Andrew Ball 🤠 🏳️‍🌈🐸🧩✝️
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Andrew Ball 🤠 🏳️‍🌈🐸🧩✝️
@cortextual.bsky.social
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Husband, dog dad, cat dad, systems architect in all but title. Makes music and adjusts mental models for fun and profit. Self-diagnosed ASD 1.
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I wrote "My Chinese isn't good" in pinyin and carefully looked up han characters. Someone replied in han characters, but I can't read them. Halp?
February 4, 2026 at 7:14 AM
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Blackboard with "my Chinese is not good" written in pin1yin1 and han4 characters when a smilie face and a smiling self portrait. I wrote it. 41 years old and still sometimes a happy child. :)
February 2, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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A very happy Andrew Ball with a yellow Chinese silk scarf, a silver ankh necklace, a black sweater on a light brown couch with a genuine grandma knitted brows, tan, and orange afghan. Not visible are Alvie the dog and Liz the cat, snuggling on either side of Andrew. Chronic pain removed from ACDF surgery. Smile open.
January 27, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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I got an ankh for Christmas! (Note that Coptic Christians appropriated the ankh centuries ago.) :-D
Somewhat smiling bearded fellow (me) with silver ankh necklace over a black sweater.
December 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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A picture of a 42 year old man (me!) with a scraggly beard, an autumn themed button up shift, somewhat poor posture, a bemused but cheerful grin, glasses with black plastic on top and silverly metal on the bottom, a silver trefoil crucifix necklace, brown hair with gray (more gray in the beard) in Bean Traders coffee shop in Durham. Chalk board in the background often used by children and cheerful adults. Lights on strings hanging from the ceiling. Coffee shop style art for sale on the wall -- mostly abstract but also a pretty white flower photograph.
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Grand piano with cat!
Grand piano with cat lying on top of slanted lid. Not sure how she isn't sliding off.
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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What it feels like to have an old dog and a new kitten at the one week mark ...
Riva (the aristocratic, deaf diplomat) from Star Trek the Next Generation, captioned "Please dog, no sudden movements around the cat!"
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Albert "Alvie" Jay Peabody Wentworth Smith Ball III
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Elizabeth "Liz" Taylor Smith Ball the Cat
Black cat in a soft kitty bed that looks a little bit like an igloo but gray on the outside and soft white fluffy fabric inside.
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Cute anime android looking at a butterfly and asking, "Is this narcissism?" (Customized "Is this a pigeon" meme)
October 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Italian greyhuahua dog looks happily and calmly at the camera. He's brindle colored, and his muzzle has many gray hairs. He is on the second of two steps next to a brown hot tub with a red and white striped rope and a brown cover. Trees are in the background. Truly joyful at moving in to our new house and spending time outside on a tie out.
April 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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March 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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March 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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My icon corner has grown! :-D
February 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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My hyper-empathy can relax a little with this brand new setup! Gratitude!
February 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Alvie the dog, tolerating a hat on his pappasan.
Italian greyhuahua old dog sitting in a pappasan chair with a straw hat, snuggling with two stuffed toys. He tolerated the hat well and is looking straight ahead
January 16, 2025 at 5:29 AM