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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Today, I learned what the heat signature of a beehive built in the parapet of a house with a flat roof looks like from inside the house. This is not something I sought to learn. #saveTheBees #notinmyroof #bee #homeownership

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I love that May Day is on a Friday so we can appreciate the weekend directly afterwords. And we don’t need to do this again. Yet. #mayday #iwd

A statue commemorating the Haymarket Riots in Chicago on May 4, 1886. The haymarket riots began when workers were rallying for their rights (safe working conditions, fair pay, weekends) after police killed unionists at a demonstration the day before. Police were looming and oppressing as per usual when an unidentified anarchist threw a bomb at the cops. This went badly for everyone. Innocent people were killed. Some were later executed by the state after being falsely convicted …but oddly this helped change public opinion in favor of workers and afterward, and led to May 1 being identified as IWD going forward.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Legitimate, adj: Being exactly as intended or presented : neither spurious nor false. — I don’t think that applies to anything crypto.

A very sad tale of G Love who lost 424,000 of his life savings after downloading a “fraudulent app that appeared to be legitimate” to something crypto. G Love is seen here playing guitar and harmonica and looking downtrodden. A reminder to stop playing with fake money.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I created a little table of day of the week with US rhetoric against Iran and market reaction. It's almost like there's a tradable pattern here, kids. Talks monday - markets hopeful, threats Tuesday, escalation Friday - Sunday daily/futures markets fall.

Table tracking Trump's Iran war rhetoric (escalation vs. de-escalation) and U.S. equity market reaction across 6 weeks (Feb 28–Apr 7, 2026). Rows = days of week. Columns = weeks. Each cell shows conflict direction (✈️↑ escalation / ✈️↓ de-escalation / ✈️→ neutral) and market reaction ($↓ equities down/oil up · $↑ equities up/oil down · $→ mixed/flat).
Key patterns: Friday is the only day with a perfect 6-for-6 escalation record — every Friday produced an escalation signal and a down-market reaction without exception. Saturdays followed the same pattern in weeks 1–5 before going neutral in week 6. Sundays were escalatory in weeks 1–3, shifted to de-escalation in week 4, neutral in week 5, then returned to escalation in week 6 (Trump's "Power Plant Day / Bridge Day" civilian infrastructure threat). Mondays showed the most variability — alternating between escalation and de-escalation signals — and were the only days to produce a positive market reading (week 6, S&P +0.4% as markets began discounting Trump's deadlines as performative). Mid-week (Tue–Thu) was mixed across weeks, with escalation dominant in weeks 2, 4, and 5. Week 1 (war's opening days) was notably calm mid-week before Friday's shock. The overall pattern confirms a recurring weekly cycle: mid-week diplomatic signals stabilize markets briefly, Friday–Saturday rhetoric resets to maximum pressure, Sunday reloads the cycle.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

🎶 All we are saying Is give peace a chance 🎶

A screenshot of notifications from The New York Times and Bloomberg indicating a bad day in the stock market. New York Times indicates the stocks saw the biggest loss since the war in Iran started with the S&P 500 following 1.7%. The Bloomberg one says the S&P falls the most since the start of the Iran more while the NASDAQ 100 closes 2.4% lower.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

OpenAI users: Check the “data” setting on your account to confirm the “improve the model for everyone” is disabled (if that is your preference). A number of users have found this was enabled, even though they never consented to share data with the model. #ai #openai #dataprivacy #ccpa

This is a screenshot of the settings from the open AI app ChatGPT. This is a drill down of the settings for data and circled at the top of the screen is a switch entitled quote improve the model for everyone” and in the picture it is turned off. However, before the picture was taken, it was turned on. I’ve talked to a number of people today who all have this feature enabled without having consented to share their personal information.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Ive been reflecting on why Reddit is a better pulse-check than insta, TikTok, or twitter. Downvoting. Yes, agitators can still talk. But instead of their signal getting boosted, they are downvoted to noise, which better reflects proportionality of views.

A picture from a moment on the John Oliver show when he was trying to demonstrate the absurdity of “both sides “reporting in this episode in this picture you see the stage flooded with 99 scientists holding up papers. These are the scientists who believe in climate change and that it’s real. What you don’t see on the stage is the one scientist who believes climate change as a hoax. The intended visual was intended to demonstrate the proportionality that is lost in traditional “both sides” reporting where you have one person saying one thing, and one person saying the other. Which gives the appearance that it’s equal split of facts and opinion.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I understand the theme is perfect albums released 1990-1999.

A heavily satiated picture of a guitar all in magenta and red and some grey tones hypersolarized and very distorted looking. It is the cover for the album Loveless by artist My Bloody Valentine.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

“I really don’t care, do U?”

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

This holiday season, remember you have options.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The biggest take away is that if dems can displace “consensus” leadership with aggressive candidates, the 2026 senate map, which is *bleak* for dems, suddenly gets more interesting. See alt text for details. Revisit this in 365 days.

Consensus map that shows MI, NC, GA, ME as tossups and IA, KY, AL as safe. This shows 51/45 GOP with 4 tossups - no path to democratic victory.

User (me) created map that shows ME, MI, GA as democrat, TX and MT as weak GOP (Cornyn retiring and Daines is consistently vulnerable). IA, AL, KY, and NC are tossups with retiring GOP leaders and no clear replacements in the wings - Bashir (Ky), Jones (AL), and Stein (NC) prove democrats can be competitive. IA is just weird and always has been. This shows a 48/48 map with 4 tossups, a weak path to democratic victory that requires ME, MI, GA, and 3 of the 4 tossups (AL, KY, NC, IA). Weak path. But not impossible.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

When is a hot dog a sandwich? When at the former legendary Chicago encased meats emporium, Hot Doug’s. Here we see a Chicago Dog accompanied by a duck sausage with Sauternes infused Foie Gras foam. Both served with Tab cola. Pictured here c. 2010.

The greatest meal. A can of tab cola (IYKYK) next to two hot dogs in paper cartons. Plus a cheese covered gooey mess of French fries. The closest hot dog is covered in slices of pink foam that is Sauternes infused Foie Gras foam.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

This will be a moment that lives on in ..

There is a runner sliding into homebase and the catcher is Catching a ball with his foot slightly off the base. The runner has his foot slightly off the base. Both men have their feet about 2 inches above the plate. The runner is ultimately out. The difference here is probably measured in the thousandths of a second.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Gob: “And don’t edit this for your broadcast so it looks like I said, ‘I killed Earl Milford!’”

A news broadcast with G.O.B. Bluth in the clip after saying “I killed earl milford” with the banner reading DeadHead-master

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Day five of the #abq international #balloon #fiestas and it was a moody, cloudy green flag day. #photography 📷 📸

A moody, cloudy sky dotted with dozens of beautiful colored balloons on the ground. There’s a couple dozen balloons inflating in front of the sign that says one Albuquerque.

A few balloons inflating on the ground with a dozen or more in the air with a dark blue sky dotted with Moody morning gold light clouds

A number of dark balloons in the air with a dark blue sky with wispy white moody clouds, and a number of balloons inflating on the ground

The obligatory shot of the Yoda balloon, taking flight on the ground is the hammerhead shark next to it. There are a number of brightly colored balloons all around on the ground. The sky is a dark cloud with a bright gold sunrise streak.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Another set of pics from day #1 of #abq international #balloon #fiestas even though it was just a static hold day. #photography #photos 📷 📸

Dramatic sunrise with sparse clouds with a bright vivid green field dotted with many hot air balloons inflating in all the colors of the Kodachrome rainbow.

Dramatic sunrise with clouds dotted with many hot air balloons inflating in all the colors of the Kodachrome rainbow.

Sunrise with clouds dotted with many hot air balloons inflating in all the colors of the Kodachrome rainbow. One looks like a brain

Dramatic sunrise with sparse clouds with a bright vivid green field with three hot air balloons inflating in all the colors of the Kodachrome rainbow.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

So we didn’t get a mass ascension because the winds were a bit redic, but we got a static launch on the field (inflate, no flight). #baloonfiesta #abq #photography 📷

Some vividly colored hot air balloons sitting on the field with a dramatic sky behind them

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Look! It’s the alpha channel gone wild!

A screen shot of the new Liquid Glass in iOS 26 with transparent icons. The transparent icons were first introduced in OS X 10.1 when Aqua / quartz allowed for a “alpha channel” to create transparency for overlays

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Waking up to Liquid Glass in iOS 26 gives me flashbacks to 2001 when playing with OS X Aqua / Quartz and the famous “lickable” icons and buttons. #ios #osx #newretro

Aqua buttons in OS X 10.1 for the finder window. They pop out like lollipops in cherry, orange, and green Apple flavors. They look like jolly ranchers.

Aqua buttons in OS X 10.1 for the settings window. Tabs pop out like lollipops. They look like jolly ranchers.

