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Huh. Weird that either @support.bsky.team or @safety.bsky.app sent me this message from a generic random handle instead of the official one. Well, I'll definitely be sure to click this obfuscated URL in the chat then...oops I accidentally blocked and reported the account and deleted the chat. Darn.
Screenshot of a chat request in Bluesky. Text in the screenshot reads: "Bluesky - 1h @hammo55.bsky.social We regret to inform you that your Bluesky account has been temporarily suspended due to security-related restrictions.... Not followed by anyone you're following"
November 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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...and then when I got back home I just decided to go ahead & try a few more pictures, regardless of light pollution, and was still able to get aurora in the shots!!
Photograph of a red aurora across the sky behind an apartment building. Photograph of a red aurora with green highlights across the sky behind an apartment building. Photograph of a red aurora with green highlights across the sky behind a residential street. Photograph of a red aurora with green highlights across the sky behind an apartment building.
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Photograph of a red aurora over the top left half of the night sky. Photograph of an aurora across the sky, fading from green on the left to red on the right.
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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None of the pictures I snapped are amazing or breathtaking, but they're still pretty enough to share!

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Photograph of a green aurora with pink highlights spread over the sky. Photograph of a green aurora with pink highlights spread over the sky. Photograph of an aurora across the sky, fading from red on the left to green on the right. Photograph of an aurora across the sky, fading from green on the left to red on the right.
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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I wasn't going to because it's a work night, but I went ahead & drove 20 minutes out to a decently dark spot & took some pictures of the #aurora ... realized halfway there I forgot the tripod and remote for my phone, so there's camera shake as I had to freehand some of these.

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#wyoming
Photograph of a green aurora spread over the sky. Photograph of a green aurora with pink highlights spread over the sky. Photograph of an aurora across the sky, fading from green on the left to red on the right. Photograph of an aurora across the sky, fading from green on the left to red on the right.
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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I watched a YouTube video where the paid sponsor was a science magazine. The presenter said they had a code for an exclusive 15% discount.

So...

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A subscription page for a magazine advertising. At the top, the headline advertises 15% off the price. Two options are presented for paying, one digital only and the other digital plus print. The digital membership is advertised as "Save 50%" and has a crossed-out price of $9.99 and a larger, bold price of $4.92 per month. The print plus digital option has a crossed out price of $9.99 and a larger, bold price of $7.42 per month. There is additional marketing text on the page but none of it provides additional context for the prices that don't match the advertised 15% discount the parent post is referring to. A subscription page for a magazine advertising. At the top, the headline advertises 15% off the price. Two options are presented for paying, one digital only and the other digital plus print. The digital membership has a crossed-out price of $6.17 and a larger, bold price of $4.92 per month. The print plus digital option has a crossed out price of $9.33 and a larger, bold price of $7.42 per month. There is additional marketing text on the page but none of it provides additional context for the prices that don't match the advertised 15% discount the parent post is referring to.
October 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Screenshot of the Windows 11 Start Menu. In the screenshot, at the bottom, three icons are visible: a folder icon for File Explorer, a gear icon for the Settings app, and an "I/O" Power Symbol. The Power Symbol has been selected, and a sub-menu of power management options is visible. In the Power Management sub-menu, four options are visible: a padlock icon with the word "Lock" next to it, a crescent moon icon with the word "Sleep" next to it, another "I/O" Power Icon with the words "Shut down" next to it, and a circular arrow with the word "Restart" next to it. A mouse pointer is visible atop the sub-menu, specifically over the right edge of the "Shut down" option, and that same option is highlighted. All of the background colors in the image are shades of dark gray. The text and icons are white. In the background of the image, part of a dark gray mesh-themed desktop wallpaper is visible. #shutdown
October 1, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Illustration of a light blue t-shirt with the words "Everybody else got taken up in the rapture of" followed by a list of crossed out years: 1981, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1994, 2000, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, and 2021 before finally settling on the year 2025, and below that concluding with the text "...and all I got was this lousy t-shirt."
September 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I claim this rock in the name of humanity!

#EliteDangerous
#Screenshot
Screenshot from the video game "Elite Dangerous" showing a large monolith-shaped rock on an alien planet. The rock is a light gray color with reddish-brown spots. On top of the rock, a figure in a spacesuit is barely visible in a standing position. In the backgound, a dark blue starry sky is visible. Across the top, an arm of the Milky Way can be seen, with a nebula in front of part of it near the center. Below the Milky Way, slightly to the right of center, another planet is visible.
September 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Sooo many mistakes!
But I finished it.
Next one will be better maybe?

#art
#mandala
#NoAI
Photograph of a drawing of a mandala on a page of a drawing pad. The spiral binding of the pad is visible along the top edge. An eraser is visible near the top left at an angle. A pen and a mechanical pencil are visible near the bottom left at that same angle. The inked drawing of the mandala takes up most of the page. It is a series of patterns radiating along concentric circles. Most of the patterns have a floral motif. The rest are simple lines and circles. A few diamond shapes fill in space along the outermost ring.
September 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September
Screenshot of a filter selection menu from Walmart's web page. The first menu option is labeled "Nutritional Content" but an icon indicates that section is collapsed, so the selections are not visible. The second menu option is labeled "Egg Type" and the icon indicates its options are visible. There is a single choice available to choose in that section. It is labeled, "Eggs" and it shows 16 items will match that selection. The final option visible in this screenshot is labeled, "Availability" but an icon indicates that section is collapsed, so the selections are not visible.
September 1, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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I am SUPER curious about what happened here. Google maps screenshot is from just about three years ago (Oct 2022). The aerial shot is from an active Zillow listing.

The side yard fence seems to have jumped way closer to the house, essentially losing most of the front yard for the gray house.

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Screenshot of a Google Maps street view image showing two houses. Both are typical two-story homes. There is a small grassy yard between the two houses. A chain-link fence decorated with white and green slats sits right next to the tan house on the left side of the image. A small decorative fence and alongside the yard and in front of the gray house on the right. A similar chain-link fence with white and green slats runs down the right side of the gray house property as well. An aerial photograph of some typical two-story houses on a residential street. There is a small grassy lawn between the tan house on the left side of the image and the gray house in the middle of the image. A chain-link fence runs most of the way alongside the yard, close to the GRAY house. There is no fence near the TAN house, nor is there a fence running along the front of the gary house property. There is a chain-link fence on the right side of the gray house property, between that house and the white house on the right side of the image.
August 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Found some frozen pretty space trees on an ice ball out in the black last night.

#EliteDangerous
A screenshot from the video game "Elite Dangerous" depicting a scene on an alien world. The terrain is mostly barren, white, ice-covered rocks. In the foreground on the left side are twisty alien plants with broad leafy tops and woody layered bottoms. The leaves are a deep blue at the tips on one side and white on the other side of the tips. The woody bottom of the plants is a light gray, with white outlining the edges of the layers. In the background, the sky takes up the top two thirds of the image. Stars are visible in the clear sky. The sky fades from deep midnight blue at the top to a lighter medium blue at the horizon. Towards the right of the sky, a band of the Milky Way galaxy can be seen as a pinkish-brown hazy stripe that runs in a diagonal line descending left to right over the right third of the sky.
August 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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I have drawn a bird. Have I done this correctly? This is bird.

#TWI
#IYKYK
A very rough pencil sketch of an anthropomorphized ant-like creature. The character is bipedal, leaving four limbs available as hands. The character is holding a bow in one hand, the bowstring in another, and arrows in the remaining two hands. A quiver of arrows is on his back. A speech bubble is indicating the character is saying the words "I am Bird. I am silly." In the background near the top of the page a sketch of an actual bird can barely be seen.
August 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Finally dragged myself to the post office. I hardly ever get "real" mail, so I only go once a week or so.

But I'm glad I did, as this gem by @glennf.com was waiting for me to pick up!
A hardback book sits on an chair cushion at an angle towards counterclockwise. The book's cover is a deep green with a patterned texture similar to woven linen. The book's cover is decorated only with title ("Six Centuries of Type & Printing") a stylized trefoil device (comprised of three lobes roughly in a triangle formation) below that, and the byline ("by Glenn Fleishman") below that. These elements are surrounded by a double-line border shaped similarly to a plaque (a rectangle with quarter circles subtracted from the corners). All of this is impressed into the cover with gold foil and occupies roughly the top third of the cover, with a margin around the border. The cushion in the background is a deep blue-violet with vertical stripes of shades of blue, white, purple, and red running across it.
August 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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I grew up on these streets
Screenshot of the video game "Dream Zone" on the Apple IIGS. At the top are the standard menu bar items: the old multi-colored apple-shaped logo of Apple Computer, "Load" "Save" "Edit" and "Options". Except the Apple, these are black text on a white background. Below that is the main area, an image viewport. In this screenshot, the viewport displays a large gray bureaucratic building in Classical style, with Greco-Roman columns on the front and orderly uniform rows of windows evenly spaced along the visible sides, stretching off into the distance. Each window's lighting looks ominously like a flame. Small bits of blue sky and green grass are visible on the top and bottom respectively. To the tight of the viewport is directional controls "Up" "N" "W" "E" "S" and "Down". The notations are in white letters on red arrow icons. Below that is an info bar displaying "nobody" "Town Square" and "East View". Again black text on white background. That is followed by a row of available actions: an icon for inventory that is a stylized letter "i" with a circle around it. The rest of the actions are words: "Look", "Get", "Drop", "Talk", "Give", "Use", "Buy", "Hit", "Open". These options are stylized colored text outlined in black on a white background. The next section down is the games text description, black text on a white background, currently displaying: "This is a town square. The Department of Information building looms in front of you. Copy machine odors waft down from above." Several icons below that represent some of the players current inventory: a blue rectangle that for some reason represents cash, a plunger, a toothbrush, a yellow squirt gun, a scrolled document, another scrolled document, and a rock. Finally, at the bottom, is a text input for the player to issue commands. In this example, it is blank, but the play could type something such as "ASK OFFICER S3R-D ABOUT FORM 69B-12C".
August 1, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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...what
Screenshot of a filter selection menu from Walmart's web page. The first menu option is labeled "Nutritional Content" but an icon indicates that section is collapsed, so the selections are not visible. The second menu option is labeled "Egg Type" and the icon indicates its options are visible. There is a single choice available to choose in that section. It is labeled, "Eggs" and it shows 16 items will match that selection. The final option visible in this screenshot is labeled, "Availability" but an icon indicates that section is collapsed, so the selections are not visible.
July 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Let it GO, Charles.
Pigs.—Pressmen are thus denominated by compositors in order to annoy them. Pigsty.—A press-room is sometimes thus designated by compositors.
July 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Monkeys.—Compositors were sometimes thus styled by press-men in retaliation for being called by them "pigs."
July 25, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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*Galley slaves.—An old term applied to compositors—the reason being obvious.
July 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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I am having fun going through this 1888 book of printmaking terms.
Donkeys.—Compositors were at one period thus styled by pressmen in retaliation for being called "pigs" by them.
July 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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what

#WorldOfWarcraft
Screenshot of a blue XP tracking bar in the video game World of Warcraft in front of an orange background. The XP bar appears completely full. White text overlaying the XP bar reads: "XP: 30064/30070" indicating only 6 additional XP would have pushed the character to the next level.
June 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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#NoKings
#dollstakeastand
#duckstakeastand
A photograph of a small yellow rubber ducky "holding" a "No Kings" protest sign via masking tape. The "sign" is made from a cut up index card with the cotton tip cut off. The duck is wearing a multi-colored propellor beanie. The duck sits on a wooden TV tray. A recliner and various household objects are visible, though blurred, in the background.
June 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Out and about mapping planets and collecting exobiology samples in #EliteDangerous and grabbed a screenshot of this lovely view.
Screenshot from the video game "Elite Dangerous" depicting a scene on a mostly-barren unexplored planet. In the foreground, an alien plant vaguely resembling a cluster of four small palm trees is visible along the right edge of the image, taking up most of the vertical height of the image. The tree-like structures are of varying height and have while segmented trunks with small wide frond-like leaved on top. The treelike stalks are tilted at an angle from the bottom-right towards the top-left. Beyond the plant, and stretching to the horizon, a light-brown rocky landscape is visible. The horizon line is roughly a bit under a third of the way from the bottom. Variations in elevation are apparent, though no mountains or chasms are visible. In the background, the planet's very thin atmosphere has produced a hazy desaturated gray-blue sky. It is daytime, and the planets small distant sun is visible just slightly right-of-center and roughly a third of the way down, casting a wide halo through the haze. Stars are visible as the typical pinpoints of light we're used to, along with a grayish band of the Milky Way towards the top-left that runs down nearly to the horizon, roughly in parallel to the plant in the foreground. Additionally, a neighboring alien planet is barely visible, located horizontally between the plant and the sun, and vertically just a bit above the horizon. The planet mostly blends into the sky, except for a white highlight on its top-left edge, and several off-white bands that run across its surface at an angle roughly reversed from that of the plant.
June 1, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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So *somebody* put 1200 rubber duckies in my mom's bathtub.
I clearly couldn't since she's in California and I'm in Wyoming.

Certain parties in California have suggested that I am behind this (frankly epic) April Fools' prank.

As I am in Wyoming, that is clearly impossible.
Photograph of a bathtub. The bathtub is filled partway with water. On top of the water, nearly 900 small rubber ducks are floating, along with nearly 300 rubber ducks of various other colors and design. A handful of other rubber ducks are scattered around the outside of the tub, some in a "breadcrumb" trail leading up to the bathtub.
April 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM