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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

22 September 2026 - the first day of the new year 235 in the French Republican (revolutionary) calendar. Bonne année à toutes et à tous ceux/celles qui la célèbrent!

An image of the UniCal application showing today’s date in the French Republican calendar. The text shows that it is 1 Vendémiaire, Year CCXXXV.

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Aren't you the famous Gradient Booch? Or am I failing to differentiate you from someone else?

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Way to go, Delta Airlines and its map provider Flightpath3D

A photo of a map of three Great Lakes (Ontario, Erie, and Huron). The photo is of an airplane’s seatback flight-tracker map, showing an airplane at Detroit Metro Airport. Lake Ontario is circled in red marker.

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

SchismSort - a partition sorting algorithm if you will. Choose an element, burn everyone holding a contrary opinion. A classic O(n) sort, still used in social networks today.

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Careful. Potatoes have root permissions.

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

60 vertices… a dodecicosahedron. It goes without saying that this isn’t a Platonic solid.

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The new Gordie Howe Bridge seen from Windsor, Ontario, Canada. You know, Ontario, like the lake. #GordieHoweBridge #Ontario

A photo taken on the Gordie Howe Bridge, which connects Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan. The view is of an empty multi-lane highway under a massive set of supporting cables that descend from a tall concrete tower. The sky above is covered with billowing grey clouds.

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are maize and blue… @umich.edu

A photograph taken Wednesday, August 26, 2026. A picture of a rainbow that appears to be emerging from within the University of Michigan stadium, “The Big House”. The rainbow is rising into a grey cloud which hovers over Stadium Boulevard.

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

See Stop. Move Stop, move! Stop! Stop Stop, stop! 🤔 #linguistics #dickandjanebooks

A placard at a bus stop. The placard reads “STOP MOVED”. There is an arrow under the words that point ahead to where the bus stop is.

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

These are not the plums you are looking for

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I just got this message that contains emdashes. That must mean it was AI-generated 🤔 ·· — / ·— — — — — ··— ·— ·· — ·· / — ··· · / — · ·· — ·— · · / ·· ··— · / ·· — / ·— — · ·— · · / — ···· ·— — / · ·— ··· — ·— —

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Central Yellowstone is in a caldera from a volcanic eruption 630,000 years ago. Magma is closer to the surface here, creating many steaming vents, geysers, and hot springs. Bear and bison live here, too, not including the humans who stop by to visit.

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Road trip! The Spam Museum in Austin, Minnesota. #spam #spammuseum

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trick-is-a-treat-kat @trickykat.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

pretty sure sisyphus and möbius would have been BFFs

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The people of Paris storm a data center, July 14, 1789 #fetenationale #bastilleday

A painting of a Paris crowd storming the Bastille

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

One of the selling points is that the Remarkable doesn't let you get distracted and end up doomscrolling. You can write on it, you can email documents from it. Distraction free. Really feels like writing on paper. I like mine a lot.

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Whoa, whoa, whoa. They can be annoying, but who’s talking about hanging the Prophets? Seems a little harsh.

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The brilliant Mya Gosling at the AADL Comic Arts Festival! Morning workshop - how to draw Shakespearean stick-figure cartoons. Part of the AADL Summer Games. I’m a total fan! @aadl.org @goodticklebrain.bsky.social

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

First Friday in June - National Donut Day (U.S.) International friends - feel free to celebrate wherever you are!

A poster showing a plate of donuts - chocolate covered, strawberry covered, sugar frosted. Text in the image says "National Donut Day - Friday - June 5, 2026. Celebrate the sweetest day of the year! Support LOCAL donut shops in your community!"

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"meaning-adjacent" !!! Gonna add that to my daily vocab along with "well-meaning-adjacent"

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Simone Weil. "You think attention is prayer, affliction is the place God touches, and the unbaptized belong at the table too." Yep. However, dear KidsBopTotenLieder, this quiz had many more questions for which none of the answers were honest for me. Did others find this as well?

