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Will Work for Launch. Spacecraft troubleshooter at Flying Circuits. Building hardware for the ISS (and beyond!) with BioServe Space Technologies at CU Boulder. Former toymaking elf at Sparkfun Electronics. Friend of parrots. He/him/ally.

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Flying Circuits @flyingcircuits.bsky.social · Aug 16

Words to live by

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 14h

While providing tech support for my FIL:

FIL: What's that screen?

ME: The terminal. You should never use it.

FIL: Never?

ME: So you know how I'm allowed to watch you open the electrical panel and swap out breakers, but I'm not allowed to ever open up it myself?

FIL: Ah! I understand, thank you.

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シロイ @shiroibooks.jp · 5h

揉んで差し上げています

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 15h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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pussyfullawasps 🗡️ (they/she) @pussyfullawasps.bsky.social · 6d

i do not think,
therefore i do not am

mister egg (a fluffy dog) sitting on some grass looking up and squinting as he ponders the meaning of the answer to the question of the meaning

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Flying Circuits @flyingcircuits.bsky.social · 7h

"Winter is coming!"

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · Sep 10

the craze for massive touchscreens and "fix-it-in-post" updateable software has been driving down perceived quality across the industry

www.popularmechanics.com/cars/car-tec...

Touch Screens Are Making Cars Worse. It’s Time to Bring Back Buttons and Knobs.

Big touch screens look cool, but they’re difficult (and sometimes dangerous) to operate.

www.popularmechanics.com

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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · Aug 28

now recording...

a stylized nighttime 3d render, where a person with a very large wind-shielded boom mic is recording a humble cricket.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 7d

Outrageous! The moon rotation in this shot of
The Lion King remake implies it was shot far into the northern hemisphere. What happened to realism? Literally unwatchable.

Screenshot of shot with the full moon rising in front of Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa. Below are three moon diagrams showing the proper orientation of the moon from the northern hemisphere, equator (Kenya) and southern hemisphere. The moon from the film is aligned to the northern hemisphere version because realism means nothing any longer.

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 16h

I keep trying to explain to him how ICONIC and HISTORIC the castle is and he couldn’t possibly be less impressed

An uninterested teen in front of the honest to god castle of King Friday the XIII at Fred Rogers Studio, WQED Pittsburgh

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Stiffler @findchaos.bsky.social · 16h

Progress on my little demon chimenea, off to be bisque fired next. 🐦‍🔥

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 15h

There are a couple of public pianos in our downtown and sometimes people come out of the woodwork and just blow you away

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SpotGideon @shepf.art · 20h

I’m not into steam locomotives all that much, but Shay locomotives are cool as heck - all wheels are powered via a geared driveshaft which is so hypnotic to watch 🐶❤️🚂

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 22h

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads:

VIVE LA
RIBBITSTANCE

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

New in PN: The impossibly dumb reason for Trump's invasion of Portland

"Trump’s confusion isn’t just darkly comical (and a troubling reminder of the president’s growing senility) — it’s a stark illustration of the whiplash-inducing disconnect between his rhetoric and the reality on the ground."

The impossibly dumb reason for Trump's invasion of Portland

It'd be hilarious if he wasn't the commander in chief.

www.publicnotice.co

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 1d

there's nothing capitalists love more than gazing at the disastrous, inevitable wastelands created by capitalism and loudly blaming it on communism

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Flying Circuits @flyingcircuits.bsky.social · 1d

FEETS! 🥰

Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 1d

BIG STEPPA

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 1d

three cheers for slow science, each Nobel representing decades of inquiry that paved the way for the technology, treatments, & toys of tomorrow:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...

Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science

www.nytimes.com

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Flying Circuits @flyingcircuits.bsky.social · 1d

😞

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Justin King @justinkingdesigns.bsky.social · 2d

Text with my wife 😄

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Flying Circuits @flyingcircuits.bsky.social · 2d

Rutan is a personal hero, and I'm still annoyed I was born 10 years too late to be part of the Vari-/Long-EZ builders community. 😡

(Technically I could build one now since archives of the plans are available, but the community was the remarkable thing and a big part of the success of that design.)

The Long-EZ

The Long-EZ is a 2-place, single-engine, all-composite home-build airplane; designed by Burt Rutan. The following information is provided...

www.aryjglantz.com

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Doug's Creeping Economic Recession @jonspaceharper.bsky.social · 2d

Rutan’s designs suggest he visualized fluids in a way most folks can’t understand. The guy designed elegant new ideas for decades while most designers iterated, and did much of it before computers were fast enough to model the effects ahead of time!

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