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erinalope.bsky.social
Erin the Astrolope
@erinalope.bsky.social
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Master (13+ years!): @djnightkat.com
34yo she/they 🏳️‍⚧️ Jackalope 🐰 .
❤️loves space 🔭, hobbiest electronics/DIY, electric scooter ⚡️ 🛴 , repair wizard, (attempting) gardening 👩‍🌾
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Bonus text, anyone remember welltris?
A dos game called welltris, right has an image of alexey pajitnov at an early 90s beige desktop playing the game being played (it’s recursive). The left has a playfield featuring 4 grids (the walls the Tetris pieces fall down) that lead into a grid at the bottom, forming a well or hole kinda visual. Tetris pieces of various colors are at the bottom,3 walls are red and the other one has a falling piece
November 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Age yourself with gaming
A purple game boy color with a worm light playing pokemon crystal being held by a single hand. The worm light spirals up a 2 or so inches above the screen lighting it up with a hot spot so bright you can’t see the game in that specific spot.
November 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Waiting 6 minutes for dude to respond and I was vaping outside. Watch this flock of seagulls in a holding pattern over the parking lot. Endlessly circling till heading out in a V formation.
Was like “their FAA get defunded too?”
Dozens of seagulls (white body, black long skinny wings) banking right fling in a circular pattern over some trees on a partially cloudy day.
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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I’m a sucker for sunsets. I mean yea it sucks that it’s dark after work but sunset scooter commutes are chill AF.
I would have never described a commute as chill ever before in a car, but now? It’s not just the weed, cars are just infuriating to operate.
A curved 4 lane road with 3 light rail tracks and overhead wires. A several story rectangular building with 2 large open balconies is in the background. It is sunset and grey clouds are being backlit by the orange sky (more orange to bottom right, fades to light blue top left). A single light rail trolly is in the oncoming direction along with some cars all lined/stopped up at the intersection boundary.
November 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Love how big the pokemon can get. On our way to city scale kaiju pokébattles.
Me playing pokemon z-a on switch 2. My character (in a crop top, jacket, skirt yellow purple outfit) standing on a stonework city sidewalk, behind me is a large Krookodile (red/white/black crocodile like pokemon) is standing behind upright with snout poking like 2 feet over my shoulder Me playing pokemon z-a on switch 2. My character (in a crop top, jacket, skirt yellow purple outfit) standing on a stonework city sidewalk with face buried in a large Krookodile (red/white/black crocodile like pokemon) that’s almost twice my height.
November 2, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Experienced a glitch in the matrix playing Z to A
A screenshot of pokemon Z-A on switch 2. On a dark city street my character is in the middle with a numel, 2 of the same blond dude in a black suit are standing behind, and down the street from me. One has an absol and the other is mentioning an absol
November 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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That happens right after the first intro on Lower Decks. Boimler can’t stop the replicator from spitting out hot bananas.
There’s always the “virus” or “voyager ignoring the check engine light” that causes them to go bad but what about mama and her 100 year old model she refuses to replace?
Boimler (red shirt nerd boy with blue hair) is on all fours handing his hand up and the hand is burned and also holding a penlight tool thingy.the ground is covered in bananas, one files over his head out of a partially disassembled replicator. Mariner (red shirt girl with brown hair in a fluffy ponytail) is in the background holding a phaser(?) into her hand.
October 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Amazon and Microsoft’s clouds are down. Probably a DNS issue (again).
The 2 baskets everyone put all their eggs in was being held by the same hand.
October 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Awww, I can’t farm IN my mech? Grow some giant corn or something?
A lush green landscape with megasXLR (blue mech with flames painted on) standing over the trees, some other various mechs tilling a field, planting seeds, farm stuff.
October 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Damn, no flyover. Heard them take off from Moffett (every neighborhood for 7 miles did) but nothing at the end of the anthem. Have some practice photos!
3 jets in formation in the background against a blue (maybe a bit hazy) sky. A green drop tower ride is in the foreground A large bird, probably a turkey vulture, in flight with wings spread against a blue sky. They are messing with their left talon with their beak. A small white/black striped bird with a red head (probably a woodpecker) standing in a sparsely green leafed and somewhat spiky bush. A fat orange cat trotting across a green/brown lawn with a branch and some bushes in the background.
October 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Dude I’ve never seen one of these before. Apparently it’s a woodpecker?
A bird with black and white stripes and a red bit of hair
October 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Have a squirrel photo and a family of egrets! Their necks looked so fucked up. Why you got a U bend like under the sink?
A brown/grey squirrel next to some tall grass on some dirt/gravel. The squirrel is sniffing/eating at a small purplish flower An egret in flight from the side with lots of grass and trees in the background. An egret standing by the river with lots of grass in the background. An egret in flight from the back with lots of grass and trees in the background. Theres also a partially flooded gravel trail in the scene.
October 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I was married but I’m not married any more.
Women don’t like the vehicle.
The front of an electric Caltrain train at a station during a clear sunny day.
October 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Friggen’ super moon rising over the valley tonight! Got detail in it with just telephoto.
The moon is full and yellow rising over the hills with power lines and trees in the foreground.
October 8, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Rewatching old show, especially ones that love to reference is even more fun now that I get the references.
Never stumbled upon starblazers/space battleship Yamato when I was a kid.
A screencap from a TV show called “Megas XLR” where the giant blue titular robot with a muscle car for a head has the bow of the space battleship Yamato popped out of its chest and fires its wave motion gun (giant friggen laser)
October 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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WE DIDN’T LISTEN.
A scene from futurama where “Billy Everyteen” is sitting on a bed with a glowing robot that looks like marilyn monroe. He is saying “no thanks, I’d rather make out with my Monroe bot”
October 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Lunch time! My scoot home unfortunately interrupted this dude feasting on some roadkill.
A turkey vulture on a light pole with 2 planes in the background (one is further away)
September 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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What possible sign was there to prevent this?
Tags for a steam game that say “psychological horror”, and “horror”
September 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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The other in focus shot was similar, but had a power line in the way. Also “OH GOD THE SUN AT 200mm!!”
One of the fighter jets with the sun totally glaring out everything except a wing/tail tip and power lines
September 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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It’s football season, that means it’s fly over season! Definitely need to practice manual focusing, but of course the photo I nailed was the upskirt.

Anyway sudden urge to play some Ace Combat.
2 military twin engine jets fling in a close formation against a pale blue sky
September 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Dusting off my openastrotracker project and the tracker for it works! Starlight! Even saw a satellite zoom by.
Don’t mind the power lines in the way.
A computer screen showing the raspberry pi os with VLC Running taking up most of the screen, on it is a bunch of grey with a couple dark lines across the bottom diagonally and a 3 point sources of light that vary slightly in brightness and intensity
September 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Turned a bunch of ingredients into chicken tortilla soup.
Need some mason jars to store it tho. It makes a lot of delicious leftovers.
On a multicolor plate is a pile of white onion chopped with a chopped jalapeno, and a few cloves of minced garlic A bowl of chicken tortilla soup on a plate with a spoon behind the bowl on a table with weed accessories and candy and a squeeze thing of sour cream. The soup is red/orangeish with bits of cilantro, corn, shredded chicken, sour cream, and melted cheese with some Fritos on top
September 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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My first one that’s isn’t an AI slop
Top text “ChatGPT asked if I wanted a diagram of what's going on inside my pregnant belly.” The bottom image is a AI generated diagram showing a dude with a “ cervix” (looks like the bladder) and “rectum” (clearly a penis), and the pudendal nerve between the actual rectum location and taint. The baby looks like it’s gonna go out the “rectum” penis thru a very narrow urethra
September 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Ok so fuel by sativa today was mostly chores, but check out my workspace! This is the most presentable it’s been in a while. The doors can almost close!
My garage workspace, a beige wall with a circuit breaker with stickers. The far wall has a beige metal cabinet (bout 10 foot) with doors open showing lots of bins and items filling the shelves. fire exiquisher on the ground, as well as some items between the open doors of the cabinet. On an ikea LACK table is my ender 3v3 in a 2020 aluminum/acrylic box, on top of that is a large plastic bin with filament. There are more shelves along the wall with junk
September 15, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Getting close to wrapping this up, hopping the kickstand jig works tho. If that works we are golden.

Also that front tire was on its last leg, you can see clear thru the rubber here!
At least it avoided nails to this point, that usually doesn’t happen.
My Apollo city pro 2024 on the floor bottom up with the bottom removed to reveal the battery and electronics. Bolts, washers, Allen wrenches gloves are strewn about the floor My old Apollo city 2024 front tire, well worn with the middle missing treading and a hole stating to appear thru the rubber entirely to the weave underneath
September 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM