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jsgjames.bsky.social
WIRoadTripper
@jsgjames.bsky.social
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Retired 30-year IT guy (at two large public universities). Living my best life with two cats, family, and friends. Yes, I took these eclipse photos.
#Wisconsin #Astronomy #Cosmology #Hiking #Music #Opera #Cats #LiberalAF #Photography
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Album cover of R.E.M.'s "Automatic for the People"
October 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Didn't know that was a thing, but this guy approves ...
Beautiful black cat sleeping across his human's legs, paw on chair arm, head resting on paw.
October 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Today's fun. Minnesota State Mavericks 0 - 8 UW-Madison Badgers.
View of NCAA Championship banners hanging from the rafters of La Bahn Arena on the UW-Madison campus.
October 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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🤣
Screen cap of WiFi available routers near La Bahn Arena in the UW-Madison campus, one of which is "404 Badgers Not Found"
October 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Condolences, man. Hope you get up to your river place. The weather up here has been incredible ... Hiking at Gibraltar Rock today.
October 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

After what I've seen in my Wisconsin BlueSky feed?
Screen shot of a poll request about the Wisconsin Iowa football game in which the Badgers were shutout.
October 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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How our financials systems privilege those who **already have money.** Almost surely no one who makes the average or median annual income in this country has a spare $20,000 they can use for this foolishness.
Screen cap of financial institution spam that says ... 1. Open a new 360 Performance Savings with promo code bonus1500 2. Deposit $20000+ of external funds during the initial Funding Period after opening your account 3. Hold the deposits in your account for 90 days after the initial Funding Period.
October 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Guess my middle name which I go by.
Screenshot of search results for "rue guy Montreal Canada "
September 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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@bigmemath.bsky.social @jaymesmonte.bsky.social

LOL Love that these are successive posts in my BSky timeline.
September 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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I bought this earlier in the week. My RV days are over. Can actually camp in this if I want to. Will see.
A Eruption Green Metallic 2025 Ford Bronco Big Bend Sport SUV, view from passenger front corner.
September 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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It's Purple Season!
Purple asters in bloom.
September 4, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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For the morning - the Wisconsin River from the Lone Rock Bridge on a great late summer afternoon (yes, I stopped the truck to take it).
View of the Wisconsin River with fluffy clouds reflected on the water's surface.
August 31, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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This was up. Need to do this at least every other day.
Screencap of a hike through the neighborhood in the Strava activity apps. Distance 2.54mi; Elevation gain, 204ft; Time, 59m20s
August 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Remembrance & renewal in 3 images.
A gray-faced old dog cuddles with his human. A black lays next to his human's leg. A Calico cat rests her chin on her humans arm desiring attention.
August 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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That's from Wisconsin Mesonet.
August 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Some places in the Milwaukee metro area got 8" yesterday. In one day. The pink in this graph.
Graph showing rainfall accumulation with the color range from green to pink showing less to more, pink = 8+ inches of rain. The area is southern Wisconsin and the pink areas are over the Milwaukee metro area.
August 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Successive posts in my BlueSky timeliness may indicate you chose wisely ...
Screen cap of two BlueSky posts both talking about the impending rain.
August 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Nine years ago next Monday. How it started. How it's going.
Calico cat recliner on her humans lap resting her chin on his arm. Black laying next to his human on a recliner stretched out, on his side, back paws upwards, front paws sidewards, head looking away. Two small frightened kittens in an old dog crate on their first afternoon at their new home. Teeny calico looks apprehensively at the camera. Larger male black cat to her left does the Janelle. Both are sitting on blankets.
August 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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How it started. How it ended. I'm memorium, Dodger, the best dog in the whole world, 2005-2016.
Gray-faced Jack Russell Terrior laying with his head against my chest, his paws on my leg. Babt-faced Jack Russell Terrior laying with his paws on my belly.
August 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Really Google Maps? Really??
Screenshot of multiple annoying Google Maps Notifications that are identical.
August 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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100s of people drive past it everyday, yet never "see" it. Utilitarian in its purpose, yet it is home to egrets and herons, ducks and geese, and dozens of wildflowers.
Regional Stormwater Management pond. Blue sky with a few fluffy clouds. Stand of trees right of center at the ridge crest. Pond in the foreground with wildflowers growing around. Prairie at the ridge on its left.
July 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Spend a week cleaning in advance of relatives visiting and what do I find the morning of their arrival?
Cherrywood Dining table and chairs showing four spots of girl cat barf pointed to by arrows.
July 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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@katvolk.bsky.social Who's this?? 😁
Screen cap of a Planetary Science Institute BlueSky post about an "Object discovered orbiting Aun in sync with Neptune" by Kathryn "Kat" Volk.
July 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Trapped.
Calico cat laying across her humans lap.
July 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Today's hike on the Valley View section of the Ice Age Trail. Saw that they've started building two of the new homes at Midpoint Meadows! Counted 43 different wild flowers today.
Yellow wildflowers, one big one in the upper left with smaller scattered across the green background Some yellow cone flowers waving in a meadow. Vista across the Valley View segment of the Ice Age Trail beneath a partly cloudy sky. Blue Mounds 10+ miles away is just visible through the haze.
July 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM