rob mahurin

@robtasm.bsky.social

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I am large. I contain multitudes.

The shadow of a cumulus cloud stretches across the sky at dusk. In the foreground is a volleyball game, with the ball hanging in the sky.
Map of the northeastern United States. A bright band stretches southeast from Lake Superior to the Chesapeake Bay and out to the Atlantic, with the words "Thick smoke" over the Washington, DC area. Caption text below the bright band: "Predicted wildfire smoke Friday afternoon (HRRR model)."
The darkening sky over the treeline is full of multiple matters of multihued gold and purple clouds, with small scratches of blue sky peeking out near the horizon. In the foreground, houses.
Golden and purple clouds in the west at sunset, viewed through an arching doorway.
Professor Doofenshmirtz sees a woman touching her silhouetted uterus and holding a clock with a "pause" symbol on it. He reacts by saying, "Menopause?" Then he sees a fedora-wearing list of unpleasant symptoms, and says. "Peri the menopause?!?"
Two cats stretched out on a paisley rug. Pandora, left with tortoiseshell colors, is twisted into a sort of corkscrew with her belly and hind feet in the air; her eye is open and she is watching the camera. Odin, on the right in long black hair, has his face near Pandora's. Their front paws are touching.
A crepuscular shadow, facing west just after sunset. There is a layer of haze which is still illuminated by the setting sun. But on the right, some distant hill is cashing a shadow on this layer. The chiaroscuro boundary happens to pass directly overhead, splitting the sky into golden and blue halves. There is a hint of a bright ray near the "two o'clock" angle.
A brilliant golden sky is visible through and above trees, framed by the wall and roof of a balcony. In the foreground is a wind chime.
A one-eyed tortoiseshell cat is momentarily distracted from her playtime with some mouse-shaped toys.
A cloudless pre-dawn sky shows a gradient of colors above a dark horizon.
Art on a glass door reading HELLO SUMMER, except the O has rays like a child's drawing of the sun and doesn't immediately register as a letter.
Page of a legal complaint. Top, circled, the word "COMPLAINT." Middle, a screenshot of a ChatGPT blurb: "Built with safety in mind. Safety and transparency aren't add-ons — they're built into how we design, test, and improve ChatGPT. We work with experts, test safeguards, and update our systems regularly to reduce risks. ChatGPT is trained to avoid showing harmful material and to respond in a respectful way for all users." Bottom, circled, a two-word paragraph numbered "1", text "Not so."
A shallow river glistens in the springtime sun, viewed through thick foliage.
The face in the Duolingo app icon becomes progressively more distressed through the day to manipulate the user into doing a lesson. Here, around 3pm, the owl seems to be having an unpleasant bowel movement.
The Little Pigeon River at dawn. There are geese and herons.
How to draw an owl. Step 1: draw some circles. [image shows a circle and oak roughly like the head and body of a bird] Step 2: draw the rest of the fucking owl. [image shows an exceptional pencil sketch of a horned owl sitting on a tree branch]
An orange beverage can. The upper shoulder says "NEW BELGIUM." Vertically up the side, "VOODOO RANGER." A skeleton is dressed in a hat with furred leather ear flaps, a checkered dome, and an upturned bright green bill. The skeleton is wearing the mock "sunglasses" which are just plastic strips, which wouldn't protect the skeleton's eyes from UV light if the skeleton had eyes. On its torso, the skeleton is wearing a denim jacket with red cobras on either panel of the unfastened front. In large letters and in multiple typefaces, "1985 MANGO IPA."
Screenshot of a headline and article preview image. Headline: "We're getting a blue Moon in May 2026. Here's how to see the extra full Moon this year | BBC Sky at Night Magazine." The preview image shows a waxing gibbous Moon, west up, colored with a blue filter.
screenshot of @bookshopghost.bsky.social's profile images, which are not yet kid art
A colorful pre-dawn sky, gold lower left blending to deep blue upper right. A waning crescent moon hangs in the deep blue region. Pink and gold clouds are scattered throughout. Power lines stand above the trees at the horizon.
A pickleball court. Outside is a yard sign reading "Welcome! NEW PARK RULE: All regulation pickleball paddles must be pickle-shaped. Goodlettsville Parks and Recreation."
Top panel: Still from Disney's animated "The Little Mermaid" in which the silhouetted mermaid throws her head back, hair over her head, surrounded by sparkling backlit splashing water. Bottom panel: actress Halle Berry recreates the image in the live-action remake of the film.
A bottle of Windex labeled "100% ocean bound plastic"
Little purple trumpet flowers peek their heads above a few inches of asphalt wall, their heads in dawn sun but their trunks in shadow.
The bushy end of a branch of some cedar-ish/juniper-ish tree. Each little scaly tendril ends with a brown growth like a tiny pinecone.
Brilliant yellow flowers stand sharp against a background of forest.
The sun rises over a sprawling vista into a clear, colorful sky.
Clusters of yellowing maple seeds letting their wings mature at the end of a twig, with darker green leaves moving in to replace them.
The riding sun peeks brilliantly through the trees behind an apartment building. The sky is pink and purple with hints of cloud.
Stellarium simulation showing the half-lit Moon overhead at dusk as viewed from south Florida. The ecliptic is in yellow and the orbital path of the Moon is in red. The Moon passes north of the zenith, marked with a green Z. Also note that the Moon's orbit appears further north than from Tennessee, actually crossing the boundary into Auriga. A parallax effect.
Stellarium screenshot showing simulated moonset from Tennessee in the small hours of 2026-03-25. The half-lit Moon, whose orbital path is shown in red, is about to cross from Taurus to Gemini. It is quite far north of the ecliptic, nearly crossing into Auriga. Jupiter is above left, quite close to the ecliptic, its label muddled with the label for a constellation.
Stellarium screenshot showing simulated moonset from Hawai'i on 2026-03-22. The illuminated part of the crescent moon (its west) is on the bottom. Above and very near the Moon is the Pleiades star cluster, with some stars labeled. To the left, the ecliptic slants off to the left/south.
Stellarium screenshot showing simulated moonset from Tennessee on 2026-03-22. The illuminated part of the crescent moon (its west) is on the lower right. Above the Moon is the Pleiades star cluster, with some stars labeled. To the left, the ecliptic slants off to the left/south.
Screenshot of the Stellarium v25.4 "Sky Culture" window, choosing the "modern" constellation names. A hand-drawn circle around the option "native" is labeled "Auriga, Camelopardalis." (Camelopardalis is misspelled.) A circle around the "translation" options is labeled "Charioteer, Giraffe."
Then-President Trump kisses an American flag at CPAC 2020.
A tree stands in front of a pink patch in an otherwise closed sky.
Colors blend from red to gold to blue to grey in a cloudless predawn sky.
Heat maps of disease frequency in the United States for Hepatitis A, measles, mumps, polio, and rubella, versus time. The figures are vertically aligned so that the year a vaccine was introduced is at the center of the figure. All five diseases were ubiquitous pre-vaccine — mumps and rubella so much so that data were not even collected. All five diseases had effectively disappeared within five years of vaccine introduction.
A cloudy grey dawn.
Scattered clouds are underlit pink by an unrisen sun, set against a sky in many shades of blue.
Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson. Caption: "God at his computer." A human figure with white robe, white hair, and white beard sits at a computer. The screen displays a slouching person walking obliviously under a piano which hangs improbably from a rope. God's finger is hovering over the keyboard; the intended button is labeled "SMITE."
A twilight sky in a panoply of colors, framed by the branches of nearer and farther trees. Horsetail clouds (in Latin, "cirrus") are feathered bright below and darker above, with a few lines in brilliant yellow close to the horizon. There is a hint of a vertical light column above the point where the Sun will soon appear.
The sun, half-risen over a distant ridge, seen through treetops, in a brilliant orange sky.
A clouded sky is visible through tree branches. It is dawn, but you wouldn't know it.
A uniformly clouded sky has one bright yellow-pink band at the horizon. In the foreground, a row of bright blue houses, a grassy field with fluffy white dandelions, and a hint of a white fence.
"Human writing often includes some clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: 'As well ask men what they think of stone.'"
The disc of the rising sun is divided by a band of cloud, in a pink and purple sky, framed by trees.
A low sun, partially hidden by a tree trunk, is surrounded by crepuscular rays which appear to radiate in all directions. In front of the line of trees is dewy grass.
Mosaic of the Saturn system taken from within Saturn's shadow. Annotations indicate many objects, including the Earth-Moon system, Venus, several of Saturn's moons, and features of the rings. Source: https://ciclops.org/view/7699/The-Day-the-Earth-Smiled.html
Screenshot of a search for [face lit from below by flashlight], with a dozen-ish image results. The vibe is pretty spooky.
Two images of the Earth and Moon taken from space probes at other planets, both on July 19, 2013. Left panel: Saturn's night side and rings loom at the top of the image, while a bright beam is visible about a third of the way from the bottom. An arrow indicates a pinpoint Earth center right. Caption: "View from Saturn (Cassini), 900 million miles away." Right panel: pinpoint Earth and smaller pinpoint Moon against a black background. Caption: "View from Mercury (MESSENGER), 61 million miles away."
Earth and Moon viewed by the Cassini orbiter from Saturn. Both are starlike, only a few pixels across against a dark and otherwise featureless sky. Earth, above left, is slightly brighter and noticeably bluer than the Moon, which has a yellowish hue.
Saturn's night side fills the upper left corner of the frame. The backlit rings stretch across the top of the image. A third of the way from the bottom, there is a soft beam of blue-white light, brighter on the left. A bright pinpoint, center-right, is Earth. If you were on or near Earth in July 2013, you're in this picture.
Sunrise. Part of the sun's disc is visible above the horizon. Clouds paint the sky in many colors. In the foreground, a silhouetted tangle of tree branches.
The sun peeks up over a distant hill, decorated by crepuscular rays. A clear sky is silhouetted by leafless trees and a limp flag. In the foreground there is a stone monument.
Animation cycling between a choropleth map and a bubble-area map. Data are precinct-level results from the 2016 presidential election in the US. The bubble-area map makes it clear that vast swaths of sparsely populated "red" regions are counterbalanced by much denser "blue" regions. Published via Twitter, 2019: https://nitter.net/karim_douieb/status/1181934417650040832#m
Chart, titled "AI Scenarios." Source: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Time axis runs horizontally from 1870 to 2050. Historical data show roughly exponential growth (linearized via log scale) fitted to 1.9% growth per year for years before 2025. A future projection shows a nearly indistinguishable 2.1% per year attributed to AI. Two other curves branch off from 2025. "Singularity: benign scenario" shots off towards positive infinity, while "singularity: extinction" plunges to zero.
Sunrise, 2026-02-24. The horizon is low in the frame and not quite horizontal, in the manner of photographs taken quickly with a handheld camera. Leafless trees are silhouetted against the sky on the bottom and right sides of the frame. Above the trees the sky is blue, with a faint hint of a high, thin cirrus layer and a single airplane contrail. Behind the trees the sky is a yellow stripe. A glimpse of sun is visible, but most of the sun's disc is hidden behind a thin stripe of distant cloud.
Sunrise. A little less than half of the sun's disc is visible over a distant ridge on the horizon. Trees without leaves are silhouetted against a cloudless sky, which blends vertically from red to yellow to blue. One tree on the right has a broken limb dangling vertically, probably from a recent ice storm. In the middle distance there is a short visible section of country highway. The grassy hill in the foreground has two rows of granite monuments running west to east. There is a flagpole with a bigot's flag dangling limply in the still air, and an antique cannon at the bottom of the hill.
Daffodils! Two bright yellow blossoms facing the camera in the right half of the frame, with other bunches in softer focus behind. Behind the garden is a low concrete wall. A sliver of sky is broken up by trees.