Christopher De Vries

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Extract from article: "We look forward to coming together and harnessing that energy around our new nominee as we work to defeat Susan Collins in November" The party also pledged transparency in the selection process going forward, though the meeting Wednesday was not open to the media.
AI generated depiction of the ancient Germanic Vandals sacking the reflecting pool. There are men on horseback galloping through the reflecting pool and fires all around. The dawn is just baking behind the Washington Monument. Men with spears, swords, and spears surround the pool.
Sankey diagram showing 3 rounds of runoff in the Maine House district 2 runoff. In round one Baldacci has 24,966 votes, Dunlap 22,933, Wood 22,714, and Loud 8,194. In round 2 Baldacci has 25,923, Dunlap has 25,681, and Wood had 25,377. In round 3 Baldacci has 32,555 and Dunlap has 35,924 making Dunlap the winner.
Photo of text message exchange: Sender: Please get out and vote in person and rank me first. Check out my website to learn more, and make your plan to vote this Tuesday right now! https://loudforcongress.com Recipient: No problem, I’ve got you ranked first. Sender: Thank you! Have a great weekend!
Coffee & Candidates Saturday May 30, 2026, 9-11 am St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church 857 Main Street Fryeburg, ME US Senate • David Costello • Andrea Laflamme Governor • Troy Jackson • Angus King III • Hannah Pingree • Dr. Nirav Shah Maine Senate • Beth Bosworth - SD18 • Peter Southam - SD19 Maine House • Chris Lewey - HD82 • Chris Easton - HD81 Oxford County Treasurer • Savannah Sessions Oxford County Sheriff • Timothy Holland MSAD 72 School Board • Kim De Vries - Fryeburg • Pamela Marshall - Denmark Fryeburg Selectboard • Dan Kaschub Hosted by the Oxford Democrats
Coffee & Candidates Saturday May 30, 2026, 9-11 am American Legion Bradley Street Fryeburg, ME US Senate • David Costello Governor • Troy Jackson • Angus King III • Hannah Pingree Maine Senate • Beth Bosworth - SD18 • Peter Southam - SD19 Maine House • Chris Lewey - HD82 • Chris Easton - HD81 Oxford County Treasurer • Savannah Sessions Oxford County Sheriff • Timothy Holland MSAD 72 School Board • Kim De Vries - Fryeburg • Pamela Marshall - Denmark Fryeburg Select Board • Dan kaschub
Safety information: Sit in the center of the chair with your back to the backrest. Do not sit at the front edge of the chair. Do not stand on the chair. Do not use the chair with more than one person. Do not push the chair around when a person is sitting on it. Do not push down on the backrest when a person is reclined. Do not place all your weight on only the backrest.
Some bearded guy enjoying a wonderful day in Maine while lying in a hammock before the bugs all come out.
May 1, 2006 cover of Business Week magazine featuring the Second Life avatar Anshe Chung and the headline “Virtual World, Real Money” followed by the blurb: “She's fictional, Lives inside an online game, but eams thousands of actual dollars there. And she’s not alone.”
A pine forest with snow covered ground. A single track of s snowmobile heads off from the position of the photographer away into the distance. Where the sky peeks through the trees it is a deep blue. The center of of the snowmobile trail is covered in snowshoe tracks.
The cover of the book “Radiative Processes in Astrophysics” by George B. Rybicki and Alan P. Lightman. The black and white cover features an illustration of radiation (represented by squiggly arrows) emitting from a circumstellar disk.
Yellow squeaker from inside a dog toy with the words “challenge complete. Please throw me away” embossed on it.
Green northern lights behind a cloud taken from Fryeburg.
Mist rises over a lake before sunrise. There’s a island with pine trees poking out from the mist and some shoreline vegetation in the foreground. To the left is a small peninsula also covered in trees and reflected in the water below it.
A picture of part of the Appalachian Trail through Maine in the fall from the perspective of a hiker on the trail. The ground is covered in a dense carpet of leaves, but there are still a lot of green leaves in the saplings surrounding the trail. There is a tree trunk in the foreground and a felled trunk behind it.
verdandi:secunetics-code:time_now (main)> gleam run Compiled in 0.03s Running time_now.main New York: 2025-09-16 22:12:21 EDT Vevay: 2025-09-16 22:12:21 EDT Phoenix: 2025-09-16 19:12:21 MST Amsterdam: 2025-09-17 4:12:21 CEST London: 2025-09-17 3:12:21 BST Tokyo: 2025-09-17 11:12:21 JST Auckland: 2025-09-17 14:12:21 NZST Cairo: 2025-09-17 5:12:21 EEST
The unofficial pine tree and star Maine flag showing the standard pine tree in the center and the star, replaced by Gleam's logo Lucy, which is a pink star with a smiley face on it.
Emergency alert that says “ FROM EINDHAM POLICE Gunman at large in North Windham. Shelter indoors, lock doors. Report suspicious behavior to 911. Last seen Windham/Raymond line. Stay inside. Tune to local news or Windham PD for updates.
Colossus data center from “Colossus: The Forbin Project” (1970)
Tweet from Stephen Miller which says “NYC is the clearest warning yet of what happens to a society when it fails to control migration.”
Playing nicely with POSIX The Gleam build tool has a gleam export erlang-shipment command for compiling and preparing a project for deployment to a server or similar. It includes a script for starting the Erlang virtual machine and running the program, but unfortunately it was written in a way that meant that the program would not receive POSIX exit signals. Christopher De Vries has fixed this problem. Thank you Christopher!
Satya Nadella and Elon Musk shooting the shit at Microsoft Build.
Text message that says “Hi, it's Rep. Jared Golden. One in three people in Maine's 2nd District use Medicaid for health care, but the House GOP tax plan could take Medicaid away from millions of Americans. Should Medicaid be protected? Let me know at [url] Sources: KFF, CBO. STOP to optout The sender is not in your contact list.”
Volodymyr Zelensky speaking in front of Ukrainian flags with the words, “ I’m here to chew bubblegum and keep Putin from gaining a foothold in Europe, and I’m all out of bubblegum.”
A photo of the Texas Instrument TI-99/4a computer.
A groomed snowmobile trail is shown going off into the distance ahead. To the left of the trail is a wooden fence and on both sides of the trail are trees. In the far distance in the direction in which the trail goes is a partially snow covered mountain. The sky is a blueish gray.
A snow trail between pine trees. Snowmobile tracks are visible.
Couple in their pajamas with a toaster oven containing a block of evil.
People in the distance with tents, ice houses, and four wheelers on a vast expanse of white. Behind them is the opposite bank of the pond and behind that the grey expense of the White Mountains. The sky is cloudy and darker than the snow covered pond.
A snow covered fields in a New England intervale which is part of a small farm. In the distance are groups of trees and mountains. The solid gray of the sky gives way to the bare trees of the horizon below which can be seen the white snow-converted land. In the foreground is some brush surrounding a snowmobile trail.
An assortment of rusty metal pieces in an aluminum bowl which includes a nut, a bolt, a washer, a round metal piece with a cylindrical pyramid protruding from it, a round metal piece with an upturned lip on one side, a piece shaped like a top hat with the top cut of, and a round piece with a large hole in it that has four spikes rising out of it forming what looks like a tiny bird cage with a hole in the bottom. At the top of the bird cage shaped one is a tube that is open on the and closed on the bottom.
// The following gleam code is in this image: fn is_possible_part2(target: Int, values: List(Int)) -> Bool { case values { [] -> False [first, ..rest] -> is_possible_part2_acc(target, rest, first) } } fn is_possible_part2_acc(target: Int, values: List(Int), current: Int) -> Bool { case values { [] -> current == target _ if current > target -> False [first, ..rest] -> { is_possible_part2_acc(target, rest, concat(current, first)) || is_possible_part2_acc(target, rest, current * first) || is_possible_part2_acc(target, rest, current + first) } } } fn concat(x: Int, y: Int) -> Int { let xs = int.to_string(x) let ys = int.to_string(y) let assert Ok(r) = int.parse(xs <> ys) r }
A smoker comprised of a large metal cylinder whose axis is aligned horizontally, and a smaller metal cylinder also aligned horizontally to the right and slightly lower than the first. Both cylinders have hatches open. In the smaller cylinder there is some charcoal smoking in a starting chimney, and thermometer sits in the second cylinder. Eventually a turkey will be in the larger cylinder while charcoal will burn in the smaller one. Smoke will travel from the later to the former smoking the Turkey. It is very dark out and the photo is illuminated by a headlamp.
A view of a small clear path down a hill in New Hampshire. It is well into fall so all the leaves are brown and most have fallen from the deciduous trees, but there are some pines that remain green.
The sun tries to peak through the clouds above a row of tall pines in front of a small mountain. In the foreground is tall dead grass and a few pine shrubs.
Autora borealis seen in 2024 from Fryeburg Maine with some clouds in the lower left hand corner. The aurora is red in the upper part of the image and green in the lower part. There are also green streaks rising up into the red region in the middle of the image.
Sunrise on a snowy day.