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Tom Casavant
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Software Developer from Ohio

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Watching Torchwood
December 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Squidward meme where he's staring out a barred window at SpongeBob and Patrick running around excitedly Photo of the top half of a tuxedo cat from behind where hes staring out a window into a yard covered in leaves with 2 deer, one has antlers is lying down in the far background and the other is closer standing up and staring back at the window
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Oh I didn't realize the entire vidzy github project was nuked https://github.com/vidzy-social/vidzy

There's a couple of archive snapshots of it though https://web.archive.org/web/20241104180545/https://github.com/vidzy-social/vidzy so at least somewhat preserved
Screenshot of the github vidzy repository showing the README which says "this project has been discontinued we suggest using loops.social
November 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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I'm voting for the next candidate who promises to replace the guy in charge of stickers. What is this? Where's my "I Ohio Voted"?
Photo of a circular sticker depicting the state of Ohio in white with a red border, the text inside Ohio reads: "Future Ohio Voterc
November 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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2 tuxedo cats on a white carpet on a dark brown hardwood floor. The larger one is lying down on a folded up corner of the carpet staring up at the smaller one who is standing over him with a paw up 2 tuxedo cats lying down in 2 identical blue barrel chairs with a golden-yellow pillows behind them. There is a gray ottoman between them with a laptop on it, stairs in the background, a white carpet on top of a hardwood floor Photo of 2 tuxedo cats sitting atop 2 speakers next to a backlit TV, the larger cat is missing a front leg. They are both staring off like gargoyles mounted next to the tv
November 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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icymi, in the Matrix State of the Union they said they didn't plan on pursuing decentralized social media, but they do hope to make it easier for those ecosystems to use Matrix so they don't have to reinvent what Matrix has already done
Screenshot of The Matrix State of the Union stram showing a powerpoint with the text: The Future - We're going to continue to laser-focus on being the best decentralized secure comms platform in the world. - That means we're not going to purse decentralized social - good luck to ATproto, ActivityPub, Nostr etc. - It means we're not going to pursue free-style decentralized data replication - good luck to Automerge, Beehive, Local-First etc. - It means we're not going to build other Matrix showcases (e.g. Thirdroom) - Instead, we are going to continue focusing everything on building a safe, global, resilient, secure communication network which can be used to build decentralized alternatives to WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Teams, Slack, Discord and friends. Screenshot of The Matrix State of the Union video showing a powerpoint with white background and black text that reads: In practice, this means: - Finish Hydra. - Fix client-controlled cryptographic group membership (either by MLS, DMLS, or client-side state resolution. - Improve metadata posture (Pseudo IDs, encrypted state events, maybe leveraging MLS) - Improving Trust & Safety - Ensuring that ecosystem-driven features like custom profiles, custom emoji, etc. actually land in the spec. - Figuring out how Matrix can be used by other ecosystems more effectively, to try to avoid ATproto/ActivityPub/Nostr/Beehive etc. reinventing Matrix.
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Oh nice they found him
image/jpeg Screenshot from CNN Business webpage shows a header image featuring the Amazon.com headquarters The image is cropped so that the only text visible is "Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of internet"
October 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Some people say i have a gift
image/jpeg Screenshot of a message in the beeper app from me that says "How does James Franklin still have a job" sent today at 12:00pm
October 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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@ben
Screenshot from Mastodon of a status from ian bremmer (@ianbremmer@threads.net) post text: "apparently a little less of the communal love vibe at burning man this year" Attached image is of a large sign in a field that reads "FUCK YOU ELON" The AI generated Alt Text for the image says: "Photo by ian bremmer on August 30, 2025. May be an image of text that says 'U'.
October 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Uploaded some more photos to my blog

https://tomcasavant.com/photography/
Photo of a brown duck sitting in some tall grass Photo of a gray-blue bench in the foreground with a walking path heading off to the right, in the background is a blurry building with a clocktower
October 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Columbus is getting a UFL team, they'll be playing in the old Columbus Crew stadium
Photo showing the Columbus Aviators team logo on a blue background with light blue text in the background that says 614 In the foreground is the new logo, a Red A (the horizontal line in the A is wings) surrounding the A is a dark blue C with 3 horizontal lines going to the top left of the C. Below that is text that reads "Columbus Aviators" Below the logo is white text that says UFL United Football League
October 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Screenshot of tweet from Brooks Otterlake: A lot of the internet is 10000 people bullying someone who deserves to be bullied by maybe 1 to 3 people 12 May 2016
October 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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It's nice to see that bluesky is not immune to the fediverse habit of telling non-techie users that decentralization is easy. You just have to build your own app
Screenshot of a bluesky post from @jay.bsky.team on October 1st 2025 at 1:35pm that reads: It would be wild if someone would build a social site where you could migrate away without losing all your connections if you didn't like the owner. Maybe even host your account on your own box, at home, so you could switch apps seamlessly or build your own. I think that would improve society.
October 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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After a tumultuous year of cats hating each other, I think they have finally achieved symbiosis
Photo of 2 tuxedo cats sitting on a window shelf next to each other. The cat on the left is looking back towards the camera, the cat on the right is looking out the window
September 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Screenshot of tweet from @RedsInFour 1) Win 83 games 2) Sell bobbleheads 3) Pray that a team objectively better than you flames out spectacularly in the next 2 months That is the Reds' plan. 5:11PM 7/31/25 from Earth . 99.8K Views
September 29, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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My server catching up on all the activities
September 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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September 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Doing this but every time one of you likes my posts
Screenshot of email: Hey Tom, Im Michael, a co-founder at Oumi. I saw you starred the Oumi repo on GitHub and wanted to reach out - really appreciate your engagement with what we're building. We'd love to learn about your experience with Oumi and where we should take it next - we're an open-source community based project after all.;) Would you be open to a quick chat about your experiences with Oumi? (We can share some upcoming major features too!) Even 15 minutes would help us shape the roadmap and make Oumi better for you and everyone - you can book time on my calendar directly here. Thanks, Michael
August 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Screenshot of Masahiro Sakurai with the subtitles reading "Why is making a game so hard" Screenshot of Masahiro Sakurai with 2 icons of buttons (Y and B) with subtitle that reads: "but this time we've added a second button. Unfortunately."
August 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Almost done building the ActivityPub share widget, going through all the mastodon servers first and then onto pixelfed
Screenshot with text at the top that says "Share To" followed by a list of mastodon servers next to the mastodon icon: mastodon.social mastodon.world infosec.exchange mstdn.social mas.to hachyderm.io fosstodon.org mastodon.online tomkahe.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Reading the news.
Screenshot of a Deadline article headline that reads, "Alison Brie Shares 'Community' Movie Update & Pitch for "X-Rated" Version" by Hlenn Garner Text from article: "There's no update," she told husband and Together co-star Dave Franco in a sit-down for Entertainment Tonight. "I would say it's paused due to a number of factors. The entire cast is still enthusiastically on board to do the movie."
July 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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@jluckhaupt.bsky.social my brother got the alert and found this post
Screenshot of a tweet from Warren co Sheriff We have an active incident in the Landen area of Deerfield Township, where an emergency alert inadvertently went out to unintended areas. There is no threat to the community and this is an isolated incident. We ask those that live in the area of the Woodfield development in Deerfield Township to shelter in place until further notice. Thank you
July 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Hm, i wonder what that report is about
Screenshot of a list of notifications.the top two say "mastodon.internal submitted a report" the rest are spam replies to my bot account
July 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Made some pizza in a bread cloche
Photo of a pepperoni and bacon pizza with melted cheese sitting on the bottom half of a black bread cloche. The top of the bread cloche is in the background
July 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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It does make an unexpected positive difference seeing full like/boost counts on statuses
Screenshot of the like counts of a mastodon post showing 418 boosts, and 416 likes
July 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM