bolson

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computer wizard. acrobat. better democracy through computer science.

Screenshot of ACLU.org post, blurred except "We get to mock the government however we want"
Westworld Season 3; Caleb looks at his phone, probably getting bad news about crap jobs
Star Trek, main screen shows Pakled who said "Can you make our ship go? You are smart" ST:TNG "Samaritan Snare"
Star Trek TNG meme: Noonian Soong (built Data and Lore): "Go to your room" Lore: "Dad! uggh.... I'm not 2 anymore! you can't make me do what you want!" Noonian: "sudo go to your room" Lore: "......fuck"
flame war between some guy on the Internet and the avatar of the glibc library
"Aaand... that's why they call it Jell-O" background fake jello product box with a tortured horse and title "Powdered Bone Slime"
waffle with fresh whipped cream (maple sweetened) and sliced banana
"I rolled intelligence check; I got Critical Thinking" and a D20 showing 20 CC-BY-SA die image by Dark Elf Dice https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glow_In_The_Dark_D20_Dice.jpg
graphic with stick 4000 miles long and moon 2100 miles diameter
a graph of sunrise/solar-noon/sunset times over 2026. sunrise varies from 5:05am to 7:16am; sunset from 4:11pm to 8:25pm
The Rock: Diane, 11:30 am, February 24th, I'm entering the town of Twin Peaks Passenger with worried look: I'm not Diane The Rock: [wtf face]
burbling tinkling stream, a little noise from me huffing and puffing after a long snowshoe, otherwise silent winter woods in Vermont
someone in a black knit cap held down by two people while a third streams a can of orange goo into the face of the person kneeled on (probably pepper spray or bear spray)
Ann Leckie likes new Murderbot book, Martha Wells joins the thread
three wiggly lines for temperatures from -20 to 10 deg C; blue dots for daily rain amounts, light blue dots for snow daily accumulation. X axis is two weeks of dates ending 2025-12-31
solar system diagram noting "307 million miles" distance from Earth to Psyche/DSOC probe, further than the maximum distance between Earth and Mars
"Performance Trans Inc" on a fuel truck
graph shows green line for sunrise, yellow line for solar-noon, and red line for sunset. x-axis is day within 2025, y-axis is time-of-day. Earliest sunset is today, 4:11 for the lat,lon this graph was made for.
My feed a moment ago with NPR noting the passing of Architect Frank Gehry, and The Onion also responding to the moment by re posting some of its prior Frank Gehry coverage consisting of a pile of sandwiches in an impractical configuration - reminiscent of Gehry's more absurd buildings
"A gingerbread man sits in a gingerbread house, Is the house made of flesh? Or is he made of house? He screams for he does not know"
epic handshake meme template: "Stranger Things" meets "Spinal Tap' and they both are all about 11 (Stranger Things star character named Eleven and Spinal Tap amps are louder because they "go to 11")
Babylon 5 scene with Sheridan, Delenn, and Sinclair, the three parts of 'The One' according to Zathras
my hand holding a jar of glitter in a medium-large spice-shaker jar, probably 250ml of iridescent silver glitter
"Move Zig _for_ Great Justice" in the style of "Mamdani for Mayor" posters; reference to "All your base are belong to us" viral video of 2001
goldfish & cheddar quesadilla with costco sriracha powder in it
NPR tote bag "Nina Totenbag" on the left from 5-10 years ago about double the size of recent 2025 WBUR "Tote-ally independent" tote bag which could _maybe_ fit a pair of shoes?
the bluesky butterfly logo split into four quadrants with the Microsoft logo color scheme
a forested mountain seen from 50m up by drone photography; a few bright red maples, oranges, evergreens, but also quite a lot of brown trees due to drought
central Vermont woods, with yellows oranges and reds as the leaves change for fall, seen out of a garage door
AAA battery, slightly crushed in the middle, held by my fingers that crushed it
Burma Shave poems, House on the Rock, Wisconsin
Alien sniffs terrified Ripley
Sunset, Boston skyline, from Peddocks Island
milky way and stars in a dark night sky
solar panels in a meadow, the panels are propped up one one edge by a 55 gal plastic box to point more towards the sun
virtual-pairwise vote counts of top 4 candidates in NYC Mayor primary of June 24 2025; Mamdani beats Lander beats Adams beats Cuomo
Anitmemetics division - unknown pleasures (parody of Joy Division album cover)
Kirk screaming "And I scream from the top of my lungs, What's going Khan?"
poster for 1997 movie "Contact"
Wired Al bigger & weirder opening slide
ok, this is not your grave, get out of this hole
Bashir: Nobody gets fired for buying IBM Garak: _Not Enough_ people get fired for buying IBM
xkcd comic 2347 "All modern digital infrastructure" with one small important block near the bottom replaced with an inclusive pride flag
slow pan across a quietly burbling stream in the woods
Picture of a plane with red dots for where planes returned with bullet holes. Not pictured: places where bullet holes caused planes to not return.
Old Luke Skywalker: "Amazing; every word of what you just said was wrong"
mouse-over hover popup while I have some shell command and it suggests I could "Ask AI" or have it "Improve writing"
graph of sunrise, solar noon, sunset for 2025 for Boston, MA today is a few days short of the time change when sunrise will feel much later to most people. sunrise stays in a narrow band of times mostly between 6 and 7, sunset varies wildly.
handwarmers, which generate heat by oxidation of finely powdered pure iron
a wide bleak snowy field of a frozen lake, rimmed with evergreen forest at the edges, winter afternoon sun is not high in the sky but has a couple hours left
"You may not like it, but this is what peat performance looks like" next to a bottle of famously "peat-y" Laphroaig whiskey
a tree of Angela Merkels; original image By © Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 from Wikipedia
plot of 2024 US Presidential vote, a vertical bar per state with width proportional to population. within each state's bar are chunks of blue (D), red (R), yellow (other), and tan (no-vote). At-a-glance turnout, margin, swing
Mooninite 1-31-07 never forget
perfectly browned fluffy pancakes on a cooling rack
Brent Spiner from "Independence Day", where he said that Earth getting invaded by aliens was "really exciting"
open frame PC, graphics card with three fans, big black CPU cooler, green glowing lights
dark sky full of stars, a few trees at one side, 4 second loop captured over about 3 minutes
pink streaky glow in night sky, the Aurora, some dark tree silhouettes on the horizon
me in blue puffy jacket and tan hat, lots of green trees behind me