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ersatzboffin.bsky.social
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Tangential walkabouts. Complete with boring hobbies.
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+1 for HLD and Outer Wilds. One of my top faves is Terraria. Lots of replay-ability. Risk of Rain 2 gets an honorable mention. I’m not sure if I want to start Factorio.
Screen shot of title screen of Terraria the game
October 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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I can still see blue skies on a #walkabout.
A lovely set of altocumulus in the morning.
October 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Autumn has arrived.
Dropped leaves of autumn, red, yellow, and brown, on a weathered picnic table.
September 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Moth discovered on a walk about.
Moth with wings folded on a vertical surface. Perhaps a purple thorn? Woodland type for sure.
September 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Whoa! What one finds on a walk about! Indian Pipes growing through a litter of leaves on a piece of wood. Nature finds a way for these Monotropa uniflora.
Ghost plants, aka mycotrophic plant that lacks chlorophyll, known as Indian Pipes growing through a litter of leaves on a piece of wood. White with slender stalks with a drooping blossom. They have a symbiotic relationship with fungus to draw nutrients at the forest floor.
September 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Looking for blue skies on a walk about. There to the west! A patch of pale blue crowned by the glow of sunset.
Crowned by the glow of sunset, a patch of pale blue sky to the west. Under grey clouds above with more climbing over the tree line.
August 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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A sunset walk about. Love the yellow orangey highlights on the cirrostratus clouds.
Ruddy cirrostratus clouds with yellow orange highlights obscuring a pale blue sky over the top of a treeline at sunset.
August 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

Lol. Group session?
Jim Henson and the entirety of Muppets. As a color wheel.
August 6, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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I did a thing. Cheap acrylic on canvas. Poorly channeling William Alexander through the Terran Trade Authority lens of great artists like Angus McKie and Peter Elson. I used ”almighty” dry brushing to blend the colors. I did learn something from painting mini figs for war gaming.
Poorly channeling William Alexander through the Terran Trade Authority lens of great artists like Angus McKie and Peter Elson. Black sky with a white streak to purple to a ruddy orange to pinkish yellows over bluish blackish mountains set behind blackish greenish something with dry brushed black running through the bottom. Blended colors with “almighty” dry brushing. Acrylic on canvas.
July 30, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Classroom. A whole lot of learning for a newbie like me.
48 foot climbing tower with covered platform at the top to allow for rappelling and independent belaying.
June 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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For #WalkAboutWednesday, I give you a #boring #cloudscape of #CirrostratusNebulosus with a #SolarHalo. The best camera is the one you have with you. I am lucky I did not damage the sensor.
Lucky to observe a solar halo due to cirrostratus nebulosus. Quite the grey spread with cumulus clouds below.
May 29, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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From the archives for this #tbt, a #boring #macro shot of a spring blossom with #zuiko #boken. Ye olde OM 50mm macro film lens on a discontinued Canon efm body.
An image of a spring blossom with violet petals captured with a dead end digital camera from Canon using a 1970s film macro lens from Olympus.
May 28, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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If you see this, post something monochromatic. Captured with ye olde #Hueless app. Yes, yet another #boring #cloudscape from the archives. Probably #RedFilter for contrast. And heavy cloud cover in lieu of a solar filter.
Yet another solar eclipse (2017) captured with the Hueless app of old. Cloud cover working as a replacement for a solar filter. The best camera is the one you have with you.
March 31, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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#tbt brings us a 4 MP jpeg from ye olde point and shoot. A #boring study of one of Nature’s awesome predators, the #dragonfly. Decent boken from the P&S. It was a #walkabout the car.
A dragonfly sunning itself on a car’s aerial. Brick wall as background.
March 28, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.
Benedict Cumberbatch as Kahn.
March 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Yes, #tbt means a #boring #cloudscape from the archives! O the drama caught on a walk about.
Dramatic skies of dark and light greys coloring cumulus clouds only allowing patches of blue.
March 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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From the archives for #tbt, a brown toad on a walk about. A #boring study of #Wildlife on my walk about.
A brown toad chilling on a gravel path.
March 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Springing forth from the archives for #tbt this #FoolsSpring, a #boring study of a crocus spied on a walk about made #Vibrant via #Waterlogue.
Close up of a crocus blossom processed via Waterlogue with the Vibrant filter.
February 28, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Look to the western skies… this #SereneSaturday. Looking up from a #WalkAbout. Yet another #Boring #Cloudscape from the archives.
Clouds illuminated from below by sunset. Tops of trees in foreground. Blue skies distant.
February 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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I love wandering the stacks. It’s an inter dimensional #walkabout.
Picture of library books on shelves. Meme text: Some say travel to other worlds or other times may be someday possible… I say it always has been.
February 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Whoa! Something else on a walk about!
Animal tracks in the snow. Paw prints. No banana for scale. Sorry!
February 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Quote post yer lock screen!
Phone lock screen showing the Cassini photo of Saturn and its rings in the upper left. The pale dot of Earth in the lower right and other stars against the glow of the spiral arm of the Milky Way.
February 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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May we be able to find bluer skies.
Dramatic cloudscape. Tops of trees and parking lot lamp in foreground.
January 25, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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For this #WackyWednesday, moar googly eyes!
Sign forbidding googly eyes. Marked with googly eyes.
January 23, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Crossover assembled and soldered and mounted. Midwoofer and tweeter mounted and sealed. Port installed and sealed. The baffle with a cork seal. Ready for a shakedown cruise after a bit of stuffing placed. 🧵 #diy #audio
Final assembly of speaker. Crossover wired and installed. Midwoofer and tweeter installed in baffle. Port install. Ready for hook up, a bit of stuffing, and installation of baffle.
January 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM