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Carter Wickstrom

@carterwickstrom

globalist. rooted cosmopolitan. situationist, groucho tendency.

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Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· 17d

12axes.vercel.app took the 200+ questions version, and... that's a label I can live with

screenshot of the complicated PNG summary of my answers to https://12axes.vercel.app - tl;dr: I'm a Techno-Socialist

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· 21d

my mental visuals immediately went to the pressurized water rockets I had as a kid

a 1970s vintage transparent red plastic water rocket next to the white-and-red hand pump used to pressurize it.

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Jul 5

did someone say subway tiles

close-up of the Beaux Arts mosaics at the 14th Street station on the NYC MTA's Red Line - a mother of pearl-ish "14" on dark blue surrounded by gold

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Jun 29

damn, son, I'm sorry about that TBI

an utterly nonsensical recruiter email I just received, describing a 6-month contract as hybrid in IL or OK while simultaneously describing it as fully remote.

GTECH LLC is a predatory dumpster fire.

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Jun 1

my kid just sent this to the family chat

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Apr 29

might I interest you in vegan jerky

screenshot of Vietnamese vegan chicken jerky in the Weee! Asian grocery app.

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Apr 11

supporting the Artemis splashdown

screenshot of Flightradar24 showing NASA planes and military helicopters currently off San Diego

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Apr 3

adam-driver-more.gif

Color photo of the M50 Ontos, a small tracked armored vehicle with 6 recoilless rifles mounted on it. It is painted a typical Cold War dark olive drab.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M50_Ontos

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Mar 21

Inbox synchronicity at its best

Screenshot of my Gmail inbox:

7:54 AM - A LinkedIn connection invitation from a person named Tom

8:01 AM - A promo from an archery company with the subject "Top Picks for Tagging a Tom"

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Mar 10

also the branch insignia for US Army Ordnance

US Army branch insignia for Ordnance. Enlisted insignia is on top: two brass disks, one with "U.S." and the other with a stylized flaming grenade. On the bottom, officer insignia in brass and blackened brass, depicting just the flaming grenade.

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Mar 3

aren't they, though? even as an adult she can swivel either of them; idk if you're a gamer or not, but we call this look "human, roll for initiative."

A black dog with white socks and chin looks at the camera; one ear is up, the other is down. we call this look "human, roll for initiative."

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Mar 2

our wish-dot-com lab/shepherd mix turned out to be... a pit bull/shepherd mix

a black puppy with white toes, chest spot, and chin is sitting on a blue towel, looking mildly anxious

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Feb 28

bun, no

Screenshot of the @bunjavascript account on Twitter posting hole on main.

(the bun mascot is saying "is this what a supply chain risk looks like to you??" with its regular face replaced by Anthropic's starburst/butthole. it looks like a steamed bun with a cat asshole.)

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Feb 21

shared this w/ my 20-something kid and

Screenshot of iMessage exchange.
Me: sends TikTok link

Son: I love this man
It is only a matter of time before
he gets arrested for violating
Australian firearm law

Me: or loses an eye and/or digits. or
all three.

Son: Oh yes, he's accidentally fired
nails through his workshop
ceiling sideways before.

Son: Don't remember the context of
that one just remember the
roadrunner and coyote style
sideways nail holes.

Me: 😳

Me: 😳

Son: I wanna say he was having
trouble finding where they wound up and eventually found them poking up through the carpet above
He’s also made a beyblade with
a full size carpentry saw blade
and been tangentially involved in
a politically motivated arson case
(on the right side of it, to be
clear)
Utterly unhinged individual in the
best ways, the world will be a
darker place when he passes
away in an accident presumably
involving hand drill actuated bear
traps or something similar.

Me: (😂 reaction to text)

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Feb 11

in this house, the only VW truck we recognize is the T3 Doka (there were a bunch of these in our part of Seattle)

white Volkswagen T3 Doka, a late 1980s 4dr van cab with a pickup bed

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Feb 10

like wtf is this

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Feb 8

Clydesdale zoomies.

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Feb 8

Some of the performers in the Super Bowl are staying near us.

Two dalmatians sitting at attention in an open pasture; rolling hills are in the background.

Three parked red tractor trailers with sleeper cabs attached to custom horse trailers, all in Budweiser livery. They are parked on a gravel road between two horse arenas.

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Feb 6

A Rivian wearing a party hat and assless chaps

A Rivian R1S with a LIDAR rig on the roof and two (non-standard) sensor panels on the rear quarter panels, kinda looking like butt cheeks.

A stupid iOS upgrade has convinced my phone to focus on the reflection of my dashboard instead of the Rivian in front of me. 🫠

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Feb 5

Renée Jeanne Falconetti as Joan of Arc in the The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Feb 3

Big Trouble in Little China media1.tenor.com/m/2tWlzDKOXv...

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Jan 30

Cool Zone Barbie

Iconic 1973 photo of a dark-haired woman in a leather jacket and polka dot dress hiding behind the corner of a building in Belfast. She is aiming an AR-18 Armalite rifle. Another woman stands behind her, guarding her back. https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/0616/1147804-troubles-northern-ireland-colman-doyle-photo-woman-ira-belfast-1973/

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Jan 20

post a car picture you took

A heavily-modified Triumph painted to look like a WW2 RAF fighter plane. It has a tail, a black crash cage, green-and-brown camo, Y-31 fuselage numbers, an RAF rondel, 4 German kill marks, 3 Japanese, and painted-on bullet holes across the hood.

Seen at 24 Hours of Lemons at Sonoma Raceway.

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Jan 10

thanks for the recommendation, @beijingpalmer.bsky.social; this was a very fun read!

A photo of Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance, by Jane Gleeson-White.

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Jan 5

This just arrived today:

A poorly-lit book laying on a black hoodie. It's a lovely dark green cloth-bound hardcover and gold lettering: Jewelry Technology in the Ancient & Medieval World.

Below the title is a photorealistic image of a gold cuff bracelet covered in semi-precious stones and either filigree or granulation.

Below that in white text is the name of the author, Jack Ogden.

The ISBN is 978-1630850142.

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Jan 2

R. Crumb's "keep on truckin'" dude, in red tones, under a very groovy 1970s font that says "Keep On Truckin'..."

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Jan 2

this probably won't go anywhere fun, but let's see

screenshot of scam text message.
Scammer: Can you tell me who you are? Your number is in my business phone.

Me: omg is this about the body?
Me: it's okay if you don't remember, you were really drunk.

The scammer's phone number is +1-646-951-0317.

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Jan 1

ugh. screenshot of 2018 twitter post so as not to deal with xitter's mishegas

Screenshot of a tweet that I sent in 2018. The tweet is "90% of all code comments:" above a photo I found on the internet of a long-haired gray tortie cat with a "CAT" label on their head.

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Dec 29

I am not arrogant enough to say that engineering has all of the answers. I am confident, though, that I would prefer engineers to tackle the above problem over gardeners, as much as I appreciate them.

Screenshot of a bluesky conversation, wherein someone who knows something about marshland remediation and a gardener insist that what Palo Alto is doing with their new floodwall is neither new nor engineering.

I got blocked by the gardener for suggesting that they apply their knowledge at the scale of a city.

Carter Wickstrom@carterwickstrom· Dec 27