Tom Macfarlan

@tomac.blue

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Probably working through some stuff. he/him Project Manager and Nerd Generalist by trade. Charlotte, NC Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/58DMSbiCoDbbx9wkIzMlDQabxTXLqVUhnBkYbiYJjA3PY25mpt9LXq34j-M8oJ-l

The results of a silly online political quiz, saying that my closest political match is Sanna Marin, former prime minister of Finland
A view down a side street with trees all around a purple street light casts cooler light on the road and front yard of some houses while a yellow light shines from the side of a house as contrast. The last twinkling of daylight can be seen through the tops of the trees.
A screenshot of Wikipedia showing part of the ISO 8601 article with all of the standard format of the current date and time (current as of when I visited the page) The list begins with the date format in YYYY-mm-DD and ends with the ordinal date of 2026-105
A blue with with white lettering that says "Godzilla Pen" hangs from a chain link fence
A large crowd of people speaking the length of Forest Ward Park in Charlotte NC, many caring protest signs. This is all under a clear blue sky with one tall building in the background
The roof of a car, shiny black under a heavy dusting of yellow-green pollen. Behind the car you can see some trees and my neighbor's house.
A black high wheel bicycle, commonly known as a Penny Farthing, but this is a modern replica. The front wheel is 48" diameter and the rear wheel is tiny. It's resting against a white wall and door.
ICE Out For Good - Charlotte Vigil to End ICE Cruelty Community event - volunteer organized for Indivisible Sunday January 11 2-3:30pm EST First Ward Park 301 E 7th St Charlotte NC 28202
A sunny morning in Charlotte NC, looking out across a front yard with two old cedar trees in it. I'm the foreground a coffee cup sits on a patio table, latte foam peeking out from the lip
A blue Hobart A-120, 12 quart stand mixer originally built in 1948 sits on a white countertop with bins of dried red and green peppers behind it. The mixer has been fully rebuilt and restored to working condition.
A huge fuckin nerd
A white cat with orange spots and an orange tail lounges on the kitchen floor as if to say "Paint me like one of your French cats"
A black high wheel bicycle (like the brand Penny Farthing) on a stand in the corner of a room. On the left of the picture is part of a television. On the right is the side of a fireplace.
Property tax estimator State: North Carolina County: Mecklenburg Property Value: $2,500,000 Estimated annual property taxes: $26,250
A white and orange cat lays on a beige carpet with one front leg casually atop a gray sneaker. The heel of the sneaker is lifted off the floor as the cat's weight is on the toe.
A large crowd of people spilling into the bicycle lane outside Manolo's Bakery in East Charlotte. Many people are holding signs protesting ICE
A crowd of people with a cameraman and interviewer. A fluffy good boy sits in front.
A fairly packed conference hall of people here to protest ICE. I'm the top right of the image, half the stage for the County Commissioners can be seen
A circle with the text "NO ICE IN CHARLOTTE" on top and "DEFEND OUR COMMUNITY" on the bottom. Inside of the circle is the silhouette of a young girl holding a yellow umbrella and dropping white grains behind her ass she walks. She is in front of a watercolor splotched blue background.
Asshole with a rifle
Assholes
A crowd of a few hundred people in a park with Part of the Charlotte skyline in the background
Sign on a restaurant door saying ICE is not welcome here in both English and Spanish
A screenshot of a PayPal confirmation page after donating $25 to the T. Greg Doucette Foundation
Twitter user Lauren saying "I'm not falling for that hot take. That's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. I refuse to participate in that kind of perversion."
Tobias looking at Lindsay from the show Arrested Development, in the scene where he says "but it might work for us"
A 2 foot diameter bowl is overfilled with sweet peppers, with several mostly unripe roma tomatoes on the right side and several bunches of ripe cherry tomatoes in the center. The bowl is a colorful feast of bright reds and greens with some yellow and orange spotted throughout.
A large bowl with a collection of various full size candy bars arranged in a circular pattern
A pile of full size candy bars with the Sega Gamegear game Shining Force resting on top
A Twitter screenshot Madison: day one of my zero water journey! used my pasta water from breakfast to make my coffee Raven: Is it... good? Madison: no ❤️
The front of a card that says "Merry Qwestmas" with Quest Sprout, Pest Sprout, that third one I never remember who's probably named Luigi, and Momma Sprout hiding in the background
1 quote. No comments. No likes.
A bag of Reese's dipped Graham bears
A conversation with a turning test system to determine if I am human. The last bit of the conversation is: Me: I'm at 85% complete here. What's the other 15% worth to you? Test: You are human.
Pepito stands, half inside the jail bars of the stairwell banister and half out. He is a medium hair cat with a white base and orange spots, and is frequently a monster who chews through power cords.
A fully mature bunch of the same mushrooms from earlier in the thread. The caps are now more cup shaped with split and frayed edges, the gills peeking out from below
A tightly patched cluster of about 35 brown mushroom caps facing outward in every direction so you can't see the stems. Blades of grass are sticking up in between some caps, and they're surrounded by a poorly maintained lawn. These are younger caps, smaller in size than the other picture.
Picture of a computer screen that shows 30k Taiwanese dollars is equal to 979.06 USD
Zoidberg from Futurama shouting "They're going to call you a communist no matter what, be true to your values" while sitting in the audience dressed in a tuxedo.
A screenshot of a bsky message timestamped today at 8:37am saying @11thjeff.bsky.social has blocked you
Ten copies on the TechDirt card game One Billion Users sitting on a white countertop in front of a dark green wall
An email from The Onion with the subject "Your Dream Is Coming True" but instead of announcing the purchase of InfoWars has been completed it's a presale for a tote bag
A long scroll of posts the in my discover feed and they're all from The Louvre
A concert stage below the band arrives, filled with instruments and lights. In the background of a large promotional poster for the cover your, featuring Weird Al acting like King Kong
The results of my food class warfare test show I'm firmly in the "lower class" bracket
One of the famed Dutch windmills in front of a blue sky
An aerial view of The Hague from my hotel room. The streets are full of people walking and riding bikes alongside trolley tracks.
A fancy building with a real tower jutting up from the center in the Grand Place under a clear blue sky
Crowds of people meant in group across a huge cobblestone plaza surrounded by stunning architecture and under a nearly clear blue sky
A group of protesters standing on the grass across the street from the US embassy in Brussels
A folded up Brompton bicycle holding a Brompton shoulder bag
A view of the front corner of the Notre Dame cathedral in Strasbourg
A church with two steeples sits at the back of a park with a fountain shooting water upward. A street lined with shrubs is in the foreground.
Some sort of growth on a rock at the top of an Alpine mountain
The base of the cable car
A bag of camembert flavored potato chips, made by the Brets brand in France. The bag has a background texture made to look like burlap, with two potato chips on the left and a wheel of camembert on the right that has a wedge removed.
A view from the weihenstephan beer garden with group tables on the left, two person tables on the right, and don't forested rolling hills in the background
A cedar rust ball attached to a branch of a cedar tree. The bright orange tendrils, freshly wet from the rain, are engorged and look like an alien goo monster got stuck in a tree
A much larger crowd in the same space as before
A large crowd of people framed by green grass, green leaves, and blue skies