Minnesota Winter Roofcicles #Frost

Holiday season is a special time of year. Old myths are nice enough, or there’s always Krampus… #Solstice brings time for #Reflection. Family memories go back to the best of times, beyond the worst of times as may happen. Here’s my seven-year-old ornament selection from Frank’s Nursery and Crafts.

Minneapolitans no longer dress to leave home? Waiting in a dental clinic lobby most are wearing sweats, not clothing, one guy has only house slippers on feet. It’s December with snow, ice, and cold. This ain’t NYC, but still… #Minnesota #Style

Menards has a #BlackFriday deal in honor of #Atwood & #HandmaidsTale. Whoda thunk any BigBox store would sell Red Cloaks to the #Woke demographic?

Oversized Red Comfort Hoodie Blanket

Alpha Leadership Fail

“Nobody ever looks at the counter examples. Are there a few ultra-aggressive leaders that are famous that get a lot of attention? Yeah, but let’s look at all the people who are ultra-aggressive who don’t end up in the CEO role. They end up in prison.”

—Jon Levy

#POTUS

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.