I am free Will

🥲 Not these days, unfortunately.

I just wanted this account to be blue sky with clouds. So, I'm experimenting with ways to prevent this app from turning me into my twitter self. I assume that version of me is burning alive in the hellish hallucinations of grok. I won't let that happen again.

Clouds

Sunsets w/clouds

Sunrises w/clouds

Still water w/clouds

Serene beaches w/clouds

Moonlight on clouds

Moon phases through or near clouds

Cats

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Engagement: >3h old & <50 💙s

This is roughly where my Blue Sky input algorithm recipe is at thus far.

I am still seeing viral bait.

Many years ago, I saw celebrity chef, Robert Irvine, in a Phoenix airport men's restroom. I said, "Robert!" and, understandably, he seemed very irritated. He replied, "Yes?" and I said, "I love your stuff!" and he reluctantly replied: "Thank you."

I felt bad for doing it afterward. Bless that man.

Part of my family tree were from Parowan.

K'Gari seems very windy. What's the wind turbines situation like there?

Is this the west coast?

It's giving "in excelsis deo"

Me too *beep* *boop* 🤖

Morning shot of the sky with clouds covering the sun. Sun rays are shooting out from the tops of the clouds at different angles emanating from a single source behind the clouds. The sun rays have different shades and intensities based on the clouds blocking them. There's a street lamp because I took the picture while at a stop light and I couldn't really move or take the picture any later bc I was afraid the clouds were moving too fast.

How long can an economy run on captured eyeball time, background noise, and finger swipes?

Regarding your question, I'm having a hard time picking a reliable strategy for consuming news online anymore. I should be curating my own list of independent media but it feels too late.

I've been going to the Drudge Report just bc I know how to adapt to its consistency. It's just temporary tho.

I don't think GroundNews can execute what it sets out to do. It reminds me of that Jubilee channel on YouTube. If it's not legitimizing propaganda, it's at least creating an illusion of false balance. I'm not against any individual using the service, I just remain skeptical about its net effect.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

Screenshot of Gil Scott Heron explaining what the revolution will not be televised means. He says the first change will happen in your mind.

Sunset has the sun casting shadows in a way that has streaks of sun rays across the sky

the Texas aurora bori-y'all-is this evening

"One who has seen the eye" This is from an evening walk I took at Lake Pflugerville. It's a picture of the sun a few degrees above the horizon with light orange, yellows, and light blues in the sky and yellow sunlight reflecting on the lake with a few ripples. In the sky, there is a predominant eye-shape 👁️ made from the clouds with what could be perceived as eyelashes as well.

This was the sunset this evening. Dark Blue shades blending into lighter blues that merge with the yellows and oranges near the sunset. Clouds are either held together like the one here that looks like a giant fish, or they are smeared across the sky

NOTICE: I curate my feed and connections deliberately.

It's nothing personal, but I will probably block any account that follows me w/o a real world connection to me unless they have valid reasons for trying to create an offline connection.

I am trying to make this platform different for myself.

Sunrise. Oranges, some bright, some burnt. Clouds that are spread and clumped in whites and grays. The blues are deep. The sun (centered) peeks out behind the horizon and clouds.

International Cloud Appreciation Day Clouds pass overhead every day, but many of us don’t give them a second glance. International Cloud Appreciation Day flips that script. It invites people

Today, Friday 12 September, is International Cloud Appreciation Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/interna...

Also, World Dolphin Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/world-d...

And it’s happy 48th birthday to TV presenter and motor racing driver Grant Denyer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_D...

What kind of GPU does it take for graphics like that?

I cackled. Thank you, Stefan.

Pass...

I used to be in a satirical Facebook group for Third Amendment rights activists. I wonder what those folks are doing these days.

Sunrise in central Texas. The sunlight is casting rays on particles in the air all emanating from the center ball of light. Partly cloudy skies are sprinkled across the middle of the sky. Shades of burning orange hues are seen in the center, lower half of the picture. Yellowish-blues are all along the top. In the bottom part of the photo, the silhouette of a central Texas ranch land with a few trees.

Sunrise

My five year old tuxedo cat named Hattie

It's not 'mainstream' media; it's just 'corporate' media.

I really and truly appreciate the effort behind the "read books" propaganda...

But sitting still & reading words on paper?

In this attention economy?

You're just going to sit there and judge me for spending all my under-medicated ADHD budget on memes about avocado toast?

One of my worst fears is that this universe runs on 'worst fears', that I'm not alone in fearing that, but none of us *really* believe it or know what to do about it.