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Karsten Wade
@quaid.bsky.social
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"Kindness is always an appropriate response"
Cares deeply. Parent, survivor (again), & especially your brother
Founder OpenCommAr.ch, Co-founder PAIPalooza.com
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Probably not one of these guys though. This was taken yesterday afternoon less than an hour before sunset from the path at Wilder Ranch.
Photo was taken from the back side of a narrow cove with tall and sheer cliffs. The cove is primarily in shade, the sun beginning halfway up the cliff on the left or east side of cove, as this is picture is taken less than an hour before sunset. The very front of the picture has a few inches of coastal sage, the slope drops down to meet the beach in the lower third of the picture. From there the beach swoops down to where the incoming waves wash over. And just above the tideline are dozens of sea lions, resting in the shade. Most of the other coves have more of a western facing right now and are awash with Sunlight.
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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'Tis the season! Gotta get down to West Cliff early for the kind of views you are capturing, tho' it's not too bad here:
First minutes of sunrise with a hot glowing orange glow the lower part of the horizon, with gray and blue plain clouds above. Picture taken from the second floor of a Victorian, building elements visible at the edge of the picture. First minutes of sunrise with a hot glowing orange glow the lower part of the horizon, with gray and blue plain clouds above. Picture taken from second floor of a Victorian, building elements visible at edge of picture. Spread of sunrise with a flowing orange glow coming up from the horizon, with gray and blue plain clouds above. Picture taken from the second floor of a Victorian, building elements visible at the edge of the picture. Spread of sunrise with a flowing orange glow coming up from the horizon, with gray and blue plain clouds above. Picture taken from the second floor of a Victorian, building elements visible.
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Choices, choices...
A 2-in across metal loop ring holds color samples of fiberglass material to be used for a cast. The colors are arrayed around starting in the upper right and going around counterclockwise as black, tan, light pink, pale green, light blue, c dark blue, purple, bright yellow, Dusty red, and sherbet orange.
October 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Well well, lookee who's #5 in this list, it's @muellershewrote.com ... Well done #Leguminati and AG!
September 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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FIRST SIGN OF AUTUMN SPOTTED! 🍁🍂🌰🌬️🍃
A morning picture of a front yard Halloween decorations, the shadows cast away from the camera. Behind a short 1 ft tall spiked fencing is a miniature spooky graveyard, with clawed skeleton hands grasping out of the ground and thin gravestones with pithy sayings. In the background is a full size skeleton with full size skeleton flamingos at its feet, and then the yard's usual pink flamingo statues just in front.
September 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Me today, in hopeful and fearful solidarity
Point of view shot of two legs in a pair of shorts. Sticking out of a car door and out on the pavement. The left foot is resting on a parking stripe and tilted to make an l at the end of that straight leg. The right foot is canted a little outward so that you can see the star of the Converse logo. The focus on the image is the bright yellow-orange padded-ankle Chuck Taylor high top sneakers.
July 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Here's a bit of daily calm for @deviantollam.bsky.social and anyone else who likes to see proper fire safety and liminal spaces, where the only things stored are shadows and light:
The image is of the bottom of an emergency exit staircase, the stairs painted bright green and the walls bare grey concrete except for a red sign with white letters that reads, "NO STORAGE PERMITTED IN THE STAIRWELL BY ORDER OF THE FIRE MARSHAL". The area at the bottom of the stairs where people will sometimes store things is fenced off in this case and indeed there is nothing stored there. There's a kind of calm in this liminal space from the lack of chaos and perhaps the crisp shadow lines from the portion fencing off the area next to the last staircase.
July 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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May I introduce a year that included Yo! Bum Rush the Show, Bigger and Deffer, AND Paid in Full?
List of hip hop albums released in 1987 starting with Public Enemy Yo! Bum Rush the Show on February 10th and finishing November 10th with NWA and the Posse.
June 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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And the sign warns not to climb the pole because something is rotten and unstable below:
A. Close-up of a telephone call Pole from the previous image in this thread, focused on a small red sign in the middle of the pool. The red sign is rectangular and wider left to right, attached to the pole with screws on both sides. In the middle of the red sign is a symbol like a six-spoked wheel with an arrow bisecting the circle pointing straight down. Effectively, it is an arrow pointing in a direction and a circle with a cross saying no about something in that direction. In the context of a utility pole, it is meant to signify that something is unstable in the direction of the arrow and not decline or Lena ladder against the pole. For that reason. The sign appears just inches above and to the right of the 86 47 of the original image.
May 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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@maddow.msnbc.com on the #First100Days: "One thing it's been from the moment he got back to Washington is an unfunny farce, a slapstick-mess of reversals and mistakes, and 'oops, let's pretend we didn't do that'..."
