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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 31/05/2026
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a brown tabby is peeking her face above a reflective surface, such that we can just see the bottom of her nose, and everything below is a fuzzy mirror image of what's above. her ears and their reflections make a funny X shape in the overall scene, and her eyes are looking at us intently
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 30/09/2026
thought this was needlepoint when it came through my feed. what great pixel work!
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 24/09/2026
Google product managers saying "hold my beer" to Apple's "Songs of Innocence" fiasco as they force a notorious transphobe's content into my phone OS update
screenshot of an Android "System update available" screen, with an item in the "What's new?" section circled: "Instantly customize your Pixel with Harry Potter audiobook packs to celebrate the release of Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions on Audible. One tap changes your wallpaper, icons, and sounds with elements from the audiobooks."
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 24/09/2026
the reporting on this stuff is a form of pareidolia. all this is explicable by a set of automatons stochastically exploring a state space and host environment with whatever predictive capacity an LLM affords them. absolutely no intent is required, they do not "know" what they are doing
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 11/09/2026
we did the Bull Run Watershed tour today with the Portland Water Bureau. I highly recommend it, both for infrastructure nerd reasons and to witness this otherwise-forbidden view of Mount Hood over Bull Run Lake
a landscape with a wildly large depth of field, showing in layers from foreground to background: volcanic stones forming a rocky beach, blue-green reflections of sky and trees in gently riplling water, a stripe of distant water blown harder into pale blue reflection, a saddle of conifer-covered hills, Mount Hood dressed in patchy snow and the remnants of cloud forced on the upslope, a broken layer of high cloud obscuring most of the blue
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 07/09/2026
anyone else making the 1Password -> Bitwarden change experiencing the 1pux file import spinning forever?
the dark blue UI of the Bitwarden desktop app, "Import" modal in front with a spinning circle and no other information
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 22/11/2025
behold!
a brown tabby kitten, held in one outstretched human hand, caught in a full yawn. she's slightly too large for just one hand, but is still quite small
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 05/09/2026
Huge congratulations to the US-based Wikimedia Foundation employees who voted with 92% support in favor of unionizing, and shoutout to the tireless work of the organizers.
wikiworkersunited.org
Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
U.S. workers form first recognized unit as global union movement builds across Wikimedia Foundation
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Promoting genocide is a bright line. Here is the email I sent to support@1password.com and business@1password.com condemning their donation. I encourage you all to do the same. Full text is in the alt text, to make it easy to copy/paste and adapt to your own message.
To Agile Bits Leadership,
I am a longtime 1Password user. But beyond that, I am an information security professional. In that capacity, I am responsible for convincing literally countless companies to adopt Business and Enterprise plans for their companies and helping them onboard. I haven't bothered to add up exactly how much recurring 1Password revenue I am personally responsible for, but needless to say, it's a lot.
In addition, I am also a desktop Linux user and have used Linux as my primary OS for nearly twenty years. 
I am shocked to see that 1Password has become the first independent corporate sponsor of Omarchy, a Linux distribution created by a man who openly supports genocide of ethnic minorities: David Heinemeier Hansson.
I am also appalled to see that 1Password has responded to other people who share my concern by trying to draw a meaningless distinction between the Omacom Foundation and David Heinemeier Hansson. There is no way to support Omacom without tacitly condoning the reprehensible behavior of its founder. The statement "1Password does not endorse hateful, dehumanizing, or exclusionary views" is completely at odds with the fact that 1Password has pledged $300,000 to a foundation controlled by a man who openly calls for repeating a genocide previously enacted by Adolf Hitler himself. 
I am mortified that I am responsible for driving revenue to Agile Bits only for the company to turn around and spend that money in such an odious way. If Agile Bits is truly committed to its stated values of "not endorsing hateful, dehumanizing, or exclusionary views, the company must rescind its deal with the Omacom Foundation, refuse to pay the remaining $200,000, and claw back the $100,000 already paid.
Unless Agile Bits reverses course on this funding, I will not in good conscience be able to continue recommending 1Password professionally, or to use it personally. 
Genocide is a bright line, and it is imperative that we all stand on the correct side of that line.
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 02/09/2026
got a reply to my "I am cancelling because of this" message and... it sure isn't great. LastPass was in the process of falling apart when I switched to 1Password in 2023, so I guess Bitwarden is next to try?
Screenshot of email from 1Password support, full text follows:

Hello Adam,
 
Thank you for reaching out and sharing your questions and concerns about our decision to become a corporate patron of the Omacom Foundation. We value the relationship we have with you, and we want to respond thoughtfully and openly about the purpose of this commitment and how we're approaching it at 1Password.
 
At 1Password, we support developer and open-source communities because they're an important part of the ecosystem our customers rely on. We have a long history of supporting open source projects, including the Linux, Rails, and Rust Foundations. We chose to support Omarchy because it is a growing Linux environment that developers use and value, and because 1Password already had a meaningful presence in that community.
 
Contributing to the Omacom Foundation is intended to support hosting infrastructure and provides stable, long-term funding for the upstream open-source projects and maintainers on which Omarchy depends.
 
We recognize that Omarchy is closely associated with its founder, and that raises questions about what our support means. Our contribution is made to the Omacom Foundation, not to an individual, and is not an endorsement of any individual's personal or political views. 1Password does not endorse hateful, dehumanizing, or exclusionary views.
 
The patronage is also separate from product decisions. It includes no requirements or guarantees related to product placement, exclusivity, endorsement, or roadmap influence.
 
We understand that this explanation may not change how you feel about our decision. We take all feedback seriously and share it with the appropriate teams.

Our commitment to the security and privacy of our customers remains unchanged.
 
We're grateful for the trust you place in 1Password.
 
Hugues Mackay
Director, Customer Support
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photoJDL @photojdl.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It's Friday, here's a plane [from yesterday]. Specifically Alaska 326.
An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX passes just over a partially eclipsed moon. 2/3rds of the moon is a light orange red, while the lit crescent is off white. The plane passes just above and slightly to the left, mostly in shadow but partially illuminated by the crescent below.
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 22/08/2026
writing my first logbook entry since mid-June, following a very silly and stressful project pivot at the day job. felt great to be back up in the air, and to grease my very first landing in the Grob 103. I had no idea ailerons could be that heavy
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 20/08/2026
I've made this my Zoom background at work and it's hard to imagine what could ever replace it
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 12/08/2026
snout
a brown tabby snout bursting from the center of a wide-angle photo, starburst of whiskers and ears. oversized pink nose sits between beady eyes, all cocked left to about 11:30
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/08/2026
The beacon is lit
Small himalayan cat with her head in a barrel-shaped lampshade, creating a large shadow of her head
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 03/08/2026
six years late, I've made a loaf of bread with an entirely home-grown starter
macro shot of a tiny, twisted imperfection in the golden crust of a loaf of bread. an outcropping of translucent gluten hangs over a flour-dusted slope for tiny mountaineers
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 27/07/2026
Randy...
a tuxedo cat is demanding belly skritches, laying on his back atop my pajama-pantsed lap. his white feet are comically akimbo, sticking so far toward the camera that the pink and black toe beans are out of focus
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kc kc kc (tree library) @katecrane.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A tall, yellow nectarine with a deep cleft down the middle. My hand, white skin, holds it over a plant with long green leaves.
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 25/07/2026
it is time for stonefruit posting (am I doing this correctly, @katecrane.bsky.social?)
my hand full of two plums, one pale yellow green and one wine-dark with yeasty bloomso very many more of each color plum in two corrugated cardboard flats
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 19/07/2026
Caves of Qud
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 18/07/2026
made a friend at the park
a crow is tossing a peanut into its mouth atop a picnic table, close enough that we can infer the photographer is sitting at the same table. the peanut is slightly blurry as the image captures it mid toss, appearing equidistant between the bottom and top beak
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morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Well, if it bothers you so much, just don't look at it, all right?
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 16/07/2026
aviation is one of my main hobbies. I fly airplanes and gliders, and enjoy going to airshows. it's clear that it's not safe to attend any airshow with DoD performers who report up to this creep
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 13/07/2026
we're sorry that while trying to make Office worse and more expensive, we accidentally bought all the RAM and made it impossible to afford the computer. we'd like to preempt your class-action lawsuits by letting you continue using any computers you were lucky enough to already own in 2022
screenshot of text:

Stay secure for another year
 
Your Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) protection has been extended

We understand that moving to a new PC can take time. As part of our ongoing commitment to helping customers stay secure during the transition, the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for personal devices is being provided an additional year. Coverage will now be available through October 12, 2027.

As a current user enrolled in ESU, you will automatically receive an additional year of protection. No action is required on your end, the extension will be automatic.
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 07/07/2026
gonna let others handle the more cursed corners of discourse about this game and instead complain about how poor this Fox broadcast is. terrible color and dynamic range on the video and an inexplicably muddy audio mix. love Johm Strong but may have to switch back to Telemundo
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 06/07/2026
feeling pretty good about this call lol
screenshot of a chat
person 1, at 16:25: the mexico england game is poised to be such a fun one. can't wait
person 2, at 16:36: yeah I've got a feeling it's gonna be a real Chaos Reigns time
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 01/07/2026
oh my god
a brown tabby and a tuxedo cat laying cheek to cheek, gazing imploringly at the camera with such sweet expressions the same scene, but now brown tabby is licking tuxedo boy's snowy white vest
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 29/06/2026
@jjbbllkk.bsky.social I am really enjoying keeping Google Earth open during my first Waypoints playthrough. thank you for the rad album!
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 22/06/2026
he looks so surprised by it
a tuxedo cat, showing us mostly his black head, tail, and back, looks back to watch his tail swoosh around in a lovely motion-blurred curl
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 21/06/2026
unexpected downside to getting a new (used) macro lens is capturing more clearly how gross everything is (first image is the new Laowa macro, taken by my previously best-magnifying Fuji 70-300, second vice-versa)
the side of a Laowa manual macro lens, inscribed with various white and red numbers for apertures, distances, magnification factors, and focus rangesa very close shot of the black and silver Fujifilm "XF ZOOM" logo, and the printed infinity symbol of the autofocus range control
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 19/06/2026
Bless the Tabby and Her kibble. Bless the kneading and purring of Her. May Her playtime cleanse the home. May She keep the treats for Her snack time.
a brown tabby cat is pressed into a soft animal bed with her face and jewel eyes shining at us. beyond her severe expression, her body blurs into the background in the shape of a mighty sandworm, no visible limbs betraying her true quadrupedal nature
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 16/06/2026
the brown tabby kitten looms tenderly over her prey: a gray toy mousey laid low on a couch cushion battlefield
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 15/06/2026
close macro photo of a brown tabby cat muzzle. her eyes are mostly closed, and the black pockmarks at the roots of her black and white whiskers are arranged regularly on meaty white cheeks
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deus_ex.txt @deus-ex-txt.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Claude was a friend of mine. Silly of me... I still think I see him sometimes.
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 12/06/2026
👎🏻
screenshot from the article linked in the quoted post, reading:

There is one other potential item of note regarding this summer in the West, and that is the elevated potential for significant Pacific Northwest heatwaves. Unlike in California and the interior Southwest, where summers during developing significant El Niño events do not necessarily feature unusually strong atmospheric high pressure aloft (and instead are warmer than average due to elevated baseline ocean temperatures, as noted above, plus long-term warming), the odds of amplified or “blocking” high pressure systems in the Pacific Northwest is considerably higher during El Niño summers and autumns. That means that the odds of major heatwaves and fire weather events may be especially high in this region later this summer, and this could spell wildfire-related trouble given widespread drought (especially in Oregon). There is less of a precipitation signal in this region during summer versus the clearer wet signal in the interior West, but the potential for high heat plus significant and widespread antecedent drought offers a potentially consequential signal here.
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 08/06/2026
Banished the last of the landout demons by having a nice valley thermal flight. Never a shred of doubt about making it back to the _intended_ airport www.weglide.org/flight/1114177
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 01/06/2026
because my brain is full of holes, I frequently look up the original wording when I want to riff on a meme. anyway I need to hurry up and get the fuck off google huh
screenshot of an Android/Google search results page. the query is "You did a no comfort meme", and the top result, an "AI Overview", reads:

You got me! My bad, I definitely let that slip past my filter.

If I dropped a "no comfort" meme on you, let's course-correct and get you something that actually hits the spot. Take a look at these for some guaranteed warm and fuzzy vibes instead:

* For pure wholesomeness: Check out the community-favorite Wholesome Memes Subreddit.

[Show more button]
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 01/06/2026
$5.99 gas, $6.79 diesel, and 2,000+ gallons of F-15 jet fuel per hour 🫡 🦅 🫠
vertical outdoor shot of mostly blue sky. in the foreground, a Shell station sign with the quoted prices. at the top, foreground leaves above two F-15s cruising overhead
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 25/05/2026
Flew to Ephrata and back today for 4.9 on the Hobbs, where I unexpectedly helped launch almost twenty gliders. Did a photo walk in the downtime but am way too tired to think of "SD Card" even though there's a lot of tetrahedron in there
A high-clouded sunset reflects up from downtown Portland's Willamette River bridges to us lucky viewers perched on the corrugated aileron of a small airplane
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deus_ex.txt @deus-ex-txt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
See how easily our technologies turn on us? The more power you think you have, the more quickly it slips from your hands.
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 13/01/2025
had PCBs made for the first time! took the open source Soyuz numpad design by ai03 and added a Ralphie
a purple PCB for a numpad, split into a base, the actual logic board, and a front plate for mounting key switches. the PCB is a lovely purple with Soyuz branding across the logic board and a silkscreened monochrome image of a shadowed cat face on the base black and white photo of a tabby cat sitting in a felt letter box. his face is clearly the origin of the silkscreen design, with that majestic face shadowed moodily by a table lamp
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 18/05/2026
I need to apologize. The university where I am provost used AI to replace our graduation ceremony and — to our surprise! — our cherished students were upset by the alteration. We had asked ChatGPT to devise a more efficient diploma delivery routine than the legacy procedure of walking across stage one by one at the call of the graduate’s name. The AI assistant divided our auditorium floor into a number of polyomino square sectors (it called them ‘squectors’), where students clustered according to a number of factors including height, GPA, and others, intangible. Ramps were introduced, suspended above stage and fitted to rotational hinges, so the rolled diplomas could wheel down to each squector at a controlled and geometrically appropriate rate. The AI application misparsed the auditorium floor plan and several of the squectors were drawn too small, forcing students into packed and humid clusters. At times, the rate of the diploma spool became fiercely rapid — torrential, if I’m honest — and the emblems of achievement were blown like discarded newspaper across the chamber hall, plastered finally to the floor by dirt smeared from attendees’ shoeheels in the midst of the trampling chaos.

It is the job of our institution to prepare students for the world and its changing times. While our hearts were in the right place, our missteps caused delay and unease. On behalf of the administration and our enduring institution: we will do better.
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
congratulations! good job on missing the airport
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 18/05/2026
It's not how I was hoping my flight would end, but I achieved a glider pilot rite of passage yesterday by landing in a cherry orchard's grass strip instead of my home airport. Two bad decisions chasing phantom lift, followed by a good decision to set it down www.weglide.org/flight/1087278
a blue and white T-tailed glider rests lazily on one wing in a nicely-manicured grass airstrip between two groves of cherry trees. blue sky with fluffy cumulus teases the pilot/photographer with the promise of lift slightly out of reach
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 11/05/2026
second death in a row of a long-running Caves of Qud character due to stun lock out of nowhere. I'm sure I will learn a lesson from this any day now
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 05/05/2026
one of the sweetest rewards of getting into photo printing is the fast turnaround time from stupid idea to physical object
an orange tabby cat sprawled diagonally across the frame. his long arms bridge the gap between a gray couch and a brown paisley ottomana golden loaf of homemade pan bread cooling on a chrome wire rack. the color and diagonal orientation are suspiciously similar to the previous photo the orange tabby cat is sitting on the grey couch still, but a 4x6 print of the previous two photos in vertical collage is next to him on the cushion. he looks slightly perturbed
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 05/05/2026
one of the sweetest rewards of getting into photo printing is the fast turnaround time from stupid idea to physical object
an orange tabby cat sprawled diagonally across the frame. his long arms bridge the gap between a gray couch and a brown paisley ottomana golden loaf of homemade pan bread cooling on a chrome wire rack. the color and diagonal orientation are suspiciously similar to the previous photo the orange tabby cat is sitting on the grey couch still, but a 4x6 print of the previous two photos in vertical collage is next to him on the cushion. he looks slightly perturbed
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 28/04/2026
Ralphie, you alright bud?
close shot of an orange tabby resting his white chin on a couch cushion. his cheek is scrunched up as he looks forlornly past the viewer. meaty paws are folded in reservedly
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acfoltzer @acfoltzer.net · 28/04/2026
Caves of Qud
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