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Bryce T. Pier
@btpier.bsky.social
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Husband, father, IT geek, old house nerd, avid scuba diver, hobbyist glassblower, EV and renewable energy evangelist, PC gamer, book lover.
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My longest bike ride, by at least 10 miles, in over 30+ years. Harriet Island to the edge of Hastings and back on the Mississippi River Greenway trail. I love the extra range riding an e-bike gives me. Burned 1900 calories per my Fitbit.
June 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Check-out dive in Bonaire.
Image of 2 scuba divers. We are both wearing our scuba gear and facing the camera. You can see the reef below us and the deep blue of the sea behind us.
March 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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My handsome, goofy, pup Baloo. #dogsofbluesky
A close up of our dog Baloo who is looking right at the camera. He's mostly black with a white chest. You can see his plaid bowtie off to the side of his neck. He has a bright yellow tennis ball between his legs.,
January 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Fozzie sleeping my in arms as I try to work. #cats #blueskycats
An orange tabby cat sleeping in my arms. I'm wearing a blue hoodie and sitting in an office chair. Fozzie's eyes are closed and his front paws are over my arms.
December 3, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving, friends. Just putting my fresh, spatchcocked turkey into the oven.
Image of a spatchcocked, uncooked, turkey on a baking sheet prior to going into the oven.
November 28, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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Wells Fargo Center in the snow last night in Minneapolis.
Image of the Wells Fargo Center skyscraper lit up at night in a snow storm. The lights on the tower are a yellow hue and causing the sky around it to glow a golden color.
November 21, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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A frequent concern I hear when doing Electric Vehicle show-and-tells is "EVs catch fire". Sure, they occasionally do, usually as a result of a major accident that pierces the battery pack. However gas powered cars catch fire far more often and frequently not as the result of an accident.
A graphic showing the number of car fires by type per 100k sold. Hybrids 3474, gas 1529, EVs 25.1
November 17, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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Made a big batch of pulled glass flowers in the studio this week. Here is a sample of the colors.
6 multi-colored glass flowers made by pulling molten glass into a tulip-like shadow. From left to right: pink and yellow, red, green, and blue, red and grey/green, white and dark blue, green and blue, and red and blue
November 12, 2023 at 12:20 AM
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I made some (not very good) glass flowers in the studio this week. Definitely need more practice.
3 purple, 1 orange, and 1 blue glass flowers, all with green stems, on a granite countertop. They are lined up in a straight row.
September 28, 2023 at 8:03 PM