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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

And I like that my instance got mentioned in the announcement. 😎 :TwinPines: :blobcataww:

An excerpt from the announcement of a universal share button for Mastodon that reads, "Mastodon isn't a single monolithic website you can link to; there are over 8,000 places where a person could have a Mastodon account! Their account could be on 'mastodon.social', the large official server run by us. Or 'hachyderm.io', a sizeable server for tech enthusiasts operated by Nicely. Or 'social.coop', a Mastodon server operated like a cooperative, where all members pay towards the costs and vote on decisions together."

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

Finished it! Also, it always feels like a bonus win to finish a thrifted puzzle and there be no missing pieces.

The winter birds puzzle all put together.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

I think I'm on track to finish this puzzle over the weekend.

A winter birds puzzle about halfway put together.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026

And it came with this informational brochure.

A Puzzler's Guide to Winter Birds brochure, turned to the passage on the Snowy Owl, with the puzzle part of the owl in the background. Fun fact from it, snowy owls hunt during the day!

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026

Picked up this Winter Birds puzzle from Goodwill and am finally getting around to it. February feels like the kind of month to do a winter bird puzzle. I got most of the birds put together.

A winter birds puzzle box cover showing birds like the red-shafted flicker and snowy owl. The puzzle is about a fifth put together.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

Bo keeping vigilant watch over the neighborhood atop squishmallow.

A black and white muppety maltishitpoo sits on top of a squishmallow, looking intently through the sliding glass door.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

Bo chased an extra big squirrel up a tree last night.

A raccoon twice the size of Bo, luckily decided to scramble up this ponderosa pine instead of right back.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

[US pol, ICE violence] And the short term goal of blocking the latest funding proposed to ICE was successful, at least temporarily. That paragraph should read, *community response to the murder of Alex Pretti* If widespread protests hadn't erupted, I doubt the […] [Original post on social.coop]

Excerpt of article that says, "The bills had expected to sail through the Senate this week, but the deadly shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis prompted Democrats to seek changes to how immigration agencies operate."

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

Made some prints with my friend using a snake skin I found. This particular one really spoke to the profound loss and transformation I'm feeling alongside others this year of the snake. #collectivegrief #rebelliousmourning

A red, black and white print from a snake skin.

A black, white and red print from a snake skin, with the actual snake skin in the background.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026

On New Year's, my friend and I met up with the Colorado Native Plant Society and pulled mullein (a noxious weed here in North America) and planted native wildflowers in their place along Clear Creek. I love doing this kind of work. I know it sounds kind of […] [Original post on social.coop]

A group of volunteers pose in front of the many many bags of mullein we pulled along Clear Creek.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025

The second was on a walk near our family cabin. I paused to see who was rustling in the bushes and they were a group of Glaucidium gnoma, Northern Pygmy Owls. We watched each other curiously. 2/3

A Northern Pygmy Owl looking at me from within a bush.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025

I was fortunate to have *three* owl moments this year. The first was in the parking lot of Little America where an owl trainer was taking a break on his road trip to a movie set in Arizona. She is a Strix nebulosa, a Great Gray Owl. She played Errol (the […] [Original post on social.coop]

Me with my sister-in-law and nephew holding a Great Gray Owl.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025

The Denver Botanic Gardens' ecoquest for December is "Chasing Cattails." Here are my observations so far. #Denver #iNaturalist #NativePlants

A cattail partially fluffed away as the sun sets below the horizon.

A light brown cattail is mostly fluffed away, with pinks and blues from the sunset shimmering off Belmar Lake.

A group of cattails growing with a soft pink and blue sky in the background.

The silhouette of cattails stretch across a pink, orange and gray sunset.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

I entered my zipcode and chose my water provider, Denver Water Board. www.ewg.org/tapwater/system.php?pws… There are ten contaminants that exceed the Environmental Working Group (EWG) standards. yikes. - Bromodichloromethane - Chloroform - […] [Original post on social.coop]

A screenshot of the results for Denver Water that shows there are ten contaminants that exceed the EWG's standards.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025

Mimi founded Fortaleza Familiar and their logo is a hummingbird. Huītzilōpōchtli is the Aztec warrior god of the sun and sacrifice. Next spring, Mimi, my sister and I were sitting in my backyard recounting this moment. Again I wondered out loud, "I haven't seen […] [Original post on social.coop]

Mimi grinning, with illustrations of roses and hummingbirds surrounding them.

Below reads,

"Rest in power our fierce beloved. 8/18/1988 - 11/6/2025 - infinity symbol"

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025

[Transgender Day of Remembrance, remembering mi hermane 💔❤️🦁] I remember losing our minds at Nuggets games. I remember his wisdom on politics - community organizing, gender liberation, intersectionality, power, love. I remember her love for her four Chihuahuas […] [Original post on social.coop]

Me, my sister and Mimi looking our best in our Denver Nuggets gear, watching Game 2 of the 2023 NBA Finals.

Me, Mimi, my sister and my kids each holding one of their precious and feisty chihuahuas.

Another photo of us and the Chihuahuas. I love the way Mimi is holding my sister and the way they are both beaming with joy.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025

[Transgender Day of Remembrance, remembering mi hermane 💔❤️🦁] Today on Transgender Day of Remembrance I remember mi hermane, Mimi Madrid. I remember the way Mimi made my sister laugh, blush, light up, smile. I remember how he loved my children in his strong […] [Original post on social.coop]

Mimi, a beautiful brown two spirit Xicane sister in law smiling with illustrations of roses and hummingbirds surrounding them.

Below reads, "Rest in Power our fierce beloved. 8/18/1988 - 11/6/2025 - ∞ "

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025

This time of year I like to do the converse of early spring, go on walks with an eye out for the very last flowers hanging around. Most of Belmar Lake is awash with the fluffy tan of rabbitbrush gone to seed. But there was *one* rabbitbrush still flowering […] [Original post on social.coop]

Tan tufts of rabbitbrush with the evening sun shining softly from behind a cloudy sky.

A brown and white checkered skipper drinks nectar from a bright yellow rabbitbrush flower.

White prairie aster still blooming. Some of the flowers have wilted to pretty tans beiges.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025

Enjoying that post-Halloween life.

The wrappers of two finished Reese's peanut butter pumpkins are on a dining table next to a carton of Oat Nog (which I have just been drinking directly from).

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2025

[Us pol, reflections on the No Kings protest, genocide in Palestine] I also appreciated how this rally tied into ongoing organizing. There were a lot more orgs tabling at the rally than the last big event. This panel on the genocide and occupation of Palestine was powerful.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2025

[Us pol, reflections on the No Kings protest] The rally like past ones has an overwhelming "liberal boomers made at Trump" vibe that I find so limiting. I want to see this movement evolve to be one that is much more visionary. Compared to the last rally, this […] [Original post on social.coop]

A protester in a pink inflatable axolotl costume.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2025

I showed up for the #NoKings protest here in Denver with my son, mom and her friend. Like the previous events, I walked away with a lot of ambivalence though I'm glad I went. This was one of my favorite signs. Some additional thoughts threaded below...

A protester holding a cardboard sign with the words, "Democracy needs your courage." All the letters are in black except a subset in red which makes the sign also read, "Our democracy needs our rage."

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

Whew. Glad to see that these broken RSS settings have been removed from Drupal. They wouldn't have been all that helpful even if they did work. With it being an open source project that champions the Open Web, creating an RSS feed should be as easy possible […] [Original post on social.coop]

A snippet of my blog post where I include a screenshot of the RSS publishing settings page and an annotation in red capital letters, "This page is broken, ignore it completely."

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2025

I visited the Botanic Gardens at Chatfield (South of #Denver ) especially for the butterfly house where right now they have 8 or so native species fluttering around for people to see. Monarchs, Queens, Painted Ladies, Spicebush Swallowtail, Buckeye, some others […] [Original post on social.coop]

A Queen butterfly drinks nectar from a yellow flower.

A butterfly with burnt orange wings and black edges sits atop a bright pink flower.

A monarch butterfly drinks nectar from a yellow flower.

A Spicebush Swallowtail sits on a piece of plywood. It has black wings with beautiful grayish creamy patterning on its tail and along the edges of its wings.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2025

Wow. It seems really early for the cottonwoods to be changing colors. Maybe I just never noticed? Or maybe this is another "new normal" from global warming? Anyone else in #Denver know what's typical?

An eastern cottonwood with almost all of its foliage now a bright yellow.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2025

One of the neat things about heightening my focus towards life around me, even the smallest of insects, is that when I pause to observe one thing, my stillness often invites others to move into frame. In this case a sutured longhorn beetle caught my attention […] [Original post on social.coop]

A red and black sutured longhorn beetle noshing on the pollen of a prairie coneflower.

A ligated furrow bee collects pollen next to a longhorn beetle, atop a prairie coneflower.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025

My local movie theater's metatag description is chef's kiss. 🍻🍕

Search result snippet for the Cinemark Century movie theater with its summary text attracting visitors by stating, "Visit Our Cinemark Theater in Lakewood, CO. Enjoy alcohol and Pizza Hut."

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2025

when I searched about it, Google's AI overview came up with a very plausible sounding explanation of the whole event. And in the absence of a journalist writing an actual article on it, this theoretically could be helpful. But really I think this is another […] [Original post on social.coop]

Google's AI overview text for the search query "firefighters chase off ICE" which reads,

"In Bell, California, firefighters intervened during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid, preventing the agency from carrying out an operation and effectively chasing them away from the community. Videos show local fire crews blocking ICE vehicles and urging the agents to leave, with the community cheering them on, according to an Instagram post and another Instagram post. This incident is part of a larger context of ongoing immigration enforcement actions and community responses in the Los Angeles area, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
The incident in Bell involved a confrontation between community members, including firefighters, and ICE agents, according to a video on YouTube. A stretcher was present at the scene, suggesting someone may have been injured, and a child was reportedly hit by a vehicle. The situation escalated to the point where someone was yelling about "unloading a clip," indicating a high level of tension and potential danger.
The incident in Bell is not isolated, and ICE operations in the area have been met with resistance from community members and local authorities. Some of these operations have involved controversial tactics like "roving patrols," which have been linked to racial profiling. In one instance, a bogus 911 call led to the FDNY responding to ICE headquarters, where a van carrying detainees was seen speeding away from the scene."

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2025

My favorite flower spotted today is Liatris punctata also known as the Dotted Gayfeather. What a fantastic name for this showy, sun loving beauty. It's used in prairie restoration, including post-fire recovery and land healing from mining, because of its […] [Original post on social.coop]

Liatris punctata- alight purple spike of many feathery flower heads, with vibrant green narrow and long leaves.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2025

It's #BandcampFriday and our band Elegant Everyone recently released our first two tracks. * All the Old Chaos * We're Not Cute Anymore eleganteveryone.bandcamp.com The tracks are pay what you want and whatever you decide you want to pay all goes to our band […] [Original post on social.coop]

Elegant Everyone's cover art, a color pencil based drawing of a bunch of lilac flowers. Emblazoned across the album art is the message, "It's Bandcamp Friday!"

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2025

This is a cool feature I just noticed. Mastodon detected I was typing in a language other than English.

The language button is highlighted in the compose window of Mastodon because I typed in the text, "estoy practicando mi"

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2025

Wix is raising their prices. - Combo is rolling into the Light Plan; $3/month increase - Unlimited, Pro and Business Basic are being replaced by Core Plan; $11, $6 and $6 increases respectively - VIP is rolling into Business plan; no price change plus increase […] [Original post on social.coop]

Pricing chart showing the price increases as outlined in the text of this post.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2025

I keep hearing this refrain when it comes to AI and work "Departments' budgets are shrinking, but expectations are rising. By using AI you can increase your efficiency to meet this challenge." NO. This has always been a losing battle. Productivity is already […] [Original post on social.coop]

A chart showing the growing gap between productivity and compensation since 1979.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2025

I saw a creature with the most badass sounding name. White-faced Meadowhawk

A white faced Meadowhawk, which sure enough, has a totally white face. It's a type of dragonfly and is perched on a branch.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2025

The spinystar cactus bloomed again. 😍 I love the tiny flower in the middle. #Florespondence

A foxtail cactus blooming a pink flower with a yellow center and then another tiny pink flower in the center of that!

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2025

One of my favorite #Drupal modules, In Other Words, came out with a new major release. It allows site builders to present lists naturally. for example, - apples - bananas - grapes can be presented as apples, bananas and grapes or apples, bananas, and […] [Original post on social.coop]

The In Other Words issue queue, showing a bunch of features completed or in review.

The configuration page for the In Other Words module, with a whole slew of configuration settings to help a site builder configure the display of lists just to their liking.

A webpage for the Wheat Ridge Recreation Center, showing ages, activities and days of operation all listed in different natural ways.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2025

I was identifying the wildflowers I saw on my hike yesterday and just as I learned this cactus flower is a "foxtail" a fox bounded across the meadow I was looking out over. #Florespondence #SilentSunday

My iNaturalist observation of an ecobaria vivipara, known commonly as a foxtail or spinystar. It's a ball cactus with a vibrant pink flower blooming from its top.

The user bugs_not_drugs added the suggested identification of it belonging to the Escobaria genus, aka the Foxtail Cactuses.

A close up of the foxtail cactus with its showy pink flowers, yellow center and patterned spines spiraling around its flower.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2025

Propagandhi was the first band I ever heard denounce homophobia in their lyrics. In high school I got in trouble for blasting Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes through the jazz band classroom sound system. Their latest album, At Peace, hits so hard for me […] [Original post on social.coop]

A bumper sticker that reads, "Though presently convulsed with grief I am At Peace."

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2025

@reiunion is calling on all REI members to vote no on corporate's hand picked, union busting slate. So I just did that. You have until May 1st to vote! A great way to take action for #MayDay www.ourrei.com/2025-rei-board-elect… #union #coop

A screenshot of my ballot where I vote "Withhold" for all the corporate bootlickers.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2025

They show up *just enough* in this forest that it's a fun treat each time I spot them. Today I saw about a dozen total on an hour long hike. Spammed iNaturalist with a lot of my sightings.

A full and strong prairie pasque flower.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2025

Our neighborhood association had its annual meeting and I presented our sustainable neighborhood group's vision to transform this park that is a field of old disturbed farmland (lots of alfalfa and invasive weeds) into native grasses, pollinator friendly plants […] [Original post on social.coop]

A picture of Balsam Pond in the winter, there is still snow on the ground.

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Clayton Dewey @clayton.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2025

And this little guy chillin on the mountain ball cactus flower.

A tiny brown grasshopper sits atop the pink petals of a mountain ball cactus flower.

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