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dark-satellites.bsky.social
@dark-satellites.bsky.social
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42. Married to my love. Father to the most amazing little dude. He/him. Educated. Vaccinated. Engineer. Runner. Optimist. Grindcore drummer. Video game lover. PC builder. Foodie. Generally confused about things. 🚫GenAI 🚫Crypto
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July 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Dreadnought-related:
July 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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PC!
Interior of a PC with lots of spiny rainbow RGB
July 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Some hot takes from the band group chat.
Friend: modest mouse horns vs reel big fish horns? Me: you guys should check out my experimental grind two-piece that's a rude distorted bass and trombone. We also share a bass drum. Friend: where do you stand on bugle? Me: Garbage instrument. Limp wristed, milquetoast excuse for a trumpet, which also sucks. Friend: *posts YouTube link for a song with too much bugle in it*
July 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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I hear ya, buddy. I've replaced four switches and the wheel encoder on my Roccat Tyon.
Roccat tyon PCB with switches I've replaced circled.
June 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Latest maintenance project on the old Roccat (now Turtle Beach) Tyon. It is definitely showing its age, but I've become so dependent on the unique button configuration that I'll keep replacing parts until something similar comes along (hi Swiftpoint Z2!)

#roccat #turtlebeach #righttorepair #solder
Roccat Tyon mouse with the shell removed to show the circuit board and switches. Five components are circled: four switches (left mouse button switch, right mouse button switch, left fin switch and right fin switch). The fifth circled component is the mouse wheel encoder. Detail of the new mouse wheel encoder with the old mouse wheel encoder on the table next to the mouse. A closer detail of the mouse wheel encoder.
June 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Here's a Grackle! #bird #birdsky
A Grackle in a puddle
June 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Not feeling very fast today, so decided to work on off-beat tempo, which also went poorly 😅. Playing 1/4 note "ands" @ 130 bpm. Working toward rock-solid left-hand snare shots while the right hand plays fancy syncopation. #drums #drumsky #rudiments
May 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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16th note single stroke sprint at 200 bpm. Sloppy and had to pull it out of the gutter a few times, but I got a full 30 seconds 😮‍💨 #drums #drumsky #grindcore #rudiments
May 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Chicken Caesar wrap for the lady... #food #foodsky
Chicken Caesar wrap on a white plate with a blue border, with a smear of Caesar dressing on the side.
April 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Text that reads: "The year is 2045. Trump is running for his seventh term. Schumer is too busy touting his new book to effectively lead. A carefree Biden is seen riding his bike at the mall. RFK Jr just introduced a new mandatory dirt licking regimen. McConnell strides around the capital thanks to the cybernetic life-support system in his brand new Castraferrum Pattern Dreadnought power armor. Nancy Pelosi is minority leader again after Jeffries died from old age."
April 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Bulgar mujadara: equal parts bulgar and lentils with a TON of deeply caramelized onions, a dash of cumin and salt to taste. It smells like pure autumn to me. #food #foodsky
A white bowl with bulgar mujadara, fresh, raw, halved cherry tomatoes and chopped parsley mixed in. The bowl is sitting on the edge of a black granite counter top. A fork is sticking out of the bowl. A white bowl with bulgar mujadara, fresh, raw, halved cherry tomatoes and chopped parsley mixed in. The bowl is sitting on the edge of a black granite counter top. A fork is sticking out of the bowl.
April 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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My calorie counting app the first day I used it:
Meme image of Julia Louis Dreyfus from the show VEEP, with an uncomfortable smile. Subtitled test reads "(LAUGHING NERVOUSLY) What the fuck?"
April 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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He did it better.
Pauly from the Sopranos with his trademark hair that is gray on the sides and black on top. He's wearing a track suit and a pinky ring and holding up a fist.
March 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Fantastic example of nontoxic masculinity. From the Netflix show Midnight Diner.
The unnamed chef known only as "Master" from Midnight Diner, standing in his small restaurant kitchen with his arms folded. He is looking at the camera with what I can only describe as a polite smile. He wears a blue robe and half-apron. He has a vertical scar on the left side of his face, from forehead to cheek. I'm unsure of his age, but guessing in his mid-late 50s.
March 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Leftovers for lunch! Pasta, pepperoni, parmesan cheese, a little EVOO and a liiiiiitle bit of butter. Added a few capers for acidity. Would have been nice to have some black olives too, but alas... #food #foodsky
Bowl of tricolor rotini with pepperoni, parmesan cheese, some extra virgin olive oil.
March 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Hell yeah! From a few weeks ago
Steaks on a grill.
March 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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My cool train station in Satisfactory! Ostensibly for shipping bulk liquid nitrogen, but not sure where yet. 🥲
Screenshot of the factory-building game Satisfactory, showing a simple train station setup featuring a 2-line, right-hand drive main track with a right-hand pull-off into a small station. After leaving the station, a train can either merge back on to the main track to continue in its original direction, or take a loop that underpasses the main line to travel back the direction it came from. A train coming from the opposite direction would take a seperate pull-off loop that circles back around into the station. This setup effectively allows a train traveling from either direction to access the station, then continue on in either direction, without disrupting traffic flow or causing deadlock. Opposite view of the previous picture, showing the main line overpass in the foreground and the station in the background.
March 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Missed one: become an elite professional athlete, then quietly read their book on the sideline on national TV!
Photo of Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver and Super Bowl champion A.J. Brown, sitting calmly on the bench on the sideline during a game in full uniform (sans helmet) reading a well-worn copy of Jim Murphy's sports psychology book "Inner Excellence". There is an inset in the photo that shows the cover of the book.
March 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Philadelphia Eagles GM Howie Roseman at a press conference, smiling and taking a sip of water from a water bottle.
March 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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March 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Cheers!
An awkward shot of me holding a can of strawberry lemonade Truly with my RGBd out PC in the background. It's awkward becuase the PC is under a table and I had to get down pretty low to take the pic, you see. On second inspection, the Truly can looks comically small in my hand. Oops.
March 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Text: "graphic designer 1: Hey how can we make sure kids won't buy this album Graphic designer 2: what if we added the hardest fucking logo mankind has ever created?" Image beneath text: the PARENTAL ADVISORY: EXPLICIT CONTENT logo, which indeed goes hard AF.
March 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Buster from the show Arrested Development sampling some hot ham water. He says "So watery... And yet there's a smack of ham to it."
March 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Philadelphia Eagles GM Howie Roseman, smiling and taking a sip of water at a press conference.
March 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM