Matt

@mattmark.bsky.social

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SciFi/Fantasy enjoyer, amateur Astronomer, aspiring Computer Scientist, and homebrewer. Suspected AuDHD.

A shadow from a cloud over the horizon extends into the northwest horizon, where red, orange, yellow, blue and deep blue shade into the sky. Venus trails The Moon during last light.
MSP Airport taxiways and 12R runway. There are planes taxiing through wildfire smoke, and it looks like a midday fog
Three meads on a gray table cloth — with an LCD television behind (left-to-right): dried mango in mead, knotweed syrup in mead, and mulberry syrup in mead
Jupiter below Venus and beside Pollux (in Gemini) over a midwest neighborhood
A well-lit fire burns in a backyard, and it’s surrounded by red paver bricks in a steel cauldron-like pit
Posting: “Mark Zuckerberg was reportedly building a $100M Hawaii compound with a huge underground bunker” Meme: (a goose) “Why are tech oligarchs building bunkers all of the sudden?” Next pane: (geese honking and chasing with an American flag) “Why do you need a bunker?”
A silver star mylar balloon floats across the taxiways and runways of an airport. In the foreground is a baggage cart and fuel cart and service trucks.
A reddit comment chain that starts: "AI please take this job" -- the job being a vape tester. Then reply comment: "We only have training data for things people love to do and share. There's no training data for horrible jobs people hate and would rather not talk about." Then a further reply: "That's tragic. Only the most passionate people posted their content online (e.g. software engineers on stack overflow) and now it's being used against them." A fourth reply, says: "That's obviously a lie, unless you love sorting packages in a warehouse" (this seems sarcastic to me).
A Boeing 737 with “United States of America” livery taxis at MSP, in the left is a Delta CRJ-900 plane tail
A redwing blackbird roosts on a wooden railing with dried cattails in the background
A squirrel loots seed from a “squirrel repellant” designed feeder on a Shepherd’s hook
Centered is Jupiter with Ganymede (right) and Callisto (left) with a few background stars. The glow is The Moon's brightness above this shot. Taken 22 Apr 2026 at 22:45 CDT
The Moon and Jupiter on 22 Apr 2026 at MSP
An Delta Connection airplane fuselage with one bright planet — Venus (center) and the crescent moon (upper center) at dusk
Text: “Thank you for your interest in employment with the City of Saint Paul. We regret to inform you that you did not pass the assessment for IS Information/ Technical Analyst III (Jr. Network Administrator). A passing score is 75%. Your assessment score is 53.13%.”
A brown and tan striped tabby cat lays beside an orange tabby cat on a pink chair with white-circled black blanket draped over its back and a bowling themed quilt blanket
A United flight takes off at MSP International Airport during a warm sunset of pinks and oranges. In the right background is the Minneapolis skyline of downtown.
A black and tan tabby cat lounging in its owners laps with his left paw extended towards its owner’s face
Looking out of an Embrear 175 baggage bin a belt loader is in the foreground the day is sunny and there are three Delta jet tails on the left side and an empty taxiway and runway on the right
Alan Doyle’s “Beautiful Beautiful Band” members playing on a stage at the J-A-G with the “Welcome Home” album cover art project in the background (a simple house beside a bay and cliffs with the moon centered in a warm pink sunset/sunrise)
An airport taxi ways and runway with two Delta planes taxiing left for take off while the clouds parted towards the northwest of a warm sunset at MSP airport, 26 Mar 2026
A orange-black tabby cat sniffs a sun-bleached blue planter containing (currently) dead catnip in the Spring.
A man wearing an orange, high-visibility vest with a black cap with the Unifi logo and text wearing ear protection while working a CRJ-900 baggage compartment. He has a beard and is wearing glasses.
Fresh snow blowing off a roof catches warm tones from the March afternoon Sun
A circular image containing a globular cluster — a grouping of stars (over 100) in a small area of the image. This is M13, the globular cluster in the constellation Hercules, captured 28 July 2023. All the stars appear white, and the light polluted sky is a background adding a grayness
A map of Minnesota with North and South Dakota, but the counties near the Twin Cities metro are illuminate white as a “Fox 9 Storm” alert with a caption: “Winter storm watch on Spring Break…Go home Minnesota. You’re drunk!”
“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” (Smedley Butler)
A stock pot of heating water with steeping grains and a thermometer
ONCE WEAPONS WERE MANUFACTURED TO FIGHT WARS. NOW WARS ARE MANUFACTURED TO SELL WEAPONS. - ARUNDHATI ROY
“No one's taking away ALL the guns. But now I get it, now I see what's happening. Their paranoid fear of a possible dystopic future prevents us from addressing our actual dystopic present. We can't even begin to address 30,000 gun deaths that are actually, in reality, happening in this country every year because a few of us must remain vigilant against the rise of imaginary Hitler.” - Jon Stewart, 1/8/13
A husky dog (gray and white, wolf-like) “sharing a joke” panel 1) “I started a band called 999 megabytes” panel 2) “we still haven’t gotten a gig” and panel 3) husky with wide eyes and open mouth
A photo of the MSP (airport) runway looking north at (feels like) -19F
A “Horschata” beverage glass style sled descending a snowy slope ejecting “F- ICE” cubes at Minneapolis Art Sled Rally in Powderhorn park
A black striped and orange tabby cat in a lap with “skull kitty” pj pants with a keyboard and mouse attached to a desk
An orange tabby cat laying on top of a brown-orange tabby cat in the top of a cat tree
An employee locker numbered 848 with a red Northwest Airline sticker in its upper left outer door
Lonestar’s RV from Spaceballs. Basically, a Winnebago bus-like vehicle with wings
Black-orange tabby cat spread, head first, over the front edge of blue couch cushions in a basement
A black and gold tabby scratching at the base of a door in an effort to open it and go outside toward his catnip
Four brown, new electrical capacitors and three black, bubbled electrical capacitors that are bad laying atop the back of a freshly re-assembled Dell 2208WFPt 24” LCD monitor
A Tweet showing a screenshot of “package carriers suspending shipments to U.S.” (because tarriffs), including UK, Germany, Lithuania, France, Italy, Austria, Norway, New Zealand, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark,… 30 countries in total
The transferred dark amber mead into the second fermentation vessel (one gallon glass juice jar) with pasteurized mulberry juice
A beer emoji. Two eyes of red haskap from Hallett Brewing, and a hair filament that fell to the table with a smile-like bend
A deep amber must that’s been put into a Bubbler (a 2 gal? glass jar with a vent hole) and inoculated (yeast added) to begin fermentation
A must (honey and water) in a stockpot, where the thermometer reads 190 degrees. Also, the empty bottle of the deep brown honey.
An Allsky image of the Minnesota sky on 31-Jul-2025 at 4:04 am CDT containing Saturn and meteor (center bottom) south of the constellation Pegasus, near the center. It was captured with a ZWO ASI camera with a 170 deg. lens on a Raspberry Pi 4, and it was a 10 second exposure.
A brown-black tabby cat laying on his back in his owners lap and arms as if in a hammock
A Crayola trace of a unicorn, a red-orange-yellow mane and tail, with a knight rider (on the left) and a sea worm beast (green and blue) bursting from the waves (on the right) under a partly cloudy, sunny sky
A blue sky over the starboard wing of a Mitsubishi CRJ900 with an Air Canada logo on its wing tips, at above 30,000ft over the Gulf of St. Lawrence, west bound to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. There are two distant jets with tails in this view.
A Crayola tracing of a Pegasus (a winged horse) in the center with yellow-orange-red mane and tail set in front of a mountainous and pine background with a sunny sky
A brown and orange tabby cat cuddling with his human companion, in an elongated position headed into the human’s left arm pit and into his lap.
A photo of Split Rock Lighthouse
A color and pencil drawing of Split Rock Lighthouse
A black/brown striped tabby cat with his butt in the sink looking with his front toward the camera
A snapshot of Invictus Brewing’s “Salted Nut Roll Golden Ale.” It has a red label with Pearson’s Nut Roll pictured on the label in a black 16oz can
Black/brown striped tabby cat playing with a potted catnip plant
A Crayola tracing of a female adventurer with a hammer (in the right) and a castle on a hill (in the left) under a sunny sky
A Crayola tracing of a mermaid with a shell (in the left) while the sea is sloshing (in the right) under a sunny sky with a moon out (in the middle top)
Catfish Po Boy from ParraLily. A spiced filet of catfish with a lettuce and red onion slaw on a hoagie bun.