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Leaning away from tech and politics, despite how the odors follow. Being a dad. Life is a dark wood, so I am always searching for the best path to shine my flashlight […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ beige.party/@travisfw, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 23h
base 6 is where it's at. makes it easy to count to 35 on two hands.
an abacus does arithmetic in base 6
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#nowListening to LeVar Burton Reads: "The Toynbee Convector" by #RayBradbury #Episode webpage: www.siriusxm.com Media file […]
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Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
I know everyone else is saying this too, but You Can See Everything is such a wild ride, and we need to declare some time and date where we can discuss it publicly
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
is #footpathFriday every day, too?
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
i tried a few wild rosehips. they're practically presented. like, "here ya go" but honestly, i plan on going back to paying someone to grind them up and put them in pills.
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
snaking creek in AK
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
i needed to hear this. mostly second half. #actuallyAutistic Why Autistic Adults Stay Exhausted - And What Actually Helps - Orion Kelly on YouTube m.youtube.com/watch?v=4GexbJiv9mo
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
diamonds on aspen
brown fallen leaves on a mossy trail with the descending sun refracting through dropletsmacro of another brown aspen leaf with bright beads of water. moss out of focus, behind.
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
wild alaskan rosehip
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
what are these cute little fun guys? #myco
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
nonrepresentational doodle #pastel #art
wavy black and red and yellow layers of oil pastel in a notebook
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
i am packing for a roughly 2-week trip to visit my family. i always forget things. what kind of stuff do you often forget? help me remember. #askfedi
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
my daughter always puts a smile on my face
a small yellow smiley face sticker on a man's scruffy cheek
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
architects talk too much about the boundary between indoors and outdoors and not enough about the boundary between solitude and community. #architecture
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
just a doodle / #pastel #art
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
my method for getting the right temperature for steeping green #tea is to pour boiling water into a thick ceramic mug and wait to feel the heat on the outside. i eventually landed on this method when i was using a thermometer years ago.
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
my partner: i'm high right now. sorry i forgot to tell you. (she didn't forget to tell me) me: that's great. that's why we're not arguing right now. her: we *are* arguing right now.
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
#ActuallyAutistic what is your productivity time / rest time ratios for ideal days and realistic days? I heard 2:1 somewhere. not sure what mine is, but i do know i too often go over it. i need to set realistic limits starting somewhere and i am curious how you structure your days.
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
[personal/family] i just spent half the day and nearly the whole school day supporting my younger kid through anxiety going back to school. but he finally decided, himself, to go to school. he easily could have stayed at home. i had given up. an hour in the school parking lot after everything […]
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
it is easier to want something when having it isn't causing problems
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
my daughter has planned our Christmas. looks good to me. #parenting
bullet list in kid's handwriting:
Christmis Plans
- hot coco
- snow flaks
- fiar
- movi
- family
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
golden extrapolation: treat yourself how others would want you to want them to treat themselves golden truism: participate in the society you want (truism because participation in society is all that society is)
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Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Allow me to be the millionth person to send this piece to @simon www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor…
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Knocking for Help: A Pelican’s Unlikely Rescue
It is not every day a patient knocks directly on the doctor's door, but for one clever seabird, desperate times called for an unusually precise house call.
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The Funny Pages @thefunnypages.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
New Comic Strip Found: Too Much Coffee Man by Shannon Wheeler Too Much Coffee Man - 2026-09-20 www.gocomics.com/toomuchcoffeeman/2… #comicstrip #toomuchcoffeeman
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
i hate pink. (a rant on culture) not the color; the marketing. i hate that my son won't eat out of a pink bowl and my daughter will *only* eat out of a pink bowl. i hate the marketing team who decided pink was feminine a hundred years ago or whatever. colors are not inherently gendered. i have a […]
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
in my #nonfiction habit i have developed a peeve. the present author just used the word "called" to introduce a new term he clearly made up. this phonomena you're talking about is "called" that wishful buzzword nobody has heard before? really? you mean, you "called" it that. just now. sometimes […]
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Ernie Smith @ernie.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
Good news or bad news depending on your POV: Usenet archives are suddenly easy to dig through, thanks to a new service. It’s built by a big data guy, and it’s packed with every awkward thing you ever wrote in a newsgroup in 1997. My deep dive […]
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
coming back to (the second edition of) More Than Two, which I never finished. #nonFiction
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
good #episode on making big decisions and how to use your intuition Hidden Brain: Blowing Up Your Life Episode webpage: www.hiddenbrain.org Media file […]
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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
i am looking for a book that i'm sure exists but i can't really describe the topic exactly. "a history of driveways" an architectural history of how entranceways to houses, temples, palaces, etc. places that receive people are designed based on the prevailing technology and social needs. like […]
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
Does the public really love bees but hate wasps? relationalthinkingblog.com/2026/06/…
relationalthinkingblog.com
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
what do you find disgusting that other people don't? my example: vaseline my partner's example: fast food beef not a good example: toenails are mildly disgusting to a lot of people
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
how is your compass? the one inside that just gives you gut feelings.
