Notices by impermanen_ 🕊️ (impermanen_@zirk.us), page 2

Good morning, human. How may I help you today? Any carrots or cookies you’d like me to deposit in your account?
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Buenos días a todos! Bonjour tout le monde! Good morning, all!
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Starting year 3 with no income now. We’ve basically decided not to sell the farm. We just can’t bring ourselves to do it. Instead we’re starting to liquidate retirement accounts. Here’s to being stupid! 🍻 At least there will be donkeys to share here.

Anyway, posting because I’ll be doing a demo of my still-half-baked (but cool) non-AI-that-works-like-AI thing today for a large residential solar company that truly needs it. Wish me luck. We could use a whole year of luck in 2026 ha ha ha! Yeah.

@inthehands if it hasn’t already been mentioned, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic has been presenting a great proposal for how smaller nations can hit the US power base where it hurts (while helping their own people) by taking advantage of Trump’s shredding of free trade treaties: treaties that locked the world into using monopolized American tech. The locks are gone now.

Doctorow’s recent talk on the new possibility of a post-American Internet: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet#t=9

The donkeys wish you a Happy New Year, kiddos. We’ll get through this together. #asstodon

Robert Frost: “The best way out is always through.”

Manuel the donkey:
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I read somewhere in the last day or two that learning is based less on remembering things than on our capacity to forget. This really resonates with me and has been one of the big lessons of 2025. Learning really new things makes big demands on our capacity to let go of what we think we know. Sometimes simple forgetfulness (which we usually curse when trying to learn) gives us the flexibility to make important discoveries and forge new mindsets.

Bleary-eyed and shaky, I stumble out the door into the street to do an egg deal with my pusher. 🍳

Good morning and a very #asstodon Christmas to all who celebrate

Listen. This is no time for taking photographs.
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Good morning, all
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Wow! #Aurora borealis in southern #Colorado! First time I’ve ever seen it this far south.

(The iPhone does exaggerate the intensity but it’s still pretty spectacular seeing it live)

The 430 lb donkeys don’t accept the idea that their 1000 lb horse buddy gets a lot more food than they do.

“We could weigh 1000 lbs, too, you know if you’d just feed us properly!”
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Stood a long time this morning in the cold air, watching the full moon slowly sink into the purple mountains. Just feeling carried along by this most ancient dance.

This mule deer buck I ran into this morning probably weighed close to 300 pounds and didn’t seem the slightest bit concerned about me stopping to check him out.

One time a big buck like this was eating all our garden plantings and I tried to scare him off. He just squared up to face me with his huge rack, and after I’d stopped in my tracks for several seconds he kind of said “thought so” and went back to destroying the garden.

Don’t worry, babe, it’s gonna to be ok. #asstodon

The mini donkeys: always plotting their next diabolical scheme. Don’t be fooled by their cute behavior or their adorably stubby legs. They are pure evil.
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We escaped!

It’s a bit tricky to find the right spot to soak in this creek because some of the water is hot enough to boil an egg and the rest is snow melt.

The donkeys trim the grass very nicely but they leave these tansyaster “bouquets” popping up in the field. Either the flavor is as bad as the flowers are pretty or they just like the way the flowers liven the place up. #asterdon #bloomscrolling

Somehow internet videos don’t seem to give a fair impression of melodic range of donkey brays, which varies drastically from one individual to another. Yes, some donkeys have a screechy, harsh and dissonant musical style. But many offer long tuneful moans. Others emit plaintive songs that could be mistaken for the sound of a young person playing the clarinet with a solid week’s worth of practice under their belt. Well, until the end of the bray, then it’s more clearly a donkey. #asstodon