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bolson @bolson.org · 30/09/2026

This is beautiful. 527,001 known asteroids; 35,165 satellites and probes. Best viewed on the biggest screen you have. space.bl2.net

a fuzzy donut of asteroid belt objects, with two big ears for the Jupiter Lagrange-point trojans

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bolson @bolson.org · 31/08/2026

probably pissing in the rain, but I went to google maps and right clicked on Lake Ontario to select "Add a Missing Place" and filled it out for "Lake Ontario"

Google Maps, as I right-click on Lake Ontario and select "Add a missing place"

I filled out "Add a place" form on Google Maps to report that Lake Ontario, a Historical Landmark, was missing

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bolson @bolson.org · 31/08/2026

I don't expect there's anything actually deficient in Safari, so it seems pretty self-dealing for #Google to offer a checkbox where GAFYD admins can insist that gmail only be used from Chrome

"Your organization recommends Chrome for safe app access"
which popped up when I opened work GMail this morning (in Safari)

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bolson @bolson.org · 29/07/2026

This is a great infographic about which Python versions are in active development, getting bug fixes, getting security patches only, or past end-of-life. Nobody should be on Python 3.9 anymore @developer.apple.com ಠ_ಠ [from www.python.org/downloads/ ]

chart of which Python versions are end-of-life, get security fixes, get bug fixes, or are in future development

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bolson @bolson.org · 27/06/2026

The important part: "We get to mock the government however we want" [Farts Washington DC's general direction] Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time

Screenshot of ACLU.org post, blurred except "We get to mock the government however we want"

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bolson @bolson.org · 13/06/2026

AI has reviewed my job application

Westworld Season 3; Caleb looks at his phone, probably getting bad news about crap jobs

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bolson @bolson.org · 12/06/2026

sometimes job listings read like, "Can you make our ship go?"

Star Trek, main screen shows Pakled who said "Can you make our ship go? You are smart" ST:TNG "Samaritan Snare"

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bolson @bolson.org · 05/05/2026

They both make good points A new runtime with no dependencies but the kernel is a great achievement glibc is also seriously solid software worthy of respect

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bolson @bolson.org · 04/05/2026

Powdered Bone Slime ( from www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/0... )

"Aaand... that's why they call it Jell-O"
background fake jello product box with a tortured horse and title "Powdered Bone Slime"

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bolson @bolson.org · 19/04/2026

It's Sunday morning and I made fancy breakfast waffle with fresh whipped cream (maple sweetened) and sliced banana

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bolson @bolson.org · 06/04/2026

moon flyby today, ~4000 mi above the moon's surface, the moon is ~2100 mi in diameter; this helps me contextualize the field-of-view we're headed for

graphic with stick 4000 miles long and moon 2100 miles diameter

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bolson @bolson.org · 04/03/2026

I don't want millions of people to change their clocks, I want businesses and institutions that care about sunrise to change their start times. This is what sunrise/sunset does in my timezone, with time change bolson.org/sungraph/

a graph of sunrise/solar-noon/sunset times over 2026. sunrise varies from 5:05am to 7:16am; sunset from 4:11pm to 8:25pm

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bolson @bolson.org · 16/02/2026

got out for a snowshoe, found a bit of winter stream in otherwise silent middle of nowhere Vermont

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bolson @bolson.org · 21/01/2026

Hakeem Jeffries thinks reasonable people can disagree about whether it's okay for ICE to full stream bearspray in the face of someone they're kneeling on. I think the D party should be less polite. (Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

someone in a black knit cap held down by two people while a third streams a can of orange goo into the face of the person kneeled on (probably pepper spray or bear spray)

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bolson @bolson.org · 18/01/2026

Interaction I love here, when that author I like also likes that other author I like

Ann Leckie likes new Murderbot book, Martha Wells joins the thread

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bolson @bolson.org · 31/12/2025

public science and public data is good! this is three National Weather Service stations near where I am that I scrape to give myself a sense of what the last two weeks of weather has been. I can do this because the data is free

three wiggly lines for temperatures from -20 to 10 deg C; blue dots for daily rain amounts, light blue dots for snow daily accumulation. X axis is two weeks of dates ending 2025-12-31

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bolson @bolson.org · 23/12/2025

Space Lasers! Science I missed from September. NASA's space-laser communication system. A video notes "hundreds of megabits at Mars close range" while the furthest tested signal was further than the furthest Earth-Mars distance. www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-d...

solar system diagram noting "307 million miles" distance from Earth to Psyche/DSOC probe, further than the maximum distance between Earth and Mars

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bolson @bolson.org · 11/12/2025

dress up a little, put on a show

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bolson @bolson.org · 08/12/2025

here it is as a graph of sunrise/solar-noon/sunset times (from my web toy bolson.org/sungraph/ )

graph shows green line for sunrise, yellow line for solar-noon, and red line for sunset. x-axis is day within 2025, y-axis is time-of-day.
Earliest sunset is today, 4:11 for the lat,lon this graph was made for.

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bolson @bolson.org · 05/12/2025

The Onion only a minute behind NPR

My feed a moment ago with NPR noting the passing of Architect Frank Gehry, and The Onion also responding to the moment by re posting some of its prior Frank Gehry coverage consisting of a pile of sandwiches in an impractical configuration - reminiscent of Gehry's more absurd buildings

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bolson @bolson.org · 30/11/2025

Thoughts for gingerbread season explosm.net/comics/kris-...

"A gingerbread man sits in a gingerbread house,
Is the house made of flesh?
Or is he made of house?
He screams for he does not know"

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bolson @bolson.org · 26/11/2025

You will be visited by three spirits

Babylon 5 scene with Sheridan, Delenn, and Sinclair, the three parts of 'The One' according to Zathras

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bolson @bolson.org · 18/11/2025

this is in my house now. I will sparkle forever henceforth (whether I want to or not)

my hand holding a jar of glitter in a medium-large spice-shaker jar, probably 250ml of iridescent silver glitter

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bolson @bolson.org · 09/11/2025

nonsense snack: goldfish & cheddar quesadilla with costco sriracha powder in it

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bolson @bolson.org · 31/10/2025

the shrinkflation at @npr.org @wbur.org has been pretty fierce Nina Totenbag from 5-10 years ago vs WBUR bag this year

NPR tote bag "Nina Totenbag" on the left from 5-10 years ago about double the size of recent 2025 WBUR "Tote-ally independent" tote bag which could _maybe_ fit a pair of shoes?

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bolson @bolson.org · 07/10/2025

Central Vermont last weekend

a forested mountain seen from 50m up by drone photography; a few bright red maples, oranges, evergreens, but also quite a lot of brown trees due to drought

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bolson @bolson.org · 02/10/2025

my office window for the day

central Vermont woods, with yellows oranges and reds as the leaves change for fall, seen out of a garage door

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bolson @bolson.org · 27/09/2025

my beastly strength, I pinched a AAA battery between my fingers and visibly deformed it, and promptly decided not to install that one and put it straight in the bucket of bad batteries

AAA battery, slightly crushed in the middle, held by my fingers that crushed it

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bolson @bolson.org · 17/09/2025

my photos from House on the Rock's collection in Wisconsin

Burma Shave poems, House on the Rock, Wisconsin

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bolson @bolson.org · 07/09/2025

UNIX whispers in your ear: ioctl()

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bolson @bolson.org · 01/09/2025

Sunset, Boston skyline, from Peddocks Island

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bolson @bolson.org · 25/08/2025

go to the middle of nowhere on a clear new-moon night, look up

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bolson @bolson.org · 21/08/2025

Solar: angle matters! I had a frame that held my panels at a good angle, but last winter it collapsed. Panels survived and did okay flat on the ground. Propped them up under a random box and output went 350W -> 500W (out of 800W)

solar panels in a meadow, the panels are propped up one one edge by a 55 gal plastic box to point more towards the sun

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bolson @bolson.org · 25/07/2025

#NYC Mayor #RCV data digging, Mamdani won, Lander had a good day, and previous big name actually came in *fourth* and would have lost 1-1 vs Mamdani, Lander, or Adams

virtual-pairwise vote counts of top 4 candidates in NYC Mayor primary of June 24 2025; Mamdani beats Lander beats Adams beats Cuomo

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bolson @bolson.org · 21/07/2025

You’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature? "Contact" (1997) and "Arrival" (2016)

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bolson @bolson.org · 28/06/2025

this evoked in me an image of the typesetting that might work for such

ok,
this is not your grave,
get out of this hole

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bolson @bolson.org · 17/06/2025

"Nobody gets fired for buying IBM" is an old old saying about buying the safe choice that all the other businesses are doing. But I get grumpy about a lot of established but clearly sub-optimal things.

Bashir: Nobody gets fired for buying IBM
Garak: _Not Enough_ people get fired for buying IBM

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bolson @bolson.org · 30/05/2025

Here's a minute of peace: a stream in the woods somewhere in Vermont

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bolson @bolson.org · 15/04/2025

Listening to some #Buddhism and it finally hits me: all the enlightenment stories together form a body of Survivorship Bias. We miss the stories of all who meditated and left because it wasn't for them, or they got tired, or bored, or busy with something else, or depressed, or insane.

Picture of a plane with red dots for where planes returned with bullet holes. Not pictured: places where bullet holes caused planes to not return.

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bolson @bolson.org · 03/04/2025

This meme had its moment a while ago, but if you'd forgotten it, maybe it would be useful these days

Old Luke Skywalker: "Amazing; every word of what you just said was wrong"

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