Richard Grant

I'm a writer and gardener living in the remnant of a forest on the coast of Maine USA. My novels include Rumors of Spring, Tex and Molly in the Afterlife, and Another Green World. I'm a gay father and granddaddy. He/him

#gardening #wald #woods #trees #Wandervogel #Romantik #ChoralMusic #EarlyMusic #anglican #neopagan #Episcopagan #LGBT #TMSidhi #fantasy #science #SF #PlantScience #botany #labyrinths #impossible #paranormal #folklore #magic #UAP #NAFO #Ukraine #Maine #photography #liminal


Big moon over the bay action this evening.

#lincolnvillebeach #maine #hipstamatic

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Haha! and also wtf. Is it tasty?


nostr:npub12tyk735v52ju032qahe3k2r520jlsujaem6xr8n0ex6u7eqj0anq59vnqc Henceforth nostr:npub157zqukwuk72d6mq8z8x6xwqetuwvkjkv9vqmtkkk2xt6t6zp9n7qvh2cw2 shall be known as Man From The Netherlands. Arise, ye fair knight, and sally forth


nostr:npub1sdkl2zyvnuc045tn453k2eyrg2ezkxu3qqnkgh3uejr8y8pd7duqpr0kgj Sounds like young god I'd like to meet. His possible nonexistence is not a problem.


nostr:npub1qk4ugek24jn9mwjdpe35qtkjpzvdcj8vyqhch05kqavd4xrdp9lseantqy Oh my, how lovely!


nostr:npub1wp4zyea4sk24hdx876q0j6eat2kf8mhc8ndu5mz65nfyffdu33yshtpsc9 That's really a wonderful image from an older phone. I loved the iPhone 5 — felt so nice and light in the hand.


nostr:npub1fjzwp3x9k8496j36grj4t3pw0hc0vp5dcgw4lw44arpdmefcjn2qfw3aet Brilliant


Where did the dream go

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The labyrinth and the bay.
#Belfast #Labyrinth #MeerMittwoch

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nostr:npub1qwvwvlayv625uap68ja382pazfftnmqma22tyepqu6t6pea8rfjspw65zc The bastard


nostr:npub10940z6cfs9wndhte7mkgw7tw79k68pp5z0k84weuph5swvsrn2xqrm2wum If you *are* going to push people toward smaller servers, at least acknowledge some of the problems that may arise.

The admin may get overwhelmed, depressed, or fed up — and just quit, with minimal notice. The server then ceases to exist. This happens all the time.

The admins of small servers often feud with one another, and with larger servers, which leads to impulsive defederation, which messes up the user experience. There's no easy way to foresee which servers will be affected.


nostr:npub10940z6cfs9wndhte7mkgw7tw79k68pp5z0k84weuph5swvsrn2xqrm2wum I question whether you should be editorializing from the Fedi.tips account. Many people have come to rely on you for understanding how to use mastodon (and the fediverse generally), and will assume you're speaking in some official capacity.

But what you're doing is advocating for a particular view of the fediverse — which I consider alarmist and, at the very least, open to debate. There's no objective standard by which a server can be declared "too large." Why stoke this conflict?


nostr:npub1v7t90e0pr7ymu09zxukgkv55dqglh7xpxpml6jezvuanfcslehlq9u7ssu Thank you!


nostr:npub172vd3drjay5g8sk6d6kx7pj2s3ltl8yx583m3cz0wrvwql93vljs7udkj3 nostr:npub1lrvmc88ck63qpt734w85t5pnxchncvam0p9k9mueuezqz0grkn6s8jtth9 I agree — he’s looking and acting like someone who is pretty miserable with how things are going. New York is where he made his mark and it’s key to his personal mythology. Sad!


nostr:npub129hy4ks3znggpc53w2pc972pmjsh9yftesua6nudx7plfzyyeugsmny2hs Do you think it's really dying? I follow almost nobody but photographers over there, and that part of the scene is enjoyable, from my perspective — though having said that, I do not spend much time there at all.


Lost! Tricked! Trumped! Dumped!

