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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 17/09/2026

They wanted everyone to breathe their exhaust. Now they're breathing fresh air on the sidewalk. Embracing the healthier, really.

The white truck sits in the garage like a trophy nobody wants anymore. Jacked up on oversized tires, stacks rising up behind the cab, a truck bed that's never hauled anything but attitude. The chrome still shines, but there's a fine layer of dust settling on it now. The keys hang on a hook by the door, and the owner passes them every morning on his way out—on foot. Six dollars a gallon turned that rolling coal machine into a very expensive lawn ornament. All that black smoke he used to blow in everyone's face, and now the only thing sitting idle is him.

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 20/07/2026

Mark's Jesus is surrounded by 12 men who don't understand him, they can't stay awake when he needs them, they deny him at the critical moment, and when the soldiers come, every single one of them runs. Just another retelling of a beloved story

Odysseus's crew and Jesus's disciples serve the same function in their stories. They exist to make the hero look better by contrast. They exist to fail. They exist because the hero is trying to teach them something they cannot yet understand.

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 17/06/2026

If you ever find yourself in Florida, I recommend driving 32 hours north west to Utah

A rock formation that looks like a lions head

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 07/06/2026

@kemikemikemi.bsky.social and I enjoyed the Brit Floyd show this evening. Very talented. It was amazing how the lyrics from thirty years ago just came back

The band taking a bow at the end of the show

The doctor provides some drugs to encourage the rock star to continue the show rather than embrace becoming comfortably numb

Lighting of the dark side of the moon album cover with a white light entering the prism from the left breaking out into a laser rainbow to the right

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 21/05/2026

You can put a loaded pistol in your pocket in Utah yet brass knuckles are for at home display only?

Brass knuckles are illegal to carry in public in Utah, as they are classified as dangerous weapons under state law. However, they can be legally owned at home for display purposes.

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 19/05/2026

There is a wonderful conjunction with Venus and the Moon along with Jupiter and Gemini shining down this evening

Venus next to the moon with Jupiter and Gemini

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 17/05/2026

Ended up in Moab during the c10 red rock retreat. Many low rider show cars just driving around town c10retreat.com/about/

Gun metal grey Chevy with black rims and support truck and trailer in the background

Row of low rider trucks parked along a street in Moab

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 21/04/2026

It is weird what God commands in all things D&C 124:60ish God can't be bothered with daily decisions from the members, tho who gets stock in a hotel? God is very specific. For more then 20 verses

And they shall form a constitution, whereby they may receive stock for the building of that house.

64 And they shall not receive less than fifty dollars for a share of stock in that house, and they shall be permitted to receive fifteen thousand dollars from any one man for stock in that house.

65 But they shall not be permitted to receive over fifteen thousand dollars stock from any one man.

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 30/03/2026

I was invited to a palm sunday meeting at a non-denominational church in my teens and always remembered that. I never understood the silence the church had about it. I even enjoyed this painting, tho more about the donkey watching the viewer as they walked past then the religious aspect

Image of Jesus on a donkey. The artist did a wonderful job at creating the face of the donkey such that as an observer moved past the painting, the donkey turns it's head to follow the observer

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 30/03/2026

I visited the Roswell UFO museum and research center. There are hundreds of books and papers. I realized, again, how it just doesn't matter how many eye witnesses, testimonies, and compelling (faithful) narratives there are, it doesn't demonstrate any truth. Looking at you LDS church and apologists

A painting of a damaged star ship and alien bodies laying on the ground

A room with bookshelves along the walls and tables in the middle

A room with shelfs of boxes containing papers along the walls. tables in the middle

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 13/03/2026

Saw fiddler on the roof with @kemikemikemi.bsky.social at the ruth theater. For never really seeing it before, I was surprised how many songs I recognized So many roofs So many fiddler's

The front of Ruth theater in Pleasant Grove

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 07/03/2026

When the elders quorum stop by because you have not been to church lately

Some angry men on a house porch that are not happy about anything

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 07/03/2026

Maturing is realizing voting is the adult equivalent of sending letters to Santa Claus

An image of Santa Claus, in his classic red suit and hat, holding a voting ballot. He is laughing heartily, as if he's just heard a great joke, implying amusement at the idea that people actually believe their individual votes have any real impact.

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 01/03/2026

It is really hard to capture the depth of this canyon in pictures. Best sacrament had in decades

$From the South Rim, peering over the edge into the Black Canyon is not merely a scenic overlook; it is an encounter with the raw, violent architecture of the earth. The first and most overwhelming sensation is one of profound depth and compression. The view is less about a sweeping panorama and more about a dramatic, almost claustrophobic vertical plunge. The walls of the canyon do not simply slope down; they fall. They drop away in a series of colossal, fractured precipices, descending in dramatic shifts of shadow and light. The rock, predominantly ancient gneiss and schist, is a canvas of dark, somber hues—charcoal greys, deep taupes, and blacks so dense they seem to absorb the sunlight. This is what gives the canyon its name; the light struggles to penetrate the depths, leaving the lower reaches in a perpetual, cool twilight. As your eye travels down this vertiginous slope, the rock reveals its violent history. The cliffs are not smooth, but are instead riven with sharp, diagonal streaks of lighter pegmatite, looking like frozen lightning bolts against the dark stone. The entire face is a chaotic tapestry of sheer vertical walls, crumbling buttresses, and dramatic, knife-edge ridges. And then, at the very bottom of this immense, shadowy gash in the earth, you see it: a thin, coiled thread of silver. From nearly 2,000 feet above, the Gunnison River looks deceptively serene and tiny, a mere ribbon of light. Its incessant, roaring rush is inaudible, swallowed by the vast space, leaving only the visual of its powerful, silent movement through the depths. It is the ultimate sculptor, the reason for this abyss, yet from this height, it appears as a humble, distant detail in a landscape of overwhelming grandeur. The overall impression is of a world turned inside out. The forces that usually build upwards have here been inverted, creating a vertical world of stone, shadow, and a distant, silver thread of water.$ $In this photograph, the perspective from the South Rim captures the Black Canyon not as a yawning void, but as a study in monumental shadow and light. The eye is immediately drawn downward, tracing the chaotic, fractured geology of the immense walls as they plummet toward the unseen heart of the earth. The rock, banded with the dark hues of ancient gneiss and schist, creates a vertical tapestry of deep greys and absorbing blacks. Streaks of lighter pegmatite cut sharply across the faces, like pale scars or veins of frozen lightning against the prevailing darkness. The cliffs themselves are a study in dramatic structure: sheer, windowless palisades give way to crumbling buttresses and jagged, knife-edge ridges, each shelf and precipice casting long, sharp shadows into the depths below. The light, struggling to penetrate this profound gash in the landscape, seems to dissolve as it travels down, leaving the lower reaches of the canyon cloaked in a cool, ethereal twilight. And there, at the very bottom of this chasm, lies the Gunnison River. It appears as a delicate, impossibly thin filament of silver, quietly coiling its way through the darkness. From this height, its immense power is silenced, its roar lost to the vast space, leaving only the visual of its persistent, winding path. It is the quiet architect of this entire scene, a distant whisper of movement that belies the violent force that carved this abyss. The final impression is of a world turned inside out, a place of humbling scale where the earth reveals its most ancient and formidable layers.$

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 28/02/2026

These LDS temples are getting really basic on the outside in Silverton Colorado

Take the long, narrow bones of a project shotgun house — one hallway straight through, room-after-room bleeding into each other and use it as an LDS temple

Dress it in smooth brown limestone, so radiant it hurts to look at. The roof ain't tin, but flat marble with a delicate gold spire rising dead center.

Walk up the porch steps, past white picket fence, through a large carved wooden door.

Inside, the first parlor has dove-gray silk walls and crystal chandeliers. Through the arch, the next room blooms with garden murals and fresh flowers. You walk through, already seeing the next arch.

Room after room—each more peaceful, more quiet. The floors sink into thick white carpet. The furniture gets simpler, until the last room at the very back.

This room is small. Stark white walls, a blue ceiling with gold stars. Nothing but a simple altar and chairs. The "Holy of Holies"—the back bedroom, where the quiet is so deep you hear your own heartbeat.

That shotgun house logic: a straight line from the decorated front to the sacred back. Leaving the world behind one room at a time, until you reach the stillness at the end of the hall.

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 19/02/2026

I think I found interest in Rush when I saw someone wearing a grace under pressure shirt and haven't looked back

Listing of the grace under pressure event by Rush at the salt palace, salt lake city, May 14, 1984

Listing of the moving pictures event at salt lake, 1981

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 11/02/2026

Sad that "Are you all insane?" Doesn't work anymore "In 1897, a man in Indiana claimed he had squared the circle and redefined π as 3.2. “Sounds good,” and passed the bill 67–0. One professor asked, “Are you all insane?” The Senate quietly killed it. And that’s how math was saved from democracy."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 08/02/2026

𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖊𝖓 𝖌𝖆𝖒𝖊 Don't look at the chicken

Did you look at the chicken first or last?

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 31/01/2026

@kemikemikemi.bsky.social invited me to a screening of a Netflix documentary about Judit Polgár today. Very enjoyable. We got to interact with Rory Kennedy, the director, and Judit along with the cofounder of chess.com www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

The cofounder of chess.com standing on a stage

Rory Kennedy and an emcee standing on stage presenting a zoom call with Judit Polgár

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 25/01/2026

I am sure those that oppose tyranny the most will be speaking up the loudest now. What were the dues for anyway?

Even AI won't describe why an organization that defends the rights of citizens to carry weapons and have been a strong supporter of the second amendment to protect the population against a tyrannical government has been very quiet after that governments executed an armed citizen

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 18/01/2026

Terrible book club meeting. Almost no conversation of the main characters, just side descriptions of minor characters activities and an odd reverence for the author that made no sense considering the author hardly ever referenced the book the rest of his life. And an unrealistic fear of persecution

The LDS chapel is a clean, functional building hosting a book club where everyone reveres the same text, but the initial description was wholly inadequate. Members arrived expecting a simple moral tale or historical record, but found a dense, multi-genre work treated as divine constitution, family archive, prophetic codex, and life manual all at once. Discussions in quiet classrooms dissect cryptic verses with legal precision, applying ancient grain storage metaphors to modern budgets. The vibe is warm, orderly, and deeply earnest, fueled by water and cookies, not wine. It's a community built on a shared, lifelong study of a book whose surface simplicity belies the all-consuming reality it represents to them—a reality the plain, beige-walled chapel is designed not to glorify, but to patiently unpack, week after week.

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 04/01/2026

@kemikemikemi.bsky.social and I visited the valley of fire state park in Nevada. At the gate they gave us a full on map of Nevada. I have no idea where in the park interesting things are, I do know where area 51 is now. I guess they really wanted us to explore the state. We did see some goats

A map of Nevada with a red box around the valley of fire state park

A road leading to a deep red craggy mountain

Some goats feeding on the plants with a red mountain in the background

A stark cream and red color rock formation with a distinctive separation line between the colored layers

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 01/01/2026

How did I end up in Las Vegas on New Years Eve? What are the odds?

The middle of Las Vegas Blvd in the rain with the Cromwell in the background

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 25/12/2025

Good cop. Bad cop. Each knows the truth of your past year. One brings gifts, the other, condemnation. Who will visit tonight? Of course, if you are in Australia, it's already over

Santa and Jesus standing back to back.

Two figures in a gray void.

Santa, ancient and stern. His eyes scan an unseen list. He is Precedent, judge of your year's deeds.

Jesus, the Word that cuts to the soul. His scarred hands folded. He is Principle, judge of your eternal truth.

One is coming tonight.
Will you be judged by the Ledger or the Light?
The night holds its breath.

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 14/12/2025

Spent the evening with @kemikemikemi.bsky.social at salt air enjoying the Geminids. It was cloudy in the area of Gemini yet we still witnessed a few nice shooting stars. And she captured the crab nebula and the pleiades. We saw Jupiter and it's moons along with Saturn. A very successful star party

The crab nebula, the remnants of a supernova that was observed on July 4, 1054. 6500 light years away

The Pleiades (/ˈpliː.ədiːz, ˈpleɪ-, ˈplaɪ-/ PLEE-ə-deez, PLAY-, PLY-),[8][9] also known as Seven Sisters and Messier 45 (M45), is an asterism of an open star cluster containing young B-type stars in the northwest of the constellation Taurus. At a distance of about 444 light-years, it is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and the nearest Messier object to Earth, being the most obvious star cluster to the naked eye in the night sky.

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 10/12/2025

For most of human history, 1 in 2 children died before the age of 15. Today, the global average is around 4%, one of the greatest improvements humanity has ever achieved. Better nutrition, clean water, sanitation, vaccines, and postnatal care made this possible. Thanks science

A chart showing various societies throughout human history and their child mortality rate hovering around 48% until the early 1900s

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Java Joe 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @javajoe.boo · 06/12/2025

The tree of life exhibit at Luminaria was interesting, and its mythology-themed statue garden was fun. Still, we shouldn't confuse its charm with the deeper meaning found in our own reality

Colorful lit fur trees with the full moon shining through the haze saying farewell to 2025

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