matt🌻✌️

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Kansan and Jayhawk. `Dotte proud, Rock Chalk, Defend Equality I dabble in lots of things. General-class amateur radio operator. Used to be a network engineer! Certified internet old guy. I miss IRC. Be a candle not the darkness. He/They, ally ✡️☮️♍

cold brew coffee on a wooden table with a chalk OPEN sign in focus
a packed coffee shop!
a late arrival plonking right in front of me
four cameras on a chair. left to right, a canon 20D DSLR, a canon AE-1 film camera, a Canon 70D DSLR, and a Holga medium format film camera
the B2 stealth bomber taking AA fire from Arrowhead
zoom in - right turn only
people standing in the grass alongside K-32 watching Big Boy UP4014 approach
railfans waiting for UP4014 to come thru!
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some chicken, nicely browned, with tzatzhiki and rice on a plate with a fork
A bottle of California olive ranch olive oil oil, but it's global blend and not actually from California at all
Front cover of the book inJustice town by rick tulsky. Blurb from John Grisham at the top, subtitle in the center "a corrupt cop, a wrongly convicted man, and a struggle for freedom" Blurb from Jim McCloskey at the bottom
me holding an orange Montgomery Biscuits hat.
me wearing a green Fresno Tacos hat
https://alprmaps.com/flock-safety-map map showing two flock cameras in KCMO, just east of the plaza
“The second kind of overarching finding is that none of that translated to any meaningful public safety benefits,” Piza told The Star in an interview. “So shootings did not reduce in ShotSpotter areas, either fatal or nonfatal shootings, compared to areas in Kansas City that did not have ShotSpotter, and also shootings and clearance rates of shootings did not substantially change in ShotSpotter areas compared to other areas.” Read more at: https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article314255551.html#storylink=cpy
freshly paved asphalt and temporary lane dividers under a gorgeous Kansas blue sky. There's some puffy white clouds in the distance, but nothing even remotely threatening. Green trees left and right in the distance and green grass.
adsbexchange trace of aircraft arriving for OshKosh 2026 air show in Osh Kosh Wisconsin. this is about 3.5 hours of time, and you can clearly see several hundred general aviation aircraft arrive and line up in a VFR pattern
an old image macro with three cats in a locomotive looking at a single cat on a picnic table, saying "get in loser we're going to steal fish and dismantle capitalism" like the mean girls meme. except, you know, with cats.
streetcar tracks at 16th and main outside the hampton. two transit people are standing there and looking at rails that heaved up in the heat
a big bang and then a bird. view is just dusky sky and some trees
a dark background graph, 5 lines appear. blue is attic, yellow garage, red backyard, green kitchen, and purple master bedroom. it's a 3 day historical chart. Thu - Fri - Sat. the attic line is pretty diurnal, as expected. 75-125 range in a day. garage has slower peaks and doesnt get above 90. backyard is outdoors and you can see the effect of clouds and such. kitchen is lowest, just above 70. master bedroom is gently waving, 74 to about 70
Dew point: 79.5° F Feels like: 110.5° F
birdnet pi settings Minimum Confidence: 0.8 Min=0.01, Max=0.99 Sigmoid Sensitivity: 1.25 Min=0.5, Max=1.5
We want to make Sporting KC games an experience that all of Kansas City can be a part of. That’s why, for the remainder of the season, fans who have never been to a game can take advantage of our First Game On Us program and claim up to two free tickets to any remaining 2026 home game*. Tickets are available in either the Supporters Section—for fans who want to be part of the stadium's most electric atmosphere—or the South Stand, which offers a more family-friendly environment.
Initial results from simultaneous observation of X-rays and electric fields in a thunderstorm Kenneth B Eack, William H. Beasley, W. David Rust, Thomas C. Marshall, and Maribeth Stolzenburg https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/96JD01705 Ground-based observations of thunderstorm-correlated fluxes of high-energy electrons, gamma rays, and neutrons A. Chilingarian*, A. Daryan, K. Arakelyan, A. Hovhannisyan, B. Mailyan, L. Melkumyan, G. Hovsepyan, S. Chilingaryan, A. Reymers et al. https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.043009 Geophysical Research Letters Free Access Gamma-ray bursts of atmospheric origin in the MeV energy range Michele Brunetti, Stefano Cecchini, Menotti Galli, Giovanni Giovannini, Andrea Pagliarin First published: 01 June 2000 https://doi.org/10.1029/2000GL003750
radiation spectra, green line is background over 24 hours. many spikes in the 1-2 MeV range over background, 219 cpm shown
pinning pioppino mushrooms popping up off a black triangle agar wedge, with a larger pin in the background on the edge of a diffuse white mycelial network
Student welders are repurposing old newspaper boxes as functional art pieces to distribute information about schools around the city. Dominick Williams dowilliams@kcstar.com Read more at: https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/mara-rose-williams/article316364765.html#storylink=cpy
523,924 hours of overtime estimated for World Cup public safety in Houston The city estimates it will need $48.9 million to pay for more than 523,924 hours of overtime for police officers and firefighters during the tournament. https://www.khou.com/article/news/investigations/houston-overtime-world-cup-public-safety/285-060fac37-aa16-496b-a3b4-32e28bda458e
The largest chunk of federal funding dollars — $59 million — will help pay for police overtime hours and additional officers from other places to help support the event, Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said. https://www.kcur.org/sports/2026-02-20/kansas-city-world-cup-security-federal-funding
Kansas City World Cup security effort required more than 80 agencies Officials say more than 136,000 work hours were put in by law enforcemen
adsb trace of BYA235 3000' MSL southbound over Shawnee
a 24 hour analog wall clock showing 2206:11 on a wood paneled wall. under that is a white unifi router and to the left is a bass guitar
a large gray cat looks at me somewhat skeptically
a big ol bowl full of corn dip - its a creamy looking corn studded marvel of a dip lol. there's some shucked ears to the side.
six ears of Kansas corn in an instant pot
Adam Liptak July 14, 2026, 10:59 a.m. ETJuly 14, 2026 Adam LiptakChief legal correspondent Justice Kagan, who is an ethics hawk, says there are authentic difficulties in making the court’s ethics code binding. Her past record on the issue might make her a more credible source to the lawmakers as she explains the other branches should not second-guess the justices and that it is tricky to have other judges oversee the Supreme Court, which is at the top of the judicial hierarchy.
in my softball era swiftie bracelet
scoreboard at Legebds Field, Diamonds up 11-0 in the second inning
accelerator rocket pop
Diamonds softball at Legends Field in Kansas City Kansas
murakami's HR derby bat, its all fire and snarling monster style
caminero's bats for the HR derby - fun, cool, arty! not glamorizing a fictional dead relative of an invisible sky wizard!
jac caglianone's home run derby bats, and they're both jesus ones. because of course they are.
A rigid Heddle, a belt shuttle, and two fabric soaks in a plastic bag from yarn barn
A brick and glass storefront in Lawrence, Kansas, the sign says yarn, and then there are three sheep and underneath the sheep that says yarn barn and then the very end it says barn
openrailwaymap of UP Topeka sub west of KC
shawnee mission park small lake. its, well, a small lake, there's a lil island in the east end with a lil bridge going to it. its endorheic and mostly has algae
Catalog description: Operation of battery-powered, remote-controlled boats are allowed at: • Heritage Park Lake (north end) • Kill Creek Park Lake (east of Marina) • Shawnee Mission Park Small Lakes Area (near Shelter 2) • NO GASOLINE ENGINES • When using your boat, please be considerate of other park patrons, especially those using the lakes for fishing. • Refer to HP, KCP and SMP maps provided upon check out for approved sites.Read Less https://anc.apm.activecommunities.com/jcprd/membership/search/detail/264?locale=en-US
Permit Type Resident/Nonresident Link Model Rocket (group and individual) (permit required) No Charge Get Permit Remote Control Vehicles (permit required) No Charge Get Permit Remote Control Boats / Sailboats (permit required) No Charge Get Permit Magnet Fishing (permit required) No Charge Get Permit https://jcprd.com/642/Fishing-Boating-Permits
a feral tabby and my neighbors gray cat both flopped out asleep on my deck under the bistro set
several people in line at an ice cream shop in downtown Bonner Springs Kansas. it's old school classic chrome with red and white
a plain grilled hot dog at a baseball game.
JESSE23 over Arrowhead