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tmaaz ☕
@tmaaz.bsky.social
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Developer | Designer | Writer – avid fan of laughter, love, pinball, story-driven video / board / role-playing games, and coffee. Building worlds in Minecraft, sandboxes & sims. Animated Twitch + YouTube streamer | he/him
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SNAP funding (food stamps) will cease in 2 weeks (11/02) if the shutdown continues, leaving some of our most vulnerable neighbors struggling to afford any groceries at all... as we enter the holidays, no less.

If you can spare ANY $$, please make a monetary donation to your closest food pantry.
October 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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When cruelty becomes normalized,
empathy becomes radical

Be well, and take care of one another ❤
The image is an illustration of a row of colorful books, standing on end like in a bookshelf, with flowers growing out of the top of them. The book titles read "Love, Peace, Inclusion, Kindness, Change, Diversity, Unity, Compassion, Justice". Below the books is multi-colored text that reads "Radicalized by Basic Decency"
October 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Someone TP'd a neighbor's house last night -- my first thought wasn't "how funny"... it was "in this economy?" 😮
image is a drawing of a roll of toilet paper
October 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you,
I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson
color photograph of a man sitting in a garden. He is wearing a hat, a denim vest, a flannel shirt, pants, and gardening gloves. He appears to be planting flowers, which are also in the foreground, and surrounding him on all sides.
August 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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It took an extra half hour to get to the office today, because traffic slowed to a crawl passing a group of construction workers with jackhammers.

Y’all are _THIRSTY_

Those men have work to do, and I need to get to the office — behave! 😂
Photo of a construction worker holding a jackhammer
August 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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"You will always be too something for someone.

Too loud. Too nice. Too outgoing. Too fake. Too real. Too weird.

Don't let this dim your fire. Be unequivocally you.

You are a wonderful thing to be ❤️"

- @kaytonix
image is of a small scrap of paper, being held up in the sunlight outdoors. In the background, blue skies and green trees can be seen. On the scarp of paper, there is a hand-written message in ink: "You're amazing just the way you are."
August 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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*taps the sign until his finger bleeds*
a two-panel cartoon, in color. in the left panel, one person is holding the other person's lips / mouth closed, while saying "shhhhh". In the second panel, that same person is still holding the other's lips closed, and is saying "let people enjoy things".
July 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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A black and white photo of Ozzy Osbourne, with a portion of lyrics from the first verse of his song "Crazy Train" -- "...Maybe it's not too late; to learn how to love, and forget how to hate..."
July 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Look, things are pretty busy right now, and it's only going to get worse -- we're gonna need you to get your existential crises in order, okay?
image is an illustration image of the Grim Reaper sitting at an office desk, work piling up around them, while they stare blanky at a computer screen. The caption read: "For the last time: Abyss = for staring into, Void = for screaming into. Please stop screaming into the abyss, we are not insured for that."
July 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Let's just cut to the chase, shall we? 😆
image is just a block of text that reads: If someone is flirting with me, I need them to literally say "I'm flirting with you" or else I'm just like "Wow, they're nice."
June 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Honestly, same -- except for me it was a barista, and the receipt for my coffee. She was practically like "TAKE THE DAMN RECEIPT" and I was all "BUT I DON'T WANT THE RECEIPT!" 🤣 (we went on a date and had a great time. Talked so long they literally kicked us out of the restaurant at closing time.)
Image is of a social media post, made by user @perfectsweeties - it reads: "one time a girl said 'you dropped this pen'. i was like 'that is clearly not my pen, it's red.' 'yeah you did' and she shoved it into my hands. ok weirdo. Then when I looked at it there was a note inside with her phone number. My quesion is this: how does anyone date men, we are so dumb."
June 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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"Empathy is one of the greatest strengths we can possess... be wary of any agenda that benefits from a lack of it."

— Slade Wentworth, The Dad Briefs
Photo is in black and white, and it appears to be taken in a train station or subway station. There are people walking in the blurry background, presumably to their next train. In the foreground, an older man is crouched, one knee on the ground. He is wearing a stocking cap, a jacket, and the strap of a backpack can be seen over his shoulder. He is looking directly into the camera, and his face is weathered and wrinkled, his eyes expressionless, blank. His grey beard is rather long and somewhat unkempt. He is holding up a cardboard sign, in front of what appears to be a walking stick or cane he is leaning on. The sign looks worn, frayed, and bent at the edges. The sign bears a hand-written message, three lines, in all caps, with one word on each line: SEEKING HUMAN KINDNESS"
May 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Am I notable? Am I authentic?
Only time will tell...

*winks at Bluesky*
How YOU doin'? 😆
An image showing the Bluesky logo, as well as two different types of verification badges provided on the Bluesky platform. Both verification badges have a white checkmark in them -- the Trusted Verifier badge has a wavy round circle around it, and the Verified Account badge has a smooth circle around it.
April 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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"You remember too much",
my mother said to me recently.
"Why hold on to all of that?"

And I said "Where do I put it down?"

— from The Glass Essay, by Anne Carson
(the attached photo does not pertain to the text of the post, it only serves as a visual) -- the image is a photo taken through a window, presumably from the inside of a building looking outward, and the glass is covered in droplets of rain that are in sharp focus and detail. Everything beyond the windowpane is quite blurry, but we can make out what appears to be the silhouette of a leafless tree in the foreground, the silhouette of a person carrying an umbrella as they walk by, and then what appears to be a lake beyond that, with several buildings visible on the other side of the body of water, far in the distance.
April 8, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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image is of a social media post by user Cliff Jerrison (Bluesky user handle is @pervocracy.bsky.social) -- the post says "It's very hard to maintain mental health because so many coping strategies are based on the idea that your anxiety is unwarranted, and right now needs more of an 'okay, extremely warranted, but you still gotta water the plants or you'll have facism AND dead plants' approach."
March 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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*in Batman voice*

I'm Batman
Picture is of a social media post by @AbleLikes, that reads: "Being friends with introverts is hard sometimes. Did they die? Are they just recharging? Are they Batman now? The suspense is killing me."
February 17, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Truth be told, I've never been good at Minesweeper. I'm not sure why, as it's a very straightforward, logical game, and I'm usually good with those

Microsoft now has a more modern, complex version, called "Treasure Hunt"... and for some odd reason, I'm still surprised that I'm really not good at it
The image is a playfully-illustrated representation of the video game "Treasure Hunt" by Microsoft (not a screen capture of actual gameplay). The setting appears to be an underground maze or dungeon, and it is dimly lit. Earth and stone walls can be seen, and the floor appears to be dirt. An adventurer stands in the foreground, dressed in a similar fashion to the character Indiana Jones (wearing a brown felt fedora, red bandana scarf around the neck, a utility belt around the waist, and jeans, shoes, and a shirt). The character is holding a rudimentary torch and has a five o'clock shadow. In front of him, a wooden treasure chest with metal hardware and accents is sitting on the ground. The lid to the chest is open, and it is filled with gold treasure that is glowing in the torchlight. However, the adventurer isn't looking at the treasure, he's looking back over his shoulder with a worried look on his face, because there are several characters with glowing eyes who are wrapped in mummy linens, approaching him to (presumably) try to stop him from taking the treasure.
January 26, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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image is a screen capture of an online post from a neighborhood yard sale group. There is a photo of some older, random pieces of household furniture, sitting in the grass of someone's front yard, with a hand-written sign next to it that says "free stuff". The person who posted the image also typed "FREE STUFF! NOT HAUNTED! I found more things in my garage I just don't need!" I added my own thoughts to the image, in text above and below the screen capture, that reads "If you find an ad for 'free stuff' that specifically mentions the items are 'not haunted', there is a 100% chance those items are super-duper haunted"
January 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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While visiting my Mom, I decided to recreate a childhood holiday moment; lying under the tree, looking up through the lights, ornaments, and branches.

I've made many laps around the sun since… so many, in fact, I'm wondering if I can get back up off the floor.

Maybe this wasn't such a good idea 😂
a photo of tmaaz, lying on his back on the carpeted floor, his head is underneath the edge of the Christmas tree, and he's peacefully looking up at the branches, lights, and ornaments above. He is wearing a black baseball cap, a black "Colorado Avalanche" sweatshirt, and his right hand is placed upon his chest. He is wearing a Sterling silver Achara "River" ring from Thailand on his ring finger.
December 14, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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I agree! The '25 Kia Soul has a special "Soulmate" edition that can come with a 2-color exterior -- kinda reminds me of an old-school 'hard-top'! I like it.
A 2025 Kia Soul 4-door car, in the new "Soulmate Edition" 2-color paint style -- the roof and kick panels are a different color (black) than the rest of the body of the car (red). The photo has been digitally altered to make it appear that the vehicle is sitting alone, parked in front of a Kia dealership building in the background.
November 17, 2024 at 6:19 AM
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🚧 Join The Construction Crew! 🚧

LIVE streams where we chat and have fun while I play Minecraft, and other sandbox / world-building / simulation games, including some games where viewers can play along if they choose!

All in a laid-back, low-sensory, positive & inclusive space 🏗️

twitch.tv/tmaaz
The image is a cartoon-style illustration, split vertically into two sections. 70% of the space is one image on the left side, the other 30% is a different image on the right. The image areas are separated by a strip of weathered yellow-and-black-striped caution tape. On the left side of the image, there is a cartoon-style scene of a small, cozy workshop. In the background, there is a mint colored wall cabinet with closed doors, and wooden shelves below it that are lined with various tools. There is also a workbench area in the background, with a mint-colored toolbox sitting on top of it. On the wall above the workbench, there is a pegboard with many various hand-tools hanging on it. A bare incandescent lightbulb can be seen hanging down from the ceiling on a bare wire with no fixture. In the foreground, only visible from the waist up, the animated version of tmaaz is sitting in a gaming chair, smiling and waving toward the camera while holding a purple coffee mug. He is wearing an orange construction safety vest over the top of a white button-down shirt. There is also a microphone in front of him, off to the side slightly. He has a set of over-ear headphones on, that are black and trimmed in blue. He has short salt-and-pepper hair, with a neatly-trimmed salt-and-pepper goatee. He is wearing reading glasses that have no frames around the lenses. (It actually resembles the real-life streamer that voices/animates the character.) On the right side of the image, there is a dark blue background with an orange diamond-shape construction sign logo, trimmed with a thin black border, and the sign has an image of the same animated character on it, standing, while holding a rolled-up blueprint over his shoulder. In the foreground, overlaying the lower half of the character, there is a text-based area that reads "The Construction Crew" in small print at the top, and then in large, bold, all-caps, slightly curved white lettering is the name "tmaaz" (pronounced tee-maz).
November 9, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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Lost a sizable branch from one of my sweetgum trees during a recent storm. I took the chainsaw to it last night, to fit the wood into the eco-bin for pickup...
and now my entire garage smells overpoweringly sweet, like it's a candy shop 🤣🤣 Nature is wild.
August 16, 2023 at 6:53 PM
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My Twitch community wasn't very happy with my "goody-two-shoes" playthrough of the game "Lake", so they surpassed my PLAY LIVE 2023 fundraiser goal for me to revisit the sleepy little town once more...

but this time, Meredith's gonna have an attitude 🤣

LIVE: https://twitch.tv/tmaaz
A picture of a serene lake, with trees in the distance, and the word "Lake" (the name of the video game) written across the image, with additional text that reads "bad Meredith playthrough")
July 25, 2023 at 12:12 AM
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*In Dwight Schrute's voice*
It's true.
a picture of a grey tshirt with white, bold lettering, that says "I enjoy romantic walks to the taco truck."
July 16, 2023 at 3:54 AM
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July 6, 2023 at 2:41 PM