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Jay
@blujbird.bsky.social
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Developer of software. Player of games. Taker of pictures. Some kind of wizard.
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I was waiting in a drive-through for lunch and these berries caught my eye.

#photography #snapshot #nature
Red berries in the dense broad leaves of a bush. Sunlight reflects off the leaves, and a curvy branch without leaves pokes through.
November 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
blujbird.bsky.social
This little fella doesn't have an official name yet. We adopted him last Caturday.

Happy #Caturday to those who celebrate!
Portrait of a gray, black, and slightly tan tabby cat.
October 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
blujbird.bsky.social
lil guy alert

#Frog #Florida #Photography
A frog is perched on the side of a vertical railing up on a sixth floor walkway. Trees and vehicles in a parking lot are blurred in the background.
October 7, 2025 at 5:12 AM
blujbird.bsky.social
This is closer to what I had at the end of the expedition, with a little bit of cleanup.

#NoMansSky #NMSCorvette
No Man's Sky screenshot: A wide corvette with big engines flying through space. No Man's Sky screenshot: Front view of a corvette parked in the space station. It is wide, flat, and has large engines and blue trim. No Man's Sky screenshot: Rear view of a corvette parked in the space station. It is wide, flat, and has large engines and blue trim. There are windows on the back and the landing bay is open.
September 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
blujbird.bsky.social
On the Corvette expedition, I dug up a lot of parts. I wanted to bring them back, but you only get 24 slots for that. So, I piled on every advanced module I could fit, especially 1-ofs. I made this monstrosity, and it was 2800 nanites to bring it back. Now I have my library of parts. #NoMansSky
No Man's Sky screenshot: Front view of a corvette with tons of random parts added. Cowlings and fairings and wings. Oh my! No Man's Sky screenshot: Rear view of a corvette with tons of random parts added. Thrusters and reactors and hull connectors. Oh my!
September 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
blujbird.bsky.social
Gotta take a high-altitude skydiving shot, right?

#NoMansSky #VirtualPhotography
No Man's Sky screenshot: A traveler skydiving high above a purple, rocky planet.
September 17, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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X-Files style "I Want To Believe" poster created from good-ol-lore.bsky.social's screenshot.
September 17, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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I'm not so sure this is legit..

#NoMansSky
No Man's Sky screenshot where a portable refiner is stuck to the wall of a corvette. The traveler is refining something.
September 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
blujbird.bsky.social
Lost with no starship on a planet that has giant beetles? Only one thing to do.

#NoMansSky
A traveler riding a giant flying hercules beetle.
September 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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I'm about to start the latest #NoMansSky expedition. It's been... _a while_ since I played. I'm organizing my stuff, and I find that my inventory is full of dirt. What was I doing with all this? I must have had a trade planned, but now any memory of that is gone.
A No Man's Sky inventory page with an unreasonable amount of literal dirt filling it up.
September 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
blujbird.bsky.social
Went on a bike ride with my kid at the local lake near sunset. The deer were out, and I was able to catch a few with my phone camera. A pair were even very near the path.

#Photography #Deer #Lake #Landscape #Wildlife
A deer grazing in some long grass at the bottom of a hill. (I'm thankful for my phone's 30x zoom for this one, even if it's a bit blurry.) A deer in the shade near some bushes. It's hard to see behind tall sunlit grass. No deer in this picture (that I know of). Trees along the grassy shoreline of a lake. Some tall grass or reeds poke out through the water. The first hints of sunset colors are on the horizon, and the sky is clear.
August 26, 2025 at 4:03 AM
blujbird.bsky.social
Canyontown is up and running. Hopefully it can survive on imports for a while.

#Timberborn
Timberborn screenshot: A small beaver town on the edge of a dry canyon is stocked with food, water, and supplies.
August 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
blujbird.bsky.social
There seems to always be some freaky, bizarro figures on carnival carousels.

#Carnival #Carousel #Photography
A "Bugs Bunny" boat on a kiddie carousel. A bug-eyed monkey with its mouth open and tongue out. It's wearing a white T-shirt, black vest, and jeans. The shirt says "Lone Wolf". A galloping monkey with its mouth open and tongue out. It's wearing a white T-shirt, black vest, and jeans with a belt. The vest says "Born to Ride".
August 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Missed opportunity by the Dawnsire player here. They played Graaz to station it fully and attacked with Dawnsire and another. They blasted my blocker, and I took 10. They should have killed Graaz to unleash the 20/20 Dawnsire. Also, should have put me below 20 first. GG
#MagicTheGathering #MTGArena
Magic the Gathering Arena screenshot showing a lethal crack-back after the opponent attacked with a juggernaut sized Dawnsire and some other thing.
August 19, 2025 at 4:50 AM
blujbird.bsky.social
I'm working on bootstrapping a third district to help control bad tide flow and collect metal. I'm setting up infrastructure and storage before I even place the district center.

#Timberborn
Timberborn screenshot: a few sparse paths lead through dry canyons and bluffs toward a district construction site past some ruins. Timberborn screenshot: the district construction site past the ruins is nearly complete and well stocked with food, water, and other supplies.
August 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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I played spacecraft for midweek magic. I got out a Dawnsire and blast something with it by attacking with a soldier token. They didn't let me win with it unfortunately. I only had one Dawnsire in the deck, but I'm making this deck more focused on this for kicks. #MagicTheGathering #MTGArena #MTGEOE
Magic the Gathering Arena screenshot showing a nearly empty board. What's left is a Dawnsire with 14 charge counters and a Sothera.
August 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Is been about 8 months since I last played this. I had nearly completed a reservoir. Today, I managed to get it completed and partially filled before a bad tide came. Next project is diverting the bad tide altogether. One water source is ready, but the other is far away.

#Timberborn #Gaming
Timberborn screenshot showing a large empty crater. The bottom has a layer of dirt ready to be blasted with dynamite. The top is surrounded with levees. Timberborn screenshot. The crater from the previous screenshot is now partially filled with water. A bad tide is making it's way through the nearby river. Timberborn screenshot. The flow of a river is being controlled with sluices.
August 9, 2025 at 6:10 AM
blujbird.bsky.social
"Keep your pictures of Spider-Man!"
J Jonah Jameson raising a first from behind his desk.
August 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
blujbird.bsky.social
My silly Earthquake Dragon deck got to do the thing this time. It's not consistent, and I'm trying a few different cards like the tunnel grinder. This game, I had the right cards to build up and keep momentum.

#MagicTheGathering #MTGArena
Magic the Gathering Arena screenshot showing an Earthquake Dragon and a Discover 15 trigger on the stack. Magic the Gathering Arena screenshot showing the cards in exile from the Discover trigger. The card that would be played is an Ambitious Dragonborn that would come into play with 10 counters.
July 12, 2025 at 5:29 AM
blujbird.bsky.social
The opponent was not happy about me dropping Vincent and then having convenient spells to take out 9 power worth of creatures before swinging. I was barely holding on, but Vincent and a couple of perfect hits reversed the game.

#MagicTheGathering #MTGArena
Magic the Gathering Arena screenshot showing Vincent growing very large and facing an empty opponent board.
July 10, 2025 at 4:10 AM
blujbird.bsky.social
We got Honest Rutstein being quite dishonest over here. He faked his own death and then was shepherded back from the grave. Opponent wasn't a fan.

#MagicTheGathering #MTGArena
Magic the Gathering Arena screenshot showing an Honest Rutstein trigger and an opponent who conceded. There's also a bunch of big creatures vs one lone bird on the opponent's side.
July 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
blujbird.bsky.social
My son recently found out that I have an NES. He's been into the Simpsons, and I told him I had an old Simpsons game. He really wanted to try it. This gave me an excuse to dig up all the bits and set it up again. It still works pretty well!

#Nintendo #NES #RetroGaming
An old tube TV sits on the floor with the start screen for Tetris displayed. An NES controller and the TV remote sit in front of the TV.
July 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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I was lucky to be able to put the baby bird in jail here, but it didn't help much. What I should have done with this attack was triple block the frog. Lands, am I right?

#MagicTheGathering #MTGArena
Magic the Gathering Arena screenshot of the opponent having too many lands and too large creatures.
June 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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I made this deck a while back, and sometimes it can still hold it's own. On the board is a Fertilid with a Migratory Greathorn mutated on top and a Roaring Earth.

#MagicTheGathering #MTGArena
Magic: the Gathering Arena screenshot (on phone) of a large Migratory Greathorn mutated from a Fertilid and boosted by Roaring Earth. The opponent has given up.
June 3, 2025 at 4:33 AM
blujbird.bsky.social
Congrats! We just got to see Jac play on Thursday.
Jac Caglianone at bat. Werner Field, Omaha, 5/29/25.
June 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM