🅽oah

iPhone 15

Shh

During world war ii the military blew up an entire quartz mine to make it easy to find crystals for radios. Today I exercised my right as an American to sift through it

A dirt road winding through a pine forest in this year in the Sierra Nevadas

General ground rules

Near the summit

Spent the day in the mountains looking at rocks

Electronics with USB-C ports have to tell you what charging protocol they use or its entrapment

Because it was, and there’s no reason why that should change

Man, I really just want America to be a country that upholds the rejection of authoritarianism as its foundational principle.

Peppers: Guajillo, jalapeño, and sugar Rush peach. Tomato: a purple transgenic variety Ground cherries: pineapple

🌱 Harvested some stuff from the garden. It’s a start

I made an AI voice assistant in home assistant to replace Alexa. I was trying to get it to not talk and only beep when switching lights on and off, but instead it says the word beep.

Accuracy is important!

This country fought a war to get democracy. We can definitely do things like this to keep it.

I felt like a crazy person explaining a ruler to my 4 year old, but thankfully 4 year olds kind of understand the concept of sharing equally again and again and again amongst friends lmao

16ths of an inch is a crazy way to measure things

Simi Valley. The Texas of California

I’ve had better experiences in other cities

Josh I have been here for two hours and moved up 4 places in line

DMV line website

I’m having a fun day

What are you using for this? I’m struggling to get my Home assistant voice assistant to tell me the forecast high for the day.

Yeah. The ones I’ve eaten are definitely fully ripe. I think they have a strange aftertaste, but I think they’d be better cooked.

Ohh these look great!

I’m interested!

Hmm

A large ground cherry plant

Unripe ground cherries up close

One of the most successful things in my garden this year has been this ground cherry plant. They’re basically little sweet tomatillos that taste a bit like pineapple. They’re not too good to eat on their own, but I’ll probably make salsa with them when I have enough 🌱

This. I'm professionally connected to a ton of State Dept. folks, and watching them be RIFed has been soul crushing.

The true federal employees doing the work to make the world better are suffering... and we get the GOP's version of dangling carrots for a gestapo.

They’re firing all the real workers and creating a militarized fascist economy

Over 2 meters of displacement measured near Midway, a huge change over open ocean. This could be bad news for Hawaii 🚨as waves slow down and raise in height in shallow water. #Tsunami #Hawaii

This is a VERY large earthquake, possibly/probably among the 10 largest ever recorded. A clear subduction zone megathrust event. And it is another M>8.5 event with a notable foreshock (the recent M7.4 in same location), like Tohoku in 2011.

WA's DNR has a good site with tons of info. With a distant source, it says you typically have an hour or several to get to high ground. dnr.wa.gov/washington-g...