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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 03/10/2026

…and get started on 2026

A 1 gallon jug of my 2026 vintage, still cloudy

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 03/10/2026

Time to bottle up the 2025 vintage

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 03/10/2026

Wait so if I reply “Stop” he’ll stop running for governor?

A text message from Victor Marx asking if he can count on my vote

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 30/09/2026

Very helpful look at the intersection of fundamentalist end times fervor and the AI accelerationism happening in the tech world, and why folks both religious and not seem to want to hasten the end of all things.

END TIMES FASCISM
AND THE FIGHT FOR THE LIVING WORLD

NAOMI KLEIN
ASTRA TAYLOR

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 28/09/2026

Now that’s what I call oven spring! I have not had good oven spring lately.

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 27/09/2026

Tomatoes ripening on the window sill

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 26/09/2026

Leafing near Nederland, CO this week. Still managed to get a bit of a showing despite the drought this year

Yellow aspens and a dead pine under a gray sky

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 22/09/2026

I think there’s a prevailing sentiment of “Who is on my side against the wicked?” (Ps. 94:16) The moment demands leadership, which, aside from a few exceptions, we’re not getting. People then reach for more and more alarming solutions.

16 Who is on my side against the wicked?
Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
17 Had the LORD not been my helper, I should soon have dwelt in the silent
grave.
18 If I said that my foot was slipping, your love, LORD, continued to hold me
up.
19 When anxious thoughts filled my heart, your comfort brought me joy.
2o Will corrupt justice win you as an ally, contriving mischief under cover of law?
21 They conspire to take the life of the righteous
and condemn the innocent to death.
22 But the LORD has been my strong tower, and my God is my rock and refuge.
23 He will repay the wicked for their injustice;
the LORD our God will destroy them for
their misdeeds.

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 20/09/2026

It was a (very) weak year for my corn, but at least it’s colorful

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 19/09/2026

Time to start on ‘26

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 19/09/2026

Cracked open the first bottle of our ‘24 vintage. It turned out quite nice, really. 🍇

A picture of a glass of wine next to a bottle that says, “Makuh Vineyards | I came, I saw, I concord | 2024 | Arvada, CO”

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 17/09/2026

They told me I wouldn’t amount to a hill of beans. They were wrong. I did amount to a hill of beans.

A pile of beans and some shells behind them

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 14/09/2026

Another colorful harvest today

A colander full of tomatoes, peppers, beans, and eggplant

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 14/09/2026

Well he should resign so we can get one, then

Trump Rejects A.I. Limits
President Trump rebuffed calls for new regulations on A.l., saying the only guardrail needed is a “High IQ” president.

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 14/09/2026

Maybe we should rename it the Environmental Destruction Agency at this point?

Breaking News
23m ago
The E.P.A. is said to be planning to announce that the U.S. will no longer limit climate pollution from power plants.

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 12/09/2026

The answer is not to do likewise on the other side, either. Sure, it’s a joke, but recognize what you’re doing, Ted. You’re turning bribery into a punchline. We’ve gotta do better than this.

Ted Lieu
@tedlieu
If Democrats flip the House and Senate everyone will get a $10,000 dividend, and a pony, and free ice cream for life.
(Folks can also choose free yogurt for life, because we're Democrats after all).

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 12/09/2026

Headlines keep talking about the likelihood of Trump’s $5K check or lack thereof. To do this, we’re already falling for his trap. It doesn’t matter if he’ll really pay out or not. The only headline should ever be: SITTING PRESIDENT ILLEGALLY PROMISES TO BRIBE VOTERS

The Atlantic
Trump's proposed $5,000 payouts likely won't happen-but if they did, they would probably worsen his main vulnerability with voters, David A. Graham argues.

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 08/09/2026

The Gulf of St. Lawrence

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 07/09/2026

The chapel at the Bottle Houses in Cap-Egmont, Prince Edward Island. An entire building constructed out of bottles

This image shows a unique structure with walls and an arched entrance constructed entirely from glass bottles embedded in mortar. The bottles are mostly green and clear, arranged in patterns. Inside the arch, there is an altar or display area. To the right, there is a statue of Mary in blue and white robes. The structure is set on a concrete base with steps leading up to it.

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 06/09/2026

It was at that moment when I realized where all the steps of my life had led me. The chorus of Taylor Swift‘s “Antihero” started to roll through my brain. I *do* look directly into the sun, but never in the mirror.

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 05/09/2026

Agreed. I caught it from McIntosh Lake in Longmont.

A view of the sunset above McIntosh Lake

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 02/09/2026

Wake up babe, a new “Your brain on drugs” just dropped

Three zinnias in three jars labeled
1. Tap water
2. A little acid
3. A lot of acid

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 31/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll.

A park in downtown Yerevan, Armenia with a leaning tree covered in pink blossoms under a sunset sky

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 30/08/2026

Garni sits on a cliff overlooking a gorge with a wild natural formation called The Symphony of Stones, these unbelievably tall hexagonal spires of basalt

The Temple of Garni from the floor of the gorge

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 30/08/2026

There’s only one pre-Christian pagan temple still standing Armenia called Garni, and it features some fairly well-preserved Roman baths as well. It is only about a 15 minute drive from Geghard.

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 30/08/2026

The Armenians are very proud of being the first nation in the world to establish Christianity as its state religion in 301. This church in downtown Yerevan, completed in 2001, celebrates the 1700th anniversary of that fact.

The outside of the Cathedral of Saint Gregory the Illuminator

The inside of the cathedral, featuring rows of pews under vast arches and a dome.

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 30/08/2026

The architecture of the various rooms bears some resemblance to European architecture, but it is clearly an older and in some ways plainer style.

A chapel with natural light coming from a hole in the ceiling

Another room illuminated entirely by a single hole in the ceiling featuring a carving of two lions chained together above an eagle holding a lamb

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 30/08/2026

There are ancient and more recent stone stelae called khachkars, or cross stones. Look at the incredible stone carving detail.

More recently carved khachkars in front of the monastery wall.

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 30/08/2026

The monastery sits in the lush Azat Valley, a quiet and tranquil space near a river and surrounded by walnut, plum, and other kinds of fruiting trees.

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 30/08/2026

The apostles Bartholomew and Thaddeus are credited with founding the Armenian church, so many of their cathedrals (like this one) have icons of them which you can see to the left and right of the altar here.

The main cathedral of the monastery complex

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 30/08/2026

Much of the monastery is carved out of the stone of a cave, and there are even sometimes natural holes in between rooms where the rock is thin.

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 30/08/2026

The chapel at Geghard (“The Spear”) Monastery in Armenia, founded in the fourth century by Gregory the Illuminator. It’s called The Spear monastery because this Is allegedly where they brought the spear that was thrust into Jesus’s side.

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 29/08/2026

Mount Ararat over the city of Yerevan, Armenia

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 19/08/2026

Hit me with your best eggplant preservation recipes. They’re coming out of my ears

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 12/08/2026

What amuses me here is that if this were a real word, English phonetics dictates that a u followed by a single consonant and another vowel is usually pronounced as an “ooh” sound (like “rumor”). So it would be “DOOM-oh-crats.” I don’t think the insult is doing the work you want, Donald.

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 11/08/2026

I planted Malaysian eggplants this year and they went absolutely nuts. They taste a million times better than those giant American grocery store eggplants too, IMO

A pile of long, slender purple eggplants on a dark surface, with a hand reaching towards them.

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 06/08/2026

I don’t usually post work stuff on this app, but I'm excited to announce I'll be speaking at WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America at the end of September in CA! The title of my talk is: Rattlesnakes, LLMs, and the Truly Good Product Let me know if I'll see you there ✋

W> WeAreDevelopers
World Congress North America

September 23-25, 2026 • San José, CA

Join me at the World's Largest Event for Developers, Al Builders & Tech Leaders

Ben Makuh
Sr. Staff Engineer at Miro

wearedevelopers.us

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 06/08/2026

The knew exactly what they were doing starting off the headline that way

Breaking News
A helicopter carrying President Trump is said to have come within less than a mile of a jet above Washington on Tuesday.

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 30/07/2026

Update: The Strike was great!

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 24/07/2026

WE WILL STOP MICROWAVING MID-CENTURY BOGEYMEN REHEATED SOLELY TO DISTRACT FROM THINGS THAT MATTER

House Republicans: WE WILL STOP COMMUNISM. 🇺🇸

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 16/07/2026

A nice little haul of purple beans from the garden today. One perk of eating produce from your own garden is abstaining from Cyclospora

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 10/07/2026

Trying to give my kids a little culture

“Peaches” by The Presidents Of The United States Of America

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 09/07/2026

Barb made the same mistake as Kamala: being an experienced, competent woman instead of an off-putting man with questionable business practices and disturbing moral intuitions

The bazette
Victor Marx widens lead over Barb Kirkmeyer as Colorado's GOP gubernatorial primary nears finish line

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 05/07/2026

The benefit of having a headache at 1am while camping is you go outside and see stars like this. State Forest State Park, #Colorado

A night sky full of stars above the silhouette of a treeline

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 02/07/2026

Japanese beetles are the worst

A whole colony of Japanese beetles chowing down on a plant

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Ben Makuh @benmakuh.com · 29/06/2026

You’re not wrong. This isn’t the main point but the book doesn’t even make any sense. “Bongo loves cupcakes, which is why he lived in Mushroom Village.”

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