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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The pre-eclipse Sturgeon Moon over a carnival in Nebraska this evening. #moon

An orange, full moon sits in the thin clouds just above the trees and several colorfully-lit carnival attractions. The biggest carnival sign says "Take the Shot."

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

if you see this, we implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

Night at a baseball field. Smoke fills the air. The dim stadium lights cast a green glow through the smoke. The scoreboard is lit and gives the field a pink hue. People are sparsely scattered through the seating area and on the field.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

She's certainly my hero.

"Is this a ... " meme with Benalish Hero in place of the butterfly and the text "Is this a hero?"

Benalish Hero
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Creature — Human Soldier

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature’s combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it’s being blocked by or is blocking.)

Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the hero.

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Illustrated by Douglas Shuler

https://imgflip.com/i/atykw8

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Tik Tok? Yeah, I'm watching Tik Tok right now.

Screenshot of Tik Tok of Oz, from the movie Return to Oz. He is a copper mechanical robot with round body, round head, and stubby legs.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I went with cards that inspired or impressed me when I first started playing. Things that got the imagination going and kept me playing. #MagicTheGathering #My9MTGCards

Grid of 9 Magic The Gathering cards.
Drudge Skeletons
Goblin Chirurgeon
Giant Spider
Dire Wolves
Disintegrate
Unseen Walker
Clockwork Swarm
Zhalfirin Knight
Image Crafter

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

There was an extra-spooky full moon tonight. #Photography #Moon #Clouds

A full moon both shrouded by clouds and illuminating the edge of a pocket of clouds that it's nestled in.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

post your contextless photoshops

Screenshot of Michael Keaton in the Flash movie with the "change my mind sign" overlaid. It says "Michael Keaton is the real Batman ~ CHANGE MY MIND"

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Shoot. This is so close, but it can't put a boat back together. Any regular creature though..

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

We adopted a cat from the NE Humane Society who they had named "IT Guy". I wonder if he knows Susan from Accounting.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This pleases me greatly. I got the mints as a gift and kept the tin. The flowers are little erasers-like things I kept from some party long ago. I've been using them as Magic tokens. Now the happy little flowers have a happy little home! #MagicTheGathering #BobRoss

A collage with two pictures. The top shows a "Bob Ross: Happy Little Tree Mints" tin sitting next to an Academic deck box and a prerelease kit for Edge of Eternities. The bottom picture is the same, but the tin is open and a handful of multicolored flower tokens are inside.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas! Keep that Christmas magic alive. #Christmas #Cat

A gray tabby cat poking his head through the branches of an artificial Christmas tree. His face is lit up by the tree lights, and he is wide-eyed with wonder at all the amazing lights and climbing possibilities.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Some fun photos I took at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo last month. #Photography #Omaha #HenryDoorlyZoo #Animals

A close up of a green frog with white spots and big yellow eyes. It sits in some jungle foliage and faces away from the camera.

A springhaas and bush-tailed porcupine cuddling. They were sleeping together moments before the picture and are good friends.

A big, grumpy-looking fish resting in the sand at the bottom of it's tank. It has rock-like camouflage.

A monkey balancing high up on a rope. It makes a pose like the Barrel of Monkeys toys as it walks.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I was waiting in a drive-through for lunch and these berries caught my eye. #photography #snapshot #nature

Red berries in the dense broad leaves of a bush. Sunlight reflects off the leaves, and a curvy branch without leaves pokes through.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

This little fella doesn't have an official name yet. We adopted him last Caturday. Happy #Caturday to those who celebrate!

Portrait of a gray, black, and slightly tan tabby cat.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

This is closer to what I had at the end of the expedition, with a little bit of cleanup. #NoMansSky #NMSCorvette

No Man's Sky screenshot: A wide corvette with big engines flying through space.

No Man's Sky screenshot: Front view of a corvette parked in the space station. It is wide, flat, and has large engines and blue trim.

No Man's Sky screenshot: Rear view of a corvette parked in the space station. It is wide, flat, and has large engines and blue trim. There are windows on the back and the landing bay is open.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

On the Corvette expedition, I dug up a lot of parts. I wanted to bring them back, but you only get 24 slots for that. So, I piled on every advanced module I could fit, especially 1-ofs. I made this monstrosity, and it was 2800 nanites to bring it back. Now I have my library of parts. #NoMansSky

No Man's Sky screenshot: Front view of a corvette with tons of random parts added. Cowlings and fairings and wings. Oh my!

No Man's Sky screenshot: Rear view of a corvette with tons of random parts added. Thrusters and reactors and hull connectors. Oh my!

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Gotta take a high-altitude skydiving shot, right? #NoMansSky #VirtualPhotography

No Man's Sky screenshot: A traveler skydiving high above a purple, rocky planet.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I'm not so sure this is legit.. #NoMansSky

No Man's Sky screenshot where a portable refiner is stuck to the wall of a corvette. The traveler is refining something.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Lost with no starship on a planet that has giant beetles? Only one thing to do. #NoMansSky

A traveler riding a giant flying hercules beetle.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I'm about to start the latest #NoMansSky expedition. It's been... _a while_ since I played. I'm organizing my stuff, and I find that my inventory is full of dirt. What was I doing with all this? I must have had a trade planned, but now any memory of that is gone.

A No Man's Sky inventory page with an unreasonable amount of literal dirt filling it up.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Went on a bike ride with my kid at the local lake near sunset. The deer were out, and I was able to catch a few with my phone camera. A pair were even very near the path. #Photography #Deer #Lake #Landscape #Wildlife

A deer grazing in some long grass at the bottom of a hill. (I'm thankful for my phone's 30x zoom for this one, even if it's a bit blurry.)

A deer in the shade near some bushes. It's hard to see behind tall sunlit grass.

No deer in this picture (that I know of). Trees along the grassy shoreline of a lake. Some tall grass or reeds poke out through the water. The first hints of sunset colors are on the horizon, and the sky is clear.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Canyontown is up and running. Hopefully it can survive on imports for a while. #Timberborn

Timberborn screenshot: A small beaver town on the edge of a dry canyon is stocked with food, water, and supplies.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

There seems to always be some freaky, bizarro figures on carnival carousels. #Carnival #Carousel #Photography

A "Bugs Bunny" boat on a kiddie carousel.

A bug-eyed monkey with its mouth open and tongue out. It's wearing a white T-shirt, black vest, and jeans. The shirt says "Lone Wolf".

A galloping monkey with its mouth open and tongue out. It's wearing a white T-shirt, black vest, and jeans with a belt. The vest says "Born to Ride".

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Missed opportunity by the Dawnsire player here. They played Graaz to station it fully and attacked with Dawnsire and another. They blasted my blocker, and I took 10. They should have killed Graaz to unleash the 20/20 Dawnsire. Also, should have put me below 20 first. GG #MagicTheGathering #MTGArena

Magic the Gathering Arena screenshot showing a lethal crack-back after the opponent attacked with a juggernaut sized Dawnsire and some other thing.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I'm working on bootstrapping a third district to help control bad tide flow and collect metal. I'm setting up infrastructure and storage before I even place the district center. #Timberborn

Timberborn screenshot: a few sparse paths lead through dry canyons and bluffs toward a district construction site past some ruins.

Timberborn screenshot: the district construction site past the ruins is nearly complete and well stocked with food, water, and other supplies.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I played spacecraft for midweek magic. I got out a Dawnsire and blast something with it by attacking with a soldier token. They didn't let me win with it unfortunately. I only had one Dawnsire in the deck, but I'm making this deck more focused on this for kicks. #MagicTheGathering #MTGArena #MTGEOE

Magic the Gathering Arena screenshot showing a nearly empty board. What's left is a Dawnsire with 14 charge counters and a Sothera.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Is been about 8 months since I last played this. I had nearly completed a reservoir. Today, I managed to get it completed and partially filled before a bad tide came. Next project is diverting the bad tide altogether. One water source is ready, but the other is far away. #Timberborn #Gaming

Timberborn screenshot showing a large empty crater. The bottom has a layer of dirt ready to be blasted with dynamite. The top is surrounded with levees.

Timberborn screenshot. The crater from the previous screenshot is now partially filled with water. A bad tide is making it's way through the nearby river.

Timberborn screenshot. The flow of a river is being controlled with sluices.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

"Keep your pictures of Spider-Man!"

J Jonah Jameson raising a first from behind his desk.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

My silly Earthquake Dragon deck got to do the thing this time. It's not consistent, and I'm trying a few different cards like the tunnel grinder. This game, I had the right cards to build up and keep momentum. #MagicTheGathering #MTGArena

Magic the Gathering Arena screenshot showing an Earthquake Dragon and a Discover 15 trigger on the stack.

Magic the Gathering Arena screenshot showing the cards in exile from the Discover trigger. The card that would be played is an Ambitious Dragonborn that would come into play with 10 counters.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The opponent was not happy about me dropping Vincent and then having convenient spells to take out 9 power worth of creatures before swinging. I was barely holding on, but Vincent and a couple of perfect hits reversed the game. #MagicTheGathering #MTGArena

Magic the Gathering Arena screenshot showing Vincent growing very large and facing an empty opponent board.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

We got Honest Rutstein being quite dishonest over here. He faked his own death and then was shepherded back from the grave. Opponent wasn't a fan. #MagicTheGathering #MTGArena

Magic the Gathering Arena screenshot showing an Honest Rutstein trigger and an opponent who conceded. There's also a bunch of big creatures vs one lone bird on the opponent's side.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

My son recently found out that I have an NES. He's been into the Simpsons, and I told him I had an old Simpsons game. He really wanted to try it. This gave me an excuse to dig up all the bits and set it up again. It still works pretty well! #Nintendo #NES #RetroGaming

An old tube TV sits on the floor with the start screen for Tetris displayed. An NES controller and the TV remote sit in front of the TV.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I was lucky to be able to put the baby bird in jail here, but it didn't help much. What I should have done with this attack was triple block the frog. Lands, am I right? #MagicTheGathering #MTGArena

Magic the Gathering Arena screenshot of the opponent having too many lands and too large creatures.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I made this deck a while back, and sometimes it can still hold it's own. On the board is a Fertilid with a Migratory Greathorn mutated on top and a Roaring Earth. #MagicTheGathering #MTGArena

Magic: the Gathering Arena screenshot (on phone) of a large Migratory Greathorn mutated from a Fertilid and boosted by Roaring Earth. The opponent has given up.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Congrats! We just got to see Jac play on Thursday.

Jac Caglianone at bat. Werner Field, Omaha, 5/29/25.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

There's a certain charm about the story telling in older Final Fantasy games. Maybe it's just more cartoonish, but you don't really get the same sort of feeling in the newer ones. #FinalFantasy

Terra, Locke, and Edgar in the desert fighting magitek soldiers. They took some time out to chat about "M-M-M-M-MAGIC!?"

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Self destruct Jumbo Cactuar on attack for the memes?

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I wanted to use a brawl deck I already built that could accept a Dragonstorm commander for midweek magic. I have this Abzan three little pigs deck, and I also already owned a Felothar. Previous commander was Necrobloom who went to the 99. I didn't change much else. #MagicTheGathering #MtGArena

An MTG Arena screenshot from a phone. It shows most of a green, white, and black deck themed around pigs, farming, and food.

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Post a meme made by you

Michael Keaton as Batman from his appearance in The Flash. He's standing at a railing with a sign reading "Michael Keaton is the real Batman. Change my mind."

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Jay @blujbird.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I went to the #MagicTheGathering Tarkir prerelease this weekend. First time playing in one in over a decade. It was pretty fun. Good crowd at that LGS. Here are some of the interesting pulls. First picture is stuff in my sealed deck, and second is other rares and cool things in the pool.

Magic: the Gathering cards including two Avenger of the Fallen, two Venerated Stormsinger, Sarkhan, five dragons including 3 with omens, two Evolving Wilds, a fancy border Maelstrom of the Spirit Dragon, three Nomad Outpost, Defibrillating Current, Reigning Victor, Stormbeacon Blade, Teeming Dragonstorm, and War Effort. The Tarkir Dragonstorm Mardu prerelease box can be seen in the corner of the picture.

Magic: the Gathering cards, including Lotuslight Dancers, Teval, and Taigam. There are alternate art borderless cards: Emergent Ultimatum and Songcrafter Mage. The last card is an art card for Rot-Curse Rakshasa.

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