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Aperture Flash Flies Again
@apertureflash.bsky.social
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Hello! Long haul truck driver, amateur drone pilot, truly bad banjo picker.
Expect photography and long silences
🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 He/Him and in a wonderful relationship with @starlightserpent 💓
(My opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer)
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apertureflash.bsky.social
Next time you see a bottle of Kraft BBQ sauce, think of me.
#LongHaulLife
A tanker truck covered in patchy snow sits under an industrial awning.
December 2, 2025 at 11:34 PM
apertureflash.bsky.social
Super disappointed to have to turn down a Chilliwack BC run. My dispatcher has a nasty habit of offering me KILLER loads whenever I need to go home.
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
apertureflash.bsky.social
One tool that I don't often need, but will never be caught without, is the humble tire inflator Chuck.
Slap that thing in your supply airline, punch the red button, and boom, you got 100PSI in a flash. Just be careful inflating car tires! Lol.
Need to get that slow leak on my pickup dealt with...
An arm holds out a coiled orange tube with a glad hand and a Tire inflating Chuck on either end in front of a semi truck. A Chevrolet wheel being inflated in orange light.
November 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
apertureflash.bsky.social
Coming up on 6 hours in this loud as bay🙃
apertureflash.bsky.social Aperture Flash Flies Again @apertureflash.bsky.social · 16d
Once again rescuing another load. Buddy's pump stopped working, so we are using our gravity pipes to feed from his trailer to my pump to the customers silo. Trouble is, his load has cooled, so it is VERY thick and slow.
#LongHaulLife #TankerYanker
Two stainless steel tanker trailers sit in a bay with hoses running between them and out of frame.
November 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
apertureflash.bsky.social
Once again rescuing another load. Buddy's pump stopped working, so we are using our gravity pipes to feed from his trailer to my pump to the customers silo. Trouble is, his load has cooled, so it is VERY thick and slow.
#LongHaulLife #TankerYanker
Two stainless steel tanker trailers sit in a bay with hoses running between them and out of frame.
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
apertureflash.bsky.social
The truck didn't want to start this morning, and like, mood, but we both got work to do.
#LongHaulLife
A Mazda 3 with jumper cables hooked up and connecting it to a tractor.
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
apertureflash.bsky.social
Was busy as hell today.
Finally got internet at my house, finally put my snow tires on, did a few small renovations, & meal prepped about 3 weeks worth of food for the truck. My feet are killing me and I'm tired, but it's been a satisfying day. Off to Ben & Jerry's in Vermont tomorrow for a delivery
A Mazda 3 up on a jack with its rear wheel off, a green impact driver on its trunk Small stack of Tupperware containers and foil wrapped burritos sits on a kitchen counter A TV showing a internet connection screen with the words "connecting to Flying J Premium Wi-Fi." Because I'm so funny and couldn't resist naming my network something dumb. An orange and black drill sticking out of a hardwood floor
November 17, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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apertureflash.bsky.social
I see you, silver Audi SUV, flashing your lights at me in these Montreal streets. I'm not moving over so you can illegally pass me. In fact, I'm gonna drive a bit slower and more carefully. Oh, look at that, a cyclist wants to merge. #LongHaulLife
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
apertureflash.bsky.social
I see you, silver Audi SUV, flashing your lights at me in these Montreal streets. I'm not moving over so you can illegally pass me. In fact, I'm gonna drive a bit slower and more carefully. Oh, look at that, a cyclist wants to merge. #LongHaulLife
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
apertureflash.bsky.social
Even on my day off I'm pulling wagons. That #LongHaulLife got its claws in me good. Hope the weather holds out for tomorrow ls big move (spoiler: it won't.)
A short U-Haul trailer advertising Madison WI hooked to a white Chevrolet Silverado sits at a gas pump.
November 9, 2025 at 4:21 AM
apertureflash.bsky.social
I guess there's no such thing as a convenient day for your wallet to go missing, but moving day feels like a particularly powerful dick kick
November 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
apertureflash.bsky.social
Oh Montreal traffic....Always giving me time to take a breath, stop and think about life. Whether I want to or not.
The hood of a semi truck surrounded by dense traffic all with their brake lights on
November 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
apertureflash.bsky.social
It genuinely amazes me the number of people I've seen mocking people on SNAP benefits for no real reason other than to be cruel.
November 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
apertureflash.bsky.social
Happy 33rd birthday to my trailer, I guess, damn. #LongHaulLife #TankerYanker #Tremcar
🚚 🎂
It's hard to see, but it's the information plate for my trailer, showing that it was manufactured in 11/93 The old tanker trailer in question, illuminated by my trucks work lamps and a streetlight. Yes I know I have a light out. My very old pump house in my very old trailer.
November 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
apertureflash.bsky.social
Learned that
A: my new neighborhood has porch pirates
B: Amazon makes you wait over 24 hours before they will let you submit a "I didn't get the package" claim.
October 31, 2025 at 3:58 AM
apertureflash.bsky.social
Got to my Unload early this morning, so it's going to be a good, long weekend for me, assuming I didn't just Jinx it lol.
It's finally getting cold enough that I can wear my insulated gear. This high vis sweater I got from the company has no right being this comfortable. #LongHaulLife
The back of a tanker trailer hooked up to some plumbing on a wall with a hose, with a yellow bucket next to it. A white dude in a bright orange hoodie sits next to the truck
October 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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starlightserpent.bsky.social
Please please donate to Wikipedia so it can keep being a free source of information for us. I donate a small amount monthly.

If you have a few spare dollars, please donate.

If you can't donate, please share.

Fuck Elon and everyone who wants to take away research tools that aren't powered by AI.
joshuaholland.bsky.social Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · Dec 25
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
apertureflash.bsky.social
Just pulled over on the side of the highway and got a big ass snapping turtle out of the middle of the road.
October 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
apertureflash.bsky.social
Men will really live like this and not see a problem.
A single folding chair sitting on a hardwood floor in an empty room
October 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
apertureflash.bsky.social
Didn't think it was possible, but I somehow managed the millennial dream and managed to get myself a house! Super thrilled to be going on this journey.
October 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
apertureflash.bsky.social
Look, I'm not SUPER well versed in the occult arts, but I get the feeling the truck stop sage and crystals probably isn't bringing the vibes or energy you want it to.
#WitchCraft #LongHaulLife.
A display at a truck stop showing off various types of sage bundles wrapped up for sale for $12 A zoomed out picture showing more of the truck stop around the sage bundles
October 9, 2025 at 2:39 AM
apertureflash.bsky.social
Listen, I have a lead foot myself and aren't a huge fan of speed cameras, but COME ON guys...this is embarrassing.
youtu.be/v7XgD7zuVdc?...
Speed cameras caught vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers over 20 times
YouTube video by Global News
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October 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
apertureflash.bsky.social
Had a weird one tonight, but a good lesson I should try to remember. #LongHaulLife
(Copied it into alttext lol)
I've been trucking for almost a decade now, and I've had a handful of interesting, idiotic, insightful, hilarious and just plain unnecessary conversations on the CB. It's helped me avoid major backups, and got me out of some trouble once or twice. Tonight it almost got me in some real trouble, of my own making admittedly. Been running up US 29 and I-64 from North Carolina to Virginia and I seem to get every idiot with misaligned headlights, or just forgetting to turn off their high beams. Normally I'm pretty patient about these kinds of things and I'll flash my markers and headlights on and off a few times and people usually get the message. If it gets really bad I'll generally start slowing down some people will pass me, and in worst case scenarios I'll either hit the shoulder and stop completely, or grab the left lane and let them pass me on the right. Tonight I've just been having bad luck, and in a moment that I'm not super proud of I grabbed my microphone and basically yelled into the dark about "Can no one in the f-ing state install a headlight?!" And some other such nonsense. Well the truck behind me that was just running super bright fog lamps took offence to that, started flashing his high beams and we got into a bit of a pissing match on the road and over the ol' CB. I insulted him, his truck, his skill, gave him the finger as he passed me just before we hit I-81... I was in a rage. He fed it back to me just as harsh, calling me names and telling me that he only just got his truck back after 2 weeks and didn't realize the lights were out. We kept going back and forth, exit numbers and an invitation to a fist fight came up at one point and after a little bit until he gave me trouble for brake checking him. Now I don't normally break check people, but I guess it must have seen that that's what I was doing as I was hitting the shoulder to get him to pass me. I took a second to think about it, and in a much calmer voice basically told him that that isn't no…
October 9, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Had to go rescue a load when one of my co-workers stopped working. Essentially we're drawing into my trailer's pump, and using that suction to offload.
He was lucky that I was in the area.
#LongHaulLife
A hose going from trailer a, connecting to a valve at the top of trailer b, with a second hose going off of screen A zoomed out shot of my truck and trailer, with one hose leading into the pump house from underneath, and another hose leading towards the customer silo
October 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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apertureflash.bsky.social
After about 10 minutes of Googling I'm really irritated that they've made it illegal for me to sell my kidney in most of the modern world.
September 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM