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They/them. Keeps a sourdough starter, a cat, and a garden. Linux systems administrator in research computing.
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We were talking about dog beds for people/humans who like having nests yesterday and I immediately started getting ads for things like this
A golden retriever and a human resting on a green, furry, cozy-looking, oval-shaped bed with a rounded raised border. The human has a blanket over them that matches the bed.
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Finally settling down to read a book (John Scalzi's "Starter Villain") by looking at it, because I don't need to be multi-tasking every moment. And because my libraries don't have the audiobook version, I suppose.
In the foreground, a Kobo Libra Colour, showing the cover of John Scalzi's "Starter Villain", on a plastic white Adirondack chair. In the background, a dock, with another chair and a towel, and a small lake/ pond of water beyond that. The sky is blue, and the lake. There are clouds, wispy. And green, in many kinds of trees, nearby, and on the far shore. Fishing line hangs from some of the nearest trees, though I don't know if it's visible in the picture. The leaves of the beech tree, top right, are succumbing to beech leaf disease. A patterned towel on a dock on a pond. A plastic Adirondack chair holds a sunhat, tie-dyed cotton shoulder bag, a bottle of sunscreen, and an ebook reader in a light purple case.
June 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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This is the day!
If you've been thinking of reading Dracula Daily, today was the first entry!
draculadaily.substack.com
A phone screen capture of an email showing the first entry from Dracula Daily, which sends out an email with the contents of the letters which make up Bram Stoker's Dracula
May 4, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Spinny disc sprang a leak and had to be drained so it's less of an experience this weekend. Hopefully to be sorted for Firefly.
May 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Somerville Open Studios is this weekend! I just helped move a campmate's interactive piece to the Firefly Arts Collective's event space at 15 Properzi Way (87 on the map). www.somervilleopenstudios.org/web/artists/...
A transparent, spinning table filled with water, blue dye, and mica powder, creating fluid patterns when it is turned.
May 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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If you want more Dresden Codak in your life, its creator Sen is running a Kickstarter for print (and PDF) versions of "The City of Giants", Volume 1 of the ongoing graphic novel Dark Science, featuring the adventures of madcap cyborg inventor Kim Ross.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/top...
The cover of the book "The Tomorrow Girl and Other Stories" by Sen, featuring cyborg inventor Kim Ross
April 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Peepers in the Fells this evening. Nice warm day for them.
April 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Ebisuya is closing - the building they're in is slated for demolition. They're the only place one can buy fresh ingredients and produce in Medford Square.
They've got a noodle place in Malden that will remain open.
www.reddit.com/r/medfordma/...
March 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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No peepers here yet.
March 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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www.mass.gov/event/medfor...
March 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Moss growing on the bark of an apple tree, a snowy field in the background
March 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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February 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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If you see this quote with flowers from your gallery
A red flower blooming on a small tropical hibiscus plant, indoors, in yellow-toned lighting. The window beyond is dark.
January 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Sourdough and love today
Bread dough on parchment paper inside a plastic container. Bread dough on parchment paper, moved into the 500° dutch oven, with criss cross scoring across its surface. Baked bread in an oval shape, a golden brown color with a criss cross pattern across the top.
January 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Finally had a warm enough night/day to plant my garlic for the year.
A photo of a single clove of garlic in a small hole in dirt. A wooden raised bed with several small indentations in the dirt, each of which contains a clove of garlic. Branches separate the bed into sections. A painted wooden raised garden bed, covered in leaves, with metal grates on top of it to prevent leaves from blowing away, and to prevent critters from making their own holes in the dirt.
December 12, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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Just some nice things from the recent past
A white and tabby cat sits on a white blanket, looking at the camera Four deviled egg halves on a small "blue onion" patterned Corelle plate. A hand with starry blue thumb nail holds a speckled yellow and red maple leaf, against a background of fallen brown leaves on the ground
November 11, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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Found a bunch of satisfying mushrooms in the Fells this past weekend.
August 30, 2023 at 2:23 AM