Bob Tregilus

@elaterite@mastoart.social

I follow science, history, & photography toots. Now retired, I've been a: mechanic, construction worker, cab driver, laborer, fabricator, electrical engineer, cable technician, community organizer, lobbyist, podcaster (energy & EVs), fine art framer, & professional photographer (among many other things). Linux user since the '90s. I use Darktable to edit photos. I'm an open culture advocate & my photos are in the public domain. I'm a Nov '22 dead bird site migrant. #NoAI #OpenCulture

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Photo of a man standing on the rim of a crater with a snow covered volcano behind him.
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A house sized boulder in a flat lake under an orange sunset in the mountains.
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Bob Tregilus@elaterite@mastoart.social

Welp, it got warm enough for me to dig out my great-grandparents old Emerson floor fan. On the medallion on the front it says, "Emerson Motors, Built To Last" with an image of a pyramid in the background. It has a little oil cup with a spring loaded lid on the back for keeping the motor lubed. The only thing that has been changed is the cord. When I was a kid, I got cut while trying to move the fan. I still have the scar on my thumb from that encounter.

A color portrait photo of an old metal floor fan. It dates to around the 1920s, likely. It is black and has a small medallion in the center. The fan is running as the blades are just a blur. A cardboard box is seen in the background.
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Bob Tregilus@elaterite@mastoart.social

Web developers: Please punch your marketing personnel in the nose if they suggest you enable a popover on your company's website. I mean, how is not a popover exactly like having a stranger suddenly insert themselves between you and some product you're looking at on a store shelf? And worse, the stranger demands personal information from you. I'd probably pop them in the nose for being so rude. And note: When I'm assaulted by a popover I will often take my business elsewhere.

Bob Tregilus@elaterite@mastoart.social

At 250, the idea of America is still alive, barely: "..That all Men are created equal..with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed.." Lofty philosophical ideals that America has yet to achieve, however, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice," if we vote.

#4thOfJuly #America250 #USA

A color landscape photo showing the room inside Independence Hall in Philadelphia where where both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were debated and adopted by the Founding Fathers of the United States. The room features Georgian architecture with faux columns and carved masks and scrolls. Two rows of tables with muted green felt table cloths, books, candles, and quill pens, face a single table on a raised area in the back of the room. George Washington's "Rising Sun Armchair" is facing the room behind a small table on the riser. Dr. Benjamin Franklin wrote: "I have often looked at that picture behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun." Let's ensure that sun raises again--VOTE!
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On display at Independence Hall in Philadelphia is this original Dunlap broadside of the Declaration of Independence "previously owned by Col. John Nixon, appointed by the sheriff of Philadelphia to read the Declaration of Independence to the public on July 8, 1776, in the State House yard; presented to the park by his heirs in 1951."
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