Rafa 🦤

I'm from the 70s. I'm married. I'm a Mahayana Buddhist some Chan some Zen some Vajrayana. I have ancestors from Spain and the Caribbean but I'm not Hispanic. I have ancestors from the Seneca nation but I'm not indigenous. I have ancestors from Ireland and France but I'm not European. I've never been to the place I was born. The borderlands are my home.

Entiendo Español y puedo imitarlo.

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2026-08-03 17:50:07 UTC

First 100°(38°) run of the season. I didn't go far and I'm sweating like crazy but otherwise it was fun! #running

2026-08-01 16:40:43 UTC

Now, I'm thinking about Neuromancer and one the great disappointments of my life is realizing that cyberspace is deeply impractical. It will never be more efficient to wander down a hallway and rummage around in a file cabinet than it would be to just type 'grep'.

2026-07-25 17:25:01 UTC

My friends who speak Mexican/Border Spanish, help me out. I was reading the obituaries in the local paper and came across one for an old woman who had recently passed away. I read that every day she told her husband "Ay como chingas!" and I just about spit my coffee all over the paper. Is this a term of endearment or some sort of slang? Because, where I'm from (northern New Mexico) this is not something you'd put in granny's obituary. #Spanish #Español #profanity

2026-07-24 01:38:57 UTC

Hey retro Mac peeps, I need to get some new video ram for my LC475. I remember that someone was making it fairly recently but now I can't find any info online. Do you know if anyone is currently selling the 512k simms? #retrocomputing #mac #mac68k

2026-07-23 00:42:02 UTC

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On the last day, a nerdy looking guy came in with an old fashioned overhead projector and transparencies. I was so sick of PowerPoint, I gave him the contract on the spot.

2026-07-23 00:39:32 UTC

Confession time! Back in the 90s I was working for [LARGE INSTITUTION]. It was decreed that we needed a document scanning, storage and retrieval system. We solicited bids and had a bunch of vendors agree to come in. At this point, everyone else involved disappeared, leaving me to sit through a solid week of presentations by myself. All the systems had the same functionality and the presentations were very similar (PowerPoint guy with a lightbulb over his head every time.) 1/2

2026-07-15 16:24:46 UTC

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@nprofile…jgfn
Well, there's a comic I used to read but haven't thought about in 40 years.

2026-07-09 21:17:24 UTC

Welp, looks like I'm back in the workforce. Thankfully, it's nothing to do with computers. (Not too much call for Netware/Ultrix admins these days.) Instead, I'm coaching highschool swimming. Preseason starts Monday and I'm super excited!

2026-07-03 17:57:02 UTC

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@nprofile…tsn5
At our age 6pm might as well be 3am. 😂

2026-07-03 17:54:30 UTC

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@nprofile…tsn5
All it took was seeing the album cover and I've got 3 AM Eternal stuck in my head. 😅

2026-07-02 18:35:24 UTC

Somebody in the bakery wasn't feeling it. #food #cookie
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2026-06-30 17:49:45 UTC

Here in New Mexico, we have a saying: Comida sin chile no es comida. Roughly: If it ain't spicy, it ain't food. I'm proud of my ability to consume fiery food. But, if you have read any Greek myths you know what pride gets you. Just like Zeus and his thunderbolts, this jar of Bà Nâm Cali was ready to correct my world view. 🥵 #peppers #chiles #Vietnam
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2026-05-13 03:33:14 UTC

Guess who just got stung by a scorpion? It's me! The pain is exquisite. Like super bad. If I can make it two hours without serious symptoms, I'm out of the woods.

2026-05-07 21:59:42 UTC

Quadriceps tendonitis? Looks like I've got some rest days coming up. Getting old is hilarious... 😮‍💨

2026-05-05 17:30:24 UTC

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@nprofile…wxxc
Funny, right?
It does phone and text (SMS/MMS) and comes with basic apps. Maps, weather, notes, eBook reader, chess, music player and a meditation timer. You can add your own apps if you want though there's no Google and it has a black and white display so not everything will work. So far, I like it. The Sunbeam was good for me but I never liked it. I'll report back in a couple of weeks once I've had a chance to use it some more.

2026-05-05 03:49:29 UTC

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@nprofile…wxxc
First impressions are pretty good! It's a lot less limited without being a full on surveillance phone. Strangely enough, I think some of the difference might be religious. The Sunbeam is made for the kosher community and the Mudita is focused on "mindfulness". I'm a Buddhist so it feels like a better fit for me.

2026-05-04 21:27:09 UTC

I stuck with the Sunbeam for a few months but wasn't what I was looking for. Text to speech required a subscription and I'm just too slow at keypad typing to have a conversation over text. I thought I'd give the Mudita Kompakt a try. It's more functional and I love e-ink displays. The crazy thing is that, two phones later, I've spent just over half what a flagship smartphone costs. #phone #mudita
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2026-05-04 19:25:09 UTC

Today's the day that I discovered that I'm not that interested in Star Wars anymore. For context, I used to have Boba Fett underoos. I guess Disney just kinda wrung all the fun out of it.

2026-05-03 17:54:44 UTC

Waffles with chile colorado and fried eggs. ¿Porque no? #food #eggs #breakfast #chiles #peppers
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2026-04-25 16:00:15 UTC

I had a dream. I was running through the rafters of an old theater. Maybe I was being chased? Below me, an awards ceremony was goin on. Al Jorgensen was at the podium saying: The band we are most like is probably Fishbone. #dream

2026-04-16 16:06:18 UTC

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@nprofile…gqua
Glad to hear that you're up to good trouble!

2026-04-15 15:16:01 UTC

Hey, has anyone heard from @nprofile…gqua? Did he finally give up on the rest of us and join a monastery? Did he finish building his Mad Max glider and soar off into the sunset? Inquiring minds want to know.

2026-04-12 01:50:21 UTC

A wrote a poem that I like. It's called:
Bluejay Doesn't Know About the Zendo
It wouldn't fit here so I put it in my Gemini capsule. It's about Buddhist practice, sort of. If that's your thing, check it out.
#Buddhism #Taoism #poetry #smallweb
gemini://sdf.org/ipxfong/bluejay.gmi

2026-04-07 16:58:05 UTC

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I just realized that I've never seen Pretty in Pink... I'm bad at GenXing.

2026-04-07 16:53:27 UTC

When I was a kid, we lived near Don Pancho's cinema. A storefront movie theater across from UNM in Albuquerque. On Saturday, they had a matinee, whatever they could get cheap. Foreign films, monster movies, reruns and b movies. Admission was less than a buck and I went all the time. While my compatriots were watching Pretty in Pink, I was watching The Flying Guillotine and Monster Zero. No wonder I never fit in. 😅 #movies #Albuquerque #NewMexico

2026-04-07 01:14:43 UTC

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@nprofile…2xz0
Sorry to hear that your companion is hurting!

2026-03-28 22:39:06 UTC

I was downtown and picked up a copy of The Pleasures of Italian Cooking by Romeo Salta. Not because I had high hopes for a mid century American Italian cookbook but because Romeo just looked amazing. But, the recipes look great, a far cry from the canned sauce and "yellow" cheese I was expecting. This recipe for pasta with lentils is intriguing (and vegan) I'm going have to try it soon! #food #alcohol #cooking #recipe
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2026-03-26 17:40:42 UTC

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@nprofile…ser5
Books are one of my favorite macros! 😁

2026-03-24 23:24:26 UTC

Zotz wants you to know that he was very brave and put up with having the nasty bug drops in his ears and that he DESERVES to sleep on the laundry. Also, holding his foot in front of his face is very relaxing. #cats #catsofmastodon #Zotz
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2026-03-03 18:16:22 UTC

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@nprofile…gqua
Thanks for the advice! I just replaced the battery on my nex-5 now I need to get a case and figure out how to enable the "pro" features. Then I'll grab darktable and go from there.

2026-03-01 18:37:19 UTC

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@nprofile…0dkr
I think gimp might be overkill for me but I guess I don't have to worry about ALL it's features right away. I'll check it out. Thanks!

2026-03-01 17:29:10 UTC

I ditched my smartphone. But the camera on my flip phone is garbage. I got a Sony alpha NEX-5. Ancient but, by my standards, a ridiculously premium device that packs plenty of pixels. What it doesn't do is all the cool post processing. I'm used to the high contrast, over saturated images that Google photos turns out. I need to find some decent software to replicate (some of) that. What do you use for processing your photos? I need something fairly simple that runs on *nix. #photography

2026-02-28 15:49:36 UTC

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@nprofile…2xz0
That's my hope. In my case, I think it was a genuine addiction. I had a bunch of anxiety about switching off my smartphone but I need to make a change. I spend too much time absorbing "content" or reading about global horrors that are entirely out of my control. Not because I really want to but because it's easy dopamine. Hopefully, by making that a little harder to do, I'll be able to focus on things I actually want to do.

2026-02-28 01:27:41 UTC

Well, there it is. I activated my flip phone yesterday. It's clunky and awkward but I guess that's the point. Next stop, nirvana. 😂
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2026-02-23 17:27:47 UTC

My flip phone is arriving today! Honestly, I'm kinda scared. I know it's silly but I've had a a smartphone since the original Moto Droid dropped almost twenty years ago. I know I need to break free but it's going to be a big change.

2026-02-21 20:10:30 UTC

Zotz burrito. #caturday #catsofmastodon #Zotz
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2026-02-21 19:52:43 UTC

My wife made oatmeal cookies. I just ate six in rapid succession. I feel like I'm starting on a spirit journey... Psychedelic? Transcendental? I'm not sure... But that was a lot of cookies. 😵‍💫 #food #cookies

2026-02-21 16:25:40 UTC

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@nprofile…836m
That looks fantastic! I imagine the capers and dill go really well with the fish. 😋
I had a really nice sandwich yesterday and you're the only person I can think of who would appreciate it so now you have to hear about it. 😅
You start by making a sauce of mayonnaise, grated garlic, lemon juice, salt and pepper. Spread that on toasted bread and layer on pickled peppers, sliced tomatoes and anchovies. If you can find nice tomatoes you should whip one up.

2026-02-21 04:27:18 UTC

#sunset #clouds #sky
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2026-02-20 02:58:38 UTC

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@nprofile…kvys
(Sympathy fave)

2026-02-20 02:57:10 UTC

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@nprofile…plwx
I can't wait to join you! My flip phone just shipped and I should have it Monday or Tuesday. I've been picking up cheap and used replacements for all the smart phone functions but none of them do notifications. 😁

2026-02-18 14:51:12 UTC

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@nprofile…2xz0
I know that feeling. I grew up punk/goth. All black, all the time. Now I buy colorful clothes because I think they look nice but I don't actually feel all that comfortable wearing them. 😅

2026-02-18 03:13:16 UTC

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@nprofile…mmp3
!!! Thank you!

2026-02-17 01:58:53 UTC

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@nprofile…4dcv
I'm just talkin 'bout Taft..

2026-02-15 03:27:19 UTC

I like standing outside at night, staring up at the stars, hoping that Betelgeuse will go nova. #stars #astronomy
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2026-02-13 20:15:42 UTC

Strange that a pachinko company would move into video game development but here we are.
Ahh, who am I kidding, this looks like a ton of fun. 😁
#videogames #castlevania
https://youtu.be/3k9Yy-o6tpo
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2026-02-13 19:52:10 UTC

Turns out Zotz doesn't mind wearing his wings. Maybe he really is a bat? #catsofmastodon #cats #zotz
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2026-02-12 21:44:44 UTC

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@nprofile…p4pu
Ay, pobre Roberto... 😂

2026-02-04 19:21:30 UTC

Want to know something funny? People in Spain don't speak Spanish. Spanish is a New World language. In Spain they speak Castellano, Gallego, Basque, Catalán, and a bunch of other languages. If you show up in Spain speaking Spanish, they'll understand you but that's not what they speak.

2026-01-29 17:36:46 UTC

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@nprofile…gqua @nprofile…2xz0
A bold move, I know. 😂

2026-01-23 15:19:12 UTC

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@nprofile…p4pu
Fantastico! Mucha lluvia aquí pero parece que está nevando en las montañas. 🌨️

2026-01-22 18:35:31 UTC

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I've thinking about this a bit and realized being a dodo is more than this. I was aggressive when I was younger. Quick to fight, I always tried to project an aura of strength and toughness. I don't want that anymore. I want to be nice. I want to be goofy and nonthreatening. I want to assume the best about people. I want to be remembered as kind and simple. I want to be a dodo.

2026-01-22 17:46:32 UTC

I've been adopting the dodo as my personal iconography. The modern world is all about finding and exploiting advantages. It's easy for me to fall into the trap of thinking that's the only way. But honestly, I'm a creature of a slower paced, less predatory world and I want to celebrate that.

2026-01-15 15:42:29 UTC

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@nprofile…jgfn
Kim Gordon is so rad!

2026-01-14 19:42:54 UTC

Hummus for lunch! #food #cooking #hummus
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2026-01-13 17:10:53 UTC

I've been doing metta for billionaires and fascists. I'm supposed to tell you that it's been really spiritually fulfilling but, honestly, it sucks. I guess that means I have to keep at it. 😕
#religion #buddhism

2026-01-13 15:25:47 UTC

The combination of injury, travel and a lingering respiratory infection kept me fairly inactive for the last couple of months. I've been easing back into things with walking and yoga. Yesterday was my first day back to running and weights and boy am I feeling it. Good form is crucial to keeping me going as I age so I was really working on leading with my knees and kicking up my heels. My glutes and low back are especially grumpy. Today is recovery, some yin yoga and a walk. #running #yoga

2025-12-28 03:32:43 UTC

Somebody spilled Prodigy all over my Public Enemy. And I dig it. #music #hiphop #edm #prodigy #PublicEnemy
https://youtu.be/6VIn2JGZ260?si=vXLqljPPToUrZvrc

2025-12-21 19:54:36 UTC

Bah, now it looks like it'll be at least 3:00 before we get power and I'm supposed be cooking a big solstice meal. 😕

2025-12-19 00:55:11 UTC

The Sierra Ladrones are a small mountain range in New Mexico, located west of the Rio Grande between Albuquerque and Socorro. The name means mountain of thieves. Supposedly, back in the days of the Spanish Crown, a pair of large solid gold candlesticks were sent from Mexico City to the archdiocese of Santa Fe. The caravan was waylaid and the bandits hid their loot on Ladrone peak but died before they could return for it. Do they actually exist? Who knows?
#NewMexico #history

2025-12-16 16:16:35 UTC

If I see yet one more thinkpiece about how growing old is a gift, I'm gonna puke.
To be clear I'm not one of those "getting old sucks" people either. Being old isn't any different than being any other age. Things change, people come and go. We keep going through the day to day business of living. It's not like you become some incomprehensible alien because you aren't 25 anymore. #IllBeBackToDeleteThisLater

2025-12-13 20:48:34 UTC

Ahh, it's a beautiful day. I've got the doors and windows open and I'm wearing a T-shirt. It's December 13th and my house is at 7000 feet. 😐 #NewMexico #climate
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2025-12-10 16:40:40 UTC

I love fresh tortillas but I always have bad luck with the tortilla press. They stick, they tear, they end up dry, the whole thing feels like a production. So, I almost never make them. Today, I thought: what if I just skip all that and make them by hand? Long story short, they turned out great! They aren't tortillas in the traditional sense but they're sturdy enough to stand up to salsa and soft enough to fold around a pile of beans. Yay! #food #tortillas #breakfast
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2025-12-07 03:18:47 UTC

I was talking to my eldest. He was in the lighted Christmas parade up in Albuquerque and the float ahead of them was playing Last Christmas on a loop. Poor guy, it's only the 6th and he's already out. #whamageddon

2025-12-05 03:41:23 UTC

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@nprofile…6xes
I am 100% addicted to Mexican abuela cooking YouTube. There are so many wonderful channels. 😁

2025-12-04 00:19:02 UTC

Hey. I know we're already a few days in but is anyone else playing #whamageddon this year?

2025-12-03 21:44:37 UTC

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@nprofile…gxny
Hmmm, a not spicy enchilada sauce. That sounds interesting!

2025-12-03 20:18:46 UTC

We might actually see some freezing temps here. I'm going to have to harvest my aji rojo chiles and prune the plant back so I can bring it indoors. I've probably got a pound or two of these small red chilies. Aji Rojo isn't spicy but otherwise tastes like a habanero. They keep well but I'm not going to eat them all before they go bad. What should I do with them? #food #chiles #peppers #gardening #preserving
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2025-11-26 20:38:23 UTC

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Like government cheese.
They're pretty disagreeable on their own but buried in toppings, they're a decent facsimile of a hotdog.

2025-11-26 20:27:07 UTC

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Huh? Tastes just like a hotdog if the hotdog was also cheese.
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2025-11-26 20:00:08 UTC

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They smell suspiciously like popcorn... #food
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2025-11-26 19:47:15 UTC

Lo, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil. Except, maybe, these vegan hot dogs in a can. #food
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2025-11-26 16:01:14 UTC

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I got the f-key line turned off (SCREEN 0,0) so things look better. I thought it might be fun to have the walk flip bits on the screen rather than just turning them on. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, N82 basic doesn't have the capacity to examine the screen. Hopefully I can figure out where the LCD controller is and PEEK at its RAM directly. #retrocomputing #modelt #basic
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2025-11-26 03:16:05 UTC

I don't really know why but I love random walks. I wrote one in N82 basic on my PC-8201a. I should probably do something about the f-key line but I was just banging around.
#basic #retrocomputing #nec #modelt
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2025-11-24 16:03:16 UTC

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@nprofile…z635
Sounds good! I'll probably try to talk my wife into coming as well.
I should know my schedule before too long. I like Atrisco's but I'm happy to go wherever.
https://www.atriscocafe.com/

2025-11-24 04:24:02 UTC

Hey Santa Fe! I'll be in town the first week of January. Anyone want to go out for lunch?

2025-11-21 17:38:40 UTC

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@nprofile…6xes
https://www.idahopotatomuseum.com/

2025-11-21 17:37:57 UTC

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@nprofile…6xes
A couple of summers ago we were on our way to Yellowstone and stopped off at the Idaho Potato museum. As you do. 😂
It was surprisingly fun! They had potato vr, creepy animatronic potatoes, potato video games, potato racing and potato cupcakes that were delicious! If you're ever in Blackfoot Idaho, you've got to check it out!

2025-11-21 16:42:07 UTC

Just overheard an AI on the phone saying "please be sure to bring a photo Idaho". You know, because saying ID is too informal... 😂

2025-11-19 15:32:07 UTC

My brother is after me to get a chess.com account. Anything I need to know beforehand? #chess
(I am an inquisitive one today! 😉)

2025-11-18 18:25:50 UTC

I mean, I get it, you can't just call people from the US Americans, after all there are other countries in the Americas. But, usians? No thanks. We already have a perfectly good word. It's Yankee or Yanks. Maybe that's a little offensive to confederate types but nobody cares what they think.

2025-11-06 21:57:51 UTC

Here's a nice bit of Spanish for you. Tocayo is what you call someone who has the same name as you. I often see it translated as namesake but it really doesn't mean that you're named after the other person. Tocayo just a way of acknowledging that you share a name.
Mucho gusto a mi tocayo @nprofile…8tpl !

2025-11-06 18:10:40 UTC

Just passed a lifted Toyota Yaris. God bless Tucson. #cars #Arizona

2025-10-28 16:22:27 UTC

Block me if you must but I don't mind instant coffee. Probably because I'm used to cowboy coffee (which is objectively terrible). It's quick and easy and gets the job done. Lately, there's even been a trend towards instant coffee that's actually pleasant tasting. Like this UCC 118 that I got at Lee Lee down in Tucson. Not bad! I would drink it on purpose. #coffee #sacrilege
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2025-10-18 15:03:49 UTC

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@nprofile…z5tm
I bought one and it was okay. Mine didn't have a strainer so I still had to filter the milk and it was actually more difficult to clean than the blender because it couldn't go in the dishwasher. Finally, I've got a big family and it made fairly small batches. Maybe not an issue if it's just the two of you but I would have to run it every day.

2025-10-17 02:21:41 UTC

I got some Baoding balls to work on my hand strength and mobility. Please say a prayer for my children who are now in the third straight week of putting up with my testicle jokes.
#parenting #baoding #exercise
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2025-10-16 18:20:31 UTC

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@nprofile…6xes
Beautiful color on those oak leaves!

2025-10-02 22:30:01 UTC

I was bored, hitting random on Wikimedia Commons and came across this. No information beyond the fact that it came from the UW photo archive. You're welcome. #photography #history
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2025-09-29 22:42:39 UTC

I bought a dedicated GPS that works way better than my phone. YouTube is becoming less and less useful by the day. Google is blocking side loading of apps. And, Gemini AI is in everything. I think I may be holding my last Pixel phone. Luckily the market for semi-dumb phones has been getting more and more interesting lately.

2025-09-10 16:36:39 UTC

Hey y'all, New Mexico Wild is doing a push to resist the repeal of the Roadless Rule. They've made it super easy to submit a comment to the Forest Service. If wilderness is a priority for you, check it out.
#uspol #NewMexico
https://www.nmwild.org/every-action/action-alert-stop-the-roadless-rule-rollback/

2025-09-10 16:23:13 UTC

The best thing about beans and rice for dinner? Is beans and rice (and avocado) for breakfast! Sadly, we ate all the plantain last night but it's still yummy.
#food #beans
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2025-09-09 15:45:20 UTC

I spend a lot of my time in rural mining communities in Arizona. I'm surrounded by far right corporatist politics, environmental destruction and all the other horrors of terminal capitalism. Because of this I try to focus my time on mastodon on things that a interesting, beautiful and uplifting. But sometimes I get tired and grumpy. I'm going to start tagging those posts with #grumpy so you can filter them out more easily. ❤️

2025-08-25 17:40:14 UTC

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Here's the piece of obsidian that scratched up my phone. It's opaque so not much interest to jewelers but, judging from the flakes I found, people were clearly using the larger chunks to make tools.
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2025-08-25 17:27:54 UTC

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Yeah, the cliffs are tuff. That sits on top of a layer of conglomerate which is full of all sorts of interesting pebbles, including the obsidian nodules.

2025-08-25 17:14:38 UTC

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Just a random canyon south of NM78 near the Arizona border. 😁

2025-08-25 17:09:16 UTC

Nice little hike in the mountains west of Mule Creek NM. There were tons of Apache tears. I discovered, by tossing one in my pocket, that obsidian in harder than the glass on my phone... yay science. 😂
#NewMexico #geology
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2025-08-16 20:56:33 UTC

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Looks like you're feeling alright! Glad it went smoothly!

2025-08-13 18:36:47 UTC

Joy! I just discovered that, at my kid's school, they've started using "clanker" to refer to automation and AI.
As in: You let a clanker write your paper? Gross...

2025-08-08 18:07:51 UTC

Frances Carroll and Her Coquettes is a great band name but Viola Smith on drums is the real star here!
#music #bigband
https://youtu.be/o5c_XZaArH4

2025-08-08 15:06:50 UTC

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Jealous...