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Timelapser, astrophotographer, off-gridder in Crestone, Colorado, USA (a Dark Sky certified community). Friend of Bill W. Time is not money https://wildernessvagabonds.com

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Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · Jan 14

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
- Desmond Tutu

This photo is a composite of the night sky with fireflies in the foreground. The star trails create a semi-circle with center near the top of the frame. The sky is purplish near the horizon. Some of the star trails are blue.

The fireflies flashes make paths across the ground and up into the sky. There are trees in the background. The photo has a quote on the left side:

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” - Desmond Tutu

This text is underneath the quote.
XERCES SOCIETY for Invertebrate Conservation

Photo: Mike Lewinski / Flickr Creative Commons 2.0

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Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · 2h

Uh....

"He (Milei) claims he gets his best advice from Murray, Milton, Robert and Lucas. Murray, Milton, Robert and Lucas are four mastiffs − his dogs − who he refers to as his children.... are, in fact, clones of Conan, an original dog of his who died in 2017."

Advice from dogs. A chainsaw to the system. Javier Milei, far-right libertarian, is Argentina's new leader

Javier Milei, dubbed "El Loco" (the madman) by his critics, was elected Argentina's new president. He has drawn comparisons to Donald Trump,

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Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · 4h

My #timelapse from Crestone, Colorado USA for October 14-15, 2025 features some nice green airglow and trippy clouds.

Cinematic Ambient by YuraSoop is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

#astronomy #astrophotography #COwx

Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · 18h

In a hypercapitalist society, regaining any power of choice is resistance. The revolutions in thought also have to uproot specific indoctrinations. Step One is admitting we’re powerless over our coping mechanism and that we need help. Step Two is believing that help is available and Step Three is deciding to ask for that help. These three steps together are a break from rugged individualism.

Step Four is an inventory of our personal assets and liabilities, not to be judgmental but to be liberatory. We assess what beliefs and behaviors are and are not serving us anymore, so that we can choose what to change. Often this means identifying inaccurate perceptions of ourselves, on a spectrum from grandiosity (100 percent assets) to self-loathing (100 percent liabilities). Our inaccuracies were programmed into us, usually by people who had power over us when we were kids. We needed our coping mechanisms because we couldn’t reject the programming. We coped because we couldn’t be our true selves. Right-sizing ourselves now means bucking the rules of those authorities.

Many 12-step programs agree with the idea that addiction is a disease of isolation, of feeling so disconnected from other people that only our coping mechanism can give us solace. In response, 12-step fellowship helps people create their own tribes. This could be a helpful response to the loneliness epidemic that authoritarians are exploiting through the classic tactic of “divide and conquer.”

Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · 22h

tryin catch you ridin dirty

a raccoon is riding a scooter on a wooden floor in a room .

Alt: a raccoon is riding a scooter on a wooden floor in a room .

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Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · 1d

"The most desensitizing thing in the United States today is the Iran-Contra hearings, because that is desensitizing us to honesty, to the Constitution itself. THAT is an issue. This is nothing." - Frank Zappa, responding to Tipper Gore on Nightline. Full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxAm...

Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · 1d

More seriously, the team was able to observe unencrypted traffic for military systems including detailed tracking data for coastal vessel surveillance and operational data of a police force.

In addition, they found retail, financial, and banking companies all using unencrypted satellite communications to link their internal networks at various sites. The researchers were able to see unencrypted login credentials, corporate emails, inventory records, and information from ATM cash dispensers.

Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · 2d

Here's the overnight #timelapse for October 12-13, 2025 from Crestone, Colorado USA

I was hoping to capture C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) last night, but early clouds and later moon made it difficult.

The soundtrack is Celestial Voyage by Joseph Sacco, used under a Attribution 4.0 International License

Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · 2d

Sunset #timelapse with awesome undulatus clouds on October 12, 2025 from Crestone, Colorado USA

#COwx

The soundtrack is All That Remains by Thomas Walters, used under a Attribution 4.0 International License

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Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · 2d

Undulatus clouds at unset were beautiful last night. Timelapse to follow in comments.

Crestone, Colorado USA October 12, 2025

#COwx

Ripple clouds are red and orange against a blue sky at sunset. The foreground is silhouetted, with some trees on the horizon.

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Jeanine @jeaninetb.bsky.social · 2d

coloradosun.com/2025/10/09/a...

ACLU, Colorado law firms sue ICE to stop "indiscriminate" arrests and detentions

Caroline Dias Goncalves, a 19-year-old college student detained by ICE in June, is one of the plaintiffs

coloradosun.com

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Beebleblox @beebleblox.bsky.social · 2d

Experimenting with new techniques for mixed media art. I photographed these flowers, converted to grayscale, & printed on wet strength tissue paper. Then I adhered it to a gessoed panel. The paper disappears into the background, leaving the flower and revealing whatever is underneath the tissue.

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Jay Shaffer @cleverjay.bsky.social · 3d

Deep Sage Nine Starcast Episode 024

Wayback Machine This week Mike and Jay discuss a new study about the early, warmer-than-expected universe, which leads to a deep dive into the properties of cosmic microwave background radiation and listening to the Big Bang. Also, a launch of Kuiper satellites,…

Deep Sage Nine Starcast Episode 024

Wayback Machine This week Mike and Jay discuss a new study about the early, warmer-than-expected universe, which leads to a deep dive into the properties of cosmic microwave background radiation and listening to the Big Bang. Also, a launch of Kuiper satellites, and an update on space weather and the night sky.

www.skylapser.com

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Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · 4d

Monday is Canada Thanksgiving, better make it Tuesday.

Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · 4d

The amiable Althusserian scholar asked the aardvark for an absinthe. 😂

Autocomplete options with the Apple wheel:

The aardvark asked for a ride.
The absinthe arrived by airmail.
The abortion went well.
The actor asked for an aardvark.
The actor asked for abstinance.
The actor asked for redemption.
The advertisement was effective.
The agile aardvark arrived by airmail.
The agile aardvark bathed with beauties.
The agriculture was cultivated by the coral.
The aggravated driver beeped on his horn.
The aggravated rooster scratched the dirt.
The Althusserian scholer gave his copy of Lacan's "Ecrits" to the abortion doctor
The amiable Althusserian scholar asked the aardvark for an absinthe.

Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · 4d

scuz me... wtf r we doin?

www.dallasfed.org/research/eco...

Dan Munz @danmunz.bsky.social · 4d

this is the greatest chart ever created

Chart titled "AI scenarios" from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas shows GDP per capita (in thousands of 1990 dollars, log scale) from 1870 to 2050. The chart includes:
A blue line representing historical Real GDP per capita from 1870 to ~2024.
An orange line indicating the Trend GDP per capita, growing at 1.9% per year.
A green line showing an AI GDP-boosted trend with a 2.1% growth rate for 10 years.
A red line labeled "Singularity: Benign scenario," depicting rapid GDP growth after 2024.
A purple line labeled "Singularity: Extinction," illustrating a sharp GDP decline to zero post-2024.

Notes explain data sources from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Haver Analytics, Macrohistory.net, United Nations, and authors' calculations.

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NullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 4d

Large parasol mushroom.
#fungifriends

A large mushroom next to my legs in hiking boots. The mushroom reaches to halfway up my shins. Its cap is the size of a dinner plate.

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Flint Crow @flintcrow.bsky.social · 5d

🤭

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Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · 4d

Soul of a Man

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLW9...

Bruce Cockburn - Soul of a Man

YouTube video by Flightdoc Reviews

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Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · 5d

The alt text typo is a winner!

bugs bunny is wearing a helmet with wings and a braid

Alt: Bugs Bunny, wearing a viking helmet with blonde braids and a bikini armor top, riding a steed, looking goofy

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 5d

New burrowing owl behavior for me today-- taking a bath in the rain! So cool! 🪶

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Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · 5d

Since reality had jumped the shark, I am asking the writers to give us one Deus ex machina

a man is pulling a rope in the water with a yellow belt that says t on it

Alt: Happy Days scene where Fonzie jumps the shark

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Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · 6d

Last night at Mt. Princeton hot springs, near Buena Vista Colorado. Clouds doing wild dances, just like people at the Ayla Nereo concert

#COwx

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Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · 7d

Alex Ammons is awesome!

www.westword.com/music/denver...

Alex Ammons Explores Love and Loss on Debut Album

The Denver singer-songwriter is hosting a highly-anticipated release show at Leon Art Gallery on Friday, September 19.

www.westword.com

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 8d

Regardless of if you celebrate the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, the Harvest Moon, or just making it through the day, every night we see is another one our enemies wish we hadn't.

Here's tonight's #FullMoon rising.

I hope if you have some clear skies you can look up and smile tonight. ❤️

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Beebleblox @beebleblox.bsky.social · 8d

Moon rising over the Sangre de Cristos Mountains, outside of Taos, NM.

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