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Matt “Deer Drifter” Walton

@mriddickw.bsky.social

Sometimes known as Squiggles McGee. Musician: guitar, steel guitar, bass, vocals. Electrical engineer. <>

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Guide to Electronic Components
A list of parts each with a photo of a SOT-23 package
Bipolar Transistor
MOSFET
JFET
Voltage Regulator
Diode
Supervisor
Thyristor
Voltage Monitor
Temperature Sensor
Voltage Reference
Varactor
Magnetic Field Sensor
EEPROM
Resistor Divider
LED (but with a red SOT-23 package that is glowing!)

Guide to Electronic Components A list of parts each with a photo of a SOT-23 package Bipolar Transistor MOSFET JFET Voltage Regulator Diode Supervisor Thyristor Voltage Monitor Temperature Sensor Voltage Reference Varactor Magnetic Field Sensor EEPROM Resistor Divider LED (but with a red SOT-23 package that is glowing!)

Here's a handy guide to some electronic components.

30.10.2025 03:09 — 👍 776    🔁 146    💬 25    📌 11
A grey blue washed image of a bearded young ish white guy looking into the mirror all serious with his palm pressed against it.

A serif font title reads: DID I JUST ARGUE WITH A JOKE?

A semi opaque navy snoot near the bottom bears the bluesky logo and the text PART OF A BLUESKY EDUCATIONAL SERIES

A grey blue washed image of a bearded young ish white guy looking into the mirror all serious with his palm pressed against it. A serif font title reads: DID I JUST ARGUE WITH A JOKE? A semi opaque navy snoot near the bottom bears the bluesky logo and the text PART OF A BLUESKY EDUCATIONAL SERIES

23.10.2025 20:14 — 👍 27319    🔁 5554    💬 338    📌 268

This is why you should get scrambled egg on your burger instead.

Additional benefit: ordering a burger with scrambled egg often enough will give you some ODD interactions to recount later.

03.10.2025 16:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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CD323: Shutdown Bad - Congressional Dish Congress is once again playing with fire, and this time it's the Democrats holding the match. In today's episode, I'm sounding the alarm about a looming

Well, yeah, because up until now it’s been the Republicans trying to attach dingleberries to a clean CR. Now it’s the Democrats trying to attach dingleberries to a clean CR (with BIDEN-ERA FUNDING).

congressionaldish.com/cd323-shutdo...

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a poorly drawn cat licking its raised hind leg. the leg is exaggeratedly large, with an oversized paw featuring huge toe beans

a poorly drawn cat licking its raised hind leg. the leg is exaggeratedly large, with an oversized paw featuring huge toe beans

a photo of a ginger and white cat sitting on a sidewalk under a sunny blue sky. the cat is mid-grooming, licking its leg while its paw is stretched toward the camera, making the paw look huge

a photo of a ginger and white cat sitting on a sidewalk under a sunny blue sky. the cat is mid-grooming, licking its leg while its paw is stretched toward the camera, making the paw look huge

beans

31.07.2025 19:12 — 👍 2998    🔁 686    💬 21    📌 19

Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them.

tomlehrersongs.com

27.07.2025 17:37 — 👍 3724    🔁 1726    💬 33    📌 63
r/AskNYC
u/UmweltUndefined • 3h
Is there anywhere that delivers that will give a discount rate on 65 gallons of milk?

r/AskNYC u/UmweltUndefined • 3h Is there anywhere that delivers that will give a discount rate on 65 gallons of milk?

You WILLL NOT guess what this is about. But I encourage you to try before clicking through for the answer. www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/s/X...

21.07.2025 21:12 — 👍 1954    🔁 440    💬 195    📌 197

This is vegan imitation chicken and you cannot convince me otherwise.

20.07.2025 04:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Okay, but we get Jackie Chan to reprise his role and Daniel Craig in the Roger Moore role...

15.07.2025 18:32 — 👍 244    🔁 21    💬 26    📌 2

Like, sure, if you’re allergic to the sound of steel pans yeah you’re gonna have a bad time. But a lot of his lyrics are pretty level two, and I love the juxtaposition of jaunty island music with lyrics about Desdemona, a woman quite familiar with quasars, building a rocket ship.

14.07.2025 19:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ok, hear out my 30 second pitch: Y’know the album Songs You Know By Heart? The one with Margaritaville, Volcano, etc. on it? Listen to the albums AFTER that. Banana Wind being a personal favorite.

14.07.2025 19:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@taffetav.bsky.social you’re wrong about Jimmy Buffett

14.07.2025 17:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Giant news from @giantbomb.bsky.social

11.05.2025 00:19 — 👍 1463    🔁 202    💬 22    📌 20

OML the fact that you have him as “Beavis” in your contacts

05.05.2025 04:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

how many wikipedia editors does it take to change a light bulb? so far 3439 different people have contributed to the "incandescent light bulb" article but it's not done being changed yet so who knows

02.05.2025 09:25 — 👍 1676    🔁 210    💬 12    📌 1

brown gravy at night, potato's delight
white gravy in the morning, fresh biscuits take warning

02.02.2025 04:09 — 👍 5988    🔁 858    💬 79    📌 21

These are the people who say “good riddance to 2024! New year, new me!” but then take zero action to change their situation.

02.02.2025 17:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve been preferring Home Depot since it’s 5 minutes from my house (all back streets) as opposed to 15 minutes on I-30 for Lowe’s, but I will make the sacrifice for good CRI and an actual variety of shapes I need.

01.02.2025 00:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you’re looking for CRI 90+ bulbs, go to Lowe’s, not Home Depot. HD is full of that TRASH CRI 80 shit.

31.01.2025 17:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I am becoming an expert on light bulbs and I DON'T LIKE IT.

31.01.2025 00:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Curry powder is also an option

22.01.2025 22:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Little-known fact: nobody can stop you from buying unflavored whey protein isolate and mixing it with, say, a BBQ rub spice blend and drinking that instead of the usual sweet flavors.

22.01.2025 21:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I get what you’re saying, but I’ve personally never seen a detailed answer of why the *government* can forgive a debt the *banks* hold. Are they paying off the banks? Are they threatening the banks with fines if they don’t forgive the debt? Maybe I’m just too dumb but I’ve never seen this explained.

26.12.2024 18:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It took me a minute to realize you meant “Sci-Fi” and not “San Francisco.”

…Late night last night.

26.02.2024 18:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Andy Reid enters a hospital, talks to the receptionist, talks to a doctor, and finally visits the bedside of a very angry Travis Kelce. Sorry, I don't know who any of these people are but I gather they're superbowl-related.

Andy Reid enters a hospital, talks to the receptionist, talks to a doctor, and finally visits the bedside of a very angry Travis Kelce. Sorry, I don't know who any of these people are but I gather they're superbowl-related.

sorry I don't know what this means but I felt compelled to create it

12.02.2024 05:16 — 👍 1007    🔁 126    💬 20    📌 8

“Part 1”

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Y'know what's hard to draw? Clothing! Some of the best lessons in drawing drapery ever published were in the Famous Artists School's Cartooning course. Out of print for 60 years! But there are scans & a pdf on a defunct blog archived at the wayback machine. #comics
web.archive.org/web/20110727...

03.01.2024 19:47 — 👍 706    🔁 307    💬 6    📌 12

might fuck around and become one of those "the week starts on Monday" people

04.01.2024 04:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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