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Kelson
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Techie, software developer, hobbyist photographer, sci-fi/fantasy & comics fan in the Los Angeles area. He/him, pronounced KELL-son (rhymes with "Nelson").

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[Question for macOS Tahoe users]

Is "Apple Intelligence" still something you can turn off in System Settings? I don't even _see_ it in my VM under Parallels, but that might just be that it doesn't run under VMs, or doesn't run under VMs with my setup […]

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November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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The teenager has been deep into playing and replaying _Deltarune_ since the new chapters dropped this summer, and we recently re-watched _Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle_ (and watched "Tokyo Revelations," for the first time). My wife got inspired to mash up […]

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November 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Ooh, numberselection 1026! My favorite! 🤪
October 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Well, I certainly _hope_ they don't charge per flush!

#signs
Sign for Walgreens attached to a sign pole, advertising free flu shots (walk ins welcome). The pole is blocking some of the letters so it looks like FREE FLUSH (walk-ins wee)
September 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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[Coffee, guns, marketing, uspol, what]

Spotted this brand of "Black Rifle Coffee" in the grocery store the other day. My reaction: "Someone's _really_ trying too hard 🙄." I sent this photo to my wife, who also noticed the full shelves and repeated […]

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Two shelves with bags of Black Rifle coffee, with a gun sight as part of its logo and a US flag on each bag, promoting itself as America's Coffee and featuring themes like Spirit of 1776, Wake the Neighbors (with a picture of a rooster), Tactisquach (bigfoot with a bunch of military gear) etc. it's priced at $17.99, discounted to $11.99, with a further discount to $10.99 if you take 5 bags off their hands at once.
September 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Also saw this snarky political #skywriting over the weekend.
Clear blue sky, one palm tree and the upper floors of a squarish building visible. Skywriting is visible, with dots of cloud spelling out: ELON SHOW URANUS.
September 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Saw this at a fast food place over the weekend.
Sticker on a wall: Employees must wash hands before returning to wok. A small drawing of a wok-style frying pan with flames rising from it punctuates the pun.
September 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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I don't know if that's better or worse than if it said "lorem ipsum"

#ux
Email preview for a parking reservation, showing "this is placeholder text" as the preview.
August 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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My wife wrote up how she made the trans flag cake for my sister's visit last month:

https://feraltomatoes.com/trans-flag-cake/

#cooking #recipe #howto #cake #transflag
Side view of a rather tall circular cake that's been sliced not quite in half, and an individual slice lying sideways on a plate. The cake's layers of blue, pink and white form the pattern of the trans pride flag.
August 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Spotted this yesterday. That was something unpredictable.
A low, boxy, brick retail building at the side of a street at night. Trees and a telephone pole are silhouetted against a darkish purple sky. Glowing red letters above the entrance read out: GOOD RIDDANCE.
July 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Well, that narrows it down.

#ux
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July 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Spotted at lunch today. To be fair, this turned out better than most of my attempts to take close-up pictures of butterflies.

#butterfly #monarchbutterfly #fotofails
Several bunches of tiny orange flowers against a background of narrow green leaves. At the top of the frame you can see the edges of a butterfly's wings, black with white spots along the edges, orange with black veins along the interior, as it flies away.
July 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Of course, I'll still need to update after I update the updates, but what if the updates still aren't up to date?
Screenshot of a notification: Updates Are Out of Date. Please check for available updates.
July 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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My favorite types of #pokemongo postcards are those with highly appropriate stickers attached and those with highly ironic stickers attached.

This one's both!

(It would be better with the "Greetings from..." preamble that appears when you open a gift the […]

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A line-art postcard with a photo of a very elaborately wrought set of double doors. It's labeled as Gates of Hell in Zurich, Switzerland. A cute, happy cartoon fire lizard (a Charmander, for those in the know) appears at the corner of the postcard, as if a sticker placed on top of it, with a cheerful label saying 'Hi!'
June 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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The feral peafowl population on the nearby peninsula has grown enough that they're going to strat trapping them again:
https://patch.com/california/palosverdes/peacock-trapping-resume-rancho-palos-verdes

They were all over the neighborhood I had to drive […]

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A bright blue bird with green feathers sticking out and a crest sticking out from its head, walking along a dirt trail between grass and some bushes.
May 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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There's always something amusing about seeing wildlife using human transportation infrastructure as intended, like this pair of ducks crossing the street at the crosswalk outside the grocery store last night. Both this car and out of frame on the other side […]

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Marked crossing (series of horizontal stripes) across a road at twilight. On the far side is a parking lot, lamps lit. A car is stopped, waiting at the crosswalk, for two ducks - mallards, one male (green head, yellow bill, gray body) and one female (brown all over) - walking along the crosswalk toward the curb.
May 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Unpretentious.

(Also seen on a lunchtime walk)

#signs #divebar
A small, blocky building with one door, two windows, and a sign reading: COME IN AND SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL DIVE BAR.
May 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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I remember when I was growing up, hearing about how horrible it was to have oxalis in the lawn, and what a pain it was to get rid of.

When I started sending observations to iNaturalist a few years back, I noticed flowers like this, mostly yellow, mostly […]

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May 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Um... #duolingo, are you OK?
Screenshot from the Duolingo app. An older cartoon woman appears next to a sentence to speak, as if she's the one saying it: Mis caballos coleccionan dientes. which in English means: My horses collect teeth
April 7, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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I spotted a rocket launch earlier this evening

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/54320236531/

#nightsky #photos #rocketlaunch
Night sky. Signs for a CVS pharmacy and parking lot lights are visible at the bottom. A long, bright trail streaks across the sky from lower right to upper left, the top end bulb-shaped (with a bright spot at the end), the lower end wiggling, shading from white to blue, then a gap before it picks up again in orange. Another bright spot is visible just below the trail in the center of the frame.
February 11, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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[Food, silly]

Um...for what?

I mean, I'm now imagining Junior holding it like a thermal detonator and demanding more cookies or something.

Or maybe he's just misread Lincoln and concluded that "In onion there is strength."
Screenshot from Duolingo language learning app. A cartoon child is jumping in excitement with his arms raised and eyes closed. The sentence to translate: Tengo una cebolla y la voy a usar. Which translates to, in English, I have an onion and I'm going to use it!
February 4, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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What do you think, should I?
Screenshot of a dialog box on a phone, asking, Allow Contacts to access your contacts? (Buttons are available for Allow and Don't Allow)
January 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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[food, cupcakes]

This baking project is a little sus:

https://feraltomatoes.com/cupcakes-among-us/

#cupcakes #amongus
A tray of cupcakes. About half of them are double-height and frosted to look like the crewmates from Among Us (bright colors and a plain white faceplate). The others are single-height with a fondant bone sticking out of each.
January 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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I still think it's rude to write an open source plugin for an open source project and then make it actively refuse to run on forks of that project.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/no-self-ping/

Fine, you don't want to "support" the plugin on forks of […]

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Screenshot of an error message: No Self Ping has been deactivated Reason: - A fork of WordPress was detected. The author of No Self Ping will not provide any support until the above are resolved.
December 18, 2024 at 6:19 AM
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Placing a grocery order before work to pick up after. Checkout page has a "Forgetting Something?" section with tabs for stuff I've bought previously and "Seasonal Favorites." I figure, just for kicks, I'll look through the second tab. Candy, candy, coffee […]

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Part of a list of items to purchase, labeled Seasonal Favorites, with arrow buttons on either end. The four visible items are peppermint coffee creamer, Hershey's kisses, a bag of Reese's candy...and a FlowFlex COVID 19 Rapid Antigen Test.
December 11, 2024 at 4:18 PM