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@autom8on.bsky.social
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Offensive security nut job (you don’t *have* to be mad to work here, so I’m told 😝). Lock collector, and occasional locksport competitor. Appropriately obsessed with dogs…
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A fortuitous place to end a roll of red filament - almost looks like I meant it - but as with everything else, a complete fluke! 🤣 The march to gridfinity’ise my filing cabinets and sort out my lock collection pushes ever onwards… one kg of PLA at a time… 😝 #3dprinting #gridfinity #sideproject 😝
The bottom view of some 3D printed gridfinity storage bins (one 2x4x6, one 3x4x6). I started printing them in red, but ran out of filament just after the base was done and had to swap to white - so have ended up with two tone bins with red bases and white walls. It looks quite good, considering it was an accident. lol. The top view of some 3D printed gridfinity storage bins (one 2x4x6, one 3x4x6). I started printing them in red, but ran out of filament just after the base was done and had to swap to white - so have ended up with two tone bins with red bases and white walls (though you can’t actually see the red in this image). It looks quite good, considering it was an accident. lol.
January 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Retro shirt day - this one hasn’t seen the light of day in a while… 😎 #HackFu #RetroShirt
Front logo from Hack Fu 2013 Team “Crystal Blue Persuasion” (somewhat inspired by Breaking Bad) shirt. Rear logo from Hack Fu 2013 Team “Crystal Blue Persuasion” (somewhat inspired by Breaking Bad) shirt.
January 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Finally finished printing - and it’s subtle enough that I don’t think anyone will notice the colour change where I ran out of clear transparent filament and had to swap it… 😝🤣 Need to get on and print the pins/circlip and then work out what springs I need… #locksport #3dprint
An oversized 3D printed cutaway lock part, next to a pile of bridging material I’d just removed on a messy desk. Another oversized 3D printed cutaway lock part, next to a pile of bridging material I’d just removed on a messy desk. An oversized 3D printed cutaway lock body and plug, after removing bridging material, assembled to see if they fit together (side view). I ran out of clear filament, so the back part is in a local shade of blue. 🤣 An oversized 3D printed cutaway lock body and plug, after removing bridging material, assembled to see if they fit together (front view). I ran out of clear filament, so the back part is in a local shade of blue. 🤣
January 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Yup, mind blown. How can pictures off the Internet now be physical objects I can hold in my hand? Next step, need to learn some 3D modelling so I can start producing my own objects, rather than just using others’… #3dprinting
Assorted 3D models of euro cylinder holding tools from Thingiverse. A Creality K1C printer starting to print some locksport bits and pieces. The sparse infill pattern (15%) is clearly visible inside the partially printed pieces. A Creality K1C printer, having finished printing some locksport bits - just waiting for them to be peeled off the print bed. Assorted locksport euro profile cylinder holders off the 3D printer.
December 11, 2024 at 3:25 PM
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Many apologies, I’d planned to get some lock stuff done over the weekend and early this week, but then, I got somewhat distracted… 😎
A photo of a Creality K1C 3D printer box and three parcels containing printing filament that had just been dropped off by courier. A medium sized brown and white dog (~40kg) is partially obscured by the box, as he’s having a good sniff at the side away from the camera. His bright yellow harness, lead, and muzzle are being partially squished by the box, as it was heavy and I kinda put it down in a hurry when the courier dropped it off. The rest of the hallway, as my house (and arguably life), is a mess, so I’ll not dwell on describing that in too much detail. Composition is terrible, but I’m no David Bailey. Taken on an old iPhone, with a level of quality appropriate for hardware of the time.
December 11, 2024 at 12:26 AM
autom8on.bsky.social
Quote this and share one of your favourite poems
An image of the Philip Larkin poem This Be The Verse, taken from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-verse . It reads: “They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another’s throats. Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself.”
November 29, 2024 at 2:34 PM
autom8on.bsky.social
Aaaaarrrrggghhhh!!! #MissingPiece #Jigsaw
What is supposed to be a thousand piece jigsaw puzzle from dbrand, their “Robot City” pattern. Sadly, a piece appears to have gotten lost along the way, so I only have a nine hundred and ninety nine piece puzzle instead. A close up showing the missing piece from an otherwise complete thousand piece dbrand “Robot City” jigsaw puzzle. Current location, unknown… 😭
November 28, 2024 at 5:22 PM
autom8on.bsky.social
… as an aside, I’ve gone from owning a few bristles that I’d found on the side of the street to now having literally hundreds and hundreds (maybe thousands? 😝) of the things after recycling whole brush heads… if anyone is after any, give me a shout…
My first attempt at making a Bogotá style triple peak pick from a recycled street sweeper blade (bottom), with two commercial picks (either from Storm, or Mad Bob, I forget which) above it. Mine is not quite as refined, but not bad for a first attempt with only a small file and some sandpaper.
November 27, 2024 at 10:13 AM
autom8on.bsky.social
Recycling?? 😎
The back of an estate car, containing two brush heads taken from street sweeper machines. One is brand new, one is used. The steel bristles are to be recycled to make lock picking tools. The back of an estate car, containing two brush heads taken from street sweeper machines. Both used. The steel bristles are to be recycled to make lock picking tools. A close up picture of the plastic bristles and steel bristles on brush head taken from street sweeper machines. The steel bristles are to be recycled to make lock picking tools. A large pile of steel bristles recovered from street sweeper brushes - waiting to be cleaned up and recycled into lock picking tools.
November 27, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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Explains a lot about mine then… 😝🤣 (check out the addition to the end of the alt text tag)
A headshot of my “large” brown and white American staffy cross dog, Kelvin, lying on the sofa wearing my light blue BrewDog hat. He doesn’t look terribly impressed at having had it put on him. 🤣 Apparently, he is no gentleman. 😝
November 24, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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Brivan! 😝🤣
A small misspelling on the back of the first Newcastle BSides hoodie - they called Brian “Brivan”… 🤣
November 24, 2024 at 7:26 AM
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Ah, yes - BSides NotNewcastle, I remember it well(ish). First time Moon on A Stick ever sponsored an event. Obviously, given the location (now it actually is in Newcastle and not south of the river anymore 😝), I’m somewhat biased (#GeordieBornAndBred). Must try and make it again properly next year…
The first BSides Newcastle logo taken from a hoodie from the event. A photo of the back of the first BSides Newcastle hoodie, showing the numerous sponsors (both individuals and groups) who helped make it possible.
November 24, 2024 at 7:23 AM
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My little dog… 🐶❤️😎
A headshot of my “large” brown and white American staffy cross dog, Kelvin, lying on the sofa wearing my light blue BrewDog hat. He doesn’t look terribly impressed at having had it put on him. 🤣
November 24, 2024 at 7:01 AM
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About 9 months after I got him, his namesake randomly appeared on the TV one night (he’d originally been renamed from Titan to Kevin by Dog’s Trust when he was rescued, I added the extra ‘L’ when he moved in with me)… 🐶❤️😎
A large brown and white American Staffy cross breed dog, sat in front of a TV showing a picture of his namesake, Lord Kelvin. A headshot of a large brown and white American Staffy cross breed adolescent dog wearing a yellow and black collar. A television showing a portrait of Lord Kelvin (1824-1907). Absolute temperatures are stated in units of kelvin in Lord Kelvin's honour, and my dog is also named after him (I’ll let you decide which of those facts are the most important 🤣🐶).
November 24, 2024 at 6:34 AM
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… and off down a rabbit hole I go… 🐇
Archive dot org screenshot for at stake’s web proxy web page, showing it was archived fifty five times between December eighteenth two thousand and two and December sixteenth two thousand and eighteen. Archive dot org screenshot showing the at stake web proxy trial download page from the early two thousands. It looks like a web page from twenty years ago, lol. Very basic text design. Versions available for Windows, Linux, and SPARC Solaris, with or without a bundled Java runtime environment.
November 22, 2024 at 2:31 AM
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When I went to bed last night, I was not expecting to awaken to snow… that’s going to make getting to the workshop interesting this morning. ❄️❄️❄️🤔 #WinterIsHere
November 19, 2024 at 6:58 AM
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Been out for a “short” walk with the hound… Now just rehydrating and pondering what to do with the rest of the day… 🤔🐶💤
November 16, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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#ObligatoryDogPic #PostEmIfYouveGotEm #BestDogInTheWorld 🐶❤️
November 13, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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A fun game of “which key goes in which lock” (after they got separated for transport). I am yet to play “where have the missing locks for these keys gone” - though given the current state of the house, they could be anywhere… 😝🤣 #locksport #lockcollector

P.S. Hello to all the new folk. 👋
November 13, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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By far the silliest set of keys I’ve ever produced… 😝🤣 #locksport
September 5, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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I think this padlock’s front spooled key pin may have been installed upside down by mistake… 🤣 #locksport #badlocksmithing 😝
September 2, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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Good weekend at BSides Bristol helping run the LPV. Forgot to take many pictures. Opened many locks. Met many cool people. Drank much coffee and hot chocolate. #locksport #learning #lockpickingchicken 🤣
September 2, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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Don’t think I’ve read this in a very long time (over two decades?). But I have an old combination padlock with a misplaced combination that needs opening, so thought it was time to refresh my memory…

… and what’s that on the inside cover? The missing combination code! Thanks past me! 🤣 #locksport
March 13, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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… thankfully, past me clearly realised that this was an ideal place to store useful information. There’s the missing padlock’s combination code… 🤣 #lucky
March 13, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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Today’s light reading - Joseph Bramah’s 1785 dissertation on the construction of locks… #research #history #locksport (it’s also available online, if anyone wants to read it: en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Disse... ).
February 25, 2024 at 5:33 PM