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tmaaz ☕
@tmaaz.bsky.social
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Developer | Designer | Writer – avid fan of laughter, love, pinball, story-driven video / board / role-playing games, and coffee. Building worlds in Minecraft, sandboxes & sims. Animated Twitch + YouTube streamer | he/him
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tmaaz ☕ @tmaaz.bsky.social · Nov 9
🚧 Join The Construction Crew! 🚧

LIVE streams where we chat and have fun while I play Minecraft, and other sandbox / world-building / simulation games, including some games where viewers can play along if they choose!

All in a laid-back, low-sensory, positive & inclusive space 🏗️

twitch.tv/tmaaz
The image is a cartoon-style illustration, split vertically into two sections. 70% of the space is one image on the left side, the other 30% is a different image on the right. The image areas are separated by a strip of weathered yellow-and-black-striped caution tape. On the left side of the image, there is a cartoon-style scene of a small, cozy workshop. In the background, there is a mint colored wall cabinet with closed doors, and wooden shelves below it that are lined with various tools. There is also a workbench area in the background, with a mint-colored toolbox sitting on top of it. On the wall above the workbench, there is a pegboard with many various hand-tools hanging on it. A bare incandescent lightbulb can be seen hanging down from the ceiling on a bare wire with no fixture. In the foreground, only visible from the waist up, the animated version of tmaaz is sitting in a gaming chair, smiling and waving toward the camera while holding a purple coffee mug. He is wearing an orange construction safety vest over the top of a white button-down shirt. There is also a microphone in front of him, off to the side slightly. He has a set of over-ear headphones on, that are black and trimmed in blue. He has short salt-and-pepper hair, with a neatly-trimmed salt-and-pepper goatee. He is wearing reading glasses that have no frames around the lenses. (It actually resembles the real-life streamer that voices/animates the character.) On the right side of the image, there is a dark blue background with an orange diamond-shape construction sign logo, trimmed with a thin black border, and the sign has an image of the same animated character on it, standing, while holding a rolled-up blueprint over his shoulder. In the foreground, overlaying the lower half of the character, there is a text-based area that reads "The Construction Crew" in small print at the top, and then in large, bold, all-caps, slightly curved white lettering is the name "tmaaz" (pronounced tee-maz).
tmaaz.bsky.social
This cat just put its paws on its hips, stared me right in the eye, and said "Look here, mister..."
rds773.myatproto.social RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 3d
My kid drew this grouchy cat doodle and is bemused that I find it so entrancing
November 20, 2025 at 4:27 AM
tmaaz.bsky.social
*taps the sign*
November 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
tmaaz.bsky.social
"If we are to serve as a beacon for human rights, we must continue to perfect… the rights and values which we espouse around the world; a decent education… adequate medical care… an end to discrimination… and freedom from injustice"
— President Jimmy Carter

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYVS...
Nick Lowe - What's So Funny About Peace, Love And Understanding
YouTube video by FunnyForAdults
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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gavinyamey.bsky.social
Yes, Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for child pedestrians—great advice from @mcbazacophd.bsky.social

(It’s also our kid’s birthday)
Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for child pedestrians
October 31, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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karnythia.bsky.social
If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples
October 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
tmaaz.bsky.social
SNAP funding (food stamps) will cease in 2 weeks (11/02) if the shutdown continues, leaving some of our most vulnerable neighbors struggling to afford any groceries at all... as we enter the holidays, no less.

If you can spare ANY $$, please make a monetary donation to your closest food pantry.
October 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
tmaaz.bsky.social
When cruelty becomes normalized,
empathy becomes radical

Be well, and take care of one another ❤
The image is an illustration of a row of colorful books, standing on end like in a bookshelf, with flowers growing out of the top of them. The book titles read "Love, Peace, Inclusion, Kindness, Change, Diversity, Unity, Compassion, Justice". Below the books is multi-colored text that reads "Radicalized by Basic Decency"
October 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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michaelspicer.bsky.social
stop thinking right now
October 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
tmaaz.bsky.social
Someone TP'd a neighbor's house last night -- my first thought wasn't "how funny"... it was "in this economy?" 😮
image is a drawing of a roll of toilet paper
October 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
tmaaz.bsky.social
I really love a good analogy 🤣❤️
bringthenoise.bsky.social Lewis Muirhead @bringthenoise.bsky.social · Oct 6
Hiring Bari Weiss to bring down the temperature of the discourse is like hiring Animal from the Muppets to reduce workplace noise
October 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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linahun.bsky.social
Hi Friends, if you are able to help out our friend Proton, please do. Let's keep his Mom safe. Thank you for your consideration!
October 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
tmaaz.bsky.social
What's the possibility that yet another investment firm is saddling a struggling company with exorbitant debt, just to intentionally let it sink (and take the debt down with it) --

is EA about to become the next LBO Titanic?
jasonschreier.bsky.social Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · Sep 29
It’s official: EA is going private.

The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
www.businesswire.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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lefttheprairie.bsky.social
The horrors persist, but so do the 12’ Home Depot skeletons
September 28, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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thorbenson.bsky.social
Our news networks should air an hour or two of European news every day to show Americans how flabbergasted the news presenters are here when they cover the U.S.
September 26, 2025 at 6:55 AM
tmaaz.bsky.social
On a breathtakingly surreal day -- and considering the year it's been so far, that is _really_ saying something -- a toast to September 21st: Earth, Wind & Fire Day ❤️

youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk?...
Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
youtu.be
September 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
tmaaz.bsky.social
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you,
I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson
color photograph of a man sitting in a garden. He is wearing a hat, a denim vest, a flannel shirt, pants, and gardening gloves. He appears to be planting flowers, which are also in the foreground, and surrounding him on all sides.
August 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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josh-foreman.bsky.social
Absolutely disgusting that this is the way it is.
June 22, 2025 at 6:08 AM
tmaaz.bsky.social
Seriously, it would be worth the 4.5 hour drive up to Chicago just to meet the absolute LEGEND who named their band "Malört and Savior" 🤣❤️

katforillinois.com/concert

#punksforprogress
katmabu.bsky.social Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Aug 27
💥 PUNKS FOR PROGRESS 💥 SHOW TOMORROW AT GMAN TAVERN

Doors at 7 / Show at 8
Featuring Rude Echoes, First Rule, and Malört & Savior

GET YOUR TICKET AT https://bit.ly/421es0o

🎵🎼 by Malört and Savior##punksforprogress
August 28, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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daemonaac.bsky.social
DAILY
Two panel meme that first shows a little black and white dog looking at a drawn in computer screen, saying: "What a lovely day on the inter-" and a second panel with the same black and white dog looking out directly at hte viewer, away from the computer screen ,and text that reads, simply:"Good Lord"
August 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
tmaaz.bsky.social
It took an extra half hour to get to the office today, because traffic slowed to a crawl passing a group of construction workers with jackhammers.

Y’all are _THIRSTY_

Those men have work to do, and I need to get to the office — behave! 😂
Photo of a construction worker holding a jackhammer
August 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
tmaaz.bsky.social
Plausible enough to be canon 😆
August 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
tmaaz.bsky.social
"You will always be too something for someone.

Too loud. Too nice. Too outgoing. Too fake. Too real. Too weird.

Don't let this dim your fire. Be unequivocally you.

You are a wonderful thing to be ❤️"

- @kaytonix
image is of a small scrap of paper, being held up in the sunlight outdoors. In the background, blue skies and green trees can be seen. On the scarp of paper, there is a hand-written message in ink: "You're amazing just the way you are."
August 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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cosmossoup.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 5:10 AM
tmaaz.bsky.social
*taps the sign until his finger bleeds*
a two-panel cartoon, in color. in the left panel, one person is holding the other person's lips / mouth closed, while saying "shhhhh". In the second panel, that same person is still holding the other's lips closed, and is saying "let people enjoy things".
July 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
tmaaz.bsky.social
It's not even 10am, and I already needed this pretty bad today.
#breathe
leastactionhero.bsky.social Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · Jul 28
maybe there's still some good left in this world after all
July 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM