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Thomas Dickerson

@elfprince13.mumak.app

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Geospatial AI @nbcuniversal.com, Brown CS PhD & SMCVT Math/Physics/CS alum, admin @cemetech.net, AFOL, SFF nerd & open-theist Foraging & homebrew Bluesky open-source contributor Decentralizing systems (human & digital) Opinions are my own 📍Vermont

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 10h

Astronaut 1: Wait, it’s all Austrian economics?

Astronaut 2: Always has been

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 10h

Evening walk. Can’t even begin to describe how vibrant these colors are in real life. The undersides of the leaves are almost iridescent.

Sumac leaves in fall colors.

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 10h

Swipe➡️ for a Good Surprise from my afternoon -w-a-l-k- hayride

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 18h

Going for a ride on the daycare hay wagon in the tractor parade with me this is what you get

Me on a hay wagon

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 11/10/2026

Incidentally Lego has a Keytar which only appears in two sets, one of which is a Vidiyo minifig whose hair+antennae mold only appears in two sets the other one of which is also a Vidiyo minifig but is an Andorian-appropriate color scheme when combined with a blue Twi’lek head and hands.

Lego TNG 1701-D minifigs plus GWP exclusive Ensign Ro Laren plus my homemade Andorian yellow shirt

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 10/10/2026

Achievement unlocked

DAILY AVERAGE
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2026
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15,000
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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 10/10/2026

This one is worth turning your phone sideways for.

A panorama with camel’s hump to the far left and a low hill covered in Vermont fall foliage spreading over the rest of it

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 09/10/2026

Afternoon walk and some landscape photography

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 09/10/2026

How I arrived on Bluesky

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 09/10/2026

My quads and lower back can feel the dread setting in already

A pallet of pellets getting deposited in our yard

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 09/10/2026

ATLA cabbage merchant screams “my babbages!”

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 09/10/2026

You got me

Interests & Hobbies
Reads children's literature extensively
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Product Preferences
Concentrated party supply purchases

Interests & Hobbies
Cooks extensively with specialized equipment

Interests & Hobbies
Gardens with focus on vegetables

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 09/10/2026

The crust tidbits were still perfectly crunchy, and the applebutter reduction wasn’t grainy/icy. 10/10 no notes

Apple pie ice cream

Closeup showing the crust bits stirred in

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 09/10/2026

There was morning and there was evening

Reflected sunrise on the Adirondacks

Reflected sunset on the green mountains

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 08/10/2026

Like rearranging deck chairs on the Ti…*checks notes*…conderoga?

Deck chairs on the Ticonderoga

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 08/10/2026

My* hips don’t lie *technically the Shelburne Museum’s

The chonkiest rosehips you ever saw

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 08/10/2026

A good day with good friends

Dreemee supreemee

The steamboat Ticonderoga

A painting of a very good dog

Lighthouse and Vermont fall foliage

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 08/10/2026

🤔

Ancestors
3
The Post-War Engineers
Ingeniator congregationalis
Ancestral
Built the chip industry with flat offices, no reserved parking, and a quiet conviction that complaining is a sin.
Speed
Steering
Destination
••
The Whole Earthers
Catalogus terrae totius
Ancestral
Communards who decided the personal computer was the new LSD.
Speed
Steering
Destination
Hackers and Cyber Activists
Informatio liberata
Downloading
Believe information wants to be free and governments should stay off the internet.
Speed
Steering
Destination

000

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 08/10/2026

Not terrible. Skipped a few ill-posed questions

The field guide says you are Hackers and Cyber Activists
Informatio liberata
79% match

Believe information wants to be free and governments should stay off the internet.
In 1996 John Perry Barlow told the governments of the world they had no sovereignty in cyberspace; the governments took this as a challenge.
Their descendants run models on a gaming PC under the desk, explain their quantization settings unprompted, and want to train frontier models across thousands of volunteers' GPUs so no one can gatekeep them.

You and your tribe
Halt
Speed 53
Floor It

Markets
Steering 29
Strong State

Stay human
Destination 30
Transcend

Dot: Hackers. Bar: you.

Close relatives
Defensive Accelerationists
LLM Skeptics
Post-Rationalists

Natural enemy
AI Doomers

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 07/10/2026

Death from Bill & Ted speaking the post below

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 06/10/2026

how did this get here

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 06/10/2026

myninebooks.com/g/24695caa6284

The Silmarillion
Ender’s Game
Dragonflight
Many Waters
The Horse and His Boy
That Hideous Strength
The Tombs of Atuan
Wishsong of Shannara
Mr Midshipman Hornblower

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 05/10/2026

This is always a bit disconcerting

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 05/10/2026

Mixing generations

Early Lego ideas mech and crew with a bunch of the current green Lego city space guys and gals

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 05/10/2026

At this point it is worthwhile to again look at Tolkien's reasons for abandoning this potential sequel. In the same letter of 1964, Tolkien writes, "I did begin a story placed about 100 years after the Downfall but it proved both sinister and depressing. Since we are dealing with Men it is inevitable that we should be concerned with the most
regrettable feature of their nature: their quick satiety with good?”

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 05/10/2026

Just a lil guy

Pale Green Assassin Bug on my fingers

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 04/10/2026

Fancy drinks o’clock Wife: “did you even put any tequila in this??”

Sparkling Blueberry / basil / tequila lemonade

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 04/10/2026

WHY WERE YOU THE 13TH STATE?
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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 04/10/2026

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 04/10/2026

Blue flames dancing on hot coals

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 04/10/2026

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 04/10/2026

Absolutely stunning night to watch the stars come out, webp is going to make a mess of these 🥹

Starry sky

You can see hints of the milky way

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 04/10/2026

Fittingly the apple pie was served with (vanilla) ice cream

Pie leftover

Pie with ice cream

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 04/10/2026

We made both apple pie and Apple Pie Ice Cream today

Pie crust sticks cooling

Big Apple Pie

Crumbled pie crust

Apple Pie Ice Cream

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 04/10/2026

Honestly a banner day for all the Types of Guys in my yard

Tomato bristle fly

Garter snake

Various salamanders

A frog

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 04/10/2026

It’s giving “Happy Evil Whale”

A log with a glowing red “eye” and a burnt “jaw”

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 03/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen's Mina Harker

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 03/10/2026

The sooner you go to bed the sooner it will be Caturday

Agnes the cat sleeping on her bed

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 03/10/2026

Have I mentioned the sunsets here are also baller?

Fiery light seeping through fall foliage

Glowing sunset clouds a house

More brilliant orange backlit foliage

Last wisp of sunset

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 03/10/2026

Evening walk and landscape photography o’clock

Misty hill with brilliant foliage

Green vines wrapping around a purple tree backed by other brilliant foliage

More misty foliage hill

More foliage across the street

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 02/10/2026

A tale of two naps

Agnes the cat is curled in a ball, Rascal is lounging regally

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 02/10/2026

gn fam

Agnes the cat curled up covering her face

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 01/10/2026

Fall is fully here!

Geese in a V heading north against golden clouds

Vermont foliage in full swing

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 01/10/2026

A story in 4 parts

Rascal the cat pawing at a jar with meat that fell out of a bao into soy sauce

Rascal with his tongue in the jar

Rascal grimacing

Rascal giving a hard stare

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 01/10/2026

oh no baby what is you doin

Very tiny fuzzy caterpillar that looks like a woolly bear on my raspberry

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 30/09/2026

She’s looking at whatever you just scrolled past and judging your feed

Agnes the cat looking up

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 28/09/2026

Boy lunch

Apple butter on vanilla yogurt

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 28/09/2026

Boy breakfast

Apple butter on vanilla ice cream

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 28/09/2026

Got a solid 10 cups of apple butter out of my crockpot

Bowl full of apple butter

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 28/09/2026

Malik the timekeeper of all Dinotopia showing off his collection of helical timekeeping devices and natural artifacts