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@nedman.bsky.social
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B.S. Physics, M.S. Chemistry , Astro 🪐 Buff, Maker, Husband, Freemason, Dad, Nerd, Dog Dad, Am. Photographer, Stalker of Butterflies, 🏳️‍🌈Ally, 😃 Coastal NC
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I recently baked some silica gel, but did not eat. 😁
Picture of a bunch of silica gel beads sitting in a glass baking pan. Most of the beads are clear/white but some are cool indicating orange. A red silicone spatula is stirring the beads in the center of the pan.
October 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Sigh, first pic for me from that feed. 🙁
Screen shot of a bluesky post from the touch grass feed. The post shows the picture of dead and desiccated frog on asphalt with a brown cricket on top of one of the frogs legs. Text with the post says "Cricket nibbling on a desiccated toad seen on my walk this morning."
September 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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100% myself. 😊
Screenshot showing my Bluesky Alt text rating of 100.00%
September 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Making Pride themed things for my daughter and her friends.
Picard series com badge made from laser cut plywood. The background is hand colored rainbow while the foreground delta is painted silver.
September 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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So it begins.
#PumkinSpice
Image taken from above a neighborhood of homes. From the left is a large orange/brown dust cloud rolling in. The front of the cloud has a dog face. On the cloud are the words "Pumpkin Spice" and to the right over the homes are the words "Sept. 1st"
September 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Random bird feather seen on the front porch this morning. It’s only about 7cm long. maybe a tail feather from a red-bellied woodpecker. #birds #feathers
Picture of a short bird feather seen on. Birch porch. End of the feather is stuck in a crack between the bricks. Feather is black with white bars seen near the tip.
September 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Random photo from my phone just to break the gloominess
Picture of a black eyed Susan flower with yellow petals and a black button center. Sounding the flower is a bush with variegated green and white leaves.
July 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Just finished up the final episode of season 1 of the Murderbot tv series. I found it to be a very well done adaptation of the book. Congrats to @marthawells.com and the production team. #Murderbot
Promo picture from the tv series with the head of the actor playing sec unit partially disconnected and tilted to the right from his mechanical neck. At the bottom in bold orange letters it says "MUR DER BOT" with the word sections stack on top of each other.
July 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Morning walk curb find. Rescued this little guy from a puddle and introduced him to his new tribe. 😁 #Curbfind
Picture of a hand holding a small blue spring clamp. The background shows grass, a concrete sidewalk and a black dog with a pink harness. Picture of some fingers hold a small blue spring clamp over a plastic bin containing many small spring clamps of the same size.
July 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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I recently tried my hang at doing a parquetry inlay. It was a gift box and I inlayed some painted wood pieces cut from the same 1/8” birch ply I used for the box. Could have gotten the kerf compensation dialed in just a bit better, but happy with how it turned out. #lasercutting #lasercrafting
Picture of the top of a laser cut box made with fingers tabs from 1/8 inch plywood. The top has a cut out square inset lattice pattern with a red petaled flower in the middle with a yellow center. The colored wood pieces are inlaid into the top. Picture of the bottom and top of a laser cut gift box.
July 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Mars is in a very close conjunction with a thin crescent moon tonight. With Regulus lurking nearby. #Astronomy #Astrophotograpy
Picture for a night sky showing an overexposed bright crescent moon with the Planet Mars just above it. To the bottom right is the bright star Regulus. Screenshot shot from an astronomy app showing the same section of the sky as the other picture with the objects labeled.
June 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Hello from a rainy No Kings protest in Wilmington NC. 💪 #NoKings
June 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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I decided to get a set of plastic putty knives to serve as laser masking lay down scrapers for myself. I then had to design a laser crafted holder. 😁
Make details in the link.
forum.makerforums.info/t/laser-mask...

#lasercrafting #lasercut
Picture of a laser engraved and cut wooden box. The top of the box has slots with 6 different sized plastic putty knives in the slots. The front of the box has the engraved words “Masking Scrappers” and a shield logo that has a laser bream and a handsaw. Front corner view of a laser engraved and cut wooden box. The top of the box has slots with 6 different sized plastic putty knives in the slots. The front of the box has the engraved words “Masking Scrappers” and a shield logo that has a laser bream and a handsaw. The side of the box has a Celtic knot style tree designed engraved on it.
May 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Tiny Bee 🐝 from the morning walk. Also apparently a new observed species for me according to my Seek app. 😃
#BloomScrolling #Photography
Close up semi side view picture of a spiky purple Stoke’s aster flower. Im the middle of the flower is a tiny be that had a golden yellow front end and a pale yellow and black striped backend. Screenshot shot from the Seek app identifying the bee as a Pruinose Squash bee and it says “You Observed A New Species!”
May 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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My daughter sent me this picture from her morning walk. It’s a pretty amazing composition IMHO. #bloomscrolling #photography #rabbits
Picture of a brown rabbit taken from behind with its head slightly turned to the left. The rabbit is sitting in an early morning sun patch of long green grass. Bright clumps of blue and pink hydrangea flowers are seen on the left.
May 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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My local maker space is hosting a class on pine needle basket soon. We are going to make some wood bottoms to make starting the baskets easier.
I wanted to make my own custom bottom incorporating the maker space logo. Made from 2 layers of 1/8” ply glued together. #makerspace #lasercut
Picture of a round laser engraved and cut disc. Made from 2 layers with the back layer stained dark brown. The top layer is clear coated natural wood with the shield shaped maker space logo engraved in the center. The area around the shield is cut out except for 3 attachment points to the rim. All around the rim are 2mm holes spaced about 10 mm apart.
May 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Super thin waxing crescent moon (2% illumination) paired with Jupiter at sunset.
#Astronomy #Astrophotography
Picture on the west looking sky right after the sun has set. Slightly orange on the horizon. Thin crescent moon in the bottom right just above the orange. The planet Jupiter is in the darker sky in the upper left. Some trees are in the foreground at bottom left. Screenshot from an astronomy app showing the moon and Jupiter with names at the same view point as the picture.
April 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Happy Easter! My Daughter took the dog for her Morning walk. 😁 #Easter #DogsOfBluesky
Picture of a paved road with long shadows of a human and a dog with bunny ears. The black dog can be seen at the bottom right. Selfie picture of a young lady crouched dog looking at the camera with a black dog doing the same thing. Both are wearing bunny ears. Selfie picture of a young lady crouched dog looking at the camera with a black dog licking her face. Both are wearing bunny ears.
April 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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This is my Ellie. 😁
April 12, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Post your space art
#Pride #StarTrek
Picture of a Picard Series communicator. The badge is laser cut with the background being pride rainbow striped from the top down starting with red on the left. The delta frame is silver painted. The badge is sitting on a black background.
April 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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No dogs here, just us flowers. 😁 #BloomScrolling #DogsOfBluesky #Flowers #Dogs #Photography
Picture of a black and tan brindle dog sitting on some grass and surrounded by big pink Azalea flowers. Dog is looking slightly to the right with her tongue sticking out.
April 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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If you are out walking at night you should always spend a few mins looking up.

Tonight I was looking up and was rewarded with a very brief small orange fireball flaring across Orion’s Belt as something (not pictured) burned up in the atmosphere.
#astrophotography
Picture of the night sky from my evening walk. In the sky are seen the constellation Orion and the planet Jupiter. Screenshot from my astronomy app showing the location of the Orion constellation and the planet Jupiter.
April 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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First butterfly picture of the year. 🎉 Seen a few others at a distance but haven’t been able to get pictures. Enjoy! 😃
#BloomScrolling #Flowers #Butterflies
Close up picture showing multiple large purple pink azalea flowers. In the center of the middle flower is a silver spotted skipper butterfly fly.
April 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Morning walk pictures at sunrise. The golden light! 😁 Enjoy! 😁
#Bloomscrolling #Flowers
Picture looking east down a neighborhood street. The sky at the end of the street is brightly glowing from the rising sun peaking through some clouds. Picture of a red blooming camellia bush lit by the golden light of the rising sun. Below the bush is a carpet of red flower petals. Close up picture of a red camellia flower being lit by the golden light of the rising sun. Picture of a pink blooming azalea bush being lit by the golden light of the rising sun.
April 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Just a little video bloom scroll from the afternoon walk. Enjoy! 😊
#BloomScrolling #Flowers
April 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM