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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 3h

Yes, black beans. A. dried cherries, a pasty, black beans B. salmon, crab, pine nuts, cheese, wine, craft beer C. another pasty, shortbread, colcannon, a pickled herring, a meatball with lingonberry jam, a bite of croissant

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 21h

I wrote four postcards for World Postcard Day!

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 30/09/2026

If you see this post a vampire who isn't Dracula:

Official 2026 portrait of Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, pictured from the chest up.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 30/09/2026

As a kid I listened to my Red Sovine tape so often it wore out, and any time Jerry Reed or Tom T. Hall was on the country shows was a must see. Love this.

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Willi Carlisle - "Big Butt Billy" (Official Visualizer)

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 30/09/2026

Returning to work feels like a brief break until my next road trip.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 28/09/2026

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19. Wallflower Waltz.

The cover of k.d. lang's Absolute Torch and Twang. lang stands in a golden field under a cloudy blue sky. Wearing a brown jacket over denim, looking off-camera while holding a white cowboy hat and gloves. A small, solitary house sits on the distant horizon.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 27/09/2026

I don't listen to radio or follow charts. At the moment I'm really enjoying Rhiannon Giddens "Hope Is the Thing With Feathers" It sounds like what the musicians in my family would play in the evening when everyone gathered together on my aunt's front porch while us kids chased lightning bugs.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 27/09/2026

I had a fun weekend at the cabin and learning how to use my telescope. For being so automated, there are still myriad settings I want to learn to get the best images. I'm also relearning the map of the sky. So many changes since my childhood refracting telescope. Thanks @haenck.bsky.social!

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 27/09/2026

The Great Hercules Cluster, NGC 6205, constellation Hercules, 1 minute exposure (taken at dusk while testing the set up) Beta Lyrae, Sheliak, multiple star system, constellation Lyra, 1 minute exposure Globular cluster, NGC 6341, constellation Hercules, 1 minute exposure

Beta Lyrae, Sheliak, multiple star system, constellation Lyra, 1 minute exposure

Globular cluster, NGC 6341, constellation Hercules, 1 minute exposure

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 27/09/2026

The North America Nebula, NGC 7000, constellation Cygnus, 11 minute exposure The Dumbell Nebula, NGC 6853, constellation Vulpecula, 1 minute exposure The Pyramid Cluster, NGC 7092, constellation Cygnus, 4 minute exposure

The Dumbell Nebula, NGC 6853, constellation Vulpecula, 1 minute exposure

The Pyramid Cluster, NGC 7092, constellation Cygnus, 4 minute exposure

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 27/09/2026

Galaxy NGC 7331, constellation Pegasus, 1 minutes exposure The Western Veil of the Cygnus Loop, NGC 6960, constellation Cygnus, 23 minutes exposure Galaxy NGC 9646, the Fireworks Galaxy, constellations Cepheus and Cygnus, 6 minute exposure

The Western Veil of the Cygnus Loop, NGC 6960, constellation Cygnus, 23 minutes exposure

Galaxy NGC 9646, the Fireworks Galaxy, constellations Cepheus and Cygnus, 6 minute exposure

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 27/09/2026

The moon over Lake Huron. Morning at Port Crescent State Park.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 27/09/2026

Sunset at Port Crescent State Park

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 26/09/2026

The cabin is decorated for instagram. There are even fake plants and macrame. The air fryer is enjoying a change of scenery.

Geodesic dome cabin with man reading in Adirondack chair.

Multi cooker with men reading in mirror.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 26/09/2026

Learning to set up my telescope’s equatorial mount. Longer exposures tonight.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 26/09/2026

M13 star cluster. It’s early. Better images to come.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 25/09/2026

I’d prefer a senator who is a furry. I was going to say more, but the period looks good there.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 24/09/2026

My favorite keto pasta added lasagna sheets to their offerings. It’s the first lasagna I’ve made in a few years without zucchini or hearts of palm sheets.

Lasagna with melted cheese on top in a blue casserole.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 24/09/2026

This is Great Grandmother Edith later in life. Taken on two different occasions, same dress, and sitting in the same chair on different sides of the table. I overlapped the windows and took a screenshot.

Two images of the same woman in a floral print dress. She smiles for the camera and the arrangement of the two makes it look like she is sitting on both sides of a table.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 24/09/2026

That's my Dad. This photo "disappeared" after his funeral. They eventually "found" a bad photocopy and mailed it back to Mom. I hate, love, and miss him. At 00:00 on October 31 it will be 25 years. Wonder what else I'll find on this drive.

a black and white photograph of a man in an US Air Force uniform.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 23/09/2026

Looking through the hard drive from Mom's old MacBook and there's a folder named "From the Desktop" and inside it there's a folder named "From the Desktop" and inside it there's a folder named "From the Desktop" and inside it there's a folder...

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 23/09/2026

My maternal grandpa's parents, Theodore and Edith. Theodore's parents were Jean Pierre and Marie Rose, born in the late 1700s and immigrated from Franche-Comté, France to upstate New York. The family had money, lost it, and moved to Iowa. Dark hair and ice blue eyes are a family thing.

An old photograph of a man and a woman. W.R. Breck Art Studio, Brooklyn, Iowa.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 23/09/2026

In the 90s I went to an SCA event with friends. On the hotel TV they had Sailer Moon playing one episode after another on a loop. It was the only SCA event I've been to, and I was too shy to have fun of any kind. I hid behind my friends and did my best to be invisible. Now I hide behind Patrick.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 22/09/2026

I tried making pepperoni Detroit style in the air fryer. The other is bbq chicken on one side and the other side is half pepperoni and black olive and ham and mushroom.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 22/09/2026

Working late before taking a week off. Taking my telescope to a geodesic dome cabin steps away from Lake Huron in a dark sky sanctuary and finding galaxies.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 22/09/2026

My 9 Animes Though... Delicious in Dungeon and Beastars instead of Kill la Kill and Popotan?

STar Blazers, Cowboy Bebob, Ghost in the Shell, Mu Shishi, Mushi-shi, Heroic Age, Kill la Kill, Mainichi Kaasan, Mr. Stain on Junk Alley, Popotan

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 21/09/2026

It was either Utopia or Microsurgeon on the Mattel Intellivision. Utopia was a city building game. My friend and I would build out our islands and leave each other alone, then we would destroy it all. Microsurgeon required healing someone using a small ship like in the film Fantastic Voyage.

Two islands each with various icons for homes, factories, schools, crops, defenses, rebellion, and hospitals. There are icons for defense and fishing vessels on the water along with fish, storms, and pirate ships.

A pixel art section of a human head showing the internal organs and structures. A green bug icon represents infection to be removed. A small white object near the middle of the image represents a miniaturized ship defending the human body.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 21/09/2026

Things I was afraid of as a child: 1. Rubber bands and the elastics on party hats 2. The sound of the old train's whistle on my Disney LP of The Little Engine That Could 3. Being hijacked or crashing in a plane 4. Being shot while eating at McDonald's 5. Nuclear war continued...

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 21/09/2026

My home from 1976 to 1989. Everything paved over (except the driveway) was once a garden that provided enough green beans and potatoes to feed us most of the year. Blackberry, raspberry, and grape trellises went from the street to the back corner. The asparagus patch was near the middle.

Ugly pavement behind a typical, beige, suburban split-level.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 20/09/2026

Sunday in the mall with Patrick and Aaron.

Sunday in the mall with Patrick. Bearded man in glasses smiles for the camera with a typical American mall in the background.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 20/09/2026

Present Tense was the clothing store where Mom worked. From the style of the stars and my poor spelling this is 5th grade. PV is Pony Village, the mall where the store was located. Voom, voom. (going through Mom’s files)

A 5th grade cartoon. A small spacecraft crashes through the window of a women’s clothing store and becomes stuck in a bra.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 20/09/2026

At Brian's place, together on his bed. Listening to Annie Lennox's new album together. Our only date. Sweet, kind, funny, and so beautiful. The next morning he lent me his copy of The Illuminatus! Trilogy before I headed home.

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Annie Lennox - Why (Official Music Video)

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 19/09/2026

Lysimachia latifolia (Pacific Starflower) is something I miss from where I grew up. They arrived with the spring and I looked forward to them every year. They are how I learned observing nature in the moment is often better than yanking it up and putting it in a vase (they wilt within seconds).

a small, pink, star-shaped flower with seven pointed petals and yellow stamen on a slender stem. Large green leaves compared to the small flower.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 19/09/2026

I've long thought it would be neat to mashup The Girl I Knew Somewhere by The Monkees and Dreaming by Blondie. I hear it in my head but have no idea how to do it.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 19/09/2026

Spell your name with songs: M - The Man That Turned My Mama On, Tanya Tucker A - Abraham, Martin and John, Moms Mabley R - Radio Silence, Thomas Dolby C - Clair De Lune, Daniel Olsén U - Unmitigated Gall, Faron Young S - Shy Girl from Orange County, The Kimberly Trip

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 19/09/2026

It doesn’t look like much in grandma’s tupperware, but it’s chia pudding with raspberry compote I made yesterday.

A cottage cheese tub full of raspberry chia pudding.

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maliwi is marc williams @maliwi.com · 19/09/2026

Quote post this with a picture of the aircraft you'll accept as a bribe. A three-engined Lockheed L-1011 Tristar in PSA's pink, orange, and red "smiling" livery.

A three-engined Lockheed L-1011 Tristar in PSA's pink, orange, and red "smiling" livery.

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