Last night, for no particular reason, I thought of Maurice Sendak's late work "We
Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy", whose opening lines are:

We are all in the dumps
For diamonds are trumps

Which he illustrates thusly

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nostr:npub1uwk20uzk82qd7w9jp32qxyq399t96m9fxa2kx8e7ktyqvytvpdqsge80zw Good morning <world-weary sigh>


nostr:npub1rnl4hj4rpqugcxd3m9339ftpqv9eqmd936f4d9tjjjf87a3xeq2qtu7sz7 There is so much mystery in these images, and such a beguiling atmosphere. Brilliant work


nostr:npub1ldegdagly83pghemv9a54ud6hh8egknuud0g0ftdtrrrwkvy8sxqsrp4dp nostr:npub1usxqpn3g2ar3kpzg77c74kvtvqgvcxn5r0r7hsg8lkzag7xpvj3qcerm5q That is very cool. Ingenious and elegant!


nostr:npub1p33xv5gh2fy5dqrstt3htjfqpulcwhxw7zuu7h6et6krycnfys8q0qkjd6 I love the #detectorists


nostr:npub1y9v3d47p39rga8zmuxskg3n9l63s0s288xfnalnprpre7gtt75gqtft45y I've got that book! Or at least I did at some point; these things sometimes evaporate. I liked this approach to the Matter of Merlin


Fearing the moon.
#FullMoon #pagan #paranormal

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nostr:npub1vvap4hwa5y7zpfrrl8weywrce4tn68ra9ny0ya6jz7c4sj3wqpkscnw0k4 This is intensely cool


nostr:npub12se85fzu3t9rruk8tuu94zytmc3yd29vyzwenn7cnnj0m5d9qhlq2ka0u6 Welcome Chega to our mad, mad little world! Hope you find some like-minded spirits here


nostr:npub1grx4wzqldf8clxusxpz78adjcukkqvdkhf8amsdhr6sy3ctuu2fqvsuxfe Yeah this is good! I find myself pretty much in agreement right down the line


nostr:npub1jeqcnv0u9nyz8vjknegr2p62f54hfm3v9srudwq4rzarz4tqwk7qlujglm Do you know anyone who actually feels this way, though? I honestly don’t think I do.


nostr:npub145w3k07gammfr99qw59ws6p2n3cmvefcepnw6xvfkm0ux6qm7mfs2p3zt9 I suppose my eye lit upon the "might" in that sentence and took it to mean that this fix (literally) might work.


nostr:npub1y9v3d47p39rga8zmuxskg3n9l63s0s288xfnalnprpre7gtt75gqtft45y I invite you to consider the consequences of NOT paying 50 dollars for a this unholy thing.


nostr:npub1ldegdagly83pghemv9a54ud6hh8egknuud0g0ftdtrrrwkvy8sxqsrp4dp Yes! And even more specifically, a particular strain of evangelical or fundamentalist Christianity


nostr:npub129xayfeldlfee5qytcxdd0fasc0qz0nm9c4mrq3rwz0aceq708csk36l3d nostr:npub1g8ew6jwnylnyvc5q4h5w8r7e7uxksz8qd4mr3wjxmx555c6dxtdqm7qdqf “moving all this activity over to [where? something missing here?] and so this will be…”


nostr:npub18lwatzhmqlc9mm5c0fxz5nukqvk5t5c4aj3agltahy9j5hmufessdq0zsu It would be very helpful if these posts included links to the source material.


A little Sunday homily from a professor of theoretical physics

Monist philosophy and quantum physics agree that all is One | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/monist-philosophy-and-quantum-physics-agree-that-all-is-one


nostr:npub1epdhc0w57typt7hn7ydvp2x9yy47hyv9e3qmagfjrr96cs7y073qdwp67u Wow, what a mess — I haven't peeked in there for a while. I'd have thought it would be moderation (or lack thereof) that would be their undoing. I never expected they wouldn't even be able to get the *technical* bits right


nostr:npub1afz9jadkpqzaedvclkth4vcm6q9fsvy6mfddq0ufwjpy4gptlwxq6xwdvg Taylor Swift!


nostr:npub1kfnteywpcu06n0dtae7wextuav756rlempqa4k4uhdfzxak3pgys267u3q You are spamming hashtags, which degrades the experience of other users. Please stop this right now


We tend to think American journalism is hopelessly addicted to both-sides, he-said-she-said, horse race election coverage. I think that might be starting to change. At least at the Washington Post. Gift link:

