Now that the US election is over, we can get back to things that truly matter. Such as how to pronounce our favorite acronym - NOSTR.

If you can hear this picture, you are my people

Has anyone been on blue sky lately? Is it any more tolerable than it was? Got bad vibes the first time I tried it.

Masculinity is under attack lately. But I like masculinity actually.

I know, shocker.

The fact that so few U.S. presidential or vice presidential candidates have had beards in modern history is funny to me. I think men usually look better with facial hair, and the older they get the more likely that is. 20-somthing or 30-something strong jaw dudes often look great without facial hair. But when men are 50 or 60 or whatever, that salt-and-pepper beard is so rad and almost always beats the no-beard weak-chin look. I actually think it's weird that neither Biden nor Trump have a beard. JD Vance looks like shit without a beard. Growing a beard is the best move he ever made, imo. And yet the media is like, "A vice president candidate with a beard?"

Masculinity can be rough around the edges, but that's what we need sometimes. It's usually balanced by other societal aspects. In some societies it gets extreme and needs to be pushed back on. My husband has a temper, but his temper is part of his power and why he impacts the world to the extent that he does. So when I interact with his temper, it's not about eliminating it, but rather it's about appreciating it but making sure it's directed in the right direction.

Masculinity and femininity are good. They don't need to be forced. Nature is diverse but society tries to categorize nature into narrower categories. Feminine men and masculine women are cool too. But that doesn't change the fact that masculine men and feminine women are also cool.

I grew up kickboxing and submission grappling. I'm a tomboy. I'm a feminist in terms of promoting equal gender rights. But at the end of the day, I appreciate masculine men. I was never attracted to men who were weaker than me in any capacity, but rather was always attracted to men with gravitas.

The easiest approach to life is to 1) respect biology as it is but then 2) also appreciate the divergences that inherently exist within it.

Trying to equalize nature is to fight against it. And yet trying to eliminate the diversify of nature is also to fight against it.

Nature is fascinating, and I do my best to appreciate it.

While it's definitely sleezy to use your control of the underlying repository I don't see how it violates GPL?

I understood Automattic's point in the WPE stuff at first but Matt seems to be going off the deep end. The stuff with ACF yesterday blew my mind.

My wife killed it today. Here's 64 pints of salsa that she cooked and canned today (2 yr supply)

Also a fantastic birthday pie for our oldest

Annd the sourdough apple butter rolls

Good #foodstr day in this house.

As part of celebrating my 25th anniversary, we decided to do a longish hike. The hike ended up being very strenuous and harder than expected. We almost turned around before the end, but ran into some people that encouraged us to continue because the view was worth it. We felt every one of those 25 extra years, but the view at the end was so worth it. The peak had shear drop offs on 3 sides and 360 panoramic views of the entire valley of Estes Park, CO. The tall peak is Long's Peak which is one of the fourteeners (peaks over 14,000 feet high).