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@wolf.observer
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gregarious canid. also an elk sometimes. i go by "wolf." they/them
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apple photos has reminded me of the time i tried to melt my dad's fat-free jarlsberg cheese
it's not melting. it's ballooned into a sort of shiny pillow
September 22, 2026 at 4:02 AM
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pro strats
Pyrex media bottles in pot with 68F sous vide
September 21, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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here's the last few years of darkness I've captured in my photos
accumulated black stuff at the bottom of a glass bottle of clear liquid shaken up with another bottle's worth added: opaque rich black liquid
September 20, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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you like The Lighthouse? dude that's my favorite movie too
poster for The Lighthouse, a completely different movie from the one people talk about
September 19, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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yeah
September 19, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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behold: the box of Apple devices that I re-test every 3-8 months in the hopes that the people who dropped them off for recycling have finally noticed that they're still attached to their Apple IDs. If we're lucky one or two of them will have become usable by sometime next year.
lots of nice phones and ipads
September 17, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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you can tell this one is from near the 1995 end of the strip's run from the handlebars, but not necessarily '95 exactly because of the fork
bar ends, rigid fork
September 16, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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what do you think, chat? should I upgrade this iPhone 12 to OSName 27?
iphone 11 software update screen, offering an upgrade to IOS 26.7 or OSname 27 zoom on on OSName 27
September 15, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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September 14, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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we stan an autistic girlboss
ventress annihilation2018
September 14, 2026 at 5:27 AM
wolf.observer
look at my allies dawg i'm going to a place i'd much rather not imagine
quoted post by liquid coyotes: Just to make our position clear and obvious for all the bigots who are going to be seeking clarity and what is surely ambiguous messaging to them: I would happily grind every cishet centrist liberal into catfood if doing so made one working class trans life better. quoting thread by george pearkes: The position "I would mass murder [any groupl for any improvement of [other group]" is indistinguishable from Nazism. This is one of the most disgusting political opinions I've ever seen posted on this site (though of course the only person who needs to answer for it is the poster themself). Anyone calling for the murder of millions of people will always and forever be my enemy and any politics rooted in the value of all human life must be the same. Thankfully the poster in question is irrelevant to the rest of the world, but y'know...teachable moment. Very funny how people are trying to dogpile this and just giving me more blocks to improve my TL. It's a little annoying I can't automate that process tho.
September 14, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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it also has paid tiers for worriers and professionals/autistic people, respectively. and it's a non-profit
Membership $24.99 / year Get more from Watch Duty with special features. Keep our volunteers reporting 24/7 Track firefighting aircraft in real time Add alerts for more counties and places Unlimited weather and flooding alerts Pro Membership $99.99 / year Professional tools to help you adapt to fast-changing conditions. * (g) Track firefighting aircraft in real time Add alerts for more counties and places View critical electric and gas infrastructure Pre-planned evacuation zones Radio Repeaters and channels Fire progression models Private Land Ownership Live fuels and forecast layers COMING SOON
September 11, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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it does all this
September 11, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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Watch Duty is a very good app. i'm surprised nothing like it existed before but it's just really well-implemented
map with fire indicated and evacuation zones info on fire including specific zones and updates
September 11, 2026 at 2:31 AM
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zte axon m
September 10, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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we have to put a stop to this
some regular monitors and then another one that's curved and like 4 feet wide
September 10, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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lol
iphone duo. visible crease
September 10, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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gaijin 4koma iPhone Duo: men sitting still and watching expressionlessly on couch Samus with broken visor and glowing eye, subtitle "It's eat or be eaten": men pointing and cheering
September 9, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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this is what the AI CEOs are afraid is going to happen if they don't keep developing the thing they're insisting is extremely dangerous
The Christian author Christoph Arnold in a letter written in 1674 reported the creation of a golem by Rabbi Eliyahu thusly: Polish Jews say that there was a Jew in Poland named Rabbi Eliyahu Baal Shem who made a golem from lime for the purpose of being a servant and doing housework. It was animated by having the word emes (truth) written on its forehead. But it kept on growing and getting stronger. To stop this, the alef needed to be erased from the word emes, leaving the word meis (dead). And when the rabbi noticed that the servant had grown so large that he could no longer reach its forehead and erase the letter, he came up with the trick of commanding the golem to take off its boots, assuming that when the golem bent over, he could erase the letter from its forehead. And so it was, but when the golem returned and turned into clay, all its weight fell on the rabbi and crushed him.[21]
September 8, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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hey man we were thinking of hitting up Tasty Delicious after we finish up at City Real Estate. wanna come?
sign: City Real Estate restaurant sign: it's called Tasty Delicious
September 8, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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today I learned that Bird made wattmeters other than thruline. behold: the Termaline wattmeter, which apparently uses thermocouples to determine RF power by how much you heat an oil-filled dummy load? these things are bizarre
boxes with weird things sticking out. one has a meter, the other has fins termaline wattmeter model 67. property of US navy another box with fins. us army TS-118A/AP cover open, showing a meter and thermocouple reading chart
September 4, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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so are they. no wolf wants to fight this
September 4, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the last wolves in the area were extirpated in the 1860s. this is incredible, wonderful news

they're getting closer to the Lost Coast, and the redwood forests that make it hard to hunt them, and the thousands of elk who don't know what a wolf is...

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Wolf spotted in California coastal mountains just north of Bay Area A gray wolf was spotted last week in rural Lake County, marking new territory for the endangered carnivore in California’s Coast Range. The sighting, one of the closest to the Bay Area in modern times, was confirmed by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife in and around the Mendocino National Forest, not far from Lake Pillsbury. State wildlife officials do not know whether the wolf, which is believed to be 3 or 4 years old, is traveling alone and looking for a mate or is in the process of establishing a pack. Either way, it’s one of few wolves documented west of Interstate 5 since the return of wolves to the state after being killed off a century ago. Other wolves detected close to the state’s coast have been near Oregon or in Southern California. “It’s the first time we’ve seen a wolf in this area,” Axel Hunnicutt, state gray wolf coordinator for the Department of Fish and Wildlife, told the Chronicle. “Internally, it’s something we’re excited about. It’s ultimately one of the areas where we want wolves to be.”
September 4, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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shimano XTR parallelogram V-brakes squealing due to linkage wear? reduce noise now with this one weird old trick. LBS mechanics HATE them
covered them in fucking hot glue
September 3, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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this is a new and fascinating strategy
ad on back of bus: Who would foster a child just cuz they saw a poster on the back of a bus? No one. There's not even any pictures to tug at your heart strings. Anyone who fosters after reading this dreck must just be a really good person. MarinFosterCare.org
September 3, 2026 at 1:47 AM