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25 • she/her NB • bi furry who loves engineering & space • Autistic and proud of it • PFP🎨@smiggles.bsky.social‬, banner 🎨@kresendoe.bsky.social

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Sinn‼️ @sinnple.bsky.social · 2h

Goopy bust for @datkawaiiwolfy.bsky.social :]

Starra @starra.bsky.social · 5h

Still of Saw Gerrera, a Star Wars character who huffs the in-universe equivalent of gasoline

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Ankle-biting Meerkat @techk.at · 1d

Not sure if many know, but considering it is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, this might just feel fitting.

If you ever come across a website that does a CloudFlare security prompt, and it asks you to "copy" something - DON'T. This is an attempt to get you to run malware. It's becoming more common.

Starra @starra.bsky.social · 1d

This is the scale model in question, used to figure out how to do a "ring bus" (big conveyor loop for each item, gets taken off of & fed on to at arbitrary points along it)

Top-down screenshot of a mess of conveyors, splitters, mergers, and storage containers on top of a concrete platform. Some of the conveyors come off of or go through the platform.

Annotated diagram, explaining the material flow each part of the model represents/tests.

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Guy in the sky (comm slots filled 3/3) @guyinthesky.bsky.social · Jul 7

Gayass droids

Illustration of two star wars B1 droids kissing

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Hana Michels (Personal Account) @hanamichels.bsky.social · 1d

If you are a woman or female presenting in the Valley look out for a man with glasses and this plate. Took it off a TikTok video in which LITERALLY HUNDREDS of women reported him asking for help moving a box from his backseat to his trunk with a fake bandage around his arm, something Ted Bundy did.

Gray Hyundai license 8ADN237

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XelArtz ∍⧽⧼∊ @xelartz.bsky.social · 1d

Starra @starra.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly it's insane to see the Portland "disappearing 2020 protestors into unmarked vans" Police "Tear gassing random passers-by" Department behave this reasonably

Starra @starra.bsky.social · 2d

Love how this is basically saying "yeah grandpa complains about how things were better back in his day, but if you Look Out Your Fucking Window, things are actually better now"

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 2d

1909

According to evidence of elderly people, the world has been growing worse with each generation; men less manly; women less womanly, honesty less common; religion less of an influence. According to the evidence of conditions, however, the world seems to have been growing ever and always a better place for the human race to live in.
--West Concord Enterprise, 2 Sep 1909

Starra @starra.bsky.social · 2d

has been for a year (plus 7 days)

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Goop @goop.monster · 3d

Attempting to thrift some appropriate clothing for my interview tomorrow; if anybody could help, a few bucks will go a long way.

I’m looking to buy nonslip shoes
A pair of slacks
Plain black shirts
And socks

(I’m living off of small, casual wardrobe that fit in small suitcase before I fled Maine

Goop @goop.monster · Nov 12

If you'd like to support this Goop gettin on their feet
here are some links!!
ko-fi.com/gooptimes
cash.app/$Goopulus

Support Goop on Ko-fi! ❤️. ko-fi.com/gooptimes

Support Goop On Ko-fi. Ko-fi lets you support the people and causes you love with small donations

Starra @starra.bsky.social · 3d

Not had personal experience, but seems like it's a common issue yeah
(the PC port is... not good)

Starra @starra.bsky.social · 3d

Someone will probably correct me if I'm wrong here, but iirc it was primarily staff salaries (people are expensive!), followed by bandwidth costs

(Storage is generally quite cheap - it's *moving* that data to users that gets expensive)

Starra @starra.bsky.social · 3d

And then there's regional CoL - several of the Cohost staff were, iirc, in the SF bay area

Starra @starra.bsky.social · 3d

And this was despite the fact that the user-to-subscriber conversion ratio was orders of magnitude higher than "industry standard"

Social media sites are just extremely expensive to run for very little return

Starra @starra.bsky.social · 3d

(also holy shit this is 3 years old now, wtf???)

Starra @starra.bsky.social · 3d

Oh shit free blahaj

Starra @starra.bsky.social · 3d

god this screenshot has been sent to me from *facebook* posts, it's gone around a *lot*

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Isk @iskaudiir.bsky.social · 6d

Just giving this a boost! I still really need help with my portion of rent and the first round of bills I'll have to pay this month

Anything you could spare would help this critter out a ton, but even if you're only able to repost that'll still make a big difference!

Isk @iskaudiir.bsky.social · 10d

Reh reh, with october coming up really soon, I could use some help to make sure that I can pay my portion of rent and also knock out some early month bills. Rent is the biggest concern rn, and I'd need $300 for that -w-;

I know it's a lot to ask, but anything helps!

ko-fi.com/iskaudiir

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Kavaeric @kavaeric.net · 4d

If any of you are going to #BLFC, Pawcon, or WPAFW, let me know what you think of the new attendee registration page/dashboards!

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sammy dog com @sammyshaska.bsky.social · 4d

the other day i hit the fucking 🧍‍♀️ into the Gone Forever

Starra @starra.bsky.social · 5d

a y e p

Starra @starra.bsky.social · 5d

At the point in Satisfactory where I'm making scale models to plan out a logistics architecture for my main base rework

help

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Goop @goop.monster · 6d

I need help; I'm seeking rehousing and taking leads.
in AZ, Originally from Maine, my life belongings are there

hoping to start work soon, interview with bakery on Tues

if I do not figure this out, I will be homeless soon

it is peril, circumstances with my immune health, & physical disability

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 7d

Machine learning is a neat tool, but clearly companies are desperate to give “AI” credit for what human scholars accomplish in part because companies have bet the farm on the idea that human ingenuity is expendable. This historian is extraordinary and deserves the real credit.

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 7d

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

www.theguardian.com