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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 1h

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.

Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 5h

There is a family of robins taking turns bathing in a crook of the stream where the water runs slow. Somewhere far above, a Cessna or its cousin drones invisibly across the perfect blue sky. The scent of fallen leaves fills my nose as a chill breeze rustles more down from the trees to join them […]

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 5h

Someone just walked past me on this beautiful fall day walking ten beautiful dogs, and if you don't think that's the tightest shit then get out of my face.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 5h

I'm reminded of a lyric from the song Vagabond Moon: "What a fine thing to make love and survive"

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 5h

Sitting in the woods watching leaves fall and listening to the sound of a nearby stream, I am reminded of how much of a miracle it is that we are all alive, here, now, together. And that fact is no less of a miracle if you attribute it to random chance and the incredible age of the universe […]

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 5h

Any day I see a pileated woodpecker is a good day.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19h

"You know, I’m boycotting global politics until everyone just gets along."

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

It’s kind of a relief to see everyone else starting to see the cracks in Gruber’s facade. I would love to see him turn away from his current path, which seems likely to lead to self-isolation and has the potential for a really unpleasant heel-turn arc. 🙃

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

While I’m at it, there also oughtta be a law that replying to unsolicited texts with "fuck off" has the same effect as replying "end" or "stop". Just viscerally more satisfying.

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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 · 19/10/2026

There’s all this concern about misaligned AI but very little concern about misaligned people. For example, imagine producing the kind of child who wants to be a tech CEO.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Sometimes I feel guilty for rarely running proper dungeons for my D&D players, and then we do yet another session that is basically all one encounter and I remember that actually it’s probably for the best.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I'm pleased to report that one character rolled straight into a frozen lake, one is currently trapped in a cave with the corpses of two frost giants by mysterious runes, and one has been swallowed by a remorhaz after firing a flock of abyssal chickens down its gullet. Perfect, absolutely […]

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

My D&D group is getting together today for the first time in… maybe two months?… and I’m currently planning how to drop the players right back into some action to get things going, because we had just ended a big encounter with a nice rest. Currently I’m thinking they get blasted from a jungle […]

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

TFW an extremely quiet, serious coworker uses a cute, silly emoji out of nowhere and you find yourself wondering if you’ve had the wrong read on them for the entire time you’ve known them.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@harris I really think at this point the issue is just that people are so fucking sick of the big tech companies telling them what to do, and regardless of what *trustworthy* organizations say—ignoring 1Password for the moment—the big companies are all engaged in trying to force people to use […]

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I’m torn on the Magician’s Nephew trailer. On the one hand, it looks like it could be a very fun movie. On the other, it looks like it will absolutely annihilate some of my earliest visual imaginings, and I’m not enthusiastic about letting those go.

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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 · 12/10/2026

This one is lazier and lower-quality than I’d like. Also I don’t want to talk about the orientation and placement of the words. I’ll do better tomorrow.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I’m not sure "make a magic-lookin’ circle" really aligns with the intent of Inktober, but it’s what I felt like doing today so ✌️.

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

Anyone who uses a "decision model" for something that could be decided by a human being deserves to be hanged, change my mind.

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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 · 10/10/2026

Just watched the first three episodes of Avatar: Seven Havens, and by the lion turtles it’s good to have new Avatar episodes coming out again. 😭

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I liked the first season of Lanterns. Didn’t think I would, but I did.

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

I don’t make any promises, but I hope to be back to something a bit higher-effort tomorrow. 😩

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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 · 08/10/2026

RIP Margaret Hamilton. Truly an icon.

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

@alextecplayz @jducoeur Yeah, I think the idea that this is in any way a "clean-room" implementation is the part that really falls flat for me too.

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

@coreysnipes Man. I really do miss being a student there.

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

@coreysnipes I both took and taught ExCos. They’re highly variable in terms of content and quality, as you might expect, but overall I definitely think they’re a significant net positive. As far as the town goes, I think it’s great. When I was there, the town/gown divide—which wasn’t nearly as […]

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

@coreysnipes I couldn’t have asked for a better one. Like you said, the campus and town are idyllic (or were, back in the late 2000s—I haven’t been back much in the last 10 years). And I was challenged intellectually and ethically by other students as much as by my professors. I really wish I’d […]

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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

@coreysnipes The Oberlin Conservatory photo jumpscared me something fierce. 😅 Wasn't expecting a beautiful shot from the campus of my alma mater.

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

Thinking a lot about Ray Bradbury’s short story A Sound of Thunder this morning. No particular reason.

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

And just in case anyone’s wondering: yes, this concept was in fact inspired by Yamcha’s death pose.

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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 · 06/10/2026

It really hurts to see thoughtful, capable people take positions at AI companies.

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

Is it perfect? No. Am I satisfied with it? No, I already know a number of things I’d do differently if I did it again. But I don’t hate it, AND I learned something making it, AND making this one made me want to make better ones. I’m calling this one a win.

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

In theory I have a plan for today’s prompt that should be less… like that… but we’ll see how it goes. 😬

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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

My ENTIRE goal in participating in Inktober is to produce an image for each prompt that is recognizable. Any evidence that might persuade a reasonable person that the image was created by someone over the age of five is to be considered a bonus.

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

Looking ahead at some of the Inktober prompts, I think y’all may be in for some highly conceptual representations from my utterly unprepared ass. 😂

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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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