tallshipMar 2, 2024
Looking through the poppies in my garden towards my old #cabin in the mountains of #Humboldt, #California.

These were wonderful times... Before the fires of the #August_Complex.

This is one of my fav photos of my old home in the serene isolation of #nature.

I had a few wonderful years here, before having to #evacuate to a world consumed by fear and uncertainty amidst the calamity of the global #Wuhan pandemic.

18 June 2018

#tallship #off_grid #wilderness #home

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Show threadtallshipSep 1, 2023

@ChrisWellens

I just uploaded this pic of my cabin the day the fire came.

https://pixelfed.social/p/tallship/603025100843134646

#tallship #August_Complex #Humboldt

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#Evacuation day - orders were actually issued two days beforehand but I was only alerted about an hour before taking this pic and others. My truck is fire engine red, and as such it was almost invisible. You can see that inside my cabin the air is clear (through the window), while outside the air is the color of Satan. The #August_Complex was swift and deadly, destroying most everything in its path. I opened the chicken coop and bade them good luck & farewell forever #tallship #inferno ⛵ .

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tallshipSep 1, 2023
#Evacuation day - orders were actually issued two days beforehand but I was only alerted about an hour before taking this pic and others.

My truck is fire engine red, and as such it was almost invisible. You can see that inside my cabin the air is clear (through the window), while outside the air is the color of Satan.

The #August_Complex was swift and deadly, destroying most everything in its path.

I opened the chicken coop and bade them good luck & farewell forever

#tallship #inferno

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Show threadtallshipAug 31, 2023

@ChrisWellens

The short answer is that, "It's not about the air purifier - it's about getting you to install something that tracks and quantifies you, and data mines your privacy."

In this case, you're not getting something for free - like Faceplant or InstaSPAM, you're actually paying money for the exclusive privilege of making yourself the product.

On another note, I feel your pain. I was almost incinerated in the #August_Complex fires in #Humboldt.

#tallship #FOSS #privacy #pwn3d

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tallshipJul 28, 2023
October 18th, 2020.

A month and a half after evacuations meter hours before everything was incinerated in the #August_Complex fires.

A #waxing_moon following the dissipation of smoke and other toxins that settled and lingered along the coastline of #Humboldt_Bay, where I made my new home for the next two years...

A #waxing_moon that signals #new_beginnings and emergence from tragedy.

New beginnings mean novel possibilities, and hopes of eventualities that did finally bring me home to #SuperSunnySouthernCalifornia in another two and a half years.

I can live without the #redwoods, and I can always visit, but not knowing I needed #sand, #surf, #seagulls, and #palm_trees 🌴 was a revelation, and a joyous realization.

#tallship

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