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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2026

@gedeonm I will happily eat food wrapped in any non-hateful religious text. My problem with In-N-out is that it’s just not good. 🤷

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

Yeah, I feel like the third sentence kinda follows from the first two. 😬

A screenshot of the "✨ Astronomical Conditions" section of my daily bulletin. It reads:

"🌕 The moon is full. It will be full in 1 day. Mercury is currently retrograde."

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

Decided to finally watch Adventure Time and despite coming out in 2010, the first episode is weirdly topical. Wild that the Gumball Guardians make Jake solve an eMudhra private key. 🤯

A screenshot from Slumber Party Panic, the first episode of Adventure Time, in which the Gumball Guardians force Finn to solve an eMudhra private key.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

I just ran across this image in my Reactions folder and involuntarily snort-laughed so hard it hurt.

A Calvin and Hobbes strip.

In the first panel, Calvin is happily hammering nails into a coffee table ("WAP WAP WAP").

In the second, his mother runs into the room, panicking, yelling "CALVIN! What are you DOING to the coffee table?!!"

In the third, Calvin stares quizzically at his handywork with a "*" above his head, as if to say "Me hammering nails into a coffee table has people asking a lot of questions already answered by me hammering nails into a coffee table".

In the fourth, Calvin’s original dialogue has been altered so that he looks up at his mother and replies, "This is about ethics in gaming journalism".

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Can I offer you a nice pair of former eggs in these trying times? #Pittsbirds

A pileated woodpecker perches upright on a dead tree, its head cocked to the side so the viewer can see its right eye looking almost straight up.

A young male red-bellied woodpecker perched upright on a knot in the side of a tree.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

There oughtta be a law about sending unsolicited promotional emails to the clients of the therapists associated with your practice. There especially oughtta be a law about emails with the title, "Layoff anxiety can show up even when your job is secure" […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A screenshot from an unsolicited promotional email I received after signing up for my therapist’s practice’s online portal to view PDFs the therapist shared with me. It includes a photo of a clearly distraught man sitting at a kitchen table with his face in his hands, and a title and brief description of an article purporting to be "How to Cope With Layoff Anxiety", a concern I did not have before I received the email.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

This dog in Baldur’s Gate 3 is me, except when someone tells me that they appreciate my insightfulness or thoughtfulness. At least I know what my buttons are, I guess. 😅

A screenshot of Biscotti, a sand-colored dog who has just been told that he is a good dog, saying, "YES! OH GOODNESS YES! I _am_ a good dog… Fantastic stuff."

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

And another. Not sure if this one’s gonna land for anybody. This may be one of the conceptual ones I mentioned. 😅 9 - Ram. #inktober2026 #Inktober

An attempt at rendering the eye of a goat on a hexagonal piece of wood in yellow, orange, greenish, brown, and black acrylic marker.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

And because I’m very tired today, all I have for #inktober2026 today is a nerdy minimalist visual pun. Panic. #Inktober

A laptop or table sits on a surface of some kind. It’s showing a blue screen with ": (", indicating a Windows kernel panic. Nearby, a stick figure stands with its stick hands raised to where its mouth should be in panic at losing its work.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Belated day 6 of #inktober2026. Running a day behind, feeling very tired, and I truly had no ideas in my head that weren’t Shrek. All the same: ogre. #Inktober

A low-effort stick figure appears to be holding its own jack-o-lantern-esque head above its shoulders. (Which is to say, above the stick representing its torso and neck.)

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Today, while discussing a frustrating and repetitive task with coworkers, I found a relevant Calvin & Hobbes panel, got distracted for a few minutes, and then went to save it as buildscharacter.png in my Reactions folder. There was already a file with that […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A screenshot of a Finder Info panel for the old file, showing a Created and Modified date of Saturday, August 8, 2015.

Spoiler: this is the new one. It is the exact same height and width in pixels. It is not pixel-for-pixel identical, but I believe that is because of differences in how Preview from 2015 handled pasted content vs how Preview handles the same content today.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Bonus: I tried doing a simpler version that captured the slightly Haring-esque aspects of the stick figure and the handprint, but I overdid the flatness of the fingertips (which was mostly unintentional in the first one) and I don’t like the finger spacing as […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A wooden hexagon with a black stick figure lying splatted inside a brown handprint, with lines of impact angling out in all directions around the stick figure.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Belated Day 3 of #inktober2026, rendered—albeit unintentionally—in the style of Cecilia Giménez. Miniature. #Inktober

It’s a very poor attempt at a rendering of a classic blue LEGO Space minifig. His expression, such as it is, transmits a real ambivalence about his very existence.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Good morning to all, but most especially to this pair of northern flickers doing a courtship dance in my neighbor’s tree, and the mockingbird who came over to see what all the fuss was about. #Pittsbirds #backyardbirding #birds #birdsofmastodon

Two roughly American-robin-sized northern flickers sit in a tree, partially obscured by twigs. They both have brown-and-black striped backs, black-spotted undersides, black bibs, buff faces, and red caps.

A ruffled northern mockingbird sits on a branch to the left of one of the northern flickers from the previous shot. It seems very intent about something, while the flicker seems mostly unconcerned.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Day 2 of #inktober2026: Near miss on the sizes of the screen and the scroll wheel, and I’m not sure what happened with the weird texture areas at right and bottom-right. 😅 Also, did you know acrylic markers bleed on wood and the combination is not suitable […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A photograph of an unfinished light-colored wooden hexagon with a silver iPod Classic poorly rendered using acrylic marker. The border around the screen is too large, the click-wheel is too small and also very lopsided, and the markers have bled in a number of places. However, the iPod user interface is more or less recognizable, and the right side of the screen is a reasonable lo-fi rendering of the mostly-blue cover of an album the poster’s name may make you think of.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I didn’t have much time today and also at first I tried something more complicated and it was a disaster. (I have 36 regular acrylic markers, 12 pastel, and 12 metallic, and absolutely zero idea how any of them work together.) So my first entry for […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A light-colored wooden hexagon sits on top of a bamboo surface. Off-center toward the upper left of the hexagon is a reddish, recognizably apple-shaped blob with a stem, a four-year-old’s best effort at a leaf, and a little bit of a shine on the upper right quadrant.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Signs it’s time to log off for the day include:

A macOS system dialogue with the Finder icon and the text 'The application "Dock.app" can’t be opened.".

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

On a more positive note, I ran across a website this morning that made me really happy. seedsavers.org's search uses a font that turns out to be called, appropriately enough for my search, Crimson Text (fonts.google.com/specimen/Crimson+T…). I just […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

seedsavers.org's full-screen search feature, which overlays the whole site with green and then centers the search input, which uses an italic, old-style serif font that conveys both authority and authenticity.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Bethesda and Ikea have finally embraced Tara Long's correct and deeply-held belief that the best part of video games is…

A screenshot of Bethesda's 2017 "Sponsored by Old Spice" Pool Games Inc. segment. Tara Long is sitting between Griffin McElroy and Nick Robinson in a hot tub. The inventory glyph from No Man's Sky is above her head, and the words "INVENTORY MANAGEMENT" are overlaid on the bottom of the image in the Impact font.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

I brought my hummingbird feeder along for a cabin weekend, and it has paid off. :D

A female ruby-throated hummingbird hovering to drink from a green hummingbird feeder with red flower ports.

A slightly ruffled-looking female hummingbird sits on a twig.

The same female hummingbird on the same twig, but now looking a bit more smooth and composed.

The same female hummingbird sitting on a much more distance branch, preening. She is partially obscured by another out-of-focus twig.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

I'm trying to decide whether this real Amazon product image was generated via AI and then badly photoshopped, or whether it was just generated like this in the first place due to the training corpus containing such a high percentage of badly-photoshopped […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

An image of a somewhat androgynous but five-o'clock-shadow'd person tossing a nondescript white ball in the air, or possibly staring at it as they levitate it with the power of their mind. The right arm—the one tossing the ball—is passing directly through a short stack of two books. In front of their left arm are six similar nondescript white balls arranged like two serried rows of androgynous-person eggs. Blurred in the background are what looks like a medium-sized bamboo plant and an old-style alarm clock whose bells are an unlikely share of bright blue.

The more or less realistic image is surrounded by cheerful yellow border. Overlaid in the top left corner are the words "Sttess telief Inspirational".

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Wondering what fish can see from the inside of an aquarium led to reading about Snell's window on Wikipedia… and now I have a title for my thousand-page Wheel of Time fanfic.

A paragraph of text title "Image formation" from the Wikipedia page for Snell's window. The last paragraph ends with the highlighted text, "a cloud of scattered light".

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Today's small friend is this juvenile male house finch with a sweet tooth—er, beak. #Pittsbirds #backyardbirding #birds #birdsofmastodon

A small brownish-grey bird perches on the ring perch around a green hummingbird feeder with red "flowers" drinking ports. The bird, whose head sports a scattering of reddish feathers, is dipping its beak into one of the red flower ports with a very focused expression.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Dracula castle at Halloween, palm tree the rest of the time, and my back is just fine, thank you.

A crispy-fried meme showing a Windows 95-style "Select Card Back" window offering a number of familiar playing card backs from Windows card games, including the clown fish. Text above it reads, "If you have a favorite pattern, your back hurts when you wake up now".

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

If I had a nickel for every time Google issued me a temporary block for searching YouTube for "doofenschmirtz nickel", I'd have one nickel. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened at all, right?

A screenshot of a page located at www.google.com/sorry. It says, "Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. Please try your request again later."

Additional highlights include:
"This page appears when Google automatically detects requests coming from your computer network which appear to be in violation of the Terms of Service."

and

"Sometimes you may see this page if you are using advanced terms that robots are known to use"

The original YouTube search URL is listed at the bottom:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=doofenschmirtz+nickel

(The misspelling of "doofenshmirtz" is original.)

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Anyway, here are some beautiful things from the containers on my front stoop after the rain. #bloomscrolling

A newly opened red zinnia. Leaves of several other kinds of plants are visible around and behind it.

A yellow rudbeckia or brown-eyed susan flower emerging from between the bars of an iron stoop railing.

Two scarlet runner bean flowers covered with rain drops, backed by more rudbeckia flowers and bean leaves.

Three ripening cherry tomatoes covered in raindrops hang in front of a backdrop of planting containers and other plants.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Good morning! Today's small friend is… a hummingbird again! Look: if I get a good picture of a hummingbird, I post a good picture of a hummingbird. That's just how it is. #Pittsbirds #backyardbirding #birds #birdsofMastodon

A tiny hummingbird sits on the perch around a translucent green hummingbird feeder, its green-feathered back to the camera. Its head is turned slightly to the left, and the tip of its tongue is just visible at the end of its beak.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Today's small friends are a male house finch drooping his wings to show off the goods, and a young or female ruby-throated hummingbird caught at the feeder. #Pittsbirds #backyardbirding #birds #birdsofMastodon

A small light brown bird sits on the very top of a black shepherd's crook pole. He has bright red and orange feathers decorating his face and stretching back behind his visible eye, and a patch of bright red and orange feathers just above his tail. The latter patch would normally be covered by his folded wings, but he is intentionally drooping them, presumably to show off for any females in the vicinity. His visible eye appears to be looking directly at the camera.

A tiny green hummingbird perches on a green translucent plastic hummingbird feeder with red plastic flowers. Its throat has a number of light spots indicating that it's likely either a very young male or an adult female. It appears to be considering the feeder before it.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Good morning! Today's small friend is this female or juvenile ruby-throated hummingbird. (I suspect a juvenile because I had the feeder down for cleaning when it first arrived, and it just kept flying around the pole looking for it.) #Pittsbirds #backyardbirding #birds #birdsofMastodon

A tiny green-and-pale bird hovers next to a green glass hummingbird feeder with red plastic flowers. The bird's wings are blurred and barely visible as it hovers, but one of its tiny claws can be made out clearly.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Anyone else's latest version of Discord for Mac completely busted? I get this both via Homebrew and via direct download.

A macOS dialog window with the header "A fatal Javascript error occurred" and an error message that includes the phrase "Attempt to install something that's already installed".

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

TFW when you are very young and the world is shiny and new and exciting but also a pigeon just tried to land on you. #Pittsbirds #backyardbirding

A photograph of a juvenile red-bellied woodpecker clinging to a green metal caged tube feeder. It is leaning backwards with its beak wide open, and it appears to be looking upward at something in surprise and/or disapproval.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Was describing to a coworker how I had a stupid idea that saved the day by solving an equally stupid problem, and was reminded of a clip from Justice League Unlimited that lives rent-free in my head. Finally managed to find a copy for my reactions folder.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Today's small friends are this female house finch checking out the newly cleaned and refilled hummingbird feeder, and the blue jay on the suet feeder in the background absolutely horfing a chunk of suet. 😂 #Pittsbirds #backyardbirding #birds #birdsofMastodon

In the foreground, a small brown finch sits on the perch encircling a hummingbird feeder made of green glass and red rubber/plastic flowers. Her head is lowered, apparently to inspect a drop of water or nectar as it drips from the feeder.

In the background, a blurry young blue jay perches atop a suet feeder, a chunk of suet half the size of its head clutched in its beak; its body language suggests that it is in the process of absolutely housing that chunk of suet.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

It's good when the sun looks like that, right?

The sun hangs in the sky above roofs and tree canopies like an angry orange eye.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Hey uh Stephen Miller is on some extremely Nazi shit again. 😬 Rubio also going harder than I thought he'd be willing to, which is not a good sign for where we're headed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/ju…

A screenshot of three paragraphs from the linked Guardian article.

Miller railed: “The leftist is fundamentally motivated by envy, by hatred, by jealousy. The leftist looks at what is beautiful and what is good and what is natural and is filled with envy and hatred. The leftist looks at a perfect family with a perfect life and a perfect job and a perfect kid and goes to church every Sunday.”

Miller also dismissed concerns about civil rights abuses by the administration. “One of the hallmarks of leftwing violence and terrorism is its completely pretextual and disingenuous appeal to civil liberties in an effort to shield its own violence,” he said. “This is the tactic that the left always uses to try to protect itself from facing criminal punishment. It is essential that we are wise enough and strong enough to understand that these appeals must fall on deaf ears.

“When the leftist protests that we are violating his rights, understand that he is lying to try to persuade people who are not closely following the political scene that some injustice has been perpetrated against him. We must stay the course and be completely unflinching in the pursuit of justice against these enemies of civilization.”

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Today's small friend is a new visitor to the yard: a juvenile red-bellied woodpecker. Unfortunately, these shots are super washed-out because the camera was in direct sun and the woodpecker was in the shade. But look at this absolute goober of a dinosaur! […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A woodpecker with a black-and-white-striped back clings to a tree. Its claws are visible just above its shoulders, giving it an archaeopteryx-ish look. Its head, facing to the left with its beak wide open, has only a faded reddish-brown cap where the bright red would be on an older red-bellied woodpecker.

The same bird clings to the green metal cage around a tube feeder.

The same bird is seen creeping up the trunk of a tree, its beak once again wide open due to the heat.

The head of the same bird is seen peeking out from behind the trunk of a tree in a very cute manner.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

for gods' sake let it just be a plant

A screenshot of PictureThis.app showing a photo of a blooming rocket larkspur, along with the text, "This plant is HEALTHY but CAN BE OPTIMIZED!"

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