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Will Work for Launch. Spacecraft troubleshooter at Flying Circuits. Building hardware for the ISS (and beyond!) with BioServe Space Technologies at CU Boulder. Former toymaking elf at Sparkfun Electronics. Friend of parrots. He/him/ally.
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Flying Circuits @flyingcircuits.bsky.social · Aug 16
Words to live by
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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kennylauderdale.bsky.social
I LOVE RIPPING VHS TAPES. I LOVE NTSC. I LOVE PAL. I LOVE 3:2:2 PULLDOWN. I LOVE INTERLACED VIDEO. I LOVE DEINTERLACED VIDEO. I LOVE 59.97 FPS, I LOVE 29.97 FPS, I LOVE TELICINE, I LOVE FILM, I LOVE LASERDISC, I LOVE RF, I LOVE DIGIBETA, I LOVE BETAMAX, I LOVE LEAKING CAPACITORS
November 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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brookebikesmke.bsky.social
Never been a greater example of Dudes Rock.
These South Philly dads bought personal street sweepers for their block: ‘It’s like a little Zamboni’
The German device isn't marketed for street cleaning, but when brooms weren't enough to keep their kids safe from broken glass and debris on their block, these three men got ingenious with it.
www.inquirer.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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anatolyzak.bsky.social
Russia's only pad for crew launches suffers major damage:
russianspaceweb.com/baikonur_r7_...
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
flyingcircuits.bsky.social
🎶 Maybe think of me once in a while 🎶

Happy thanksgiving, friends!
Les Nesmond, Buckeye Newshawk Award-winning reporter for WKRP in Cincinnati, reporting live from the first (and last) annual turkey drop.
November 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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dimlan.bsky.social
The shame of it is if they worked together they could totally overpower this guy
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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televisionaryzw.bsky.social
Watching the 1995 Mystery Science Theater Turkey Day with the original commercials…
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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maryharris.bsky.social
Shout out to everyone getting the rolling chair at dinner tonight you’re the real ones
November 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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topherflorence.bsky.social
remember folks thanksgiving is the one day that your dog is allowed to plug in all twenty of your toasters on the same circuit as a treat
a scene from the charlie brown thanksgiving special where for some reason not only are there eighteen functional toasters in the house, they are all going at once anyway i never really noticed franklin sitting in that one weird chair as a kid but i was extremely pissed off that the kids had to eat jellybeans and popcorn and toast while snoopy secretly made himself a real meal. this dog. this animal got to feast while the unsupervised children suffered it really pissed me off
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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mudron.bsky.social
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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swiftonsecurity.com
A roll of aluminum foil is maybe one of the most incredible things you will ever hold in your life. That was a creation for kings and you wrap it around food and throw it in the dumpster. You talk about planes as aluminum cans, as if both are not one of the most incredible creations in history.
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
flyingcircuits.bsky.social
You don't even need three chords, Mojo Nixon did it in one! 😎
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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banditelli.org
Beautiful start to what's a very complicated day for many of us.

Love what you love.

Be bitter to what you hate.

Roll with whatever is inbetween.

If you have none of that, go watch ducks or duck footage 😇 🪶
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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keelin12ft.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving
A four-panel meme from the animated show King of the Hill. In the first panel, John Redcorn, an indigenous man, responds “Yes?” while looking at a blond boy Bobby Hill in a classroom. In the second panel, Bobby looks confused and asks, “Are you sure it’s the white man who did all that stuff?” The third panel shows Bobby gesturing toward himself and saying, “Because I come from white people,” and the fourth panel continues with him saying, “and this is the first I’m hearing of it.”
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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poppyhaze.bsky.social
oh wow, incredible space war animation and includes a nuclear salt water rocket
youtu.be/sawCJESqqeU
OPERATION POKER NIGHT | Space Combat Mission Briefing
YouTube video by SAD: Frontier
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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alextomlinson.com
Flat illustration of four Wild Turkeys nonchalantly crossing a road while walking over a car.
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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infinata.bsky.social
“Investing in trypto”
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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specter177.bsky.social
FAA NOTAM - SPECIAL ACTIVITY FALLING OBJECT HAZARD !CVG 11/24 CVG AIRSPACE FALLING OBJECT HAZARD DUE TO AN UNAUTHORIZED AERIAL RELEASE OF LOVE ANIMALS FROM A LOW-ALTITUDE ROTARY-WING AIRCRAFT IN THE VICINITY OF CINCINNATI, OH, PILOTS OPERATING WITHIN THE LOSTED AREA ARE ADVISED OF A FALLING-OBJECT HAZARD. MULTIPLE LARGE BIRDS (DOMESTIC TURKEYS) WERE OBSERVED BEING RELEASED FROM AN AIRCRAFT OPERATING AT LOW ALTITUDE WITHOIT PRIOR NOTIFICATION OR COORDINATION WITH ATC OR FAA AUTHORITIES. ANIMALS DESCENDED IN AN UNCONTROLLED MANNER, CONSTITUTING A POTENTIAL HAZARD TO PERSONS AND PROPERTY ON THE SURFACE. GROUND IMPACTS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN PUBLIC AREAS.
November 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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victorerikray.bsky.social
Nearly every mechanism that made my career possible—Ford, NSF, Harvard BiGS—is gone or on the way to the chopping block.
epopppp.bsky.social Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 1d
This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.
killgrove.bsky.social Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 1d
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.

Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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i270exit1.bsky.social
Among the things I am thankful for is the courage and patriotism of all the federal workers who blew the whistle on agency policies that harm Americans, and those who support us. #CourageIsContagious Art by @drrabbithole.bsky.social
Illustration of federal employees, in their work wear, who issued statements opposing their agencies' harmful policies: NIH, NSF, EPA, USAID, CDC, FEMA, NASA.
November 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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bugeric.bsky.social
Ha! If AI writes something, but no human ever reads it, does the “work” still exist?
isobel.bsky.social Isobel @isobel.bsky.social · 2d
i used chatgpt to write a novel earlier today. i haven’t read it but chatgpt did and it cried..
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
I'm old.

If you're not, listen to this.

Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.

Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.

It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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caryglenn.bsky.social
I cited this image in my capstone for my Master’s degree.
A page from a 1970s punk zine showing an A chord with the text “this is a chord”, an E chord with the test “this is another”, a G chord with the text “this is a third” and the text “now go form a band.”
November 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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saavikford.bsky.social
My kid sent me this. Should I be concerned?
A sign: Top banner is white on green, reading: WELCOME Remainder is black on white, reading: WELCOME THIS PLACE IS A BLESSING AND PART OF A SYSTEM OF BLESSINGS CHERISH IT DEEPLY! SENDING THIS BLESSING WAS MEANINGFUL TO US. WE CONSIDERED OURSELVES A JOYFUL COMMUNITY. THIS PLACE IS A PLACE OF HONOR MANY CHERISHED DEEDS ARE CELEBRATED HERE EVERYTHING VALUED THRIVES HERE. WHAT IS HERE WAS NURTURING AND DELIGHTFUL TO US. THIS BLESSING IS A MESSAGE OF HOPE. THE HOPE IS IN A SPECIAL LOCATION IT RADIATES OUTWARD FROM A CENTER THE CENTER OF HOPE IS HERE OF A UNIQUE SHAPE AND SIZE AND BENEATH US. THE HOPE IS EVER-PRESENT, IN YOUR TIME, AS IT WAS IN OURS. THE HOPE IS FOR THE SPIRIT, AND IT CAN HEAL. THE FORM OF THE HOPE IS A FLOW OF LIGHT. THE HOPE IS SHARED FREELY WHEN YOU LOVINGLY ENGAGE WITH THIS PLACE PHYSICALLY. THIS PLACE IS BEST EMBRACED AND CARED FOR. It is a riff on the WIPP system of warning signs proposed for nuclear waste burial sites in the US.
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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midge.bsky.social
The amount of butter in my mashed potatoes could only be described as reckless
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM