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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Now I am in #CambridgeMA! I watched the regatta from the bridge for a bit specifically because it’s something I never bothered to do when I actually lived around #Boston. There is a bogus Lord Binface here confusing the children

Overlooking the Charles River, watching a four-man rowing crew scoot by.

A four-woman team passing in front of me on the bridge, each carrying a long oar like a pike, on their way to the boat house.

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I am visiting #SomervilleMA for two days and I got up early enough to score a seat at the Diesel and enjoy a large coffee and a maple oat scone. The very first time I did this, I was literally one-half my current age! The very last time I did this as a resident […] [Original post on masto.nyc]

A mural inside the Diesel Cafe in Somerville, hanging over a long wooden common table. The mural depicts a goofy and joyful androgynous person on a motorbike holding a steaming mug of coffee as they zoom up a street, past a WELCOME TO SOMERVILLE sign. In the billowing steam of the coffee is a number of icons suggesting all the food and activity you can enjoy at the Diesel Cafe: coffee beans, bagels, a pool cue, and so on.

My laptop, a mug of hot coffee, and a maple oat scone on my table at the Diesel.

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Hands Off NYC is holding an emergency protest today at 5:30 in Foley Square, after ICE shot a neighbor in front of his kid yesterday. #NYC www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/08/…

FRIDAY OCTOBER 9
EMERGENCY PROTEST
ICESHOT
A NEW YORKER
FOLEY SQUARE
5:30PM
NÝC

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

The first thing I have made in Acorn is an edit of a tourist selfie of Amy and myself from our recent visit to Scotland, which I use as the title artwork for the modded copy of #EldenRing on our two Steam Decks. We just started a new co-op campaign, you see. That’s […] [Original post on masto.nyc]

Screenshot of a Steam Deck launcher screen. The highlighted game is titled “Hapless Tourists”, and features jmac and Amy taking an awkward selfie in front of Stormveil Castle from the video game Elden Ring.

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I’m in a space that alleges to be the #Boston South Station bus terminal? What the heck? When did all this happen? Where’d the grungy bus terminal of my memories go, the one you had to trudge to in shame through a side alley next the to Regina Pizza, so that you […] [Original post on masto.nyc]

A shiny and quite new looking bus terminal interior.

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

And later in the day I stumbled across a fundraiser event for this same mural, and enjoyed some local beer while a cover band Paid Homage to those who have recently passed into glory. good times #BangorME

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

About 90 minutes into this flight, which has free WiFi all the way; ta, JetBlue. This was my first dogfooding opportunity with BumpySkies’s international coverage since I shipped the feature last spring. I fixed personally observed bugs as recently as two and a […] [Original post on masto.nyc]

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Saw this unexpected but familiar friend from #NYC in the security line with me at #EDI.

A pink ticket for a one-way New Jersey Transit ticket from NY Penn Station to Newark Airport, discarded on the tile floor of Edinburgh Airport.

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

#NYC how do we feel about this sign that just appeared in the upper west side

A vacant storefront in the upper west side with a newly installed sign that says V C E O L W V B E O T Y if you read it left to right. Alternate letters are in alternate colors.

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

RE: masto.nyc/@wavdl/117116821875191090 I am very confident that Masto.NYC is the only server with a New York Liberty emoji :liberty: Also was heretofore unaware of their mascot Ellie. Delightful!

Ellie the Elephant, mascot of the New York Liberty women’s basketball team.

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Corrected version of the flyer that I made for #HOPE26. I got our parent org's domain name wrong in the version I posted, whoops. (Not the version that I printed and brought to the conference, happily.)

A flyer decorated with Masto.NYC art (including our pizza rat graphic) and a QR code. Text reads:
Join Masto.NYC
Indie social media for New York
• Actively moderated
• Local and federated feeds
• Guaranteed billionaire-free
Scan under the rat to
set up your free
Masto.NYC account!
• Run by a nonprofit
• No ads, ever
• No algorithms
• Just New Yorkers
Operated with in NYC by Five Borough Fedi Project (5BFP.org)

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

I hope this yarn seen at #hope26 found its human. I didn’t notice until just now that the yarn itself is saying HALP. This is why I go to these things.

A chair with a small ball of yarn on it, and a note that says “HALP, I lost my human…” The letters of the word HALP are made of the yarn, threaded through the note.

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Just took a soldering 101 class at #HOPE26 taught by Bianca here (BiaSciLab.com). I made a thing!! (I stuck some already made things together. But in a new way!)

Your humble narrator holding a small circuit board labeled “Girls who Hack” with four bright green LEDs glowing in the corners. Also here is Bianca, who taught be (and a couple dozen others) to do this.

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Rolling back to #HOPE26 with some of these

A flyer with Masto.NYC mascots and a QR code. Text reads:
Join Masto.NYC
Indie social media for New York
• Actively moderated
• Local and federated feeds
• Guaranteed billionaire-free
Scan under the rat to
set up your free
Masto.NYC account!
• Run by a nonprofit
• No ads, ever
• No algorithms
• Just New Yorkers
Operated with in NYC by Five Borough Fedi Project (FBFP.org)

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Cooldown with a Brooklyn Lager at The Upside after an unusually heavy workday. No complaints. #NYC

A pint glass full of deep amber beer at a sidewalk table, somewhere in the upper west side.

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Delacorte Theater going a bit against type with a performance of Hades II: the Musical tonight Just kidding, it’s A Winter’s Tale

A circular outdoor stage shaped and decorated like a giant clock face. There’s some other props too, doors and trees and such.

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

My own photo, which isn't better than anyone else's. But it was neat to appreciate the X etched onto its top—this spike was meant to mark the future site of a particular street-and-avenue intersection, after all, before the city got other ideas. #NYC

Close-up photo of an ancient metal spike driven vertically into a boulder.

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

I enjoy how my players are employing separate beta-testing strategies when I gave them a new Crawlspace feature to play with

Screenshot detail showing what three characters are holding in their right and left hands. Adahay has [blank] and “Sndndndnd”. Tupelo has “Hulk Hand” and “Pool Noodle”, which he’s marked an active light source. Carros has “Shield, heavy” and “Candle”.

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Live photo of me dancing at your wedding

Screengrab from the infamous Star Trek:TOS episode “Spock’s Brain”. Spock, dressed in a green jumpsuit, stands motionless and stares straight ahead blankly while McCoy, Kirk, and Scotty(?) are all wriggling around and making weird faces.

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Looking at Edinburgh trips brings to mind Clan Chattan, the Scottish clan which includes the historical Mackintoshes (to use the Wikipedia spelling), and just now the clan's crest reminds me of something. (The "but" in the motto, sometimes spelled “bot”, is here […] [Original post on masto.nyc]

One rendering of the Clan Chattan symbol: a looped belt frames the image of a rearing, hissing wild cat. On the belt is the motto “Touch not the cat but a glove”.

That meme of an orange-and-white kitten facing away from the camera, with the caption “no talk me i angy”

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

It didn't occur to me in the moment to try to start an encore chant. #NYC

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

At the Manhattanhenge block party at 79th and Amsterdam #NYC

Standing in a crowd in the middle of 79th street, looking west, towards the setting sun. Rays of light spill between buildings, trees, and low, distant clouds.

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

This post links to a past blog post of mine, which is illustrated with maybe my single favorite videogame screenshot I've ever taken, reproduced here.

A screenshot from the video game 'Everything'. A roach says to a mouse 'I'm here for you, jmac. Let me know if you need anything.’

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

@timbray This reminds me of Denver's "Blucifer" statue. Its Wikipedia article suggests that people hated it at first, but by the time I visited Denver for the first time last year—17 years after its completion—it seemed thoroughly adopted as a proud and celebrated […] [Original post on masto.nyc]

A four-story-tall mural on the site of a building, depicting a mystical woman hovering cross-legged over the earth, with symbols of the Chinese zodiac playfully flitting around her six arms. And, yes, she’s wearing a tiny Blucifer as an earring. Also a tiny Casa Bonita in her other ear.

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

I think today’s my first flight since adding state borders to the BumpySkies.com map, plus a bunch of other stuff? Anyway, looking all right out there this morning.

Screenshot of BumpySkies.com showing a turbulence forecast between LGA and ORD this morning. It’s fairly clear.

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

Going through old photos, and recalling the time that the grab-n-go shelf at the local supermarket was talking shit at me

The label on this pre-sliced deli item says LOL WHITE AMERICAN CHEESE PRODUCT

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

I will always remember what I encountered during my regular evening walk, which last night happened during the 2nd and 3rd quarters. I passed several large knots of neighbors standing in rapt silence, clustered outside sports bars or (I think) NYC Link public info […] [Original post on masto.nyc]

Dozens of people clustered together on the sidewalk outside of Bodega 88, a sports bar on Columbus and 88th in Manhattan. It’s a zoom-in of a photo I took from half a block away because I am always self-conscious about this sort of public photography.

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

Allowing myself to have this sort of Friday. 🛠️

A detail of the last-updated column from a GitHub project’s file list. This bit reads “6 years ago, 8 years ago, 6 years ago, 30 minutes ago”.

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

Sitting in the Claude Code cockpit with my feet up on the dash as usual, sipping coffee and watching the bot grind along with an analysis of a certain legacy project's customer data, when this blips past. Whuh…? Anyway, yeah, first I've heard of […] [Original post on masto.nyc]

A snippet of Claude Code chatter in a Terminal emulator window. It includes some Perl code that Claude has generated, with the line “use Config::ZOMG”.

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

A new coffee shop candidate appears near my home: Lily’s Roasters at 86th and Columbus. I ordered an Americano and a croissant to stay. This is actually good coffee, served in a proper mug. The decor goes hard for 90s nostalgia, from the soundtrack to the […] [Original post on masto.nyc]

Exterior photo of Lily’s Roasters storefront on an NYC street.

Photo of an old wooden credenza with a tasseled lamp and a black and white TV showing “Friends”, with some VHS tapes scattered around (even though it’s sitting on a blu-ray player).

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

I can't be alone in thinking of these people every time I see an arena-wall ad for Kalshi.

A box of Kashi Good Friends cereal, prominently featuring a pair of photogenic but anonymous middle-aged people pressing their faces together and grinning broadly at the camera over a bowl of high-fiber breakfast.

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

Great time at Night 1 of They Might Be Giants’s three-night show in at Brooklyn Steel last night. No opener, two sets, two encores. More past-oriented than I expected: the first set was mostly a playthrough of Apollo 18, and yes, they played Fingertips. #tmbg

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

The number of friends living in #SomervilleMA who have independently sent me photos of this sticker, so far: 2

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

A conversation elsewhere brought memories of this elder queen to mind. 🦇

Photo of a print newspaper obituary entry, with a photo of an older woman wearing a black witch hat. Text:

OBITUARIES
Holly Blair
Holly Blair exploded into glitter and bats on Aug.
17, 2020. She is survived by four spoiled cats, two
stinky dogs, three bad birds, a turtle and an utterly
useless frog named Fred, as well as three children and
a husband of little to no importance. Her remains will
be interred under a tree with the ridiculous multitude
of animals she rescued, both wild and domestic.
Her future plans include drinking beer with Terry
Pratchett and flying across the moon on her broom-
stick on Halloween. She has also promised to com-
municate with us from the beyond via the cockatiel
psyche. We ask that everyone carve extra jack-o'-lanterns on Halloween this year
in her honor. All hail the wicked witch of Juniper Road!
Arrangements are under the care of Wood River Chapel of Hailey, Idaho.
Please visit her memorial page at woodriverchapel.com to share a condolence,
memory or photo.

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

I can't remember whether I already shared this poster from the Raleigh airport last December, put I just came across it again and it still cracks my shit up.

A poster for UNC Health, depicting a surgeon at work. The text reads, in part, “Everyone has greatness inside them. Here, we'll help you find yours.”

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

Yes, the Sirens beat the lowest team in the league, and are (IIUC) mathed out of the playoffs either way. But they still did it in Madison Square Garden for the first time, in front of (according to the announcer) the highest-attended pro women's hockey game in […] [Original post on masto.nyc]

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026

This is my third #NoKings march in #NYC, and the turnout was so huge that the route overflowed in multiple directions; I've never seen anything like it. Amy and I chilled in the park for a while waiting for the throng in Columbus Circle to move at all, then we […] [Original post on masto.nyc]

Within a protest march down 7th Avenue of NYC on a cold, sunny afternoon. Signs: “No thrones, No crowns, No kings”; “You can’t bomb your way out of the Epstein files”; “No kings since 1776”; “The people united will never be defeated”

Within a protest march down 7th Avenue of NYC on a cold, sunny afternoon. Sign: A “Trump 2028” campaign poster, modified to read “Trump $20.28 per gallon”

Within a protest march down 7th Avenue of NYC on a cold, sunny afternoon. Signs: “People have the power to wrestle the Earth from fools”; “It’s not left or right, it’s right or wrong”; “L’état c’est nous”

Within a protest march down 7th Avenue of NYC on a cold, sunny afternoon. Signs: “Visiting from Minneapolis, thank you for supporting us!”; “I need to be able to tell my grandchildren I did not stay silent”; “All my outrage won’t fit on one sign”

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

I am preparing for my next Mörk Borg session, and have reason to reference this official one-page supplement. This is a good game #ttrpg #morkborg Original PDF linked from the Mörk Borg website (coz the text dump is too long for alt text) […] [Original post on masto.nyc]

An illustration of a screaming monkey swinging from a chain and holding a bizarre skull-topped rod, over the head of a surprised warrior. Facing page it titled “Damn These Monkeys” and features rules for having a pack of ill-mannered monkeys following your character around.

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