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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 29/09/2026

How your email finds me...

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 12/08/2026

No eclipse glasses on Faial so... a solar eclipse on the back of a camera obscura cereala boxa.

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 11/08/2026

It would be cool if they had blown up AF1 but... ...no, he was just the first president to ever hide in a catering truck.

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 06/08/2026

If you read this post for more than four hours please consult a medical professional.

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 02/08/2026

I recently built one just like it!

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 27/07/2026

Hmmm. Maybe if you make less than $100K your vote would be worth 4/5th?

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 06/07/2026

Amazing photo in the Guardian.

Lightenting/Washington Monument/"Freedom 250".

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 15/06/2026

Trump admin DUI hires. (I didn't make that up, but I love it).

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 11/06/2026

This is stupid but not totally stupid. There is a deductible of a few thousand. But I think a base cost of living should be fully deductible (Maslow's "physiological needs")...

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 10/06/2026

I just created a X.com account for a test. All I did was follow Paul Krugman b/c I had to pick somebody. It is unbelievable what the initial feed shows.

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 29/05/2026

Shiiiiiiiit. Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers just pulled out of Trump's Great American State Fair.

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 16/04/2026

Stansted Customs Officials

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 07/04/2026

I didn't make it up but it would have been amazing if, when Artemis II came back online after 40+ minutes of disrupted video, everyone in Mission Control was wearing rubber money masks.

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 27/03/2026

Boys, it's time to start making the hard choices.

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 12/03/2026

Fun but apparently rural Cook County (Chicago) is pretty rural looking.

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 06/03/2026

Not one bit of good news 'above the fold'.

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 06/03/2026

I briefly had the Apple Motorola phone...

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 27/02/2026

The time has come to steal one of Kristi Noem’s luxury jets

Homelander in The Boys show in an Airplane.

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 11/02/2026

I thought it was this guy!

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 11/02/2026

Went to reserve a domain name... and I already owned it!

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 08/02/2026

Post your favourite Lord Of The Rings character. Wrong answers only.

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 21/01/2026

I hearby call the first meeting of the "Board of Peace" to order!

The Legion of Doom from the Super Friends.

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 10/12/2025

The 'split view' in Chrome is cool.

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 02/11/2025

My house next. We are renovating and have *most* furniture in the room that shall not be entered.

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 30/10/2025

Which one of them is an American citizen?

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 30/10/2025

RIP Chaco Taco (1943 - 2022)

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 15/10/2025

I mean, they are pretty forthcoming...

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 07/10/2025

Doesn't *everything* exist in the *expanding* space sector?

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 24/09/2025

Gonna be a windy Friday here in the Azores!

Hurricane Gabrielle tracks towards the Azores.

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 24/09/2025

Having to go on Twitter to work on social sign in at work... It can't be a coincident that it (Elon) is pushing 37Signals (DHH) given DHH's recent opinions on Britain/immigration... And now TikTok will be in the hands of Trump backers too...

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Clay Smith @davidclaysmith.com · 03/09/2025

Big week. Started a new job. 2 year olds started creche (it is *real quiet* here). I'm getting close to showing off my #Laravel package Stickle. And *surely* I'm going to cross the 1000 follower! Right?