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Rob Zacny

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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 26m

Weird I distinctly remember my shop teacher scaring the shit out of us about how the blade could turn into a whip on old machines. But maybe he was just scaring us to be more careful on the new equipment

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 1h

Hey just out of curiosity did postwar era band saws have blade arrestors / guards? Finding some incredible deals but fear having my thread cut by a broken blade whipping out.

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 6h

Oh this is very helpful to know! Thanks to you both

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 6h

They’re so pretty! Has yours started to turn?

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 6h

Say one had a healthy Japanese Maple with a lot of inconvenient low branches. Is there any reason NOT to just clip / saw them off? What, really, is a tree trimming service / arborist going to do that anyone would be capable of doing?

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 10h

We need to bring back the 80s erotic thriller/ neo noir. Like American Gigolo doesn’t SOUND promising but it kinda rocked? Great casting of Hector Elizondo and Bill Duke in key roles, Richard Gere leaning on the chilly nastiness that is his real gift as a leading man.

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 1d

More service journalism today @remapradio.bsky.social as @danika.bsky.social joins us to help identify the most practical and cost effective coffee maker for an extremely specific set of requirements. twitch.tv/remapradio || www.youtube.com/live/1Fk5-ft...

RemapRadio - Twitch

Rob's New French Press

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 1d

<looking at the coolest man who ever lived> Guess I have to be the one to say it.

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 2d

Jaxson Dart, do I ever have the podcast for you.

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 2d

Oh right on cue they explain he’s on paternity

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 2d

Hey where the hell is Sam Schwartzstein, the inventor of football, on this Prime Vision broadcast?

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 2d

Amazon’s Thursday Night Football broadcast

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 2d

That Marshawn Lynch Goes Birding in Central Park feature was incredible. I would watch a season of that.

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 2d

I certainly didn’t think it’d be the WOODS but yeah it turns out things can get wild fast outside the city. Glad you liked the Alpha Centauri talk!

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 2d

I assume it’s partly because almost all the wood for them is sourced there?

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 2d

Deck house is the exact style and the company that makes the components.

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 2d

But NOT a Grovercompound

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 2d

<whispers reassuringly into the eaves> *I* don’t think you’re a Groverhaus.

Looking up at a deck house through a tunnel of autumnal gold and pale green trees up a long driveway.

A deck house lit by morning autumn light from the southeast. Its vertical wood siding and narrow windows under the eaves say, “This was a good purchase. We’re not going to ruin Rob’s life.”

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 4d

The farts themselves have a kind of morality-based effect or you just presume you’d never fire the fart cannon at non-bad people?

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 4d

Given that panic-freezing is a huge part of their playbook they do kinda seem like they want to be part of someone’s dinner.

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 4d

Ooh dish. What is an evil heron like? They seem so chill and unbothered.

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 4d

Okay everyone say goodnight to Tilly. See you tomorrow.

A night mode iPhone photo of cream poodle with a big black nose gazing down from where she rests atop the photographer’s chest, thrown into sharp contrast by the light of the full moon over her shoulder.

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 4d

Nooooo do not perceive me! Ugh this is so embarrassing.

A gray tree frog awkwardly spread eagles between the slats of a wooden deck, its pebbled gray and green skin starkly lit by a floodlight.

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 5d

It’s become a running joke that MK’s first thought when she sees any unfamiliar species of bird is that it could be a heron with its neck tucked in.

Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 5d

Herons might outdo poodles for easy confidence that they own the place. Nothing is gonna make them hurry anywhere. They have two modes: strutting and soaring.

A blue heron swaggers toward a flowering bush, head held high on a comically long neck atop a football shaped body and enormous twig legs.