impermanen_ 🕊️

An aging, distracted, anarchic contemplative who lives on a farm with donkeys, works in #solar, advocates for #degrowth and anti-fascism, practices #Vajrayana #Buddhist #meditation.

Posts pics of our burros on the #asstodon tag

Aprecio la interacción en Español. ⚠️ Lo hablo mal 🥴 pero quiero mejorar

Rare drops of buddhadharma

#FreePalestine #Zapatista

The header artwork is by Wang Yiguang

Reading: Climate Wayfinding, Katharine Wilkinson
Also reading: Leverage Points, Donella Meadows
Pronouns: he/him/el
Learning: Español, history, how to be fully human

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Last Notes

2026-05-13 00:34:28 UTC

My mother, the last member of my family aside from me, is in very serious condition and also in deep, practiced denial about it. She refuses any kind of medical care for religious reasons that I do not share, putting me in a very difficult spot as her medical power of attorney. Everything is extraordinarily fucked up in ways I won’t even try to explain. I may not be sharing much of anything here during this time.

2026-05-06 18:09:36 UTC

I'm nearing a point where I need another software engineer to help me get my bootstrapped company SolarPlane.io off the ground. We have two big companies that have asked us to start pilot projects with them and there's a lot of work to get ready for those pilots.
But when it comes to hiring I have two problems that stop me cold: little money to pay (need a partner not an employee) and little capacity to handle a firehose of applicants. I refuse to use gen AI to screen applicants.
What to do?

2026-04-25 20:28:02 UTC

Happy Saturday, all.
✌️✌️
#asstodon
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2026-04-03 23:35:16 UTC

A friend brought us some eggs from her chickens and boy are they colorful. I’ve seen lots of egg colors before but she has just three hens. I’m thinking she’s dyed some of them. Or she’s been feeding them magic chicken feed! ✨ #Chicken people: weigh in on this!
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2026-03-27 13:18:55 UTC

Donkeys in love. It involves wrestling and some neck biting. Relatable. #asstodon
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2026-03-22 02:04:26 UTC

RE: https://zirk.us/@impermanen_/116268821800495961
Ok wow wow wow! I got quite a lot of response! Maybe I really should crowdsource an #asstodon coloring book and have contributions from a bunch of different artists. No AI slop, of course. I’d make all the proceeds after printing costs go to the artists and my mom would love the book.
Hmmm!
Boost if you like the idea and want to see it happen, and fave if you’d buy a donkey coloring book with art by fedi artists yourself. You know, for some reasonable price.
#note16kp…f726

2026-03-21 19:30:26 UTC

I’m looking to hire an artist for a small project.
My mom’s 87 and in a nursing facility. She loves adult coloring books and has covered the walls of her room with her work. She especially likes animal designs and gives them names and stories. I keep her supplied with books, but she wants DONKEYS. And I haven’t found her a book with a good donkey design. I’d like to commission a coloring-book style line drawing similar to this photo of our boys. Interested? Hit me up in DMs. #asstodon
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2026-03-06 04:56:05 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116053742685475452
Tomorrow (Friday) the last day to make an official stand against a fuckwit billionaire filling the sky with hundreds of thousands of AI datacenters and destroying the ozone layer.
#note127g…dvgp

2026-03-02 00:57:04 UTC

It’s like a portal to a better world. #asstodon
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2026-02-20 18:02:12 UTC

Donkeys: Whatchu doin goofy human?
Me: Well, I’m taking your picture to try to ease the sorrows of humanity.
Donkeys: We’ve got some sorrows you could ease.
Me: Oh yeah?
Donkeys: Yeah, like, we broke one of our toys and one of us has probably swallowed a large piece of it, but you could get us a new one. And then maybe call the vet.
#asstodon
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2026-02-15 00:48:18 UTC

Arturo the burro here to ask the important Valentine’s Day question:
Are you ever going to pick up our poop?
#asstodon
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2026-02-01 16:30:46 UTC

What’s the story, morning glory? #asstodon
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2026-01-21 02:37:52 UTC

An EMT to my sister-in-law, who’s a pharmacist that works in the ER: “I’m having a hard time getting lidocaine these days.”
SIL: The city can’t get lidocaine for your emergency medical kits?
EMT: No, this is for the “go bags” we keep for drills in the armory at our church.

