@doofusdan.bsky.social

@doofusdan.bsky.social

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neurodivergent af / sff / guitar / cats / climate / clean energy / sustainability / antifascist

Screenshot iOS map of eastern US showing device current location in Michigan
Screenshot of an iPhone with a Siri prompt and reply dialog overlaid on a web page. The dialog: Hey Siri add a task to my to-do list i I didn't find a "To-do" list. Do you want to create one? No Yes The web page is a post on Todoist’s blog announcing Siri integration.
Screenshot of iOS background sound options with Night selected
A photo of the inside flap of a notebook’s dust jacket, with a column of two letter abbreviations in bold pencil, with each abbreviation spelled out in lighter pencil to the right. The background is a clipboard covered with old stickers from stores and political campaigns that no longer exist WT waking Thoghs H health DH daily homework GR gratitude PD process dump ML Music log OT Oblique/Obtuse/Oracular tactics GI Goals & Intentions 5+5 10 minute timed writing 3P Plug in, Press record, Play something PM Produce Mix Master TT task tringe BK book reading
A playing card with today’s obtuse tactic handwritten on it. The card is made from matte black paper, with handwriting in white marker. A “Tt” is written in the upper right corner of the card, like the suit on a playing card.
Photo of a section of an Op-Ed from The Onion print newspaper, with an author photo of a horses head inset in a circle and text: By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat
Pic of a beared chin over a blue-hoodie-clad upper chest
Butterfly meme template of man with glasses raising hand towards butterfly with caption “is this bird?”
Close up of the back of a Tesla model 3 with two ANTIFA bumper stickers: “I bought this car before Elon decided to be a supervillain” and a drawing of Calvin (Hobbes’ boy) mischievously peeing on the name “Elon” There’s a Washington state license plate with registration stickers from August 2025 - this is an old photo, my registration is current - unlike a huge number of freeway freeloaders who don’t keep their registration current and don’t pay to maintain the roads in WA (that’s part of why we need an income tax, which is funny because I know you are also the same ones complaining about it!)
A photo of a car’s large center display showing a Tesla model 3 status on the left side of the screen with a web browser on the right showing rhymedesk.com displaying rhymes for the word “grown”
Cat on a blanket over a persons legs outstretched on a couch. The cats nose is buried btw its front paws, up against an open laptop on the persons lap
A playing card with today’s obtuse tactic handwritten on it. The card is made from matte black paper, with handwriting in white marker. A “Tt” is written in the upper right corner of the card, like the suit on a playing card.
A playing card with today’s obtuse tactic handwritten on it. The card is made from matte black paper, with handwriting in white marker. A “Tt” is written in the upper right corner of the card, like the suit on a playing card.
A playing card with today’s obtuse tactic handwritten on it. The card is made from matte black paper, with handwriting in white marker. A “Tt” is written in the upper right corner of the card, like the suit on a playing card.
A playing card with today’s obtuse tactic handwritten on it. The card is made from matte black paper, with handwriting in white marker. A “Tt” is written in the upper right corner of the card, like the suit on a playing card.
A playing card with today’s obtuse tactic handwritten on it. The card is made from matte black paper, with handwriting in white marker. A “Tt” is written in the upper right corner of the card, like the suit on a playing card.
A playing card with today’s obtuse tactic handwritten on it. The card is made from matte black paper, with handwriting in white marker. A “Tt” is written in the upper right corner of the card, like the suit on a playing card. The card rests on a notebook open to a blank page, with a pencil
A playing card with today’s obtuse tactic handwritten on it. The card is made from matte black paper, with handwriting in white marker. A “Tt” is written in the upper right corner of the card, like the suit on a playing card.
A crow’s face next and beak are shown in profile close up, overlaid on a generic image of a chalkboard with mathematical equations. The words from the original photo have been modified to read “Am I too high” instead of “An IQ too high”
A playing card made from matte black paper, with handwriting in white marker, resting on a notebook open to a blank page. A yellow page marker ribbon and a blue mechanical pencil lay on the page. A “Tt” is written in the upper right corner of the card , like a suit indicator on playing cards. Today’s obtuse tactic is written on the card.
Page of a calendar for January with a Highland cow - long reddish brown fur all over, including covering its eyes - standing in a snowy grassy field
A hawk, identified as a Cooper’s Hawk, perches in front of a light grey early morning sky, on the peaked ridge of a house’s roof, covered with dark grey tiles and solar panels.
Screenshot of news website KWIX 10 with headline: Waco man yelling racial slurs accidentally set himself on fire while trying to burn down victim's home: affidavit
A photo of Miss Piggy (a glamorous blonde muppet pig) dressed in a pink gown with long gloves and lots of diamonds, gazing wide-eyed and smiling over her shoulder at the camera
A playing card made from matte black paper, with handwriting in white marker, resting on a notebook. A “Tt” is written in the upper right corner, like a suit indicator on playing cards. Today’s obtuse tactic is written on the card.
A green canvas tote bag printed with an illustration of two wooden bookshelves filled with classic literature and cozy details. The top shelf features books titled “Tales from 1,001 Nights” by Anonymous, “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens, “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett, “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien, and “Lewis Carroll” (likely Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland). A sleeping orange cat curls up between the books. The lower shelf shows an antique clock, more books — including “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen, “Poems,” “Jungle Book” by Rudyard Kipling, and “Tales” — along with a brown owl perched beside a potted plant. The scene evokes a warm, literary atmosphere, with the bag displayed among textiles and greenery in a shop.
The cover of Goodbye Jumbo album by World Party, with a person in a gas mask and an elephant costume
A blank notebook is open on a wooden table, with a black mechanical pencil and a yellow page-marker ribbon laying on the page. A black notecard is also laying across the opened pages, with this handwritten in white marker: Write like a wizard - i.e., knowing that what you say will become true about the world, as you say it, because you say so.
A top down photo showing the photographers legs and feet in black jeans and sneakers standing on a concrete floor, inside a box marked in wide yellow painted lines, labeled with yellow spray painted stenciled words reading “KEEP CLEAR”
A photo of two trees in the midst of changing from green to red - each tree has a spectrum of the full range from one side to the other
Photo of a receipt, reading: “Surcharge (3.00%) $0.87 Subtotal $29.77 Tax $3.09 Total $32.86 A 3% surcharge will be added to each check to offset the increased cost of goods. 100% of this surcharge is retained by the company.”
GIF of an older Fred Roger’s with grey hair, wearing a bow tie and a blue suit jacket, with speech captioned “because of you look for the helpers you’ll know that there’s Hope” - following a well known saying of his mothers to “always look for the helpers”
Screenshot showing an active annual Todoist Pro substitution
Screenshot of heading and lede of Headline: “Musk chatbot Grok says it was 'censored ' after suspension from X over Gaza posts” Lede in subhead: “Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAl and integrated into his platform X, was temporarily suspended from the platform on Monday after saying that Israel and the United States were committing "genocide" in Gaza. Reinstated on Tuesday, Grok lashed out at its developers, saying "Musk and xAl are censoring me".
Photo of a vintage Spy Hunter arcade game cabinet. The screen displays a high score leaderboard with a top score of 200,000 by “TFL,” titled “Top Agent.” Below it is a list of other players labeled “Special Force Team.” The game screen shows a vertically scrolling road with trees on each side. The control panel features a dual-handled steering yoke labeled “Weapons Van” in the center, a gear shift with “Low Gear” and “High Gear” options, and various labeled buttons and displays. Brightly colored indicators and retro graphics decorate the cabinet. A green sign reads “Suitable for All Ages.”
A black card with the quote from today’s skeet handwritten in white ink lays on a wooden surface
A black card with the quote from today’s skeet handwritten in white ink lays on a notebook printed with a green and red pattern.
A black card with the quote from today’s skeet handwritten in white ink lays on a notebook opened to blank pages. A mechanical pencil is next to it.
A black card with the quote from today’s skeet handwritten in white ink
A black card with the text from this skeet handwritten in white ink; it sits on a closed notebook. The letters “Tt” are in the upper right corner.
Photo of the inside front cover of a notebook, with the following items in a handwritten list: OS Oblique Strategies (or other oracular sources) WT waking thoughts DH daily homework H health GR gratitude ML Music log GI Goals + intentions PD Process dump 5+5 Object (or other) writing - 10 minutes max
A few dozen playing cards made from black paper, have handwritten sayings about songwriting written in white on each such as “tear down an existing pattern “and “put the funniest word at the end of the line. – Dave Barry”
A hand lettered phrase “credibility of intentions” is written in black marker on a blank white card. The same phrase is written in pencil on the top of a notebook page; the card is placed on the notebook along with a blue mechanical pencil. The notebook rests on a wooden surface
A gif of a grey and white car with blue eyes sitting on a red and blue cushion, licking his nose and looking up at the camera
Screenshot of Google Maps showing Microsoft’s campus in Redmond WA located less than 2 miles from the location of my retail computer sales job
Screenshot of text from the essay, including: With one exception, that is: Linux, which is right next door, and which is not a business at all. It's a bunch of RVs, yurts, tepees, and geodesic domes set up in a field and organized by consensus. The people who live there are making tanks. These are not old-fashioned, cast-iron Soviet tanks; these are more like the M1 tanks of the U.S. Army, made of space-age materials and jammed with sophisticated technology from one end to the other. But they are better than Army tanks. They've been modified in such a way that they never, ever break down, are light and maneuverable enough to use on ordinary streets, and use no more fuel than a subcompact car. These tanks are being cranked out, on the spot, at a terrific pace, and a vast number of them are lined up along the edge of the road with keys in the ignition. Anyone who wants can simply climb into one and drive it away for free. Customers come to this crossroads in throngs, day and night. Ninety percent of them go straight to the biggest dealership and buy station wagons or off-road vehicles. They do not even look at the other dealerships. Of the remaining ten percent, most go and buy a sleek Euro-sedan, pausing only to turn up their noses at the philistines going to buy the station wagons and ORVs. If they even notice the people on the opposite side of the road, selling the cheaper, technically superior vehicles, these customers deride them cranks and half-wits. The Batmobile outlet sells a few vehicles to the occasional car nut who wants a second vehicle to go with his station wagon, but seems to accept, at least for now, that it's a fringe player. The group giving away the free tanks only stays alive because it is staffed by volunteers, who are lined up at the edge of the street with bullhorns, trying to draw customers' attention to this incredible situation.
XKCD #1053 - explaining that for each thing that “everyone knows” by age 30, 10,000 people hear it for the first time every day.
one of Monet’s Water Lillies, depicting a small arched wooden footbeidge with a raining over a flower pond with bright sunlight dappling the garden it is in, hangs in a large gold frame on a light grey wall at Museé de Orsey. In the foreground, out of focus, we can see the photographer’s hand outstretched, giving rhe middle finger to the painting, a reference to both Ai Weiwei’s middle finger series and his “cover” of Monet’s painting
Photo of last two pages of the book, held open with two fingers. Left page has centered text: A wish for this book would be that it causes us to reassess the value of these two things: playing and feeling. And to realise that what we need is already inside us, and that art - playing and feeling - is a way of discovering it. There's a beautiful sculpture by Giuseppe Penone. He took a tree trunk and cut away most of the growth of the tree, leaving behind what had been there when the tree was ten years old. Inside big tree is baby tree. Inside you is little you. It's always there. Brian Eno Bette A. right side a photo of the tree artwork the text describes with caption: Gluseppe Penone, Albero porta (Door Tree), 1993 Sequola wood photo © Luigi Gariglio
A page from the book, an all dark background, with a single phrase in a single short line in the middle of the page in white all caps San serif block letters: “Art is a way of making feelings happen”
A nighttime photo of a deep purple and bright green aurora streaking high into the night sky above a street with modest arts & crafts single family houses lit by porch light , and some tall evergreens silhouetted against he relatively bright night sky
Artist: Suchitra Mattai Alt text: An immersive fiber installation featuring walls and furniture entirely wrapped in handwoven textiles of multicolored braided fabric strips. The space includes thick, colorful cords snaking across the floor, sculptural figures formed from twisted fabric, a large cocoon-like chandelier overhead, and vintage chairs incorporated into the installation. The atmosphere evokes a fantastical, dreamlike domestic interior.
A photo of a middle aged man with a beard and glasses taking a selfie in a museum from behind a sculpture of an outstretched middle finger so that it appears to be aimed at the man
View out a ground floor bathroom window with, immediately outside, between two closely spaced houses, an operator on a small tracked machine with a large red digger arm is digging a trench
Photo of book page, key section: Everyone must contend with this uncertainty. Every writer must begin his career with no firm knowledge of how or when that career will manifest. If you asked a working writer how he dealt with the uncertainty while writing that first or second book, he might an-swer, "I just knew it would work out somehow." Perhaps you don't believe you have that level of self-confidence. Perhaps when you peer into the crystal ball of your writing future, you see only smoke and ghosts and shadows. Perhaps you think that this is the difference between you and those successful writers, and so you were correct to believe that writing is a waste of time. After all, a real writer would trust in his talent, wits, or imagination —and all you have is doubt. Anyone who peers into such a crystal ball will be overwhelmed with doubt, even those successful writers you admire and possibly envy. The truth is, not only are you no different than those successful writers, you also possess just as much confidence-you're just looking in the wrong place for it. I know this because, if you're reading this book, you've probably written something: a story, a poem, an essay, or maybe even a book. If, in fact, you've ever written a scene in a story, you have the confidence to grow a fruitful writing career. I know this because no one writes a scene knowing everything that will be done and said in it. You start a scene knowing maybe one or two events. Perhaps you have a beginning and an end; maybe you don'teven have that. But you don't worry about it. Every piece, every… (1/2)
Photo of upper half of book front cover, aqua background with text: [Small blurb quote at the top:] "This isn't a 'how-to book about writing. It's a book about how to be a writer. How to prepare yourself-holistically, mentally, and spiritually- to take on a project that exists entirely in your head." - GARTH STEIN, INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN AND A SUDDEN LIGHT [title, largest] FEARLESS WRITING [suntitle, small]How to Create Boldly and Write with Confidence WILLIAM KENOWER
Slightly wider view of the same Tesla model three rear trunk lid from previous photo. You can see the Tesla logo, the top of a Washington license plate and a bumper sticker which reads I bought this car before Elon decided to be a super villain, and a “peeing Calvin” meme with Elon’s name as his splashdown target
Close-up of a Tesla model three rear trunk lid. You can see the Tesla logo the top of a Washington license plate and a bumper sticker which reads I bought this car before Elon decided to be a super villain.
A protest sign is held to in front of a large crowd it reads welcome immigrants, shelter refugees, deport fascists