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Nicole Brookus

@nbrookus.bsky.social

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Gamer, maker, geek, gardener, retired software developer and sound engineer. She/her. I mostly post pictures of nature, a few cats, and TTRPG things. All photographs are my own except reposts.

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Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 6d

They are like cats. Vicious predators but we love them anyway.

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Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 6d

📷 Small's Goldenrod (Solidago pinetorum). Probably.
Pentax K3-iii
Pentax D FA 100mm macro
#bloomscrolling #naturephotography #flowers

Macro photo of a spray of tiny yellow blooms, hanging downward.

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Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 7d

PSA: If you have a mechanical keyboard, you should pull all the keycaps and pull off the cat hair wrapped around your switches. Sincerely, someone who just spent an hour to return to a lovely responsive keyboard.

The not-guilty party for #caturday

A tabby cat lounges on a bed of packing paper surrounded by toys. She looks innocently up at the camera, green eyes shining.

Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 7d

📷 Huntsville Botanical Garden, Huntsville, Alabama. #pentax K3-iii #photography

A serene man-made pond, showing the reflections of a heron statue and a patch of white water lilies in bloom.

Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 11d

📷 Downtown at Big Stone Gap, Virginia #photography #streetphotography #pentax

Looking down the sidewalk of an old fashioned downtown. In the foreground is an ivy clad pillar and a small hand-painted sign that says "Farmer's Market."

Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 16d

That's probably because you paid attention to the oath you made when you enlisted.

These people are choosing the uniform because of the hate in their hearts. It's not a bug.

Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 16d

The streams are running low since it has been a really dry summer, but there is still enough for the wildlife. #naturephotography #fall

A small stream moving through boulders with trees just turning into fall colors in the background. You can see that the stream usually has a lot more water in it.

Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you. Your words make a difference, at least to me.

Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 17d

Dolly says it's not yet before we have to say goodbye. A lot of rich and powerful people are happy to pull the ladder up after them, but she builds more ladders. The world needs more Dollys.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 17d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 17d

One.

But I also grew up hearing people call it "ahrl" (Appalachia.)

Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 17d

📷 The feed corn harvested for fall. Next year this field will be cotton. #photography #fall

A golden field with straight rows of the dried stumps of corn stalks. In the distance is a green bad showing wooded forest.

Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 18d

And you only have to sign up for Prime to get that price.

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Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 21d

My tiny tabby for #caturday

A small dark tabby cat crawls through a brightly colored play tunnel.

Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 21d

My players wrote themselves a redemption side story. I think they liked it more than the whole save-the-world story arc. Then they temporarily allied themselves with an actual evil vampire and negotiated a truce between an ecoterrorist and a town.

I have the best players.

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Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 21d

I only caught the end of the explosion, but that last thing we need is another platform where the leadership uses it to broadcast their opinions.

C suite needs to keep their hands out of the biscuit dough and post pictures of kittens or factual platform status updates.

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Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 23d

🐛📷 Caterpillar of Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) on Maypop (Passiflora caerulea). #naturephotography #butterfly #insects

It's getting late in the summer. The usual suspects are dropping leaves: black cherry, crabapple, hackberry, black gum. It's sometime yet to frost, but it's coming.

An orange butterfly with brown pikes crawls down a three lobed leaf.

Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 23d

You should have purchased the extended warranty.

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Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 24d

Philippine English has the word "mamsir." It sounds like a smart solution to me.

Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 24d

It will help, yes. Also turning off Bluetooth to avoid being picked up by mesh network devices like Airtag and Chipolo.

There's no 100% solution, even without the phone, but phones are pretty ubiquitous and are going to be a prime target for surveillance.

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Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 25d

I really enjoyed that book!

Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 25d

It's not sufficient to turn off GPS or even wifi. Your location can be tracked fairly closely by cell towers.

If you aren't willing to have someplace you went shouted from the rooftops, leave the devices at home.

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Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 27d

To go gentle into that good night. Or at least moved to a nice assisted living SSD that has plenty of power.

Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 27d

Are there any cats that don't? They did a great job domesticating us.

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Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 28d

Granted Ukraine has had a lot of outside help, but if they can't manage that I don't foresee fighting against EU or NATO as turning out well for Russia.

Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 28d

I got bored and started analyzing the questions. What do you mean by "extremely?" How hard is "hard?" And why can't I say sometimes?