JL Johnson :veri_mast:

Dad x2 (teen and a toddler😳) @Jillianmarisa's husband. Liberal. Enthusiastic Missouri Master Naturalist: President of the KC chapter.

I dig: Conservation + naturalist topics, photography (mostly birds these days) postcards 'n travel. Leader @ a Conglom-O Corp 🤷🏻‍♂️

C-list #AvGeek: I help run @AirlineReporter & host a Mastodon community of travel/airplane geeks @ AvGeek.Social.

**MY VIEWS** Disclaimer, yadda bla bla

📍 Lee’s Summit, MO, US (KC-metro)

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2026-04-15 19:07:07 UTC

Sunlight has to travel 93 million miles to reach our panels. But none of those miles are though the Strait of Hormuz. :sidesmile:
#RooftopSolar #RenewableEnergy #Solar #SolarPanels

2026-04-14 21:02:38 UTC

Today’s outgoing postcards. I sure have enjoyed getting back into the swing of things w/ @nprofile…28em. Today it’s some stuff to IRL friends, and a bit of @nprofile…w8r8.
Including the back, because I know some of you dig the stamps, too. No antiques this time. Too hard/time consuming for the moment.
#Postcards #SnailMail #Stamps #Mail #USPS #alttext #postcrossing
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2026-04-11 22:46:19 UTC

Somewhere in the recent wave of kitchen progress we lost the lid for one of the water cooler’s 5+gallon bottles. Sprouts wants $30(!!!) for an EMPTY plastic 5-gal bottle, which is insanity.
I think I found a solution? Home Depot does exchanges: Get a full jug for $8, + an empty. I imagine the refill factoy has lids. Plus I found an oooold bottle in the basement I could pawn off on them. Feeling like this is the best bet for reuse, or them actually getting recycled.
Here’s hoping.🤞
#reducereuserecycle

2026-04-03 21:44:01 UTC

Another way the Reagan admin's choices continues to hurt our country, and the world: We never ratified Additional Protocol I of the Geneva Convention. We're one of few developed nations that didn't. Among other things, it bans attacking infrastructure critical to civilian survival. Like power plants.
War crimes for thee, but not for me.
FWIW, Reagan argued we didn't need it because our own Law of War prohibits it. So much for that!

2026-03-24 14:56:40 UTC

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@nprofile…c079 hi. Just a small thing but the Anthropic lawsuit on training against author works is an excellent example https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-copyright-authors-settlement-training-f294266bc79a16ec90d2ddccdf435164

2026-03-23 15:00:05 UTC

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@nprofile…kkfs Thanks for this. I’m team OK as well, and I’m 99% sure I have you to blame. Folks always roll their eyes at me when I start explaining. 😅
Cc @nprofile…28em

2026-03-22 02:00:37 UTC

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@nprofile…3hl6 it’s an amalgamation of random stuff they cobbled together. Kind of surprised there doesn’t seem to be one company that does it all. Enphase seems good?

2026-03-21 17:43:55 UTC

I finally installed our new EV charging station. Pretty cool, you can control how many amps you want.
We are at peak solar production right now. With a minor current adjustment we’re charging @nprofile…28em’s car on pure sunshine, carrying the home’s base load, and still exporting ~500 watts to the grid. Too dang cool! Weeeeeee!
#Solar #RooftopSolar #EV #EVSE #PlugIn #renewableenergy

2026-02-02 16:43:03 UTC

If/when we are ever able to build our forever home, I'd like heated floors. I don't care what tech is used or how we accomplish it, I just don't want frozen feet from my floors anymore. #DisOldHouse

2025-12-18 02:38:09 UTC

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@nprofile…yzdt do the right thing, PP. @nprofile…k02x you should know your audience and funders are particularly primed to side with labor. You are playing with fire.

2025-08-18 01:17:57 UTC

No f-ing way.
🤬
https://ground.news/article/chatbot-plush-toys-expose-safety-flaws-and-privacy-risks?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=mastodon

2025-07-18 21:22:03 UTC

Don’t do this. Donuts, not volcanoes. The tree will root where the mulch is and when the mulch is gone it’ll cause shock. Or the freeze will get ‘em, or pests, or, or….
This is a major contributor to dead trees. Landscapers should know better. But these are the same guys who plant Bradford pears and winter creeper, sooo…
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2025-07-02 00:14:15 UTC

Our rescue dog Winston is a nervous wreck and it manifests as being deathly hungry. And getting into stuff he shouldn’t. He’s on a bunch of medicine and has a slow feeder but he’s gotten so good that he can empty it in under a minute.
I recently read that some folks put the food in, add water and freeze it. GENIUS! So far he’s been working on dinner for over 11 minutes.

2025-06-20 22:08:22 UTC

Based on cartoons, I gather that early traffic lights used to have an arm that swings up, and there was a bell. Do we need to bring those back to get folks to stop sitting at green lights? I’m not shy with my horn for these dummies. Then they are more worried about seeing who is honking at them than actually going. 🤯

2025-05-20 04:30:11 UTC

I say this with love and respect.
If I wanted to see BlueSky posts, that’s where I’d be. Read the room. We’re all here for a reason. And if we REALLY wanted to know what folks were up to over there we’d follow a relay bot.
#BlueSky #FediFirst

2025-04-09 00:39:36 UTC

Excellent. More in-fighting, please. Lose focus! https://ground.news/article/truly-a-moron-elon-musk-escalates-spat-with-trump-adviser-peter-navarro-over-tariffs_09fed5?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share

2025-04-02 00:39:23 UTC

Hey, friends. Make sure you spend time
with the people you love. It’s easy to get caught up in life and miss out on that time. Speaking from experience. Call your parents, or grandparents. Life changes fast.

2025-03-31 00:01:49 UTC

Anyone have strong feelings about email apps? All of my accounts are Gmail. No immediate plans to move on from them at this time, it’s such a chore. But I’d be OK with a new email client.

2025-03-25 16:16:49 UTC

Basic residential electric work memory tricks to remember which wires go where... I like my coffee hot. Black wire is hot. Gold is a hot commodity, gold screw is hot.
Silver is light, it goes with white (wire)

2025-03-19 17:12:54 UTC

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The person behind the bot said they didn't mean to send it. I guess she uses it for work stuff and somehow it latched onto our invite, too.
I asked for a copy of the notes and it was mostly just a transcript. Nothing too exciting.
I dumped it into ChatGPT and after THREE refreshes (first three were garbage and had nothing to do with the meeting) I got mostly OK notes I could use as a starting point.
OK, fine... I see limited utility here.
#AI #AIshit #LLM #CorpLife

2025-03-19 01:00:30 UTC

I just hosted a zoom meeting and someone sent an AI note taker to join in their place. That’s one of a few use cases where I think AI could be pretty handy.
…Assuming there aren’t massive privacy/security issues (voice printing etc) which I imagine there are. Or will be.
In any case I imagine we’ll all be seeing more of this. It was my first.
#AI #AIshit

2025-03-18 12:30:10 UTC

My job released an "AI assistant" to the workforce. "Use this to save time and make your job easier! But also, be sure to verify all information you get from it."
Sooo... How is this supposed to make my job easier? I spend 10 seconds interacting with the stupid thing, and then the same amount of time I would have without it by looking it up on my own to verify. By my calculation, I'm 10 seconds in the hole.
Unless you don't really want me to verify the info. But then I get in trouble when it hallucinates, right?
#AI #AIshit #LLM #AIassistant

2025-03-15 20:32:11 UTC

It just dawned on me that AI is the tech bros newest 5G. Remember when 5G was supposed to be a “quantum leap” forward? How it would have implications similar to the invention of electricity?
Well, we’re 5 years in by my count. And what I’ve seen is similar speeds with more limited range which is by design. The frequencies physically have less reach.
I’ve also not experienced any cell network stable enough to trust a doctor to perform “remote surgery via robot” yet, either. How dumb.
#AI #LLM #5G #AIshit #techbros

2025-03-11 16:23:25 UTC

@nprofile…00a9 hi, following from Missouri, US. Sorry about the mess down here. Most Americans love our North neighbors and hope you’re successful standing up to our orange felon

2025-03-11 14:20:21 UTC

You know what's great about not yet being an expert in #naturalist topics?
I was sure I heard a gull yesterday. Merlin informed me it's a red-shouldered hawk. It is crazy to me how birds you think you know (from media,) you really don't know.
Don't get me started on the bald eagle...
Anyway our RS hawks are out doing their thing this morning. Beautiful!
#birding #missouri #kc #redshoulderedhawk #naturalist

2025-03-07 20:36:24 UTC

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@nprofile…spxs I remember when I admired Zucky. /sigh
Glad to have ya in the fedi

2025-03-07 20:04:59 UTC

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@nprofile…spxs Well bummer. Now build an audience here, where it can never happen again. I think you’ll generally find fedi folks disinterested in others complaining about being abused by corporate social media.

2025-03-05 20:00:57 UTC

I can understand why folks enjoy living in their own echo-chambers. Stats like this make me sick, and I'd never guess it given this lefty safe haven.
Even if you look at the left leaning coverage, it's not great.
Here's an excerpt from The Independent: Roughly 70 percent of speech-watchers had a “somewhat positive” response while 44 percent had a “very positive” response.
https://ground.news/article/d17e5169-0f02-42b3-853c-c44f1c4c6c57

2025-02-25 16:44:48 UTC

Last night we caught John Oliver’s brutal takedown of Meta and Zucky. If you haven’t seen it, it’s on YouTube; a great 30-minute watch, with some great zingers, like “lil broccoli.”
#deletefacebook #DeleteMeta #meta #Facebook #instagram
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2025-02-23 23:38:38 UTC

I wonder how the Trump flag flying house, that also has a breast cancer flag feels about this regime gutting cancer research funding? Oh, and also Medicare and Medicaid.

2025-02-21 17:03:08 UTC

I bought a power station. Such a cool gadget. It’s like a UPS meets power wall meets solar setup minus the panels. And (thankfully) they all seem to use the much safer LiFePO4 “LFP” batteries.
The one I got is 1kWh which should be great for camping, and off grid stuff. And you can plug in battery expansions, too.
Pricing is all over the place. Direct from manufacturer way more than Amazon. Refurbished from manufacturer’s store on eBay was nearly half price! 🤯

2025-02-17 18:04:47 UTC

I deeply enjoy posting links here, which aren't allowed on platforms owned by free speech absolutists. Weird sentence. Why are these guys so inconsistent?
https://signal.me/#eu/1134AmbDIyqYMvCLnm0bANvE_sVNoCfwDrBC1wzR-L-SFtwF1rRAvJ9sbaNT7xTj
Thanks @nprofile…5jz8 for the idea.

2025-02-17 13:41:16 UTC

I don't know that I can de-google everything. But I quit Chrome years ago. Switched to duck duck go as my default search (95% of the time it's good enough) and am trying to rely more on Apple Maps.
Developments like this encourage me to keep it up, and to push harder.
Google to up its commitment to fingerprinting, after criticizing it in 2016. In part because "it was harder to target ads to users using conventional data collection"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm21g0052dno

2024-10-04 04:27:19 UTC

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@npub1lsl…9c2x huh. Well that’s disappointing

2023-07-03 13:12:06 UTC

July is when a lot of #gardeners give up. But don’t let the heat get to you. There is much you can plant right now for success.
For #BloomScrolling
Sunflowers
Zinnias
Marigolds
For food:
Bush beans
Determinate/“bush” tomatoes
Squash, even pumpkins
Herbs
#Zone6A #encouragement #growyourown #gardening