📷 Day 25: Decay What we see as decay, nature sees as renewal. These fungi don’t just mark the end — they begin the next chapter.
📷 Day 24: Bloom
Not even in the ground yet and already showing off!
📺 This TV Week’s Watchlist:
From Peacock:
- 🎬 The Day of the Jackal – Season 1, Episodes 4–10 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ No spoilers!
I finished the first season, and all I have to say is: Bravo. There was action, mystery, intrigue—and more action. Some parts felt wildly exaggerated; I can’t imagine all of it happening outside the realm of TV drama. But other parts? Absolutely plausible—though more likely orchestrated by nation-states than rogue, non-state actors.
I hope they make a second season—there's definitely room for it. Maybe even a third. But no more than that.
As I said in a previous post, when it comes to TV, the British really know what they’re doing. 🎬
From Prime Video:
- 🎬 The Chosen – Season 5, Episodes 2–5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “No spoilers” doesn’t quite apply here—it’s based on the Bible.
Not much to say other than: Wow. It’s been a great season so far—and with such incredible source material, how could it not be? 😊 Fantastic true story, outstanding acting. Best series EVER. 🎬
#TV #Entertainment #Peacock #PrimeVideo
📷 Day 23: Fracture
Our neighbors tree after Hurricane Milton last year October 2024 it fractured were luckily it didn’t damage anything.
Tracing Roots Lost to War
I’ve been wanting to blog about this for a while. This will
probably be a long one—and it might even turn into a series of posts
around a central theme.
My mother—more than me, but me too—has
always wondered about her mother’s family.
A Childhood Cut Short
My grandmother was born in Poland in 1926, before World War II. She was just 13, almost 14, when Germany invaded. According to my mother, my grandmother was at school in Kraków when the invasion happened. She was taken away from her parents, older brother, and sister. The last time she ever saw them was before going to school that day.
I just learned this part while preparing for this post: my grandmother was taken to a concentration camp and was “in line for a shower.” She was seen by a German officer, who pulled her out of the line. She was forced to serve as an au pair—but in truth, she was a slave.
My mother told me that, surprisingly, my grandmother was treated well by the German and his family and was almost certainly saved from death by that officer. My grandmother never knew why she was chosen out of everyone in line.
We all know what “going into the showers” meant. But I don’t think it
was just fate that saved her—I believe it was divine intervention. If
not for that moment, how would my mother be here today—and, by
extension, my brother, sister, and me?
God has a plan for
all of us, and He always makes sure His plans are carried out.
📷#mbjune Day 22: Hometown
After the storm, the streets of my hometown fall into a kind of quiet only a big-city suburb knows—where palm trees sway under a fire-lit sky, and everything feels like it’s holding its breath.
📷 Day 21: silhouette
Nature’s silhouette framed in moonlight and moss. 🌕🌿
Feeling better today 🤒➡️🙂—still dealing with some cough, congestion, and hoarseness 🤧😶🌫️, but I’d say I’m about 65% back to normal 💪. The only downside? I’m not behind on work! 😅 But hey, I guess that’s just life 🤷.
#CoughChronicles #OnTheMend #SickButSurviving
📷 #mbjune Day 20: gather
A gathering at Disney World’s Liberty Bell 🔔, full of smiles 😊 and summer warmth ☀️.
📺 This TV Week’s Watchlist:
From Peacock:
- 🎬 The Day of the Jackal – Season 1, Episodes 1–3 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
No spoilers!
I’ve been under the weather this week—caught a summer cold and wrote about it. Since I’ve been off work since Wednesday and mostly napping, I dove into a couple of series. This one’s on Peacock, and since I’m canceling the service in July, I’ve got to finish it before then.
That said—this show is really good. I’ve watched the first three episodes, and I have to say: the English seriously know how to make television. Right now, it's better than 98% of what’s coming out of the U.S.—with one exception I'll get to next. Eddie Redmayne is excellent in this, and all the characters are genuinely interesting. 🎬
From Prime Video:
- 🎬 The Chosen – Season 5, Episode 1 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“No spoilers” doesn’t quite apply here—after all, it's based on the Bible.
This season is diving into what I’d call fulfillment, sacrifice, and redemption. The casting is spot-on, and while I know not every detail is historically or biblically precise, the spirit and themes are respectfully portrayed. The creators, actors, and entire team are doing an outstanding job, and this is currently my favorite show. I’m glad they’re aiming for seven seasons—I’m especially curious how they’ll depict their take on Revelations. 🎬
#TV #Entertainment #Peacock #PrimeVideo
My AI-Assisted Workflow for Sharing Blog Posts on Sharkey
I’ve written extensively about how AI has changed the way I
interact with computers and brought my ideas to life. Let me restate
something I’ve said before: I’m not a software developer. But I do have
ideas—and I’ve always wished I could bring them to life. Well, thanks to
AI, that’s starting to happen.
I recently started a Sharkey instance for myself. Honestly, I like it better than Mastodon. But I’m not quite ready to give Mastodon up entirely, and I wanted my blog posts to automatically be shared on Sharkey. When I post to my blog on Micro.blog, it uses POSSE (Publish On your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere)—but Sharkey isn’t included in that.
So AI helped me fix that with n8n. I set up
several workflows so that when I post to my website, the RSS feed is
monitored by n8n using the workflow shown below. It took a bit of
effort—and the help of two AIs.
Funny thing: I subscribe to both Claude AI and ChatGPT, and I
often pit them against each other as a sanity check. Since I can’t
verify the code myself with confidence, I compare their answers. And
when they disagree, I paste both responses into
Perplexity or Google’s Gemini to get a
broader consensus on the best solution.
In this case, Claude got me about 98% of the way there—but I ran into a formatting issue. So I dropped the whole thing into ChatGPT, and it immediately identified the problem, fixed it, and now my Sharkey posts look just like they came from Micro.blog.
Now I have a similar workflow for this Scribbles site:
- One less node.
- Atom feed instead of JSON.
Without AI, it would’ve taken me a year to figure
this out on my own. Honestly, if it weren’t for AI, I probably never
would’ve discovered Micro.blog, Scribbles, or anything else—I’d still be
stuck on WordPress, struggling to figure it out (which, for some reason,
never clicked with me, even after nearly a decade of trying).
AI has been like a private tutor for me. I had always wanted to self-host using a Raspberry Pi, but never managed to start—until now. AI is truly making life better for me.
Sure, I see the gloom-and-doom predictions about jobs being replaced by AI. But that’s not what this post is about. I just wanted to share how I’ve enhanced POSSE for my site with the help of AI.
👉 Follow me on Sharkey: michael@mitchelltribe.rodeo
#n8n #POSSE #Sharkey #SelfHosting
📷 #mbjune Day 19: Equal
Two lanes, equal in purpose, streetlights equal in height, as day and night meet at the horizon. 🌇
📷 🍰 Day 18: Texture
This homemade carrot cake wasn’t just delicious — it was an experience. The moist, flavorful crumb paired with the thick, textured icing made every bite unforgettable.
📷 #mbjune Day 17: Warmth
There’s nothing quite like a pot roast to fill both the kitchen and the soul with warmth. The scent, the flavor, the memories — all simmering together in one pot of comfort.
Well, it’s official — I’ve got a cold 🤧. First one since last year after my Disney World trip 🏰. For some reason, I always seem to catch them in the summer ☀️😷. COVID-19 test came back negative ✅. I don’t feel awful, but the stuffy nose 🤒, light cough 😮💨, and relentless post-nasal drip are really wearing me down 💤.
📷 #mbjune Day 16: Blur
A blur of light, memory, and reason—maybe the 2017 eclipse? Or maybe I just missed the shot.
Of Kings, Constitutions, and Parades
Yesterday was a normal weekend day for me. I relaxed and played one of my favorite PC games. I also spent some time troubleshooting my Python weather bot — a little project I built just to post local weather updates from my house. But this post isn’t really about that.
While relaxing, I ended up watching and reading about a few things: the No Kings protests, the U.S. Army's 250th birthday parade, and — from across the pond — the Trooping the Colour (yes, with the British spelling).
📷 #mbjune Day 15: Tie Two styles, one snapshot in time — 🎀 bow ties and 👔 classic neckties you rarely see today, but forever frozen in old family memories 🕰️.
Killer Heat, 2024 - ★½ (contains spoilers)
This review may contain spoilers.
I liked the premise of the movie, but it didn’t feel like the right fit for Joseph Gordon-Levitt or Shailene Woodley—it just didn’t suit their usual style. On the other hand, Richard Madden really looked the part of the villain and played it convincingly.
📷 Day 14: Twilight Caught the moon slipping away just as twilight began to rise over the city. A brief, quiet moment before the rush of the day.
