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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 8h

Morning glory is out of control this year 😂

Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 8h

"Welcome to your new pen, boys, enjoy the good eati ---" <neighbors start rapid firing semis> "Eh, sorry, boys, they'll probably head back to CT tonight"

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 9h

Seeding a Ginseng garden in the understory of a young sugar maple stand

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us." - Saul Williams She called me out for a walk last night in the wee hours. Beautiful evening 🙏 Sorry for the lens flaring, can't contain it all in this little phone box.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Beautiful day for a last brush hogging. Wish I could somehow share how sweet it all smells

Field half brush hugged on a beautiful fall day

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Everything is starting to curl inward and hunker down for winter

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Depends what altitude and nook you are in right now in east central Vermont but so far prettiest in memory 🍂🍁

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tried to get our questions, concerns, asks, notes down as bullets so when our brains are swimming we can look at it. If anyone has done this before on the parent/patient, insurance, lab, or doctor end, any insight deeply appreciated. I did NOT write "MAHA can go fuck itself" as much as I wanted to.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thanks for the reflection 🙏 I would have to dig deep in my notebooks and folders to find the more flushed out plan I drew up some years ago, but in a 10 minute or less drawing as I sit here, I imagine something like... (apologies for rough sketch and lack of alt-text, have to get back from lunch)

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of a few real poems I've ever written... a synthesis of a my story & too many stories that friends and family have shared with me. Mostly pieces of her stories. Some pieces of his stories. All parts of one our story. 💔❤️🙏 Sincerest TW/CW: SA, PTSD, Reclamation DESTROY THE RAPEIARCHY ❤️‍🔥

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sort of we've had to sit there in the crawlspace and hold a switch to pump water in to the cistern every couple of days at the speed of a slow garden hose. Gravity/siphon was busted. I don't think i can explain in words but here maybe this drawing will make sense 😂

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Were I an evil billionaire scientist, in addition to training a skunk army to attack my archnemesis (obviously,) I would invent blue and purple trees to complete the autumn rainbow.

Coming into the full spectrum here now in the hills

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

First fire of the season, gotta take the edge off the cold-damp 🔥

My amazing wife getting the wood stove going

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's always that one overachiever maple tree that notices the equinox has hit and decides to drop all of it's leaves at once

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Spending a little bit of time cleaning up my space as we close the windows up for fall. Here's a mid century sofa painting I inherited from my mom that's just been gathering dust in the corner. Like a lot of things that were incredibly meaningful to her, I have no real idea what to do with it.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Four years ago our Littlest Banana joined us in the world. Things... did not go smoothly. Thank you, beautiful phoenix, for teaching me the strength of quietness and the truth of tenderness and entire new definitions of love 🥰🙏

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of the picturesque Vermont hill farms in my area on a beautiful autumn day. New Hampshire Presidential Range in the distance.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I love crap apple season out here. There's probably 100 apple trees across a dozen old farm orchards (and some random.ones!) over the six or so miles between here and pavement. Hop out real quick and grab a random one. Might be the tartest thing you've ever bitten into or sweet as sugar.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Please leave us goats out of your dumb human nonsense"

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

30 years ago people mercilessly laughed at people who communicated with people they'd never met except "on the computer," and now here we are.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

LOL. Somewhere someone is working on a like brain-computer-AI interface with full real-time multi-sensory immersive augmented/virtual reality capability and even if they pull it off the majority of people will still be like "Cool. Can I plain text message it?" 😂

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This "debate" insists the only acceptable philosophic position is the one where your conclusion is valid & any other philosophic position is being mocked & dismissed. Good times. In any case, even in these "debate" rules, you're not actually in a plane cockpit thousands of feet above the ground.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Always complicated to talk about the depth & breadth of Project 2025 in brief conversations, so I've been trying to keep this 8.5x11 at-a-glance up to date with In Progress and Coming Soon items to drive conversations & so folks can take home & dig into it. Please dist/remix if useful for anyone ✌️

Apologies, alt-text would be a nightmare with this...

It's a 8.5" x 11" printout/handout with a bunch of in progress and not started goals of Project 2025 listed that says "Project 2025, 55% Complete" in watermark-y text in the back.

https://www.project2025.observer/en?progress=NOT_STARTED

and

https://www.project2025.observer/en?progress=IN_PROGRESS

for source data,

https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf for the full PDF.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah 😂 It's our anniversary so we're going to make it a romantic date night 🤪 Cheers to rural living

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Nobody could have seen this coming." Bruh it's available for free in PDF format. static.heritage.org/project2025/...

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"You're so pessimistic" 🙄 Here's a photo of some beautiful art by nature.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every night as the sun sets over the White Mountains from the foothills of Vermont, what was once a preventable nightmare feels more and more inevitable. I try to reconcile the beauty of life with the trajectory of our world.

Sunset over the western edge of the Presidential Range

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

'Head Scratches' by Loki. 2026. Horns on cedar.

Goat went wild itching his head on this tree

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Of course, our boys have decided that the perfect place to build a tree house is directly above the century+ old farm scrap metal and broken glass pit that I assume, at some point, was a pile. Weekend three of digging out stuff.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Feb 2010. I'm working for state government & broadly tasked with utilizing technology to reduce costs & improve service delivery via integration & automation. A political appointee mentions flippantly in a meeting "all jobs can be automated." I am up all night writing. I soon leave state government.

The Vermont Center for an Open, Informed and Sustainable Society

Introduction

I am proposing that we begin the process of automating the jobs of executive civic leadership, and potentially in the future eliminate the entire executive branches of state government, by creating an information system that ties together the collective knowledge and wisdom of the people.

This system will be built on the principle of simplicity, and will utilize existing technologies, and will in effect provide the leadership and strategic vision that the executive branch, and the office of the governorship itself, is intended to provide.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Had that dream, again, last night of folks just somberly walking around the public perimeter of the White House and maintaining a circle of crime scene tape.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hey Vermont! Are you ready to vote? Talking within your circles? Current polls are showing Gov. Scott with a winning lead over Ms. @janooforvt.bsky.social Just a few weeks left to have good conversations about taking a chance to get out of this muddy rut! Let's ride the ridge 🍁✌️

NYT article.showing UNH polls with a +8 to +16 lead for Gov. Scott over Ms. Janoo

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Guessing I might be the only person on here in the Vermont Orange-Caledonia District? 😬 Excited to vote for Aiden in November. He wasn't even old enough to vote himself in the primary! If elected, he will be the youngest person ever in the Vermont House. Everyone verified they are all set to vote?

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

His brother advises anyone that steps on *anyone* else to get higher up will be eaten down to the roots

One of our little.goats sticking his tongue out

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Captain Meemo would like everyone to know goats have been unfairly dragged into politics

Me and Capt. Mimo, one of our youngest goat kids

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The leaves are changing here in the Vermont foothills to reveal nature's gradient.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The leaves are changing here in the Vermont foothills to reveal nature's gradient.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We stacked wood three or four days ago and tonight this big slug crawled out on top of the stack. It must have spent the last few days navigating back and forth across layers of splits before emerging. Pretty sure if it could talk, we'd connect 😂 Wonder what it's name is 🤔

Big slug on wood split.

* big slug in camera may appear larger than they really are.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

- Laplace, 1814 Essai philosophique sur les probabilités --- the foundational sales pitch of AI obsessed venture capitalists 😂

"We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes."

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What emerges is some weird blend of high tech IT speak & a variant of a like atheistic Calvinism that smells like nihilism wrapped in justifications of sciencism & a sad life of sitting alone reducing reality into component parts & attempting to accurately predict when the universe will entropy out

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Saunt Lora's Proposition is the proposition introduced by the monk Saunt Lora and believed by the Lorite order that every idea has already been thought of. Ironically, one of Saunt Lora's young avouts proved that the proposition itself had already been thought of.

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