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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 19h

I'm probably not alone as an artist who's a bit burnt out and drained right now. But this. This right here keeps the fire going. Science like Doug's allows my art to exist. We all have to keep working and making and showing up so everybody gets to do what they want to do.

Doug Ellison @dougellison.bsky.social · 20h

On Monday I braced for this most recent round of JPL layoffs by looking around my office for what I cared about most to take it home in case I never got to return. I grabbed just one thing - the beautiful bowl by @amyraehill.bsky.social inspired by the false color postcard I took with Curiosity.

A circular bowl decorated with a landscape scene. The inner surface of the bowl is painted to resemble a landscape with mountains. The top portion is a bright, clear blue sky transitioning into a warm yellow-gold sun. The lower portion depicts dark, rugged terrain. The bowl is sitting on a dark surface with a pattern of bright, colorful, geometric dots and lines.

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 8d

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 9d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Dave's Rocket Shop 🇨🇦 @davesrocketshop.bsky.social · 10d

Top 10 Rocket Workbench translations:

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Dave's Rocket Shop 🇨🇦 @davesrocketshop.bsky.social · 14d

Coming soon? No... now live! Release 5.0 is available for FreeCAD #FreeCAD #RocketWorkbench

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 14d

It's #Spacetober so I'll try to keep it coming with Amy Rae Hill's Greatest Hits™️

Collage of pottery featuring a tea set with a moonlit desert design, a watering can with a blue green nebula, cups with different captures of Venus, a yarn bowl with an astronaut chasing a tether that leads to the yarn feed, and a vase featuring the Milky Way over Mt Rainier.

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Dave's Rocket Shop 🇨🇦 @davesrocketshop.bsky.social · 14d

Not enough? How about OddRoc support? All coming soon!

OddRoc with a square nose and ball for a transition

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Dave's Rocket Shop 🇨🇦 @davesrocketshop.bsky.social · 14d

No? How about scaling workflows?

Visual of a rocket component scaled by diameter

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Dave's Rocket Shop 🇨🇦 @davesrocketshop.bsky.social · 14d

How about OpenRocket exports? #FreeCAD #RocketWorkbench

Side by side visuals of a rocket in the FreeCAD Rocket Workbench and the exported version in OpenRocket

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Dave's Rocket Shop 🇨🇦 @davesrocketshop.bsky.social · 14d

You are a MACHINE! Hang in there!

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FreeCAD @freecad.org · 19d

Forged in #FreeCAD: XYZ Micro Manipulator for Sub Micron Motion Control

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Forged in FreeCAD: XYZ Micro Manipulator for Sub Micron Motion Control

It's a wonderful thing when you see a very cool opensource hardware project and then a further delight when you see that the toolchain to build the device is also completely open. Using FreeCAD, Ki…

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Canadian Virtual Military Museum (formerly on Facebook) @canvmilitarymuseum.bsky.social · 24d

Topical History at CVMM
Nazis national heroes Blutzeuges “blood witness”

Today we recall how Hitler turned thugs,butchers & hate-speech propagandists into dead martyrs with state funerals fit to enter the Nazi Vallhalla 'Cult of the Dead'

A 'must read'
ghil.hypotheses.org/2454

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Dr. Lisa M. Daly, PhD @planecrashgirl.bsky.social · 27d

I'm turning this presentation into a paper to be published this winter. Details soon.
The presentation about fire in St John's referenced below can be found in the current issue of NQ (Newfoundland Quarterly) as the @nlhistorical.bsky.social Aspects article. It's a great read.

Dr. Lisa M. Daly, PhD @planecrashgirl.bsky.social · May 2

Had a good session at @can-arch.bsky.social this morning, but had to rush home to help with a broken bathroom pipe.
The other presentations on Beothuk archaeology, fires and evidence for prostitution in St. John's, and an accidentally cemetery disturbance were all amazing. Great work being done.

A picture of a power point cover slide. The background is dark green with a light green band on the right. The title, in light yellow reads Harbour Buffett and the US Navy Hudson Bomber, The Impact of an Aicraft Crash on a Community (I really tried to avoid a pun, but couldn't figure out a better word). By Lisa M. Daly and Neil Burgess. Next to the names, to the left, is a picture of a piece of metal underwater mostly covered by silt.

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Devana @devana.bsky.social · 27d

If a snail had left Donetsk on February 24, 2022, by today it would have crossed all of Ukraine and reached Romania. The huge Russian army also left Donetsk on February 24, 2022, but since then it has not managed to advance beyond Donetsk region.

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FreeCAD @freecad.org · 28d

We are in feature freeze for the next version of FreeCAD.
Help us iron out the latest bugs for a faster 1.1 release.
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WIP Wednesday, 17 September 2025

The main development branch of FreeCAD entered the hard feature freeze on Monday, so we are now pretty much in bugfix mode until the release of v1.1. There is no schedule for the release other than…

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SAHASA 🐙 @sculptedreef.com · 29d

Caribbean Reef Octopuses 🐙 hand sculpted from clay 🎨

#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

A close up of a mixed media artwork featuring a Caribbean Reef Octopus and hand beaded corals.

A freestanding Caribbean Reef Octopus sculpture being held up over a black background

A large Caribbean Reef Octopus sculpture, posed as if moving quickly and gracefully on its limber arms, held up over a black background

Close up of a Caribbean Reef Octopus sitting in a den, made out of a tea cup lying on its side

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FreeCAD @freecad.org · Sep 16

Getting started with FEM in FreeCAD.
FEM is a workbench used to simulate various physical phenomena with the finite element method.
Get to know the basics of simulating your designs and analyze results like stresses and strains.

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#FreeCAD #FEM #FEA #OpenSource

Getting started with FEM

FEM is a highly specialized workbench used to simulate various physical phenomena with the finite element method. The workbench is very actively developed, and thus it’s recommended to always use t…

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · Sep 11

Second Amendment activists in shock as Charlie Kirk shot instead of just schoolchildren

OREM, UT - Americans who champion the right to bear arms were shocked Wednesday as controversial commentator Charlie Kirk was shot and killed, as opposed to the ordinarily acceptable trend of mass shootings in schools.

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FreeCAD @freecad.org · Sep 7

We are looking for a (paid) regression bisection specialist.

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We are looking for a regression bisection specialist

The FPA is seeking applicants to help identify and document code regressions in FreeCAD. Key responsibilities: Investigate regression reports from users, developers, and CI tools Use git bisect and…

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John Cassidy @earthquakeguy.bsky.social · Sep 4

Wow! 127 years of recording large, global #earthquakes in Victoria, Canada!
On September 3, 1898, a Milne seismograph began operation in the basement of the old Customs House building on the Victoria waterfront. It was one of the first seismographs in Canada:
science.gc.ca/site/science...
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Photo showing the Milne seismograph that was first deployed in Victoria, Canada, in 1898.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Restock today at 10am PT! Good day for Mars fans

Restock preview:
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Shop:
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#sciart #bsnm

Bowl featuring rover traveling along Mars' horizon.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · Sep 4

Restock this Saturday!

Mostly cups and mugs so if you need a drinking vessel or something to put your pens in that takes you to another world, check it out 🌝

Listing previews:
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#sciart #bsnm

Mug featuring Mars on a stack of similar mugs

Cup featuring the Moon on a stack of similar cups.

Cup featuring the crescent of a blue-green planet

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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · Sep 5

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · Sep 5

On Sept. 5, 1945, Soviet clerk Igor Gouzenko changed history when he walked out of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa.
His defection, and the documents he took, proved the Soviets were spying on their Second World War allies.
This is his story.

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A black-and-white photo showing two men sitting on a patterned couch with wavy designs. One man, on the left, is wearing a suit and has a white hood with eye holes covering his face, sitting with his hands clasped. The other man, on the right, is also in a suit, holding a notepad and pen, appearing to take notes or engage in a conversation. The background features curtains with a similar wavy pattern.

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Dave's Rocket Shop 🇨🇦 @davesrocketshop.bsky.social · Sep 5

Rockets, of course! #FreeCADFriday

Model of a boosted dart rocket using the FreeCAD Rocket Workbench

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