Anymouse

@anymouse

Village Trustee (Chairman/mayor), village of 92 in the Nebraska Panhandle. Democratic Socialist. Disabled Navy veteran with epilepsy. Former erotic Romance novel editor. Flag committee chair. broadwater.nebraska.gov He/him

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Anymouse@anymouse· Jul 10

I live in a place with no cell service. I never understood the idea of "I need my phone to get around." Our last road trip a couple years ago was over 10,000 miles to Newfoundland and across Labrador from Nebraska via North Carolina, all maps.

2022 road trip shown on Mapquest . Starting in western Nebraska, stops include Tenn., NC, Mass., VT, ME, NB, PEI, NS, Newfoundland, Labrador, QC, ON, MI, ON again (north), MB, ND, SD, home.

Anymouse@anymouse· Jun 19

Are only cats licensed here, or do posters need a license as well?

Anymouse@anymouse· May 17

I like a little better.

A different way of displaying the Nolan Chart (the quickie method the Libertarian Party USA sorts political and economic leanings). The chart is slider graphs from left to right. Scores below ("0" is centrist):
Economic: Strongly left-wing (100%)
Social: Strongly libertarian (81%)
Civil Liberties: Strongly Pro-Liberty (62%)
Governance: Globalist (I hate that term due to other connotations 81%)
System Trust: Slightly High (31%)

Anymouse@anymouse· Apr 20

If you see this, post something orange from your gallery.

A tower of salmon and creamed cheese stack, garnished with various vegetables. Served in a restaurant in Gdansk, Poland, 2015.

Anymouse@anymouse· Apr 4

What should we grow on our land here? Importing vegetables out-of-season is frightfully expensive and uses lots of diesel.

Photographs looking SE from Angora, NE (population 1) to my home (twenty miles away). This is the stabilised sand dunes of the Nebraska Sandhills. It has a few small scrub plants in the foreground, and shortgrass prairie grass through sand and ravines.

The plants are gone now after the Morrill Fire burned over a thousand square miles a couple weeks ago. The sand is starting to move again.

Before the fire, the only thing the ground could be used for is grazing livestock.

Anymouse@anymouse· Apr 1

Despite all the hatred coming down the pike, I hope people were able to have a happy Trans Day of Visibility.

Yardarm in front of the Royal Hotel in Goose Bay, Labrador. Photo taken during our Smart car trip in 2022. On the left yard is the Progress Pride flag. On the right yard is the unofficial flag of Labrador. On the mast is the flag of Canada.

Anymouse@anymouse· Mar 26

When food stamps transitioned to EBT cards, Nebraska had to get a waiver to continue using the stamps, due to lack of infrastructure in the rural areas. I live here:

North of Lisco, Nebraska, looking west toward my town sixteen miles away. The scene is grass-covered sand hills (no longer covered after the recent Morill Fire), with deep chasms between the hills. On the left is a sand road winding around the hills. The land is pretty much only good for low numbers of livestock.

Anymouse@anymouse· Feb 15

The population density of the Nebraska Panhandle is 5.9/sq. mile. The population is 82,962. The area is 14,180 sq. miles. The largest city has 11,000 people. The next larger city is Cheyenne, Wyo. (130 miles away), 65,132. It's pretty empty here.

Looking south-west from Rose Hill Cemetery (one mile north of my town). In the foreground is the driveway. A split-rail fence separates the cemetery from the road. Across the road is twenty miles of empty plains. In the far distance are Courthouse and Jail Rocks in the county seat.

Anymouse@anymouse· Jan 3

Here's two photographs I took from my car of a tornado just leaving my village. It was about three miles away.

Tornado seen from my car while driving home on a gravel road. To the right, an open field with a tornado tilted eastward and a debris field around the base. It was leaving my village.

Second view of the same tornado, further away, from a street two blocks from my house. Most of the town was severely damaged from the storm.

Anymouse@anymouse· Jan 3

My 2013 Smart after I hit an elk. The passenger headlamp and front are smashed, the hood is broken, the passenger door was warped, and the windscreen was warped and cracked. There is a dent on the passenger side top at the windscreen. Under the hood, the master brake cylinder was broken, meaning I had to drive home with the parking brake at low speed.

The car was towed for repairs in Denver (200 miles away). Neither my wife nor I were injured.

Anymouse@anymouse· Dec 18

Quote post with a video game that transports you back to your childhood.

Anymouse@anymouse· Dec 18

Yikes. I spend too much time here. That said, my most active month was April. I was just learning this newfangled microblooging thing.

End-of-year engagement chart. To the left is the circle of people and groups most engaged. To the right, statistics: 495 posts, 7,000 replies, 352 days posting, 866 days on BlueSky. Bottom is a bar graph showing posts, likes, reposts, and quote posts. A line graph shows increase from January through December.

Anymouse@anymouse· Nov 22

Gold cord and tassels are used to decorate indoor flag poles. Here's on at my village hall. The black ribbon denotes the flag is at half-staff since the flag cannot be lowered.

Flag in my village hall. The finial is a gold eagle, two gold cords and tassels are draped in front. A black ribbon denoting the flag is at half-staff is affixed to the peak of the staff.

Anymouse@anymouse· Sep 29

My cars, lazily parked by my house on the street.

My two black Smart cars parked next to my house on the street. The one in front is a 2013, the one in the rear is a 2009.

Anymouse@anymouse· Sep 28

What's your sign?

Sign on a filling station in Sidney, Nebraska. The sign reads "YOU ARE NOWHERE." The owners insist the sign should read "You are now here."

Anymouse@anymouse· Jul 9

Well, this is about what I expected.

Graph of questions placing you on the Prep/Goth and Jock/Nerd axes. I scored almost completely goth/nerd on the chart.
https://www.idrlabs.com/tests.php (Pop culture personality tests)

Anymouse@anymouse· Jul 8

Hey, I have a real scythe and I use it frequently. I'll bet it would be no trouble to dice a drawing on paper with a scythe.

Standing next to my 2009 Smart car on the sand street in front of my house. Everything is black: The car, my clothes, my trilby hat. I'm holding my mowing scythe in the photograph (I'm the resident Reaper around here, and a Smart car is a lot more reliable than a pale horse).

Anymouse@anymouse· Jun 28

Post the first album you ever bought with your own money. I was eleven.

The album cover to Yes's "Fragile" (1971). It is the first album Yes collaborated with artist Roger Dean. The picture is a stylised Earth with large trees growing around it, and a ship "sailing" in the sky. The album name and band are at the top.

Anymouse@anymouse· May 3

The actual definition of Biblical marriage as a chart. Man+
a) Woman
b) Woman and concubine(s)
c) Woman and her slave(s)
d) Multiple women
e) Forcible marriage to dead brother's wife
f) Rape victim
g) Seizing women as the spoils of war
h) Forcing slaves to marry

Anymouse@anymouse· Apr 22

My insurance isn't too bad (mostly because my home is only worth about $18,000). Tornadoes aren't rare in this area, but a single house is an extremely small target.

A home after a tornado in my town. A cement cylinder was lifted from somewhere and deposited in the yard in the left of the photograph. In the centre, a tree is snapped off and destroyed the roof on the back of the house. Also in the centre, an electric pole is snapped off near the top. The leaves are stripped from all the trees.

Anymouse@anymouse· Apr 21

I suppose it depends. . . .

A black guitar pick with the word "dick" written in white across it

Anymouse@anymouse· Apr 20

My wife and I took VIA Rail (Hudson Bay Railway) from Thompson to Churchill. It was a magnificent trip.

A rock cairn on the shore of Hudson Bay in Churchill, Manitoba. It is known as an inuksuk or inukshuk. They were erected as shoreline navigation markers or the location of a safe harbour. This one has three large stones at the bottom, a flat stone across them, one large stone above that, two stones across it (the top one longer), and capping it with a narrow and tall stone. To the right in this picture is another stone. Behind it is Hudson Bay.

Anymouse@anymouse· Apr 7

Image: Blue print on white. In the upper left, a globe showing Africa and Europe. In giant text below: 'they' ®. In smaller text below that: the global conspiracist company

Anymouse@anymouse· Jan 27

You'll pry my coffee out of my cold dead cup. (wait wut?)

A yellow sign with the drawing of a Fifties-era woman holding a cup of coffee. The text on the left reads "Drink Coffee Do Stupid Things Faster with More Energy"

Anymouse@anymouse· Jan 23

It's now Birdchan.

Anymouse@anymouse· Jan 12

Hey look! Cool people!

Skircle.bsky.social circle of friends and followers. These are cool people.

Anymouse@anymouse· Jan 10

What's your 10/10 album (reposted because no ALT text on my image)

The album cover to Yes's "Close to the Edge." The cover shades from green at the bottom to black at the top. The text is artist Roger Dean's style he created for Yes's albums.

Anymouse@anymouse· Dec 22

My own village public library. Our tiny town values having it. You can get anything: Books, movies, records, puzzles, hunting and fishing licenses, Internet service, children's programmes, and more.

Broadwater, Nebraska Public Library and Village Hall

Anymouse@anymouse· Dec 16

The Republican complaints about the balloon were nothing more than performative outrage anyway. (They can see our missile sites! They don't know how to use Wikipedia and just look them up there!) It is not illegal to take a picture of a missile site. Here's one I took near my home.

Minuteman III missile silo outside Harrisburg, Nebraska. The foregroud is the gravel road it's on. There is a gravel driveway extending into the distance. On the side of the road is a barb wire fence to keep cattle out with a double gate on wheels across the driveway. In the distance there is a second fence, with a larger electronic gate across the driveway. The low mound in the distance behind that gate is the missile silo. The machinery to the right of the driveway is a natural gas supply meter. To the right of the silo is an electric pole, a weather vane, and radio transmitter antennas. To the left of the is a small 2m high bluff. Cattle are usually allowed by the Air Force into the fenced areas to eat the prairie grass to reduce the need for mowing.

Anymouse@anymouse· Dec 3

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