Shawn Murmurs Quietly

@smq.codes

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Programmer, progressive, aspiring antifascist. (he/him/any) Cishet white dude of a certiain age but I try not to be an ass about it Using "lame" disparagingly is ableist.

A yellow 1973 Corvette convertible decorated with a few American flags and bunting. Painted on the windshield are the number 250 in red, white and blue, and the words "with liberty and justice for all" in blocky capitals. The word "all" is bolded and underlined. A child sits in the passenger seat and another on the back deck lid. The picture is taken from the driver's side front.
Woman in a pink skirt holding a 6' long foam bat
The engine bay of my '73 Stingray. You can see the chrome air cleaner, a valve cover, the alternator, the brake reservoir (no power anything, not even brakes) and the cooling fan, along with various hoses and wires. The car is bright yellow (still the original paint!) and the hood hinges at the front rather than at the windshield.
An empty large plastic beer glass with a crushed orange slice at the bottom. In the background is the field of LMCU ballpark.
A Commodore 128 system set up on a card table
A Commodore 128 home computer with two 1571 disk drives, a 1084S CRT monitor, and two joysticks sits on a card table in the sun in front of windows trimmed in dark wood. On the screen is the green and gray boot screen and one line of BASIC: PRINT 'IT'S ALIVE!" followed by the text IT'S ALIVE! and a READY. prompt.
A Commodore 128 computer and 1571 disk drive in original boxes. Next to them is a Commodore 1084S CRT monitor sitting on a pink plastic bin full of accessories. These are all on a card table, next to which is a box full of 5.25" floppy disks.
The front cover of a book titled "Fifth Season: Roleplaying in the Stillness" The cover is patterned as white marble with a wide stripe of black marble running vertically down the middle. In the center is a large gold foil crystal (obelisk?). Over that is the title in white text along with the game's symbol: a ten-way pattern of overlapping circles within a single large circle resembling a rose window. In the background above the book my computer keyboard is visible with its green underlighting, along with some odds and ends in my desk. Below the book my jean-covered legs can be seen. My left hand is holding the book by the spine.
A tuxedo cat sits handsomely on a diningroom table.
Excerpt from the Whitehouse counterterrorism plan. While made to look like a single page the two paragraphsare from different places in the document. The first reads: In addition to cartels and Islamist terror groups, our national CT activities will also prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist. We will use all the tools constitutionally available to us to map them at home, identify their membership, map their ties to international organizations like Antifa, and use law enforcement tools to cripple them operationally before they can maim or kill the innocent. We will do the same with the state sponsors of such groups and those governments undertaking lethal plots on U.S. soil or against Americans anywhere. And the second reads: Our new U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy is a return to common sense and Peace through Strength. As I said after our first successful counterterrorism mission, just days after I was sworn back in office – if you hurt Americans, or are planning to hurt Americans, "We Will Find You and We Will Kill You." [Trump's signature] President Donald J. Trump The White House May 2026 The person creating the image has highlighted the compound word "pro-transgender" and the phrase "We Will Find You and We Will Kill You" in yellow.
Crude MS Paint drawing of two 4x4s chained together with a bottle jack between them
A rusty and moss-covered robot with a tiny head and giant shoulders stands in a forest glade with sunbeams slanting from right to left.
A street view in Queens, NYC while waiting to catch a bus to LaGuardia Airport. A low tan.builfing across the street houses a bakery and an income tax preparer. The other visible buildings are only darker brown and four or five stories tall. An elevated train.track painted dark green is visible on the left
A low-angle shot of the fountain in Bryant Park with two glass-clad skyscrapers in the background against a blue sky with streaky white clouds.
A Home Depot store in a five-story building with a neoclassical facade pictured from across 23rd Street
The interior of The Lego Store in Manhattan. The Lego logo (made from Lego bricks) is on the right. In the background is the pick & pack wall and a selection of kits from US history. Various shoppers go about their business.
A Manhattan street view looking north up 5th Avenue from 24th St. A large tan building (which incidentally houses the Lego Store) is on the left while various towers can be seen on the right and in the background. If you look closely you can see part of the Empire State Building peeking out from behind a mirrored tower just left of center. The street is wet and the sky has a mix of white and gray clouds with a few spots of blue in between.
A quick selfie of me and Ale. She is on the left in a gray sweater holding up her right hand in a peace sign. I am on the right in a blue shirt with my pfp button and name tag.
A view south down Thompson St. from the south side of Washington Square Park in NYC. Brown buildings line the street in the midground, with parked cars down the sides and a few pedestrians about. In the distance the top and spire of the "new" One World Trade Center building can be seen. In the close foreground a pigeon picks through the fallen cherry blossoms.
Looking east down 17th St in Manhattan toward 5th Ave. Brown 7-to-10-storey buildings line the street, fading to an overcast sky in the distance.
A subway platform at Roosevelt & 74th in Queens. An overhead sign displays information about arriving trains. Various passengers stand around waiting and looking at their phones.
A "Battery Daddy" battery caddy sitting on the counter between my kitchen and dining room with 33 double-A size batteries filling the back side a bit over half full.
A crown perched on top of a mostly-bare tree with mountains receeding into the background
Several copies of Ale and K.B.'s Sidequested on a bookstore shelf
A stack of T. Kingfisher Wolf Worm books among other books on a wood table
A picture of the sign I carried at today's No Kings march: a 24" x 36' white cardboard poster attached to a 1x2 handle. The poster is in portrait orientation with three sections. The top section says NO KING with a crown in a red circle with a slash through it. The middle section has an ice cube in a red circle/slash and says NO ICE. The bottom section says NO WAR and has a drawing of a rocket-shaped bomb in a red circle and slash.
A protest sign in progress leaning against a dining table. The sign reads; NO KING NO ICE NO WAR In black text with pictures of a crown, an ice cube, and a falling bomb each surrounded by a red circle with a slash through it.
A black cat with white toes perched on a light brown laminate countertop staring intently into an empty stainless steel kitchen sink
Half of a burrito covered in red sauce in a black plastic takeout container
The cover of K.B. and Ale's graphic novel SideQuested (Book 1) looking nice and shiny against the delivery bag from my local independent bookstore Schuler Books.
Four-panel Anikin/Padme meme: 1) Anikin: We're making a Firefly cartoon with all the original actors 2) Padme: All the original actors except Adam Baldwin, right? 3) Anikin: ... 4) Padme: Except Adam Baldwin, right?
Me, right now, in a car waiting in line for an oil change. I'm a veardedbwhite dude with a salt & pepper beard, mustache, and receeding hairline wearing a black & gray flannel over a gray t shirt. The correction on my glasses is strong enough it visibly squishes my eyes together and you can see past my face through the lenses.
Me, peeking out from behind the black-and-white cat who has positioned himself pointedly between my face and the work I had been doing moments prior
A Facebook post by Writing About Writing which is itself a screenshot of two posts from another social media site. In the first, user hamlet-trash writes "the moral of hamlet is don't ever try to go home and resolve conflicts with yr family just stay at college and do gay shit w ur friends" User legoloveletters replies: "As an English teacher I am qualified to tell you this analysis is insightful and may be supported fully with textual evidence." The post is tagged #hamlet #shakespeare and has 399,740 notes.
A tuxedo cat sitting up on a concrete floor. He is between a water heater and a furnace, staring pointedly at a medium-sized black and white plastic box with tubes, pipes, and wires running into and out of it.
A rebuilt red Shelby GT500 Mustang on a gravel lot against a desert setting with the light of sunset streaming in from just to the right of frame
An infographic titled "IS MY NEIGHBOR A RIGHT-WING EXTREMIST? A non-comprehensive guide to suspicious flags". It contains 16 flags in four categories. I'm afraid it would take me several thousand words to describe each flag but I'll at least list them so you can look them up if you want. Category 1, ALL BUT CERTAINLY British Movement, Neo-Nazi group. Kekistan, Alt-right meme. Category 2, LIKELY: (White crosshairs on black) Celtic Cross: Often a white power symbol. German Empire war ensign: Appropriated by Nazis US No Quarter: Wartime threat. US Civil Peace: Pseudo historical. Category 3, TOSSUP: Knights Templar: History buff or fascist? Vinland: Band flag stolen by racists. Category 4: UNLIKELY American Iron Front: Anti-Fascist group. Christianity: Interdenominational. Eintracht Frankfurt: Football club in Germany. First Galactic Empire: From Star Wars. Clan Keldau: From The Mandelorian. Tampa Bay Lightning: Hockey team in Florida, USA United Farm Workers: Labor union in the US Vasco da Gama: Football club in Brasil.
A stack of Magic the Gathering cards several hundred tall sitting on a countertop. The top card: Goblin Swine-Rider is maybe just possible to make out due to the perspective.
An illustration from Dr. Seuss's The Lorax: The Lorax stands outside a shadowed doorway, one hand raised pointing at the sky, declaiming. Inside, in the foreground, a pair of green arms holds a bright pink fuzzy Thneed--an oddly shaped somewhat amorphous branching tube of fabric about half the size of a person that doesn't look useful as a garment, blanket, towel, or anything else really. The image has the text of this post above it, and a watermark from Facebook user BrainsandSpoons in the lower left corner.
An array of jolly rogers featuring skulls and crossed bones or swords
Me, a 50-year-old bearded white dude with glasses, wearing a dark blue tee shirt that says "Warren has a plan for that" in capital white and light teal letters.
A tabby cat with white paws and belly washes her face while laying on a gray couch
A tabby cat, now laying mostly on her back, paws in the air and white belly to the sky
A tabby cat, her eyes closed, rolled half onto her back showing her white tummy and toes
A tabby cat sits on a gray couch and looks just past the camera
A tuxedo cat sits on a mesh office chair
Me, a heavy set white dude with a beard, moustache, short receeding hair, and glasses, wearing a black tee shirt featuring mox's distinctive elephant in trans flag colors. I'm in a beige room and there are windows in the background framed in dark wood.
An 8-bit computer drawing of a wizard in black robes with a top hat, long blue mustache, and raised wand against a solid blue background
Wide shot of a street scene at the renaissance festival; a moderate number 9f costumed and plainclothes people walk between various vendors online dappled sunlight under young trees.
An older gentleman performing magic dressed as a pirate in a three-corner hat (Cap'n Sean), and his assistant: a 3-year-old gray-and-white Maine Coon cat (Mirf the Magnificent)
Three people in costume at the festival. On the left one dressed as a lion in a full-body costume with cape and cane. In the middle one descends in full body black metal armor. And on the right one dressed in a full body costume of robes and flowers with a (deer?) skull mask and long articulated bony fingers.
A back road at the festival, with multi-story buildings on either side.
A wide shot of a few dozen people, many in costume, just inside the main gates of the festival.
Casual headshot of me, a 50-year-old white dude with graying and receeding brown hair, a full beard & mustache, and thin-rimmed glasses with a correction strong enough it visibly squishes my blur-gray eyes. In the background, the leaded glass windows of my home office and some warehouse pick-to-light hardware mounted to a cardboard display poster.
Two books: Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders, and Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher, arranged on the light gray fr9nt seet of my van.
Stock image of a crow in a birdbath. The crow is in profile with its wings spread. Water splashes up behind it.
The splash screen of Super Boulder Dash by First Star Software on the Commodore 64. It features the words "Boulder Dash" in blocky white capital letters on a mottled mid-blue background with a white border. Below is the FSS logo featuring the words "First Star Software" in a bold dark-and-light blue font with swoopy interlocked S's and a white five-point star in the background. The text (C)1984 appears in the standard Commodore 64 font at the lower-right.
The sun setting behind several different bands of clouds over Lake Michigan. In the foreground are the wooden railing and posts of a pergola structure.
A slightly urru selfie me me hugging my two boys, their faces turned away
The titular robot from The Iron Giant with thumbs to temples, wagging fingers and dancing