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doofusdan.bsky.social
@doofusdan.bsky.social
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neurodivergent af / sff / guitar / cats / climate / clean energy / sustainability / antifascist
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doofusdan.bsky.social
Today’s #ObtuseTactics (not #ObliqueStrategies) card:
check whether you're using the correct perspective (1st person, 3rd, etc. check at the start, and again when you're nearly done.
A playing card with today’s obtuse tactic handwritten on it. The card is made from matte black paper, with handwriting in white marker. A “Tt” is written in the upper right corner of the card, like the suit on a playing card.
January 26, 2026 at 7:36 PM
doofusdan.bsky.social
Today’s #ObtuseTactics (not #ObliqueStrategies) card:

Narrow the focus of the song to a single word. Build up the song around that word.
A playing card with today’s obtuse tactic handwritten on it. The card is made from matte black paper, with handwriting in white marker. A “Tt” is written in the upper right corner of the card, like the suit on a playing card.
January 22, 2026 at 6:46 PM
doofusdan.bsky.social
Today’s #ObtuseTactics (not #ObliqueStrategies) card:
Change the work's shu-ha-ri stage:
Shu - beginner - formal requirements - study
Ha - improvise, riff- play
Ri - follow your heart's direction - feel
A playing card with today’s obtuse tactic handwritten on it. The card is made from matte black paper, with handwriting in white marker. A “Tt” is written in the upper right corner of the card, like the suit on a playing card.
January 20, 2026 at 5:28 PM
doofusdan.bsky.social
Today’s #ObtuseTactics (not #ObliqueStrategies) card:

3-minute burn: write as fast as you can for 3 minutes, knowing you will *burn the page* as soon as you're done.
A playing card with today’s obtuse tactic handwritten on it. The card is made from matte black paper, with handwriting in white marker. A “Tt” is written in the upper right corner of the card, like the suit on a playing card.
January 16, 2026 at 5:41 PM
doofusdan.bsky.social
Today’s #ObtuseTactics (not #ObliqueStrategies) card:

Adopt another artist's work habit for a session
A playing card with today’s obtuse tactic handwritten on it. The card is made from matte black paper, with handwriting in white marker. A “Tt” is written in the upper right corner of the card, like the suit on a playing card.
January 15, 2026 at 5:06 PM
doofusdan.bsky.social
Today’s #ObtuseTacticts (not #ObliqueStrategies) card:

Originality doesn't mean novelty. The origin is the source. Because you are the unique produet of culture and your own experiences, if you are true to your instinct, even if it seems obvious, it is original.

-Stephen Nachmanovitch, Free Play
A playing card with today’s obtuse tactic handwritten on it. The card is made from matte black paper, with handwriting in white marker. A “Tt” is written in the upper right corner of the card, like the suit on a playing card. The card rests on a notebook open to a blank page, with a pencil
January 14, 2026 at 6:52 PM
doofusdan.bsky.social
Today’s #ObtuseTacticts card:

Keep going. There’s no failure as long as you don’t stop.

(not #ObliqueStrategies)
A playing card with today’s obtuse tactic handwritten on it. The card is made from matte black paper, with handwriting in white marker. A “Tt” is written in the upper right corner of the card, like the suit on a playing card.
January 12, 2026 at 6:18 PM
doofusdan.bsky.social
Misread this initially. Thought this meant crows are smart because they don’t post when they are too high.
A crow’s face next and beak are shown in profile close up, overlaid on a generic image of a chalkboard with mathematical equations. The words from the original photo have been modified to read “Am I too high” instead of “An IQ too high”
January 12, 2026 at 3:49 AM
doofusdan.bsky.social
Today’s #ObtuseTacticts card:

Don’t worry, keep fishing

( #ObtuseTacticts are not as deep as #ObliqueStrategies: like they say, there’s no such thing as a bad day fishing)
A playing card made from matte black paper, with handwriting in white marker, resting on a notebook open to a blank page. A yellow page marker ribbon and a blue mechanical pencil lay on the page. A “Tt” is written in the upper right corner of the card , like a suit indicator on playing cards. Today’s obtuse tactic is written on the card.
January 3, 2026 at 5:57 PM
doofusdan.bsky.social
2026: Year of the Coo

…the Heilan Coo
Page of a calendar for January with a Highland cow - long reddish brown fur all over, including covering its eyes - standing in a snowy grassy field
January 1, 2026 at 9:30 PM
doofusdan.bsky.social
Happy New Year from this Cooper’s Hawk, who kept watch from the neighbor’s roof as my wife and I brewed our morning beverages - seems like he is 2026’s herald
A hawk, identified as a Cooper’s Hawk, perches in front of a light grey early morning sky, on the peaked ridge of a house’s roof, covered with dark grey tiles and solar panels.
January 1, 2026 at 5:34 PM
doofusdan.bsky.social
Reposting this headline of the year contender with alt text
Screenshot of news website KWIX 10 with headline: Waco man yelling racial slurs accidentally set himself on fire while trying to burn down victim's home: affidavit
December 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
doofusdan.bsky.social
Muppet remake of “Pretty in Pink” starring Miss Piggy: Pretty in Oink

