Dawn ⌥-Guy

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ᛞ Ɣɪ// | 🏛️MIT '12 | 🧑‍💻 DevOps/SRE ('14-'21; …?) | ↙️↙️↙️ | he/any 🔱 VA Beach | 🪾 https://linktr.ee/dbgmode

Results image from hankgreen.com/smush for July 17, 2026 reflecting 830 points and PERFECT 💯 • 5-day streak
Results modal from July 10 2026 SMUSH showing a score of 368 8 bonuses: 🆒 Words: 6 smushed = +291 🧠 Unassisted — no hints = +25 🤖 Beat the Robot = +5 😋 Beat Today's Average Score! = +5 📈 Top 30% today = +10 🏋️ Heavy Lifter — finished in only 6 words = +25 🏃 Under 4 Minutes = +5 🔥2-day streak , 2 cheivos: 🌶️ Heat Seeker — spice five words running 🥇Top Score — a new personal best And time of 4 minute and 20 seconds
Results modal from July 9, 2026 SMUSH showing a score of 311, 7 bonuses: 🆒 Words: 5 smushed = +231 🧠 Unassisted - no hints = +25 🤖 Beat the Robot = +5 😋 Beat Today's Average Score! = +5 📈 Top 30% today = +10 🏋️ Heavy Lifter - finished in only 5 words = +25 ⚡️Under 4 Minutes = +10 , 4 cheivos: 🌶️ Heat Seeker - spice five words running 🔥 Five Alarm - spice in every single word 🐇 Sub-2 - under two minutes, And time of 1 minute and 40 seconds
Result image from 4x3 for today July 9, 2026 - showing 201 points, the text “Gold Plaque Unlocked!” 🌟🟪🟪 🌟🟦🟦 🌟🟩🟩 🌟🟨🟨 four categories • three words • one shared hankgreen.com/fourbythree On a faux shiny gold background, signifying completion in <90 seconds
Result from https://bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/ The Worrier patron saint: Kelsey Piper It's real, it's powerful, and that's exactly why it worries you — not in a doom way, in a 'we should really be more careful than we're being' way. You take the capabilities seriously and the risks seriously, and you'd like the conversation to be a few degrees more sober.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/turning-a-big-dial-that-says-racism-on-it haphazardly dril screenshot edited to replace "racism" with "Claude", "audience" with "mirror" and "price" with "goose", so now: turning a big dial [that] says "Claude" on it and constantly looking back the mirror for approval like a contestant on the goose is right
iPadOS keyboard settings, proceeding directly from Enable Dictation to other non-dictation related settings
iOS Keyboard settings scrolled down towards the bottom, the relevant toggle “Advanced Dictation Preview” is present and On; below it explainer text says “An early preview with even more accurate dictation and automatic punctuation, powered by a new on-device model.”
“Screenshots” section of the system keyboard shortcuts modal with the offending entry, “Ask Siri about active window” highlighted and unchecked
Fourth of five panels from the linked xkcd comic stick figures in dialogue (also a bystander), a reporter (R) is talking to a software engineer (SWE): R: WAIT, REALLY? SWE: DON'T TRUST VOTING SOFTWARE AND DON'T LISTEN TO ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU IT'S SAFE. R: WHY? SWE: I DONT QUITE KNOW HOW TO PUT THIS, BUT OUR ENTIRE FIELD IS BAD AT WHAT WE DO, AND IF YOU RELY ON US, EVERYONE WILL DIE. [the prior omitted panels contrast to the mature safety culture of aircraft and elevators]
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-made-this
The big tidbits word collage, taken from https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/ios-27-tidbits/, with “Else If support in Shortcuts” highlighted
Screenshot of App Store.app in hr process of downloading/installing Outlook
A cropped screenshot of the Apple Home app, showing 2 scenes named: 1. Let Darkness Reign 2. Let There Be Light
a gray, closed, metal utility panel - bottom half to 2/3, including handle are obscured by a backpack on top of a several duffle bags on top of a suitcase. Other clutter in frame includes a multi-pack of tissues, toilet paper, a rolled up rug, Christmas ribbons, etc
Lower left corner of TV showing CNN broadcast. Above nondescript blue lit stage is a ~gold framed widget saying “COUNTDOWN TO 2026” above the top third or less of a time that can’t really be read due to occlusion— probably first digit is 4, second perhaps 6, gap and context implies a minutes to seconds gap, marked by an obscure colon? Last 2 digits probably each one of 2, 3, 8, or 9— above which a PARTIAL white on black-grey-gradient text marquee reads “NI MAKES HISTORY AS THE CITY’S” I believe it was reporting on the swearing in of new NYC mayor
Actor Matty Cardarople saying “What’s Up DePiglio?!” in the eponymous sketch by Chris Fleming https://youtu.be/KpelkMBAD2o
The New York Times Spelling Bee hexagram from Tuesday December 30, 2025
Copped sreenshot of https://genius.com/Porter-robinson-trying-to-feel-alive-lyrics lyrics read: (black san serif text on white) [Chorus] (then remaining text background highlighted in a bright lime) Maybe it's a gift that I couldn't recognize Maybe I don't really need to feel satisfied Maybe it's a gift that I spend all this time Just trying to feel alive above a player widget displaying, right to left 0. a "scrubber"/progress bar filled unto out of frame 1. the time in track: 2 minutes 48 seconds, 2. a play button 3A. the track title: Trying to Feel Alive, stacked above 3B. the track artist: Porter Robinson" 4. the album art: a person—with shoulder-length bleach-blonde hair wearing a white t-shirt, pale blue jeans, and sneakers—lying ragdoll face down, in a field of lush green grass, small white flowers and a few small yellow flowers; arms and feet partially buried, the only skin visible is a portion of right ankle.)
An interpolation of the I Want to Believe UFO poster in the color scheme & rough style of the Sheppard Fairy HOPE poster. I would like to credit an artist, but I found in image search results without clear attribution
A cartoon sports stadium, in foreground on grass field a group of ~humans in red uniforms at left and various anthro animals in purple are sanding around or doing warmups, stands beyond seem akin to the latter. caption reads “Monsters and Mewmans working together on the same teams!”
A family of cartoon ~humans stand on the stone doorstep of a stone cottage being calmly told “Uh. actually this is our house” by a lime green anthro ~Godzilla pastiche (w/ derpy underbite and stringy purple ~mullet) who stands in doorframe. The house is appropriate scale to the latter, much larger figure and the “camera’s gaze” in framing treats his size as normal as well, so the humans come up to his ~knee. Contextually this satirizes the legitimacy of the humans’ impression, nevertheless understandably created by recent possession, that this is their house
Partial screenshot of https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1F5B0 for glyph designated TWO BUTTON MOUSE w/ the character as drawn by my Mac This is part of a block of code points added to Unicode 7, released June 2014 that apparently canonized the glyphs from OG Wingdings of 1990 / Windows 3.1 (which does NOT provide this mouse design, just a much plainer one, despite my first thought when seeing it being “that’s Microsoft Publisher 98 core as a fuck”; there do seem to be some other glyphs in a similar style in the Apple Symbols [metadata ©️ 2003-2006] proffered in Font Book (from /System/Library id think), so it may actually be a hold over from a pre OS X Macintosh? [that doesn’t necessarily preclude design by a preferred artist of or licensing from Microsoft of the 80s] ) However It doesn’t really appear that Microsoft distributes a version of Wingdings that actually takes up its purpose-allocated codepoints [or certainly that one isn’t pervasive], instead still mapping up in ASCII range (as famously controversial exploited in antisemitic 9/11 conspiracy theory email forwards of the early 2000s) and down in Private Use area — at least for the version I found installed on my Mac, also ©️ 2006, and (obvs) ©️ Microsoft; maybe ships with macOS? Maybe I installed office or outlook at some point?). Obvs 2006 is before 2014, but still lol
Screenshot of the top of my recently updated bluesky profile, most notably with display name “Dawn ⌥-Guy” Hey, by the way, if you use a screen reader and it doesn’t handle uncommon Unicode characters in a way you find tolerable, maybe don’t continue down this thread. ( Also maybe mute unicode hashtag? if you aren’t here for that getting read codepoint names life ? You do you though) Anyway, bio says, in 7 segments on 2 lines separated by pipe characters: 1. A string of letter like Unicode symbols that is a TAFKAP type “name” I use: ᛞ Ɣɪ// , which I insist despite all precedent is pronounced “Dawn Guy”, “Dawn Ghyll” or “Dawn Guile” 2. 🏛️MIT '12 3. 🧑‍💻 DevOps/SRE ('14-'21; …?) 4 ↙️↙️↙️ , but notably, unlike in this alt text as it’s rendered in front of me, in the round-ish apple emoji style; in addition to being easier to type on macOS, I think this is much funnier for unconventional ness (and like friendly vibe in juxtaposition to how potus et al would characterize the symbol) 5. he/any 6. 🌁 SF (Sept – Dec…? 2025) 7.🪾https://linktr.ee/dbgmode
Screenshot of https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-houses-antifa-roundtable-took-exceedingly-weird-turn-rcna236634 with the text « “One of the individuals we arrested recently in Portland was the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa,” » said by SecDHS Noem, highlighted
screenshot of October 7, 2025 Strands puzzle, highlighted in order are the letters S,E,X,Y,R,A, and T superimposed over lower left corner is Lou Wilson (playing as Fabian Seacaster) saying "What the fuck is happening? what did you just do?" from near end of S1E2 "Clash of the Corn Cuties", as notably used as a spoilers template on dimension20.fandom.com (but here spiritually more akin to a couple other episodes and "what the fuck is that?!")
