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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 05/10/2026

Sheep snuggles are a nice way to start the day.

A white sheep’s head, with the stub of horns visible, is resting on a jeans-clad leg. An arm is visible reaching to his back. He looks very handsome and very content. There’s a misty pasture and then wall of pine trees in the background.

A white guy with a brown beard and mustache in a grey hoodie is leaning back to hug a brown sheep with white badger markings on this face. The sides of their heads are leaning together. There’s a misty barn in the background.

Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 05/10/2026

My memory of Ancillary Sword is that I read it once, enjoyed it, was surprised by what I got after Ancillary Justice, that there’s a fair amount of “comedy of manners” and that figuring out the “actual” gender of the Radch characters is more relevant than in Ancillary Justice

Cover of “Ancillary Sword” by Ann Leckie … the trade paperback with the red ship flying across a much bigger vessel in the background.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 01/09/2026

If you hate sleep, neighbors and ticks, get guinea fowl too!

A flock of light and dark grey guineas in a dog run, with an unconcerned dog

The same flock of guineas on a driveway with some grass, a big barn, and a pair of geese in the background.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 28/08/2026

Morning coffee on the deck with the dog and the guineas is a pretty good way to start the day.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 27/08/2026

Everyone who’s not the encounter-er likes porcupine day, because the best way to get a sheep from our food-motivated flock is to feed them all. Gaia’s still looking a little hangdog even after grain.

A flock of sheep, gathered in two groups with their heads down in food buckets. One brown sheep is turned towards the camera.

Another shot of the flock, with the brown sheep coming towards the camera for pets.

Bundle of porcupine quills in a white glove, post removal

A light colored Shetland sheep stands with her head somewhat down, with two other sheep visible around her.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 25/08/2026

Welcoming a new sheep (Boreas) to the farm today.

A middle-aged white guy in jeans and a hoodie is holding a fluffy brown sheep in his arms. There’s a blue sky, wood barn, and telephone tower in the background.

Close up of the fluffy brown sheep’s face. He’s got white and black badger markings.

The sheep stands and eats a bit of queen Anne’s lace. Some fencing and green grass can be seen in the background.

The sheep is standing facing away from the camera with his face in a patch of flowers. A hand is reaching out to scratch his back.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 20/08/2026

Look, sometimes you’ve got an itch.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 19/08/2026

Early evening walk with a goat, as one does …

A selfie of a guy in a flamboyant “Quakers” tee shirt with a look of concentration on his face and the blurred outline of trees behind

Another selfie from a higher angle with guy in glasses, the old-fashioned Quaker on a shirt in pink and blue, and a black goat behind him. The ground is brown pine needles, with trees around.

The black goat, walking through leafy ground and woods, with a few people following her on the path.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 18/08/2026

Guineas are ridiculous and noisy.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 14/08/2026

Lovely flock on a lovely morning

A white sheep lies on the ground with a fence post and trees behind her.

A group of about a dozen brown and white sheep are clustered under a big spreading pine tree. They’re lying down and contentedly chewing, with a few looking at the camera. There’s fenceposts, barn, and blue sky in the background behind.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 14/08/2026

Usually because of a goat, but not usually *this* goat.

A white goat is standing on a floor of hay and looking at the camera. There are a few sheep behind her and she’s in a wooden pen.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 15/07/2026

Given recent GPS discourse there’s a joke to be made about these young guineas and forgetting to check whether the directions you’re following to a location accounted for bridges and tunnels

A group of young grey birds stands on top of a rickety farm structure. Underneath is a water feeder and a ramp to the (less rickety) barn. There’s a fallen wood fence panel closer to the photographer, a metal gate behind the birds, and the picture is taken through the frame of a wooden door.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 12/07/2026

Sometimes when you're a little sheep you need some help to reach the good food.

A sheep is standing on her hind legs reaching towards the oak leaves on a branch that a kid is pulling down. Her fore hooves are on the back of another grazing sheep. There are a few other sheep grazing in the area.

A cluster of sheep is grazing and reaching towards a mesh of oak leaves that has been pulled close. A sheep is standing on his back legs to reach the leaves, and supporting his front legs on another sheep. That sheep is standing placidly, looking off in the distance, his head in between the camera and the actual "hooves on the back" placement.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 12/07/2026

Echo the sheep is not practicing grazing the right way.

A grayish white sheep with a black face walks towards the camera surrounded by grass nearly as tall as she is.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 17/05/2026

Our barn cat and chicken stopped by to pay their respects.

A fluffy cat with a white chest and grey and yellow fur sits and stares at the camera. She’s standing in a barn on a deep step covered in yellowish gray hay

A black and white chicken with a bright red comb and wattle sits on a metal gate in a wooden barn. She’s looking off to the side, which is where our sheep is lying out of the frame.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 17/05/2026

We’re probably going to be saying goodbye to one of my favorite sheep tonight. We’ve known it was just time (she got a special ride to the farm in my car when we moved because we worried about her health then), but it’s still sad.

A grey sheep with a black face lying in a bed of hay with some sticking out of her mouth.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 24/04/2026

In case anyone wants to know what it’s like to parent my 14 year old …

Screenshot of a text - I’m getting some of marx’s writings to listen to, and since google doesnt want to show me an easy pdf download for them I’ve just been manually selecting and copying the entirety of whats on a specific page of a website called the “marxist internet archive”

But “a contribution to the critique of political economy” has ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SIX PAGES (im grabbing things based on the comments of a reddit post asking the same question I asked google which was “which works of marx do I read first”)

Im going to be sitting here selecting text on my phone for an hour at this rate

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 20/04/2026

The goats have been walking through the fence so often they’ve worn their fuzzy fur off on a few spots, but confused old lady sheep goes to check the (literally) greener grasses on the far side & now the 12 year old wants to help me get it cleared. “Maybe.”

A kid in a grey hoodie has their back to the camera. In front of them is a scrawny and recently-shorn tall brown sheep. She’s in a brown patch near green grass. There’s an electric fence Corning the foreground - she’s on the wrong side.

The sheep follows the teenager in a grey hoodie up a long path of green grass by the edge of the electric fence towards a White House. Some mostly-bare trees are visible on the left.

The sheep, now followed by a smaller black goat, follows the teenager through a fenced dog run with green grass and near a wooden deck. Her flock can be seen in the distance behind a couple of fences.

The sheep stands in a dim barn pen with plenty of hay on the ground and 3 or 4 other sheep plus the goat around her.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 23/03/2026

Today in parenting … (I have asked the child to put their laundry away three different times)

Screenshot of a text exchange with my teenager. Two adorable pictures of a black cat with cross crossed paws and text “HE HAS HIS PAWS CRISS CROSSED IM DYING HES SO CUTE
(this is partially a cry for help so you remember to come disentangle me from the cat so I can do laundry if my self control fails)”

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 20/03/2026

And the Thorin plays his harp and the music starts and Bilbo is carried away and Darkness creeps in twice and so we have *Magic* (not the wizard kind but the ”take you away from yourself” kind) for a couple pages.

An image of The Hobbit p13 - “when Thorin struck it the music began all at once, so sudden and sweet that Bilbo forgot everything else and was swept away into dark lands under strange moons, far over The Water and very far from his hobbit-hole under The Hill.
The dark came into the room from the little window that opened in the side of The Hill; the firelight flickered - it was April - and still they played on, while the shadow of Gandalf’s beard wagged against the wall.
The dark filled all the room … “ and the text continues to the dwarves singing.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 20/03/2026

Time to read the good shit. Good mornings, bad puns, talking foxes and so many flowing elf and dwarf locks.

The boxed set of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. You know the one, with a very stout Bilbo, Gimli and Legolas on “The Two Towers” real sexy just like you said, and Aragorn with a big winged crown that inspired my grade school Halloween costume.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 18/12/2025

Today’s outfit, not intentionally but because it’s become my usual non-handknits outer layer.

Selfie of a smiling white guy with messy hair and a “Protect Trans Kids” hoodie with a couple of sheep in the background.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 27/11/2025

Our mother-in-law’s goose, Ryan (whose name made more sense when she was a younger goose), is coming to join our flock today.

Another picture of grey goose, grey walls behind and brown hay in the foreground, with a bit of bright blue sky above, and her neck arched to drink from a pink water bucket.

Closer view of the grey goose, her neck stretched out, walking towards the grey barn wall and away from a pink water bucket.

A grey goose is somewhat visible among brown grass and hay on a bright sunny day, with a grey barn wall behind her.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 21/11/2025

“And the goose shall eat hay with the old ewe”

An old gray ewe lies on the ground eating hay. A great goose stands on the other side of the bits of hay munching on it. There are some sheep and fencing in the background, and the grass around them is light-brown close to hay.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 04/11/2025

I mean honestly reading @erikloomis.bsky.social obit of Dick Cheney and then hugging a sheep is a pretty good way to start the day.

A white guy in his early 40’s (me) wearing a green fleece and jeans sits on a rock in a sunny field of mostly-brown grass. He’s petting a sheep with white fleece and a black face while a couple other sheep backs are visible behind them. Green tree branches are interlaced above them, and a bright blue sky can be seen.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 27/10/2025

Getting stuck with uploads so I apologize if this keep posting. Here’s my Norton edition of Beowulf distinguishing iambic pentameter from the alliterative stressed lines

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 27/10/2025

Tom Shippey’s “The Road to Middle Earth” reminds me of the Finnish Kalevela poem cycle, which in high school I argued was an influence on Tom Bombadil because of magic through singing, and has this on other possible sources.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 25/10/2025

Artemis says hi. She doesn’t always come up for pets, but when she does, it’s pretty great.

A selfies with a group of four or five white and brown sheep. A white guy in a green fleece is petting the cheeks of one very floofy sheep. The colors of trees in the fall in Maine can be seen in the background.

Closer picture of the white sheep with a pink nose, short hair on her face, and the bits of floof and wool starting near her neck. The green-fleece and hand are scritching her cheek.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 21/10/2025

Lovely fall on the farm.

A sunny day. Grey-white clouds in a bright blue sky. Below that, a blur of green trees behind the light brownish-green field. A flock of sheep is spread out, grazing. Closer up, in the shadow, taller grasses and brush grow.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 20/10/2025

From Eve Ewing’s “Original Sins” about antiblackness and anti-Native history and current implementation in US Schooling. Saving the 🔥 for the footnotes.

“To put it as plainly as I can: intellectual debates that are more concerned with the absolute supremacy of one historical form of shattering cruelty over another risk perpetuating a lie that we cannot work together against the ways those cruelties persist now, right now, in the immediate present. The assertion that the United States has been shaped first and foremost by anti-Blackness and chattel slavery or by anti-Indigeneity and settler colonialism, but never both, is only one heuristic for thinking about history and the future“

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 17/10/2025

I think I’m starting #sourdough again

A bright yellow lid on a blue bowl with King's Arthur's sourdough tips and tricks booklet leaning against it

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 13/10/2025

Good times in small town midcoast Maine.

A crane holding a giant pumpkin just over a junked pickup truck in preparation for a huge pumpkin drop on a cloudy day.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 12/10/2025

Working on setting up the historical shelves. Still unsure of the organization,- Dan not sure how much I want to follow chronology vs trends.

A set of bookshelves, some organized, others with piles and figurines on them. Some books facing out include Peter Brown's Body and Society, Graeber and Wengrow's Dawn of Everything and Hawking's Brief History of Time

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 11/10/2025

Ok, I’m sure some more books will pop up and need to be slipped in, but SFF is shelved, other than all the Tolkien stuff I need to sort out. Recognize anything?

Two bookshelves fully stacked. A few are facing out including Vajra's Saint of Bright Doors and Ken Liu's Grace of Kings. Generally alphabetical by author, but Robert Jordan and Steven Erikson's series are on bottom shelves on one side, and anthologies of various sorts are the bottom of the other.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 09/10/2025

Wondering if I should shelve Principia with our various student textbooks …

A box of books, with a few pulled out. Visible covers include Newton's Principia (vol 1), Darwin's Origin of the species, CLR James' Beyond a Boundary, and Kieran Healey and Marion Fourcade's The Ordinal Society

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 08/10/2025

Here’s the good part of the next few day(s)

A room full of piles of books, with built in shelves in the background.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 03/10/2025

One must imagine Sysiphus happy

A delighted 6 year old with blond hair is on her knees rolling an awkward blue ball up a steep grassy hill with a wooden porch in the background.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 17/09/2025

Put up winter hay. I think our barn is trying to tell us we should get more sheep.

Another view of wooden frame barn with a row and a half of hay bales stacked although incompletely.

A wooden barn with exposed beams, hay bales stacked 5 bales high, and lost of empty space

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 04/09/2025

Goat surveying her domain

A blurry photo of a white goat on a rock looking out over a foggy meadow, with trees in the background

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 03/09/2025

Golda needed to get porcupine quills removed from her muzzle this evening. After that, everyone went out for some nice foraging

Another wider shot of the flock among grass and goldenrod, with a bright blue sky bisected by the outline of a large tree in the background, and the barn in one corner.

Closeup of the sheep's dark brown face, including ear with green tag and about a dozen black-and-white porcupine quills sticking out of her chin.

A brown sheep with dark brown face stands in front of a wooden split-rail fence and brownish grass. The outline of porcupine quills are barely visible.

A group of sheep grazing in the golden light of late afternoon. A bright blue sky and wood barn are in the background.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 23/08/2025

Nice evening out with sheep

A green photo with sheep (brown and white) in the foreground among grass and ferns, a red barn in the middle distance, and gold-green tree leaves above

An old grey sheep lies on the ground with a white sheep standing nearby. A brown sheep walks towards the camera, and another person's arm is visible taking a photo of the grey sheep.

A wooden barn wall, with dirt and hay in front, and three browns and white sheep trotting to the left in front of the wall

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 07/08/2025

Hi from the top floor

A black and white speckled chicken stands above the viewer on a wooden barn floor. The stairs up are visible, as are the translucent plastic windows above her

The same black-and-white chicken standing on the wooden floor above, with the head of a black goal also visible

Now the black goat is standing at the top of the stairs that go down, and the black-and-white chicken is turning away

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 04/08/2025

Picked up this “gem” at my local bookstore recently. Seemed appropriate to find it on the day I was listening to a podcast close reading Prufrock

A grey chapbook with the image of a tree trunk cut laterally so the rings are visible and the title "Tradition and the Individual Talent" by T S Eliot, published by Eris gems.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 28/07/2025

Sigh, let’s give this another shot and see what I missed last time. (And also whether I hallucinated the racism and vague anti-religious stuff)

Cover of "The Goblin Emperor" by Katherine Addison.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 21/07/2025

My mom dug up an old photo of me (which came sometime after high school graduation, since that cowboy hat was a gift from my uncle). I am who I have been.

Photograph of a white teenager in a bright blue shirt with white letters reading "feminist chicks dig me" and a big black cowboy hat.

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