Two weeks ago the news stories were about the every day racism of the US government. This week, they're about how many people will die because of policy changes.https://www.wired.com/story/cdc-gutted-rif/ https://www.wired.com/story/cdc-gutted-rif/

A morning view from the street I've lived on for 30 years. I hope you have a great day and a better weekend.

Charleston, SC is a charming city and one of my favorite places to visit. - https://amerpie.lol/2025/04/03/charleston-street-scene.html - #Photography Follow me on Pixelfed @amerpie@pxlmo.com https://amerpie.lol/2025/04/03/charleston-street-scene.html https://social.lol/tags/Photography https://pxlmo.com/amerpie

School Starts in August - There was always a sense of renewal in the yearly educational cycle that started when the teachers reported back to work to prepare for a freah crop of students. - https://louplummer.lol/renewal-april-indie-web-carnival/ https://media.social.lol/media_attachments/files/114/271/288/059/574/254/original/9665f57da65accd2.webp https://louplummer.lol/renewal-april-indie-web-carnival/

An AppAddict Review for your Mac - ImageOptim is a free an d open-source utility to quickly and easily reduce the file size of images. I use it multiple tiimes a day via shortcuts and the services menu.#Apple #Mac #AppAddict

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The conversation I want to have with the people lining up at gun shops.

The year after Dylan Roof murdered nine people in Charleston, I went down there for a race and stayed in a KOA Campground in Mount Pleasant, right across the river. These "business" cards were left scattered around the place.

Today on AppAddict - TeraCopy for Mac - I'd stayed away from TeraCopy for Mac for a long time because it didn't have good reviews. It was updated for Apple Silicon earlier this year, so I decided to try it out. I have some huge folders with tens of thousands of images and audio files that I need... - https... social.lol https://social.lol/@amerpie/114270233879953218

Feeling pretty positive right about now despite the MAGAts.

If I told my wife that I was non-competitive, her immediate response would be to say that she is more non-competitive than me.

Writing book reviews in Obsidian is made easier with the plugin for Calibre, the free ebook manager. #Obsidian #ObsidianMD #PKM https://social.lol/tags/Obsidian https://social.lol/tags/ObsidianMD https://social.lol/tags/PKM

This is a God-tier troll, but this lady is an amatuer when it comes to online shopping. We've stopped doing business with Amazon, but in times past, a year's worth of boxes would have blocked out the sun.

File Sharing Roundup - The Best Ways to Move Data Between Devices - A collection of ways to share files between computers and phones whether they are in the same room or in different countries. - https://linkage.lol/file-sharing/ #linkage https://media.social.lol/media_attachments/files/114/268/524/503/771/660/original/aa99ef3da1b9470d.webp https://linkage.lol/file-sharing/ https://social.lol/tags/linkage

You might have to be a Texan to appreciate this. A few years ago when an ice storm crippled the state, it was this grocery store chain that organized the efforts to keep people fed when the MAGA led Abbot administration wasn't up to the job. Praise HEB!

Woodie Guthrie said "Some will rob you with a six-gun and some with a fountain pen."

No wonder Van Gogh painted these. Aren’t they beautiful? - https://amerpie.lol/2025/04/02/fields-of-gold.html - #Photography Follow me on Pixelfed @amerpie@pxlmo.com https://amerpie.lol/2025/04/02/fields-of-gold.html https://social.lol/tags/Photography https://pxlmo.com/amerpie

Today on AppAddict - Syncthing - Free and Open-Source Cross Platform File Sharing - I first heard about the free and open-source file syncing app, Syncthing, when I started using Obsidian and may people were suggesting it as the back end of their DIY vault syncing strategy. I ended up using another method ... social.lol https://social.lol/@amerpie/114265394048258940

I'm not a natural smiler. I've had a bad case of RBF for about 40 years.

Oh Death - We all have to deal with death, hopefully from a distance, from early in our lives until the end of it. - https://louplummer.lol/ohdeath/ https://media.social.lol/media_attachments/files/114/264/737/624/129/006/original/f27013b45c7ca10b.webp https://louplummer.lol/ohdeath/

Please no! I need all 12 to stay sober through this government's reign of terror.

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