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Joe Creighton 🇨🇦

@notjoecreighton.bsky.social

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He/him. Husband. Dad. IT professional. Beer league goalie. Nerd/Geek. Sci-fi fan. Science FTW. Flatlander living vicariously through you. Eagled a 454yd par 5 once so I’ve got that going for me which is nice. Treaty One Territory of Canada, eh?

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Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 14h

Note to self: cropped close-ups on phones are not as good as they appear.

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Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 14h

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 8: Propulsion

The RS-25 liquid-fuel cryogenic rocket engine, once used by NASA's Space Shuttle Orbiter, is now used by the Space Launch System's core stage. #Spacetober

A full page view of my drawings to date, with the added RS-25 engine to the lower left side.

A close-up of the black and white drawing of the RS-25 engine

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Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 1d

*stick taps*

Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 1d

The Silly Internet was the best internet

Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 1d

I was trying to figure out the pattern so I’m happy to hear there wasn’t one 😅

Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 1d

@lartist.bsky.social Thinking of you…

From the 3Dprinting community on Reddit: My first multi-color print. (Also my largest). Like a noob, I did 15% gyroid infill. Came out great but wasted so much filament. 47 hour print.

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Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 1d

Can you share the significance of the inner ring of larger vs smaller stars?

Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 1d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 7: Space Agency

I’ve always liked the spacey design of the European Space Agency’s logo #Spacetober

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Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 1d

Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 2d

That was such a good run.

Might do “The West Wing” next.

Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 6d

The first few episodes of “The Newsroom” still hit pretty hard. Guess I’m binging it again.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
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other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 2d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 6: Constellation

Probably the northern hemisphere’s most recognizable Big Dipper (part of Ursa Major) that includes the four-star binary system, Alcor and Mizar #Spacetober

The full page showing a new drawing above the lower-left Earth: white stars against a black background, spaced out to form the familiar shape in the sky

A close-up of the addition. At one joint in the dipper’s handle are two stars (Mizar and Alcor) very close to each other.

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Drew Mackie @drewgmackie.bsky.social · 3d

How do I win an award for squirrel photography

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Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 3d

Looking pretty after the rains.

A panorama of a prairie horizon: my yard in the foreground is lush green and in the shade; the low sun behind us lights up the golden field in front of my yard and the tops of two massive clouds hanging low in the sky, their bottoms dark and ominous, against a revealed blue sky

Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 3d

Just keeeeeep circling….

a model of a star trek ship with a blue light coming out of it

Alt: USS Cerritos angled away from us and slowly circling space station Deep Space Nine.

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Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 3d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 5: Voyager

(I was so tempted to draw an Intrepid Class starship) #Spacetober

A view of the full page where a drawing of the Voyager probe has been added to the top left, next to Phobos and Mars

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Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 4d

It’s for on-center as in measuring to the center of the stud/post.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 7d

People who coax chatbots into sensible answers are basically opening and closing the fridge until it contains something you wanna eat, yes, eventually you get hungrier & eat the stuff in there. But what changed was your cognition. The fridge stayed the same. You changed your mind about the contents.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 5d

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease.

There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done."

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Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 4d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 4: Moon

I had to include Phobos so Mars isn’t so lonely. #Spacetober

The top right of the page now has a small grey moon beside the drawing of Mars.

A close up of Phobos and its new shadow on Mars

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Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 5d

Can’t believe it’s hockey time already #BeerLeague

A truck bed with a hockey bag and two goalie sticks loaded up

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Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 5d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 3: Space Weather

First risky maneuver for me: adding some Aurora above Earth. With 28 more days, there might be more of this layering 😅 #Spacetober

The full page of art where a thin band of green-blue Aurora hovers above the curvature of Earth in the lower left corner

A close up of Earth and the added aurora

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Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 6d

Really drunk. AMA for the next hour.

Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 6d

The first few episodes of “The Newsroom” still hit pretty hard. Guess I’m binging it again.

Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 6d

Me too!