Mike

"To learn, and then, in its due season, put what you have learned into practice - isn't that still a great pleasure?" Confucius

The most powerful word we will ever have is NO. We don't even have to do anything. Just say no and refuse to comply. There are too many of us to overcome if we make non-compliance a habit again.

No more reason for this than the was for Agent Orange. If they really have a Trailside weed problem, a couple of park rangers or some of the summer help could fix it by hand every couple of weeks, and get a good walk in while doing it.

Their plan will ultimately fail, but it will be a very costly and massively destructive failure. Get off the sidelines and oppose it now. The sooner it's stopped, the less the damage. They won't succeed, but let's not wait around to watch them try.

@zombiegirlchris You're welcome. Someday more of us are going to have to stand on that line. We're not alone.

@Mike744702 Thank you. I'm going to get arrested lol for sitting in a tree one of these days. If that happens start a gofund for me for bail :D What else are friends for?

I cried down the mountain. The flowers, the animals not to mention people's dogs nose down along the trails inhaling weed poison. In the wilderness!! I sacrificed so much to live here, clean water for my autoimmune disorders, clean landscape for mental health. Poison in #Montana

@NOtoCBDCuniID I do it just so I can see the community notes. More often than not I vote against them for having bad sources or for harassment.

It's getting to the point where I don't want to 'like' any even remotely news worthy article because I'll end up with a Community Notes.

"Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great & universal." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers. fortune.com/2026/05/12/lak…

Intenerate: To make tender, soften, or make soft.

@SketchesbyBoze Comfort and convenience are good for a break and a rest, but too much of them leads to atrophy and weakness, then ultimately dependence on others when things go wrong. I'll take the uncomfortable hard work, inclement weather, and tough problems to solve. Books, too.

I don’t want comfort or convenience. I want abundant wildlife, I want a planet covered in forests & greenery, I want breathable air, I want literate kids, I want a revival of reading for pleasure and the arts, I want a culture not in danger of being dismantled by the tech-addled

@zombiegirlchris @SketchesbyBoze One of my favorite passages.

"Cultures are not matters of taste but systems of adaptation to specific circumstances that may prove irrelevant or even counterproductive in other settings." Davidson and Rees-Mogg

"For a good person even a crust is healthy food, and to an evil person even meat brings no benefit." Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Why what have you thought of yourself? Is it you then that thought yourself less? Is it you that thought the President greater than you? Or the rich better off than you? or the educated wiser than you? Walt Whitman

"Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man." Ralph Waldo Emerson

@NOtoCBDCuniID I don't very often succeed at that, either. We've all been taught to keep pushing harder, instead of going a different way, and it shows.

@Mike744702 I was trying to convince someone of this a couple of weeks ago. I didn't win! 😥

"Yet it seems to me that with every precaution you take against such an evil you put yourself into the power of the evil." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manumit: Free someone from slavery.

@durandcompton Atlas are my favorites, but I don't have very many of them. They're built to last, though.

More signs of impending old age, getting excited to find vintage jars in a collection of random jars gifted by a friend. Lot of grocery store crap but already found a few Ball, Mason and Atlas jars from the 20s and 30s.