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Researcher researching research (and software engineering). Observing observability. Co-imagining more expansive futures. More at threlk.net (🚧 under construction 🚧)

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of all the spices in my house I somehow don’t have ground cinnamon or ground cloves right now so we’re going with traditional methods
a freshly used mortar and pestle next to a bag cinnamon sticks and a bowl of red-brown spices. In the background, a sieve and teaspoon. Just out of focus: some probably unrelated baked goods.
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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counterpoint (lol)
A big pink Husqvarna 450 chainsaw sitting behind a baby chainsaw in the same color. (the tiny chainsaw is a toy)
November 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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yes exactly, i was thinking of McMuffin thank you
the macOS autocorrect suggestions menu offering: Look up look up “mcguffin” McMuffin
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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same energy imho
on X, the everything app wolf pupy @wolfpupy wow, i've never thought about it like that before. and i never will. i've already forgotten what you said, good bye forever Jan 10, 2016
November 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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wonder if they’ll check my brake light fluid too while we’re there
An iOS notification: Heads up! Your Washer Fluid light is on. Visit a Subaru Retailer for service.
October 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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didn’t take any photos because honestly I don’t think that would have captured it at all, but the teaser video they posted a few days ago kinda gets the idea: www.instagram.com/reel/DPoql8r...

good stuff
A still showing a semi transparent display arrangement with test graphics. You can kinda see it’s composed of LED holographic fans because of how the displays overlap and create subtle moire patterns a still showing a singer waving and dancing on a platform between bright foreground light patterns and a giant projection screen in the background. It’s like pink/fuchsia/electric fireflies. it looks like there might be some live video effects responding to the performers movement on the background display. You can see two of the stands for the fan displays, one on each side of the performer. There’s another stand in the foreground a musician is playing an electronic table-ish percussion type instrument, sorta like a box drum. It’s lighting up where he’s hit a pad on the instrument and in the foreground there appear to be red digital sparks or comet trails coming off the struck pad and swirling up, back, over, and behind the performer, as if he’s surrounded by a material. You can sorta see the moire patterns and beams of the LED fan displays that are making the effect.
October 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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I’m a very online millennial man-or-whatever. I started out in christian fundamentalism and evangelicalism, at least half my school materials were at least half influenced by the segregation university. I gravity-cannoned around the tea party and the rationalists.

I also never had a nazi phase
Norman Rockwell Freedom of Speech meme, showing a lone dissenter standing to speak, wearing plaid shirt and suede jacket, contrasting against the white collars and ties of the people around him, at a town meeting
October 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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seasons are changing so it’s time to dump the contents of my bags on the floor
a blue mystery ranch backpack and a black osprey solden 22 liter pack sitting on a wood floor a kinda badly done flat lay of the contents of multiple bags. Items of note include: - multiple packaged walking tamales and stinger waffles - three fist aid kits, two compact red ones and a large tactical looking tourniquet-holding one - outdoor gear like a compass, hand held radio, water filter, fire starting supplies, a collapsible water container - lots of fruit snacks - passport - deodorant - ski stuff, like two pairs of goggles and a pair of gloves - several n95 masks - instant coffee and hot chocolate
October 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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I very often think about this post from @notalawyer.bsky.social back on the bad place

imagine the pieces that could, and should, be written about the rube goldberg of human suffering
Law Boy, Esq. @The_Law_Boy: same day delivery is the most American shit of all time, you run out of deodorant or something and with a single click start a Rube Goldberg of human suffering in an Amazon warehouse twenty miles away
October 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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any time someone tries to tell you that a pedestrian or cyclist was at fault when something happens between them and a car, I want you to remember this news story. even better: search for "colorado parking lot rock" as we have several of them

www.9news.com/article/news...
They're out there: A fleet of parking lot rocks is targeting unsuspecting Colorado drivers People might have thought we were done with menacing parking lot rocks when Colorado Mills moved its troublesome boulder to a place where it couldn't bother anyone anymore. Next is here to tell you that's not the case. a photo shows a pearl colored Escalade stuck on top of a rock in a median area of a parking lot. The median has a yellow painted curb and also contains a very large sign.
October 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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you have been awarded: one yike from the National Committee of Yikes
October 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I appreciate that this story includes a small graf reminding us that the posse comitatus act exists
Wait. That’s illegal.
September 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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the cover of Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? a book by McKenzie Wark
September 30, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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and finally, before I go off to scrounge the fallout wasteland in search of asbestos, an important acknowledgment that all of this is also directed at, and applicable to, myself lol
Guy Pointing To Himself In The Mirror, the classic Wikihow image macro of a man looking stern while pointing to himself in the mirror, indicating a strong sense of "this message is something the speaker (me) needs to hear"
September 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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also like a table saw: proper operation can be very counter intuitive and you can get over your skis fast
an image that illustrates table saw kickback
September 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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my partner and I road tripped out to Denver two weeks after this and decided we were moving here lol
a femme person in hiking boots, sleeveless top, yellow backpack, with a gray hoody tied around the waist, standing on a large rock looking out over a blue lake towards a barely cloudy sky over a green and golden rocky mountain forest
September 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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“last saved pic as your moral philosophy” challenge is really biased against me personally due to my elaborate system of mainly using my phone for shitposting (lol)

that being said, this tracks
guy pointing seriously and sternly at himself in the mirror meme
September 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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like, have I though about getting one of these for the building? sure. still, feels a bit foreboding to shift from the tacticool larpcore stuff I usually get into a more pragmatic “you might actually want this” tone
an Instagram ad for the the LifeStraw community, a blue and teal cistern shaped like a jetsons-era spaceship that sits four legs and has little water dispensing spigots on each of its four sides.
September 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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he’s gonna make every government website use bootstrap
It is the policy of my Administration to deliver digital and physical experiences that are both beautiful and efficient, improving the quality of life for our Nation. Towards that end, the National Design Studio will advise agricies on how to reduce duplicative design costs, use standardized design to enhance the public's trust in high-impact service providers, and dramatically improve the quality of experiences offered to the American public.
August 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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ai ai ai
matthew mcconaughey looking pretty disheveled and a bit unmoored in true detective, lighting a cigarette
August 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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A close crop of the transcript in the quoted post “Von: Yeah.”
August 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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anyway
a better map of the USA with the CBP's 100-mile enforcement zone highlighted, showing that Colorado is indeed one of the states furthest away
August 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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yeah pretty much
a map of the USA with the CBP's 100-mile enforcement zone highlighted, showing that Colorado is indeed one of the states furthest from any international boarders
August 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Tumblr post by toskarin: [on my main blog] Imao yeah right as if I'm afraid of the moon [logging onto my moon fear blog] moon's been creepy lately #legitimately i am so so fucking scared of the moon
August 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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well at least this time it was actively dripping when the professionals were here
It’s an awkward shot of a bathroom that has been torn to fuck. There’s building materials leaning against a wall, studs out, exposed pipes, the tub is missing — the whole “it’s a renovation” deal there is water dripping along the edge corner of some exposed and freshly installed tile backer board, making a large puddle on the currently untiled subfloor
August 13, 2025 at 1:05 AM