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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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The CBC made this clever & cute video that uses kids to explain the rules of curling:
February 13, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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Hey a very great maker of plastic for 3d printers has set up a thing where you pay $20 and they ship a spool of filament to members of our printing crew. One spool makes 500 whistles or more. Help out!

proto-pasta.com/products/the...
"We Keep Us Safe" by The Whistle Crew
The Protopasta Fil-anthropy Fund is proud to partner with the Whistle Crew, "a loose federation united by our love for 3D printing and community safety." Across the nation, our communities' lives are ...
proto-pasta.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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February 14, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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Artemis II, waiting to launch for a flight around the Moon with four crewmembers in early March (from the Banana Creek viewing area)
February 15, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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Really photo editing here by Hector Vivas of Getty Images. Composite of the women's snowboard halfpipe final, depicting all the female Olympians who competed.
February 14, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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WHERE WAS THIS THIRTY YEARS AGO
February 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Study: Shooting People With Arrows Does Not Make Them Fall in Love With You
thehardtimes.net/culture/stud...
Study: Shooting People With Arrows Does Not Make Them Fall in Love With You
A groundbreaking study released just in time for Valentine’s Day showed that shooting people with arrows does not make them fall in love.
thehardtimes.net
February 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM
LOGGING ON
February 14, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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February 14, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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Pretty much all of the credulous reporting on Musk proposing to tunnel in Florida (fig. 1) doesn't acknowledge what everyone in Florida knows. (fig. 2)
February 14, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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If you ever buy a pair of pants or a sweater or whatever from Costco, and then later say to yourself, This is the best damned pair of pants I have ever had worn & it was only $19, go back immediately & by 10 of them, because you will never find that pair of pants again, anywhere. Think you can just
February 13, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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Nerd and Jock's Valentine's Day Bromance!
February 14, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Werner Herzog's cameo on Parks & Rec (S07E01). He's great in everything.
February 14, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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...and it’s the 222nd anniversary of the Battle of Pulo Aura, but I’m not going to attempt a better telling of that than this one:
1804. Oceans are now Battlefields.

In the South China Sea a British convoy worth almost £1bn today is spotted by the French.

It should be a massacre.

Instead, Commodore Nathanial Dance is about to defeat a French battle squadron using some paint and the most overplayed hand in #navalHistory. /1 🧵
February 14, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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In cartoon news, Tubi just revealed practically the entirety of the classic Warner Bros/Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network library is coming to the platform this March.

For those who don't wanna visit the bird site, here's the full list of what's coming.
February 14, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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I had troubles falling sleep, hence I coded. And I have accomplished something:
github.com/yjeanrenaud/...
👓🕵🏼‍♀️ the first release is here! 🎉 It's far from perfect, but feel free to test (if you dare to install APK-files on your android phones). I will push it to google play after some more experiments
GitHub - yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses: attempting detect Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses nearby
attempting detect Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses nearby - yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses
github.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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Hayao Miyazaki
February 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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I have zero connection to animation other than having watched it, but this article about technical lighting effects in cel animation and how these analog processes created effects almost impossible to replicate digitally is INCREDIBLY interesting!
This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous.

Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...
February 14, 2026 at 6:24 AM
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February 14, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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Maybe you'd enjoy this Karel Zeman film, a Czech master of special effects done by clever analog methods:
kviff.tv/en/video/196...
The Stolen Airship (trailer)
kviff.tv
February 14, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous.

Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...
February 13, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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If it came out that NIST and NCAR were jointly keeping some kind of hell portal shut i would be like Yeah probably
January 31, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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i often think about this review
February 14, 2026 at 3:13 AM
rain is falling,

rain is falling,

down,

down,

down,

down.
February 14, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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I want to unload some of these pigeon paintings so all the ones in this thread are available for best offer prices (min $50) in donations MN mutual funds, the Immigrant Defense Project, or AABB.

DM if interested!
February 14, 2026 at 12:28 AM