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“Texture”

monochrome detail of a concrete bridge in the sun
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A new phone for roughly the cost of my annual electricity bill? Hard no.

And that people are finding this a reasonable thing to consider is just further proof of the K-shaped economy.

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Associated Press displays more familiarity with reality and more backbone than either Google or Apple

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a single white mushroom surrounded by pine needles

Fall must be imminent. My yard is all grown up in mushrooms again.

#dailyphoto #oregon #eugeneoregon #mushroomphotography

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Some renovation work at the University of Oregon.

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“Cosmos”

Can’t hurt to start the day with a bright flower.

a single cosmos bloom
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Bees on the move. Seen in Eugene's Owen Rose Garden.

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Yellow-ish praying mantis perched on a fencepost

Visiting space alien.

#dailyphoto #oregon #eugeneoregon #insectphotography #prayingmantis

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Microsoft Plugs Nearly 1,000 Security Holes

I realize some of this is because they are a huge attack surface, but I’m still glad that I walked away from Microsoft decades ago and never looked back.

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Skinner Butte Fire. 2026. 1 acre. A brush fire caught here 3 weeks ago. Already there is plenty of new grass sprouting: low-intensity fire does not sterilize things the way the big blazes do. It did provoke the trees to lose their leaves early thoug