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Dylan Murphy
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Transplant to the Sonoran desert. Perpetually underbiked. he/they.

Resident Stan whisperer for the Tampa Bay Rays. Formerly: U of A Mathematics and iSchool.
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tired: BEWARE OF DOG
wired: ATTENTI A SAM
A mosaic on a wall next to a gate leading into a house's yard, depicting a dog's face with text below reading "ATTENTI A SAM"
October 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Didn't have a great answer off the top of my head for the other question but this one came to me right away
Screenshot of the Rotten Tomatoes page for Rogue One
September 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Getting tense and true over at BICAS
August 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Where everybody knows your name, but only the Great Old Ones know the name of the bar
A crop from a screenshot of the weird AI "exploration" of Nighthawks in the quoted post, where the video model has generated from whole cloth a distorted, unreadable neon sign with the eldritch and unpronounceable name of the bar
August 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Obligatory St. Pete pelican
A brown pelican perching atop a post in a marina, in from of a boat
August 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Say what you will about Steinbrenner Field, but the sunsets are pretty good
Clouds glowing orange in the sunset, viewed from inside a baseball stadium
August 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Planted sunflowers on a lark because I had a couple empty pots and I'm very happy I did!
A half-open sunflower, with an apartment courtyard full of cacti and other desert plants in the background
July 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Inching towards that two gallon mark
Selfie close up on Dylan's arm, bandaged with a red bandage around his elbow following a blood donation
July 15, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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A tiny sentinel

#birds
A male Anna's hummingbird, photographed in profile with its beak pointing to the right, perched on the copper wire supporting a hummingbird feeder. The bird is in the shade, so its gorget appears dark instead of shining bright red as it would in the sun.
June 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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It's saguaro fruit season, and I'm clearly not the only one excited about that #birds
A small brown bird (perhaps some kind of finch) perching on a saguaro cactus, with its entire head stuck inside a bright red fruit that has split open. Another split open fruit sits to the right of the bird. Photograph taken in Tucson, Arizona
June 24, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Ah yes. I was raised on this predecessor
Cover of the children's book "Busy Machines" with a cartoon bulldozer pushing rocks around
June 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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This might be the new gnarliest object I've pulled from my bike tire.

The real surprise is that I apparently *rode home* without noticing anything wrong for... somewhere between 0 and 3 miles?
A close up photo of a nail about 3/4 inch long, held in my fingers, with a bicycle wheel behind it
May 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Most recently
Movie poster for The Cutting Edge (1992), a pleasantly cheesy romantic comedy centered on a stuck-up figure skater who is forced to perform a routine with an ex-hockey player
May 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Post a tree from your camera roll. Let's see some cool trees!
The top of a palm tree, lit by the evening sun from the left, fronds blowing in the wind
May 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Limoncello with whole calamondins from the U of A campus, ready to go in the freezer today -- just in time for highs to swing back towards 100F here.
A half gallon mason jar filled almost to the brim with a hazy orange liquid, sitting on a faux granite kitchen counter. There are several small orange-colored citrus fruits (calamondins) floating at the top of the jar, and it's possible to see some lemon peels through the haze at the bottom of the jar.
May 5, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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This kestrel doesn't think much of the anti bird spikes. 🪶
An American kestrel perching on a light at the top of a pole. There are a couple bunches of anti bird spikes on the light but the kestrel is just sitting between them
May 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Absolutely covered in pollen #birds
A male Gila woodpecker perching on a saguaro cactus flower, peering into the opening of a bloom with the red spot on the top of its head visible. The bird's face is covered in a dusting of pollen from having stuck its head into an adjacent bloom.
May 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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come on skinny dove just last the year

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a skinny looking dove perching on a wire
April 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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It's the Dove Boat-ah! 🪶
A dove perching, boat-like, on a terra cotta tile roof
April 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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You see, in the Zone we have this plant called "hell asparagus"
Tall red asparagus-like stalks shooting up from a yucca plant with some rocks and other plants in the background. The caption references the novel Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
April 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Went walking to try out a new (to me) lens and this Gambel's quail struck a pose #birds
A male Gambel's quail in profile, standing on a low wall surrounding the front yard of a house in Arizona. In the background the yard has no grass, but some dirt, rocks, cacti, and the trunk of a mesquite tree are visible.
March 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Curl school, where the students are always Stokes'd
A diagram of Stokes' theorem, courtesy of Wikipedia user Cronholm144
March 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Hello Bluesky. It's been a minute. Have a bird. 🪶
A male vermilion flycatcher perching on the end of a small branch on an olive tree, with a clear, pale blue sky in the background.
February 20, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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The birds feed has 12k likes... so it's time to post birb. #birds
A small bird perching on the corner of a chain link fence frame. The bird is silhouetted against a clear blue sky, and is dark bluish gray with a rust-colored chest. My phone says it's a western bluebird but I'm not sure. There's also a sparrow on the fence, facing away from the camera, on the left side of the image.
February 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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*Tucson ;)

According to the comments, that video was from the protest at Reid Park, which was on 2/1; but there was another on 2/2 across from the rodeo grounds (my photo below)
A photo from a protest in Tucson, Arizona. The photo is taken looking across a large intersection, which is being blocked by demonstrators walking in a circle around the crosswalks. Two people are in the foreground with their backs to the camera; one is waving a Mexican flag. Many more people are in the background on the other side of the intersection.
February 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM