Stephen Gadsby

@sgadsby.octofish.net

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strikingly unremarkable

Again, two clusters of imperial moth eggs among asparagus branches. But now most of the eggs are empty, split shells, and tiny, spiky, brown-orange imperial moth caterpillars crawl along the asparagus branches. Great job, mom! Go, next generation!
Two clusters of imperial moth eggs affixed to asparagus branches. In the days since the moth laid them, the eggs have shifted in color from a shiny, waxy yellow to more of a dull, light brown.
A greyish-brown toad, small enough it could probably sit comfortably on a bottle cap, rests on a healthy, green, heart-shaped leaf, above a carpeting of old, dead leaves and straw. The toad watches warily to see if it has been noticed, which it wouldn't have been if it hadn't moved.
Two clusters of imperial moth eggs affixed to asparagus branches. Since the moth laid them, each waxy yellow, oblong egg has developed a single, thin, brown, stripe that runs the egg's length.
A female imperial moth with wavy, rain-damp, yellow wings spread, uses its dusty-pink legs to cling vertically to the green, pea-like berries and spiky branches of asparagus plants. The moth's plump body is invitingly fuzzy, and two sticky, yellow eggs hang from its bottom end.
a screenshot of text from a Copyleaks web page (https://copyleaks.com/learning-management-systems/brightspace-plagiarism-checker) with underlining added to list item #3: A Seamless Brightspace Experience Inspire learning and error-free writing while keeping everything you need in one convenient place with a Copyleaks Brightspace integration. Take it beyond word-for-word detection with the only platform that: 1. Detects AI-generated content from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and more. 2. Detects multiple forms of paraphrasing, including source code 3. Performs image-based text plagiarism 4. Exposes attempts to deceive detection software 5. Detects AI-generated source code and code plagiarism
Firefox on Windows displaying the page https://my.ooma.com/products where the sole item listed in the Hardware category is...the Ooma Mobile App. "Take Ooma on the go with your iOS device or Android phone!"
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screenshot of an item with Roadmap ID 529865 on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap website: Microsoft 365 admin center: New Admin Control for Turning off People Skills This is a new control that tenant admins may use to turn off People Skills User Experiences for the entire organization, user group subsets, or individual users. This control can also be used to selectively deploy People Skills to a small group of pilot users before broader deployment to the rest of the tenant. In Development Rollout Start: December 2025
a feral, tortoiseshell mother cat and her tan kitten sleep snuggled together in the bed of dry needles under a scruffy evergreen conifer
The white face and paws of an orange cat tightly curled on blue jeans.
A cropped screenshot of a "Top Advertisers by Estimated Ad Spend" table (last updated on September 16, 2025) from Podscribe.com listing ten companies: 1. BetterHelp, $7.3M, up 3% month over month 2. Amazon, $6.6M, down 30% 3. Shopify, $5.3M, up 11% 4. Toyota, $5.2M, up 6% 5. Progressive Insurance, $4.4M, up 32% 6. Mint Mobile, $4.4M, down 4% 7. Quince, $3.7M, down 18% 8. DraftKings, $3.5M, up 81% 9. Washable Sofas, $3.3M, up 18% 10. Squarespace, $3.2M, down 21%
A red bicycle leans against a parking meter. A purple shopping bag hangs from both. One handle of the shopping bag passes above the bike's top tube, around the parking meter, and back under the top tube. The bag's handle must have been attached around the bike, like a lock?
A cropped view of the instruction sheet for the Install Bay IBR65 Bluetooth audio receiver by Metra Electronics. Centered in the image is a bold heading, "Troudle Shooting Guide".
Photograph of a milkweed tiger moth caterpillar curling itself in an arch around the upper edge of the hole it is munching in a strongly veined milkweed leaf. The caterpillar is all tufts of black, white, and orangy-brown bristles, like a hirsute Hynerian turned insect.
screenshot of a five item list of earliest Steam purchases: Jun 5, 2025 OddBoxx Feb 19, 2015 Terraria 4-Pack Aug 6, 2012 Commander Keen Complete Pack March 26, 2010 Torchlight March 26, 2010 Torchlight
Photo of a recipe for "Fried Pollock Fillets" from the back of a packet of frozen fish. The ingredients list includes a typo: "flout" instead of "flour". Fried Pollock Fillets * 1 lb. pollock fillets * oil for deep frying * 1/2 cup flout * salt and pepper Heat 1 inch of oil in skillet to approximately 375 degrees. Combine flour with salt and pepper. Dip and fully cover each fillet with flour mixture. Fry fish for 5 minutes on each side. Remove fully cooked fish fillets to a platter.
A photo of a sunflower in the process of blooming. The left side of the flower is open, with typically bright, yellow petals spread wide, while the right remains closed, still covered by the curvy, spiky, green "bud" material that, in a film, would telegraph imminent facehugging.
An open left hand, palm up, supports the muddy bottom ends of two asparagus stalks, each several centimeters in diameter. Though mostly green, the stalks show hints of the purply color they exhibited when small.
a stark, OSHA-ish, bold text on white, "NOTICE: REJECTED" sign wherein the "E" and "J" have, by surrendering unto one another their independence, created an unsettling, new glyph, one in appearance less alphabet and more outline of the business end of an old timey key
the back of a mocked-up, baseball-style sports jersey, solid black with white collar, sleeve accents, and text, with the "player name" of "Footnote" arced above the large number "12"
Screenshot of "The T1 Phone" page on the Trump Mobile website: https://www.trumpmobile.com/t1-phone. The page contains an image showing the very golden front and back of a rounded rectangle mobile phone. The page lists key features of the phone, including: "50MP Main Camera" and "5000mAh long life camera".
a mass of maple tree seeds piled at the end of a concrete downspout splash block by rainwater
Within a small, rounded-square dialog box labeled "Alert", Microsoft Excel suggests, "Please save as if problem persists."
A novelty, Detective Conan wristwatch with its back removed to reveal one layer of its interior. Dead center is a shallow, circular holder, in black plastic, for a coin cell battery. A loop of thin, red, stranded, hookup wire runs into battery holder from an LED module on the right. Within the battery holder the red wire ends in a bare, clover-shaped twist of uninsulated wire. This end of the wire shows clear signs of having been squashed by the coin cell battery.
an elderly, tortoiseshell cat reclines on a bed
cropped screenshot of an RCS message with the text "I cant eat this now" below a photo of a hand holding a mandarin orange with a markered-on, friendly, "owo" face
a Post-It note, "Darn it, RFK Jr.! No more of this!", is affixed to a kitchen countertop next to a small, nearly empty, bear-shaped bottle of raw honey lying on its side
A screenshot of the Netflix show Arkane demonstrating the wonderful, far-reaching quality of life improvements brought by the Woke = Respect web browser extension. Woke = Respect has automatically revised the show's captioning to read, "I feel like I respect for other people up in the wrong universe."
Top portion: A screenshot of the Cisco Webex application on macOS, specifically the Calling tab. This calling tab includes a simple and stylized line drawing of two, upwardly angled trumpets, each with a banner hanging from it. Middle portion: The same trumpet line drawing, now pulled out on its own and larger. Bottom portion: A screenshot from a video game wherein the main character, Aloy, approaches a towering, giraffe-like robot, called a "tallneck", which to some degree the trumpet drawing resembles. Or at least, that's the intended implication.
photo of a box of Lotte Binch chocolate biscuits
a screenshot of a web browser window displaying the warning: "The connection to www.softwaresecure.com is not secure. You are seeing this warning because this site does not support HTTPS."
Still from the 1981 film, "The Great Muppet Caper", showing Sam the Eagle leaning out through a partially open hotel room door to admonish the other Muppets derisively, "You are all WEIRDOS!"
screenshot of a Facebook group comment, with poster's identity redacted, which says, "The lack of unprofessional behavior from this school was awful . When I called into the attendance office letting them know my daughter won't be in , the attendance lady laughed at me . I told her I don't think this is very funny . She blew it off ! I ... See more"
a crudely Photoshopped (and clearly fake) "breakroom sign", in blue and yellow colors, with the text "If seen in showroom call security immediately" above a photo of JD Vance and the IKEA logo below it
a screenshot of a news feed with one particular item marked to highlight it: a headline from local television station WGAL, "Firefighters work to put a fire out"
Harry Belafonte and a African mask Muppet sing "Turn the World Around" in a 1978 episode of "The Muppet Show"