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peat @peat.org · 21/09/2026

Spent some time this summer touching grass and shooting street portraits with the locals. I'm on the hunt for a new series now that the weather's turning ...

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peat @peat.org · 31/05/2026

I suspect y'all would love @sachajudd.com's newsletter. This week was particularly awesome -- about art, AI, and human labor. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/made... (photo from a presentation by Jae Lubberink)

A photo of a presentation slide titled "creative renaissance in spite of AI, not via AI" that shows connections between eras and their art: romanticism as a result of nausea from the enlightenment, arts & crafts movement as a result of nausea from the industrial revolution, and "romanticize the toil?" as a result of nausea from the algorithm/AI era. Red letters at the bottom state "you are here" and point to "nausea" for the algorithm/AI era.

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peat @peat.org · 30/08/2025

Happy Friday! Have a giant. ❤️

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peat @peat.org · 28/08/2025

Just a side project I've been hacking on for a little bit. 😁

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peat @peat.org · 27/08/2025

It's Wednesday. Have some David Lynch dots.

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peat @peat.org · 26/04/2025

Touched some grass. Felt good. 😊

A photo of an abandoned rail road trestle in the Pacific Northwest forest.

A photo of a snail basking in the morning sunlight. Do snails bask? I have no idea. I like to think this little one was enjoying itself.

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peat @peat.org · 27/03/2025

"Create a generic anime illustration of this headshot" "Create a photorealistic headshot from this illustration"

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peat @peat.org · 24/03/2025

Hello #NYC! Good to see you again. Even if you are a bit damp.

A blurry airport scene through a rain soaked window

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peat @peat.org · 24/03/2025

Goodbye #Seattle! May blue skies return soon …

A view out of a rain streaked airplane window, looking out at blobs of color and light in the darkness

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peat @peat.org · 23/03/2025

It’s @rudyfraser.com with the second most important concept slide this morning. … and his deck just keeps going. The entire presentation is a beautiful follow up on these concepts, and approachability, and moderation, and autonomy, and and and … ❤️ #ATmosphereConf #BlackSky

Horseless Carriage Syndrome
* New technologies initially imitate the old technologies they are replacing
* It makes the new tech more understandable by keeping familiar features
* If we never move past the "horseless carriage" stage, we fail to reap the full benefits of innovation

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peat @peat.org · 23/03/2025

One of (if not the) most important slides at #ATmosphereConf. Vulnerable people WILL be attacked in social spaces. Everyone benefits when we understand and systemically defend against those attacks. (From @kissane.bsky.social)

COLLABORATIVE SOCIAL THREAT
MODELING
1. As individuals and communities inhabiting our systems. what do you need to protect?
2. From whom do you need to protect those things? What vectors do they use?
3. How bad are the consequences if they aren't protected?
4. Which elements of our systems/tools/protocol/policies make it harder for you to protect what you need to protect? What could we do to help?

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peat @peat.org · 22/03/2025

I love this perspective on the high level design thinking for the AT Proto. I hope this deck gets posted; it’s a great primer on why and how all this [waves hands vaguely] works behind the scenes. @dholms.xyz at #ATmosphereConf

Photo of a slide from a presentation:

Atproto Ethos

The Web: open, permissionless, universal, interconnected data

Peer to Peer: location independent data, self certifying data, skepticism of centralization

Distributed Systems: split read and write mode, application aware indices, microservices, eventual consistency, stream processing

Identity based authority, structure gives freedom, split generic hosting from application, lazy trust

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peat @peat.org · 22/03/2025

Packed house for day one at #ATmosphereConf ❤️

A whole bunch of enthusiastic AT Proto nerds watching Boris open the conference program.

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peat @peat.org · 15/03/2025

Things are looking pretty good from this perspective! Flashes is a solid app … it’s been lovely scrolling through bsky photo feeds and other delights … (It was also fun getting to see this painting in person)

Caspar David Fredrich’s “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog”

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peat @peat.org · 08/03/2025

Shirley Chisholm’s slogan from her 1972 presidential campaign is unmatched. 🔥

Photograph from the Museum of the City of New York of a black sweater with a gold slogan embroidered on the front in cursive script. It says “Unbought and Unbossed” — Shirley Chisholm’s 1972 presidential campaign slogan.

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peat @peat.org · 08/03/2025

Gotta squeeze in another museum before I fly back to Portland!

A photograph of the entrance to the Museum of the City of New York with two big stone signs illuminated by the sunlight.

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peat @peat.org · 02/03/2025

"Sometimes talking to Eddie is just like dropping a stone in a well, except that it doesn't thump when it hits bottom." Edward Hopper sounds like a pretty reserved and shy guy ... but one does not simply paint a smoking clown at a Parisian cafe without drawing from a bottomless well of weird.

Edward Hoppers "Soir Blue" from 1914. It's a scene of people drinking at little tables at a cafe in Paris. Chinese lanterns hang above. Everyone is painted in muted and darker tones, except for a standing waitress with red cheeks and a BALD SMOKING CLOWN in bright white face paint, bright red makeup, and puffy white outfit. The clown appears to be hanging out with two otherwise normal looking dudes.

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peat @peat.org · 02/03/2025

I saw a lot of beautiful and intellectual work at the Whitney this morning ... but this photograph absolutely stole my heart. This is Lavinia "Blossom" Robinson, from Daufuskie Island, SC in 1979. Photograph by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe.

An extraordinarily gentle portrait of an older Black woman looking directly at the camera.

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peat @peat.org · 02/03/2025

I guess an old dog can learn new tricks? 15 year old Peat is totally baffled that 45 year old Peat is super into Franz Kline. I'm just a boy, standing in front of a painting, trying to figure out WTF changed in me, because the paintings sure didn't change. ❤️

Franz Kline's "Black, White, and Gray" from 1959. An abstract painting with (unsurprisingly) black, white, and gray forms. There are distinct forms within the composition, but also quite a bit of gradients and softer edges, unlike "Mahoning" (the other painting in this skeet)

Franz Kline's "Mahoning" from 1956, an abstract and angular set of thick black brush strokes against a white background.

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peat @peat.org · 02/03/2025

... If it ain't Baroque, don't fix it. There's a gallery of Dutch shitpainting at the Met ... right next to all of the other lovely and idyllic period pieces you expect from the earnest church-centric art of the time.

"The Smokers" by Adriaen Brouwer who enjoyed trolling his austere and idyllic contemporaries. Brouwer painted himself into the scene -- he's the surprised dude in the middle.

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peat @peat.org · 02/03/2025

Pop up party at The Met 🍻

A sign at The Met that originally said "Free tours this way" ... but some clever individual has taped a piece of paper over "tour" and written in "beer"

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peat @peat.org · 02/03/2025

They only let people into the Rose Reading Room who are doing research and I think it totally counts that I went there to research the Rose Reading Room. … and read Murakami. (And look! I see blue sky!) 💙📚

The fabulously ornate and painted ceiling of the famous Rose Reading Room at the main New York Public Library. There’s even a little blue sky peeking through some clouds in a mural on the ceiling. Yours truly is featured at the bottom right, looking up at the ceiling.

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peat @peat.org · 27/02/2025

Been burning a lot of these recently, gotta restock

A fancy looking candle with the label: "A candle for fucking meetings; smells like this could have been an email; and this is why I drink"

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peat @peat.org · 26/02/2025

New York is a mysterious place full of wonder and delight. ... and alcoholic ice cream. (the affogato was pretty dang good)

A small paper cup full of ice cream and espresso. It says "AUBI & RAMSA" in fancy gold lettering, followed by

Affogato
Cognac Ice Cream
Hazelnut Sidecar
Made With: Hennessy
4.9% alc.

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peat @peat.org · 25/02/2025

“View full thread” gets a lot of clicks on this site

Two posts separated by the “View full thread” link.

The first: “i am a dad now so naturally i am filling all my car tires with air to make the witch cauldron light on my dash that i had been ignoring go away”

The second: “Wait. Egg, underneath? We're talking about a beef patty right? Are you... Are you over cooking the egg?”

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peat @peat.org · 24/02/2025

Transit achievement unlocked: today I traveled several thousand miles to enjoy a pizza on Staten Island via car, plane, train, subway, ferry, and bus. The pizza was excellent. 😁