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Physics seeks to understand BlueSky : "Bubbles are ubiquitous in nature and of great significance..." (pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/arti...) #bubbles

A screenshot of an article from "Physics of Fluids" published 28 March 2023, titled "A unified theory for bubble dynamics". Five authors are listed, with their academic affiliations, followed by an article abstract.
The abstract begins:
"In this work, we established a novel theory for the dynamics of oscillating bubbles such as cavitation bubbles, underwater explosion bubbles, and air bubbles. For the first time, we proposed bubble dynamics equations that can simultaneously take into consideration the effects of boundaries, bubble interaction, ambient flow field, gravity, bubble migration, fluid compressibility, viscosity, and surface tension while maintaining a unified and elegant mathematical form."

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

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Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026

YouTube video by Stephen Colbert

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Fouls? Like the Oregon Ducks?

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

This is a haiku It's haiku all the way down This too is haiku

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Nailed it for me. Episcopal for many decades, by conviction and by choice and not by birth. Your quizzes on the English, French, and Russian revolutions got me 100% as well, so... interesting work!

A screen of mostly text - at the top in small red print it reads "Your closest neighborhood"
Underneath in large bold text, the summary line: "The Episcopal Church (TEC)"
Underneath text which reads "Your taste lives in the tradition that has become, more than any other in America, the home of inclusive orthodoxy: sacramental theology, openly LGBTQ+ clergy and laity, a strong literary culture, smaller but stable... Your neighbors are people who think hymns from the 1700s and same-sex weddings belong in the same building."

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I think you've got the makings of a parable there

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Time for our annual celebration of Olympe de Gouges, born on this day in 1748. Author of the Déclaration des Droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne, abolitionist, and playwrite. “A woman has the right to mount the scaffold. She must possess equally the right to mount the speaker's platform.”

A painting of Olympe de Gouges, a woman with grey hair wearing a white shawl, looking directly at the viewer.

An image of the Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Citizen, in French. It begins with "Déclaration des Droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne."

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Enough Met Gala. When's the Yankee Gala? #AmericanLeague

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

David Zinn is a chalk artist in Ann Arbor. His works are short-lived and precious - they disappear every time it rains. Seen today in the wild. @davidzinn.bsky.social

A photo of a drawing in chalk. The drawing is off a small creature with a tiny dog at the end of a leash.

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Giving alpaca.blue a go. Très cool. But an interesting edge case: Posted something, a question for you, actually, then figured out the answer and deleted my post. That post doesn’t seem to be deleted in alpaca. I don’t care about the post or its deletion, just an interesting state to be in.

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Your unified social timeline

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Walking tour of the architecture of Detroit, led by the Alliance Française de Détroit. A bit of the same architectural style as Chicago if not as grand, but Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac would be proud of the city he founded.

A green copper sculpture of a muscular figure. The figure is sitting, cross-legged. In one hand he is holding a small golden image of a family. In the other hand a radiant sphere. This is just outside Detroit City Hall.

An image of a colorful fountain in the atrium of a building in downtown Detroit. The fountain is formed by a series of nine triangular shapes.

An image looking up through a skylights at a multistory tower, which is the Dime Building in Detroit.

An image of the interior of the Guardian Building in Detroit. A massive doorway in wrought iron holds a Tiffany glass clock.

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This is just a hyperthetical question, right?

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Jordan Running @jrunn.ing · 26/04/2026

I made something, mostly for my own amusement, but maybe y’all will like it: treacheryof.pics Make your own Magritte-style “Treachery of Images” image.

Image in the style of Magritte’s “Treachery of Images” but the pipe is replaced with a pile of plums and the caption says “Ceci n’est pas the plums from the icebox.”

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

An outstanding site - try it! And if you haven't tried Libby (or Overdrive), try it, too! I *love* the Ann Arbor District Library, but this opens up whole new worlds.

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Somebody is gonna get the Lambeth Peace Prize

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David Barbrow @dbarbrow.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Idolatry, bearing false witness, adultery *and* murder... in *this* economy?

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