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@400trix.bsky.social
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Fiddler. Programmer in Recovery. Free-range Nerd. e/lud Compared to Bach, we all suck. Pat Metheny Never trust anyone who has a gibbon as their avatar.

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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
On behalf of all ITM musicians, everywhere, duck you, Spelling Bee!
Spelling Bee rejecting “CRAIC.”
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Duck you, Spelling Bee
Spelling bee rejecting MANICHEAN, a perfectly fine word with roots going back to Zoroaster.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
He didn’t need to do that. The economy was really awful, and the Iranians had already made Carter look weak, and in the end he only won MN, GA, MD, DC, and RI. He got 41% of the popular vote.
Election map of the 1980 election, showing how badly Carter got beat.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Attention @catsofyore.bsky.social "Jummy," the Cat which walked from Hampstead to Rugby, a distance of 85 miles, June, 1904. It was taken from Rugby to Hampstead in a closed basket.
A postcard sent in 1907 of a long-haired black cat standing against brick wall and staring majestically at the camera. 

The text reads: "Jummy," the Cat which walked from Hampstead to Rugby, a distance of 85 miles, June, 1904. It was taken from Rugby to Hampstead in a closed basket.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Now that Tadej is out, Lyra has switched her allegiance to Carapaz. #Vuelta2026
Back view of a tabby cat’s head. She’s watching Richard Carapaz, her favorite rider, breaking away from a diminished peloton.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A good bollard would have prevented this.
Photo from reddit user u/Slow_Conclusion_3207 of an SUV that managed to get past some soft posts and into a parking lot, where it was eventually halted by destroying a could of other cars.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
WTF is wrong at Times? (that was rhetorical).
Screenshot of the NYT Spelling Bee game rejecting “LOLLARD.”
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Since we’re posting lunar eclipse photos…
A 90% or so eclipsed moon. The red tint from the Earth’s shadow showed nicely in this exposure.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Lyra is a Tadej fan. #vuelta
Lyra, a brown tabby, is sitting on my lap because she wants to watch the Vuelta while I might prefer to prepare breakfast. And coffee. Coffee might be first on that list. 

Oh, and on the screen is Tadej Pogacar, her favorite rider. 
tv um
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
So much for everyone thinking about the Roman Empire daily.
NYT Spelling Bee screenshot of GARUM, which is not in the word list.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Good morning from yellowstone
Going under the arch marking the entrance to a yellowstone np
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Spelling Bee continues to vex me.
Screenshot of the NYT Spelling Bee game showing it rejecting the common English word “OTOLITH.”
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
And this is why you don’t let me go in thrift stores unsupervised.
A DigiTech TSR-24S that just leapt into my arms at the local thrift store.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Here’s one:
A mountain bluebird, perched on barbed wire.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Two is the correct number of cats, especially if they’re littermates.
Lyra and Iorek, two tabby-tux kitties, are lounging in the laundry basket.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Lyra in her safe spot. #cats #CarsOfBluesky
Lyra, a brown tabby with an adorable white face, is looking out at the world from her favorite bag.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Something like this, from @pivot-to-ai.com.web.brid.gy
Sticker from pivot-to-ai on Redbubble. The image on the sticker is a heavily pixelated Clippy surrounded by the text: It can’t be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong.”
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
French? Requires new screw pattern? Reminds me of the late ‘80s…
See of Time titanium pedals circa 1989.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
You know what keeps me up at night? These two galaxies! I can't find any sort of catalog number for them, and they're just the sort of thing Arp would have cataloged. But he didn't.
An IR image from Spitzer of M104 with an arrow pointing at two small spiral galaxies that appear to be interacting. They are a very bright red in this image, which I guess means that they are bright in IR.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Nope.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Sunset in Boulder was beautiful this evening.
Sunset over Boulder. The lenticular clouds are sculpted by high winds, and illuminated by the orange light of the setting sun. Detail of the previous photo. There are ledges between the levels of the clouds, with the shadows between the layers creating shades of blue and green.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
It’s still snowing!
A view of my deck. There is a chair and a small table. 6+” of snow cover everything. There are two conifers in the background.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Post a famous bathroom scene
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Drove to the north side of town to see this:
Aurora borealis over Boulder. Aurora borealis over Boulder. Aurora borealis over Boulder.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
From her Substack:
Sarah Kendzior O
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I've been suspended from BlueSky. I don't know why. I wasn't online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explanation.
It seems there's a crackdown. If you enjoy my work and want to make sure you can access it, subscribe! It's free — I would never paywall in times of peril - and voluntary paying subscribers keep it going. It would be great to have your support at this time. Thanks!
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Stolen from FB, but it’s just too good.
Family Circus panel with the little boy in the car with grandma. The caption reads, “Turn it up, Grandma - that’s Sun Ra!
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
United We Ribbet, Divided We Croak!
An extremely cute middle-aged couple in yellow shirts holding a pair of signs. The woman’s sign says “United We Ribbet,” the man’s, “Divided We Croak.” Both signs have yellow lettering on a purple background.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I have a difficult time reconciling these two headlines.
Screenshot showing two headlines about Tesla. First: Tesla’s UK profit almost halves after price cuts. Second: Tesla stock now has a $600 price target on Wall street.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
A sign that says “goats at work,“ standing in front of a temporary wire fence. Behind the fence, it’s a gray goat with a black head, standing in a field of golden plants.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Proof that Remco is headed to RedBull.
Remco Evenpoel giving a water bottle to a child wearing a RedBull-Bora Hansgrohe jersey, just before abandoning the 2025 Tour de France.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
That doesn’t reflect what’s written in the story:
The crash occurred after an individual was removed from a nearby business, the Los Angeles Police Department said. That person then allegedly drove a vehicle into a crowd, according to police.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Only the very best Mexican restaurants have art like this
A tapestry that features a mission-style church in the background, a bullfighting arena on the left and. extremely large head of a palomino horse in the foreground
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The Great Horned Owl is amongst the most regal and majestic of all the birds. 🪶 📸 #IneptBirds
A juvenile Great Horned Owl, just short of being able to fly, hanging upside down in a tree.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I fully get that.
A marmot peeking over a rock in Rocky Mountain National ParkA Pika posing on a rock in Rocky Mountain National Park
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Towards the end of your article, we have these two pages. The reporter got to the right questions, but he buried it pretty deep.
After seeing the wolves, though, I wondered how many people would accept that what I had just seen was a resurrection. Romulus and Remus embodied a lot of breakthroughs.
No one else, Colossal said, had ever made so many precision edits to an animal genome at once. Nobody had ever birthed a mammal that had ancient DNA in it. "This is the first time these genes have been expressed in over ten thousand years," Lamm pointed out. But to what extent were the pups dire wolves—as opposed to, say, gray wolves with some of the dire wolf's physical traits? Did they act like dire wolves? No effort had been made to try to identify genes for behavior. Did they think or smell or sound like the extinct animals?I spoke to Elinor Karlsson, a program director at the Broad Institute, a joint Harvard and M.I.T. facility. An expert on wolf and dog genetics, she is a member of Colossal's advisory board. But she told me that she has some doubts about the company's messaging: "I ask Beth, 'Why are you calling this a dire wolf when it's a gray wolf with seventeen or eighteen changes in its DNA?'" Shapiro has countered that she did what she set out to do: "We've succeeded in creating the phenotype of a dire wolf."
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
It’s a beautiful day for a protest here in Boulder, CO
A bunch of Hands Off! protestors in from of the NIST/NOAA labs in Boulder, with the Flatirons in the background frosted in snow like a doughnut.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The last photo of me with my mom.
A photo of a me with my mom when I was 60 and she was 92. I tower over her, but I’m 5’5” on a good day. My mom was that tiny.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Just found this from a few years ago.
A Flock of Seagulls, this time harassing a sea lion instead of performing bad synth-pop.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Wrapped Cat, with apologies to Christo.
A large tabby cat wrapped in bubble wrap. It was his idea.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I have a print of this hanging on my wall.
Man in tattered business suit sitting at a campfire facing three equally tattered kids saying; Yes, the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Age yourself with some cartoons you watched as a kid
Gigantor, a giant robot, fighting an even larger robot turtle.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Doesn’t he look tired?
Chuck Schumer, wearing a gray suit with an unfortunate green tie hunched over an undersized lectern announcing that he had achieved peace in our time by acquiescing to everything Trump wants. He looks old and tired.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Kathleen Turner in Serial Mom noticing Patty Hearst’s white shoes that are being worn after labor day.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Specifically, The Menu.
Ralph Fiennes as chef Julian Slowa preparing to serve his diners.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The Friday Night Massacre
Headline from The Washington Post


Justice Resignations
DOJ officials seek to drop Adams case after 7 lawyers refuse, resign in protest
After career veterans refused to seek a dismissal of the case against New York Mayor Eric Adams, acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove told prosecutors in Washington to find someone who would.
1 hour ago
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Here ya go!
5-gallon bucket of OSHA-6 Safety-Yellow paint, perfect for painting the safety zones in Tesla factories and other hazardous places.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Iorek is trying not to be seen.
The back end of Iorek, a silver tabby-tux, is sticking out from under a bunch of tissue paper. He is trying not to be seen. Iorek, will you please stand up?
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
How appropriate.
Tesla stock chart showing a decline of 14.88% over the last month.
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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Evergreen:
Cartoon of a man in a tattered suit sitting at a fire with three equally tattered children. He is saying "Yes, the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."
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