2026-01-18 17:17:38 UTC

His impressively loud brays aren’t the only way Arturo communicates. For example if he wants to let me know the watering tubs are frozen or empty he knows how to say that silently and quite specifically: first he stares at me until I give him eye contact. Then he looks briefly at the thing that needs attention, pointing with his eyes and ears. Then he looks back at me to see if I got the message. He repeats this as needed until I start to move in a way that shows I got the memo. #asstodon #blep
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2026-01-13 16:03:23 UTC

Buenos días a todos! Bonjour tout le monde! Good morning, all!
#asstodon
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2026-01-09 18:11:59 UTC

Distraught spouse, naked and dripping from the shower, demands you remove a spider from the house. It’s 19° F outside and there’s a foot of snow. What do you do?

2026-01-09 17:27:42 UTC

A small joy. I found a second hand copy of a book my grandmother published in 1930. It's a collection of French short stories intended for teaching French to English speakers. Someone evidently commissioned a small print run from a print-on-demand shop in India a few years ago and now a copy is on the market. It even has a nice sewn leather binding.
I have physical copies of my grandmother's other books but have never laid hands on this one. She was a marvel. After 50 years I still miss her.

2026-01-02 20:55:29 UTC

The donkeys wish you a Happy New Year, kiddos. We’ll get through this together. #asstodon
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2025-12-31 01:50:57 UTC

A friend and fellow donkey lover gave us a pair of #asstodon mugs as a gift and they’re so damn cute. The donkeys’ heads emerge mischievously from your beverage as you take a drink.
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2025-12-25 14:24:38 UTC

Good morning and a very #asstodon Christmas to all who celebrate
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2025-12-23 22:16:58 UTC

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All the equines stop and marvel at the truckload of happiness that just pulled up. #asstodon
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2025-12-23 21:46:16 UTC

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This on the other hand… 😬
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2025-12-23 21:43:45 UTC

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Nothing like having the right equipment for the job
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2025-12-23 21:01:17 UTC

Time to go buy hay. It’s $290 for a bundle of 24 bales that will feed three big animals for several weeks.
It’s amazing how little they need to have a good life compared to how much I pretend to require.

2025-12-20 16:48:05 UTC

How to achieve peak amplification for your bray when the human is inside the barn. #asstodon #CrankItUpTo11
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2025-12-15 15:56:59 UTC

Getting together with spouse’s family reminded us how eccentric we are. Hanging out with normal people (suburbanites with Facebook accounts and smart TVs) is so disorienting. We have so few common reference points.
It also dawned on us that more than half of the “normies” we know are now alcoholics. It’s troubling how many friends and family will get the shakes if they go more than a few hours without alcohol. Their lives are organized around how to get that next drink. Oof, how to help? 😥

2025-12-04 13:58:23 UTC

Good morning, all.
What an amazing planet. 🥲
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2025-12-03 14:05:53 UTC

Good morning, all
#asstodon
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2025-11-27 23:56:08 UTC

Evening donkey zoomies! #asstodon
https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/115/624/359/537/524/331/original/39794fb708890215.mp4

2025-11-21 03:52:41 UTC

I don’t ride the old boy any more but we go for short hikes together. Got out this morning ahead of the weather. Good time had by all. #horses
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2025-11-12 01:28:53 UTC

Wow! Aurora borealis in southern Colorado! First time I’ve ever seen it this far south.
(The iPhone does exaggerate the intensity but it’s still pretty spectacular seeing it live)
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2025-11-08 17:28:09 UTC

Oh hi there ✌️How’s your Saturday?
#asstodon
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2025-11-06 14:31:47 UTC

The 430 lb donkeys don’t accept the idea that their 1000 lb horse buddy gets a lot more food than they do.
“We could weigh 1000 lbs, too, you know if you’d just feed us properly!”
#asstodon
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2025-11-05 14:02:15 UTC

Stood a long time this morning in the cold air, watching the full moon slowly sink into the purple mountains. Just feeling carried along by this most ancient dance.
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2025-10-23 03:04:20 UTC

Don’t worry, babe, it’s gonna to be ok. #asstodon
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2025-10-18 01:09:28 UTC

The mini donkeys: always plotting their next diabolical scheme. Don’t be fooled by their cute behavior or their adorably stubby legs. They are pure evil.
#asstodon
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2025-10-14 15:27:13 UTC

Autumn in the Sangre de Cristos ❤️
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2025-10-11 20:18:40 UTC

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The phrase “imperial core planet” comes to mind. 😅

2025-10-11 20:02:55 UTC

I sometimes do research at the Colorado College campus. It’s a private college but they let members of the community use the library. The campus is so beautiful and peaceful and the students seem preternaturally chill. I love the library but immediately feel out of place here. You can viscerally feel the wealth required to attend, the huge endowment fund is like an invisible dome that separates the place from the rest of the world.

2025-10-08 22:00:14 UTC

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Manuel left that cone on his butt for the longest time. I think it made him feel special, like he had something that Arturo did not.
#asstodon
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2025-10-08 21:43:32 UTC

______ SLOW ______
DONKEYS AT WORK
⚠️ Fines doubled ⚠️
#asstodon
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2025-10-08 12:59:13 UTC

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wow. I’m wild about those sculptures. A lovely PNW tribute. And they really come into their own at night, don’t they?

2025-10-02 00:45:23 UTC

A fairly nice sunset if I do say so myself
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2025-09-28 00:48:59 UTC

The aspen in Southern Colorado are 👌 right now. Such a beautiful day.
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2025-09-27 02:25:07 UTC

It’s both comic and sad.
I posted a job online and got the first five proposals with lengthy cover letters in about 3 minutes. The cover letters all in the same super upbeat, hyper-confident, tech-keyword-packed writing style that was instantly recognizable as ChatGPT. The screening questions answered almost identically. And plenty of emojis! All full of ✨ and ⚡️ and 🚀.
All went straight into the trash of course. I feel bad for people who think this AI bullshit is helping them.

2025-09-27 01:40:59 UTC

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that sliver of a moon!

2025-09-25 19:59:27 UTC

I guess we’re going to try finding a freelance developer on Upwork.com. Don’t want to use LinkedIn, which feels cursed. Looks like any way I do this I’ll be sifting through a pile of resumes like a recruiter, which I’m not.
But hey fellow fedizen, if you’re an experienced #threejs developer with solid general software engineering skills and looking for an interesting short term gig, shoot me a resume in DM. #FediHire #hiring
From: [@impermanen_](https://zirk.us/@impermanen_ )
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2025-09-25 13:56:56 UTC

The mountain mahogany have deployed their graceful spiraling seed plumes.
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2025-09-23 19:36:35 UTC

Arturo: Don’t mind me, I’m just going to lie on your neck for a while.
Manuel: Great, thanks for the warning.
#asstodon
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2025-09-23 00:57:08 UTC

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I think that’s exactly the variety.
I have noticed that our animals are (not surprisingly) very careful to avoid plants toxic to them, of which we have a few in the area. I suspect they are mainly a problem when animals are desperate for food and can’t find enough good stuff.

2025-09-22 14:21:20 UTC

The donkeys trim the grass very nicely but they leave these tansyaster “bouquets” popping up in the field. Either the flavor is as bad as the flowers are pretty or they just like the way the flowers liven the place up. #asterdon #bloomscrolling
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2025-09-22 00:00:10 UTC

Mmmwah! 💕
#asstodon
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2025-09-21 14:30:05 UTC

A lot is written about #solar energy as a response to the climate crisis. Less about its role in our political crisis: the fight against fascism.
The sun cannot be hoarded or centralized. So technology that harnesses its power tends to be highly antifascist. It’s why petro-fascists like Trump and Putin recognize solar energy as a threat to their hold on power. It’s why we see solar energy growing the fastest in the long-exploited developing economies of the global South.

2025-09-20 00:51:49 UTC

The #asstodon thing has expanded beyond the Fediverse to the point where friends and relatives and people we barely know text us pictures of donkeys they encounter. Here are some wild burros that accosted a friend of a friend of ours who was out fishing in South Park, Colorado today. Descendants of the burros that worked as pack animals during the Colorado gold rush of the 1850s.
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2025-09-19 14:37:09 UTC

✅ Meditated 📿
✅ Animals fed and watered
✅ Internet replied to: it was wrong again
⬜️ Now going back to bed.🤒
Oh wait, haven’t fed the hashtags.
✅ #asstodon #Fensterfreitag
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2025-09-18 11:33:52 UTC

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what a glorious day! The Cascades look so much wetter than the Rockies and the plant life so unusual by comparison. But the drama of hiking through dense forest to reach treeline and suddenly entering this wide-open alpine environment is the same. Love it!

2025-09-13 22:10:57 UTC

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[George] Jackson argues that U.S.-style fascism is a kind of perfected form—all the more insidiously hegemonic because of the marriage of monopoly capital with the (racialized) trappings of liberal democracy. As he declared:
“Fascism has established itself in a most disguised and efficient manner in this country. It feels so secure that the leaders allow us the luxury of a faint protest. Take protest too far, however, and they will show their other face….”

2025-09-12 11:54:57 UTC

I’m never left unsupervised in the barn. #asstodon
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2025-09-11 21:17:46 UTC

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And the view right now, which merits a panorama shot. Not sure how the wide aspect ratio will display but here goes!
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2025-09-11 21:13:31 UTC

Lots of sky drama today, starting with the fiery sunrise…
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2025-09-11 01:10:10 UTC

It’s been a quiet news day today in the US 😉so, maybe we’ll check in on donkey world for an update?
Yep. Lookin good.
#asstodon
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2025-09-06 16:20:16 UTC

Losing myself in this wondrous print we received in the mail from the Denver Art Museum.
Crows Flight, Martin Hennings, Taos 1947
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2025-09-03 20:20:07 UTC

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while the DOJ’s official stance on the remedy was that Chrome should be spun off as a separate business, it would hardly be a surprise if Trump privately intimidated a judge like Mehta and he felt too vulnerable to rule with appropriate force. Nor would it be a big shock to learn that Pichai and Trump are trading favors when they meet privately at Mar a Lago. Trump wants to appear tough on Big Tech publicly while quietly keeping them in his pocket with plausible deniability.

2025-09-02 15:25:27 UTC

I remember thinking human knowledge would advance when it was at everyone’s fingertips. Now the books are being burned in the data centers.
And us with them.

2025-08-31 15:54:42 UTC

A fine looking Sunday slime mold for you.
As I’ve come to understand it, slime molds are delightfully weird. Neither one organism nor many, [non-existent pronoun] exist as a single huge cell but with multiple nuclei, each with a different genome.[Pronoun] has no brain but a good memory and can solve mazes. #slimemold
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2025-08-30 16:19:24 UTC

The sun shining back at the sun. #bloomscrolling
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2025-08-24 19:04:05 UTC

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I’d like to know more about this. Do you have a reference you recommend to read?
@npub1ke2…meew

2025-08-24 13:51:46 UTC

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We have to work at both problems, Gerry. I agree that the most urgent is for the industrialized North to stop producing crap we don’t need and to respect the boundaries that make our life in the planet possible.
I just don’t believe we can do that without keeping fossil fuels in the ground. And we will need some non-combustible energy to do that.
Do you think degrowth without some renewable energy is possible?
@npub18vq…lz4g

2025-08-24 12:34:51 UTC

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I really like Gerry, who is a degrowth advocate like myself and we mostly agree. We badly need to cut consumption in the industrialized world and we are doing the opposite.
Still, this is an example of a case where some of the factoids he publishes are oil and gas industry propaganda: things that were once true but are no longer. Or things that are dramatically worse when you’re mining/shipping/burning oil, gas and coal all over. Once made a solar panel generates for *25 yrs.*

