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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 27/07/2026

Happy belated #mothweek! This little friend divebombed me at my cubicle. I deposited them in the alliums outside and let them off with a warning.

A photo of a brownish yellow moth, probably a yellow underwing species, in front of a background of wood chip mulch.

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

Cover art for the music album Jagged Little Pill, by Alanis Morissette

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 25/06/2026

I looked at the full presentation and oh my God I am dying

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 15/05/2026

That's a very nice figure. Reminds me of the riderless bike simulations. I can only assume this means snakes are also bicycles...

Text copied from CalTech magazine:

"In 2004, while a graduate student at Caltech, Matthew Cook (PhD ’05) created this evocative illustration that shows various paths a bike with no rider might take before it falls over. Developed as part of a study of how artificial intelligence might learn to ride a bike, the visualization has resurfaced and spread on social media numerous times since its publication.

Each line represents one of 800 simulator runs, each of which ends when the riderless two-wheeler topples. The curves that end in straight segments correspond with paths in which the wheels become horizontal as the bike topples over, which leads to large distances between the points where the wheels touch the ground from instant to instant."

https://magazine.caltech.edu/post/riderless-bicycyle-illustration

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 12/04/2026

If you're ever wanting to draw more cute bugs, I have a suggestion: www.bugguide.net/node/view/11...

Picture of the dwarf flightless wasp Baeus. It's a cute lil guy!

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 09/04/2026

The absolute numbers expand on the story, of course. AZ is producing more solar energy overall. But it's nice to see my little state doing its part.

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 08/04/2026

The people who manage the code are, by and large, employed by the companies who own that code. So, same problem as above. What happens when a tech company has to choose between making money and doing the right thing? The track record isn't great!

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 18/02/2026

Okay this is pretty fun dialed.gg

Score from a color matching web game, text reads "42.46/50. Genuinely unsettling accuracy. Please find a hobby."

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 20/01/2026

Today in "stupid thoughts courtesy of my brain": Trilobites would make great slippers.

A photograph of the top of a trilobite fossil, partly encased in stone. The shape of the trilobite resembles comfortable indoor footwear.

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 17/12/2025

You will be visited by three spirits.

A screenshot from the animated sitcom Futurama, showing Mom's three sons: Walt, Larry, and Igner

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 18/11/2025

Proposal: anyone who makes it onto Forbes 30 Under 30 should be placed on a watchlist.

Olivia Nuzzi

Washington, District of Columbia

From the Editor

Nuzzi was hired by New York Magazine in January and has already had three cover stories, including a buzz-worthy piece about Kellyanne Conway. As the magazine's first-ever Washington Correspondent, she covers Congress and national politics in the age of Trump, who she first interviewed about his political ambitions in 2014.

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 30/10/2025

It gets better. www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

He is, instead, a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio, who merely responded to an email from a journalist seeking his views on Democrat Zohran Mamdani's policies.

"I'm Bill DeBlasio. I've always been Bill DeBlasio," DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida.

"I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor," DeBlasio told Semafor Wednesday evening. "So I just gave him my opinion."

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 23/09/2025

Now this is cool: a "House of Hades" piece of street art, right at South Station! These are made from colored linoleum pieces and asphalt sealer; they appear solid black at first until the car tires rub away enough of the sealer to reveal the piece. City erosion becomes art. #HouseofHades #Boston

A photo of a piece of street art made of pieces of grey, white and green linoleum to form an abstract pattern; part of the piece says "HOH24", indicating it is a House of Hades art piece made in 2024.

Photo of South station intersection in Boston, MA. A crosswalk is visible with pedestrians walking nearby and tall buildings in the background. The House of Hades piece can be seen in the bottom right of the photo.

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 15/08/2025

Spotted this in a local free things Facebook group. My delight at seeing the arrows is perfectly balanced by my disgust at the text. Why is the yellow axis labeled with green text? Why is the red axis text colored yellow, and why doesn't it use a double quote? Why is the green axis label BLUE??

A photograph of a chair overlaid with colored arrows indicating its length, depth, and height, with corresponding text labels for each dimension.

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 17/06/2025

The longer you look at this NFPA diamond, the worse it gets. #kerning

A photo of a national fire prevention association (NFPA) hazard diamond, with numbers in the quadrants that are just sliiiightly out of scale.

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 09/06/2025

In a weird coincidence, right after your post in my feed is another one describing your exact position...

Blue sky post that reads, "the hong kong protestors used the phrase "do not split" to mean that the radical protest and peaceful protest arms of the movement should refuse to criticize each other."

Yet if the movement is leaderless and anarchic, it isn't chaotic. It has guiding principles that allow participants to self-regulate even as the movement constantly reinvents itself.

Among those principles is “不割席”(“do not split"). Protesters use the expression to say that no one in the movement should condemn or obstruct the actions of fellow protesters they disagree with. People who oppose a given action should sit it out, but not try to prevent it.

The use of force, in particular, is a divisive issue. Some insist on the necessity of keeping the protests peaceful, so that they will seem morally legitimate and may gain sympathy from the broader public. Others - especially younger protesters or protesters who consider that the lengthy sit-ins of the Umbrella Movement failed - believe that some measure of force has become necessary; otherwise, the government will simply ignore them.

The "do not split" idea acts as a bridge between these two factions by promoting mutual respect for diverging views within the protest movement. Not

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 28/02/2025

This is an interesting question actually - how much money would it take for you to willingly give up your American citizenship? Assume you have to do the work to become a citizen elsewhere. I think I would do it for as little as $250k

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 22/02/2025

Here are some delightful reptiles (newts and otherwise) I spotted last summer in Pawtuckaway State Park, NH.

A toad, probably a fowlers toad or American toad I think? Hanging out at the base of a tree trunk.

A milk snake, this guy was moving fast so I only was able to photograph the head but it was *big*.

A red-spotted newt, native to southern and central NH, on a forest floor surrounded by leaf litter and moss. I lost track of how many I saw, there were easily a hundred just hanging out along the trail.

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 09/12/2024

I've been waiting to deploy this meme since forever

A man preparing to set off a chain reaction of dominos of increasing size, at the smallest end there is text that reads "it's about ethics in games journalism" and at the biggest domino there is text that reads "Fascists in the White House".

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 02/12/2024

Looking especially dorktacular for this year's winter commute.

Picture of a man taking a selfie in a bathroom, wearing a bright yellow jacket with hood, and a helmet with built-in clear eye visor

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 11/11/2024

Having thoughts about everyone's favorite monster olm/tiger duo @shingworks.com

A pencil sketch of an olm and tiger wrestling

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 30/10/2024

If you see this, post a photo you've taken in the mountains

Photo taken from the top of Monadnock in Jaffrey, NH

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 18/09/2024

I love dunking on AI's enshittification of the Internet as much as the next guy, but also:

Via Wikipedia: "A popular visual representation of survivorship bias. This diagram shows where returning WW2-era planes were hit. Suggesting that the red clusters should be reinforced exemplifies survivorship bias, as only the planes that didn't crash were analyzed."

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,439,498!

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 26/04/2024

And this is why Farscape is my favorite SF series. The characters are so bonkers yet so believable in their setting. We haven't even talked about the Looney Tunes episode.

for the record, if you have never watched Farscape: it is a show about an American astronaut who gets stranded in space with a bunch of aliens. this description is technically accurate but tells you nothing about the actual experience of watching the show.

if it helps any, please consider that the main characters are, in no particular order:

a jock who's very good at math and surprisingly good at feelings

an ex-space cop who combines the fighting-for-her- life aptitude of Ellen Ripley with the understanding- her-own-emotions aptitude of Seven of Nine

Space Javert

a big weird puppet friend with like 12 arms. you will want to hug him.

Fun Worf

"wow i wonder how she got so calm and centered, she seems very wise" "oh yeah i used to be an EXTREMELY violent anarchist and I'm holding onto my chill by my fingernails at all times"

like, what if Yoda had O wisdom to impart and was just a horrible little bastard man who only wanted to do crimes

alien girl on Space Rumspringa except she's never going back because on her home planet feelings are illegal

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 03/04/2024

AI spam on Facebook has gotten out of hand.

It's an AI-generated image of a small bird with enormous, hairy testicles. Jesus Christ.

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 08/03/2024

Been a long time since I've made any art. Here's a stein I recently finished, came out looking gorgeous if I do say so myself. Always trust Odie's oil to make your pieces look sharp.

A wooden mug with a carved image of a stylized head with tentacles carved into it

A wooden mug with a Viking rune of protection carved into it

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 04/03/2024

wow, Dune 2 looks amazing

A frame from the movie Beetlejuice showing the Sandworm, a giant black and white striped snake with sharp teeth and a second head inside its mouth.

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 04/01/2024

Never forget what he took from us

A screenshot of the marvel character wolverine looking wistfully at a framed image of the Gawker.com website

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 27/11/2023

This month's sidewalk find: a combination radio/CD/tape/record player. Haven't tested the tape player yet (and don't intend to), but the other three work perfectly! #Allston #sidewalktreasure

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 05/11/2023

Several years ago, a friend of mine made a Facebook page called "Push notifications of late stage capitalism". I'm not on FB much any more, but I do have a new notification to share.

A push notification from DoorDash on a phone screen. Text reads, "Find SNAP/EBT stores nearby

We make it easy to find SNAP/EBT-participating stores and eligible items on DoorDash. Use the filters in the app to get started."

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 31/10/2023

Maybe worth it for the fall foliage though.

A sunny day in a New England forest with leaves showing autumn colors of red, orange and yellow.

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 29/10/2023

Hiked Monadnock yesterday. Absolutely wild weather - sunny and hot as we drove up, turning to ominous clouds as we approached the mountain, rain on the ascent, and then intense wind at the summit. Made it back to the car just after sunset, and perfectly clear skies as the full moon rose.

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 18/10/2023

It appears I now have a Reputation at work.

Bananas in a Ziploc bag with a stickie note attached that reads "Ben please make banana bread"

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 13/10/2023

Fellow #Brompton owners! Having problems with persistent squeaking that comes and goes and gets worse when pedaling or going over bumps? Check that rubber suspension block! Cleaning and re-greasing the bolt holding it to the frame fixed the squeaks for me. Safe riding!

A close-up photo of a Brompton bicycle's suspension block.

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 13/10/2023

There's some good treasure in the garbage this week. Too bad I was biking to work, otherwise I totally would have snagged them. #Allston #RatCity

A decorative metal arch in a pile of trash bags on the sidewalk.

A decorative table top? Or other round metal object, in a pile of trash bags.

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Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 12/10/2023

Spotted this while walking through Allston. Excitedly show it to @balise.bsky.social, who goes "oh yeah, I helped fund that through the awesome foundation." She's pretty great. Anyways, want squid facts? Text that number! 🦑

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