Bill Stewart

@billstewart.bsky.social

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Techie, bad musician, SF fan (either Science Fiction or San Francisco.) NorCal He/They/Thou/Yo/Oook/Whatever Not actually a crypto-owning selfie-taking copyright monkey.

IWW black cat, against a red circle on a white background
Coyote at Shoreline Park in Mountain View, 7/21/2026 A young-looking coyote sits on dry grass, eating some small mammal or bird.
Coyote at Shoreline Park in Mountain View, 7/21/2026 Sitting about 10' from the road eating some animal or bird.
Picture of US White House with demolished East Wing Source: Yahoo news article on asbestos concerns about the demolition https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/critics-white-house-cut-corners-150020495.html
Bloom County comic strip from back in the day. A fat blowhard politician is talking to an old farmer in a crop field. Politician: Ah .. my heart bleeds for you good folks. Been hard times, hasn't it. Farmer: Nope, doin' dandy. P: Well, good! Good! This is a fine batch of corn you have! F: Tain't corn. It's dope. P: Beg pardon? F: Here ... take a few pounds home to the wife.
Rules about Secret Service protection for Trump's Adult Children that debipenny24 posted, to which I have added a red circle. The Current Status section indicates that this AI summary was assembled from material after Trump left office the first time, but before he was re-elected.
Police notice: Wanted. Have you seen this chicken? $1000 reward A picture of a penguin with a glove on its head. From the Wallace and Gromit film "The Wrong Trousers" by Aardman.
Wicked Witch of the West saying "Fly, my pretties!" to her flying monkeys.
Homer Simpson, in a poster for The LA Odyssey Project of the Los Angeles Public Library, saying "By Me, Homer". The background says "The Odyssey" in a not-very-Hollywood-Hills style, there's a bit of Greek temple, various Simpsons characters in the background. Homer's holding a sword and wearing sandals and a sort of tunic skirt with his tshirt.
Red yarn conspiracy guy
USB cable checker board - LEDs light up to tell you which of the 5 leads are connected, so you can tell a power-only cable from a power-and-data cable. One side has a USB-C power input and type A and C jacks that you plug one end of the cable into; the other side has Lightning, C, and Micro-B jacks that you plug the other end into.
Grant Woods's painting "American Gothic", with a farmer and his daughter standing in front of a building. He's holding a pitchfork.
"This time for SURE!" Rocky the Squirrel watching magician Bullwinkle the Moose about to attempt to pull a rabbit out of his hat.
Krylon Metallic gold leaf spray paint - 12 oz, sells for about $13 in single cans, cheaper by the case.
Alex Jones? Always has been a has been.
B Kliban's "Cats see things we can't" cartoon, with a human sitting in an armchair holding a book, looking over at a cat, who is looking at him or his chair or something behind him.
Spray can of Krylon brand metallic gold paint.
Count von Count holding up three fingers and maybe a thumb
Sir Arthur's men pushing a large wheeled wooden rabbit to the French castle.
Geese on the road in Redwood City.
xkcd 1057: Klout
Ladies' Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society - image of the logo from the late-70s? popular tshirt. I don't know who owns the copyright, but it has one.
Movie poster for The Godfather, with hand holding marionette string holder.
Krylon metallic gold spray paint, 11oz spray can, with a surprising array of different fonts for such a small space.
Help! Help! I'm being repressed! scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Can of Krylon metallic gold spray paint.
xkcd.com 2228 Machine Learning Captcha "To prove you're a human, click on all the photos that show places you would run for shelter during a robot uprising."
Trump, MBS, and some other oil-business guys, putting their hands on a glowing orb that's probably a conspiracy to take over the world.
Canada geese and gosling
Coyote drinking water, Byxbee Park, Palo Alto
"Didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective." "You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship." From Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Krylon Metallic Gold Spray Paint. A slightly different gold spray paint from them, in 12oz cans, costs about $6 when bought by the sixpack at Lowe's.
Coyote in the grass, Shoreline golf course, 2026-06-11
Sea Lions at San Francisco Pier 39. May 2025 or so, using whatever video the iPhone used.
XKCD bobcat cartoon.
Canada geese by Shoreline Lake.
"Sickos" meme. "Yes... Ha ha ha... YES!"
Aerial view of the White House before Trump had the East Wing and colonnade destroyed. Note the nice flat roofs on the colonnade, and the much higher roof on the Treasury building.
Count von Count holding up three fingers and a thumb. Four! ah ah ah!
Dr Egon Spengler, in Ghostbusters, saying "Print is dead".
Apple IDs this as a Pacific Gopher Snake. It was about 3 feet long. June 2026, Salinas CA.
Angry goose meme. Goose hears what puffy-jacket-human is saying, and charges them.
Washington Post online front page, about noon on 6/5 An article headline "Two days in a row, UK reaches its highest national May temperature on record" and three more headlines, with that title plus "- Clone", "- Clone 2", and "- Clone 3" appended. All the articles have Lorem ipsum text :-)
Encyclopedia Britannica aerial view of the White House and Treasury, taken before the destruction of the East Wing and colonnade. Note all the big flat roof spaces.
California Brush Rabbit sitting under a sign for Michael's Restaurant, Shoreline Park, Mountain View, probably 2025.
A Russian military marching band
Tabby&white cat asleep in a grocery bag
The Presidents of the United States of America band, guitar and bass player up front, drummer not shown, two white guys in white shirts and rep ties. Wikipedia article picture.
The Giant Artichoke statue and restaurant in Castroville CA.
The Marmite Hypnosis Jar: "Haters, Try Marmite Hypnosis!" MARMITE® You Don't Hate It, You Love It!
Sinclair Oil brontosaurus statue, wearing a red bandanna, Baker City Oregon (or some nearby freeway exit), 2017
Coyote in Byxbee Park Palo Alto, 2025?
XKCD 2228 "Machine Learning CAPTCHA" To prove you're a human, click on all the photos that show places you would run for shelter during a robot uprising.
Not-quite-1U dish rack modified to hold slightly-over-1U mini PCs. It's sitting on top of a clamshell-mode MacBook Plus. The Windows box on the left is powered down (noisy fan :-) The HP Dock in the middle provides power and connections for the Mac. I'm typing on the Linux box on the right. The mini-keyboard is for when something insists on a wired keyboard instead of Bluetooth or remote access or I want a keyboard on both the Windows and Linux boxes at once.
Pair of black-tailed jackrabbits on a lawn by a fence and sidewalk.
iPhone lanyard case
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/192701084932907009 Elon Musk, posing as a Bond Villain, holding a stuffed-toy white cat, 2012.
"How do you do, fellow kids?"
Comparing several Gibson guitars. The one on the left is a classic Les Paul; not sure what the spacier-looking one on the right is.
Google has fenced off the Shoreline Amphitheatre parking lot while they set up for their big shindig later this month. The local jackrabbits are stuck in Rabbit Jail, and this resident feral cat is also inside the fence, though it and the ground squirrels can get through. May 2026.