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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇

@comraderobot.bsky.social

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equal parts physics, left politics, DIY science, and photos (space/birds/stuff). formerly astroparticle physics, now astrodynamicist. "dr" in certain extremely specific professional contexts. ohio for 3 decades then west coast (sfbay, now pdx). fuck gen ai

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · Oct 17

okay we can pin stuff now and tons of people are pouring in from an X debacle… so

Hi! my name is Nathan

i post jokes and do a bunch of tedious but aesthetic stuff in my free time:

* space photos
* bird photos
* bouncing radio off the moon
* making gadgets
* using/programming old computers

Photos of jupiter, sun, and saturn/moon conjunction

selfie in front of my moonbounce antenna

bluebird on a fence looking over shoulder and kinda pissed?

my “radioactive dice” project that makes random numbers from Geiger clicks of uranium marbles

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 14m

look out, im grumpy and picking esoteric fights

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 15m

you that hardware where all the stuff happens now? we decided ‘nah’ on that

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 16m

don’t worry im sure someone who follows a rust programming feed will be along shortly to say something irrelevant

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 17m

apparently there’s no robust support for nvidia gpu programming in Rust. which at this point is kind of like a language not supporting x86 in 1990 lmao

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 2h

designed with gamers in mind

TheGamersician 🎮🎶 @thegamersician.com · 17h

🤦🏾‍♂️

Speak for yourself lol

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 3h

perfect Portland response

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 3h

100 years of infamy passed on at grade school age to every living human since is apparently not sufficient enough a deterrent for this disease

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 6h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 3h

hard to escape the conclusion that the nuremberg trials were too gentle an admonishment

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 4h

muh sovrenty

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 4h

lol i need this footnote on every post

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 5h

got blocked by a follower for “spreading misinformation” by someone even though I expressly tagged it with a corrective grain of salt. lol enjoy being online

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 5h

Read a wiki article to learn the blow by blow of the dot com bubble collapse and it indicates that the prime mover was news of a japanese recession…

This matches my intuition. We have an unstable equilibrium, so all it takes is a whiff of perturbation one day and then it’s slide, slide, slide, baby

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 5h

i need a guide for “how to build a PC when you haven’t built one in 10 years” because shit has kind of changed. like, liquid cooling is now standard???

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 5h

saw something that indicates this had been in the works since 2022 but sincerely who gives a fuck

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 8h

they’re calling it the most normal you can be about fajitas

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

going by the decor, is this not TGI Fridays?

Someone on Twitter posted a photo of themselves doing a happy dance as they receive a hot plate of fajitas. Then "Raw Egg Nationalist" on Twitter retweets them, writing: It's incredible that these people exist, but they really do. These are the people who justify the demographic replacement of Western countries in terms of the variety of street food and how many different kinds of fried-meat-and-vegetables in flatbread they can buy.

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 8h

broke my build on an friday afternoon. thinking about walking the earth

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 9h

they JUST announced it

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 9h

importing some good facebook slop

multiple expire of a beach and horses and pink 90s Britney Spears with glittery pink text:

starting tomorrow
everything is going to be okay, they JUST announced it

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 9h

this is cooking with gas

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 9h

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Natalie Dombois @nataliedombois.bsky.social · Jan 13

Time to post one of my favorite old illustrations. :)
I created it for a group show resolving around botanical visuals. During this time I read a lot about the ISS and how they grew plants in there to test botanical behavior, which also sparked dreams about deep space travels.

Female Astronaut surrounded by plants. She's holding a space shuttle.

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 10h

Editor: You get that cover of Fossil Frogs and Toads of North America?
Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin hard as hell just like you asked.
Editor: what

Cover of a paleontology monograph Fossil Frogs and Toads of North America by J. Alan Holman, with a cover painting featuring three adorable green tree frogs in the foreground while a gigantic bolt of lighting strikes amid a heard of rearing and panicking brontotheres in the background

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 11h

📡 ↙️ 🌖

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 12h

i think my real answer is 100 years is too short but 500-1000 is probably about right lol

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 12h

yeah I guess my assumption is that there are leet physics haxx. honestly the worst part is likely becoming the de facto emperor of all mankind

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