Don't close your eyes and hope for the best

 

With just two more Fridays between us and the election, this seems like a good piece to share with you. Stevie Nicks and friends, "The Lighthouse".

If you have not yet voted, make a plan and execute on it.

If you have voted, thank you.

 

©2024 Bas Bleu

 

Social annoyance

Every once in a while Twitter gets more bolshie about serving up ads. This week is one of those times; I do what I always do: block any account that serves up an ad in my feed.

But in Elno’s quest to drive his $8 subscriptions (evidently his plan to make up for the billions in ad revenues he lost by displaying ads next to Nazi, racist & porn content), he’s added one extra step to the process.

You block the ad, and then get this opportunity to do away with ads forever, by renting a blue check. The only way you can make it go away is to click on one of the two options.

In my case, “maybe later” means “on the 12^th day after Armageddon”.

Twat.

 

©2024 Bas Bleu

 

Ark-Woo

Time for another bunch of vanity plates, I think.

This Mini had both an interesting plate and an interesting sticker:

And these three are pretty self-evident.

 

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Encountering the Nazgûl

Earlier this year, I shared with you some photos of street lamps in a neighboring cluster. That post included one kind of sad image of a shadow of the very Art Nouveau lights. This past weekend I got a better shot, so here it is.

You’ll forgive me if I say it reminds me of the Witch-king of Angmar.

 

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Gratitude Monday: the neighbors

On my Thursday morning walk I caught two foxes playing in a sand trap on the golf course. They were on hind legs, batting each other with their front paws. Sadly, they quit when they saw me, and I only got these pitiful shots of them.

Then, Saturday morning I met up with possibly one of them, in the green space* between my cluster and the ex-corporate HQ behind us. And then someone showed up later that day to snarfle up some bird seed.

I also listened to the resident hawk up in the trees—not yet driven out of its habitat by the massive “luxury” townhouse construction project on the ex-corporate HQ campus. And I realized how grateful I am to have these creatures for neighbors (along with the birds and the chipmunks), for their visits and serenades. That's big gratitude.

 

*I’m sure developers will buy that space, which is about 20 x 40 meters, to construct a high rise of “luxury” condos with a Starbucks on the ground floor, in about five years.

 

©2024 Bas Bleu