iOS (26) Notification [stack] from New York Times app reading: “ Trump; Trump; Trump SUMMARIZED BY APPLE INTELLIGENCE”
The real world Flag of the autonomous region of the Basque Country modified with blue regions at left and right of field… I imagine to encompass its origin from the sea and to denote its historical connections to Scotland
in right ~two thirds of frame: a specific screenshot of the first level of 1990 Super Famicom game Super Mario World: pixel art centered on Mario—a short black haired mustachioed light-skinned man in denim overalls, white gloves, and black shoes—standing above the outstretched, frog-like tongue of yoshi, a green cartoon dinosaur, at the end just beyond mario of which is a golden coin. This is the context of a Twitch.tv stream on 2023-06-18 by Japanese user Tsuake making (successful) attempt for the World record "11 Exit" category. As such, to left of the game screenshot, you can see from top to bottom, the player's hands gripping a super famicom controller, a speedrunning timer of "splits"for portions of the run, currently highlighting the first row labeled YI-2 (YI for "Yoshi's Island"), a large green timer currently displaying 35.3, a line reading "Best Possible Time 9:38.8, and 6 lines of viewer chat (currently apparently showing users interacting in japanese and giving commands to a "NightBot") This in turn is presented in the context of a pause 3m 4s into youtube video titled "Super Mario World Speedrun World Record Explained", by @bismuthsr.bsky.social‬. This is near start of the chapter "Cloud Glitch" — https://youtube.com/watch?v=OnfZgk3QL5U&t=160 — explaining the software dynamics at play in the Use After Free bug Tsuake is pictured in the last few frames of executing, 35 seconds into his run, which will ultimately allow him to, 8 mins and 13 seconds later, use a thus loaded/carried "Lakitu's Cloud" item to fly into the corners in the final boss fight, and by so doing manipulate the memory of timers to expedite the attack patterns of that final boss.
iOS 18 App Library with all app icons tinted to yellow and black
iPasOS 26 App Library styled clear, showing folders of app icoms all rendered monochrome and transparent
A two tone green but detailed drawing of underside of a horseshoe crab, suspended mid-frame on a blue-white gradient backed with a white outer glow and surrounded by golden glories at edges of frame are some wisps of seaweed and the top portions of what I take here to be two (traditional, rather horseshoe) crab adherents [of the original "aesthetic" probmpt: "crab priest"] above this devotional icon in widely character spaced black slab but slightly serifed capital letters is the phrase: I AM A BOTTOM. end of image description --- by the by tho, in the name of pedantry I do wish to acknowledge that, to quote wikipedia "Horseshoe crabs are arthropods of the family Limulidae and the only surviving xiphosurans. Despite their name, they are not true crabs or even crustaceans; they are chelicerates, more closely related to arachnids like spiders, ticks, and scorpions. " It is difficult for me to judge whether I feel, taking a broad conceptual view of carcinization, this animal has been subject to it (as the fact of its common name would suggest) or indeed has gone a fairly divergent evolutionary way, despite the presence of (8) claws. In the above metaphor about AI slob, the hard carapace is media literacy?
Me, looking nonplussed next to “the wood chipper” at the Fargo visitors center in Fargo, North Dakota By the way, the tourist information and gift shop part closes at 4 PM. I took this picture at like 8:30 PM.
