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@smq.codes
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Programmer, progressive, aspiring antifascist. (he/him/any)

Cishet white dude of a certiain age but I try not to be an ass about it

Using "lame" disparagingly is ableist.
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Red Creatures whose name begins with the word "Goblin"

(Sorting MtG cards)
A stack of Magic the Gathering cards several hundred tall sitting on a countertop. The top card: Goblin Swine-Rider is maybe just possible to make out due to the perspective.
November 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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"I saw someone call generative AI a Thneed. [...] It's a PERFECT analogy. The Thneed was an all-purpose tool that didn't do anything really useful. It was a fad that did major damage to the environment to make the Onceler a billionaire. It left no real lasting impact, only damage." --BrainsandSpoons
An illustration from Dr. Seuss's The Lorax: The Lorax stands outside a shadowed doorway, one hand raised pointing at the sky, declaiming. Inside, in the foreground, a pair of green arms holds a bright pink fuzzy Thneed--an oddly shaped somewhat amorphous branching tube of fabric about half the size of a person that doesn't look useful as a garment, blanket, towel, or anything else really. The image has the text of this post above it, and a watermark from Facebook user BrainsandSpoons in the lower left corner.
November 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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For those who need to learn the difference:

These are harmless
pirate fun This is Nazi shit
↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
An array of jolly rogers featuring skulls and crossed bones or swords The German 3rd Panser Division Totenkopf: a skull in partial profile with the ends of two femurs protruding from behind
October 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Didn't find time to make a sign this week, so my 2020 @warren.senate.gov presidential campaign shirt it is!

#NoKings
Me, a 50-year-old bearded white dude with glasses, wearing a dark blue tee shirt that says "Warren has a plan for that" in capital white and light teal letters.
October 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Oh no! Here have 14 seconds of a cat washing her face
October 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Further upside-downness has ensued.
A tabby cat, now laying mostly on her back, paws in the air and white belly to the sky
October 4, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Hello, timeline, have a cat dozing with all her little foots in the air
A tabby cat, her eyes closed, rolled half onto her back showing her white tummy and toes
October 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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In-laws have departed so Cheeto has come out of hiding
A tabby cat sits on a gray couch and looks just past the camera
October 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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This is Oreo our tuxie himbo. Cheeto our anxious spotted tabby is currently hiding somewhere from my in-laws who are visiting.
A tuxedo cat sits on a mesh office chair
October 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Wore my @moxiest.art shirt to the protest for trans rights at the state capitol today.

(Photo from my home office not the protest b/c I'm no indirect narc)
Me, a heavy set white dude with a beard, moustache, short receeding hair, and glasses, wearing a black tee shirt featuring mox's distinctive elephant in trans flag colors. I'm in a beige room and there are windows in the background framed in dark wood.
September 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Post a mage!

The Mighty Multiplexius from Linus Akesson's phenomenal Commodore 64 demo Nine, which is just good fun on the surface but gets ever more impossible the more you know about the C64's graphics capabilities!

youtu.be/Ws4twUyt-MY?...
An 8-bit computer drawing of a wizard in black robes with a top hat, long blue mustache, and raised wand against a solid blue background
September 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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I'm into the "managing my overstimulation" phase of the day. Sitting and people-watching outside the pub. #MichRenFest
Wide shot of a street scene at the renaissance festival; a moderate number 9f costumed and plainclothes people walk between various vendors online dappled sunlight under young trees.
August 31, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Cap'n Sean and Mirf the Magnificent #MichRenFest
An older gentleman performing magic dressed as a pirate in a three-corner hat (Cap'n Sean), and his assistant: a 3-year-old gray-and-white Maine Coon cat (Mirf the Magnificent)
August 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Ye olde gentleman lion, black knight, and bone witch #MichRenFest
Three people in costume at the festival. On the left one dressed as a lion in a full-body costume with cape and cane. In the middle one descends in full body black metal armor. And on the right one dressed in a full body costume of robes and flowers with a (deer?) skull mask and long articulated bony fingers.
August 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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#MichRenFest
A back road at the festival, with multi-story buildings on either side.
August 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Michigan Renaissance Festival, gates opened 25 minutes ago. I'll probably post a few more pics over the course of the day. #MichRenFest
A wide shot of a few dozen people, many in costume, just inside the main gates of the festival.
August 31, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Sure why not; if you see this post do it

Pronouns: he/him/his/any
Height: 6ft-ish
Shoe: US men's 11
Zodiac: ♒️ I guess, had to look it up
Smoke: no
Tattoos: maybe someday
Piercings: not for me but you do you
Fav drink: a smooth rye Manhattan
Casual headshot of me, a 50-year-old white dude with graying and receeding brown hair, a full beard & mustache, and thin-rimmed glasses with a correction strong enough it visibly squishes my blur-gray eyes. In the background, the leaded glass windows of my home office and some warehouse pick-to-light hardware mounted to a cardboard display poster.
August 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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New book day with @charliejane.bsky.social and @tkingfisher.com yay!

Hemlock & Silver even made the front-and-center new releases table at my local indy.
Two books: Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders, and Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher, arranged on the light gray fr9nt seet of my van. A table of new releases books for sale at a local independent bookstore near me; T. Kingfisher's Hemlock & Silver is on a raised display, third from the right.
August 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Stock image of a crow in a birdbath. The crow is in profile with its wings spread. Water splashes up behind it.
August 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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You see this post a title screen that is iconic to you
The splash screen of Super Boulder Dash by First Star Software on the Commodore 64. It features the words "Boulder Dash" in blocky white capital letters on a mottled mid-blue background with a white border. Below is the FSS logo featuring the words "First Star Software" in a bold dark-and-light blue font with swoopy interlocked S's and a white five-point star in the background. The text (C)1984 appears in the standard Commodore 64 font at the lower-right.
August 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Sunset through cloud bands
Tunnel Park, Holland, MI
The sun setting behind several different bands of clouds over Lake Michigan. In the foreground are the wooden railing and posts of a pergola structure. The sun setting behind several different bands of clouds over Lake Michigan. A little farther down than the previous picture. In the foreground are the wooden railing and posts of a pergola structure. The sun almost fully set behind several different bands of clouds over Lake Michigan. In the foreground are the wooden railing and posts of a pergola structure.
July 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Done.
A slightly urru selfie me me hugging my two boys, their faces turned away
July 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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The titular robot from The Iron Giant with thumbs to temples, wagging fingers and dancing
July 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Yes, please, I would like to eat all the things!

www.idrlabs.com/food-choice/...
A circular bar graph showing the results of an online quiz of what foods you would choose to eat, organized by social class. While there's some variation, I score at least 80% in all five categories.
June 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The day in the progression of a minor sore throat when you can hit that low B
June 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM