Wolf

https://social.vivaldi.net/@PublicWolf

I'm never going to be happy with this bio. ;) Retired. Married, otherwise fairly close to a happy hermit. Mastodon is almost my only contact with other humans. Extremely lucky.

Working ranch/rodeo cowboy --> US Navy submariner --> IT guy --> retired with my husband, travels too much.

Avatar is a drawing I did of myself. I'm obviously not an artist, but I think everyone should draw and share their work proudly.

Posts deleted after a week, because looking back isn't where it's at.

Current Location: Upper Midwest, USA
Frequently about: bikes, books, urban living, linux, privacy, random
Blog: https://publicwolf.vivaldi.net

Public Key

npub1gplwswjwl8hmrrkhdftztgqwr8089zwad9npvard6mpuggs5d9xqsccw7k

NIP-05 Address

publicwolf_at_social.vivaldi.net@momostr.pink

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsyqlhg8f80nma33mtk54395q8pnhnj38wkjeskw3kads7yyg2xjnqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsanhf5y

Publishing to

relay.nostr.bg

Author Public Key

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2025-04-21 14:32:24 UTC

It's possible "someone" bought five pounds of Minnesota-specific wildflower seeds with the intent to scatter them around unused lots, berms, medians and random eyesores.
Unless that person gets caught. In which case, that person did nothing of the sort. Guerilla gardening is the term.
🌻🌹🌷💮🥀💐🏵️🌼🌺🌸🌻🌹🌷💮🥀💐🏵️🌼🌺🌸🌻🌹🌷💮🥀💐🏵️🌼🌺🌸🌻🌹🌷💮🥀💐🏵️🌼🌺🌸🌻🌹🌷💮🥀💐🏵️🌼🌺🌸🌻🌹🌷💮🥀💐🏵️🌼🌺🌸🌻🌹🌷💮🥀💐🏵️🌼🌺🌸🌻🌹🌷💮🥀💐🏵️🌼🌺🌸🌻🌹🌷💮🥀💐🏵️🌼🌺🌸🌻🌹🌷💮🥀💐🏵️🌼🌺🌸🌻🌹🌷💮🥀💐🏵️🌼🌺🌸🌻🌹🌷💮🥀💐🏵️🌼🌺🌸🌻🌹🌷💮🥀💐🏵️🌼🌺🌸

2025-04-05 18:30:17 UTC

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And we're back. Okay rally. No incidents. No agitators. Cold but a pretty good crowd. Best part was seeing all my neighbors walking downtown in little groups carrying their signs.

2025-04-05 14:18:25 UTC

Eat a good breakfast before you head out to your local protest today.
https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/114/285/779/060/280/267/original/b81dc979581ec466.mp4

2025-04-03 19:35:32 UTC

Back in the Navy, guys used to joke about retired submariners, how they'd have preventive maintenance schedules for everything in the home, etc. I used to laugh, too.
Just now I realized that because it's a new quarter, I've changed all the air filters in the house, changed our toothbrush heads, done some paint touch-ups, and because tomorrow is the first Friday of the month, it's time to clean the tub in the washing machine and dishwasher, and give all the drains a chlorine rinse.
It was true all along! 😳

2025-02-05 12:54:52 UTC

"What. Are we. Doing. Today?" puffed Piglet, his tiny legs pumping furiously to catch up with the bear.
"The same thing we do every day." said Pooh.
"Burn the motherfuckers down?" squealed Piglet.
"Yes," nodded Pooh. "Burn the motherfuckers right down to the ground."
"Yay!" squealed Piglet, skipping ahead of his friend.
Pooh softly hummed La Marseillaise, as he padded softly down the primrose path. He picked up a fist-sized rock and hefted it in his hand a few times, admiring its dark weight.
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2025-02-03 21:09:15 UTC

I hate to sound like a hopeless fanboi, but over the last 4 days I took a social media break, and one of the things I read was @npub1fdr…lvhs 's Pirate Theater.
My review: Gadzooks! Phwoar!
Even offline, I caught wind of some copyright news, and this book is totally germane. HIGHLY recommend you read it.
Buy it directly at https://craphound.com/shop/ and put a few bucks into @npub1fdr…lvhs 's pocket instead of Uncle Jeff's.
Now I need to learn how to torrent stuff.
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2025-01-27 14:39:07 UTC

This morning.
Ninety-three million miles away, hydrogen fuses into helium under immense pressure and heat. Neutrons and photons are thrown off. Those photons take millions of years to escape the sun, then travel across the vast distance to cascade down, through my wintry window and light up this tomato to my simple-minded delight.
https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/113/900/828/493/055/207/original/c0f51213bc72af48.jpeg

2025-01-23 21:43:03 UTC

Authors-
I get it. Amazon has a virtual monopoly on direct to consumer publishing. But wherever possible, I'm going to buy books directly from an author's site, like @npub1fdr…lvhs https://craphound.com
or @npub1mg0…jpme https://www.digitapub.com
Fellow #books people, please do your part to support your favorite authors. Do what you can so they get a bigger cut of their own work. Bezos has a big enough yacht.
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2025-01-22 21:40:41 UTC

I don't know how you people who write for a living do it.
I've been working on the outline of a long blog post for a mere hour and I'm ready to eat a whole pumpkin pie.
Note to self: get pumpkin pie.

2025-01-22 21:01:41 UTC

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Stux: "Maybe I'll make it just free."
Mrs. Stux Thinking of the server bills:
https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/113/874/019/187/551/946/original/b2dd7f8282c13bff.mp4

2025-01-18 23:48:40 UTC

After more than four years of careful masking and avoiding indoor public spaces, my wonderful husband caught #Covid for the first time on a 14 hour flight seated next to an obviously very sick person the first week of December.
We were able to get him on Paxlovid and he quarantined in the bedroom for 10 days, and I managed not to be infected. That's the good part.
He's continuing to recover, but is still often tired by the afternoon and needs a nap.
He's so smart, but lately I've had to repeat things to him several times. He has no memory that he's told me something already, or I've told him something before.
I don't tell him about it. I just repeat things as if it's my first time telling him. When he tells me something for the third time, I react as if it's my first time hearing it.
He's so proud of his mind. It's sad that we're in this place. But we'll deal with it. I just hope this is temporary.
#WearAMask #COVID19

2025-01-02 00:00:29 UTC

A camp for HIV positive kids in Northern Minnesota is closing and going up for sale.
The reason? Anti-retroviral HIV drugs work. There are now not enough HIV-positive kids to need the camp.
Some good news to start your 2025
🥺 🥳
https://www.startribune.com/closure-of-northern-minnesota-camp-is-the-greatest-story-heres-why/601199362
#HIV

2025-01-01 21:14:09 UTC

Man in his underwear
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2024-12-29 14:44:23 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2024-12-26 16:34:50 UTC

Perhaps I "overboost". Consider, however-
When I favorite something, I make one person happier.
When I boost, I hope to make the world happier.
Thank you for enjoying (or tolerating) my overboosts.

2024-12-24 21:42:51 UTC

Oh no.
My husband's mouse somehow stopped connecting to his PC. No prob. We deleted it from the devices and scanned for Bluetooth devices to reconnect it.
My friends. We were not prepared. We live in a condo building, and apparently, our neighbor got a new Bluetooth-enabled friend for Christmas. It's called "Vibrator03".
😳

2024-09-26 13:12:39 UTC

Lenacapavir, a drug approved for treatment of HIV and now for prevention, is a twice yearly injection. A game-changer for compliance.
In South Africa, it costs $54/year. 👍
In the USA, it costs $42,250/year. 😒
#HIV

2024-09-22 15:43:00 UTC

Venice is known as "La Serenissima" but unless you're willing to be there when the tourists aren't, you're not going to see that. But it can be beautiful without the crowds.
#SilentSunday
https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/113/181/960/393/209/132/original/55ed9e2ceb63f270.jpg

2024-09-21 19:46:17 UTC

Oh my. This is awesome. The author knows he's got to be on Amazon, but he doesn't have to like playing the game.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001H6Q2TE/about
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2024-09-17 18:20:43 UTC

Mozilla.Social is going away.
If you like being here on the fediverse, please support your local instance. Good practice in general, but I'd like to specifically call out users of mstdn.social - if you're on that instance, you seriously need to throw a few bones [@stux](https://mstdn.social/@stux ) 's way. He can't be expected to shoulder the expenses for one of the more important instances all be himself.
Or we can let independent instances die off until Mastodon becomes the private property of one or two centralized instances. Our choice.
https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/113153943609185249

2024-09-02 16:10:17 UTC

Still having trouble logging onto my @npub19rt…adh9 social account on anything other than my phone, which is why I’ve been so absent, but it did let me post this recent fortune cookie. Quite au courant
https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/113/068/824/507/170/834/original/2a32660fe373bd55.jpeg

2024-08-08 23:48:02 UTC

Sometimes it seems like my husband and I are the only people who haven't got COVID yet. We're certainly the only people who know personally who are still trying not to catch it.
My in-laws neighbors are both now COVID-positive, after having been in the Emergency room for 6 hours last week.
Were they masked while in the ER? No. Of course not. :/
#COVID

2024-06-24 14:44:31 UTC

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If it were a dog, I'd vote against Nova, because it'd be confusing for a dog to hear "No" every time you called it by name. But since it's a cat, they never learn what "No" means anyway, so... Nova for me.