I usually forget to turn the switch off for those...not on purpose, just Murphy's Law. π
31.10.2025 02:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@vulgarmonk.bsky.social
WNC Appalachian artist & fire addict. Fairie tales, folklore, and wilderness are where I find peace and "Home." Trying to find my way back to happy. Words are hard (aphasia). they/them, βΏοΈπ³οΈββ§οΈπ³οΈβπ, π± zone 7b
I usually forget to turn the switch off for those...not on purpose, just Murphy's Law. π
31.10.2025 02:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Don't know where all the Canadian growers are finding me from, but...
Heya from the southern Appalachian mountains!  Elbows up, y'all.  π¨π¦π
What's the difference between country & Irish?
In country music, the dog, house, wife, etc stays gone.  In Irish tunes, there's...well.  Let's call it mischief.  π
Rough road ahead.  Break out whatever equivalent ya got for offroad and πΆ "drop it (a gear) like it's hot." πΆ
Time to step up to turn this country shit into a proper Irish jig.
The phrase "tactical marigolds" just popped into my head.  πππ€
sowtrueseed.com/collections/...
"Do I use chemicals in gardening?  Absolutely!"
What happened to organic?!?
"Let me explain.  I learn what plants or insects make my pest's or disease's life merry hell, then I plant groups of seeds or starts to run them off!"
Gardening via...pack tactics?  π
#PerspectiveShift #permaculture
Once, long ago, it was three sizes too small. Now it's shrunk down to be no size at all.
27.10.2025 21:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0...Hah.  
Now THERE's an old movie & cartoon reference that just bubbled up like a saddled kelpie.  Hackers meets Captain Planet.
HACK THE PLANET!
...Okay.  I'm back.  I can conquer this mountain, Sir Ludo.  (Labyrinth)
"...Hey, Bub?  Better make it ten."  (Batman, Jack Nicholson)
My own screen capture of a scene from the HBO show West World. It's the view of Maeve's diagnostic tablet as she overloads, logic breaks down, and she shuts down until the otherwise terminal conflict is resolved. "Warning: Host system shutdown. NOT RESPONDING π¨" "Can't. (conflict.) Can't. (conflict.)" "Improvisation. Improvisation. Improvisation." "SYSTEM WARNING"
:sigh:
Oookay.  SNAP's about to get FUBAR'd.  I can roll with this.  I was on schedule to be ready in π‘ MARCH π‘ NOT π‘ NOVEMBER π‘ and produce doesn't exactly grow in frakking winter....
Can I roll with this?
:gulp:  π°
This is worth mulling over.  
... ... ...NO, I'm not gonna run someone down.  (Hit-and-run survivor.)
The rest of that toolbox, though.  I'd never even glanced at the idea of their tactics.
(...YEAH, I know.  Things a therapist could help with.
Coulda, woulda shoulda.  High costs.)
Not to mention...there are SO MANY acronyms in play BEFORE we started shortening regular words into acronym mimics.  Come ON.
I used to have fun dropping "TLA" (Three Letter Acronym) into military convos...but these days, I just try to keep up with TNG (next gen) civvies & hope for the best.
My queer Appalachian retort, by way of the @dropkickmurphys.com 
youtu.be/sNVtyZ-Zd6A?...
...Oh gods, I just noticed the double entendre.
24.10.2025 22:33 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home. They're not much bigger than two meters."
24.10.2025 22:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This reminds me:  time to add a spare fuel container to my car's Oops kit, next to the jump pack, travel air compressor, tire patch kit, and a wheel chock.
It's bailed me out several times.  It's bailed out others more.  Together we rise.
WNC:  Manna Food Bank (Buncombe county) is set up to take gardener produce.  My research so far says it's the only one.  If that's A Drive, I've heard recommendations to check out pantries & such.
Here in ππ₯ country, I'm wary of unknown churches.  I know a lot of GOP efforts use that route.
Wh...nope. Almost forgot the Wish Protocols. π€
24.10.2025 20:03 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sometimes a stable paradox can exist in nature.  
I simultaneously don't care about the White House destruction...
(Ask again when it's back in First Nation hands.)
...and am eager to take this as a mandate for skipping the red tape with confederate monuments.
Git 'em gone.
*us. I was so close to an edit-button-free streak.... :sigh:
24.10.2025 17:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm visualizing a trust fall type group of orgs now: each one catches a different part, there's some overlap, and together they keep is from hitting the ground. π
24.10.2025 17:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0And...lest we forget our origins:  π
youtu.be/Cqd1Gvq-RBY?...
Badger was already said.  π
youtu.be/au3-hk-pXsM?...
I really hope the environmental groups are alert on this. There's some stuff here that, once it's gone, it's GONE.
24.10.2025 16:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Prediction:  This regime will use the local support as justification for further cuts/RIFs.  States/local will also find themselves responsible for environmental protections.  File under "state burden to bear" along w/FEMA.
Hope I'm wrong, but working it into the "stockpile and plan for the suck."
Those with food allergies (soy, wheat, peanut, tree nuts, etc) strenuously disagree. We aren't an herbivore species.
24.10.2025 10:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0OR...hear me out, instead of doom-jumping to russia, we stick with the Germany analogy, get our shit together, and sort ourselves.
Get out of your own head, mate.  Don't fall for the target fixation trap.
I mean...smarter not harder. That's pretty cool.
24.10.2025 01:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Can't stop the signal, Mal."
Boost.
If you're a paraplegic, don't sprain your wrists.  It's not the things you think will get you that get you.
#LearnFromMyMistakes
(Bless you for that NPC, Critical Role )
New account on BlueSky called Massimo who is known to rip off other peopleβs content and make money from it. The first pinned posts says that if someone owns the original content to get in touch with him as he has clearly ripped it off. The handle to block is @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social
Yeah, thatβs a big NOPE for me.
This account is that content scraper from Twitter that built a massive following by ripping off other peopleβs work and just posting without attribution.
He says it right there in his first post. These people never learn.
This is not the BlueSky way.
BLOCK HIM.