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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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Words to live by
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Recently I posted my negative views of gen-AI, and someone responded with a quote from Douglas Adams that ended "anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.” The message being I'm just an old fuddy-duddy.

I love Douglas Adams, but he didn't see this bullshit.
December 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Douglas Adams was also first and foremost a humanist—it’s one of the things I love most about him and one of the ways he was most formative for me as a creative person. He *loved* humanity in all its horribly flawed absurd messiness

I don’t think he would love what’s happening now
Recently I posted my negative views of gen-AI, and someone responded with a quote from Douglas Adams that ended "anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.” The message being I'm just an old fuddy-duddy.

I love Douglas Adams, but he didn't see this bullshit.
December 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Welp. Time to put it out of its misery.
elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of fire .
Alt: Meme of Elmo the red Sesame Street Muppet raising his hands, standing in front of burning flames.
media.tenor.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Looks like the goat got windsheared!
December 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Goat down! I repeat: Goat down! www.dn.se/sverige/stor...
December 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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The Gävlebock's Wikipedia page has already been updated en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A4...
December 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Look,,
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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In the 70s, there were only 18 known Kākāpō living on Rakiura/Stewart Island, all male. So glad they didn't give up on them.
December 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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"SELF SERVE (Bus Lane)", oil on canvas, 12x12- $800(Cdn) & "Bistro (CAUTIONCAUTIONCAUTION)", oil on canvas, 12x12", 2023- $800(Cdn). On sale for $600(cdn) each. DM if interested. #art
December 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The kakapo is both one of my favorite birds and favorite conservation stories. They are the orange cats of the bird world: so beautiful, so ridiculous, so dumb
In the eternal struggle between kakapo and towel, the towel remain triumphant. Towels left in the wild by careless hitchhikers are a contributor to the kakapo's dwindling numbers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBnj...
Kakapo: Crazy Moss Chickens
YouTube video by Dunedin Wildlife Hospital
www.youtube.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Happy Solstice ❄️
December 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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My most recent bird image is from last weekend of a Juvenile Bald Eagle in flight with a view from directly underneath the bird.
#BirdOfTheDay #mostrecent #BaldEagle #birds
December 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Hey Martians, did I mention we now also have a video of epic Phobos passing over a Martian dust storm near Pavonis Mons? 🌪️🌋🥔

Video & full info: flic.kr/p/2rNN8wk
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY

@esa.int Mars Express HRSC
300 MP Photo quoted below
Easy zoom: easyzoom.com/image/674026
December 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Anyway, here are some shots of the night sky. The camera can generally see more than we can, but in a dark place it can be this spectacular.
December 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Whenever I can, I use dishwashers as an analogy at work. They are what we as humanity should seek to achieve: high quality end product using less energy, less water, and less stuff (in this case, soap/detergent)

Modern dishwashers are an absolute marvel.
People who want to get morally superior about how they hand-wash everything really gotta reckon with the fact that machine dish-washing uses considerably LESS water and emits considerably fewer greenhouse emissions than standard handwashing practices do.

(And you save a lot of time...)
December 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Gingerbread 2025 Dumpster 🔥
December 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Gorgeous views of the Atlas Mountains from the Jardins de la Menara in Marrakech during a brief period of sunny weather yesterday.
December 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Space Invaders - #C64 - LC-Games - 2025 - #Commodore
#RetroGames
December 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Cyril Cox (Canadian, b.1958)

acrylic on panel
December 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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we're entering a wild west of 0 days that will be attributed to AI finding them, when it's really AI coding them that's doing it
December 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Look at this smart lil guy that figured out how to have a drink
#PigeonSky
December 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Big buddy movie energy #birds 🌿
December 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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The old 36" Lick refractor. At the opposite end of the building is the 1m reflector that I used to get the observations for my PhD thesis.
Wow, xmas morning wind gusts up to 114 mph on Mount Hamilton, east of San Jose. Damaged the Lick Observatory. 🔭 🧪 bsky.app/profile/look...
December 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Wow, xmas morning wind gusts up to 114 mph on Mount Hamilton, east of San Jose. Damaged the Lick Observatory. 🔭 🧪 bsky.app/profile/look...
December 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Powerful Christmas Day winds gusting up to 114 mph severely damaged UC Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, forcing the nearly 140-year-old facility to close while officials headquartered at UC Santa Cruz assess structural damage and begin repairs expected to take months.
Christmas Day winds up to 114 mph damage UC Lick Observatory
Powerful Christmas Day winds gusting up to 114 mph severely damaged UC Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, forcing the nearly 140-year-old facility to close while officials headquartered at UC Santa Cruz assess structural damage and begin repairs expected to take months.
buff.ly
December 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM