Archer (@400trix) · DIRTY

Archer

@400trix

Fiddler. Programmer in Recovery. Free-range Nerd. e/lud Compared to Bach, we all suck. Pat Metheny Never trust anyone who has a gibbon as their avatar.

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Archer@400trix· 1d

Lyra is a Tadej fan. #vuelta

Lyra, a brown tabby, is sitting on my lap because she wants to watch the Vuelta while I might prefer to prepare breakfast. And coffee. Coffee might be first on that list.

Oh, and on the screen is Tadej Pogacar, her favorite rider.
tv um

Archer@400trix· 16d

So much for everyone thinking about the Roman Empire daily.

NYT Spelling Bee screenshot of GARUM, which is not in the word list.

Archer@400trix· 26d

Good morning from yellowstone

Going under the arch marking the entrance to a yellowstone np

Archer@400trix· Jul 20

Spelling Bee continues to vex me.

Screenshot of the NYT Spelling Bee game showing it rejecting the common English word “OTOLITH.”

Archer@400trix· Jul 2

And this is why you don’t let me go in thrift stores unsupervised.

A DigiTech TSR-24S that just leapt into my arms at the local thrift store.

Archer@400trix· Apr 15

Here’s one:

A mountain bluebird, perched on barbed wire.

Archer@400trix· Mar 5

Two is the correct number of cats, especially if they’re littermates.

Lyra and Iorek, two tabby-tux kitties, are lounging in the laundry basket.

Archer@400trix· Feb 5

Lyra in her safe spot. #cats #CarsOfBluesky

Lyra, a brown tabby with an adorable white face, is looking out at the world from her favorite bag.

Archer@400trix· Jan 16

Something like this, from @pivot-to-ai.com.web.brid.gy

Sticker from pivot-to-ai on Redbubble. The image on the sticker is a heavily pixelated Clippy surrounded by the text: It can’t be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong.”

Archer@400trix· Jan 13

French? Requires new screw pattern? Reminds me of the late ‘80s…

See of Time titanium pedals circa 1989.

Archer@400trix· Jan 13

You know what keeps me up at night? These two galaxies! I can't find any sort of catalog number for them, and they're just the sort of thing Arp would have cataloged. But he didn't.

An IR image from Spitzer of M104 with an arrow pointing at two small spiral galaxies that appear to be interacting. They are a very bright red in this image, which I guess means that they are bright in IR.

Archer@400trix· Dec 24

Nope.

Archer@400trix· Dec 12

Sunset in Boulder was beautiful this evening.

Sunset over Boulder. The lenticular clouds are sculpted by high winds, and illuminated by the orange light of the setting sun.

Detail of the previous photo. There are ledges between the levels of the clouds, with the shadows between the layers creating shades of blue and green.

Archer@400trix· Dec 3

It’s still snowing!

A view of my deck. There is a chair and a small table. 6+” of snow cover everything. There are two conifers in the background.

Archer@400trix· Nov 26

Post a famous bathroom scene

Archer@400trix· Nov 12

Drove to the north side of town to see this:

Aurora borealis over Boulder.

Aurora borealis over Boulder.

Aurora borealis over Boulder.

Archer@400trix· Nov 11

From her Substack:

Sarah Kendzior O
12h
I've been suspended from BlueSky. I don't know why. I wasn't online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explanation.
It seems there's a crackdown. If you enjoy my work and want to make sure you can access it, subscribe! It's free — I would never paywall in times of peril - and voluntary paying subscribers keep it going. It would be great to have your support at this time. Thanks!

Archer@400trix· Oct 27

Stolen from FB, but it’s just too good.

Family Circus panel with the little boy in the car with grandma. The caption reads, “Turn it up, Grandma - that’s Sun Ra!

Archer@400trix· Oct 19

United We Ribbet, Divided We Croak!

An extremely cute middle-aged couple in yellow shirts holding a pair of signs. The woman’s sign says “United We Ribbet,” the man’s, “Divided We Croak.” Both signs have yellow lettering on a purple background.

Archer@400trix· Sep 26

I have a difficult time reconciling these two headlines.

Screenshot showing two headlines about Tesla. First: Tesla’s UK profit almost halves after price cuts. Second: Tesla stock now has a $600 price target on Wall street.

Archer@400trix· Aug 9

A sign that says “goats at work,“ standing in front of a temporary wire fence. Behind the fence, it’s a gray goat with a black head, standing in a field of golden plants.

Archer@400trix· Aug 6

Proof that Remco is headed to RedBull.

Remco Evenpoel giving a water bottle to a child wearing a RedBull-Bora Hansgrohe jersey, just before abandoning the 2025 Tour de France.

Archer@400trix· Jul 19

That doesn’t reflect what’s written in the story:

The crash occurred after an individual was removed from a nearby business, the Los Angeles Police Department said. That person then allegedly drove a vehicle into a crowd, according to police.

Archer@400trix· Apr 25

Only the very best Mexican restaurants have art like this

A tapestry that features a mission-style church in the background, a bullfighting arena on the left and. extremely large head of a palomino horse in the foreground

Archer@400trix· Apr 24

The Great Horned Owl is amongst the most regal and majestic of all the birds. 🪶 📸 #IneptBirds

A juvenile Great Horned Owl, just short of being able to fly, hanging upside down in a tree.

Archer@400trix· Apr 12

I fully get that.

A marmot peeking over a rock in Rocky Mountain National Park

A Pika posing on a rock in Rocky Mountain National Park

Archer@400trix· Apr 7

Towards the end of your article, we have these two pages. The reporter got to the right questions, but he buried it pretty deep.

After seeing the wolves, though, I wondered how many people would accept that what I had just seen was a resurrection. Romulus and Remus embodied a lot of breakthroughs.
No one else, Colossal said, had ever made so many precision edits to an animal genome at once. Nobody had ever birthed a mammal that had ancient DNA in it. "This is the first time these genes have been expressed in over ten thousand years," Lamm pointed out. But to what extent were the pups dire wolves—as opposed to, say, gray wolves with some of the dire wolf's physical traits? Did they act like dire wolves? No effort had been made to try to identify genes for behavior. Did they think or smell or sound like the extinct animals?

I spoke to Elinor Karlsson, a program director at the Broad Institute, a joint Harvard and M.I.T. facility. An expert on wolf and dog genetics, she is a member of Colossal's advisory board. But she told me that she has some doubts about the company's messaging: "I ask Beth, 'Why are you calling this a dire wolf when it's a gray wolf with seventeen or eighteen changes in its DNA?'" Shapiro has countered that she did what she set out to do: "We've succeeded in creating the phenotype of a dire wolf."

Archer@400trix· Apr 5

It’s a beautiful day for a protest here in Boulder, CO

A bunch of Hands Off! protestors in from of the NIST/NOAA labs in Boulder, with the Flatirons in the background frosted in snow like a doughnut.

Archer@400trix· Mar 29

The last photo of me with my mom.

A photo of a me with my mom when I was 60 and she was 92. I tower over her, but I’m 5’5” on a good day. My mom was that tiny.

Archer@400trix· Mar 28

Just found this from a few years ago.

A Flock of Seagulls, this time harassing a sea lion instead of performing bad synth-pop.