Ron Guest

I’m wondering what the mid-term election results will do to my social media participation. After the presidential results I ran and hid for a couple of months to get away from all the negative energy people were constantly venting (even though I agreed with their POV). At least for me negative energy is counterproductive to driving change, serves to drive further polarization, as well as hurting (my) personal well-being. I avoid it in real life and social media is no exception. I don’t know if the community on MB and the tools in the apps well be effective in managing this or not (e.g. mute doesn’t work right IMO). Time will tell but I am a bit hopeful.

So important. So rewarding.

Here in the US, early voting starts tomorrow in my state. Voting participation is much lower for younger generations and worse in mid-terms. Although it is too late to register, now is a good time to remind those you know who are eligible to get out and vote. Each vote matters.

My 9 year old son pre-ordered donuts for this morning. A pleasure to run out for them when greeted by this kind of sky.

☀️ ⛅️ 📷 🍩

This photo reminds me of the fall emoji 🍂 📷

Bloomberg’s story on China’s hacking of servers is really smelling like bad journalism. They need to say more than “trust us”.

Apple CEO Tim Cook calls on Bloomberg to retract its Chinese spy story | Ars Technica

Here’s what’s wrong. I frequently hear from people who are disgruntled. Never once have I heard from someone who is gruntled.

As a science/space nerd I find it fascinating it will take seven years to get to relatively nearby Mercury. The spacecraft will make one flyby of Earth, two of Venus, and six of Mercury before finally reaching its destination

Two orbiters begin their long journey to Mercury

Happy 🍂 y’all. 📷

Finally got myself on the IndieWeb ring. It was quick and easy. 🕸💍

Looks like Apple is announcing all the remaining new things on October 30th. I’m strongly tempted to upgrade my current small Pro to the large Pro if it is all they say it will be. Mine is only ~2 years old and it will also mean I need to get a new keyboard to go with it so 💴

The teenager 10 years ago today. 🐎 📷

If you like funny photos of animals you’ll love this collection

Our favorite finalists from the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards - Popular Science

My word of the day was pathetic fallacy. I never would have guessed the right meaning!

The phrase pathetic fallacy is a literary term for the attributing of human emotion and conduct to things found in nature that are not human.

Pathetic fallacy - Wikipedia

I love the SYMIHC podcast and this one is a fave 🎙

The Sinking of the SS Princess Sophia | Stuff You Missed in History Class

I always feel bad when I dump some cinnamon on top of lovely latte art. But cinnamon wins every time. ☕️ 📷

I never preorder games. So often they just don’t live up to the promises. However.. I just preordered Fallout 76. I’m not sold on their focus on team plan/PvP in this version but from what I’ve seen I’ll manage to waste hours and hours of time one way or another.

My current favorite weekend watch face. I like clean and simple when I’m in ‘family time’ mode.

Pillowy ☁️

Entering a new phase of parental stress: our 14 year old daughter has a date for the homecoming dance. So now there is a different kind of dance as we start to talk to his parents, figure out what to wear, are they going to dinner first, transportation. We need to be a “how to”.

Today just went south: Windows 10 on our iMac (run via boot camp) installed an update this morning. My son later rebooted into macOS and that now fails. Safe mode won’t boot either. Windows still boots fine. 🤬😱😭

Yes I have multiple backups👍🏼 But this is still painful.🤯🤮🤐

My Micro Monday is @pratik. Maybe I should say it’s because his son is an award winning martial artist? 🤔

Just kidding. His son is awesome but the posts are worth reading/viewing no matter the subject.

The fact Facebook is creating a “portal” device for video chatting over Messenger shows me just how out of touch I must be with a huge chunk of the population. The demographic data justifying this device would be enlightening.

//@adders, @burk

Interesting story in today’s WSJ on how one company dealt with trolls and other issues. A key point: “chose to pri­or­i­tize in­clu­sion over free speech, and embraced … role as the ar­biter of what is ac­cept­able.” //@manton @macgenie

Social Media Company Tamed the Trolls

Widely scattered storms this evening. They be scattered but that doesn’t mean they’re small. 📷 ⛈