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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

FAWMStock was wonderful. Thank you @fawmchallenge.bsky.social Touching grass with new friends was good for the soul and the creativity.

Image Summary: A deer is listening to someone playing guitar; the image is taken from inside a building, through the window, and the musician is sitting on the porch outside.
Detailed Description: View through a window, from the inside of the building. The window is a side-slider and cracked open about four inches. Just outside the window, and visible from behind and about the midback upwarads, is a person playing guitar. The player is wearing a red yarn cap and dark blue-black jacket. They are playing guitar as evidenced by the neck and head extending out to the left, with capo and fingers visible. Their height relative to the balcony indicates they are sitting on the edge of the porch.
An adult doe mule deer is standing a few dozen yards beyond the guitar player. Her head is raised and ears extended, listening to the musician.
Above and behind is a grassy field, with an archery target visible to the far back left and trees lining the far edge.

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A pissed off belted kingfisher doing low-level flyby in full bore screaming kakkakkakkakkakkakkak mode is a thing to experience. ... but add in the Doppler effect you get an OMG WHAT?!?! level of special sauce on top. So happy to be where I am, near live water.

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benhosp.bsky.social @benhosp.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

As a first approximation, you could do worse for an answer to “what is it that Catholics believe that’s different from Protestant?” than “I’m not speaking to God without a lawyer present”

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Am hearing more rolling thunder this morning than the last few years combined. Yay rain in July! I can't stress enough how frickin' surreal the rarity of Sound storms is to someone who grew up in the US South or Midwest. It's like, do you even wx, bro? #homesick #wawx

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Few things as cutely silly as a clumsy fledgling jumping and climbing around a birdbath in pursuit of a moth. Junior hasn't figured out standing water: he lifts one foot, shakes it off, puts it back down in the water and lifts the other and shakes. Then sees moth go by and tries again to catch it.

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"and turn in your priest card" Probation is 1-3 years

The priest must also attach his certificate of priestly ordination and enclose, signed and dated, "the Professio fidei and the Formula adhaesionis"

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Sort of surreal looking at the beach, currently packed with people shellfishing and wandering around. And unfortunately, chasing off the shorebirds that usually would be foraging in the exposed flats and eelgrass beds.

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This morning's super-low tide coupled with a fairly high high means the incoming tide swing will be over 16 feet. In under 8 hours. Commencement Bay (Tacoma) -

Today's TIdes: June 14, 2026 10:27 (LST/LDT)

3:26 AM high 12.17 ft
10:48 AM low -3.95 ft
6:31 PM high 12.34 ft
11:35 PM low 8.15 ft

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Juvenile song sparrows, dark-eyed juncos, chestnut-backed AND black-capped chickadees, and downy woodpeckers have been learning about the feeding stations today. And a pod of orca passed by. Clear, sunny, and I got garden work done. woohoo!

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I've said this before, but with the legal shenanigans continuing it bears saying again: PLEASE link to the filing or docket. There is a special place in Heaven for People who Link to the Filing. You'll be rubbing elbows with that most exalted group, People Who Return Canning Jars.

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Poe's Output wins ... My aidar failed to catch that a post was a parody of Claude output and not the real thing. #aidar

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Only accepted-by-government confirmed cases, so it won't include unprocessed samples in the backlog - source: www.aphis.usda.gov/animals/anim...

Screencap from the USDA New World Screwworm Confirmed Detections web page. Section headlines are "Outbreak Situation Last 30 Days", with 6 total animal cases, 6 of which are domestic (livestock, pets) and 0 which are Wildlife & Feral. Zero "Fly Trap Detections", which are just what they sound like, traps put out in hopes of catching an adult fly. The righthand side is "Map of Counties with Detections Last 30 Days" and shows 3 orange blocks in south-Central Texas and one in the lower SE corner of New Mexico

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

die die DIE, "Daily Passport", which just suddenly out of the blue started spamming me daily. Shady "subscriber" count manipulation? Data collection or malware delivery via Unsubscribe links? Not verifying addresses entered in a Subscribe box? Blacklist, block, report - my go-tos. #vent

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

"You can make me perch in the perfect spot, in perfect light, but you can't make me pose. Nope. Not gonna pose. Why would I look left anyhow? That's not where the fish are." #neverworkwithkidsoranimals #birding #pnwbirds 🪶

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Now that a few hundred yards of bindweed root have been cleared out of another strip of shoulder, time to toss showy milkweed and Agastache urticifolia seeds and such there. Would be nice if I got paid or even reimbursed for this *grump* 🌱 Behold, < 10% of what I pulled:

Several dozen feet of bindweed root looped in a pile on the soil. The root looks like 1/4" thick white rope. The ground is mostly bare, dark grey-black dirt with dried brown grass cuttings and pine needs on it. At the top can be seen the tips of fingers of a plastic glove, and in the top righthand corner the clipper have of a pair of offset pruners.

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Shades of "I'll have you know that I golf with Ben Hill himself!" from the earlier days of Home Depot.

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Yay! Got permission to remove the poison hemlock growing on the shoulder of a VRBO/AirBnB house's lot. Just in time because it's starting to bloom. Boo! It's going to be just me. No help from owner. After all, the county mows the shoulder in fall that's their job, right? *headdesk* #pnwgarden 🌱

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Shame I couldn't stop for photos: pea-sized hail piled up along Canyon Rd from north of 512 to 72nd (Summit View to Waller), looking like light snow on roofs and lawns.. a spattering here and there on Bentley Rd. Nothing like the south or midwest gets but definitely unusual to see here #wawx

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

One of the ospreys has decided to get serious about territory defense. No idea of the nest location or which is the mate, but he's busy yelping and chasing and it's nice for once to see ospreys just running away from each other instead of running away from the bald eagles going after their fish.

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

#rant - sites that don't honor no-tracking cookies, fingerprint your system so even clearing all data between visits and using a different browser, a visit a month later triggers email spam within minutes. Happened twice this week with a vendor now blacklisted.

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Bummer. This was growing strongly but the leaves were blackening rapidly. Whatever killed it off last year was back. Diseased = into the trash. The pot broke while extracting the plant so it got trashed too. Glad I kept it isolated. Fingers crossed the Chelonia purchased in February stays healthy.

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Need a recommendation for a 50%-shade understory plant (Seattle area) that can handle occasional root disturbance when I pull new bindweed + ivy sprouts. Soil is mostly loose forest-floor type spruce needle + some leaves, composting in place. Would Columbine handle this? Fringecup? 🌱

A tangled pile of white rope-like 1/4" thick roots, with some thin green vines and heart-shaped leaves mixed in. This is Bindweed (a bad, very invasive type of morning glory), which grows back from the huge root structure. Eliminating it requires pulling out all of the roots, which can be several feet long and result in new shoots coming up well removed from the previous plants. The first year several piles like this were pulled, the second year a couple big piles and lots of smaller pieces, and this third year has been merely a handful of new sprouts with short skinny broken root sections.

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

One brave white flower in a huge patch of invasives. Unfortunately it got yanked with the rest. I'm hoping it's something from a rhizome or similar and will come back next year. I have until then to figure out what it is and how to propagate it 🌱

A flower with 6 long, thin, semi-oval white petals, 6 short stamens surrounding the center. It has three other developing flower buds near it. Behind and all around it are geranium-like leaves, unripe seed pods, and a couple of purple flowers.

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

🌱 Phacelia tanacetifolia starting to unfurl aka Bee's Friend, Lacy Phacelia, Blue Tansy, and Self-Seeding-$*@&%@#

Closeup of a budding flower, I'm sorry but I'm sort of at a loss to describe it. It makes buds along a tightly coiled stem that will slowly unfurl, each bud starting to open as the available space increases.

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The app is new this year and a disaster. The angler's club meeting had people saying they WERE CITED when they could not show their license nor catch log because of connection issues, server issues, and so on. Supposed offline/out-of-range capabilities didn't work. Etc.

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Casualty of the administration's thrashing around in the Middle East: The licenses are water-resistant because they're pulled out all the time on the water because you're required to record your catches at the time they are caught. They get soaked fast. wdfw.wa.gov/newsroom/new...

wdfw.wa.gov

WDFW to discontinue sale of waterproof, tear-resistant paper licenses as early as May 13, 2026, amidst global shortage of petroleum-based paper

Due to a global shortage of petroleum-based materials, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and its 600 license dealer locations will no longer sell waterproof, tear resistant licensi...

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

#webrant Website that doesn't let us sort or products by availability. I am not scrolling through four pages of search returns where 90% say "SOLD OUT: Enter email to be notified when new stock arrives" to see if what I need to buy today is in-stock. Frustrating UX.

Depicts two entries for boots on the SportCo website: the left is "Bogs Classic Women's Mid-Boots without Handles" $115 and the buy button says "SOLD-OUT: ENTER EMAIL TO BE NOTIFIED WHEN NEW STOCK ARRIVES", the right is "Bogs Forge Steel Toe Boot" $184.95 and the button is "CHOOSE OPTIONS". Other than the label on the click-to-buy, the entries are similar and on a full page of these the viewer has to pay close attention.

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

My dream website would let me pick "Perlite" on the search filters listing and make it possible to somehow distinguish "Perlite ONLY" from the 85 matches on mixes and blends and potting soils that just happen to contain some perlite. ESPECIALLY don't show me 10 wheelbarrows.

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Geneaological research is a constant reminder of medical advances. The majority of entries on many old death ledgers are infants and children; page after page listing deaths now prevented with vaccines. Diptheria, pertussis, measles ... #idlethoughts #geneaology Also: Yay 1926 census !!!

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Any recommendations for *specific* varieties of fuchsia that are good for hummingbirds? 🪶 Not all varieties produce enough nectar, and it's hit-or-miss buying at the garden center. Couple of local clubs' web pages + social media haven't been updated in years :( 🌱

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

2025-04-15 - FOTS Osprey flew through 🪶 It was a little male that circled around in the blustery winds ahead of the approaching rain, calling and calling. Seems late. Did I just miss them earlier or are they late or am I misremembering the dates? Welcome back, either way. Signs of spring!!

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I'll never look at my banding getup the same way again

A post on Threads from the user heilsbergdvm:

Overheard at the Gay Rodeo:

"Only here can you see someone in a leather harness with snaps and think .... professional sports photographer or lifestyle statement?"

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Springtime for Anna's ... Me: "You silly hummingbird, quit poking those dried stalks." Bird: <ignores me, keeps poking> Me: "That Fireweed's not going to bloom for months" Bird: <flies away with beak full of fluff> Me: "OMG YOU'RE COLLECTING NESTING MATERIAL!!!" Also me: *squeees and melts* 🪶

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

They never took a percussion class or ran this past any musicians. Yes, I could make music with a pizza (and not just by feeding musicians with it) #pizzachallenge #badcaptchas

A captcha screen with the requirement "Select objects that can be played to create music", displaying non-traditional instruments such as construction hard-hat helmets, a stuffed animal and pizza slices.

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Another spring, another round of Chinook salmon arriving at Point Defiance Marina to be studied and raised as part of the Chinook Orca Research and Education (CORE) project alliance - #salmon #orca 🧪 www.facebook.com/gigharborpsa...

facebook.com

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

For when you need to scan FISH fish, not horse fish or bird fish or any other type of fish. 🌿

UID has developed a streamlined and user-friendly PIT Tag Reader Kit, designed with both field convenience and data accuracy in mind.
Each kit includes:
* URH-2 Portable Reader for scanning and identifying tagged fish fish
* 10 PIT tags* (2.1mm x 12mm) preloaded in sterile, single-use injectors
* Six barcode ID stickers per tag for fast, error-free data capture

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

🌱 Dahlia disappointment has been mostly offset by the discovery of Chelonia (Turtlehead) shoots. It's coming back! It didn't die last year when it went from done-blooming to brown-and-crispy in two weeks! ... still going to keep the pot isolated until I rule out disease. But it's alive!

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Late getting started on these, but finally got a big bag of dahlias from CostCo for my partner's balcony. CostCo bulk bags are hit-or-miss and this multipack was hit AND miss. So. We'll see how it goes. 🌱 Send dirt.This stuff is expensive to pot up!

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Dash Point State Park - the resident bald eagle pair was seen mating today. I'd say "signs of spring" except that baldies sometimes start nesting months earlier. "Signs of when they finally get around to it" or "waited til the snow melted" maybe. 🪶 🦅

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The mystery killer whales that visited Seattle earlier this month, and had never been recorded before 2025 when they showed up in Anchorage, are back in Puget Sound again! #orca #t419s ide thoughts - how much would it cost to get the genetic testing done if samples could be obtained?

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

"Bone marrow transplants require extensive prep and aren't cheap, but it'll cure you unless you roll a 1 on this d20" Science is amazing and if I won one of those billion-dollar lotteries I'd look at setting up a foundation to help people afford stuff like this.

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Then there's the other group of users, who upon seeing their application has updated itself, say "shitshitshitSHIT" and go leaping for the Settings to see what's been auto-installed and needs to be disabled until they have the time to research it.

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Why you should always check Settings after any "update" gets applied -- to see what's been silently added with a default of ON/ENABLED that you don't want..

Opera may use web services to improve your browsing experience. You may optionally disable these services.

Automatically send crash reports to Opera - turned off
Help improve Opera by sending feature usage information - turned on
Fetch images for suggested sources in News, based on history - turned off.

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Just 15 minutes ago: Resident pair of adult bald eagles were tag-teaming a laden gull. Gull finally drops its fish, the eagle immediately behind dives to catch the loot, while the second eagle powers forward and catches the GULL. Parasitism AND predation! 🪶 Amazing flying display.

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

They're actually proposing this, my gods. www.regulations.gov/document/DOJ...

ACTION:
Notice of proposed rulemaking.

SUMMARY:
The Department of Justice ("Department") proposes to establish a process for reviewing bar complaints and allegations against its attorneys. Under the proposed rule, before a current or former Department lawyer may participate in any investigative steps initiated by the bar disciplinary authority of any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia in response to allegations that a current or former Department attorney violated an ethics rule while engaging in that attorney's federal duties, the Department will have the right to review the allegations in the first instance and shall request the bar disciplinary authority suspend any parallel investigations until the completion of the Department's review.

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Brought this to mind (image is from redbubble, my copy is buried somewhere in the unpacked books)

A spiral notebook, blue color with black spiral and white lettering. The lettering is "THE BUWUBOOK" "A Uwuniform System of Citation" and "OwO Edition". There are trademark registration marks after the words BUWUBOOK and Citation. (Joke spoiler: this is a very niche, visual joke. It's a reference to the cover of "The Bluebook" law reference)

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Entropy Generator @egen.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Hey #lawsky is this a good or bad thing to have the judge say a third of the way into your hearing? Bloodbath. The 2nd-hand embarassment and cringe was already high even before getting to this part ... source: www.courtlistener.com/audio/102686...

Snipped from an appeal hearing transcript where judge is saying "So what I'm trying to get across is I'm having trouble believing anything in your brief."

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