Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 11/09/2026My local PO has this posted. I wish it were so. (Note the copyright: 2024.) 032
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 06/09/2026The goldfinches are visiting, eyes on the catnip prize. The cotoneaster will come along, but for now, just a convenient survey perch. 080
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 28/08/2026It's still Lake Ontario. And our pathetic thug is a bottomless pit of unsatisfiable narcissism 161
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 15/08/2026Saw that, yesterday morning from Corrals, down along Crane Cr 010
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 08/08/2026Looking over the remains of the Claremont fire. Furthest ridge is Shaw Mountain (and Lucky Peak), which didn't burn this time. Air quality is from the Big Grass and other fires. #idahofire 180
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 08/07/2026Inquiring minds wonder how much was made on inside trading this time 040
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 04/05/2026Hey @developers.google.com (or anyone in the company who cares about customer satisfaction, "no." Just do your job, and stop with the blue banner every bloody time I open gmail or gcal. 010
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 04/05/2026Isn't this special? Good lord. I just saved the PDF and opened it with Firefox. @adobe.com don't be so lame. 030
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 16/04/2026"I guess a little light sedition is ok with the new DOJ..." As long as you're seditting for THUG, obvs, which he made clear from day 2.1. It's so vile. youtu.be/ASZsArDaX-s?... 000
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 15/04/2026This guy? Disbarred in California? What do you know! www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/... 041
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 11/04/2026We cut to the PR guy on the USS John P. Murtha. Go Navy! 100
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 11/04/2026Integrity in the Pacific While they figure out their terrestrial comms issues 110
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 03/04/2026From yesterday's Out Like a Lion / April Fools springtime in the Rockies lollapalooza, view to the SW from Hyatt Hidden Lakes #IdahoEscape 010
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 12/03/2026It's a hell of a thing that we have to ask, and the people in charge of war don't have good answers. "We're punching down" isn't enough. 011
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 03/03/2026"You won't believe what happens next!" P.394, Larry Craig shows up, on the wrong side of the continental divide 010
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 01/03/2026I came around the bend from page 353, and someone's written in semi-classic cursive 131
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 11/01/2026I'm just here as somebody who worked to create LTO back in the day (starting 30 years ago this year), I love your attitude. 110
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 09/01/2026Dear Marketing Dept.: Just so you know: this is the Absolutely Least Effective way to try to sell me anything. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 020
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 08/01/2026Compare Turkey tail (Trametes versicolor) growing on our oak stump 050
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 01/01/2026We're all together on this big, beautiful planet, spinning around our one star. May we recognize our shared humanity. Happy New Year 072
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 23/12/2025Dunno how to tap into the rocket scientists at T-Mobile but this update process "optimize" follow-on where you push a garbage truck full of games at me is just super-annoying, and utterly unwanted 000
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 17/12/2025Fixed the DOD statement in "Defense reporter at Punchbowl News" Briana Reilly's tweet, I guess it was. 000
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 04/12/2025A comment started "With gas prices at an all time high..." Which, ah, they're not. (Nor are they $2/gal) It was $2-ish in 2016. And 2020. The amazing thing: adjusted for inflation, it's been mostly flat for half a century. 050
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 29/10/2025On the verge of collecting that foregone hour back to MDT, my annual sunrise graphic (for Boise, ID) shows "the cliff" is near. With more darkness to enjoy the penultimate full moon of 2025. 140
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 17/10/2025Tidying up images languishing in \temp, I came across this evergreen item from a forgotten NYT news quiz. 010
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 20/09/2025That ADL datagraphic! "Right-wing" in 3 of the top 4 categories, with the "other" still larger than "Left wing." 020
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 31/08/2025Not sure why you'd want to portray yourself this way, but ok 7369
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 04/06/2025Osprey waiting for breakfast to swim by in the Boise River 040
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 12/05/2025Headline says "SLASHES", datagraphic says TARIFFS ARE A TAX, up from zero to THIRTY PERCENT since mad king Donold started his Black Knight trade war. 000
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 03/05/2025Donald Trump is a failure. As a businessman, president, leader, oath-taker, as a human being. It's becoming obvious to all but the deeply credulous, and complicit. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho... 160
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 13/04/2025On the one hand, a bobble-headed clown laughing as his boss blows up the economy. On the other, we are all Jake Tapper now 020
Tom von Alten @fortboise.org · 02/04/2025Wisconsin really responded to Elon Musk's campaigning. This image from the NYT interactive, www.nytimes.com/interactive/... shows e.v.e.r.y. county shifted blue. 010