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Daniel Lane
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Consultant, volunteer, engineer, pilot, loving dad & husband; inventor of the stuffing crouton, child chauffeur, cat servant, and mustachioed lefty. 30+ years in renewables. Dr/Lt/he/him
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Him roumd #caturday
An orange tuxedo cat named Max, curled up tightly into a nice round circle of kitty on a deep blue comforter.
November 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Googly eyes make everything better
A Nespresso coffee machine with google eyes and an empty coffee mug waiting to be filled
October 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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A tweet by exwife-of-Frankenstein ... Youtube is full of ads, spotify is full of ads, tumbir is full of ads, pinterest is full of ads. Everything uses ai. Every new update makes the website/app worse. Youtube auto translates almost every video I want to watch. Sometimes pinterest only loads ads for me. Check out this new ai feature. Here's a new update that breaks ur laptop. Here's a new update that breaks ur phone. Why are u complaining about ur phone, just get the newest iphone lol. Join my patreon. Join my membership. Pay a monthly membership to get all features. Upgrade your membership to get even more features. Subscribe to netflix. Subscribe to disney. Subscribe to amazon. Subscribe to hulu. This content isn't available in ur country. This content was removed. This website was removed. This feature only exists for apple. This app only exists for apple. U need to a WiFi connection to play this game. U need an account. We need your email to finish creating this account. We need your number to finish creating your account. We need your id to finish creating your account. In order to delete your account please write an email. In order to delete your account you need a laptop. Oops our database was hacked and ur information was stolen. Ur data was sold from this random website u used once 10 years ago. Spam call. Spam call. Spam call. #IM GOING INSANE #NOTHING WORKS NOTHING
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Tweet from an account called “exwife-of-frankenstein” that reads: Youtube is full of ads, spotify is full of ads, tumbir is full of ads, pinterest is full of ads. Everything uses ai. Every new update makes the website/app worse. Youtube auto translates almost every video I want to watch. Sometimes pinterest only loads ads for me. Check out this new ai feature. Here's a new update that breaks ur laptop. Here's a new update that breaks ur phone. Why are u complaining about ur phone, just get the newest iphone lol. Join my patreon. Join my membership. Pay a monthly membership to get all features. Upgrade your membership to get even more features. Subscribe to netflix. Subscribe to disney. Subscribe to amazon. Subscribe to hulu. This content isn't available in ur country. This content was removed. This website was removed. This feature only exists for apple. This app only exists for apple. U need to a WiFi connection to play this game. U need an account. We need your email to finish creating this account. We need your number to finish creating your account. We need your id to finish creating your account. In order to delete your account please write an email. In order to delete your account you need a laptop. Oops our database was hacked and ur information was stolen. Ur data was sold from this random website u used once 10 years ago. Spam call. Spam call. Spam call. #IM GOING INSANE #NOTHING WORKS NOTHING
October 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Almost every morning, the tripod hops up onto the bed and curls up with me, making it difficult to get up and moving. Loving a #caturday long lie with my favorite tripod!
A piebald tripod cat (black and white, three legs) curled up on a bed and leaning heavily against a leg under the blue and white quilt.
October 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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All of the above, with a strong lean towards GA!
September 30, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Serendipity
Two memes in a Bluesky timeline, the top showing a balding white man with the caption, “I can excuse racism but I draw the line at Blueskyism” and the bottom one showing a bird with the caption, “Have you ever considered fucking yourself?”
September 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Gotta find a suitable bullion, I tweak mine all the time with stuff like this:
A box of bullion cubes in Tom Yum flavor
August 1, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Mia trying to figure out what the buzzy thing outside the window is (drone). #Caturday
May 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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I’ve done what I can, y’all chip in. Every bit helps, and we don’t always need coffee.
May 14, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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🎶I always feel like
somebody's watchin' me…
Why don't they leave me be?🎶 #Caturday
An orange cat laying on his side has one paw over the other right in front of his face, but his visible eye is wide open and staring at the camera
May 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Orange is the new lap #caturday
Max, a wonderfully sweet orange tabby, lies on his servant’s lap, his face pressed into the leg.
May 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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THE CATS ARE ALWAYS INNOCENT
Would this face lie to you?
A grey and beige tabby kitten with enormous eyes and cute emanating from every pore
April 30, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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And mine!
Read A Thon Fundraiser Donation Receipt Thank you for your donation to Erik Johnson supporting South Elementary. Erik Johnson South Elementary Receipt ID: 2117224620-4483238 Donated on: 2025-04-16 $225.00
April 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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If you see this, post a beach photograph from your telephone
A young girl in cutoff blue jean shorts and an orange flower-patterned bathing suit stands at the edge of the Gulf of Mexico as a breaking wave covers her ankles. She is staring out to the west as the sun starts to set.
April 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Hey, check it out - the party of small government is coming for your brain, your uterus, your 401(k), *and* your mortgage. How efficient.
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April 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Don’t you just hate it when the rendition and deportation machine comes for the local college basketball team?
TOP STORIES Two NC lawmakers implore Marco Rubio to reverse plans to revoke visas for South Sudanese By Danielle Battaglia and Steve Wiseman dbattaglia@mcclatchydc.com swiseman@heraldsun.com 59 min ago A Duke University basketball player thought his biggest challenge over the weekend would be winning his final four game. Instead, politics intervened and Khaman Maluach suddenly faced the threat of deportation.
April 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Closer images of the booth for visualizing. Note that there’s a double plenum using foam to support the top with the fan weight. I need to take more photos of the filter setup, but there is a lip to prevent the filter from being pushed into the plenum. The top support piece also helps with this.
The left interior of an airbrush spray booth, showing the LED lighting strips, the air filter, paint shelf, Lazy Susan, and airbrush rack. The white foam board is held together with grey duct tape. The right interior of the airbrush spray booth, showing LED lighting strips, paint shelf, air filter, cardboard pieces for spray testing, and a squeeze bottle of water. The interior of the airbrush spray booth showing the filter pulled out and the air plenum behind it. Two “muffin” fans are mounted to the top of the plenum for air removal from the booth. Structural support for the plenum top is provided by an additional piece of foam board taped into the center, which essentially provides two separate plenums to pull air through each half of the filter. The top back of the booth, showing the “muffin” fans (and some junk stored out of cat reach). Two black fan grates are visible over the standard 140mm fans.
March 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Here are the “plans,” which I adjusted a little bit real-time as I built it. The key thing is to visualize the assembly to make sure measurements match up. Anywhere you see “fold”, that’s where I am accounting for the board length needed to fold into a triangle for strength, like the photo below.
March 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Starting a 🧵 with details on my homemade airbrush booth to share. I built mine out of foam core board (aka foam board) using plain old grey duct tape. Anywhere I needed rigidity, I folded the edges into triangles (e.g. front sides and top). #HistScaleModels #ScaleModels @revrachelmann.bsky.social
A white foam board airbrush booth sits on a wooden bench top. Visible inside the spray booth are LED strips for lighting, a standard air filter to capture paint, a rack with 1oz bottles of primer, a lazy Susan rotating stand to hold the model, random pieces of cardboard for spray testing, and an airbrush cleaning jar. To the left in front of the booth an airbrush stand is clamped to the workbench, holding an airbrush.
March 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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I made my own using foam board and muffin fans. Opening is large so I can see well, necks down to standard replaceable filter. It vents into room, since I was using acrylics, but I’ve got fittings and ductwork to duct it outside for solvent-based paints. Happy to share sketched “plans”.
A foam-core board airbrush spray booth, with a square opening in front that necks down to a rectangular opening in the back. The white foamboard booth has LED lighting strips inside and an air filter in the back, as well as small shelves attached to the inside, in which can be seen small (30mL) bottles of paint. A brown squirt bottle of water can be seen sitting inside on the left, behind an airbrush rack clamped to the benchtop at the front left.
March 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Three cats sit next to each other and look directly into the camera from across the room. You just *know* they’re plotting something.
March 19, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Model has been primed! I also painted the prop and spinner. What remains is sanding and rechecking the surface for NMF, maybe some polishing. Tonight’s priming showed that I will have to use acrylics until I can duct the booth outside, smell is too strong otherwise. #TonyTonyTony #HistScaleModels
A small 1/72 scale Tamiya Ki-61 model covered in grey primer, sitting next to some small parts painted brown.
March 15, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Wings & empennage attached. Gear painted & drying, that’ll be a later addition. One thing I love about TET is how I can tap the wing root joint and capillary action pulls it in and melts the plastic, making its own filler. If i putty this, I’ll only make it worse. #TonyTonyTony #HistScaleModels
A Tamiya Ki-61 model in progress. Wings and empennage attached to the fuselage, all that’s visibly missing from the top is the canopy and the prop.
March 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM