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Old Man and the Sea Bowns

@cbowns

Same shit different social graph. On mastodon at @cbowns@xoxo.zone. Central Oregon dust lover

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I want to administer a welcoming hug but also one that comes with a series of mysterious images—a chandelier falling, orchid blooming, an old car pulled from a dark lake, say—that flash through my hug partner’s head.

02.12.2025 23:20 👍 106 🔁 21 💬 8 📌 1

Brilliant

28.04.2025 20:58 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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The city said it would take three years to install a speed bump. So I bought my own on the Internet. I tried to get one of the richest and most influential cities on earth to fix a street they already believe to be dangerous.

"Since then the Vision Zero deadline came and went, pedestrian fatalities and injuries have continued to rise. Fatalities were actually 40% higher in 2024 than in 2014, the year they set the goal."

This is one reason I've spent so much time building a credible, funded plan. The goal isn't enough.

10.04.2025 17:06 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

me: *screaming into the abyss*

the abyss: this could have been an email

11.12.2024 18:05 👍 438 🔁 102 💬 7 📌 1

the only thing I want from an algorithmic feed is read/unread control: I don’t want to scroll past the same thing twice. Jury is still out if I can do this with a custom thing here or if it’s stuck as a client feature. (Rip Apollo for doing this on Reddit, we miss you) (and sideload it sometimes)

15.11.2024 20:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Home page Official merch from the popular podcast. Join The War on Cars today!

Welcome new Bluesky followers! To celebrate, we're offering a 10% discount on everything in our official store. Use code BLUESKY at checkout. We've got t-shirts, stickers, and more. Valid now through the end of Sunday.

15.11.2024 18:03 👍 316 🔁 42 💬 3 📌 1
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Nice, @theo.io made exactly what I was looking for. It works perfectly, found a ton of Bluesky people I didn't know were here!

15.11.2024 18:09 👍 399 🔁 155 💬 43 📌 36

Meanwhile in Bend (last civilization before the Ore-Ida French fry plant on the border) we wonder if the rural Oregonians hell-bent on self-determination understand how much cash OR transfers to them for basic infra, fire management, etc etc etc… then they edited us out of “Greater” Idaho ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

07.06.2023 21:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

oh wait I forgot safari on iPhone just Doesn’t Sync Good when you drag and drop a tab from its main tab set to any others. I’ve started screenshotting before moving anything bc it tends to lose after sync. And bc the close was via sync, not a close action, you can’t use “reopen closed tab”

23.05.2023 17:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And I’ve never forgiven Safari on iPadOS for tossing out *several* sets of tabs in the last upgrade. Rescued them with a backup of CloudTabs.db and a lot of work but that was the last straw

23.05.2023 17:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

apps that lost data across the Ventura upgrade boundary? Nothing third party, just all of Apple’s: Notes (closed all my open notes! excellente.) Mail (been here enough times to not even be surprised; reset selected mailboxes across several windows). open windows are data and you lost them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

23.05.2023 17:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0