The Terrorizing Style in American Politics – The Washington Post
https://wapo.st/44Ug4b9


nostr:npub1grx4wzqldf8clxusxpz78adjcukkqvdkhf8amsdhr6sy3ctuu2fqvsuxfe The expanse


nostr:npub10yepnved7dnk7ls8a99grlh0gesl954nhewej54xdqrs585gmz6qguh8re

So many interesting points to contemplate about this — but one striking bit is that the Sin Eater, though apparently almost invariably a man, occupied the sort of liminal position vis-a-vis local society that traditionally fell to women who (for one reason or another) came to be regarded as witches, or at least as cunning folk, healers, soothsayers and the like. Feared, shunned, avoided (until needed), yet somehow quite important to the wellbeing of the community


nostr:npub15xtk2jzdgshcvvulkcl50ds896khndnacn3tjf0f5yk2nyadmuhskw2pp0 nostr:npub1lv4hccv9t9y0wall78lkfamydwcyepmyxx05c8mkpk2lqnfyzcxshuru5g Wonderful pic!


The UPS courier dropped off some baby #trees!

We have here Stewartia ‘Pewter Form’; native North American sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum); and Acer shirasawanum ‘Palmatifolium’ — all courtesy of Forestfarm in Oregon, which has persisted in being cool for a remarkably long time

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nostr:npub19qm2trjs3p32nwqwry4ufxl4fk9q4utkq53ywueg0yk8cvggra5s79sn8k Kind of fitting, somehow, isn't it — Apple and Microsoft. I remember an ancient issue of Byte magazine that contained a joint article by Jobs and Gates (I think it was about a shared vision of the future of microcomputer software: many small, focused apps instead of a few bulky powerhouses, something like that)


nostr:npub1x6l9k27smddw0gfp3yt8c37s96ynzs2wulm9606ktlpeuu9c7zmqt7ndgk "Twitter spinoff". Kind of a burn, though I suppose the headline writer didn't intend it that way


“I thought that, unlike life, games were fair. If you did things the right way, if you did the right thing, you were rewarded. You could even win. I needed fairness in my life.”

https://golmac.org/the-big-one-trinity/


nostr:npub12r9xam8r8mvxvwzqrrswvt3as9enkekefl3ap72qcv9m3y60g49qml83d2 Great piece! And quite enlightening to a gaming naïf like me


nostr:npub1knzsux7p6lzwzdedp3m8c3c92z0swzc0xyy5glvse58txj5e9ztqpac73p I think you have just had what we call, in the pagan business, an Unverified Personal Gnosis (or UPG). And I totally respect this revelation


nostr:npub1lrvmc88ck63qpt734w85t5pnxchncvam0p9k9mueuezqz0grkn6s8jtth9 This would be kind of a wild outcome.

I actually only got around to dropping my last Usenet provider about 2 or 3 years ago. I was still finding it useful for downloading classical music


nostr:npub1eacn5n4e4mj5c06gvqe3l57wf9ss87mq65z83rtuhdu0cy7s5ehqhc5vqz I love "low effort, low patience" — I do feel that.

If you feel so inclined, I like the Ice Cubes app, which is free (though you can buy the dev a coffee from an in-app link). My understanding is that the official mastodon apps were sort of an afterthought, so that new people would find something in the app stores


nostr:npub1v685ux9e4gnq8plwmhxg8e306cajrru3zzem77mznmanmsj3p7rs288f23 I wish I could remember who it was who remarked that Episcopalians (or maybe Anglicans, our cross-pond cousins) are basically christianized tree-worshiping pagans


nostr:npub1rkjpxkg78c7pqdzvlgx0w6uw0puccz44gwr80v6lem0kdstgn64shjufed Loose lips sink ships


nostr:npub1yfw7s4uupyvhrff5wl80zmqr7qz3hlepkrfflfkm9yylx3fnezvqnhzaxq Well worth saving! Though sadly I imagine most of the Germans have gone to bed, and I still think of this thread as theirs, in inspiration.


nostr:npub1uqtrjnd2mxrca5am9vcduj9fkmzual2j7htun86wgeht0e0fn74s0wvkf5 My kids recently lost their granddad, “Pop Pop”. He used to take my little boy Tristan out to the golf course to hit a bucket of balls around. It was the beginning of a close relationship that lasted for the rest of Pop Pop’s life. I’m pretty sure a few pics (the old fashioned printed kind) exist of the two of them wielding their clubs, like this. A family treasure!


