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@blujbird.bsky.social

Developer of software. Player of games. Taker of pictures. Some kind of wizard. ๐Ÿ˜ http://mastodon.sandwich.net/@BluJBird

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Hell yeah look at that little guy go

18.02.2026 23:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 437    ๐Ÿ” 82    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

post your contextless photoshops

17.02.2026 13:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A group of geese are seen in silhouette flying across a blue sky with a colorful piece of a sundog in the center.

A group of geese are seen in silhouette flying across a blue sky with a colorful piece of a sundog in the center.

Found some magic this morning. Hope you do, too. #SundayMorning

15.02.2026 16:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 66    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you died and came back as an old timey moonshiner, you could call it reintarnation.

15.02.2026 19:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 863    ๐Ÿ” 61    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 58    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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#NoMansSky
For any who have completed the expedition and want to carry on with the new Colossus, you will need to first find a processing plant on any planet and drop a few items onto the weighing scale there then process it to unlock the flatbed!
#VPinSpace
#VirtualPhotography
#VPRepost #VPSupport

14.02.2026 12:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Shoot. This is so close, but it can't put a boat back together. Any regular creature though..

14.02.2026 02:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
SchwarzweiรŸfoto eines leicht gekrรผmmten Eisenbahngleises, das mittig ins dichte Waldstรผck fรผhrt. Kiesbett, hohe Bรคume links und rechts, die Strecke verschwindet in der dunkleren Tiefe des Waldes.

SchwarzweiรŸfoto eines leicht gekrรผmmten Eisenbahngleises, das mittig ins dichte Waldstรผck fรผhrt. Kiesbett, hohe Bรคume links und rechts, die Strecke verschwindet in der dunkleren Tiefe des Waldes.

Gefรผhrt

08.02.2026 20:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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From NOAA Satellites:

The arctic blast that put much of Florida into a deep freeze also created these mesmerizing cloud streets caught by bsky.app/profile/noaa.gov 's GOESEast.

Learn more in our #SatelliteSnapshot: bit.ly/3NVBiT5

04.02.2026 00:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 364    ๐Ÿ” 93    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

They really gotta hurry up with those cyber-eyes.

02.02.2026 21:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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This is one of my favorite optical illusions, because even when you know specifically HOW IT WORKS, it's still hard to make your brain believe it.

The image below is real-world video, but you're being tricked into believing it's an elaborate miniature by the DIORAMA EFFECT.

Let's talk about it.

02.02.2026 13:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1665    ๐Ÿ” 618    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23    ๐Ÿ“Œ 69

I don't know how it would actually play.

I know some folks have issues with partner cards giving you too consistent access to cards.

I can also see it turning into every deck being 5-color good stuff soup.

Anyone have thoughts on why it wouldn't work or ideas to help it work?

30.01.2026 17:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's inspired a bit by UB stuff. FF, TMNT, and Marvel to have teams of heroes and villains fighting.

The rest of the deck is meant to be support for your party. You could load up with token creators or things that turn into creatures, but that's not the spirit of the idea.

30.01.2026 17:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

After reading through this thread, I've had a #commander variant rolling around in my head, but I don't know how viable it is.

I've been calling it Hero Squad. Pick 4 or 5 legends as your team. They are who you fight with. Ban creatures from the rest of the deck.

#MagicTheGathering

30.01.2026 17:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ice Flowers.

20.01.2026 09:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 40    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
A woodcut of a bird beside the text "i cannot see the end of this bullshit"

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "i cannot see the end of this bullshit"

24.01.2026 22:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 634    ๐Ÿ” 157    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Is the helmet normal sized, or are both features comically oversized?

22.01.2026 23:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cool Clerics (Historic) - Historic A deck created using Moxfield.

I also made a historic version later with some alchemy clerics, but it does have some interesting clerics from Innistrad. I think this one leans a little more heavily on the life gain though.

moxfield.com/decks/5lHJO4...

22.01.2026 16:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cool Clerics - Pioneer A deck created using Moxfield.

@wachelreeks.com I was watching Commanders we Can't Crack and wanted to share my Orah deck. It was a Zendikar Standard deck. It focused a lot on recursion but it did have a little bit of that Soul Sisters plan. It did well for me at the time and was able to outlast.

moxfield.com/decks/j7qpAh...

22.01.2026 16:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Composite photo of seven different cloud photos, one taken each day this week.
A cloud diary.

Composite photo of seven different cloud photos, one taken each day this week. A cloud diary.

This week in clouds.

#MentalHealthMatters ๐Ÿ’™

18.01.2026 10:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 270    ๐Ÿ” 44    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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We adopted a cat from the NE Humane Society who they had named "IT Guy". I wonder if he knows Susan from Accounting.

17.01.2026 19:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A collage with two pictures. The top shows a "Bob Ross: Happy Little Tree Mints" tin sitting next to an Academic deck box and a prerelease kit for Edge of Eternities. The bottom picture is the same, but the tin is open and a handful of multicolored flower tokens are inside.

A collage with two pictures. The top shows a "Bob Ross: Happy Little Tree Mints" tin sitting next to an Academic deck box and a prerelease kit for Edge of Eternities. The bottom picture is the same, but the tin is open and a handful of multicolored flower tokens are inside.

This pleases me greatly.

I got the mints as a gift and kept the tin. The flowers are little erasers-like things I kept from some party long ago. I've been using them as Magic tokens. Now the happy little flowers have a happy little home!

#MagicTheGathering #BobRoss

15.01.2026 02:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A Sessionize-generated graphic congratulating me for being in the top 3% of most active speakers in 2025.

A Sessionize-generated graphic congratulating me for being in the top 3% of most active speakers in 2025.

As a general rule, I despise promoting myself. But I *am* proud of the speaking I do and the messages I create, and happy about the people I meet and the places I get to go

Anyhow I made the top 3% of Sessionize speakers again this year.

14.01.2026 15:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I hate that I can see a video of something genuinely vile that makes me furious and now I have to stop and go 'okay but is this real?'

Like... man. I'm teaching a course called Media Literacy this semester and what a fucken time to be doing THAT.

08.01.2026 23:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I vaguely remember crafting times for things. Maybe that's where I bounced off the game. "And now we wait .. .. ok, what else can I do."

11.01.2026 01:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This game is way too easy.

09.01.2026 00:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 698    ๐Ÿ” 109    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I tried to get into it a while back, but it lost me pretty quick. Maybe the updated new player experience @foxharper.bsky.social was talking about might help.

08.01.2026 05:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The sun setting over the Severn Estuary as seen from the top of Uley Bury hill fort. I took this photo in September, 2021, on the most perfect windless evening, feeling euphoric having finished the edits on my debut novel, Villager. The whole walk felt like I'd temporarily stepped inside a Kit Williams painting, which was apt since for the last several decades he has lived not far from here, and the landscape was a prime inspiration for his masterpiece Masquerade.

The sun setting over the Severn Estuary as seen from the top of Uley Bury hill fort. I took this photo in September, 2021, on the most perfect windless evening, feeling euphoric having finished the edits on my debut novel, Villager. The whole walk felt like I'd temporarily stepped inside a Kit Williams painting, which was apt since for the last several decades he has lived not far from here, and the landscape was a prime inspiration for his masterpiece Masquerade.

Almost certainly the best photograph I have ever taken from an Iron Age hillfort of the sun setting over an estuary as summer segues majestically into autumn.

05.01.2026 20:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 503    ๐Ÿ” 72    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Image from No Man's Sky: Featured Screenshot by DRIPP

Image from No Man's Sky: Featured Screenshot by DRIPP

Featured Screenshot by DRIPP

#NoMansSky #NMSCordGallery #VirtualPhotography

04.01.2026 22:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Me, sitting in front of my computer, overwhelmed, under-rested, with a brain that's being slowly poisoned by a constant infusion of infuriating, terrifying news and clumsy fascist propaganda masquerading as news.

"Boy, I'm having a lot of trouble focusing today!"

04.01.2026 17:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 515    ๐Ÿ” 96    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
Atop the hiking trail the view of mist encompassing the forest below gives the feel of floating islands of glorious evergreens!

Atop the hiking trail the view of mist encompassing the forest below gives the feel of floating islands of glorious evergreens!

Nature went above and beyond the other day! ๐Ÿ“ท๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ โ€ฆ

03.01.2026 21:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 798    ๐Ÿ” 148    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 47    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

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