szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

A Thai supermarket that replaced plastic packaging for Banana leaves

My mother, a refugee from the Great Flood, had one possession from her childhood. It was a pale blue vase with a tapered #neck. She kept it full of whatever caught her eye: scraggily wildflowers, winter greenery, drying grasses.

A vase is a fragile treasure though, and this one shattered during one of my family's rushed moves.

For a week my father glued the pieces back together, one piece each night.

When he was finished, you could see cracks, but it held water.

#MastoPrompt #neck

It's OK to refer to T-Shirts by their long names, Tyrannosaurus Shirts. Short arms, you know.

someone once asked me why i was so worried about the environment

i just said "i live there"

and they looked at me as if that fact had never once occurred to them

I knitted a slug.

40 years ago today (1’st January 1983) was transition day for the #ARPANET. So started TCP/IP and UDP for that matter, as its full time networking protocol. The Internet was born. Here’s my transition workbook from 1982 which I still have in my possession. I wrote a lot of code based on that book. (FYI: picture is from ten years ago - I had less gray/grey hair)

Happy New Year, from the Great Empty.

Washington Post's MENSA chapter asked its members to choose one word from Webster’s; replace one letter, and then provide a new definition to it. These are the top winners.

#Writing #Books #puns

Point of view
#MastoArt #krita
#humanart

A large number of space enthusiasts don't actually understand what constitutes an "orbit"

Almost like a Rage Against the Machine fan complaining about "too much politics", not knowing what the machine is

I really hope 2023 is the year of the weird and chaotic nude bear (comic by Lukey McGarry)

Sally with her newborns, about 6 hours old here:

#Deer #WashingtonState

Post, the new platform, has a major problem.
It’s trying to build a monopoly on news payments. It looks like it’s aiming to be the “Uber of news.”

Do we really want to do that?? (No. )

New from me, on Substack.

Let’s skip Post. It’s not going to be good for users, news outlets, or democracy. Mastodon is a better choice.

#TwitterMigration #Musk #Postnews #antitrust

https://deepnarrative.substack.com/p/post-seems-like-it-wants-to-be-the

@flexghost LMAO!

#Poet Nanao Sakaki was born 100 years ago. As a teenager, he saw the plane that dropped the A-bomb on #Nagasaki on his radar screen and became a life-long peace activist.

A #Zen Buddhist, he befriended #BeatGeneration poets like Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg. I once took a pee with Nanao, Ginsberg, and Snyder under a full moon thinking of Lew Welch's line, "So it's all come to this."

His poem "Break the Mirror" is excellent advice regarding the ego for the new year.

[photo by Bill Barol]