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Nerd, bear 🏳️‍🌈, hacker, trail jogger, traveler, avgeek, geographer, San Franciscan. He/him. KJ6DYS. Landscape photographer and space-borne image sensor […]

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midendian @midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Oct 1
spent the day walking around west of Bishop on a trail I’ve been visiting for over two decades now somehow. summer already long passed at 10000 ft / 3000m.
Lake lined by trees of green and gold. Four enormous peaks rise above into clearing clouds. A narrow lake winds between islands of trees and boulders. A large peak on the right is narrow like a flounder. Stones cross a shallow but wide stream. Treeless rocky mountains in the distance. A small dark figure walks down a rocky alley lined by autumnal aspens.
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aviation-librarian.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
1963 Lake Tahoe Airport Postcard
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#laketahoe #airport #postcard #lockheed #constellation #aviation #travel #avgeek #ephemera
Vintage color postcard photograph of Lake Tahoe Airport in California, circa 1963, showing a large four-engine Lockheed Constellation passenger aircraft parked on the airport apron. The aircraft has a white upper fuselage, a red lower fuselage, and three distinctive vertical tail fins. Several smaller light aircraft are parked around the airfield, including a helicopter visible in the background to the right. A low, single-story airport terminal building with a long row of windows and a light-colored roof stands beside the apron. Numerous mid-century automobiles, station wagons, and vans are parked along the road in front of the terminal, illustrating the airport's roadside setting. A person wearing a red top stands near the terminal entrance. Tall light poles rise above the paved aircraft parking area. In the foreground, a paved access road curves past rocks, shrubs, and flowering plants, including bright red flowers. Beyond the airport, a dense belt of evergreen trees stretches across the landscape, with the forested Sierra Nevada mountains rising behind it under a clear blue sky. The scene captures the small regional airport's mid-century appearance, with its compact terminal, general aviation activity, and mountainous surroundings.
October 4, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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Personal computers were introduced around 1975 and were widespread in offices by 1985. The Internet was widely available by 1995.

Yes, there was a cohort of people who grew up and became adults without Internet-connected computers in their lives. Those people are dead. Baby Boomers in their 70s […]
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cosocial.ca
October 3, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
Sorry if I'm being mean; I'm in my Mean Time, Between Failures. I'll probably fail at something soon and be nice again after.
October 3, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
little endian
big endian
super endian
mega endian
economy size endian
October 3, 2026 at 12:03 PM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
chased around by the fog tonight. #sanfrancisco
Dirt path wrapping around a hill. Behind, fog spills down a hill and an enormous radio tower. Fog roils around an enormous radio tower. Some orange rocks in the foreground. Fog spills down a hillside into Noe valley. Sunny skies behind a paved path leading up a hill in forest.
October 2, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
October 1, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
If you are weary of horrid people getting all the headlines, read about this year’s MacArthur fellows https://www.npr.org/2026/09/29/nx-s1-5980447/macarthur-genius-grants-2026-fellows
September 29, 2026 at 11:46 PM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
a friend asked me yesterday what my favorite hiking spot is within an hour of SF and it made me remember I hadn’t been to Purisima yet this month! gorgeous 15K run up to Grabtown/Tunitas and Bald Knob into the clouds. the chonkiest salamander I’ve ever seen […]

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Dirt path winding uphill through lush ferns and dense conifers. Spectacularly chaotic old tree covered in moss Tall sparse trees in the fog, a tiny dirt trail winding though the underbrush Enormous coastal giant salamander wearing leopard print sitting out of place on the brown dirt.
September 28, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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classicweb.site
LiveJournal in 1999
https://web.archive.org/web/19991128040446if_/http://livejournal.com:80/
Screenshot of LiveJournal in 1999
September 25, 2026 at 7:00 PM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
working with a bunch of contractors this week who don’t have time to keep their android phones up to date so to send them photos from iPhone I gotta take a screenshot of the photo and send them that instead because they can’t decode whatever high efficiency thing Apple is using now. somehow we […]
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mastodon.social
September 23, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Yes, yet another AI take, but this one cites Brautigan, Adam Curtis, and Community Memory as context, so I thought it was worth the read.
https://www.burningshore.com/p/machines-of-loving-grace
Machines of Loving Grace
Plus News and Notes
www.burningshore.com
September 21, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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Today on Computers Are Bad: a new world airport and its baggage. Denver International Airport and its underground secrets.

https://computer.rip/2026-09-20-denver-baggage.html
a new world airport and its baggage
computer.rip
September 20, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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maartje.dev
You can only conduct one… chose wisely
Gare Est, left the VSOE right an ICE
September 19, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy
Which Australian capital city is closest to you
September 18, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy
This weekend is #sfmuni Heritage Weekend. It's fun but bittersweet because I just learned that an old friend, a former #Fline motorman, scholar, and transit photographer, that I used to see annually at these, passed on in July.

At least last year, I bought a copy of his book and he signed it […]
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sfba.social
September 19, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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aviation-librarian.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
R.I.P. Peter Max
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#petermax #rip #artist #artwork #panam #aviation #avgeek #B747
A colorful psychedelic poster by Peter Max promoting Pan Am’s Boeing 747. A large silver-and-blue Pan Am 747 dominates the composition, flying diagonally from the upper left toward the lower right. Behind the aircraft are brightly colored geometric bands in red, yellow, orange, blue, green, and pink, filled with clusters of white and dark-blue stars, circles, and small planets. The Pan Am globe logo and “747” appear prominently near the top. In the upper-right corner, a whimsical stylized figure in a colorful patterned outfit floats among stars. The lower-right corner features an abstract partial face and additional planetary imagery. A small ringed planet appears in the lower-left corner, while Peter Max’s signature logo is centered along the bottom edge. The overall design uses bold outlines, saturated colors, geometric shapes, and fantastical imagery characteristic of Max’s psychedelic commercial artwork.
September 18, 2026 at 3:18 PM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
surprisingly autumnal weather on San Bruno Mountain this afternoon, even some sprinkles at the end. great run though. went out the ridge quite a way and had to stop and wait for some heavy lineman trucks to navigate those steep rolling hills! I guess up there […]

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Dirt trail winding around a scrubby hill. A city in broken sunlight in the distance. Lumpy fire road along a mountain ridge. A transmission line and radio towers in the distance. Heavy bucket truck groaning down a steep hill on the narrow fire road A green scrubby ridge running toward the horizon
September 17, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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"The only way to prevent San Franciscans’ data from being abused by ICE or the federal government is never to capture that data in the first place."

https://docpop.org/2026/08/flock-cameras-hiding-in-plain-site/
Flock Cameras Hiding In Plain Site - Doc Pop's Weblog
San Francisco activists have been adding “Flock Camera” signs around the city to point out nearby surveillance cameras. I noticed a couple of these signs near our house recently, and honestly, I hadn’t noticed these particular cameras before. That sent me to DeFlock, a crowdsourced map of Flock cameras and other automated license plate readers, […]
docpop.org
September 16, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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renardboy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
html is pronounced "hot tamale"
September 16, 2026 at 3:40 PM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
spectacular weather for a 15K jog from the Castro to Lands End and Baker and the famous bridge. #sanfrancisco
Large windmill hiding in some trees in an oceanfront park Blue skies and blue ocean host an incoming tanker and a small building labeled GIANT CAMERA. Wee dog smiling for a portrait in front of baker beach and the famous bridge. Famous bridge with its towers aligned toward the horizon, lots of people and cars and unpredictable rental bikes abound.
September 13, 2026 at 9:00 PM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
heading out for a jog. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/so-youre-35-and-all-your-friends-have-already-shed-their-human-skins
So You’re 35 and All Your Friends Have Already Shed Their Human Skins
“There are millions of people around the world who have experienced these same feelings and, more literally, there are billions of parasitic interdimensional...
www.mcsweeneys.net
September 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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dave.europhiles.uk.ap.brid.gy
#silentsunday
Taken this morning 😁
An idyllic alpine lake with a view of the high Alps behind. Jagged mountains with snow pack and glaciers. Mountains are reflected in the lake. Sky and lake are bright blue.
September 13, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy
You literally cannot start something in a funnier way than this
The economy is made out of tasks
September 12, 2026 at 4:47 AM
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attoparsec.clacks.link.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://techhub.social/@rayckeith/117243760570351537

Finally, something from a cyberpunk novel I'm excited to see in real life!

...not that I can remember where I saw the idea. Random library book from 1993 or so, possibly YA. There each frame was signed with the private keys of news […]
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clacks.link
September 10, 2026 at 12:11 AM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
tried to jog up Montara mountain from Montara today—made it up but not enjoyably. the weather was nice though. #trailrunning
A wide dirt road with hikers wraps around a scrubby hillside. In the background fog approaches a city. Two freestanding trees on adjoining hills stick into the roiling fog beyond. Vines grow on tall straight trees in a foggy forest along a dirt path. A horse stands over a wood fence with blinders on. Signs say DIVA, and a more stern one: PRIVATELY OWNED HORSES I KNOW I'M CUTE. BUT PLEASE REFRAIN FROM FEEDING ME. I HAVE A DELICATE STOMACH. THANK YOU SO KINDLY. ENJOY YOUR DAY!
September 8, 2026 at 2:39 AM