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Jed Davis 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸😱
@xlerb.bsky.social
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[he/him] [📍 San Francisco] [sad about computer, sad about politics, FIXME more topics go here]
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xlerb.bsky.social
I did this long enough ago that it was probably on LiveJournal.

(Specifically I think it was when I finally replaced the bisexual colors in my zsh prompt, i.e. about 5 years after I stopped identifying as bi.)
6 horizontal stripes: dark blue, black, maroon, yellow, white, cyan
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Current status:
Fort Point, nestled under the Golden Gate Bridge, seen from the southwest
November 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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This might be something? Visible to the eye, but looks more pronounced in the photos.
A foggy night sky, over the tops of some 2-3 story buildings. There's a fuzzy glowing area in the fog, a light bluish green, the kind of color that perhaps reminds one of toothpaste. There's also part of a tree in the foreground. Same thing but looking more to the left. The blob of glowing green fog is on the right side, and farther out looking ahead is a fainter pink glow, maybe? More of the previously mentioned tree is in frame. Another view of the green glowing fog spot, maybe a little clearer. There's half of the back side of a diamond-shaped road sign in frame.
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Got a halfway decent photo of myself at the big #NoKings rally today.
Photo of me from the shoulders up, taken from a low angle. I'm wearing dark sunglasses, a baseball cap, a bright orange t-shirt, and a backpack. Behind and above me is a flag, partly hidden behind my head, but there are rainbow stripes along the bottom, the rest of the background is white, and there's a red star in the place you'd expect for the California flag. Behind the flag is a clear blue sky.
October 19, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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I was married but I’m not married any more. Women don’t like the vehicle
A Romulan ship from Star Trek Online, specifically a Praetor-class Command Warbird Battlecruiser, a.k.a. The Screaming Chicken for its, uh, interestingly avian visual design
October 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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This is how my browser just rendered <1F3F3 FE0F 200D 26A7 FE0F>, which *should* be the trans flag, and instead it's… not.
The flag of Newfoundland and Labrador, as in the Canadian province. It's low-res and fake-wavy, as befits a screenshot of an emoji.
October 8, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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#voted
My hand putting a ballot envelope into the slot in an outside ballot box. The envelope has the address of the San Francisco Department of Elections.
October 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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what's your sign
A sign with a huge illustration of a wasp and the text "CAUTION! active wasp nest, avoid area." The sign is a laminated printout stapled to a wooden stake and the whole thing is tilted about 20 degrees to the left. The out-of-focus background suggests this is in a park, and the sign has the San Francisco Recreation & Parks logo in the corner.
September 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Not sure how I feel about this remake of All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace or whatever it was called
A billboard with text “Droids ship software while you touch grass”, a logo like a pinwheel, and the name Factory, with a photo of grass as the background
August 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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the "sickos: yes" meme but the person's head is replaced with the head of the bear from the California flag (tilted up to face the speech bubble), the moon is replaced with the flag's red star, and the shirt now reads "sickos republic" (the latter word in the flag's distinctive style)
August 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Black-and-white image of an older Bela Lugosi, facing the viewer looking grumpy and making a weird gesture with one hand, superimposed over an overhead view of some bison
August 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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I'll regret this tomorrow.
Dathon, the alien captain in the ST:TNG episode Darmok, saying: "Ben Shapiro, with the lumber"
August 15, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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…why do I have this image.
Screenshot of part of an online form, where the Country field has been set to United States and the State/Province dropdown has been clicked to show four options: Crna Gora, Kosovo-Metohija, Srbija, and Vojvodina. (There is also a Postal/Zip Code text field and buttons to Update or Cancel.)
August 10, 2025 at 4:59 AM
xlerb.bsky.social
52 months ago.
A photo of me standing in front of a backdrop with a speech bubble saying "I got vaccinated!" I'm wearing a white N95 mask, a green bike helmet with a visor (unbuckled), and a beige t-shirt with pride flag stripes (Philadelphia 8-stripe version) across the chest. The backdrop shows the logo and name of Boulder Community Health and the URL bch.org/covidvaccine. And it's not quite lined up right, so the speech bubble is coming from my shoulder, but that was not my biggest concern in that moment.
August 10, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Not sure who needs to hear this but you don't have enough treated planks.
Statistics: Days passed: 351 Beavers born: 312 Water consumed: 50348 Tails painted: 7037 Trees cut: 33299 Teeth broken: 67 Bots manufactured: 161 Dynamite detonated: 709
August 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Might be a bad sign that US current events memes are starting to be as incomprehensible as Eurovision memes.
A woman in a red vinyl dress and lace stockings lounges on her side, but Pumbaa from The Lion King is photoshopped over her head, and PUMBAA in big letters is superimposed but that's also been obviously edited (maybe it used to be RUMBA?). In smaller text the woman's name is identified as Zejna.
August 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Is it time for “young people can't read cursive” discourse?
One word cropped from a scan of an old microfilm, a scribble in cursive. Probably illegible to most people, especially without context, but I think the word is dziewięć.
July 27, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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A hazy telephoto view of part of San Francisco, and you can sort of make out the iconic dome of the Place of Fine Arts so that's probably the Marina District, but in the foreground is part of the Golden Gate Bridge and in front of that are some tree branches at the edge of the photo, so this was probably taken from the Marin Headlands.
July 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Live Bees Now Mailed in Tiny Cage The postman now has a new and fairly dangerous article to be carried in his pack, since bees are shipped by parcel post. The bee is very carefully removed from the apiary, placed in a special box cage, which has a small supply of honey to keep the bee alive while in transit. The box has to be of a fair size. (Photo of a bee held in tweezers being put into a small cage, captioned: "Bees are placed in this new cage for shipment by parcel post.")
July 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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There is the normal level of “had it with your bullshit” and then there is Indochinese_leopard.jpg from Wikipedia.
A leopard, head resting on the backs of its forepaws as it lies semi-prone in an odd position as only a cat would do, glares at the viewer.
July 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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This beaver colony was kind of a mess, logistically and hydrologically, and I started it before the mass transit update so I had to retrofit a tubeway network, and I'm too lazy/tired to do proper redevelopment, *but*, I've gotten the closest thing Timberborn has to a win condition:
Day 19-5 Tazingo was launched. Day 19-5 Ajin was launched. Day 19-5 Nyabingi was launched. Day 19-5 Jinjin was launched. Day 19-5 Khekkam was launched. Day 19-5 Alzim was launched. Day 19-5 Uagoduth was launched.
June 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Nice.
Your beavers are happier than ever! You have reached a new well-being highscore: 69
June 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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On a purple and blue spacey background, images of a frightened-looking raccoon and the text "Things are constantly happening and I would like for it to stop (please)". There is a faintly visible watermark of "@NocturnalTrashPosts".
June 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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…I'll just leave this here.
Screenshot of a tweet by Richard Hanania, asking “What does it do besides the anus thing?” There is no context. It's dated May 29, 2024.
June 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Left lane closed ahead for big metal giraffe.
A metal sculpture of a giraffe, with a patina of rust. It's in an angular polygonal style, and the spots are areas of a lighter perforated metal. It's outside, under a blue sky, at Sunset Dunes Park in San Francisco.
May 31, 2025 at 7:50 PM