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Himbo Video Editor and poet who bikes too much // Streaming Hiatus until [undisclosed] 2025
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Lessons learned this week
why did no one tell me that I didn't have to choose a side of the bed? no, seriously - I had ALL this room and I didn't try to spread out? until now, I had just been considering stapling one side of my sheets to the bed frame. how the f#%& did I not try this in 30ish years?!
November 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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I'll have a quill prepared!
A feather pen/quill gift set, including a wax stamp kit
November 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Let's not forget that the initial reaction of the vice president of the Seattle Police Officer's Guild was to crack jokes and say that "she had limited value".

That's the attitude of someone who 'protects and serves' the community, right? /s

www.npr.org/2023/09/13/1...
NPR article from September 2023 - Headline: Seattle officer recorded joking about woman's death, saying 'she had limited value' In bodycam footage released this week, a Seattle Police officer is heard making callous comments about a young woman who died after she was struck in a crosswalk by an officer responding to a call. The footage was recorded on January 24, the morning after Seattle police officer Kevin Dave hit 23-year-old Jaahnavi Kandula with his vehicle while he was driving 74 miles an hour in a 25 mph area, responding to a reported overdose. In the footage, Seattle police officer Daniel Auderer, who is vice president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, is heard speaking to someone on the phone. Only Auderer's side of the conversation can be heard. He was reportedly speaking to Mike Solan, who is president of the guild, known as SPOG.
October 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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I've never failed to be impressed by the mixture of artistry, creativity, sass, and earnest heart in expression
A very Seattle protest sign reading "No Nazis, No Tyrant, Go M's!" A sign reading "Not a Paid Protester" in the center of the crowd A sign in the style of the Don't Tread on Me, but with the snake reading "Fuck These Fascists" with the subtitle "Oligargle My Balls" As the protest crosses the road, a sign reads "You can *choose* to look away, but never again can you say you *don't know.*"
October 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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y'all are great
A set of protesters in a Statue of Liberty costume with Boxing Gloves wearing the USA flag as a cape crosses the crowd in front of a very large Transgender flag A set of patches on a protestor's backpack. One reads "I Am Anti Fascist", and the other depicts an dismembered ourobouros snake over the word "Die" A sign reads "God forbid a girl want Liberty and Justice for All" in well-designed script A Checkbox question painted on the siding of a chainlink fence reading "Is Hegseth hooked on meth?" with the "Yes" box checked.
October 19, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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a couple good signs and shots from the #NoKings Seattle protest
A march of people, one promptly featured reading "Fuck the Oligarchy!" walks through 5th Ave in Seattle, with the Space Needle in the background, behind the Monorail track. Among them is a person in a "Left Shark" inflatable costume A protestor in the crowd holding a sign reading "No Kings" with a crown crossed out, a flag waving reading "Resist" further forward, while a USA and Canada Flag hang off a building on the left side of the street. Among the crowd spanning the width of Pine St, a Prohibition Circle (the no symbol) stands atop a pole with a crown in the center - indicating the message "no kings" A set of protesters marching past Denny Way, holding signs. Among them reads one "I Will Not Normalize This #NoKings"
October 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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fuck these pathetic spineless cowards, anyone trying to limit free speech sounds like they're

*checks notes*
...a sensitive snowflake? because someone in the government got offended?
A hulu cancellation email, titled "we're sorry to see you go, This email is a confirmation that your Hulu subscription will be cancelled on 09/26/25"
September 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Prime example of Stupid Watergate pt 2
John Oliver at the desk of Last Week Tonight in front of a black and white graphic of the White House labeled "Stupid Watergate"
September 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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dream date locale:
an abridged parody of Code Geass where Suzaku yells that he's at the Soup Store - "I'M AT SOUP"
September 15, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Socks and sandals? That’s my fashion statement!

@TheTrolleyGame - @bydandans.bsky.social

#TheTrolleySolution
A set of trolley tracks, a lever pulled, and a smartphone on the ground reading "Sent" with a checkmark
September 14, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Animal Farm is an essential read right now, specifically about the destruction of the Windmill being blamed on Snowball, another pig and Napoleon's political opponent.

(Apologies for the formatting, alt text included as usual)
Building had to stop because it was now too wet to mix the cement. Finally there came a night when the gale was so violent that the farm buildings rocked on their foundations and several tiles were blown off the roof of the bairn. The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance. In the morning the animals came out of their stalls to find that the flagstaff had been blown down and an elm tree at the foot of the orchard had been plucked up like a radish. They had just noticed this when a cry of despair broke from every animal’s throat. A terrible sight had met their eyes. The windmill was in ruins. Suddenly he halted as though his mind were made up. "Comrades," he said quietly, "do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!" he suddenly roared in a voice of thunder. "Snowball has done this thing! In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion, this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year. Comrades, here and now I pronounce the death sentence upon Snowball. 'Animal Hero, Second Class,' and half a bushel of apples to any animal who brings him to justice. The animals were shocked beyond measure to learn that even Snowball could be guilty of such an action. There was a cry of indignation, and everyone began thinking out ways of catching Snowball if he should ever come back. Almost immediately the footprints of a pig were discovered in the grass at a little distance from the knoll. They could only be traced for a few yards, but appeared to lead to a hole in the hedge. Napoleon snuffed deeply at them and pronounced them to be Snowball’s. He gave it as his opinion that Snowball had probably come from the direction of Foxwood Farm. "No more delays, comrades !" cried Napoleon when the footprints had been examined.
September 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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*coughs in DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY BIKES FIT IN A SINGLE PARKING SPACE*

(upwards of 18 and maybe a bakfiet)
Six bikes locked together in a parking space in front of Katsu Burger Six bikes, chained together in a parking space, taking up about a third of the stall, in a mini strip mall that has no bike infrastructure and limited parking availability
September 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Committing thoughtcrime in the park.
A red bike parked at the edge of Redmond's Central Connector Park, railroad tracks lifting from the gravel path and leading to the lighted switching structure. Yellow flowers in bunches line the opposite park edges while Pines draw across the mostly overcast skyline. In hand from the photographer's POV is the book Chokepoint Capitalism bh Rebecca Gilbin and Cory Doctorow.
September 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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i'm sad to have been missing PAX this year, but i will say that my adventures this weekend (namely featuring biking) have not been lacking
Two bikes (Black and Red) at night framed under the Fremont Bridge, lit by the in-wheel lights by the one on the left, the tail lights glowing opposite the camera view, at the edge of the Fremont Cut. Taken on 9/30/25, as my friend Jake and I biked to Add-A-Ball to see live music (photo credit @cross.house ) A yellowing sky with a hint of orange clouds as dusk begins to settle over Lake Washington from the Eastside of the 520 Bridge, where the water reflects the gradient of the soon to be darkened sky deusjz sits on a 2 Line Train in an orange Eastside Urbanism shirt and red helmet that matches his stored red bike bike opposite him, hanging on the side of the train corridor hallway, as he checks his phone. (photo credit @lqdee.bsky.social‬ ) a lockup of five bikes, chained together between cables and U-locks, arranged as a mass to take up a single parking space in front of Katsu Burger in Factoria
September 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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A flag depicting a sub sandwich being thrown at a military member laden in tactical gear reading "don't bread on me"
August 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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If you want an idea of how much I ride my bike, I'll say one sentence about it:

The last time I filled my car's gas tank was in June.
A POV photo forward facing on a bicycle, the handles adorned with a light, a silicone phone grip, and a black bell. deusjz's left arm, wearing a watch and a cycling glove, is grasping the handlebar. The path he's on is the Cross Kirkland Corridor, bounded by wooden cylindrical fenceposts, separating the natural elements of trees, tall grasses, and some houses from the unpaved gravel trail. It is sunny out.
August 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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stand under a tree and be wowed by the dimpling scattered sunlight as the tiny leaves rustling welcome the breeze, a sacred celebration of your existence on this planet, you dingus
the trunk of a tree in the foreground, numerous winding limbs reaching up and out towards a sunny clear blue sky, breaking through the canopy of a lush green canopy of sun spattered leaves
August 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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in lieu of the vonngegut quote - it practically describes the spirit of what i did yesterday
an unsorted collage of photos from Aug 20th, 2025 - drinking tea and reading in a tree canopy alleyway, a total sweetheart of a dog named Migris I got to walk around a park with, a picture of a cookie dough cup I ate at a concert in redmond, a picture of an archery target with one of the arrows in a bullseye, another better framed photo of the tree canopy alley, a picture on the 2 Line train in Redmond, a picture of the indoor archery range with my engraved bow in front of me, and a picture in a store of the empty remains of 1500 calories worth of pizza and tortellini. So much adventure in 12 hours.
August 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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this guy's been pulling above his weight class for years now
Bob Belcher from Bob's Burgers - a mustached middle age man with a smile, in a white kitchen apron, holding a cheeseburger
August 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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A twitter post from user PPathole circa April 12, 2019. It reads "Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize."
August 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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me, trying to find anything useful these days
a snip of a 4 year old reddit comment section. The top comment reads from a deleted user, and the comment has been replaced with "[deleted]". Underneath it, a user responds "Thanks! That's why I couldn't find it"
August 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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we are so back.

(and yes! i biked here too!)
deusjz holds a recurve bow in his left hand in front of an indoor range. the riser is etched with his logo in the wood above the shelf.
August 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Was meant to do a short ride yesterday. A friend was departing in the other direction, and I decided it was a nice day out. Talked for a good five miles biking together before breaking off and was treated to a pleasantly quiet ride back.

Bikes and trails are a treat, y'all
A view of the Samammish River Trail at 6:30pm on a Saturday, nearly empty, basking in a warm sunlight, with a wall of tall trees in a manicured line to the left, and the peeking elevation rises on the horizon to the right.
August 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Wanted to be a part of Hot Bike Summer yesterday, so biked ~40mi roundtrip to make it for the Alaskan Way Protected Bike Lane section opening @ Pier 66!
An analog bike sits leaned against a pole pointing to the skybridge at Pier 66 in Seattle The president of Cascade Bicycle Club gives a short speech at a lectern at Pier 66 for the opening of the Alaskan Way protected bike lane section that just opened up A view of the front face of SDOT's Hot Bike Summer Passport, the first of five stamps filled in with a sticker of the Great Wheel, labeled "Alaskan Way" A view of the Seattle Waterfront from Pier 66's Marina
August 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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If you make an enclosure with cotton balls, you can dress it up as a mario cloud and no one would question it
Laitka's cloud, a cloud with eyes, from the Mario Bros series.
July 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM