I learned in the local newspaper that the State of Oregon would no longer call me an alien but a noncitizen (Senate Bill 1560). According to the US Supreme Court, this terminology change is recommended and […]

I was barely able to run this year. I got hurt two years ago, and I haven’t been the same since then. Again and again, I’ve tried to go back to old habits, but the pain […]

While looking for a nice local 2023 calendar, I was recently lucky to learn about the Oregon Natural Desert Association (ONDA). Their mission is to protect, defend and restore Oregon’s high desert for current and future […]

If you want to interact with the #Fediverse directly from your #WordPress site, there are a couple of plugins that will make it possible: Issues I found while trying to make Activity Pub work: Two of […]

Now that a bunch of people are looking for new social media spaces to migrate, away from Twitter and other corporate-owned platforms that are shown to be toxic, I’ve seen some posts on Mastodon or Post […]

Corporate-owned social media became a toxic time-waster environment. Sad: I’ve had great conversations and enjoyed it for a long time. Now I barely post. Facebook: one update from someone I know for every five ads, “suggested” […]