This is why I don’t use #Cloudflare, a centralized gatekeeper is a good CDN strategy, but a massive choke point. Small & mid-sized projects on robust platforms suffer the dependency on massive sites.

Let the Internet be the Internet—find failures, protect protocols, but not with magic solutions.

After watching the first two #Pluribus episodes, seeing some odd little things differently. Not just social media memes & such. More low-level, like:

*Yes, David there’s a GIF for that emotion you can view & transmit via the HIVE…

Northern Lights in Minnesota are wild. Sky overhead blanketed in red last night. Here’s from Ely tonight with dancing colors.Live YouTube of Northern Lights

Canva making #Affinity freeware has surged. As a longtime user of the #Adobe alternative, great news, glad to have supported for many years. Like #Audacity under #Muse, proves commercial sponsors of #FLOSS can work, despite the Oracles out there. Affinity Added 1 Million Users in Less Than a Week

Citizen voters, judges, Wikipedians, neighbors—I can trust. Politicians, activists, celebrities, talk show hosts. Influencers, AI LLMs…not so much— because I value honesty & our global future.

I could #Wordle here a while…

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Roasted red peppers and Roma tomatoes cooked down for a couple quarts of sauce to freeze.

Just fired my last client…damn author doesn’t understand that infinite rewrites don’t get published…

Am I finally retired now?

When you got old bananas, you can could compost, or bake Banana-Nut Muffins. Yum the latter.

Someone visiting Panera for a cup of coffee did the math—exactly 74¢ for a 20% tip on a VISA credit charge.

Cash is back baby & check the years on those pennies. And some people still have math, like drummers have time…

#currency #economy #math