2025-08-24 01:26:28 UTC

Somehow missed this:
Pakistan, home to more than 240 million people, is experiencing one of the most rapid #solar revolutions on the planet, even as it grapples with poverty and economic instability.
Suddenly about half the country’s electricity comes from solar. It’s not industrial solar farms or state-led: it’s a bottom-up revolution: households fed up with rising power costs and blackouts buying what are now ridiculously cheap solar panels.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/climate/pakistan-solar-boom

2025-08-23 22:01:25 UTC

The donkeys and horse are unanimous: the new teff hay is the best ever! 🎉🥳🙌
The donkeys watched me haul every bale into the barn and reached through the fencing to grab bites as they passed by. In donkey parlance this is called “helping.” #asstodon
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2025-08-21 12:59:48 UTC

Good morning, all. Got anything good for us? #asstodon
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2025-08-17 21:51:22 UTC

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They’ve decided it *might* be safe to stand in the same room as the traffic cone, just to get out of the hot sun.
But they’re not very happy about it.
“We’re maintaining a prudent distance!”
#asstodon
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2025-08-17 21:38:07 UTC

I finally acquired a new traffic cone for the donkeys and presented it to them.
They fled in horror.
The human has introduced a new thing! It might be pure evil!
#asstodon
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2025-08-17 01:05:28 UTC

I love this field so much. I would paint it if I could. Humans never set foot here as far as I can tell, even though it’s right next door to us. It’s beloved of the deer, elk and wild turkeys, perhaps in part for the benign neglect.
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2025-08-16 13:39:54 UTC

This guy. No end of mischief. Yes, I’m talking bout you, Piccolo. #asstodon
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2025-08-13 19:02:02 UTC

“We have to face it, Arturo. Sometimes the humans are just… sigh… stupid.” #asstodon
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2025-08-07 16:09:46 UTC

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when they aren’t bonking each other with it or playing tug-of-war they try to interfere with the administration of public safety.
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2025-08-07 15:39:59 UTC

When mom moved into the nursing home I inherited things that she inherited when her parents died and some that *they* had likewise inherited from *their* parents. Sentimental stuff only: diaries and photos dating back 110 years, the rest all sold or given away long ago.
We don’t have kids, and no one else has reason to care about these old photos. So there will come a day when someone throws these old objects in the trash. When my memory of these people fades and dies.
But maybe not today.
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2025-08-07 13:37:18 UTC

Before bedtime the donkeys put all their favorite toys away. This cracks me up every time. #asstodon
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2025-08-05 17:19:29 UTC

I wondered when this would come up and here it is. Someone is finally calling attention to the fact that the pollution regulations that Trump's flunkies are eliminating were actually crafted to give industry certainty about how much pollution they could emit and to limit the public's ability to sue for damages under common law. That protection gone, it may actually be *more legally costly* now for many companies to pollute instead of less. https://www.eenews.net/articles/killing-epa-climate-rule-could-backfire-on-industry/

2025-08-04 00:01:24 UTC

If you have a favorite Wim Wenders movie, what is it? Either way boosts appreciated.

2025-08-02 12:42:43 UTC

Good morning. <boop>
#asstodon
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2025-08-01 01:05:04 UTC

So ICE raided a construction site in our neighborhood and two of the workers tried to get away. They got in their truck, hit one of the ICE vehicles and drove off. The ICE officers *opened fire* on them. They abandoned their vehicle in the neighborhood to try to escape on foot. So now we’re all ordered to “shelter in place” and “stay away from windows” so the swarming gestapo can shoot up the place with a free hand.
How’s your day going?

