@sojournermemoirs
Abolish ICE, Dissolve DHS. Their proper mission has ended. Flaneur, Maker, Photographer, Sojourner Mostly Digital and Analogue Monochrome Film. Color when it's called for. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” ―Lao Tzu
from the article:
Priddy... said keeping the current volume off the market for another seven weeks would cause a major global economic contraction so severe that it would create “probably the worst recession that anyone has seen since the 1930s.”
Ferengi.
We've got Ferengi operating the levers of government.
And these Ferengi are unconstrained by the Rules of Aquisition.
5 reasons crude prices may not fall in the (near/distant?) future:
(If only--If only--there were something called Renewable Energy that wasn't dependent on supply lines we don't control!)
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
@heathercoxrichardson.substack.com.web.brid.gy is always worth a listen,
and this is a great example of why...
youtu.be/jVmy5rHzf0c?...
You put your left fot in, you take your right foot out...
youtu.be/s5GqBXAR_3Q?...
A street sign, at an angle, by a dirt road, a field in the background.
A fencepost on the edge of an overgrown, untended field.
A homemade Stop Sign, in weathered wood.
My Five Mile Walk
Digital #Monochrome #photohraphy
A Bull, in his field.
The cows are curious! photo of cow looking at me as I take their photo.
My Five Mile Walk
Late Afternoon, Heading into Dusk
DISTRACTIONS DON’T WORK.
COVERUPS WON’T WORK.
NOT EVEN WAR.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.
Makes sense to me.
Sorry that it doesn't make sense to trump/hegseth
I was about to write that the world has become a David Lynch film, but even Eraser Head isn't in a league with this sort of dystopia.
www.msn.com/en-us/sports...
Omg they’re going w “high oil prices are good, actually.” God bless ‘em.
Slotkin: "If Russia is helping to kill US forces, we have crossed a rubicon. We have to take decisive action on that. Instead, we're giving them breaks on oil. They're making a ton of money."
This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.
They’ll play this in museums in future.
(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)
November 3rd, 2026.
The First Tuesday of the month.
I'm waiting.
www.marketwatch.com/story/goldma...
Jim Reid, a Deutsche Bank analyst, wrote: “With each passing day, it gets harder to argue that the disruption to shipping and energy infrastructure will only prove temporary.”
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Cartoon of a woman with packed bags leaving her middle-aged husband who is wearing bicycle clothes (Spandex). MAMiLs --Middle Aged Men in Lycra. What happens when your Mid-Life Crisis results in buying a really expensive road bike and paunch-revealing cycle clothes. nb: I currently don't own any Spandex. But I had a nice winter riding ensemble once upon a time. I'm imagining a Trans-America ride from The East Coast to West, stopping off to visit an old friend in San Diego, possibly some other old friends along the way. After I get my fixie back n the road with an 82" gain (a bit aggressively geared), I need to finish my rebuild of a Peugeot as a 26" 3-speed utility bike with minor gravel-riding capabilities. But the cycle I imagine for the Trans-America would be simple, elegant, rugged. I would want to bring a pretty large and a bit idiosyncratic kit, so I would want to tow a trailer. I have in mind a wooden teardrop style made out of the cedar strip as a test of materials and build process that I intend to use for my next small boat or canoe. A trailer would provide some real-estate for a small solar panel and locked stowage. And for water. Clean, potable water is difficult to procure in many sparsely populated parts of The American West. I would use the stealth-camping skills I honed on my solo paddles of The Susquehanna and The Mississippi Rivers. Absolutely indicated would be a sprung-leather saddle and clipless pedals (Shimano SPD). One of those gps-enabled bicycle computers with the bicycle friendly maps already loaded? That would be nice! This is a bucket-list kind of thing. Stay tuned!
Bicycle Confession:
The rebuild of my #Montague Boston #foldingbicycle ( #fixedwheel ) has me imaging a specific build for a Trans-America ride.
A Schwinn Traveler frame with 700c wheels laced to a Sturmey-Archer S-2 2 speed kick-shift hub, 77" and 55" gear gains, both rim brakes, and trailer.
Screenshot of en Ebay Tracking summary, showing my bicycle inner-tubes arriving today!
Yay!
I picked up a NOS boutique wheelset for my folding #fixie (informal term for a cycle with a gear directly linked to the wheel, no ability to coast, like a track bike), and the deep-v rim needs French style valves ( #presta ) with 60mm long stems.
Next: My new cog!
#bicycles
Here's the original article, from Business Insider, on how we're approaching the conditions of 2007, when asset management banks declined to let their clients cash-out, leading to the collapse of Bear-Sterns in 2008.
www.businessinsider.com/private-cred...
Why would iran target Dubai, in this, the best of all possible worlds?
Especially after trump declared he's won the war.
Doesn't trump group have some stuff there?
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
image of someone making a breakfast smoothie.
2 science-backed ways to improve your breakfast
Eating more calories earlier in the day can be beneficial, but so can adding more fiber and protein.
archive.ph/wMBri#select...
If you have fond memories of 2008 and the years after, you're in for a treat!
But for the rest of us...
www.aol.com/articles/vet...
We mothballed our minesweepers this week.
youtube.com/shorts/BZUgC...
Something else to fix when the tide turns.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/g...
ooooh!
Trump, pointing.
The Viet Nam Quagmire, Redux.
How Iran’s ‘horizontal warfare’ could trap Trump in another Vietnam
Widening the conflict is a classic tactic for outgunned combatants, and has cost the US dearly in the past
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
Congratulations!
(I'm just shy of 4 orbits ahead of you!)
Highly recommended for your Iran War literacy.
"The Obvious Is Taking Its Revenge on Trump
The reasons other U.S. presidents avoided war with Iran are becoming all too evident."
By Franklin Foer
Via archive
archive.ph/kEsR2
So much corruption, but this one has caught the eye of Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal.
dnyuz.com/2026/03/11/d...
Ship on fire and high in the water, struck by Iranian forces in Strait of Hormuz.
Reports have it that Iran has been depositing mines in The Strait of Hormuz.
Thus when ordered to Abandon Ship, the seafarers are in lifeboats potentially in the midst of those mines.
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
