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Canis Latransciever @xeniarf.bsky.social · 11h

I'm out here cackling with on prem equipment and private microwave, I laugh at the cloud

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Canis Latransciever @xeniarf.bsky.social · 14h

It probably was original to the tower when it was built in the 1960s as well.

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Canis Latransciever @xeniarf.bsky.social · 14h

Oh that poor section of waveguide, no idea how long it's been sitting out there in the elements like that.

Section of microwave waveguide (rectangular pipe) that's been heavily weathered

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Canis Latransciever @xeniarf.bsky.social · 15h

People wearing unweathered Stetsons give off such rancid vibes jfc

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walking mirage @wolf.observer · 1d

i think what it enabled is far more important than a contingency that never happened

14,400 phone calls over one TH link. How many engagements were made through these horns? How many births and deaths communicated?

AT&T was the last entity that took communications seriously and now we live in hell

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Canis Latransciever @xeniarf.bsky.social · 1d

My grandpa used to work on these, and he passed away before I was able to ask him anything about how they worked.
Now a few of the radio sites I maintain are nestled in the bones of these monuments. I hold a particular deference for them when I'm in their shadow.

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 1d

AT&T Long Lines

is one of the most monumental efforts that has zero cultural understanding

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Green Jinjo @green-jinjo.bsky.social · 1d

Help!

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 3d

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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v. v. cascadensis ☉∇🏔️🌲📻 @radiovix.bsky.social · 2d

b
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 2d

South Minneapolis sticker report

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Microsoft Zune @microsoftzune.bsky.social · 4d

we had to put steve ballmer down this afternoon after he bit an Apple employee

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Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 4d

Big part of the trouble with politics these days is that "we disagree on the right solution to this problem" and "we disagree on the material reality of what the problem is and how it functions on a fundamental level" are treated as equally legitimate

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Canis Latransciever @xeniarf.bsky.social · 5d

I work on radio equipment as a job, we share towers with iheartradio owned stations... The amount of neglect that's often on display for the FM transmitters and antenna lines is just saddening

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 5d

Look, I know people don't like the idea of killing deer. There's even a name for it: 'Bambi syndrome'.

But you *do* like native trees and forest ecosystems, right?

Well, it's one or the other.

Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 5d

With maybe 125,000+ invasive sika deer in Wicklow alone, this is what native forest creation looks like.

• No woodland flora can grow
• Oak aside, trees flop over once tube is removed, deer then kill tree
• Trees may not even be genuinely native

For our forests' sake, a LOT more deer must be shot.

Mike McKillen @mikemckillen.bsky.social · 5d

The pocket forest of native broadleaf tree established by Scouting Ireland at it activity centre at Lough Dan was only possible by using tubes to protect the saplings from bracken & deer/sheep grazing. My image from Aug shows bracken density.

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Canis Latransciever @xeniarf.bsky.social · 6d

Forever vindicated for being that freak that maintains a library of music saved to a device locally

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Canis Latransciever @xeniarf.bsky.social · 7d

I think it's a legitimate gripe, dumb digital is ok, but I reallyyy don't like make all media internet based, having been forced to live in an area with rather unreliable Internet access for the longest time

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Canis Latransciever @xeniarf.bsky.social · 8d

Like, there's been transatlantic contacts on 8.76Khz but that seems to just be it?

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Canis Latransciever @xeniarf.bsky.social · 8d

Hm, thinking about amateur radio on the VLF and ELF bands again.

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Canis Latransciever @xeniarf.bsky.social · 9d

I tried this now I'm trapped in the traffic circle, it's been 10 years

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Canis Latransciever @xeniarf.bsky.social · 10d

Somewhere between creature and creature (feral)

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Canis Latransciever @xeniarf.bsky.social · 10d

100% with the quit fucking around and embrace nuclear. There are a lot more negative environmental effects that large solar farms have compared to the energy that actually is produced, and the really dire effects on power transmission that it has.

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walking mirage @wolf.observer · 10d

do you think peter thiel and sam altman ever explored each others' bodies

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Mae @spiderpolice.bsky.social · 11d

yuritober day 9 but there's a bunch of doggies this time

A sign reads "Dog Girl Club -- Meeting today. A Room of three anthro wolves and a doggirl sit on the floor together. Two of the anthros howl, the dog girl blushes, ogling a wolf, while another wolf says "Welcome to the pack!"

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Ceejay Washington @lukeofender.bsky.social · 11d

(art by wolfertinger666 on Tumblr)

An image of a girl with canine ears, with an arrow pointing towards a second image of the same girl this time with a matching canine snout. The caption reads "Give that girl a snout!"

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