(Why can’t I find a single example of someone already doing this? Surely it’s more likely that search is broken, than that this is an original thought, 40 years later)
A photo of Miss Piggy (a glamorous blonde muppet pig) dressed in a pink gown with long gloves and lots of diamonds, gazing wide-eyed and smiling over her shoulder at the camera
December 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
doofusdan.bsky.social
Today’s #ObtuseTactics (not #ObliqueStrategies) card: Make a song you want to take a vacation in
A playing card made from matte black paper, with handwriting in white marker, resting on a notebook. A “Tt” is written in the upper right corner, like a suit indicator on playing cards. Today’s obtuse tactic is written on the card.
December 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
doofusdan.bsky.social
Book puzzle - given how well-selected the rest of the titles on this bag are, the club and the four diamonds and “Tales” seems to me like it should add up to something - think it might be depicting a particular book - but…what?
A green canvas tote bag printed with an illustration of two wooden bookshelves filled with classic literature and cozy details. The top shelf features books titled “Tales from 1,001 Nights” by Anonymous, “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens, “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett, “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien, and “Lewis Carroll” (likely Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland). A sleeping orange cat curls up between the books. The lower shelf shows an antique clock, more books — including “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen, “Poems,” “Jungle Book” by Rudyard Kipling, and “Tales” — along with a brown owl perched beside a potted plant. The scene evokes a warm, literary atmosphere, with the bag displayed among textiles and greenery in a shop. Close-up of the lower section of a green canvas tote bag showing part of the bookshelf illustration. It focuses on a red-orange book spine labeled “TALES” with diamond patterns and a key symbol, along with a few adjacent book spines in muted green and orange tones. The artwork is stylized and printed on textured fabric with visible weave detail.
November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
doofusdan.bsky.social
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains
The cover of Goodbye Jumbo album by World Party, with a person in a gas mask and an elephant costume
October 29, 2025 at 5:32 AM
doofusdan.bsky.social
You’re a wizard - write like it
A blank notebook is open on a wooden table, with a black mechanical pencil and a yellow page-marker ribbon laying on the page. A black notecard is also laying across the opened pages, with this handwritten in white marker: Write like a wizard - i.e., knowing that what you say will become true about the world, as you say it, because you say so.
October 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
doofusdan.bsky.social
Become ungovernable
A top down photo showing the photographers legs and feet in black jeans and sneakers standing on a concrete floor, inside a box marked in wide yellow painted lines, labeled with yellow spray painted stenciled words reading “KEEP CLEAR”
October 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
doofusdan.bsky.social
Autumn is a spectrum

#neurodivergent
A photo of two trees in the midst of changing from green to red - each tree has a spectrum of the full range from one side to the other
October 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
doofusdan.bsky.social
Trump’s tariff tax
Photo of a receipt, reading: “Surcharge (3.00%) $0.87 Subtotal $29.77 Tax $3.09 Total $32.86 A 3% surcharge will be added to each check to offset the increased cost of goods. 100% of this surcharge is retained by the company.”
September 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
doofusdan.bsky.social
I think Fred would approve of that one, it seems of a kind.
GIF of an older Fred Roger’s with grey hair, wearing a bow tie and a blue suit jacket, with speech captioned “because of you look for the helpers you’ll know that there’s Hope” - following a well known saying of his mothers to “always look for the helpers”
September 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
doofusdan.bsky.social
Screenshot showing an active annual Todoist Pro substitution
August 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
doofusdan.bsky.social
@todoist.com I’m getting the widget error popping up and blocking me from progress until I clear it nearly every time I open Todoist - which is a LOT of times every day.

Please tell me that fixing this “according to the priority list” means “very soon” - it’s quite a speed bump to hit so often!
August 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
doofusdan.bsky.social
There’s a WHOLE lot going on in just the lede of this article. #llm #ai #gaza #genocide #freespeech #censorship #musk #orwell

www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Screenshot of heading and lede of Headline: “Musk chatbot Grok says it was 'censored ' after suspension from X over Gaza posts” Lede in subhead: “Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAl and integrated into his platform X, was temporarily suspended from the platform on Monday after saying that Israel and the United States were committing "genocide" in Gaza. Reinstated on Tuesday, Grok lashed out at its developers, saying "Musk and xAl are censoring me".
August 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
doofusdan.bsky.social
I grew up on these streets.
Photo of a vintage Spy Hunter arcade game cabinet. The screen displays a high score leaderboard with a top score of 200,000 by “TFL,” titled “Top Agent.” Below it is a list of other players labeled “Special Force Team.” The game screen shows a vertically scrolling road with trees on each side. The control panel features a dual-handled steering yoke labeled “Weapons Van” in the center, a gear shift with “Low Gear” and “High Gear” options, and various labeled buttons and displays. Brightly colored indicators and retro graphics decorate the cabinet. A green sign reads “Suitable for All Ages.”
August 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM