Installing this QM2 quad NVMe board with 2Tb for some fast data storage to add to the 8tb HDD pool (and the 1tb SSD I already have too.)

A cluttered desk with various tools, electronic components, a keyboard, and several small boxes organized around a central workspace.

Thank God for being able to nerd out and take my mind off things for a bit. #homelab upgrades making for a productive Sunday.

Really digging what Ben is saying about The next four years<\a>. I said it in 2017, and I’ll say it again: We sometimes need the worst of us to bring out the best in us.

This sums up my thoughts about the TikTok ban charade right now:

A comic illustration shows people’s indifferent reaction to losing democracy, contrasted with their alarmed reaction to losing TikTok.

Isn’t this a “promises made, promises kept” moment from OrangeMan? Or will he reverse his own-goal and look like a savior… even though he was incessantly shoving this down our collective throats since forever ago.

🤷🏾‍♂️

They said it wouldn’t be much snow in Atlanta on the news last night.

Right now:

Auto-generated description: Snow falls heavily at night in a suburban neighborhood with a motorhome parked nearby. Auto-generated description: A snowy yard with a small white shed surrounded by tall trees.

#snowday #atlanta

Dammit, c’mon Falcons.

New Years Traditions 2025: New Years Beans & Black Americans

New Years Day means soul food for most African Americans. In particular it means black eyed peas, neckbones and greens (mustard/turnip/collard mix) in mine. The beans symbolize planting seeds of success to grow in the coming year, greens for health and wealth, and neckbones meaning “making something outta nothing” since these used to be the “throwaway” part of the pig. Most of us do this every new year and down South, White folks, Hispanic folks, Asian folks, lots of us do it because the Culture spread like that.

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Apparently Pets 3 is filming in the RV…

Godspeed Mr President.

I need to have this guy’s builder skills, time and space. I’d be both terrified and thrilled to drive this contraption 🤩

youtu.be/hiCFrq2MP…

A black-and-white abstraction of James Baldwin in a drawing features a portrait of a man with the quote, “Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have,” attributed to James Baldwin. Keep your eyes on the prize. The battle is never fought alone so long as you remember the ancestors teachings.

That time my moms, my BFF and I rode the Delmar Loop trolley in our home town.

Testing once more…

Making a test post here… and now I’m updating the post with micropub…

Yimbys for Harris $100k

Reblog via StarrWulfe (JLGatewood) http://YIMBYsforHarris.com ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR HARRIS/WALZ!! Support better neighborhoods/affordable housing/sustainable development!! @KamalaHarrisWin

Why does it seem like Atlanta’s transit agencies continually aim lower and lower when it comes to planning?

I was this many years old when I was told it was going to be an extension of the Red Line rail service from North Springs Station, about 5 miles away. Now all we get is a noisy, smoggy bus island in between 8 lanes of speeding traffic.

Nah, this ain’t it chief.

A cartoon caraclature of President Joe Biden's headshot with glowing eyes in "Dark Brandon" mode.
Caption: "Your move, Orange Julius"

#LFG.

an image of a cartoon wolf looking at his smartphone laughing out loud in a sketch style. The wolf is middle aged with a "dad bod". He's sitting on a comfortable chair in a home office with a cup of coffee and wearing glasses

In honor of Father’s Day, I’m going to engage in one of my favorite past-times: $#!+posting dad jokes. 😏

If you’re a dad (or you have a dad– I guess that’d be everyone here except my immaculate conception, clones, androids and the asexual reproduction homies) please add to the ensuing and possibly annoying thread. Consider yourself warned for irony, cringe and general rando post fun & mayhem.

–Also go wish your dad a Happy Father’s Day before you forget 😜

Let’s get it started:

Apparently they were trying to film Speed 2 near my house today…

Invasion of the street car snatchers

We have a ready-made 150-year-old vacant right of way around central Atlanta begging for rail-based transit… And the mayor is considering “slow moving people movers” and “pods” instead of connecting the downtown circulating streetcar to it (which it was why it was built) youtu.be/ViXU2ULsP… Please watch this video and feel my frustration and rage right now. 😡