Cartagena       Who wants to talk about politics and the trials and tribulations all around us on Christmas day?  I’ll read the news, but try not to drown in it.  The traffic seems slim.  Pelicans are flying low over the waves, hunting as usual.   We’re going to celebrate by journeying to an avian sanctuary, oh …

            Cartagena       If social media ever presumed to bring friends and families together, that pretence now seems quaint and ridiculous on so many levels.  To pretend otherwise shows our age, nostalgia, and naïveté.  The business model is based on exploitation, and those that understand this basic, seemingly foundational, fact weaponize it for their own ends …

            Marble Falls       Exhausted from a long drive, sitting next to mi companera for assistance, I set about trying to join Bluesky with mixed feelings.  I’m not really a Twitter X guy.  Yeah, in automation mode, ACORN’s comms guy shares the Chief Organizer’s Report on that platform, but at a personal level I dropped …