nostr:npub1ack78g846auhwtggvlja47msq4cehur6wlqv0hdwzzq7pmvgtt0qprnemd Yes I think we can agree this usage has been a great coup for the English #language and has materially bettered many people’s lives.


nostr:npub1uqtrjnd2mxrca5am9vcduj9fkmzual2j7htun86wgeht0e0fn74s0wvkf5 What a lovely photo! And what a precious moment to capture


Hippie greenhouse! #Belfast #FensterFreitag #Maine #hipstamatic

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nostr:npub1t9cgy03tr9ra2cvlflvsrprxryjaafrt2t520t6g9epew67ktv2se43jwj that is strangely very cool


nostr:npub1w30vkgl4p4s6rg6jqnqc9p0c96a97wjslvp5fe9znlkr3djvlsxq0qdh68 I love how you do this “trump crime family” thing


nostr:npub1lrvmc88ck63qpt734w85t5pnxchncvam0p9k9mueuezqz0grkn6s8jtth9 I agree! But also I’ve been thinking about this from the standpoint of evolving language, and I think one thing that will happen is “conservative” acquiring all the connotations you’ve just named. It’s like the obverse of what happened when republicans started screaming “Socialism“ about every little modestly helpful economic thing Obama tried to do. The result was that “Socialism” lost its sting, so only progressives use it now, and proudly. “Conservative” will become a curse.


nostr:npub1qmf3z25nay68rzy46wepvh2klnarxhp8x34jrafnc2feuucnw5msvsunzr The heroine we have been waiting for!


nostr:npub1wswmad55wx3c4hlpjcvawp9ju30awu0h7u005gtj7hq7enz3a7nqcp569c I had no idea this was a New York thing. I guess for some reason I thought of it as more a European phenomenon


nostr:npub1dv724dkppw4zrhgve0gcxz5dqfd8jzqdlxzm075ghzg8kl99wf6sp4tp9d Perhaps it’s time for us to stop linking to the nazi platform here on this new, hope-filled platform


nostr:npub1aq2wqds7uk7g9tfv6gmm2qk0t6cmqmpzh5n9hkdghgx3d0x75syspa4nfw Silence from Eisenhower


Acorns of northern red oak, Quercus rubra, looking bigger than usual this year. And the local squirrel pop is down, probably due to predation. Next year’s seedlings are already a gleam in the #druid’s eye. #Maine #woods #autumn #pagan #hipstamatic

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nostr:npub18lwatzhmqlc9mm5c0fxz5nukqvk5t5c4aj3agltahy9j5hmufessdq0zsu I think that's pretty good. It is annoying that this writer feels a need to assert & to reiterate his impeccable standing as a rationalist, a materialist, etc — the sort of ritualistic utterance that Jeff Kripal (I think) wryly calls a "protective incantation". But Jesse Bering here deserves credit for being openminded about possible nonmaterial aspects of the experiences he relates. And Scientific American deserves credit too for fostering this kind of discussion in recent years.


nostr:npub12ezq2wrjqgwc5wxazgnsv3fsukv7uylpzpp3yu7vurc72wam3rkqyeuyf6 nostr:npub1eacn5n4e4mj5c06gvqe3l57wf9ss87mq65z83rtuhdu0cy7s5ehqhc5vqz There's something about this that reminds me of a certain stage of the gay-rights movement — a period when many people still had reasons for remaining in the closet, but it became evident that people who COULD come out, should do so. And only the person in question could decide. But all that said: Come on y'all. It's time to jump, if you can.


nostr:npub1vrr43x8q9nws5nu270szr04xsqzlhk7y3xdtx02jp0laf6hq88kquz78k6 This gentleman has turned out to be extremely bold and effective.


nostr:npub1ls750s245dj8drfzpsdnwzk30w7qfhxs94lpc8zm6r0066zt0gzqfr3lxm Gift link:

https://wapo.st/44G40Kq


nostr:npub12333sf5ra7gkwpz2yhxp9ytrw5t8d95z3wwyqguny6jgu5jrwmes4eadqs A magical image!