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stephen.oysterarchery.com
Speculative fiction fan, podcaster, a cappella singer, and tea enthusiast. I also teach technology classes at a local senior center. He/him.
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My a cappella singing group Redshift will be performing on May 18th at Palo Alto High School. See here for details: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/hX2L...

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I stand with the trans community. themelissaverse.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/t...

submitted 124 days ago • 2 comments

After learning about them from @doctoratlantis.bsky.social, I visited the Barron Park Donkeys today. They were adorable.

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Relic of the dot-com era: a gimme pad and pen from a Netscape event.

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Today I was asked in an interview about folks who use the weirdness of ✨quantum✨ to hawk pseudoscience junk. I think that kind of grift proliferates because of a big misunderstanding a lot of folks have about quantum mechanics, which is not really their fault! 🧵

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This German meme was just brought to my attention and I feel obligated to reshare it here Frohe Weihnachten

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New batch of plum jam (curb your excitement!) This batch I’m trying with a pectin recipe.

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Moved my account to my own PDS. Thus my new handle (stephen.oysterarchery.com).

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Lobster stock. I didn’t expect this to be a cooking account, but this appears to be what I’m doing.

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Other activities this week: made another small batch of plum jam. (I freeze plums from our backyard tree in the summer, then make jam in the winter in small batches.) It’s a pectin-free recipe, but it’s a little on the runny side, so I tried adding a little corn starch. It didn’t seem to do much.

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A few weeks ago, I dropped by my parents’ house for a visit. As I was coming in, I noticed that a large hawk had landed on their front porch! Thinking it would fly away, I took a picture… and then it ran into the house. (1/x)

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I'm considering what an atproto-based gift registry would look like. Has that been done yet? #atproto

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Yesterday’s task: boiling down the turkey carcass for stock. Today’s task: making jam from the plums in the freezer, so I have room to freeze the turkey stock.

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Thanksgiving is done. All went really well. The combination of making giblet gravy the day before, and cooking the turkey sous vide, is both better tasting and less stressful.

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Our family has done turkey sous vide for a while. The turkey is very tender and the meat all gets done to exactly the right degree. So my turkey is already cooking for tomorrow.

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During the 2020 lockdown, I used my time constructively. Yes, it’s a recreation of the Prisoner (1969) opening sequence in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Why do you ask? #acnh #theprisoner youtu.be/uX8OOLUQklQ?...

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This is Hubble. He’s a 15-year-old Corgi. His arthritis and vision problems make it hard for him to get outside, but he’s learning to use a ramp.

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I'm experimenting with hosting my own BlueSky PDS, but until I'm confident with it I'm not going to put my main account (such as it is) there. So I have a test account for it. You can find it at @oystertest.oysterarchery.com. It's going to be almost entirely nattering about PDSes.

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