Corner of my L shaped desk. Intended to use of the photo is black PC tower with glass side suspended from an under desk mount. A bright pink-purple uneven light from top half of 4 diffuse rectangles Also incidentally visible above desk surface are bottom portions of an unlit monitor and a speaker, as well as some peripherals To left of PC tower there is something of a jungle of cords, but I swear my cable management is actually pretty good (better than this pic suggests anyway)
Tweet by user @delatoid: “I had a dream where there were 2 non-binary flags The regular one was for peacetime, but when we went to war we would swap the white and black stripes” Followed by an illustration of the two flags: At left: horizontal stripes top to bottom {yellow, white, purple, and black} labeled Peacetime At right: horizontal stripes top to bottom {yellow, black, purple, and white} labeled Wartime
The paragraphs in question: Internationally, the firm has a long history of involvement, from financing America's infrastructure to advising the Panama Canal Authority. It was among the first U.S. firms to open overseas offices, although its history includes controversial actions such as aiding Nazi Germany's arms buildup and involvement in the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état. Sullivan & Cromwell's lawyers have been involved in various controversies, including insider trading scandals, work with tobacco companies, and criticism for its role in the FTX cryptocurrency exchange collapse. In 2024, the firm announced the hiring of a background check company to investigate students involved in pro-Palestinian groups. This scrutiny extended to candidates who participated in protests, even if they did not use problematic language themselves. In 2025, the law firm represented President Donald Trump and participated in the second Trump administration's efforts to punish his political opponents.
View of the (traditionally) rear panel of an ATX computer tower case. From the top expansion slot — above both Power Supply (at bottom) and other expansion slots (one of which is filled w/ Thunderbolt 3 card) but below motherboard port plate— extends left to right: large round black power button, a USB-C port about 20° off vertical, and a purple-blanked USB-A port about 5-10° off horizontal At right below vertical mounted GPU (with rear mounting plate sheared off), a black wire hangs down terminating to no clear purpose (as you can’t easily see in photo, it’s a 5V 3-pin ARGB cord)
Cropped screenshot of App Store on iPad OS, focused on the bottom part of the release notes of version 1.0.3 of Tapestry by Iconfactory body text reads CONNECTORS • Improved date checking in RSS connector • Improved checking of connector (.tapestry) files • The Ping connector now handles Cloudflare redirects more gracefully • Reddit connector now lets you choose between Hot, New, Top, and Rising • Added Graysky app as an Open In option for Bluesky [Thanks Donald!] • Added Skeets app as an Open In option for Bluesky [Thanks Sebastian & Teddy!] I am the Donald of the second to last line
Argentinian president Javier Milei’s official portrait, taken from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Retrato_oficial_del_Presidente_Javier_(cropped).jpeg A stern looking man with somewhat disheveled hair, somewhat long sideburns, and thick/mostly-neat eyebrows appears from top of head to chest wearing a brown suit jacket, off-white-to-blue dress shirt and brown tie tied in a single windsor knot. A cloth sash of Argentinian pale blue with a pale yellow mid-line is draped from his right shoulder to cross the tie tangent to the left line of knot before going out of frame before reaching his left lapel. Behind, to his right and viewer's left, staged diagonally draped to fill all space above/beyond the man's shoulder up to top-left corner of frame and mid-point of top, one can see much of an Argentinian flag in soft focus. The sun emblem on white field appears almost in its entirety, the upper-right arc being eclipsed by the man's hair; the visible portion of lower blue strip forms a left-leaned right triangle with its lower edge on the horizon of the man's shoulder. The hypotenuse is nearly but not quite tangent to the yellow stripe of the sash. In remaining upper-right of frame, further out of focus, one can see what appears to be most of the red-carpeted runs of two stairs with a rise either dark stained wood or shadowed carpet in the middle, aligned roughly such that the top of the rise is tangent to the man's hairline across his forehead
A frankly too elated looking Elon Musk, in apparent black trenchoat and gold chain combo, smiles broadly with slightly open mouth and gives a thumbs up at shoulder height with his right hand, while holding with his left hand at his waste the ornamented prop chainsaw he was earlier gifted by Milei on stage. Milei stands next to him d in a blue suit. His hands are giving a double thumbs up at abdomen height with somewhat clenched fists. He seems to be attempting to smile, but has only achieved a 😐 expression at mouth. While there are signs of smile lines, his eyes still read to me as someone failing to feign comfort with the situation. They stand in front of some red velvet lounge chairs with a US flag visible behind them between their shoulders, an Argentinian flag is mostly obscured by Melei. The blade of the chainsaw passes in front of Melei’s right leg to about his left knee. It looks not entirely unlike Melei is a man being made to take a propaganda photo under duress unconvincingly suggesting he is good buddies with his armed captor. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Milei_y_Elon_Musk_con_una_motosierra.jpg gives a caption in Spanish as “Javier Milei y Elon Musk sostienen una motosierra durante un encuentro en National Harbor, Maryland”
Screenshot of Shortcuts app with the logic : Get and count Visible apps (an alt of “Get Current App”). If > 1 Pass the bundle identifier of one app to split screen action (select variable is there in dialogue as of 18.3 but you have to scroll down past all your installed apps) To transcribe steps: 1. Get [Visible] apps connected by propogation line to 2. Count Items in [Visible Apps] line to 3. If [Count] is [less than or equal to] [1] encloses: A4. Find [All] Tab Groups where [Title] [contains] “📟” ; prop line to A5. Get [First Item] from [Tab Group]; prop line to A6. Open [⌃Item From List] Otherwise: B4. Get [First Item] from [ ⑴ Visible Apps] ; prop line to B5. Split Screen between [⌃ Bundle Identifier ] and [Safari] End-if
Sidebar of the Activity Log page of Facebook, with the "Your Facebook activity" and "Posts" accordions expanded, and "Your posts, photos, and videos" selected
July 26, 2006 October 9, 2006 [mostly 25 - 50 at a time in accordance with UX constraints, though prompting 25+ ~rate-limit error messages when I got impatient and dared to scroll-load & bulk submit multiple pages at once] - 3,194 comments (& 108 edits to those comments) - 2,726 posts or shares, including - 827 "status updates", - 597+ shared links, - 512 tweet xposts, 89 Instagram xposts - 265 FB-internal reshares (14 "Memories"), - 120 FB location "check ins" - 55 Untappd beers checkins, 22 Foursquare checkins, … ,110+ other ~life-logging things "via" 30+ other apps, - …, - 6 "is feeling"s (1 each of: "happy", "fresh", "weak at New York Sports Clubs", "irritated" , "bummed", and "bereft of understanding"), - … (& 121 post-hoc edits to those posts) - 2,401 "reactions":  2,267x👍 + 67 x❤️ + 36x😢 +9 x😆 + 8x😮 + 8x🫂 [added April '20] 4x😡+ 2x🏳️‍🌈 [was a thing in June '17] - 995 photos - 695 event responses (155 "Going" + 85 "Maybe" + 455[!!] declined) [removed 1 by 1] - ~500 or so "wrote on <other person's> profile" wall posts (that I don't think were counted above) - 125+ pages liked/followed - 75 videos - 50 notes (~blog posts) - 33 poll votes (a thing apparently!) - 25+ custom friends lists (the thing they added to compete with Google+ circles) - 22 photo albums - (only) 4 pokes (…since they started being recorded durably, sometime in 2012? ) 850+ friends added (but ~470 friends removed, at various points, mostly in attempt to keep feeds useful for them & me)
screenshot of the moon from Majora's mask about to crash into the clock tower, destroying the world - per pre (first?) timeloop cutscene I has a big angry face and is surrounded by fire though kinda sorta look
White centered Arial Narrow bold text on a black background reads: 24th of The October -12 Days Remain- In the style of 2000 N64 game the Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask interstitials (marking the approach of an apocalypse, though for the most of the game one that — unlike the election — you can escape back to beginning of the time loop) See also: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dawn-of-the-final-day
Slide is divided in half vertically center to right: the poster advertising premier of the 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie Smart House. left to center: Heading: Smart House Stuff Sub-head: [BYO maternal systems overload] full body text cannot fit in length of alt text allowed full text at https://gist.github.com/donaldguy/fab14d27b6206b8dc2e40daa15220d67#file-smart-house-slide-md I jokingly bemoan lack irl of film's tech w/ emphasis on 3 scenes in which walls suddenly become screens playing specifically-of-late 90s pop song, & the silly things characters do in those scenes at bottom is verbatim text: but keep the faith that better things are possible!. As surely as June 1999’s Smart House, the 2nd film directed by already celebrated actor & literacy advocate LeVar Burton, was much better received (& is certainly much more fondly remembered) than his film-directorial debut [April 1998’’s “Showtime Original Picturs for Kids” unauthorized biopic “The Tiger Woods Story"
Screenshot of Signal chat, cropping out the contact name banner Them: But last night.... Lol. For some reason I was doing an experiment where I was putting weird items inside of large books, to see how the books crushed them Or like...some other not crushing interaction And by items I mean food One was like... pouring melted ice cream Another was a layered chocolate dessert The layered chocolate dessert was much less crushed than expected. I had an "aha" moment about how some internal layers of the dessert protected the outside from much crushing. I think it was this aha moment that woke me up lol