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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 1h

Amsterdam’s weather would like to apologize for its earlier weather behavior. Just stepped outside and caught this rainbow over the canal. October can stay. #Amsterdam #Photography

A full rainbow with broken cloudy skies over canal houses in Amsterdam

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 08/10/2026

Amsterdam has moved on to autumn. My gym clothes choices have not.

A shirtless man with short brown hair, a beard and a muscular build stands facing the camera in bright orange drawstring shorts. His arms are relaxed at his sides. Warm lighting highlights his face and torso against a charcoal wall, with a wooden bench behind him.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 07/10/2026

Sometimes the astrology really speaks to us. And sometimes, a bug creeps in and the astrology keeps its mouth all the way shut. #Astrology #AstrologyHumor

Screenshot of Cosmic astrology software in a dark purple theme. The left sidebar shows three color-coded moment cards labeled Birth, Event, and WIP, each with a date, time, location, and visibility control. Birth is dimmed with a crossed-out eye icon; Event is magenta and WIP is amber, both with open-eye icons. A “Cast new moment” button sits below. The main area displays a large, empty circular chart outline beneath Chart and Aspects tabs, with no planetary or zodiac markings.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 04/10/2026

Welcome to Amsterdam in October: somewhere between lovely evening walk and the boatman knows your name. 👻

Nighttime view along an Amsterdam canal, with pale haze partly obscuring a stone arch bridge in the distance. Boats are moored in shadow along both banks. Warm streetlamps cast gold and white reflections across the rippling water. Tall canal houses with silhouetted trees line the banks of the canal, with a clock tower rising above them against the dark sky.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 01/10/2026

Very difficult to walk anywhere efficiently when the buildings and sky keep doing this.

Golden sunlight illuminates ornate brick rooftops along an Amsterdam canal beneath a sweeping blue-grey, cloud-filled sky. A cyclist crosses a brick-paved intersection in the foreground, with pedestrians nearby. On the right, a tall corner building has white trim, arched upper windows, black wrought-iron balconies and a turreted roof. Trees, moored boats and parked bicycles line the canal on the left. A small bridge and narrow gabled houses stand in the distance.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 30/09/2026

X is such trash. You make one astrology post after years of nothing and every bot named "Luna" starts following.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 29/09/2026

Pride flag was here first. 🌈🏳️‍🌈

A rainbow stretches down from a cloudy sky over a canal lined with houseboats, leafy trees, and narrow brick buildings. Warm sunlight illuminates the buildings and treetops, while the boats and rainbow reflect in the calm water. A rainbow Pride flag flies above a large houseboat in the right foreground.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 28/09/2026

Mars entering Leo with a Pluto opposition on Oct 3 moves from confidence to questions of leverage, force and control. Watch your 6, folks.

Astrology chart of 3 October 2026 at 12:39 Amsterdam time showing Mars in Leo partile opposition Pluton in Aquarius.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 27/09/2026

Amsterdam: where cars are pulled over by horses.

Two police officers on horseback, one on a white horse and one on a dark horse, issue a ticket to the driver of a blue SUV they have pulled over on a cobbled Amsterdam street. Gabled canal houses and parked bicycles are behind them. Bold white text on black reads: “Amsterdam: Where cars are pulled over by horses.”

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 25/09/2026

ngl i love designing a homepage

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 18/09/2026

Cosmic is now fully shipped! Thank you so much to everyone that helped through the (long) pre-release phase. Astrologers: Unlimited charts synced across all your devices (yes, even mobile) for free. cosmic.plumbing

Cosmic Astrology shown in light and dark mode; on web and app; and across mobile, tablet, and desktop.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 11/07/2026

Wearing pearls on leg day: yes or no?

A man wearing pearls whilst doing a barbell squat

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 11/07/2026

I would KILL for those pants. I may have to get them custom made now.

An AI image of one man as a space wizard and the other as a space pirate with amazing pants on.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 07/07/2026

Yay. Cheaters shouldn’t win.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 01/07/2026

That time when I ran and made an IUD.

A map with an outline of a running route (which looks like an inter-uterine device) with the words “Today’s route sponsored by highly effective contraception”

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 30/06/2026

Leading the ranger panty revolution

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 24/06/2026

You can tell he has gay daddies because he has two squeaky balls.

A lab pitbull dog mix laying on a rug with two squeak ball toys next to him.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 08/06/2026

23 years with this guy @tres.cosmic.plumbing. I can't imagine a better partner.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 02/12/2025

For future crypto scams in my DMs, I would prefer the less-optimized Canadian-style Thursday message. Thanks.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 29/09/2025

Hey guys. I think I figured out who sunk Tug Dominion near Bremerton, WA. #sunkenship #bremerton #ghostship

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 26/09/2025

My comment to the FTC regarding gender-affirming care to minors. In short, let's protect our most vulnerable.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 26/09/2025

This week, we buffed up Cosmic. See for yourself. youtu.be/IF9bqY2t5zA

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 25/09/2025

From classic TV to true crime: a Donna timeline 📺 ➡️ ⚖️

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 24/09/2025

Me: building professional astrology tools. Them: ‘That’s not a real job.’ Also them: Principal. Value. Advisor.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 24/09/2025

Feeling the eclipse in our hips

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 18/09/2025

Didn’t expect my spine to get shredded from working out 👀

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 16/09/2025

Black Lilith has entered the chat 🖤🌙

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 15/09/2025

Optimizing only for conversions? That’s how you end up with “quick wins” that destroy long-term trust. Your UX choices can build loyalty—or cause irreparable harm. 👉 Full story on the UX Level Up Podcast. www.ooux.com/resources/episode079 #UX #UXDesign #DesignEthics #DarkPatterns

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 10/09/2025

I love playing "Name That Unhinged Icon" on the Noun Project.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 09/09/2025

I am so there today. ☿🌞🛕

Inbox showing zero messages with a party horn saying "Inbox zero!"

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 06/07/2025

Americans, what is your act of patriotism you will be showing this year? #patriot #patriotism #independenceday #july4th

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 04/07/2025

I think he was freaked out by the fireworks. Happy 4th?

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 04/07/2025

Look folks. I’m counting this as a full super-wide pull up.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 22/06/2025

Everyone's judging you. And it's absolutely fine.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 21/05/2025

It's not perfect #UI (my simple light theme has a problem with the card title), but I'm really loving how these selectable grid cards are coming together.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 21/04/2025

Ummmm how much do I love designing beautiful #ui that should be just fucking boring? 😍 #uidesign #design

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 08/02/2025

Our internet problems be damned. I guess this is what we get for trying to create an episode from the wilderness of Washington and the mountains of North Carolina. Related: give me an awesome houndstooth pattern any day of the week.

A brown, cream, and red houndstooth pattern

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 03/02/2025

A viewer showed me our video podcast Our Cosmic Journey playing on their Nintendo Switch. Worst. Indie. Game. Ever.

The video podcast Our Cosmic Journey on a Nintendo Switch

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 01/02/2025

Incense burners need to look more like old men smoking pipes

Incense holder that looks like an old man smoking a pipe

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 27/01/2025

If you want to know why GTD is amazing as a trusted system of tasks and to-dos: I've had a task to move over my husband's HSA now since 2017. I finally completed it today, 2,602 days later. It never bubbled up to the top of the list until today, but it was never forgotten.

A piece of UI showing a task was added on the 13th of December 2017 at 8:02pm and that task was completed on the 27th of January 2025 at 11:35am.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 23/01/2025

Pretty proud of this spymaster scenario puzzle in Codenames.

A Codenames game board for a spymaster scff Ed Mario where CHEESE, SWORD, and KNIGHT are selected for the clue SLICES for 3.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 16/01/2025

I'm relaunching my amazing card game Lohai with a new design and new name in 2025. Started the process by filing my new trademark with the Patent and Trademark Office. We are on out way!

Trademark application status for the name Split Ends under examination.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 15/01/2025

UX designers haven't dealt with extensive requirements and pervasive business logic until they have had to deconstruct an astrological text from the 12th century for their professional astrology software. #ooux #ux #uxdesign

A page from from the 12th century text "Beginning of Wisdom" by Rabbi Avraham Ibn Ezra.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 15/01/2025

Yesss homemade spaghetti and meatballs

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 12/01/2025

I had quite the setup at the library for filming my second pilot!

A table in a conference room with a laptop and a monitor showing lots of different colors.

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 07/01/2025

Look what I just found on our island here! So majestic!

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Jake Zukowski @jake.cosmic.plumbing · 07/01/2025

If you ever want a super hard #UX challenge, just try and #OOUX Astrology tooling. It doesn’t cease to bend my brain.

A detailed flow of how settings travel with astrological rings and charts through a system

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