Every time Verizon installs a new piece of crapware on my phone without my permission I just want to go live in a cave. Perhaps I’m overreacting.

Does at least confirm my opinion that all phone companies are basically scum, though.

The Movement: Flock cameras rile up privacy-minded right

Interesting. I wonder if opposition to mass surveillance could join opposition to data centers as a unifying force across the political spectrum.

Keeping the Oregon Public Lands Fire Closures and Information page up to date is getting increasingly hard. This is not a good thing.

“Q-Tip”

This tree is struggling but it’s not ready to give up yet.

long bare trunk with a tiny tuft of leaves at the top

“Door”

weathered door with a spiral painted on the front

“Misty Mountains”

Or at least hazy ones, thanks to lingering wildfire smoke.

skylines vanishing into the distance

Just a closeup of some moss.

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“Hello!”

Pareidolia means you can see faces anywhere.

grinning end of a burnt log

“Peekaboo”

Mushrooms really are sort of amazing if you stop to think about it. There’s this random patch of dirt in the forest, and then BOOM there is this thing coming up from under the ground…

mushroom sprouting on the forest floor

Face to face with a fly on a rose bush

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