Screenshot of Rachel maddow as quoted in this post. She is live on the set of her show, by herself at the desk talking to the camera, with an image of the White House floating to her left on the right side of the image. At the bottom of the image is a single word in all caps and a sans serif font and in the format of a graphical meme, reading "OOPS!"
April 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Doing the #NightowlCoworking sesh in downtown SF - you missed this one, don't miss the next!

lu.ma/1jy8my6y

(OG @centos.org fans may recognize my T-shirt...)
March 27, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Mirthful morning to you, New York Fucking Times
March 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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I felt the need for a 2nd meditation this afternoon (there are signs I look for), found myself working with, "I care about myself & I forgive myself, I care about you & I forgive you, I care about us & I forgive us." Over & over, sinking it into the system

#VipassanaADay
#MindfulnessMeditation
Image is but from below of a hillside that seems prone to sliding, with signs of relatively recent erosion. The bottom part of the image is shades of light and medium brown of the sandy shale and soil, with various small bushes and trees growing out of the nearly vertical hillside going straight up in front of the viewer. Midway up the picture on the left side, a tree juts into the image at a sharp 30° angle toward the top, getting on another portion of the hillside angled differently to the viewer. Near the top of the image and on the right side of the image are more trees growing on the sides and on the ridge above, glowing in the afternoon sun, and the sky behind the last row of trees shines cerulean blue.
February 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Loving kindness meditation w/the phrase may I be happy on the in-breath, may I be at ease on the out-breath, then may I be free from suffering on the in & out. Letting the phrases churn and morph:
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In the late afternoon sunlight with the shadow of a house cast on the path, a brick path stretches over 60 ft or 20 m up the center of the picture between a row of flowering plums about to blossom. On both sides of the path is the green of various grasses, weeds, and oxalis plants. On the left side halfway up the picture a plaster column approximately 2 ft tall stands next to a tree. On the opposite side, a bush of scented, geraniums and lavender are visible surrounding another tree. Going all the way up. The left side of the path from the viewer's perspective are the marks of a trench being dug from end to end, with the far half in the sunshine revealing a layer of earth where the sod has been peeled back, and the sod in the your side of the picture shows the lines of shovel marks cutting the edges in preparation for removal
January 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Trying for breath concentration meditation because of the amount of sleepy drop-offs, offering forgiveness at each return to awareness/mindfulness, but hard to tell: Is this just not getting enough sleep, or is this a freeze response to something arising?
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A very orange sky and setting Sun fill the top half of the picture, with the sun half obscured by a large whale skeleton at the horizon level. Reflection artifacts obscure and bleed light into the darkened part at the bottom of the picture, with other elements of the research station buildings to the left and right of the skeleton silhouetted against the orange sky.
January 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Open awareness, working with training the mind to remain present, or return to the present time awareness with kindness and compassion toward myself.
#VipassanaADay
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Picture is a view taken from directly underneath a set of utility wires connecting in for multiple directions, with the blue sky and the smattering of wispiness of cloud. In the background. The top center of the photo shows a street lamp from the right side of the picture, and perpendicular to the lamp run the main power lines above, and telephone, cable, and fiber lines below. In the center of the picture, several television/internet cable lines stretch from the left side of the picture across an open street, and connect to a bolt floating in mid-air that used to be attached to the cross wooden beam 6 in or so to the right of the floating bolt.
January 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Using equanimity meditation via heart practices to hold space for my reactivity to the conditions in my life. Happiness or suffering comes from my response to conditions, not from conditions themselves. 2,923rd day of daily practice, aka 7 years.
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Lush California Winter garden, picture taken from a first floor porch with the guardrail visible and half shadow in the front of the picture. Just beyond on the left are the brown and Rusty dead Hydrangea flowers. In the center of the image are a wicker chair and a chaise lounge, one blue and white pillow scattered to the left of the chair that is facing to the left of the image. Image. The furniture is sitting amongst a small pool of green that is surrounded by small shrubs on the left and dormant plants on the right. The small shrubs are visible as yellow Mexican Daisy, lavender, and a scented geranium.
December 31, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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Opening w/access to the feeling of anger/upset at myself for not being able to get shit done, for getting stuck/unable-to, my whole life. Worked on a forgiveness meditation and phrases-antidotes to the hindrances that arose when focusing on self-forgiveness.
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Dawn sky from the second floor, the dark neighborhood in the lower part of the picture and our Friends, the redwood tree and two of the palm trees silhouetted against the coming dawn light. There's a low pink cloud near the horizon with a yellowish gold backlight to it. Above the yellow gold is a pink haze, and three or more beams of blue sky radiate from where the sun is going to rise. Blue sunbeams in the morning sky.
December 30, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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Lots of stories today, anchoring on the breath, being aware of my equanimity around each of these stories (conditions), letting them go. May I learn to recognize my happiness or suffering comes from my relationship to conditions, not from conditions themselves.
#VipassanaADay #MindfulnessMeditation
View is the bottom of a concrete pool partially filled with water. In the foreground is the bone nose lip of the edge of the pool, with a chipped and decaying step just beyond. Then about 6 or 8 ft. Beyond the edge of the pool are nearly 100 3-in long comet goldfish in an array of colors eagerly feeding on bits of organic matter introduced into the fresh rainwater. The colors are mostly in the deep orange of a goldfish, with some lighter speckled and a few dark fish among them, with many of the oranges showing dark spots are there close relatives nearby. It's possible to discern a line of algae nearly 2 ft away from the edge of the water down the slope into the pool, showing the recent rise in water from the rain. Toward the top of the picture, a few hoses slope down from the pool edge and into the water, and in the very near bottom left corner of the picture is a hose of the same kind, just barely visible curling from left edge to bottom.
December 28, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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Settled into open awareness by instinct, no specific focus & feeling a need to simply see what is happening in the system. With back-attention on the breath, explored thoughts that felt like flaws, giving love & support & a few instinctive solutions that arose.
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Images taken from the cliffs. Looking out toward a stormy ocean, a wave arriving just beyond the 1st of three large rocks with flat tops. On the nearest Rock of figure crouches, releasing seaweed from a fishing line. The figure appears to be in danger from the wave, as it is surrounded by pools of tidal water and the incoming wave seems poised to swoop over the rocktop.
December 27, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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Meditation on holding forgiveness for myself for my expectations, disappointments, and behaviors in the world. Forgiving myself for taking everything so personally, forgiving myself for having a judging mind. Forgiven, forgiven, forgiven.
#VipassanaADay
Image of surf and surfers, in a stormy cove. In the foreground on bottom of the image is a walking path, then a small shift to the edge where the cliff falls away below, and a little bit of cliff in the mid distance holding position in the right side of the frame. The water is far below and the waves are beginning to curl in the whitewash. Two surfers in the left center of the picture. Watch the oncoming sets, with a small bird flying overhead. The image is mostly shades of Gray, the path the water, The horizon, and the clouds in the distance faintly, white and gray.
December 24, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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Focused on awareness of breath, immediately running into sloth+hindrance & dropping into the Dream, over & over. Tried counting the in & out breath, tried returning to the feet and the seat, whatever other tricks came to mind, surfing, the waves of gone, return, present, gone again.
#VipassanADay
The mine between the top 2/3 of the picture and the bottom 1/3 is a band of the last colors of the sunset, orange and yellow and red. Above the sky shades from light to dark blue below. The land is cast in Shadow and nearly invisible, with the stump of a tree poking above the horizon line and silhouetted against the sky on the far left of the image. In the lower right corner of the image, a railroad track points directly west toward the last light of the Sun, like an iron arrow whose two sides never meet.
December 19, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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Illimitables practice of holding compassion and gratitude for the self and the world, knowing that my ability to care about myself and others is without limits, just is my ability to appreciate the beauty in this world, and others, and in myself. Some good focus and some strong sloth.
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The sky before the sunrise, where a high altitude cloud reflects the full daylight from beyond the curve of the Earth. The high clouds are long oval bands, two or three stacked around each other, almost appearing like holes in the sky surrounded by glowing highlights. In the foreground, our friend the redwood tree is silhouetted along with a palm tree, the dark city below, and dark fog creeping in from the right edge of the picture.
December 18, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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Deeper heart practice by sitting in the dual feelings of being the one who is giving AND receiving understanding, feeling, knowing, caring, forgiving, and appreciating. By following each step on this path one at a time, the next one is opened and available as needed.
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Deep orange sunrise fills the picture, with horizontal clouds, strict with light and dark shades. Along the bottom third of the picture, one long horizontal cloud is darkly shaded in the direction facing picture, and bisex a redwood tree on the left side of the image that just high into the sky above the surrounding neighborhood that is shrouded in darkness. The redwood tree is silhouetted with slightly drooping limbs against the many shades of orange in the moments before the appearance of the sun.
December 16, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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Mindfulness practice on gratitude and appreciative joy, for myself and for others. Found it a little difficult to hold focus on that without a balance of compassion for myself and the world. "I care about you and I'm grateful for you, thank you."
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A goldfish lurks below the surface of green water, with leaves floating about adding to the camouflage. The reflection of a swimming pool wall is in the top half of the photo, and the bottom half showing the reflection of a colorless sky.
December 15, 2024 at 8:56 PM