Day 10 of Micro.blog photo challenge: “rails”

Auto-generated description: A small group of people, including children, ride on a miniature train in an indoor facility with a full-sized train in the background.

I’ve been facinated with trains my entire life. Living in Japan not only gave me the chance to ride them twice a day, everyday but also to really turn my interest into a full-blown #railfanning hobby. I’m forever the #Tokyo #TrainNerd."

📷 #mbjune

Day 8 of Micro.blog photo challenge: “travel”

Big Hank, our RV is usually on the road this time of year for family weekend trips and excursions, but for now we’re just sticking close to home while we save some money for an upgraded electrics and boondock friendly goodies to come.

📷 #mbjune

A recreational vehicle is parked at a QuikTrip gas station during the evening.

A fluffy cat sits on a chair next to a person at a wooden table with a bag of chips.

This is what happens when you put a bottle cap anywhere within earshot of our kitty 🐈 Playtime!

A fluffy cat in a bandana is sitting on a chair, playfully batting at an object on a table near a person.

A cat stretches its paw towards a table edge, where a person is sitting nearby.

A fluffy cat stands on its hind legs with a paw on a table, playfully batting at a bottle cap.

Finished reading: "Shift" by Hugh Howey 📚​ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I read the second installment in Hugh Howey’s Silo Trilogy, “Shift”, picking up where season 2 of the Apple TV+ series leaves off, which inspired the me to read it. I found the book compelling, noting its ability to mirror current events, and read it quickly (500+ pages within a week). After reading, I’m pretty excited to read the final book in the trilogy, Dust.

And they thought they were free…

“Should you wait for others to stand with you against injustice? No. Change starts with you. Waiting for a ‘big moment’ means ignoring the small shifts that lead to catastrophe. History shows silence fuels oppression. Stand up, speak out — before it’s too late. #SpeakUp #ActNow”

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