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I think it would've been easy to throw the #Mastodon logo at some print-on-demand website and be done with it, but I've always wanted Mastodon merch to be something bespoke, something you'd genuinely

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:seas: A very applied mathematician. Professor of Applied # Mathematics & Head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences @ # University of Liverpool. # Academic :SpaceshipEarth: # Trustee @ University of Liverpool # Maths # School . :play: Father of Daughters # Family , Keeper of Fish # AmateurAquarist , Tinkerer with # Linux & Amateur # Sysadmin . :odyssey: Views are my own &c. :imagination: Header image: https:// unsplash.com/@brucebmax

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@daniel@colquitt.xyz · Nov 28, 2025

@Gargron@mastodon.social my mini-plush arrived today and has already been stolen by my daughter. The quality, however, is fantastic. The hard work has clearly paid off.

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One of the themes of my work is "quietly heroic infrastructure". ICBMs are pretty much the opposite of that. Perhaps the worst infrastructure we ever built.

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@mattblaze@federate.social I take your point but, given that an ICBM has never* been used in combat, I would argue that they classify as “quietly heroic infrastructure”. Regardless, your shots are imp

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@daniel@colquitt.xyz Sorry, but the fact that we haven’t actually collectively used it after just 60 or so years of the ability to exterminate hundreds of millions of lives at the push of a few button

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:seas: A very applied mathematician. Professor of Applied # Mathematics & Head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences @ # University of Liverpool. # Academic :SpaceshipEarth: # Trustee @ University of Liverpool # Maths # School . :play: Father of Daughters # Family , Keeper of Fish # AmateurAquarist , Tinkerer with # Linux & Amateur # Sysadmin . :odyssey: Views are my own &c. :imagination: Header image: https:// unsplash.com/@brucebmax

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:seas: A very applied mathematician. Professor of Applied # Mathematics & Head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences @ # University of Liverpool. # Academic :SpaceshipEarth: # Trustee @ University of Liverpool # Maths # School . :play: Father of Daughters # Family , Keeper of Fish # AmateurAquarist , Tinkerer with # Linux & Amateur # Sysadmin . :odyssey: Views are my own &c. :imagination: Header image: https:// unsplash.com/@brucebmax

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@daniel@colquitt.xyz · Nov 14, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social I just hope that the Nash equilibrium remains stable for the next 60 years.

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Captured with a DSLR and a Zeiss 21mm Distagon lens. Handheld (there was no room to set up a tripod). In 2009, I was fortunate to join a "top to bottom" tour of former Air Force Titan ICBM site 571-7,

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More ICBM photos and discussion here: https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/titans/

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One of the themes of my work is "quietly heroic infrastructure". ICBMs are pretty much the opposite of that. Perhaps the worst infrastructure we ever built.

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:seas: A very applied mathematician. Professor of Applied # Mathematics & Head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences @ # University of Liverpool. # Academic :SpaceshipEarth: # Trustee @ University of Liverpool # Maths # School . :play: Father of Daughters # Family , Keeper of Fish # AmateurAquarist , Tinkerer with # Linux & Amateur # Sysadmin . :odyssey: Views are my own &c. :imagination: Header image: https:// unsplash.com/@brucebmax

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@daniel@colquitt.xyz · Nov 13, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social I take your point but, given that an ICBM has never* been used in combat, I would argue that they classify as “quietly heroic infrastructure”. Regardless, your shots are impressive, both technically and aesthetically. — * The jury is still out regarding the Dnipro strike.

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