@icesurfer.bsky.social

@icesurfer.bsky.social

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Infosec Swiss Army Knife. Tec diver. Occasional (but published) travel photographer. Opinions are all mine and usually wrong.

Two pickups for electric guitar, with a tag showing the brand "DiMarzio"
Tweet by John Lefevre: "I am America First. I am for no new wars. I got duped in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lybia and Syria were a disgrace. But what Trump did in Iran is beyond incredible. It takes the balls of a leader who has been arrested, shot at, and gives zero fucks. Any other president would have thought about election season; Trump just did what he thought was right. And it will have generational change. America is back"
Calvin says that he had decided to be a fatalist, and that "all events are preordained and unalterable. Whatever will be will be. That way if anything bad happens it's hot my fault. It's fate". Hobbes than causes Calvin to trip, and says "Too bad you were fated to do that". A very angry Calvin replies that "that was NOT fate"
Screenshot from an episode of The Simpson, showing a newspaper article featuring a photo of an angry Grandpa Simpson, and the title "Old man yells at cloud"
Skeet from @noelreports.com showing the celebrations across Latin America following the capture of Nicolas Maduro.
Samuel Jackson as Jules in Pulp Fiction, pointing a gun at Brett
Underwater shot, the shape of a WWII naval cannon is visible, although very blurred. Another shape is marginally visible on the right.
A photograph of various items of scuba diving gear, placed on a wooden floor. This includes a 3mm wetsuit (appropriate for warm waters), fins, a sidemount wing, booties, two masks, two sidemount regulators, two dive computers, two cutting devices, two DSMBs.
Headline from The Guardian, saying that King Charles is the first British monarch to pray with pope in 500 years
Animated GIF of Professor Farnsworth from Futurama, wearing a cape, holding an impaled skull and a chandelier, exclaiming "Hail Science!" as his hood falls off showing the number 666 on his forehead.
Close-up shot of Marty Feldman playing Igor in the movie Young Frankenstein, directed by Mel Brooks.
A full suspension mountain bike, standing against a wooden pole on the grass. The frame is a red wine colour. Trees are visible in the background .
Screenshot from the movie "The Green Mile", showing John Coffey (played by Michael Clarke Duncan) saying his iconic line "I am tired, boss"
Screenshot from chess.com, showing a 3000 score for puzzles
A screenshot from Microsoft Flight Simulator, showing a small single-engine aircraft flying over the sea, at dawn. Orange clouds are reflected in the water. A double rainbow is visible.
Diagram showing a chessboard with a game just started. The opponent, a bot, quotes Mikhail Tal: "You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one"
Hello, Linux Developer. My name is Jigsaw. In this "Saw Trap" (as I've taken to calling them), there is a wheel in front of you. Your challenge is to leave the room without reinventing it. It works fine. It's a perfectly good wheel. The door is unlocked. #linux
A medieval castle, perched upon a hill covered in trees, against a clear blue sky. One side of the hill degrades gently, the other is basically a wall of rock, and the part of the castle built right at the edge of that wall is particularly striking. The photograph is taken from a lower position.
A close-up photograph of the statue of Hercules killing the centaur Nessus. The statue is white marble. Only the top part of the two figures is visible. Nessus, portraited as he screams in pain, is fully in focus in the foreground, while Hercules is slightly out of focus, behind him, as he grabs him by the head/hair. The entrance of the Uffizi Gallery is barely visible behind them.
A picture of the atrium of Antwerp's central railway station, shot with High Dynamic Range and with an ultrawide lense to get a stronger prospective effect. Stairs in the foreground lead to a central archway, with a clock on top. Smaller archways are visible on the sides, mostly on the first floor, with warm light coming from behind. No people are visible.
A sequence of six images showing a black kite, first as it is perched on a tree branch, and then as it takes off and starts a horizontal flight. The background is out of focus, and shows the side of a hill, covered in grass.
Screenshot of a tweet from Donald Trump on November 6th 2012, saying that if the Dow drops 1,000 points in two days the President should be impeached immediately.
A photograph of the cloister at New College, Oxford, taken from one of the corners so that the geometry of the columns, windows and arches follows a left-right symmetry
Close up image of a white throat kingfisher, perched on a tree branch. Some droplets of water are visible on its wings.
Part of a brick wall. Each brick has a name engraven on it. Circled in red is the brick with the name "Guelfo Antonio Tessari"
Ancient mosaic depicting a leopard eating a man's face.
Mosaic of a leopard eating a man's face
A screenshot from the game Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, showing a chessboard. In FEN notation, the pieces are set as follows: 1r4k1/8/5PP1/8/K1n3nR/7B/1r6/7R w - - 0 1
Shore of a lake. The shore is covered with stones, and a fallen dead tree is visible right at the waterline. The sky is partially covered with clouds, and the mountains on the other side of the lake are visible on the horizon.
Meme with Bart Simpson saying that the Internet was the worst mistake in human history, and Homer adding "to date"
Picture showing the handlebar and part of the frame of a gravel bike, all literally covered in mud.
Bluesky celebrating 10 million users, and informing me that I was #86,395 to join, and therefore in the first 1%.
Screenshot from Baldur's Gate 3, showing a 20-side dice rolling a 1 for a Wisdom saving throw of Difficulty Class 2, ending in a Critical Failure.
A photograph of a puffin, walking on grass, with the sky in the background.
View of East London from The Shard, with Tower Bridge in the foreground and Canary Wharf in the background
Screenshot saying "OpenTable will send you dining offers and news by email unless you object by unchecking this box"
A Burg Wachter Gamma 700 padlock, opened with no key, and lock picking tools on a side
Picture of an ancient cannon with cats resting on top.
The interior of the Blue Mosque, Istanbul
A desk populated by old watches, tools to repair them, some wooden boxes, plus old books and papers about watchmaking
Roof of a hindu temple in Chennai, with intricate decorations depicting dozens of human and divine figures.
Professor Farnsworth from Futurama, wearing a cape, holding a chandellier and a skull, and with a '666' tattoo on his forehead, exclaiming "Heil, science"
A tardigrade playing a tiny tiny violin.
Meme of Hannibal Smith of the A-Team, with the caption "I love it when a plan comes together"
Tardigrade playing a tiny tiny violin