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Farce Majeure
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Hooloovoo, kernel{, }hacker. Building better worlds. Opinions are messages from space. Facts approximate. Photos are square. he/they. 0.9x engineer 🚴 🚉 🌹 Ban cars.
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I rewatched the whole series last year. It's mostly wonderful.
Jessica Fletcher getting out of a maniacal self-driving car, explaining "And you wonder why I don't drive a car."
December 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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New lens day!

Holy crap, it's cold out.

#photography #boston #EastCoastKin #Scape
A highway curves into the distance, crossing under a bridge with a train.
December 6, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Screenshot of Oliver Babbish from The West Wing saying "Nature is to be protected from."
December 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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3.1° tilt on the radar hydrometer classification is kinda wild. #mawx
A radar hydrometer product map of the Boston area with a fairly serious tilt on the signal. Near the radar station in Norton, everything looks like light rain, but at around 10 miles away the altitude is high enough that it's ice crystals and snow.
December 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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And yet... *Sigh*
The new charliecard design
November 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Got these at the store yesterday. This is nuts.
A bunch of grapes on a cutting board next to a U.S. quarter. The grapes are bigger than the coin.
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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So... I mean this is okay. See y'all next week! #HATM
Wide shot of Boston Garden during a Celtics game.
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Michael Keaton hanging upside down from his feet in 1989's Batman
November 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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I've heard this from several people, but for some reason they've never chased me off. Occasionally they've driven circles around in the golf carts, though.

Anyway, as long as we're sharing:
"The First Church of Christ, Scientist", in Boston
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Nedry laughing and saying "ah ah ah! You didn't say the magic word!"
November 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Kenesaw Mountain Landis with a downward facing speech bubble towards the quoted post.
November 16, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Lights in the sky!

#photography #CambridgeMA #EastCoastKin
Aurora on the horizon above an urban neighborhood.
November 12, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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I can't be the only one who remembers this, right?
Poster for the "James Bond Jr" animated kids cartoon.
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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One thing I think is a wonderful homage in this that I didn't catch the first time through is that there's a big sign under the giant screen in the main operations room that says "THE BIG BOARD" #HATM
General Turgidson pointing at the Big Board
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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2) pan seared salmon with a honey mustard + capers sauce and peas and carrots. #HATM
A plate with pan seared salmon with a honey mustard + capers sauce and peas and carrots
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/f...
Campaign sign in fonts like Mamdani's that reads "another beer for Norm"
November 9, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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He's baaaaaack.
Map of a US Military P-8 doing weird circles in the Boston sky.
November 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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This US Military P-8 has been circling ~Newton all afternoon. Don't see that every day.
A map of an air plane flying a very good circle around the south part of Newton MA with maybe a 15 mile circumference.
November 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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The Lampoon

#CambridgeMA #Boston #Photography #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #WindowsOnWednesday
Black and white photo of a window. There's a wall immediately behind it, and between them are some illuminated issues of the Harvard Lampoon magazine, hanging by their spines on string.
October 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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I mean seriously...
Map of an area in northeastern NC that stays in "tier one" in the article Map of the NC 1st congressional district.
October 29, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Please, always "the Seoul train", never "the train to Seoul". #HATM
The logo from Soul Train
October 27, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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2) meat loaf with tomato sauce, so you never know! #HATM
Meat loaf with pasta sauce and some cheese
October 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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No no it's Wyse that has wronged me. VT100 timing compatible my ass.
A Wyse 50 terminal showing a log of a CNC mill's gcode history, position status, and configuration, with a *very conspicuous* number of cursors displayed.
October 25, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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I am reminded of the bw3 menu, on which it is impossible to know which word is pronounced wrong... I mean but yours has wangs though.
Menu item for a sauce named "jammin jalapeño"
October 25, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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The sky just a minute ago.

#Photography #BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin #CambidgeMA
A roofline just edging into the frame, with a few chimney's and a firehouse tower. Above it a white cloud explodes with dark shadows and blue spots beyond.
October 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM