Google to Let Political Campaigns Bypass Gmail’s Spam Filters

Yet another good reason to use Proton instead.

Instead of trying to annex whatever territory catches our Dear Leader’s eye, let’s just give Mar-a-Lago to North Korea.

View from the PCT somewhere below Opie Dilldock Pass. The high clouds give way to wildfire smoke haze lower down.

Now that Reddit is playing around with transmogrifying people’s posts via AI, I’ll be moving my hiking trip reports to my own site. Should have done that much sooner but it took this last straw to get me to take action.

Given all the utter crap that has come out of the mouth of their supposed leader, the Republican outraged pearl-clutching over Jon Ossoff insulting Trump & Harper is pretty fucking rich.

“Hot Trail”

Looking down on a section of the PCT just above Opie Dilldock Pass. How was your Monday?

trail through a rocky lava landscape

Pretty sure the Western Pasqueflower was designed by Dr. Seuss.

#dailyphoto #oregon #flowerphotography #threesisters

Cedar Creek Fire. 2022. 127,311 acres. Sometimes fire exposes history as well as destroying it. This ceramic insulator, in the blasted area along the Rigdon Lakes Trail, likely once carried a phone wire to a remote fire lookout.

Salt Creek Falls. I do plenty of night-hiking. The cliffs in this long exposure were illuminated by my headlamp.