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Tim Bray
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Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.

I’m mainly on Fedi, @cosocial.ca@timbray. On this account I mostly post #blueskyabove photos; for more, if you’re not on Fedi try @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
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Blue sky above signage with unlimited potential.

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A building and an evergreen tree; projecting from the side of the building are two signs, one oval and the other rectangular. Both are blank.
June 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Blue sky above Flinders St Station, Melbourne, Jan. 3, 2007.

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A busy urban intersection with modern architecture filling the left half of the picture. Just right of center, an old-style orange building with a discolored green dome. A bright yellow car is at the bottom left.
May 18, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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I recommend Bontrager, see www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...

Also worth saying that after the event illustrated below, Bontrager replaced the helmet for free.
Grey-bearded white man with multiple facial wounds, wearing a bright red cycling helmet.
May 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Blue sky above the Pacific at Pacific Rim National Park, December 1986.

#blueskyabove
View out over the ocean. The water is windblown and wave-studded. To the right, a large rock emerges from the sea; a wave behind it is breaking over it. Above, a blue sky, full of cloud drama.
May 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Blue sky above south Silly Valley at dusk, October 2018. A bit of the very south end of San Francisco Bay is visible at the center left.

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An aerial shot taken at dusk, of a city including residential and industrial constructs stretching away to bare brown mountains. Above the mountains, blue sky in an evening shade.
April 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Blue sky above @mojombo.bsky.social, San Francisco, July 2013. Tom co-founded GitHub. I was sitting across from him at a rooftop biz boondoggle; at that point he’d never met Linus, who was also there. I encouraged him to go introduce himself and he did, and they had a nice long talk.

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A thirty-ish brown-haired stubble-bearded white man looks down at the camera. He is wearing a light sweater and is smiling. Above, blue sky.
April 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Blue sky above hoop shadow, March 2025.

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A basketball hoop is mounted on a garage. The glass backing is broken. The hoop and netting are shadowed on the garage door. Above, blue sky.
April 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Blue sky above a ventilation fitting in Melbourne, January 2007

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White clouds and a red stovepipe with a whirly ventilation thing on top. Above, blue sky.
March 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Blue sky above English Bay and Howe Sound, near Vancouver, looking North up the passage between Bowen Island and Horseshoe Bay. March 2006.

#blueskyabove #Vancouver
An aerial photo, the bottom half being ocean, empty except for a few boats, two them tugs pulling barges. A passage of the ocean extends away from the camera between small mountains on the left and large snow-capped ones on the right. Above, blue sky.
March 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Blue sky above yours truly and my mother. Sometime in 1959 (this will be the earliest of the #bluesky posts I believe). This is on the OSU campus in Corvallis, OR. The building behind is the Coliseum which I believe still stands. The field was right across the street from Married Student Housing.
A woman and a little boy stand on a green field. He's flying a kite (not in view), they're both looking up. He's wearing a cute little-kid hat. She's wearing a bright red mid-calf skirt, an apron, and has elaborately curled brown 1950s' hair. In the background, a large pink building. Above, cloudy blue sky.
March 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Blue sky above a Big Sur sunset, October 2007.

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Trees are silhouetted blackly against a Pacific sunset; above, blue sky.
March 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Blue sky above calico cat, today, March 1, 2025.

#blueskyabove #caturday
A calico cat is sitting on a slanted roof, looking away from the camera to the left. Behind, a grey-and-white house is visible. Beside the cat, a metal pole with an intricate tangle of utility wires. Above, blue sky.
March 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Blue sky above the quad in Wadham College, Oxford, July 2005.

I was there providing childcare while my wife taught at a seminar; saw an absolutely spine-chilling “Macbeth”, by torchlight on the grass.

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Through an arch, an impeccably disciplined square of grass surrounded by four stories of age-yellowed stone building featuring crenelations. Above, blue sky.
February 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Blue sky above minstrel and bridge, October 2013. On Granville Island in #Vancouver.

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On a wooden dock, a silver-haired musician in a dark formal suit is playing an electric guitar and singing. In the background, a large bridge and apartment buildings. Above, blue sky.
February 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Blue sky above southeast False Creek in #Vancouver, August 2003. Before the Olympics came, this was still funky smelly industrial space, with tugs orchestrating the big barge-loads of industrial input and output. Note that False Creek already had water squatters back then.

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A busy waterfront with several barges docked, warehouses visible behind a screen of trees. In the foreground, a few small boats covered by tarps, the water squatters.
February 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Blue sky above snowy branches, earlier today.

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Dark bare tree branches, many with a layer of snow, silhouetted against a cloudy blue sy.
February 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Blue sky above a totem pole - said to be the world’s tallest - in Alert Bay, September 1985 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alert_Bay

Also, an airplane.

BTW I do post online about things other than cameras pointing upward, check out @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy

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A very tall dark totem pole stretches up, supported by two guy-wires. At its top there are two diagonal pieces of wood crossing at 90°. An airport contrail is pointed directly at the crossed wood; the plane would go behind it moments after the photo was taken. Above, blue sky.
February 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Blue sky above a grim industrial back street. Photographed on South Kent Road, on the way to the excellent #Vancouver Zero Waste Centre.

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Looking across a road directly into the sun. On the other side of the road, industrial machinery, utility wires, a large heap of some material. A small white car wearing a yellow construction-work helmet is driving left to right on the road.
January 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Blue sky above Silly Valley, February 2005. Also, moon. This is somewhere near the marshy bits on the west side of Bay.

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The picture is mostly sky, blue but heading for sunset. In the top right corner, the moon is tiny. At the bottom, a couple of power pylons are silhouetted against that sky, with the land they're standing on mostly unrelieved dark shapes. In the very foreground, water reflects the pylons.
January 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Blue sky above a bald eagle busy scratching its butt, May 2012. After I posted this on Twitter or my blog somewhere the eagles didn’t come back for a while and my kids said it was my fault, they were mad at me for posting an unflattering picture.

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A bald eagle is perched at the tip of an evergreen. It has one wing folded across its chest and the other not visible, and a thoughtful expression on its face. Above, blue sky.
January 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Blue sky above Tintagel castle, June 1989. Tintagel, in Cornwall, features in several of the Arthurian legends.

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A wall of dark and exteremely rough-hewn stone descends a steep hill from left to right, with small extrusions that have tiled tops. In front of the wall, there is is some grass on the hillside. Above, blue sky.
January 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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In which I consider the announcements from Mastodon and Bluesky-adjacent “Free Our Feeds”, both surfacing on the 13th, concerning fundraising and governance measures for the worlds of ActivityPub and ATProto: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
Free Our Feeds landing page, linked from blog Mastodon initiative landing page, linked from blog Mastodon post from Anil Dash, which says "This is a monumental day for the future of the social web, though it might not be obvious for a while. Mastodon matures its governance model with a great, solid non-profit https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/ and a coalition of independents push to open up Bluesky's AT Protocol: https://freeourfeeds.com/ These two moves together put the most credible players on solid ground for years to come — and set up the open platforms to enable lots of innovation just when it's needed most."
January 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Blue sky above the Rocky Mountains today, 2025/01/14.

#blueskyabove
Aerial photo. The bottom two thirds are occupied by twisting interpenetrating mountain ranges, partially snow-covered. Clouds cover the mountains in the distance. Above, blue sky.
January 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Blue sky above the Lake Shinji waterfront in Matsue, Japan, September 2009. Matsue is notable for being the home base of Matz, inventor of the Ruby programming language.

#blueskyabove #Japan #Matsue
A paved surface with water behind it. There is a little raised area with small trees and shrubbery and a small monumental tower, perhaps once a navigation light? At the right, a person is sitting on the wall around the raised area reading a newspaper. Above, blue sky.
January 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Blue sky above Vancouver today, January 9, 2025. A much-welcomed and rare Pacific-Northwest visit from the sun.

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A large bare mossy deciduous tree extends its branches in every direction under a blue sky studded with small clouds.
January 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM