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Notorious RBMK
@comraderobot.bsky.social
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 ai art
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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
the mods are stupid, but also, fighting with the mods is “poster’s strike” to me
February 4, 2026 at 5:43 PM
to clarify my position i support journalism and journalists and the Washington Post can eat my shit and hair
February 4, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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After a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all
February 4, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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oh no the pro-hitler newspaper is getting smaller(?)
February 4, 2026 at 4:50 PM
banning dril is absolute rookie shit this place may as well fold now
February 4, 2026 at 4:47 PM
have an annoying take no one needs to hear that im currently chewing up and swallowing
February 4, 2026 at 6:45 AM
*opens facebook*
February 4, 2026 at 6:33 AM
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i'm a joker, i'm the joker, i'm the midnight joker.
February 4, 2026 at 4:31 AM
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what if instead of being an individual contributor you were a manager of a fake guy
February 4, 2026 at 4:47 AM
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what if i just did code reviews from automated junior engineers all day? that would definitely keep self-injected bullets out of my brain
February 4, 2026 at 4:47 AM
there are so, so, so many skills i could not learn without passing through a period of intense discomfort and psychic pain.
help i think im going to turn into a marble statue pfp guy but for computer. this is a moral hazard. we’re losing our culture. this decadence will end in decline
February 4, 2026 at 4:46 AM
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I gotta say between Final Fantasy VII and all those Bugs Bunny cartoons, I was led to believe that a few more of my problems would be solvable by putting on a pretty dress
February 4, 2026 at 4:34 AM
help i think im going to turn into a marble statue pfp guy but for computer. this is a moral hazard. we’re losing our culture. this decadence will end in decline
February 4, 2026 at 4:32 AM
“we’re launching one million satellites” okay well im turning into moss. we’re all doing shit
February 4, 2026 at 3:33 AM
this is still the best joke ive intentionally crafted. it’s like i built it in a bottle.
sudafed for my real friends, and real feds for my pseudo friends
February 4, 2026 at 3:31 AM
ivermectin? how could ivermectin when ive never even seen her mectin
February 4, 2026 at 3:29 AM
trumps doj
February 4, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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pov: you are the monolith
February 4, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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i know quadcopters get all the glory but there’s just something romantic about styrofoam wings

this weeks moment of scale aviation zen:
February 3, 2026 at 2:37 AM
pov: you are the monolith
February 4, 2026 at 1:00 AM
hey man. spot any vast conspiracies amongst the noise lately. do any pattern matching. You construct any narratives from random happenstance my dude
February 4, 2026 at 12:53 AM
we want it GONE bro. everybody wants it gone.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:

End the roving patrols and racial profiling.

Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.

Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 4, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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in abstract x is just a megachurch
February 4, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
February 4, 2026 at 12:06 AM
okay so what i gather is people doing this because sometimes it’s faster than ordering but other than that its just for the cory doctorow vibes and maybe saving a few cents per whistle

to tldr the tldr whistles are whistles so however you can get ahold of and distribute them is fine
can someone tldr me on why so many people are printing whistles? i have a maybe-bad assumption that they could be sourced more affordably from injection mold fabricators, but maybe those dont meet some kind of spec that the printed ones have re: audibility?
February 3, 2026 at 11:48 PM