Kerbal01
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Kerbal01
@kerbal01.bsky.social
old computer enthusiast, linux user, right to repair advocate.
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A local sales rep reportedly is finding the perks of her new promotion to be a bit underwhelming.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Valve reveals its newest hardware which requires its users reduce it to ashes after closing out of the game they were playing.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Amazon landed its New Glenn rocket, accelerating our path towards a dystopian reality where trillionaires will own the space that should be used to help life on Earth.
SpaceX vs. Amazon: A Space War Between Trillionaires
Musk and Bezos are trashing space as we subsidize their rise to trillionaire status. With Amazon subsidiary Blue Origin successfully landing its New Glenn rocket, SpaceX has competition in the reus…
kevinhicks.net
November 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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It is still *fascinating* for some of the responses I've seen of the Musk stans to New Glenn achieving pretty much an entirely perfect flight on the second flight, with some of them crashing out, others being defeat, and others just still utterly stalwart in soon Starship will win.
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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NASA's just-launched ESCAPADE mission is trying out a novel trajectory to Mars, one that's slower but allows much more flexible launch dates. The flight path also provides a bonus science session at the L2 equilibrium point near Earth. 🧪🔭

skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
November 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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August 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Coming soon to a kitchen near you.
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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SHELVE YOUR MAUL, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE DEHYDRATION. AND YOU WILL WIN.
November 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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the internet used to be comminism since all the information on webbed sites used to be free but now the internet is capitalism because its worse and costs money
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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So this is what I was up to today.

Go New Glenn! Go ESCAPADE!!
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Can't wait for the Gabecube! #art #steammachine
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Seven Up Blue
November 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"

guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Fifty years of video games and still none of them are great
November 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Your daily fortune:
Little by little, we can make the world better. That’s also a good way to eat a really large burrito.
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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thsi little guy is the most successful hunter
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!

Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026:

Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame. 

Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
Steam Hardware
The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026.
steampowered.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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I just wanted single-payer healthcare in 2016 and I got whatever this is
November 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Look outside people, them lights be northern
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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valve dropped the gabecube fr
November 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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lol xitter is a piece of crap now. I continue to keep my account active so it can't be squatted, and they're doing the domain u2f/passkey migration which is all and good.

except they fucked up and it's impossible to log in even after you save a new u2f key or passkey and disable all other 2fa.
November 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Proud.
November 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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After going to Valve to try out the new Steam Machine, Controller, and Frame VR headset, our resident tech guru Jackie writes about why, with the Steam Machine, Valve may be defining the next generation of games.

Read her new opinion piece:
With the Steam Machine, Valve May Be Defining the Next Generation of Games
bit.ly
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM