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Milcom Miasma

@mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy
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∙ Poor Disco skills ∙ Retired in a small town in a big state with no people. That can't be coincidence ∙ Wondering what's next - I hope it's something ∙ I love […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.sdf.org/@mmiasma, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
How Mrs. Miasma and I felt when we retired from the workforce: #ModernWorkCulture
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Really enjoyed this guys video on why Gen X doesn't care about the workplace anymore. He's not wrong but I'm Generation Jones and I felt the exact same way back in 2010. Also, I finally have my answer to the team-building question "What appliance are you?" […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
Vince Schlomi, the huckster who peddled the "Sham-Wow!" product line as well as the "Slap Chop" manual food processor.  He later went on to a successful career in prostitution patronage and unsuccessfully ran for Congress.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Surprise guest at lunch today. We told him he was welcome to sit with us but that he'd have to find his own lunch.
A red-tailed hawk sitting on the corner railing of our deck looking for prey out over a very brown field.A red-tailed hawk sitting on the corner railing of our deck looking for prey out over a very brown field.A red-tailed hawk sitting on the corner railing of our deck looking for prey out over a very brown field.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
My... what a tiny rake you have Grandpa. My prompt said nothing about a "tiny" rake. I feel disrespected. My prompt: An old man holding a rake and shouting at the clouds while standing on the front porch of his weathered house. #OldPeopleOfMastodon #AIDrawing #AI
An old man holding a tiny rake and shouting at the clouds while standing on the front porch of his weathered house.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
I don't know... It seems kind of important to me. Why did publishers decide to drop the most import part of the title from Mary Wollstonecraft's book I wonder? #Books
The title page of the first edition of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's book "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus."

The cover further includes the following:
"In Three Volumes"

The quote
 "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?"
-- Paradise Lost.

"Vol. I."

"London:
Printed For
Lackington Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones,
Finsbury Square"

"1818"

Attribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
Hotel parlor tricks. "You have a water leak in the bathroom of room 410" says I to person at the front desk. "You're in room 410?" says they. "No. We're in 310 appreciating the modern art show that's evolving on our bathroom ceiling." A photo of the […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
The ceiling in our hotel room bathroom during a recent stay. The ceiling is discolored in expanding circles with areas of the circles showing darker patches where more recent amounts of water has leaked into the drywall.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
"Another depressing song with the Colorado Symphony" --Gregory Alan Isakov, Red Rocks performance September 7th, 2026 Honestly, I'd say it was the best concert I've ever been to. If you like folk/blue grass don't miss a chance to see these guys live […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
The stage at Red Rocks Amphitheater just west of Denver. Gregory Alan Isakov is sharing the stage with his band members and the Colorado Symphony.  The band is on the front part of the stage closest to the audience while the symphony is arrayed across the back of the stage.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
Thwarted. Little bastards must have overheard me talking about my breakfast plans. #Food #OldPeopleOfMastodon
Three ripe bananas sitting on the Miasma kitchen counter. All three ripped themselves open at the neck and as a result, will be unusable for tomorrow's breakfast. They must've heard me talking about my plans for them.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026
When they said You''ll watch the world burn", I didn't realize they'd booked me front row seats. If anyone wants to know what living life as a slow-roasted, smoked chicken is like, I'll take your questions now. #Wyoming #Wildfires
A screenshot of my weather app. It's going to be sunny and reach a high temperature of 87 degrees (30.6 C) and our Air Quality Index is currently sitting at 111 which is considered unhealthy for sensitive groups.A screenshot of the AirNow Fire and Smoke website from the U.S. EPA and Forrest Service showing 15 active fires in our region of Wyoming and Montana.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026
"You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music" --Annie Proulx If there's a better visual metaphor (see below) for growing old in Wyoming, I've never seen it. I feel like it should be my screen background image. #Wyoming #OldPeopleOfMastodon
A grandfather is launched many feet into the air by a bison in Yellowstone National Park. He's balding and wearing suspenders so maybe the buffalo mistook him for a rodeo clown?  Anyway, he was not seriously harmed during the encounter.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
I don't believe it. I just watched Stanley Kramer's 1959 apocalyptic SciFi drama "On The Beach" starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins. I've spotted a plot hole in the final scene where Peck is steering his sub towards home […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
Ava Gardner as Moira standing on a windy bluff in front of her Austin watching as Gregory Peck sails his nuclear submarine out of the bay and towards America.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026
"Do Not Deposit U.S. Mail or Cash Payments" Well how else am I supposed to get a bribe to a my favorite corrupt candidate? I get the sense that this collection container was re-purposed. At least I hope that's the case. #2026Primaries Image source: Wigwam Jones
An early ballot drop-off station in Michigan. It's a white metal canister with read and blue lettering that reads as follows:
"Do Not Deposit U.S. Mail or Cash Payments", "Deposit [ballots] Here" and "Drop Box for Absent Voter Ballot Envelope Must Be Signed", "Absent Voter Ballot Applications" and "Deposits made after 3:30 pm will be processed the next business day"
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026
Me, when my financial planner told me to stop reading and listening to the news. #TheLastPetal
The master of deadpan physical comedy Buster Keaton, wearing a suit and straw hat, starring into the camera as he forlornly plucks the last petal off of a daisy.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026
Every year we pick new annuals to plant in the pots on our front porch. Every year we try to pick plants that do well in direct sunlight (4+ hours/day) and we hope would attract hummingbirds. The five years we've been doing this have been failures to one […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
The first ever hummingbird we've ever had visit our front porch. They're hovering beside our Salvia plant getting ready to sip some flower nectar.The same hummingbird hovering on the other side of the plant moving into one of the flowers to gather nectar.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
My friend lives in southern Michigan. They had three days where their air quality index was over 400 during the worst of the fire smoke last week. Here's what his furnace/AC filters looked like when they replaced them yesterday. #Forest_Fires #AirQuality
A furnace filter made of cardboard and filtering material. It has a plastic grid overlaying the filter to provide structural support. The filter material is medium to dark grey in color with all the smoke sediment that has been in the air in Michigan due to wildfires further north.A furnace filter made of cardboard and filtering material. The material is medium to dark grey in color with all the smoke sediment that has been in the air in Michigan due to wildfires further north.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026
"Le mauvais goût mène aux crimes" (Bad taste leads to crime) --Henri Stendhahl We should really listen more to the French I think. #PresidentialTravesty #WhiteHouseAbuse Image Source: itsrachelscott via TikTok
The newly created "Presidential Walk of Fame" as created by our sad little orange despot. He mad somebody glue some gold applique to a wall in the Rose Garden and then hung pictures of the presidents he really enjoys not reading about. There are plaques with words and stuff but I doubt they'll be read before they're removed and "stored" by the next administration.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026
Bloody seabird bloody flavor... Like all bullies, once Iran stood up to him, Trump had no plan B. He hasn't got one now and perhaps more importantly, he hasn't got anyone on his senior staff capable of coming up with one. Hormuz will remain a political […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
John Cleese dressed as a woman trying to sell an albatross as a snack to Terry Jones in the "Albatross" skit on Monty Python's Flying Circus
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026
"El sueño de la razón produce monstruos" --Francisco Goya My new favorite title for a piece of art. "The sleep of reason brings forth monsters." #Art #Ontology Attr: By Francisco Goya - FAF4YL0zP9cjHg at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
A man sits at his desk with his legs crossed and his head padded by his arms on the desk asleep. All manor of minor terrors fly towards him to give him fear. Owls, bats and an anxious cat seem to be whispering fears to him while he sleeps. Printed in Spanish on the side of the desk that is visible is the phrase "The sleep of reason brings forth monsters."
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
The Grim Reaper is undefeated but Susan Dell has decided to go kicking, screaming and not at all gentle into that good night. Dylan Thomas didn't say anything about making yourself into a fright mask. Maybe she's trying to scare Death to death. Jesus what […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
Michael and Susan Dell meeting with the orange dementia man. Michael is wearing a suit with a red tie, Susan is wearing a black shoulder-less dress and make up and extreme plastic surgery that would scare small children.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026
I don't get it. Given the hot, dry weather Colorado is experiencing, most of the front range cities have banned anything that burns hotter than heated looks for this July 4th. So 100 miles up I-25 they come, to two giant fireworks stores just over the […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
A google maps image of the three fireworks super-stores just off of exit 2 on I-25  north of the Wyoming/Colorado state line. Phantom Fireworks is a purple building, and Pyro City Fireworks is off to the left and back a little further from the service road. They sell a lot of fireworks to people from Colorado who make the drive up to Wyoming to buy fireworks that aren't available in their home state.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026
I've loved Ridley Scott's movie "Kingdom of Heaven" since the first time I saw it. It caused me to become fascinated with King Baldwin IV and Saladin. Recently I was made aware of a theory that the knight/priest known only as "The Hospitaller" played by […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
The actor David Thewlis wearing a full beard and mustache, blonde hair and the dark traditional clothes for a Hospitaller knight in the movie "Kingdom of Heaven" by Ridley Scott.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026
Charge? A temperate day for campaigning. Jean-Michel performed well and the sortie was complete in just over an hour. I've attached photos of today's action. The first is prisoners being loaded for transport and the second is your narrator trying to look […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
Two bags of grass clippings stuck in the back of an utility vehicle for transport up the hill to the smelly old compost heap.A photo of the person posting this toot. Wearing a greyish-tan, well-worn baseball cap with the Wyoming state flag patch sewn in the front. Black "birth-control" glasses, short greying hair and a moderately out-of-control grey beard complete the look.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026
Mrs Miasma says I don't know anyone in Oregon well enough to go to tea with them despite there being no rush. But you can certainly go in my stead if you're up for some tea with apparently no other implied obligations. 🙄 #SPAM #Scam
A screen capture from my phone where I received a text reading as follows: 
"How about a nice, slow afternoon tea sometime? No rush, no plans, just that" from an unknown number possibly in Oregon but likely from somewhere else entirely.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026
I guess they skipped the middle man. The package of hamburger buns we purchased last week had part of the "best if used by" date printed on two of the buns instead of the packaging. I'm hoping it's not the beginning of a trend. #Food
Two hamburger buns with black dot-matrix type ink printed on the top and side of each bun.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026
Just checking... #AI
A chat session I had with GPT-5.4 nano for no good reason this morning. It reads:

Me: Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell *bad*. Are you sure your circuits are registering correctly? Your ears are green.

AI: Sounds like playful, deliberately nonsensical word-association. If you want to make it “make sense,” tell me what kind of output you want—e.g., translate it into coherent prose, treat it as a riddle (and solve it), or write a continuation in the same surreal style.

Me: Norman! Coordinate!

AI: I don’t know what “Norman! Coordinate!” refers to—can you give the context (a game/film, a puzzle/riddle, or what “Norman” and “coordinate” should mean)?"Norman, the robot in charge of all the other robots in this episode of Star Trek, is suffering a cooling problem. He's eyes roll back in his head and smoke is coming out of his ears when Capt Kirk and Harry Mudd act illogically and Norman can't process what he's seeing and hearing."
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026
I watched off and on late into the night as workers erected scaffolding to begin the process of removing an act of vandalism that involved litigation, super-glue and sociopathy. An apt illustration that it is always harder to clean up a mess than it is to […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
A screen capture of the msnow live feed on youtube showing the front of The John F. Kennedy Center For Performing Arts where a large construction tarp tightly covers scaffolding in front of the lettering of the center so passersby can not determine whether or not Donald Trump's name has been removed.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026
Well provisioned. My sister Mellifluous and her husband Mundungus are spending the night on their way to visit their grandkids. She told us not to go to any trouble for their stay. Yeah, like I'm gonna fall for _that_ again... I was born at night, but it wasn't last night. #IceCream #Family
A pint of just about every flavor of Tillamook ice cream they had at the grocery store sitting in the top drawer of our freezer. Chocolate chip cookie dough, chocolate peanut butter, vanilla bean and mudslide (my favorite).
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026
The National Weather Service (or what's left of them) says 60-100 mph (97-161 kph) gusts in our area all night long. I hear Cleveland is nice this time of year. I hope they don't mind some new residents flying in from the west.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026
My latest favorite in a category of art I like to call "sardonic reductivism." Part of an exhibition at the Brinton Museum in Sheridan, Wyoming detailing the Battle of Little Bighorn from the Native American perspective. Dwayne "Chuck" Wilcox "Two Out of […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
A mixed media picture featuring silhouettes of General Custer and a Native American warrior kneeling to play the 1970's children's game "Rock'em Sock'em Robots." The warrior has won this round by knocking the head of Custer's robot up and away from it's body.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026
Oh, oh! Guess what I found in the used Science Fiction section of worlds largest independent bookstore (Powell's in Portland, Oregon)? #TerryPratchett #ScienceFiction #Books
The cover of Terry Pratchett's book "Night Watch." It has the author's name, two angels in silhouette aside a badge bearing the number "177" and the title of the book.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026
The nerve of some people. Ordinarily I delight in writing some kind of snark on the cover page of the Gideons Bible they leave in my hotel rooms. But somebody got here before me and brought their "A" game... Well played fellow traveler, well played. #Hotels #Religion
On the left is a copy of the Bible placed in my hotel room by the Gideons. On the right of the photo is a book titled "UFO of GOD" by Chris Bledsoe.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026
3of6 and a maintenance issue. Okay - hotels are weird and every single one of them has at least one "thing" but this one has _six_ hallways like the one in the picture and earlier today when I was wheeling our luggage past the maintenance guy in endless […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
One of the characters from the movie from "Deliverance" He doesn't have any front dentition, has a beard and a hat and thinks things are funny when they really aren't.One of _six_ endless hallways at the hotel we're currently staying in. They all look exactly the same.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026
"Two paths diverged in a yellow wood." --Robert Frost's commentary on my car's GPS (probably) I hope this hotel doesn't charge by the platitude... #Travel #HotelRooms
A quote written in text just above my bed for tonight - it reads:
"Eventually, all things merge into one,
and a river runs through it."
by Norman MacleanText on the wall of our hotel room. It reads "Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world" by John Muir.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026
The closest Miasma is interested in ever being to the edge of the Seattle Space Needle.
Too high up at the top of the Seattle Space Needle.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026
Portland Japanese Garden Adventurous us - we took public transit from the hotel out to the Portland Japanese Garden today. We're footsore but it was beautiful and we only got rained on a little. #Gardens
A Japanese stone lantern sitting about a meter above the ground right near a pond in front of a beautiful tree, some ferns and a flowering bush.A Koi fish swimming just below the surface in a pond next to ferns.A Japanese maple tree behind a rhododendron plant. The maple tree has very slim leaves and they are light purple in color.A Japanese bamboo water feature where a trickle of water from a bamboo water spout falls into the open mouth of a 1 meter section of hollow bamboo. When the bamboo tube fills with water, it tips forward and empties into a stone bowl placed there for that purpose and the process repeats.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026
Counter service. Last time I sat at the counter in a restaurant was with my mom in the 1970s. Fuller's Coffee Shop in downtown Portland is a treat. Diner food with genuine attitude. Our waitress had the word "Nope" tattooed on her arm. 5/5 We'll be going […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
Front windows of Fuller's Coffee Shop in downtown Portland Oregon. You can see patrons sitting at the counter through the windows. The building has more windows than walls.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026
Half-a-cup o' coffee blues. We're staying in a downtown Portland, Oregon hotel and the people working here are incredibly nice and helpful, but I do have a complaint. This is the coffee ration I'm allotted from the Keurig instant coffee maker in our room […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
Sixty percent of a cup of not particularly good coffee made by the Keurig coffee machine in my hotel room.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026
We stopped and had lunch at a little restaurant called "Revelry" in downtown Bozeman, Montana today. If you're ever in Bozeman - *definitely* give this place a try. The smashburger with jalapenos was probably the best variant of a cheeseburger I've ever had […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
Two smashburgers with french-fries sitting on a wooden table. One has cheese, the other does not. There are compotes of ketchup on each plate for the bounty of perfect fries that were served with the burgers.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026
Last night at our banned book club meeting I was made aware of the theory of necropolitics and was re-acquainted with Wilhoit's law. Needless to say, it was a rough night for my world view. #SocietyInFreefall #SocialScience src […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
Linus the young boy from the Charles Shultz comic strip "Peanuts" is sitting with his legs out in front of him, sucking his thumb with a worried expression on his face holding his security blanket next to his head. Linus had life figured out earlier than most of us.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026
Caffeinated edge. I was going to post "Can you spot the rogue coffee bean that refused to enter my coffee grinder this morning?" and then something pithy like "Yeah, neither can I." But then I uploaded the image to my computer and there, bold as brass, the […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
There is a single roasted coffee bean sitting somewhere on top of a granite kitchen countertop that blends in extremely well with the pattern and color of the the countertop. Some would say it's almost invisible.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026
Black is a slimming color. Mrs Miasma and I just joined a subversive organization. I'm a little disappointed AARP doesn't sell the kind of branded merch we currently need here in America but the travel discounts are nice. #OldPeopleOfMastodon #AARP
A man wearing a black balaclava (a cotton or wool knitted mask that hides a person's facial features). The letters AARP appear in red on the forehead of the balaclava. AARP stands for American Association of Retired Persons.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026
I don't know why historical researchers or people who have to be accurate in their work output don't want to work with AI... Jonathan Winters spent 2 1/2 years in the United States Marine Corps fighting in the Pacific Theater during World War II. At the […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
The AI assistant for my browser said the following, none of which is true or accurate about the comedian Jonathan Winters:
"Jonathan Winters is not a Marine Raider; he is a notable figure in the U.S. Navy, specifically known for his service as a SEAL and later as a rear admiral. He commanded various special operations units, including the Naval Special Warfare Command."
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026
So, we're not crazy. Mrs Miasma and I would lie in bed giggling on mornings when we heard sandhill cranes calling. We knew no matter how fast we got up and dressed, we wouldn't see them. We never had and we'd tried many times... until today. A pair of […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
Two birds with brown feathers, long legs and long beaks foraging in the grass of our back yard.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026
This morning we have rock-filled clouds. I wish I was a better photographer. #Wyoming #LowClouds
Clouds obscuring the top half of the mountains in the Big Horn mountain range in northern Wyoming. There is a brown big-roofed house and lots of mostly green grass in the foreground of the photo.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026
Homewrecker. Myself, Mrs Miasma and gravity must each accept our share of blame for this tragedy. "First time home builders fail to secure HOA approval. Dream of home ends in tears." -- The imaginary newspaper article I wrote in my head just now Robins […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
The scattered remnants of a the building materials a pair of robins were using to build their nest on our front porch. They're laying scattered on our welcome mat and the concrete beside it.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026
I think it's safe to say I'm not nearly as funny as I wish I was... But apparently I'm tremendous fodder AI investment wisdom. #NotWhatIMeant #MoneyForNothing
A response from a Bluesky user to my earlier post which reads as follows:
Routinely safe.

Mrs Miasma expressed some concern about how routine our lives are becoming.

"What if someone wants to do us harm and they know our schedule?" she argues.

I counter with "I'm pretty sure an elite squad of assassins rolling into our small town would probably be noticed."

"Also, let's cut down on your action/espionage movie intake."

#Routines 
#OldPeopleOfMastodon

The response post from a Bluesky user reads as follows:

Predictability kills in markets too. Routine traders get eaten by volatility. Disrupt your schedule. Train chaos tolerance. Assassins or black swans notice the rigid.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026
And now... My reward for NOT falling for the first scam I've ever seen on Mastodon. (I'm pouring for anybody in the neighborhood - so stop by.) * Thanks for the quick answers. I appreciate it.
A bottle of "The Balvenie" brand scotch sitting on a counter top next to a glass with sacrilegious ice cubes in the glass keeping the scotch company. Yeah, I know - I'm a philistine.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026
Never seen this before in the four years I've been here, so naturally, I'm suspicious it's a scam. Anybody else been hit with it? I'm pretty sure it's a scam. (I've blurred the link in the snapshot image). The originating user show as "Account suspended" […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
A post I just received that reads as follows:

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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026
When you see it, you'll see it. Either somebody has a good sense of humor or the geolocation/navigation capabilities of the U.S. Navy are a lie. My last Garmin device (bought around the same time as this photo was taken), tried to drive me off a mountain […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
An area of a modern fast attack nuclear submarine's control room. The walls are covered in electronic devices and analog gauges. There is a small metal navigation table in the center of the photo with a laptop and a telephone. Behind the table, mounted to the wall is a grey box with the logo for "Garmin" printed on the front of the box. Garmin is a leading manufacturer of consumer satellite navigation systems. Apparently they build navigation systems for the U.S. Navy as well.
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Milcom Miasma @mmiasma.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026
The old man and the chicken sandwich. (A cautionary tale) I don't go through drivethru's anymore. I want to go inside to see if the walls, floors or employees have food on them. Also if there are flies present. Even this doesn't help sometimes. Mrs Miasma […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
A chicken carcass made of rubber with head still attached. The legs are sticking straight out from the body and the head and neck are elongated so as to provide a popper area for holding the rubber chicken to commit acts of comedy assault.
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