He simply cannot resist the siren's call of Cat Tail. The cat has been so graciously tolerant. #birds CC @banditelli.org
08.10.2025 17:18 β π 37 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0@flyingcircuits.bsky.social
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.
He simply cannot resist the siren's call of Cat Tail. The cat has been so graciously tolerant. #birds CC @banditelli.org
08.10.2025 17:18 β π 37 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0π
08.10.2025 11:25 β π 4427 π 888 π¬ 247 π 103I guess this is a general travel thread. Wizz Air states that you are not allow to carry either sharp objects or blunt objects with you on board the flight. I struggle a little with this, ontologically.
08.10.2025 10:55 β π 79 π 13 π¬ 6 π 0Therapist: βAnime George Constanza isnβt real, he canβt hurt you.
Anime George Costanza: (see image)β
The fundamental physics of the universe are tired of being blamed for the screw-ups of human people π
08.10.2025 15:04 β π 58 π 6 π¬ 4 π 0Leaving the Kennedy Space Center today, got a nice view of a New Glenn first stage heading to the padβ¦
08.10.2025 15:01 β π 34 π 7 π¬ 0 π 1itβs Neal Stephensonβs world, weβre just living in it
08.10.2025 12:54 β π 15 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0full disclosure: my mom and I are sharing a Kia EV6 and I charge it overnight in the free slow ass L2 village charger and take those electrons home in the morning like a kid with a bucket of water on my head
08.10.2025 12:58 β π 12 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0autocorrect keeps changing but to bit and in to I and at this point I don't believe it has any interest in being helpful and is just trying to be a massive prick
08.10.2025 06:29 β π 65 π 21 π¬ 7 π 2A shameful continued destruction of the innovation engine of the United States. For nothing! For no reason!
08.10.2025 01:01 β π 204 π 77 π¬ 9 π 4doomscroll break
08.10.2025 07:13 β π 1409 π 573 π¬ 22 π 64This accounting of what's been going on at NASA is a gut punch.
It describes the preparations they're making for upcoming disastrous (AND ILLEGAL) cuts in funding, and the first losses of priceless facilities, hardware, and staffing.
Burning our investment.
Dismantling our future.
#saveNASA
Shared with permission from Carl Stahle, Retired, Vice President of Goddard Retirees and Alumni Association, NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center
Link in the document text: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
(Original LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/carl-s...)
@roguenasa.altgov.info
Dolly Parton's sister asked for prayers because Dolly's feeling unwell. The reaction across social media - from those of all faiths and none - suggests that if an American wins the Nobel Peace Prize, it should be this generous, kind, hardworking joybringer.
www.newsweek.com/entertainmen...
Screenshot of skeet about a Hungarian engineer who got stopped at the airport and was sent home rather than being admitted to the USA. The visible text of the article says "Gabor watned to spend just three months in America. He had arranged with his workplace" and then it's cut off.
Looks like another person got himself in immigration trouble, which makes me think it might be timely to give some guidance on ways to mitigate this particular risk. The story is cut off but you see at the bottom of the screenshot where it says he had arranged something with his employer 1/
24.04.2025 17:45 β π 225 π 65 π¬ 5 π 20LOGGING ON (π )
08.10.2025 09:45 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Processing Astro data is like artworkβ¦ eventually you develop your own personal styleβ¦
Mine is a bit like being punched the face by a rainbow. π
π look, Life can be incredibly stressful at times so itβs nice to have a pop of colour to bring a bit of joy to life.
Iβve said it before, but chatbot user interfaces that pretend to be human or human-like need to be banned.
Itβs a deceitful, dehumanizing and deeply unethical scam.
Apologies; I didn't recognize "wiki" as a top-level domain. π I'll be in Rura Penthe if you need me!
08.10.2025 04:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Not only does this torpedo billions of dollars of private investments, and thousands of American jobs, but it also means that future industrial policy wonβt be effective because firms canβt trust the US government to honor contracts.
08.10.2025 02:40 β π 31 π 9 π¬ 2 π 0wizard frog is the tank man of Portland and I am so ready for it
08.10.2025 02:19 β π 17 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0Again, I just want to reiterate: we are in a golden age for people that want to crime. Go plan the most elaborate heist you can imagine. You'll get away with it, all the feds are otherwise occupied.
08.10.2025 02:43 β π 103 π 22 π¬ 7 π 0halloween props lit in a variety of colors in a yard. mostly tombstones and bones
halloween props lit in a variety of colors in a yard. zombies, ghouls, skeletons
close up of cemetery but the plague doctor is better lit this time.
A couple more lights on the rotting corpse at the back right of the 2nd picture and I'm done with Halloween until it's time to release the wolves from the basement in two weeks.
08.10.2025 03:03 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Glowing yellow aspen seen from a flat roof supporting a large hvac unit
At the library for 10 years today. On my first day i looked out the window at my new desk and saw these glowing yellow trees over the HVAC units and thought "This might just work"
08.10.2025 03:14 β π 69 π 1 π¬ 4 π 0Dolly Parton saint candle
Oh man. Do I have to light this?
07.10.2025 22:49 β π 370 π 21 π¬ 13 π 3i designed a tattoo around this very idea
07.10.2025 18:52 β π 96 π 26 π¬ 1 π 2Humans tell the same stories again and again because they're important
07.10.2025 16:45 β π 161 π 43 π¬ 0 π 1Lou the pigeon answering his door to let you in. Be sure to take off your shoes π
He said you can come in if you want to but you have to take off your shoes π
#pigeonsky #birdsky
A photograph of a floatplane on a dock in the summer.
Memories of summer at the EAAβs Seaplane base on Lake Winnebago, WI
π©οΈ #Aviation #AvGeek #PhotoHour #ArtWalk #Photography #Floatplane #EAA #AirVenture