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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There are some great Emoji Kitchen combos for rock. Combining with 🪄, 🕳️, 🍕, 🧚 First one is me on any hike, to the moderate exasperation of my husband.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My mother used to really love their butter bread, which she could only find in some stores around them in PA. She no longer buys it. But pre-COVID, it got to be a joke where we'd send her photos of it any time we saw it in the bread aisle somewhere.

Several loaves of Martin's Butter Bread on a grocery store shelf. More are visible around and in the background.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My 9 games. May seem redundant to list Myst & Riven, but those were so formative. I wanted to play Myst sooo bad but had to wait until we got a computer with a CD-ROM drive. And I spent so much time in Riven. Kind of cheating with the Jak collection, but those three are too hard to separate.

My 9 Games grid featuring:

Myst
Riven
Tetris (GameBoy)
Earthbound
Jak and Daxter Collection
Final Fantasy XII
Portal 2
Minecraft: Java Edition
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sunset time lapse tonight from the backyard. #myphotos

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Makes me think of the actual antique woodpecker toothpick dispenser my parents have that looks like these:

Crude cast iron woodpecker figurine sits at the end of a cast iron log. The hollow body of the log forms a tray for toothpicks. The woodpecker has a sharp spike on the end of its beak. Its base is spring loaded so you can push it down into the toothpick cavity and retrieve a toothpick on the beak spike.

Another similar item to the first. This woodpecker has a crest/tuft on its head, though.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Some of my favorite birds. We see at least one every time we're up in the mountains. #myphotos

A Stellers jay perched in an aspen tree. The branches partially obscure the lower part of the bird. There are no leaves, as it is winter.

A Stellers jay perched on a rock, with the bird mostly surrounded by snow.

A Stellers jay perched on a rock staring straight into the camera.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Some notable omissions that I hope to fix in the upcoming years. I was lucky to have two teachers for parents, which allowed us time to travel via RV in the summers. And my husband and I are working on seeing more places together, now that we're in a good financial situation.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This was a couple weeks ago, but when we took a drive up into #RMNP on my birthday we saw this young bull moose near the cabin on Old Fall River Road. This is at about 10,800". Very neat to see him! (Shot with a 5x telephoto lens, of course. I'm not approaching a fucking moose!)

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I grew up nearby-ish in NW PA. (Buffalo and Pittsburgh, about equadistant were our nearest big cities.) The Allegheny National Forest area is also lovely. My hometown is almost smack in the center of the ANF. Rimrock and Kinzua Bridge State Park are great spots.

An overlook of a valley from atop some large glacial erratics, with CCC era stone and metal railings. The fall colors in the trees are getting into full swing, with some oranges, reds, and yellows.

A portion of a steel railroad viaduct stretching out into a valley. Beyond are the twisted remains of the rest of the bridge. Some fall color is present in the trees.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

To be clear, I know you are not responsible for another reporter's story. That's what I recognize isn't exactly fair. But this is in the same publication, and I do question @wired.com's commitment to good faith treatment of queer people and issues after this.

Haha it's a musclebound man where a skyscraper between his legs is implied to be an extremely enormous penis. Because gays.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I see this is in Wired. Are any of the gay mafia who supposedly control Silicon Valley in the list? I know this isn't entirely fair, but that really has cast a pall over the publication for me. Knowing this is how I'm seen by the editorial staff really has lowered my trust in the magazine.

Infamously homophobic Wired crotch handshake cover. "Inside the Gay Tech Mafia".

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I introduced some online friends to this movie just tonight! We didn't watch it or anything, but they'd never heard of it. It was one of my favorites growing up!! And as an adult, I recognize a genuinely good moral about found family. My parents and I still reference this bit!

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I suppose the next town over had the Kinzua Bridge. Also not ominous, though. It was a fun day trip, and the steam train went by my house twice every day. It still is a nice trip, even after a tornado took out the middle. youtu.be/qinUza6H61I youtu.be/XL9AUnYEnKQ #myphotos except the last

An old steel viaduct crossing a valley with fall colors visible in the trees. The bridge stops partway across. Along the left side of the photo, the twisted, collapsed towers of the rest of the structure are visible.

A view looking down the length of the bridge from underneath staring down a tunnel-like view through the series of support towers.

A wide view of the bridge standing over the valley. The collapsed towers are visible in the right third of the image.

Old postcard of a steam excursion train crossing the bridge.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I mean, they made cute wooden toys, including ones for L.L. Bean and Mister Rogers. And their name was painted on the stack. So I just thought of toys when I saw it. youtu.be/n-1zU1LV6TU

A wooden Trolley toy with blocks featuring Neighborhood of Make Believe characters.

Another angle of the wooden Trolley toy.

Wooden L.L. Bean toy truck with peg people and a canoe perched on top.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I'm pretty sure the closest thing my podunk hometown has to a megastructure is the old Holgate Toy Company smokestack. It was a remnant of their old original factory location that never got torn down. But it never felt very ominous.

An old brick smokestack rises out of the trees. Screenshot from Google Streetview.

An old brick smokestack rises out of the trees. In the foreground is an old rusting sawdust collector tower. Screenshot from Google Streetview.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Zero played the role better.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I keep meaning to get a "real" camera again. But I get such good photos on my 8 Pro. And it's compact and light, easy to take on a hike. This was from our backyard two nights ago, and the colors are pretty true to life, something else that I'm pretty pleased about with the Pixels.

Longs and Meeker Peak with bands of bright pinky-orange clouds in the sky during sunset.

A wider shot of the previous scene, but a bit earlier and oranger. Above the smaller bands, there's a wide patch of orange-lit clouds, and above that some wispy, cotton candy pink clouds.

A narrower version of the previous shot, showing off the mountain and lower orangey-pink clouds better. There are smaller, thinner bands lower down, and one bug thick band of cloud just above the middle of the image.

A nearly identical shot to the previous, but it's a bit later, and the color of the clouds is leaning more pink than orange.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I really liked having her around. She was a really pretty animal. I was hoping for melanistic babies, too, as the one male squirrel seemed to be pursuing her. I think, at least. It was the right time of the year for a litter.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Not to be too much of a braggart, but this is where we saw that first marmot I photographed.

A photo with big granite boulders scattered in the foreground. There are a few conifer trees growing among them, as well as a few dead ones. A bit of a deep green mountain lake is visible in the midground. And semi-sparse tree covered slopes rise up to a big rocky peak in the background.

A marmot is perched on a rock in almost the middle of the shot.

Same exact photo, but there is a red arrow pointing out the marmot.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

And yellow bellied marmots are actually ground squirrels too! (Also shot within 40 miles of our house, at 10,000-12,000 ft of elevation. They stay pretty high up.)

A marmot sitting on a sunny rock underneath another rock.

Same marmot peeking out of a crack between two rocks.

A different marmot perched on a rock high above treeline. A bird is visible in the sky in the background.

Same marmot as immediate previous photo, but now looking right at the camera.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We also have golden mantled ground squirrels in the mountains. This was about 30 miles west of our house and almost a mile higher. (not a chipmunk; those have pointy ears)

Squirrel with chipmunk like stripes on top of a rock.

Same, but now looking straight at the camera.

Same squirrel perched at a 45° angle on a different rock.

Same squirrel, stretching out and reaching out with its front paw.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

More usual coloration for the fox squirrel (bigger than the eastern gray).

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We had a melanistic fox squirrel who used to hang out in our back yard. Fairly closely related to the eastern gray squirrel whose black morph you would have been seeing there. Used to occasionally see those in the woods as a kid in Pennsylvania.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

You've stopped the threat to your kingdom, have wrenched power out of the hands of the 'gods' and back into morals' grasp. Now it's time to kill the dragon your adorable flying rat buddy/boss has been beefing with for decades.

Yiazmat from Final Fantasy XII. A big dragon with intricate glowing discs on various body parts.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I was just some high schooler, and I got to see an actual operating nuclear reactor with my own two eyes! It was at the bottom of a deep pool, glowing blue from Cherenkov radiation, and we were assured that the many feet of water was an adequate shield. Clearly the experience has stuck with me!

Penn State Breazeale Reactor at the bottom of its pool with visitors around the rim of the pool. The reactor itself emits a blue glow.

A different view of the reactor in its pool, still glowing a bright blue.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This photo just came up on our TV screen saver. That was such a neat hike. This was in the middle, unmaintained section of Ute Trail, hiking down from Trail Ridge Road. #rmnp #myphotos

A view of the mountains in early evening. The terrain is mostly in shadow, with the clouds above still in sunlight.

The foreground is rocky, with twisted krummholz and flag trees all around.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The Steam Deck controls that it's based on are quite good. And Valve seems to do their homework on this stuff. Worth noting that the original Steam Controller was pretty odd looking, too, and I still really like using mine. Plus, early reviews seem positive on comfort.

Screenshot of a paragraph from an Engadget article:

The Steam Controller is a tidy chonker of a gamepad with a broad, Duke-like face holding two square trackpads beneath the standard analog sticks and face buttons. Despite its extra girth, the Steam Controller feels light, slim and balanced, even in my smaller-than-average hands. The grips are slender and have four circular rear buttons, two per side, that are super satisfying to click even when they don’t do anything in-game. The bumpers, triggers, D-pad and face buttons are shiny black plastic, and all of the controller’s edges are rounded, allowing for a smooth glide between the bumpers and triggers especially. The trackpads don’t get in the way when you don’t need them, but in-use, they’re incredibly sensitive and kind of mesmerizing. They look and feel just like the trackpads on the Steam Deck, following the trails of your thumbs with miniature popping bubbles.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

And here's one with a view further up into the sky. #myphotos

Sun setting behind a double mountain peak with thin, intermittent clouds. Sun is only sort of visible through said clouds. Similar to the photo in the previous post, but this one shows a much wider angle. Trees frame the view of the sky, and above the yellow-orange of the thicker, lower sunset-lit clouds, the sky goes back to blue, with thin wispy cirrus clouds higher up.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Had a nice sunset the other night.

Sun setting behind a double mountain peak with thin, intermittent clouds. Sun is only sort of visible through said clouds.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

We've got a Star Wars movie in the backyard with these invaders from our neighbor's yard.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The weirdest part of the story is that *while he was cutting off the raccoon penis* he was apparently pondering how weird other members of his family are. They probably didn't even want to see his putrefying raccoon penis! Freaks. Link: people.com/rfk-jr-diari...

Article screenshot reading:

"I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be," he wrote, reportedly pondering the grudges that his brother Douglas Kennedy and cousin Bobby Shriver had held. "My kids waited patiently in the car."

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This part was pretty amazing. I'm sure it's probably not his intent, but this just sounds like, "I've been saying for years that they're all a bunch of uggos!!" Also, I don't much care about the intent if it's anything other than an unconditional apology.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

We had a couple of Eurasian collared doves in the ponderosa out back. I really thought they were heading towards mating, but they flew off. I'm pretty sure this is almost or exactly the same branch where I saw another pair copulate a couple years ago. It was neat to observe firsthand. VERY brief.

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

You'd argue wrong, then. I liked Sanders more in the primary, but this narrative is just not based in fact. There's just no metric by which Sanders won the votes in the primary.

Chart from Wikipedia showing 2016 primary data

Delegate count: C: 2,842 S:1,865
Contests won: C: 34 S: 23
Popular vote: C: 16,917,853 S:13,210,550
Percentage: C 55.2% S: 43.1%

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Dane Peterson @danep.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Older Stellers jay photos (not from the recent hike), but these are two of my best! It came right down and sat about a meter and a half away the whole time I ate my granola bar that day, then flew off the moment I finished the last bite. #rmnp #myphotos #bird

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