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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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worldwildlife.bsky.social
When it gets really cold bluebirds roost together in a pile using collective body heat to help them survive. They arrange themselves so they don’t smother & alternate positions within the pile. Photo by Wildlife Rehabilitators of North Carolina (WRNC). Thank you Van Harris for sharing this. 🐦 #birds
November 29, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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arstechnica.com
Russian launch pad incident raises concerns about future of space station
“We are going to learn just how important the ISS is to leadership.”…
arstechnica.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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spindlypete.bsky.social
god's most perfect vehicle
an orange VW micro truck thing with a canopy on it. you can't see it in the picture but it's got import euro plates and a sick sound system
November 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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sesmith.lol
Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I hope this finds you
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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joshuajfriedman.com
OK, who narced?
Screenshot of Bluesky thread. Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Our oven has suddenly decided it's not going to get hotter than 315 degrees. Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Can you fit a space heater inside? U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov What in the name of BEN FRANKLIN is going on here. Nov 28, 2025, 10:37 AM
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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ili.bsky.social
sleeping arrangements
November 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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pipapipia.bsky.social
Some old stairs that lead to the river. Curious. 🍂🍁
November 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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angusduncan.me
November 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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erikahall.bsky.social
Taking a break from spinning to feed chickens ca. 1340
Image of a woman holding a distaff under one arm wearing medieval dress and headwrap feeding a giant hen and some chicks from and English Illuminated manuscript
November 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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emilylorange.bsky.social
a meme showing two men, one (RGB) in vibrant blue, magenta and yellow about to be stabbed, and the other (CYMK) in the same colors desaturated, about to stab him
November 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
Happy Gävlebocken season! Every year since 1966, Gävle, Sweden, has erected a massive version of Scandinavia's traditional straw Yule goat. It is so attractive to vandals—particularly arsonists—that in the previous 59 years, only 17 goats have survived fully intact. Good luck in 2025, Gävlebocken!
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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presentcorrect.bsky.social
Below is the ‘Black Friday Deal’ from all small businesses:

- we care
- we have fun
- we bring originality
- we are more sustainable
- we love our customers
- we pay tax
- we create
- we still exist
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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kennylauderdale.bsky.social
I LOVE RIPPING VHS TAPES. I LOVE NTSC. I LOVE PAL. I LOVE 3:2:2 PULLDOWN. I LOVE INTERLACED VIDEO. I LOVE DEINTERLACED VIDEO. I LOVE 59.97 FPS, I LOVE 29.97 FPS, I LOVE TELICINE, I LOVE FILM, I LOVE LASERDISC, I LOVE RF, I LOVE DIGIBETA, I LOVE BETAMAX, I LOVE LEAKING CAPACITORS
November 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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brookebikesmke.bsky.social
Never been a greater example of Dudes Rock.
These South Philly dads bought personal street sweepers for their block: ‘It’s like a little Zamboni’
The German device isn't marketed for street cleaning, but when brooms weren't enough to keep their kids safe from broken glass and debris on their block, these three men got ingenious with it.
www.inquirer.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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anatolyzak.bsky.social
Russia's only pad for crew launches suffers major damage:
russianspaceweb.com/baikonur_r7_...
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
flyingcircuits.bsky.social
🎶 Maybe think of me once in a while 🎶

Happy thanksgiving, friends!
Les Nesmond, Buckeye Newshawk Award-winning reporter for WKRP in Cincinnati, reporting live from the first (and last) annual turkey drop.
November 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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dimlan.bsky.social
The shame of it is if they worked together they could totally overpower this guy
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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televisionaryzw.bsky.social
Watching the 1995 Mystery Science Theater Turkey Day with the original commercials…
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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maryharris.bsky.social
Shout out to everyone getting the rolling chair at dinner tonight you’re the real ones
November 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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topherflorence.bsky.social
remember folks thanksgiving is the one day that your dog is allowed to plug in all twenty of your toasters on the same circuit as a treat
a scene from the charlie brown thanksgiving special where for some reason not only are there eighteen functional toasters in the house, they are all going at once anyway i never really noticed franklin sitting in that one weird chair as a kid but i was extremely pissed off that the kids had to eat jellybeans and popcorn and toast while snoopy secretly made himself a real meal. this dog. this animal got to feast while the unsupervised children suffered it really pissed me off
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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mudron.bsky.social
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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swiftonsecurity.com
A roll of aluminum foil is maybe one of the most incredible things you will ever hold in your life. That was a creation for kings and you wrap it around food and throw it in the dumpster. You talk about planes as aluminum cans, as if both are not one of the most incredible creations in history.
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
flyingcircuits.bsky.social
You don't even need three chords, Mojo Nixon did it in one! 😎
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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banditelli.org
Beautiful start to what's a very complicated day for many of us.

Love what you love.

Be bitter to what you hate.

Roll with whatever is inbetween.

If you have none of that, go watch ducks or duck footage 😇 🪶
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM