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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

I call this road sign: meditating baby on a onewheel.

An orange road sign of a motorcyclist on a rough road. I mean, a meditating baby on a onewheel.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

Gee, thanks for that stunning insight, GCP Billing AI.

A screenshot of the text "SKU Cloud CDN Cache Fill from North America to China had the largest percentage change in costs of $0.01 (7,533%) compared to the previous period." from the Google Cloud Billing console's AI summary.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

Observe the glory of the supply and return tems, plus outdoor air temp, for my condenser water loop!

A screenshot of a graph showing 1 day of supply and return temperatures for a building management system, plus outdoor air temperature. The OAT is in the 50s (F) all day and the supply/return temperatures track each other and range from around 70-85F. There's a distinctive sawtooth pattern when the boiler starts kicking in after I decided the loop was getting too cold and tweaked the heat/cool switchover temp to kick it in.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

And this is why our nation's voter rolls are a mess. Why did MA not notify VA directly, immediately, and automatically when I registered? This should not be my problem to fix. And as far as I can tell there's no incentive for me to cancel my VA registration […] [Original post on union.place]

A letter from VA saying they think I might be registered in another state (I am! I moved!) and I have to fill out a form to explicitly cancel my VA voter registration.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

I may have too many Gmail accounts...

A screenshot of five browser tabs (in Google Chrome), all showing the Gmail icon.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2025

[Apple News Quartiles Spoiler 2025-12-06] Unionizing revolution - love it! #UnionStrong

A screenshot of the completed Apple News Quartiles for 2025-12-06, with a score of 105. The top two words are "revolution" and "unionizing", followed by "earthquakes", "firebrands", and "interpretive".

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

There have been further developments in turkey town...

Two Lego turkeys, one with two bananas instead of legs and a pineapple head, one with pegasus wings instead of legs and a teapot head.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

Someone is going to be very confused tomorrow...

A Lego turkey minifigure but one leg is replaced by a banana.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 22/11/2025

[Alcohol] Mmm, delicious eleven year old single cask from #Copperworks in Seattle, WA. A great distillery worth checking out if you're in the PNW or at my house in Boston where I have a wide selection. This is from the second cask they ever distilled, and it is scrumptious. #Whiskey

A whiskey bottle on a black stovetop with some utensils and white backsplash and counter in the background.

The bottle reads "Copperworks Distilling Co. Special Release Single Cask No. 2 11 Year Old American Single Malt Whiskey"

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2025

It's not good when your drone video ends with a propeller visible... that wasn't visible at the start. Going through some old footage from 2013, the degree to which a DJI Mini 3 outperforms this old Parrot AR Drone 2.0 is ... night and day.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2025

One of my favorite places to visit, and one of my favorite airports to fly in and out of: Saba! A tiny Dutch Caribbean island, the runway is the shortest commercial runway in the world and has sheer cliffs at both ends. It's a load of fun, and the diving is great! #Saba #DutchCaribbean #scuba

A distant view of a small airport with one runway, surrounded by water on three sides. There's a solar farm and a small terminal. There's lush greenery in the foreground.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2025

Things you will take pictures of when you're building a house: random holes in the ground. (Can you tell I'm scrolling through my Google Photos?)

A hole in some dirt, with a trench leading away from it. I honestly don't remember if this was plumbing or electrical.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2025

#Google may have lost its soul (if a corporation could ever be said to have one), but there's still a lot of good #Googlers around, and many of them have a great sense of fun. From the Pittsburgh, PA, office. Taken back in 2023 so I have no idea if it's actually still there.

An indoor photo shows a large collection of rubber ducks. On the wall, several small wooden shelves are mounted at varying heights, each displaying a group of small, colorful rubber ducks and other tiny figurines. Below the shelves, a long black bench sits next to two wooden stumps. One stump holds a stack of dark-colored figures, and the other has two yellow rubber ducks on it. To the right of the bench, a very large, deflated-looking, yellow inflatable duck rests on the gray carpeted floor.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2025

Today in #DynDNSHistory , the networking / server room of our first Manchester NH office. It was still pretty messy at this point, as we were still moving in. I'm not sure if it ever got CLEAN, at least not while I was in the picture. I'm not good at being […] [Original post on union.place]

A photo of a cluttered server room. In the center, a black metal rack holds several pieces of computer equipment, including a monitor, servers, and routers, with a tangle of wires hanging from it. To the right is an orange stepladder. A few cardboard boxes are on the floor. The walls are white and the floor is gray carpet.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

Ah, 2005 hybrid technology. I remember being so excited about the Escape Hybrid - first US manufacturer hybrid, first SUV hybrid. It ... did not get particularly spectacular fuel economy. And when the gas engine turned off, so did the AC. This wasn't great in Davis, CA. It's hawt there.

The dashboard of a 2005 Ford Escape, with a tiny little screen showing an HV battery, electric motor, and gas engine, a "CD Changer Compatible" label on the radio, and glorious physical buttons and knobs for everything. The AC controls don't even have a thermostat, this was back when you had to choose your zone and temperature by hand like a savage!

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2025

I'm pretty sure I took this photo while walking past the sign. I was a tourist. Oops. (It's okay, we were on a guided tour. I swear. Close up look at Arecibo, definitely one of my top life experiences.)

A white sign with black text reading "No tourists beyond this point" in English and Spanish, with a lush green forest backdrop.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2025

OMG I can't believe I haven't posted this one to #DynDNSHistory before. This is my ultimate geek cred photo: me, with Larry Wall (creator of #Perl) and his wife Gloria (I'm super embarrassed to admit I just had to look that up). At Arecibo Observatory. 2002, Perl Whirl, #StartupLife

Foreground: two white men and a white woman, man on the far right is wearing a "Will work for bandwidth :)" t-shirt, other man (middle) and woman (left) are both wearing Hawaiian/tropical style print shirts.

The people are standing in front of the Arecibo Observatory's moving gantry and receiver mechanism in the background, with lush forest around.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2025

Is "covered with writing" a code violation for a circuit breaker box? (Inside the Green Monster at Fenway Park - March 2014 so I'm sure it's all been completely re-graffitied since then.)

An electrical circuit breaker box attached to a concrete wall. Both the breaker box and the wall are covered with signatures in a variety of inks (and scratches in the concrete).

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2025

I'm pretty down on Major League Baseball these days, and the Red Sox, but I have to admit, it was pretty cool when we were season ticket holders and they were in various phases of sucking so they did lots of exclusive ballpark events. Inside the Green Monster! #RedSox #GreenMonster

Me, a white guy, wearing a Red Sox hat and t-shirt, standing inside the viewing window inside the Green Monster at Fenway Park, in between the "Ball" and "Strike" counters.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

That time when they mowed Big Papi into the grass at Fenway...

The outfield grass at Fenway Park with an image of Big Papi (David Ortiz) mowed into it by extremely talented/creative groundskeepers.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

It's back, more #DynDNSHistory ! Looking back through photos, here's a gem from our first "real real" office in Manchester, NH. I recall being so excited to move from CRT to LCD monitors - look at the massive bezels on those things! 2004 was such a different […] [Original post on union.place]

A messy corner office featuring an L-shaped wooden desk and a tall, black leather chair with chrome accents. The desk holds a cluttered arrangement of dual computer monitors, a laptop, and various office supplies. On the floor, there's a black briefcase and several cardboard boxes.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2025

The boy is silly. He loves belly rubs and also just loves laying belly up in the hopes it might get him one. #DogsOfMastodon

Orbit, a white miniature schnauzer with intact tail, laying upside down, back legs spread, and one front leg stretched out against a red hassock he's laying near.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2025

Name that datacenter. (Not the same datacenter as Name that loading dock.) #DynDNSHistory

An aerial shot captures a large, sprawling commercial or industrial complex. The main building, centrally located, has a lighter-colored roof in its front section with many parallel, light grey lines, likely skylights or solar panels. Behind this lighter section, the roof darkens and appears to have numerous HVAC units and other equipment. To the far right, another dark-roofed section of the building has several rectangular cutouts or courtyards. The building is surrounded by extensive asphalt parking lots, some appearing empty while others show parked vehicles, particularly in the upper right corner. Curved roads and green spaces with trees and some bare patches of ground, indicative of winter or early spring, frame the complex.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2025

Name that loading dock. (I'll follow up with hints.) #DynDNSHistory

An aerial view shows several buildings and a parking lot. In the center, a long, dark-roofed building with a slightly angled roof extends horizontally, with two light-colored rectangular objects on its roof. To the left of this building, two white cars are parked in a lot. To the upper right, there's an open area, possibly a lot, with what appears to be a blue tarp covering some items. Further to the right, a lighter-colored building is visible.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2025

Appomattox Court House: not actually where the Civil War ended. That's at the McLean house, behind me as taking this photo. This was in fact the court house, now the visitor center, and of no consequence during the surrender. Ironically the Civil War started on […] [Original post on union.place]

A brick two story building, the Appomattox Court House.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2025

I bet the dinosaurs appreciate that we're not consuming their remains while learning about them. #Rivian #RoadTrip #Dinosaurs

The center screen of a Rivian R1S showing Steve Brusatte's "The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs" playing on Audible (I know, I'm sorry). Electricity, not dino remains, powers this ride!

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2025

I fed Thorpedo Anna a mint today. She was American Horse of the year 2024. Apparently she doesn't get a sash for that. Or at least wasn't wearing it today. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorpedo_An…

A brown thoroughbred race horse, from the front but with her head turned to the side.

A brown thoroughbred race horse from the front with her head mostly centered looking at the camera.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2025

I'm sure it's standard operating procedure for when something is getting review-brigaded, but I'm still grumpy that Google has cleared (or at least hidden) all reviews from the Gulf of America (and prevented new ones from appearing). At least the oil rig is still the main photo. For now.

The "Gulf of America" place in Google maps showing no reviews or ratings (even though I just posted one, and even got local guide points for it, and I know there's thousands more).

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2025

I wonder what kind of battery this "two way power" vintage calculator (at least 25 years old) takes... 5 screws later: oh look, it's an LR44, I have a stash of those. Good as new! Now if only it could copy/paste to my computer it could replace the calculator app...

A Casio fx-992s scientific calculator, powered on, showing "0", held in the hand of a white person (me!) with light colored carpet and a little bit of a red hassock in the background.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2025

I have... questions about the statistical validity of this "poll". I debated responding to the spam at all but it was fun to see the absurdity of it. They both suck. US politics suck. Billionaires suck. #text #spam #politics #EndBillionaires

A text message chain asking for my opinion on the Republican Party (1-10, 10 is best; I picked 1) and the Democratic Party (A-E, A is best; I picked D).

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 27/12/2024

The Orange Man's second term seems like an idea time to break the Tubman stamp back out... Just a little re-inking of the pad needed and we're off to the races. #Resist

Two US $20 bills with Harriet Tubman stamped over Andrew Jackson.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2024

I did it. The label tried to tell me something by ripping as I removed it from the sheet, but I ain't listening to no label!

A gift in red wrapping paper with a sleeping sloth, a koala, and a bit of a panda all visible, and a "Le(t it s)now" label, to Liz, from Tim, with a small tear in the label on the left side.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2024

Should I add parentheses to "fix" this label? Will my spouse get it? Will she murder me?

A sheet of Christmas gift labels, centered on a colorful "Let It Snow" sticker with a red background.

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2024

In this house the battery-operated ornaments are a serious #union operation. #NoScabs!

A kitchen counter with various battery-operated Christmas ornaments, batteries out, scattered on it, along with a powered precision screwdriver, battery tester, and bin of batteries. And other misc crap on the counter in the background.

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