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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I live in a place with no cell service. I never understood the idea of "I need my phone to get around." Our last road trip a couple years ago was over 10,000 miles to Newfoundland and across Labrador from Nebraska via North Carolina, all maps.

2022 road trip shown on Mapquest . Starting in western Nebraska, stops include Tenn., NC, Mass., VT, ME, NB, PEI, NS, Newfoundland, Labrador, QC, ON, MI, ON again (north), MB, ND, SD, home.

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Are only cats licensed here, or do posters need a license as well?

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

If you see this, post something orange from your gallery.

A tower of salmon and creamed cheese stack, garnished with various vegetables. Served in a restaurant in Gdansk, Poland, 2015.

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

What should we grow on our land here? Importing vegetables out-of-season is frightfully expensive and uses lots of diesel.

Photographs looking SE from Angora, NE (population 1) to my home (twenty miles away). This is the stabilised sand dunes of the Nebraska Sandhills. It has a few small scrub plants in the foreground, and shortgrass prairie grass through sand and ravines.

The plants are gone now after the Morrill Fire burned over a thousand square miles a couple weeks ago. The sand is starting to move again.

Before the fire, the only thing the ground could be used for is grazing livestock.

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Despite all the hatred coming down the pike, I hope people were able to have a happy Trans Day of Visibility.

Yardarm in front of the Royal Hotel in Goose Bay, Labrador. Photo taken during our Smart car trip in 2022. On the left yard is the Progress Pride flag. On the right yard is the unofficial flag of Labrador. On the mast is the flag of Canada.

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

When food stamps transitioned to EBT cards, Nebraska had to get a waiver to continue using the stamps, due to lack of infrastructure in the rural areas. I live here:

North of Lisco, Nebraska, looking west toward my town sixteen miles away. The scene is grass-covered sand hills (no longer covered after the recent Morill Fire), with deep chasms between the hills. On the left is a sand road winding around the hills. The land is pretty much only good for low numbers of livestock.

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Nebraska to North Carolina to Newfoundland to Labrador, through Québec, Ontario, Michigan, Ontario again, Manitoba, North/South Dakota, Iowa, and home.

Mapquest map showing the written description in the comment.

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

The population density of the Nebraska Panhandle is 5.9/sq. mile. The population is 82,962. The area is 14,180 sq. miles. The largest city has 11,000 people. The next larger city is Cheyenne, Wyo. (130 miles away), 65,132. It's pretty empty here.

Looking south-west from Rose Hill Cemetery (one mile north of my town). In the foreground is the driveway. A split-rail fence separates the cemetery from the road. Across the road is twenty miles of empty plains. In the far distance are Courthouse and Jail Rocks in the county seat.

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Here's two photographs I took from my car of a tornado just leaving my village. It was about three miles away.

Tornado seen from my car while driving home on a gravel road. To the right, an open field with a tornado tilted eastward and a debris field around the base. It was leaving my village.

Second view of the same tornado, further away, from a street two blocks from my house. Most of the town was severely damaged from the storm.

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

This is what a Smart looks like after you hit an elk.

My 2013 Smart after hitting an elk. The passanger side of the car is smashed, the windscreen is warped and cracked. The passenger door is warped and could not be opened. Damage under the hood included destruction of the master brake cylinder. I hit the elk about two miles outside of town, and came back using the parking brake and moving very slowly.

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Quote post with a video game that transports you back to your childhood.

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Yikes. I spend too much time here. That said, my most active month was April. I was just learning this newfangled microblooging thing.

End-of-year engagement chart. To the left is the circle of people and groups most engaged. To the right, statistics: 495 posts, 7,000 replies, 352 days posting, 866 days on BlueSky. Bottom is a bar graph showing posts, likes, reposts, and quote posts. A line graph shows increase from January through December.

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Gold cord and tassels are used to decorate indoor flag poles. Here's on at my village hall. The black ribbon denotes the flag is at half-staff since the flag cannot be lowered.

Flag in my village hall. The finial is a gold eagle, two gold cords and tassels are draped in front. A black ribbon denoting the flag is at half-staff is affixed to the peak of the staff.

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

My cars, lazily parked by my house on the street.

My two black Smart cars parked next to my house on the street. The one in front is a 2013, the one in the rear is a 2009.

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Well, this is about what I expected.

Graph of questions placing you on the Prep/Goth and Jock/Nerd axes. I scored almost completely goth/nerd on the chart.
https://www.idrlabs.com/tests.php (Pop culture personality tests)

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Hey, I have a real scythe and I use it frequently. I'll bet it would be no trouble to dice a drawing on paper with a scythe.

Standing next to my 2009 Smart car on the sand street in front of my house. Everything is black: The car, my clothes, my trilby hat. I'm holding my mowing scythe in the photograph (I'm the resident Reaper around here, and a Smart car is a lot more reliable than a pale horse).

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Post the first album you ever bought with your own money. I was eleven.

The album cover to Yes's "Fragile" (1971). It is the first album Yes collaborated with artist Roger Dean. The picture is a stylised Earth with large trees growing around it, and a ship "sailing" in the sky. The album name and band are at the top.

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

This whole trip planned on paper maps. I don't own a cell phone.

2022 road trip by Smart car, planned only with paper maps. The trip was from the Nebraska Panhandle, across the Mid South, up the East Coast, through New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Labrador, northern Québec, Ontario and Michigan, Manitoba, then south to home. Approximately 10,000 miles / 16,000km.

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

My insurance isn't too bad (mostly because my home is only worth about $18,000). Tornadoes aren't rare in this area, but a single house is an extremely small target.

A home after a tornado in my town. A cement cylinder was lifted from somewhere and deposited in the yard in the left of the photograph. In the centre, a tree is snapped off and destroyed the roof on the back of the house. Also in the centre, an electric pole is snapped off near the top. The leaves are stripped from all the trees.

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

This is the tornado that got my garage (and did a bunch of damage to my and other people's houses as well).

Photograph out of my 2013 Smart car. Coming into my village on a sand road. To the right of the road in the distance is a tornado leaving my village. Debris can be seen at the base of the tornado.

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I suppose it depends. . . .

A black guitar pick with the word "dick" written in white across it

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

My wife and I took VIA Rail (Hudson Bay Railway) from Thompson to Churchill. It was a magnificent trip.

A rock cairn on the shore of Hudson Bay in Churchill, Manitoba. It is known as an inuksuk or inukshuk. They were erected as shoreline navigation markers or the location of a safe harbour. This one has three large stones at the bottom, a flat stone across them, one large stone above that, two stones across it (the top one longer), and capping it with a narrow and tall stone. To the right in this picture is another stone. Behind it is Hudson Bay.

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

We squeezed our 85# dog and a cat in a cat carrier into the back of the car. We've also loaded sufficient luggage for a summer-long trip through Canada.

Our two Smart cars parked by the side of our house on the street. Both are black. The front car is a 2013 Pure, the back car is a 2009 Passion (at the time of this photograph it did not yet have a license plate).

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Yes, and paper maps. Our last major trip was from Nebraska to Newfoundland by car. It was only with maps and an atlas. (Every state and province will send you free maps in the mail.)

Mapquest route of our trip to Newfoundland and Labrador in 2022. 10,000 miles in a Smart car. Major stops:
a) home b) Knoxville, Tenn. c) Raleigh, NC d) Pittsfield, Mass.
e) Manchester, VT f) Augusta, ME g) O'Leary, PEI h) Caribou, NS
i) North Sydney, NS j) St. Anthony, NL k) Labrador City, NL
l) Sarnia, ON m) my birth town n) Sault Ste. Marie, ON
o) Winnipeg, MB p) underneath a) home

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

So it turns out Mapquest allows you to string along more stops on a map than Google does. I played around with it and created a mostly-accurate map of our last long road trip: ten thousand miles in a Smart car from Nebraska to Newfoundland and Labrador.

What a ten thousand mile trip in a Smart car looks like.

A: Home. B: Knoxville, TN. C: Raleigh, NC. D: Pittsfield, MA. E: Manchester, VT. F: Agusta, ME. G: O'Leary, PEI. H: Wood Island, PEI. J: St. Anthony, Newfoundland. K: Labrador City, Labrador. L: Sarnia, Ontario. M: My hometown in Michigan. N: Sault. Ste. Marie, Ontario. O: Winnipeg, Manitoba. Return to A via Pembina, North Dakota.

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Unfortunately the asshat brigade is dragging the rest of them down with us here.

Travelling north on a gravel road heading home in 2013, a pasture to the right. In the distance is a tornado which just left my village. A few minutes later I was home; the tornado had damaged almost everything in town. My own house had its roof severely damaged, with hail damage on the north side of the house.

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

You'll pry my coffee out of my cold dead cup. (wait wut?)

A yellow sign with the drawing of a Fifties-era woman holding a cup of coffee. The text on the left reads "Drink Coffee Do Stupid Things Faster with More Energy"

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

What's your 10/10 album (reposted because no ALT text on my image)

The album cover to Yes's "Close to the Edge." The cover shades from green at the bottom to black at the top. The text is artist Roger Dean's style he created for Yes's albums.

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

My own village public library. Our tiny town values having it. You can get anything: Books, movies, records, puzzles, hunting and fishing licenses, Internet service, children's programmes, and more.

Broadwater, Nebraska Public Library and Village Hall

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Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The Republican complaints about the balloon were nothing more than performative outrage anyway. (They can see our missile sites! They don't know how to use Wikipedia and just look them up there!) It is not illegal to take a picture of a missile site. Here's one I took near my home.