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
how do I make pathological demands like an allistic person? #actuallyAutistic
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
ok that's cool Analog Video Feedback Fractal Organ m.youtube.com/watch?v=koDCabeh5kQ
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MizKirsten @mizkirsten.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2025
Happy New Year fedifriends! I'm excited to officially announce the launch of TheIndieBeat.fm, a streaming radio station showcasing indie #music from the Fediverse. The Indie Beat Radio is made possible through a collaboration with Bandwagon.fm / @benpate […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Photo of a large concert crowd seen from above. Overlaid reads, "Bandwagon.fm -> TheIndieBeat.fm - Federated - Independent"
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
sometimes when i use thc it helps me feel better and i can get things done. sometimes it makes me more tired and sensitive and i just can't take more frustrations. i think it reveals my needs, honestly; strips off a shell of "higher level functioning". if i need to rest, it feels unavoidable. if […]
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Glyph @glyph.im · 30/08/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/1171… An absolute banger. Such good writing that I am literally angry because Iris made some of the points I have been struggling to make for months, and she made them much better than I was going to. Read it, read the whole thing, make […]
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
I am, apparently, not good at validation. so, one day I looked on Libby for "validation" and hey there's a book by that name, all about it. i have only just begun. Validation by Caroline Fleck, PhD Narrated by Caroline Fleck, PhD Audiobook | Libro.fm […]
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Ben Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
If you've ever wanted to own a Red Dwarf skutter: pollen-robotics.com/microduck
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Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
This excellent history of Autistici/Inventati fills in a /lot/ that I didn't know. cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/1008… . Before the democratisation of translation, it was particularly hard to perceive what was going on on the ground wrt digital activism in some countries -- I'd say […]
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
to live I must eat and become my own death. seems kinda hard.
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
i dunno i think it all boils down to laughing at how people congratulate themselves with their capitalist "success" and proceed to feel entitled to play god. i mean, people can take themselves too seriously, it's true. i do.
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
the thing between me and sleep is my child's head. my story is thus. i, valiant protagonist, have to pee. i cannot get up to pee because my adorable wonderful child, whose head I have cradled and loved as life itself, is sleeping on top of me. what must I do, cruel fate? must I tear my own flesh […]
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
#nGoodThings hey it's good to have a number. i love the #3goodThings tag and all you wonderful people keeping it alive. i wouldn't change it ❤️ i just feel moved to talk about a single thing every once in a while, also in the same spirit. consider NGoodThings a sister hashtag. a complement.
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
listening to an audiobook where the wealthy author talks about how much they messed up due to just not caring in their youth. #tfw
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
seems like, at this point, I am only accepting follows from people i want to follow back.
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
#NGoodThings long underwear. since I started wearing long underwear occasionally, I am amazed at how having warmer legs makes me more comfortable in general. a small thing, moving the needle on my wellbeing.
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DWeb @dweb.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
Join us at our next DWeb Virtual Meetup >>> ✨ DWeb Camp JOMO (or FOMO, in case you missed it) ✨ Thurs 27 August at 19 CET / 1pm ET / 10am PT Come hear some of the talks you may have missed and share takeaways and memories from Camp! Register here […]
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Travis FW @travisfw.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
i wish there were lighter instax film cameras. I have a couple, and my kids have enjoyed using them. they get interested in them again every few months because I keep them in a box in the pile of game boxes so they rediscover them. but they would never carry them around so they're handy, and […]
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