#momonsafari #photography
A photograph from Kenya looking westward into the sunset. In the foreground is a large tree with several long branches with the sillouettes of four large storks. In the middle ground is a wide stream that stretches the width of the picture.
August 31, 2025 at 6:34 PM