Aqua finder window in OS X 10.1. Finder control buttons pop out like lollipops in cherry, orange, and green Apple flavors. Icons look shiny and glossy. Fonts are true type rendered in quartz. They look like jolly ranchers.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

It’s like an invitation to meet your local fire department. But also … check out the “diagram” it created for me to install a Logitech Circle doorbell. (This just happened about 30 mins ago which is why this felt so topical)

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

That took me back … to when I lived right there .. albeit not in the Hopkins … but nearby

A picture of downtown San Francisco from nob hill. Grace cathedral is on the left and the hotel Huntington is on the right. There’s a double rainbow over the city.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I still remember when she was sprung from jail

A picture of Kim Davis, horrific bigot, and pathological slob, being freed from the CUNTY I mean, county courthouse.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Flashback to 2013 and the appearance of This Charming Charlie which, as far as I know, was the last moment of civilization. #thisCharmingCharlie

A Charlie Brown cartoon with Charlie looking distraught and Lucy talking to him looking slightly condescending and she says “if you think that piece is a common goal that goes to show how little you know” which, of course is a lyric from a The Smiths song “shoplifters of the world”

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The Temu version of Reagan “freeing the hostages” has led to the Temu version of GWB’s “Mission Accomplished” in fewer hours than it takes to same-day deliver an Amazon package. The 2020z are amazing

George W Bush under a banner reading “mission accomplished” on the deck of an aircraft carrier

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

It’s like a sidekick albeit one with with fewer buttons.

A photo of the hip top sidekick, which was one of the first smart phones that had a full keyboard and access to the Internet with a real browser. Needless to say that company did not survive.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

This seems inconsistent with his claims.

A screen grab from CNN that says that Iran has not received any cease fire proposal

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Which means …. Steady. Hold. Hold. Steady. Now! Sell FCOJ at 50!!

A picture of the concluding trading floor scent where Dan Akroyd and Eddie Murphy begin buying contracts once it was clear that the market report was healthy and the price was overvalued at $100 on the market Mortimer and his brother had cornered. The price begins falling and they are in fact buying contracts below fair price as people are trying to sell out their overvalued positions. This is exactly the opposite of what happens with tariffs. Once the pull the pin and end tariffs, the market will rocket up and only Trump’s in e circle knows when this will happen and will be ready to buy.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

We have failed as thought leaders.

A search on DuckDuckGo looking for the term “three cat keyboard Moon“ and nothing turns up related to the most amazing meme of all times

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

There are still have 336k people who haven’t got the full message. Ok really tho, how many of these were in China v RoW? The press release was completely devoid of information and unaccompanied by audited financials or an investor presentation.

A chart of quarterly sales for Tesla vehicles. It shows that basically only the 3/Y comprise any sales but yet still 2022 levels of sales were sold this quarter even though the sales fell from well over 420k down to 330k. We can do better.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Little man enjoying the birds singing at sunset in Sonoma valley. (Yes, he’s on a leash). #caturday (eve) #kitteh #cats #photography

Scar wearing a pink harness staring into the sunset with a look of bliss. There are hills in the distance and dark twisted trees in the background

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Post a fictional character who you think would be an antivaxxer. Hard mode: No villains

A picture of a man with square glasses and an ill fitting shirt in yellow with a 4-in-a-hand knot tied very small with a striped tie covered by an olive sports coat. The man looks greasy and slightly disheveled. That man is Dwight Schrute and he doesn’t believe in your vaccines

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I feel like my kitten is trying to tell me something. #kittens #caturday #catphotos #photography 📷

This photo features a sleek, big-eared cat sitting inside a gray pet carrier titled “Pet Maison” with mesh windows. The cat is mid-yawn, showing its sharp facial features. The interior of the carrier is lined with a soft, white plush mat.

In the foreground, a copy of Dwell magazine is propped up, partially blocking the entrance to the carrier. The issue is titled “The Small Spaces Issue,” and the cover features modern, minimalist architecture with a focus on compact living.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I know we all hate AI illustrations but sometimes they are more on point than waiting for me to photoshop something together.

A humorous AI rendering of a leopard about to chow down on the face of a surprised sheep.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This headline … “Coloradans rally against NOAA, Weather Service” was shocking. …perhaps “rally against firings at” was a less shocking headline.

“I’m afraid we lost him” scene from Arrested Development when literal dr fishman explains … that George Bluth snuck out the window in the worst possible way.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This? Fascism? Nonsense. Tis but a flesh wound!

A picture from Monty Python’s Holy Grail featuring the black knight who has lost both of his arms, at which point he exclaims “it’s but a flesh wound!”

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Sharon Van Etten in The OA (Everyone already covered Bowie)

A creepy picture of people in a glass cube closed ecosystem in the psychological spiritual thriller The OA. One of them is Sharon Van Etten.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Too bad Apple Maps also capitulated to neofascists.

Apple map showing the Gulf of Mexico incorrectly named as gulf of America as required by ultranationalist neofascist regimes.

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Bee Geesmith @beegeesmith.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Excellent Apple Maps hack: if you want to remove the “most flipped-off building” in Chicago from 3-D view, switch to Transit View. Apparently alpha male dOge don’t use public transit, so they won’t tell the boss.

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