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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Background : one family member loves making fig jam. One family member hates fruit flies, so we put the plucked figs on the front porch till ready to jam. Someone else was checking them out.

Bowl of ripe figs in a colander on a cement porch with foot prints of fig juice maybe from a raccoon. Various boxes frame the view.

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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

Really so many plants (except for some reason fruiting banana trees or curry trees) can grow in California. No clue what this plant is but wow. The height is like 3 or 4 meters.

Yard with plants icy don't some weird spherical bush with a 12 foot vertical spike with green flowers on the end seeming like a fantasy of Dr. Seuss.

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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

@IviChoc “a profound crisis” that is exactly in line with predictions from 30 years ago if we did not lower the amount of carbon burned. I can’t wrap my head around the stupidity we are as a group manifesting. When driving I always ask my kids to rate bad […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

The Keeleing Graph of carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa, an observatory high in Hawaii, from 1960 to 2020, showing a classic exponential arc upwards. The data to 2026 is on the same curve.

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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

@carrideen @futurebird as documented (for sexism if not racism or ableism, tho these can all be opposed in a unified fashion as historically specific examples of "might makes right" ) by Joanna Russ: one of the first tactics of the pro-oppression structure is […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Book cover; SHE DIDN'T WRITE IT. BUT IF IT'S CLEAR SHE DID THE DEED.. SHE WROTE IT, BUT SHE SHOULDN'T HAVE. (IT'S POLITICAL, SEXUAL, MASCULINE, FEMINIST.) SHE WROTE IT, BUT LOOK WHAT SHE WROTE ABOUT. (THE BEDROOM, THE KITCHEN, HER FAMILY. OTHER WOMEN!)
SHE WROTE IT, BUT SHE WROTE ONLY ONE OF IT.
("JANE EYRE. POOR DEAR, THAT'S ALL SHE EVER •..") SHE WROTE IT, BUT SHE ISN'T REALLY AN ARTIST, AND IT ISN'T REALLY ART. (IT'S
A THRILLER, A ROMANCE, A CHILDREN'S BOOK.
IT'S SCI FI!) SHE WROTE IT, BUT SHE HAD HELP.
(ROBERT BROWNING. BRANWELL BRONTE. HER OWN "MASCULINE SIDE.") SHE WROTE IT, BUT SHE'S AN ANOMALY. (WOOLF. WITH LEONARD'S HELP...)
SHE WROTE IT, BUT • How to Suppress
Women's Writing
Joanna Russ

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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

Protect all of us so we may be free to live this potentially awesome life.

Venus and Jupiter gleaming in the dusk sky.

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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

Happy Vesak! May all beings be well, free of suffering, having equanimity, acting in compassion, generosity, and wisdom!

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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

I love #murderbot: '(Part of the whole "not being depressed and anxious and having false memories" thing was supposed to be "embracing cautious optimism.")'. (Now reading "Platform Decay" a bit late.).

Picture of an e-ink reader showing book text: '(Part of the whole "not being depressed and anxious and having false memories" thing was supposed to be
"embracing cautious optimism."'

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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026

Recycling art from a painting preschool birthday party I hosted long ago in a time when hope was easier:

Painting, abstract mostly green, large brush strokes.

Paining, red on top and purple in the bottom two thirds. Abstract from a preschooler.

Painting with red lines and brown lines and mostly white space.

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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025

Woken early by the phone and took a early walk

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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025

Whoops I already walked on it in the reverse direction. I feel this sign has implications for the form vs function debate. It certainly uglifies the view.

A lovely stone pathway with a sign saying "Decorative pathway do not use"

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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2025

Not so far apart as far as extra accommodation and helpers needed.

Rail station in Mt Lavinia, Sri Lanka with two signs on either side of entrance (I think to a sort of waiting area/lounge) one saying "For tourists" the other saying "For disabled". I enjoy travel but do weary of being treated like I will suddenly do some crazy dangerous thing; tho I keep doing very unexpected things.

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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2025

This picture of offline map size explains something deeply true about these cities: (Chennai is busier than Bengaluru but only because in Bengaluru most people have stopped going more than a few kilometers if possible). Traffic in Chennai is getting better […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Offline maps for San Jose California, 600 MB, Colombo Sri Lanka, 360 MB, Chennai, 1.1 GB, and the winner, Bengaluru, 1.86 GB.

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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2025

People need dignity, artist Kushlani Jayasinha

Abstract art, oil pastels, energetic black lines across different colors of varied feeling.

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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2025

Got a segv from emacs, maybe for the first time ever except on flakey NFS mounts? #emacs

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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2025

My mood is not unlike this painting by my wife (Credit: Kushlani Jayasinha).

Current state of mind in context of 2025. An abstract painting with oil pastels on paper, many colors, variety of scales from large to fine, lot of black lines. Kind of jangled feelings.

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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2025

@johncarlosbaez lovely subject, but especially I love this quote:

In these days the angel of topology and the devil of abstract algebra fight for the souls of each individual mathematical domain.

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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2025

The library really has a lot of different things:

A bank of four pay phones in the San Jose downtown library.

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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2025

@mattblaze my oldest son with a painting made right after we moved to the foot of Mt. Umunhum in South San Jose. The box is visible pretty far away but doesn’t seem to register much with people north of Almaden area. Source, years of telling people I lived […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Oldest son holding a painting from third grade of the box on the hill in front of the newly opened box.

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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2024

Another month in a beautiful world. Let's do better this month.

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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2024

Bank the home fires in winter. (Credit Kushlani Jayasinha).

Abstract art with black circles some of which have fiery insides and some of which have colder insides. Unsigned.

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