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• Post #4223409

  Tree sitter protesting border wall construction in Arizona. https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/border-wall-construction-triggers-tree-sit-to-save-ancient-arizona-cottonwood-2026-07-29/

• Post #4004516

  They used a couple pictures of mine, which mostly paid for the gas I used to drive out there. I camped overnight in order to photograph a really picturesque and unusually large juniper at dawn, when the light was good at that location. The damaged section of border wall in the story is right nearby. Here's the juniper I went to photograph. Before and after. I still don't have the "after" the wall pic I want, so I'll go back. https://www.hcn.org/articles/a-new-section-of...

• Post #3975309

  The violence of "closed border" policy you don't see: migrants dying in the desert. This is Pima County alone, in June, not the entire US border region or entire year. The following report comes from https://humaneborders.org The number of migrant deaths reported by the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner in June 2026 was 13. Recently found individuals grouped by PMI (Post Mortem Interval): 5 dead less than a day 5 dead less than 1 week 1 dead less than 3 weeks...

• Post #3927278

  Any entomologists know what these are? Some sort of gnat-ish thingy is the best I've got. They all came out tonight and it's one huge orgy at the bug light. There are so many that it's hard to get close to take a photo since they fly into my nose and eyes. Blech. This is where I really wish I had a proper macro lens, especially since lots of these little fellers are differentiated by small details like wing venation. But maybe they're well known enough that someone can ID the...

• Post #3823916

  My cannabis nursery camera/photography policy. I added the no pervert glasses sign this year. (Thanks to the fedi artist whose name I've forgotten who provided the graphic image 🙏) We haven't seen anybody wearing them and I really hope we don't have to enforce it, but we will. We actively encourage people to take pictures of the nursery and share them. And everyone seems to completely understand our policy of only photographing people with their expressed consent, but I suspect pe...

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• Post #2544931

  #LizardReport It's been cool the last few days since I got back, but warmed up enough today that the lizards started coming back out. Still haven't seen Bill or Donna, but Cutie, the tiger whiptail, the zebratail and the white iguana came over to get fed. While I was feeding Cutie, a big ol' bobcat strolled down the alley 30 feet away. The great horned owl, which for some reason was out during the day, hooted at the bobcat from up on its perch on the power pole. Afte...

• Post #2298886

  I was like this when I got here, I swear... Oh, damn, caught in the act. Well, fine, then. Don't bother fixing it, guys, cuz next time, I'll just karate chop it off at the base with my bare hands. Who knew this is the super power I'd get after being bitten by that radioactive lizard? (I was hoping I'd turn into Godzilla, but ya take what ya can get.) #border #BorderWall #NoWall #EveryWallIsAPolicyFailure

• Post #2135868

  #LizardReport Wow, lots of news here in the yard. Donna the iguana's new friend showed up today and took meal worms from my hand (pics). Such a cute little lizard! Then I saw another somewhat large iguana in the backyard. It ate mealworms that I threw to it but didn't quite know what to make of me and eventually sauntered off across the alley. Three iguanas in the yard! Funny thing is, I've never seen them in the wild. I saw two little whiptails, but I was in the m...

• Post #2125846

  A protest gathering happening in southern Arizona in a couple of weeks. To get there, find Lochiel, AZ on the map and go there. There will probably be some signs indicating how to get to the camp. Please share. Edit to add web link to more info: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59cbf819cf81e0bd52e69ae6/t/69f252edd02f4431be064a9d/1777488621666/bnh_2026_flyer.pdf #Border #BorderWall #Protest Banner photo across the center is one I shot at one of the previous gatherings.

• Post #1823612

  Um, 2026, you okay? Do we need to stage an intervention? Besides having to fight literal Nazis and put them in their place again, it's looking like we have to redo the Civil War and put Confederates in their place again as well. Le sigh. If they insist.

• Post #1716794

  Bill the lizard showed back up on the wall today. Just went over and fed him. I'm surprised he's being so scarce. Before it cooled off last fall and he went in hibernation, he would routinely come into the house all the way into the kitchen demanding to be fed in the morning. He does totally remember me though. I just realized something that may indicate a problem: when all the lizards are out, I spend more time in any given day talking to them than I do to humans. #LizardRepo...

• Post #701372

  Hey y'all, I'm only vaguely familiar with LLMs (being the total hater that I am, doncha know), so maybe someone can help me out for a laugh. I want to trick some company's support chatbot into writing something for me and need help with how to jailbreak it with the right prompts. The task: California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife is requiring a "Bullfrog Management Plan" for my 60' diameter, plastic-lined irrigation water storage pond. I'm...

• Post #656032

  Does anyone know how to search one's favorite list? I'm looking for a post by someone I follow that I know I favorited, from months ago. I thought I'd bookmarked it, but it's not there. I fave a lot, so a manual search would take forever. TIA

• Post #636724

  RE: https://post.lurk.org/@shibacomputer/116212328257230121 Practically every paragraph of this could be its own essay. It is so good and worth the time. "Each infrastructure began with promises of liberation and human triumph. But stability calcifies into compliance through legal policy, economic incentives, consolidation and embedded technical defaults. The core of Cyberspace’s calcification is the filesystem: The moment you store a representation of something or someone on a disk,...

• Post #609791

  RE: https://indieweb.social/@tg/116191259136149635 OMG this so much: on your website's address form, put the ZIP Code first and let the city state and country auto fill. Then below that you put the street address. Far less typing and scrolling through lists of states and countries. Also, ditch the street address auto complete. Just let me type my address and don't make me keep clicking away your incorrect suggestions or give my address to Google.

• Post #440059

  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@zaufanatrzeciastrona/116142452277009011 Oh, more fun uses for LLMs. "Our results show that the practical obscurity protecting pseudonymous users online no longer holds and that threat models for online privacy need to be reconsidered."

• Post #306809

  My #SuperbOwl contribution. This burrow owl near Salton Sea is not amused. I shot this years ago, one of dozens. It's still my favorite of the set. #superbOwls

• Post #297893

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115985319695523646 So, anyone who remembers the mass protests of the late 1970s and 1980s against, for example, Diablo Canyon and Seabrook nuke plants, missile launches at Vandenberg AFB, nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site and so on, might want to share your stories right about now. These proposed concentration camps provide perfect opportunities for mass protests, occupations and blockades. Plus, their owners and the contractors and the funder...

• Post #285676

  I'm licensing an archival photo to someone for a documentary. I'm guessing these days even high end labs don't try to clean dust off old film/slides before scanning, since it can be easily done digitally later, without risk of damaging the film itself. I know there's a way to do this in Photoshop, but I wasn't in the mood to learn something new tonight, so figured I could zoom in and zap the spots one by one using familiar tools in Lightroom. I mean, how...

• Post #285674

  It's complicated, but I'm switching from our current 3 license for the cannabis nursery to a single one called a Microbusiness. License fees are based on estimated gross sales. Here's a screenshot of the part of the application where you state your estimated sales. It starts at $1 million. That shows how they view the industry and how stacked it is against small businesses. This license will cost me about $5,000. If we make $1million or if we make $40,000, the fee is the...

• Post #267318

  On the fediverse, posts rarely go viral. But at times, they will go "fungal", like mycelium quietly working its way through the substrate, popping up again like mushrooms every few months to make another quick round before going dormant again.