2025-07-23 13:31:46 UTC

Your morning #asstodon has arrived.
The neighbor mini donkeys like to hang out near the fence line with our boys to form a nice herd and no doubt to protest the existence of closed borders and private land ownership.
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2025-07-20 13:01:02 UTC

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before—more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
~ Charles Dickens
#bloomscrolling
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2025-07-14 20:16:11 UTC

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She works for days on a large piece, which I notice gives her a sense of accomplishment, and movement as well as transporting her imagination out of the boundaries of her room.
When I go to visit we spend a lot of time looking through here latest work and figuring out where to put it up on the walls and doors of her room. So it’s much more of a sharing thing than the journal was.
This one is a favorite:
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2025-07-14 20:05:59 UTC

Mom is almost 87 years old and for the first time since she was a teen is finding she can no longer keep a journal. She didn’t say anything about it for a long time but when she finally told me she started crying.
But we recently hit on something that has filled the missing piece in her day: adult coloring books. She loves coloring with her huge collection of many-colored pencils. And there are some really nice books out there these days.
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2025-07-12 19:34:47 UTC

Ok this is much too somber and earnest for the weekend. Please give your answer but with “wrong answers only.”
From: [@impermanen_](https://zirk.us/@impermanen_ )
https://zirk.us/@impermanen_/114841817079026364

2025-07-12 19:04:22 UTC

What do folks do who depend for their living on being highly creative, more or less on a schedule (artistically, scientifically, or pragmatically, like solving unsolved problems)?
I feel like I’m learning a few things about this. How to listen in my body patiently when uncertain. When to take a long walk. How to befriend the inner critic, make it an ally. The importance of sleep. And not clinging to results.
I may just need to get more peace with financial ruin, if it comes to that, being ok.

2025-07-12 00:06:50 UTC

Arturo sneaks a kiss on Manuel while they watch me prepare the evening feed. If you’ve been following for a while I’m sure you’ve noticed: these burros are a lovely old gay married couple. #asstodon
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2025-07-10 01:35:53 UTC

This is the one-room schoolhouse that’s in our neck of the woods. The sign reads: “Black Forest School, built in 1922 with donated land-logs-labor, one teacher - grades 1-8”
Got me thinking…
1/3
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2025-07-09 01:38:09 UTC

This year we’ve seen Mariposa lilies. They don’t always bloom but they grow from bulbs that can live for over 30 years. Hard to grow in a garden, I’m told.
The bulbs were once a staple in the diet of many indigenous people in this part of North America. #bloomscrolling
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2025-07-06 01:53:53 UTC

Storm clouds… with donkey, of course. #asstodon
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2025-07-01 13:14:02 UTC

Grazing animals are fully-autonomous self-driving solar-powered lawnmowers. They can go literally for years without being plugged in or gassed up!
It’s funny that words like that sound amazing and futuristic, isn’t it? Like we kind of lost our way. #asstodon #horses #ai
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2025-06-30 18:37:40 UTC

Order up! <ding!> Two chonky donkeys!
#asstodon
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2025-06-17 14:35:50 UTC

Good morning, all. A shimmering blue mist hovers above the ground in every little clearing. #bloomscrolling
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2025-06-17 14:15:22 UTC

It’s clear that the pace of technical innovation has been slowing for decades. Compare how people’s lives changed 1900-1960 to the period from 1960 to now. It’s obvious. And contrary to extropian hype, “AI” is slamming the brakes on innovation. It’s an incredibly conservative, backward-looking, purely extractive technology that is already choking on its own excrement. Look at SpaceX which has trouble with engineering tasks we performed perfectly in the 60s on a tiny fraction of the resources.

2025-06-16 20:37:34 UTC

“Sorry. We brayed. You didn’t bring us a carrot in time. Now we have died.”
#asstodon
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2025-06-13 20:33:39 UTC

We have a friend that’s an #immigration attorney in #LA and she’s losing her shit. Her work with clients is being used to kidnap them. They’re grabbed if they appear for a hearing, regardless of the judge’s ruling. And even if with her help they were adjudicated to live and work in the US decades ago, the record of that fact is used by ICE to kidnap them. So her phone is ringing off the hook *and* all the tear-gassing and gunplay and kidnapping is occurring at her place of work.