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T.J. Crowder
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Husband, father, software guy. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇸

U.S. and UK dual national from birth, grew up in the U.S., back in the UK these 25+ years (and probably for life).

White male cisgender hetero ally ♀️ ✊🏾 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Be kind. ☮️ 🙏

I'm trying to focus on beauty and humo(u)r.
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Ugh, I knew my third guess was weak even as I was playing it. Then the fourth was irritation. 😄
January 11, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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mullicannot.bsky.social
Tonight’s sunset. Scripps Pier in La Jolla, San Diego, California

#sandiego #lajolla #beach #surfing #sunset #scrippspier #scripps #landscapes_lovers #photography
Scripps Pier extends diagonally across the scene at dusk, its dark pilings mirrored in wet sand and shallow water. At the far end of the pier, a silhouetted boat crane rises above the deck, its angular frame distinct against the fading sky. The horizon glows with warm orange light beneath deepening blue tones, while small waves move in under the structure.
January 11, 2026 at 3:35 AM
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rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social
A breathtaking scene of glowing light pillars created as streetlights bounce off floating ice crystals in –30°C cold.
January 10, 2026 at 7:25 AM
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ianriddler.bsky.social
Pitch Black

Driving home tonight, I could see just the barest hint of a red glow against the night sky. Intrigued I decided to stop at a nearby pond and set up the camera to see what it really looked like...

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#Twilight #Night #Landscape #LongExposure #Sunset #Scape #EastCoastKin #Photography
January 9, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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Meh, maybe I should have looked harder before my third guess.
January 10, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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The 🇬🇧 British television series "ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL" starring Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, Peter Davison and Carol Drinkwater was first broadcast #OnThisDay in 1978

📺 BBC TV #tvsky
January 8, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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mishellbaker.bsky.social
My 2026 "escape the AI-Obsessed Billionaire Overlords" project is already underway. Dumped Gmail for Proton. Linux machine (Cinnamon) is up and running, Vivaldi is gonna be my new browser. Going to get thoroughly comfortable with Vivaldi, then use it to research other alternatives to things.
January 8, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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Sweet mother of pearl... 😐
January 9, 2026 at 9:23 AM
tjcrowder.bsky.social
I value applied intelligence.
But I'll take kindness over everything else.

#Kindness
January 8, 2026 at 10:07 AM
tjcrowder.bsky.social
Struggling to find beauty today. 😢
January 8, 2026 at 10:05 AM
tjcrowder.bsky.social
This is excellent. Also, wonderfully comforting and warm.

#Psychology #Belief #Humanity

theoatmeal.com/comics/believe
You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about the backfire effect.
theoatmeal.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:54 AM
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Well then.
January 8, 2026 at 8:56 AM
tjcrowder.bsky.social
It's unclear to me how we can be having a housing crisis given the number of people who live rent-free in my head.

#Humor #Politics #Housing
January 8, 2026 at 7:36 AM
tjcrowder.bsky.social
It drives me nuts when people mindlessly parrot the same hackneyed phrases everyone else does, but it is what it is.

#Humor (I hope)
January 7, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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vincentledvina.bsky.social
60 miles above the Arctic Circle in Alaska
January 7, 2026 at 1:55 PM
tjcrowder.bsky.social
Please folks, use tags to classify your posts, so people who need to can block tags for things that are problematic for them. You never know what other people are going through.

#Tags #MentalHealth #Courtesy #Bluesky
January 7, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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January 7, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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Tricky.
January 6, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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January 5, 2026 at 9:31 AM
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xythar.bsky.social
setting up a new windows 11 pc (groan) and it's so funny how microsoft injects their own ads into the "download Chrome" page when you load it using Edge. "built on the technology of Chrome plus the trust of Microsoft"? what trust, the trust you just violated by changing the page I was trying to view
November 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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terrynunnphoto.bsky.social
What began 4 years ago as a way to honor my mother’s dying wish has quietly grown into a lifelong journey of seeing, feeling, and sharing the world differently. Photography has taught me patience, gratitude, and how to find light even in the darkest moments #BlueSkyPhotographer #BlueSkyPhotography
January 4, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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January 4, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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fotoheval.bsky.social
The day gently surrenders to the water.
The sky whispers the unsaid with colors:
blue melancholy, orange hope…
And in that moment, one understands:
Some goodbyes long to stay. 🌅

#nature #landscape #photo #photos #photographer #Bluesky #Nikon #BlueSkyArt #Lightroom #winter #Art #Oslo #Noorwegen #sky
The day gently surrenders itself to the water. The sky whispers everything we couldn’t say with colors; blue carries a touch of melancholy, orange a touch of hope… Right at that moment, one truly understands: Some goodbyes long to stay. 🌅🌊
January 2, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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Wow. I'm sure I had exactly _one_ possible word after my first guess.
January 3, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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Exactly. EXACTLY:

#Linux
That's the true nub of it, I think. The stats can say what they like (and they do! We've all heard tales of Windows games actually running better on Linux via Valve's Proton compatibility layer), but the heart of my fatigue with Windows is that, for every new worthless AI gadget Microsoft crams into it and for every time the OS inexplicably boots to a white screen and implores me to "finish setting up" my PC with an Office 365 subscription, the real problem is a feeling that my computer isn't mine, that I am somehow renting this thing I put together with my own two hands from an AI corporation in Redmond.
January 2, 2026 at 12:20 PM