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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a wonderful loop on the long-ago day in which I discovered some kink friends because I'd read a story where the punchline was "ground strap."

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ice peeking above the snow, with fog. #PPortfolioOnBSky 392

A high key color photograph of chunks of glacial ice poking through a smooth snow surface, with light grey mist behind.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Never ever get tired of all the ways in which ice forms in glaciers, icebergs, lake and river surfaces.... #PPortfolioOnBSky 391

A photograph of part of an iceberg showing slightly curved but mostly horizontal bands of ice, some whiter, some bluer. The top ridge of the berg on the left has a bit of a rim protruding with, the lower ridge right is smoother. Behind/above the iceberg is an even grey sky.

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 21/09/2026

Photographers and photo desks at NYT, AP, AFP, Reuters, Getty, WaPo, and others are not publishing or distributing Trump event photos until the end of Monday (Brian Stelter/@brianstelter) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

(that was somewhere off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula)

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Gloomy. More weird vertical columns of geography, maybe columnar basalt. #PPortfolioOnBSky 390

A monochrome photograph of a dramatic canyon covered with clouds and mist, the walls of the canyon appear made of dark thin vertical columns and recede into the distance because mist.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

HuggingFace incident in a narrow sense demonstrated self-awareness. (But I wouldn’t call them conscious.)

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Perhaps a properly air-gapped machine that has ever touched the internet or a piece of code that came from outside itself isn't a properly air-gapped machine. That's ... intentionally extreme, but there's some truth to at least the first half of it. 3/3

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

But your better question is "how does the listener know to listen?", and that'd be a bit more plausible to me if you imagined both sides having some common background (an APT, but see also "Reflections on Trusting Trust" (1984). 2/3?

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

On the communications link itself: Weird to think that thermal might work better than RF or audio. My intuition is that that the latter two would be more likely to work. Huh. 1/2

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yeah, well, at least one, Thule. (oops, I see it's now Pituffik Space Base). Not at Kangerslussuaq anymore, there's a civilian airport now on the site of the former Sondrestrom Air Base. Might be forgetting another, though.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A very different detail from that same park in Nevada (Cathedral Gorge SP) #PPortfolioOnBSky 388

A pyramid shaped peak of orange rock in sunlight against a partly cloudy sky. Both the peak and the ridge around it are seemingly made of long thin vertical structures, as if the entire landform was drawn with vertical strokes.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This park in Nevada was a bit of a surprise to me, I decided to check it out without having done more research returning to the Bay Area from Utah. #PPortfolioOnBSky 386

A valley of orange rock in full sunlight. The wall of the valley have tiers with almost columns between the theirs, the base of the valley is flat, starts front center and bends back and right. Above, soft clouds allow only a few bits of blue to poke through.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And the award for "Best shot I took at a rest stop" goes to #PPortfolioOnBSky 383

A color nature photograph of dramatic mountains, lit with orange sunrise light, obscured in two bands by bluer bands of clouds top and center.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

No, Ireland and the UK are not the same color. Yes, Svalbard is coded as Norway.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

...just avoid the worst remake...

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Difficulty: I'm not going to give up the answer without at least a close guess.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Note, there's an artifact mistakenly lightening Tasmania and most of New Zealand. Sorry.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Guess the Map While there is some overlap with places I've visited, this isn't about that.

A world map, probably Mercator projection, countries outlined or filled. Most countries are grey, the US is white. Several countries are light orange (e.g., Belgium, Japan, Netherlands), others get darker with the darkest being Canada.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Pulling out details from mist and fog can be so satisfying. This was definitely a detail from where I was sitting, probably about 200mm, looking at ridges across the Eel River and the mists dancing to and fro. #PPortfolioOnBSky 382

A monochrome photograph, high-key, largely of clouds, only silhouettes of a dozen or so trees along a ridge peek through in the lower-left quarter of the image.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I meant the official flip, but you're right of course, he's already appearing at GOP conventions.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I mean, y'all know that Fetterman's gonna Manchin, right?

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So I have some feels about it, of course.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The first of my three visits there I was taken with a small group there by Galen Rowell, less than a year or so before his death, and that trip was the last time I'd seen him in person.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This was an incredible panel to visit, and so connected to my photographic history as well. #PPortfolioOnBSky 380

A black and white, portrait orientation, photograph of a large rock art panel, apparently mostly on a horizontal panel facing the sky. A foreshortened set of 4 concentric circles takes a prominent place bottom center, with scores of additional shapes receding to the end of the panel and mountains beyond, as well as some clouds above.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Calling it Rainbow Falls ... a bit on the nose? #PPortfolioOnBSky 379 (ps: There are many Rainbow Falls, this one is in Devil's Postpone NM)

A detail image from the right side, partway up of Rainbow Falls in Devil's Postpile National Monument. Cascades of soft motion-blurred water fall over rock ridges, including a larger bottle-shaped formation at right. A faint rainbow crosses the waterfall from upper-left to upper-middle-right.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Worth it for “God Angrily Clarifies ‘Don’t Kill’ Rule” alone.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Looking forward to next Wednesday. #NMS #nomanssky

A screenshot of a tweet from Sean Murray (@noMansSky) whose contents are a single emoji of a martini-style cocktail glass.

The tweet is dated 3 Sept. 26, 3:35pm.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Pretty sure that was 2005.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I love how unreal this is. It was real. Reflections of pumice on the surface of a lake at dusk, bonus brine flies for texture. #PPortfolioOnBSky 378

A surreal photograph of five bits of rock and their reflections on a lake surface. The rocks are mostly white and grey, the lake surface is smooth with clear reflections, the reflected sky is a gradient from lavendar to peach, little moving dots, hundreds of them, creating a bit of texture in front of the smooth water surface.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Medicare signup etc. complete! Not as bad as I feared, there was a fair bit to take in, but navigating it was pretty straightforward.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In a sense all digital photographs are pointillist. #PPortfolioOnBSky 377

A photograph of several trees from a distance, mostly yellow aspen with a maybe half the leaves already gone for the season. Two pines appear through them, right-center. The lighter density of leaves gives the aspen a textured, almost pointillist appeaarence.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

These are usually underwater, lake was lower a few years back. I suspect there's a spring coming out in the center of that middle circle.

$A landscape photograph of a lakeshore at dusk, much of the foreground is strange small shapes of rock coming out of the water in an almost fractal pattern, but with a suspuciously round circle without those detailed shapes in the front center. The sky and its reflection are peach and pink.$

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 26/08/2026

This year's Worldcon is happening in Anapest Anapest, it's a town, in the west

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mcc @dryad.technology · 24/08/2026

Is there anyone who understands enough tuning theory to understand this post and also is up after midnight on a Sunday

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Pretty much all of my tech jobs that was a huge factor, particularly the last two. One of them I was the only R&D member without a PhD. Learned so very, very much.

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Joe @joedecker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026