Just A Tinker
@john-gardi.bsky.social
I've always been a tinker.
I started by taking stuff apart.
Then I learned how to put stuff back together, then how to fix it.
It's a way of life for me really.
http://justatinker.com
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I started by taking stuff apart.
Then I learned how to put stuff back together, then how to fix it.
It's a way of life for me really.
http://justatinker.com
Note: Solicitors of 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘦 will be blocked and/or reported!
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Just A Tinker
@john-gardi.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Ray Bradbury on colonizing Mars
This is a statement by SF writer Ray Bradbury made during the landing of Viking 1 on Mars at JPL in July, 1976. The interviewer was Jon Lomberg.
soundcloud.com
A reminder of why we must settle Mars from a master!
soundcloud.com/john-gardi/r...
soundcloud.com/john-gardi/r...
Did pounder pete not even read the rules or listen to his teachers in officer's school?
It's right there in black and white as an 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 of what's illegal!
Make an example of 𝘩𝘪𝘮!😒
Good thing he was a commissioned officer so he isn't sullying the reputations of NCOs, the pride a western militaries.
It's right there in black and white as an 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 of what's illegal!
Make an example of 𝘩𝘪𝘮!😒
Good thing he was a commissioned officer so he isn't sullying the reputations of NCOs, the pride a western militaries.
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Did pounder pete not even read the rules or listen to his teachers in officer's school?
It's right there in black and white as an 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 of what's illegal!
Make an example of 𝘩𝘪𝘮!😒
Good thing he was a commissioned officer so he isn't sullying the reputations of NCOs, the pride a western militaries.
It's right there in black and white as an 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 of what's illegal!
Make an example of 𝘩𝘪𝘮!😒
Good thing he was a commissioned officer so he isn't sullying the reputations of NCOs, the pride a western militaries.
@waldo.net My sign of respect from one tool user to another!
Thank you for the tip, they're a good as you said they were!
Thank you for the tip, they're a good as you said they were!
November 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
@waldo.net My sign of respect from one tool user to another!
Thank you for the tip, they're a good as you said they were!
Thank you for the tip, they're a good as you said they were!
I'm beginning to think there's been enough pushback from Congress and others to postpone and possibly halt in its tracks the orange demagogue's illegal attack on Venezuela.
Fingers crossed! 🤞
Fingers crossed! 🤞
November 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I'm beginning to think there's been enough pushback from Congress and others to postpone and possibly halt in its tracks the orange demagogue's illegal attack on Venezuela.
Fingers crossed! 🤞
Fingers crossed! 🤞
I'm recording an acapela choir concert tonight!
November 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I'm recording an acapela choir concert tonight!
As someone born with 10% vision I can honestly say that eyesight is highly overrated.
I can fix that, step closer... 🤟
I can fix that, step closer... 🤟
Botox. Plastic surgery. That make-up. What is going on with the MAGA look?
@inaeoh.bsky.social explores how beauty upholds power—and how we're all complicit in a new reality TV politics.
@inaeoh.bsky.social explores how beauty upholds power—and how we're all complicit in a new reality TV politics.
In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA
Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?
www.motherjones.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
As someone born with 10% vision I can honestly say that eyesight is highly overrated.
I can fix that, step closer... 🤟
I can fix that, step closer... 🤟
They can't do a lot of things... like thinking for instance.
They are as reactionary as the squirrel I just saw at my window.
They are as reactionary as the squirrel I just saw at my window.
Famously, in tabloid journalism, three is a trend and I can now definitively declare that MAGA can’t cook. And these are the “foods” they are proud of and want to show off! No wonder they want to rid the country of immigrants and their dangerous seasonings.
November 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
They can't do a lot of things... like thinking for instance.
They are as reactionary as the squirrel I just saw at my window.
They are as reactionary as the squirrel I just saw at my window.
@indivisible.org: Better call an emergency march for 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 if you want to have 𝘢𝘯𝘺 hope of stopping this war.
Be proactive, not reactive.
Just a game theorist's POV. 💁
Be proactive, not reactive.
Just a game theorist's POV. 💁
November 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
@indivisible.org: Better call an emergency march for 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 if you want to have 𝘢𝘯𝘺 hope of stopping this war.
Be proactive, not reactive.
Just a game theorist's POV. 💁
Be proactive, not reactive.
Just a game theorist's POV. 💁
When CTRL V isn't good enough for you!
November 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
When CTRL V isn't good enough for you!
Reposted by Just A Tinker
"No one's going to build a factory based on a tariff that's on on Monday, off on... Tuesday, the president's changed his mind by Wednesday, he gets hormonal by Thursday and someone says something nasty in the middle school cafeteria on Friday and they're back on again."
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"No one's going to build a factory based on a tariff that's on on Monday, off on... Tuesday, the president's changed his mind by Wednesday, he gets hormonal by Thursday and someone says something nasty in the middle school cafeteria on Friday and they're back on again."
Interesting architecture from this UK based startup.
It's a small rocket like Electron but has a clamshell fairing like Neutron because they intend to recover their payloads.
They'll also recover the booster & balloon.
Acme Space to Use Balloon-Rocket Hybrid to Launch Orbital Pharmaceutical Factory:
It's a small rocket like Electron but has a clamshell fairing like Neutron because they intend to recover their payloads.
They'll also recover the booster & balloon.
Acme Space to Use Balloon-Rocket Hybrid to Launch Orbital Pharmaceutical Factory:
Acme Space to Use Balloon-Rocket Hybrid to Launch Orbital Pharmaceutical Factory
Test launches are set for Q1/2 2026, with commercial launches in 2027.
www.extremetech.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Interesting architecture from this UK based startup.
It's a small rocket like Electron but has a clamshell fairing like Neutron because they intend to recover their payloads.
They'll also recover the booster & balloon.
Acme Space to Use Balloon-Rocket Hybrid to Launch Orbital Pharmaceutical Factory:
It's a small rocket like Electron but has a clamshell fairing like Neutron because they intend to recover their payloads.
They'll also recover the booster & balloon.
Acme Space to Use Balloon-Rocket Hybrid to Launch Orbital Pharmaceutical Factory:
Reposted by Just A Tinker
Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!
Calling these aircraft 'fly by wire' is a misnomer, they a 'fly by computer'!
I'm sure there is redundancy in the flight control system but if all the flight computers suffer the same failure mode to an external event, it could be a bad day.
I'm sure there is redundancy in the flight control system but if all the flight computers suffer the same failure mode to an external event, it could be a bad day.
This is pretty massive.
There is scant detail so far but they say "solar radiation" has caused problems for some aircraft.
This *could* be related to single-event upsets, where cosmic rays trigger computer errors. I've asked Airbus if they can share more detail.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
There is scant detail so far but they say "solar radiation" has caused problems for some aircraft.
This *could* be related to single-event upsets, where cosmic rays trigger computer errors. I've asked Airbus if they can share more detail.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modifications to 6,000 planes
The European aerospace giant said it had found that intense radiation from the Sun could corrupt data crucial to flight controls.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Calling these aircraft 'fly by wire' is a misnomer, they a 'fly by computer'!
I'm sure there is redundancy in the flight control system but if all the flight computers suffer the same failure mode to an external event, it could be a bad day.
I'm sure there is redundancy in the flight control system but if all the flight computers suffer the same failure mode to an external event, it could be a bad day.
@davidbrin.bsky.social: The orange demagogue is the spitting image of the politician you portrayed in your novel 𝘌𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦.
Yeah, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 one! 😉
Yeah, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 one! 😉
November 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
@davidbrin.bsky.social: The orange demagogue is the spitting image of the politician you portrayed in your novel 𝘌𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦.
Yeah, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 one! 😉
Yeah, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 one! 😉
No, this is a war crime.
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
No, this is a war crime.
Reposted by Just A Tinker
#Space #Russia #ISS #NASA
#ArsTechnica believes that the #Soyuz launch pad failure was due to someone failing to secure a service platform that fell into the flame trench after yesterday's launch.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...
#ArsTechnica believes that the #Soyuz launch pad failure was due to someone failing to secure a service platform that fell into the flame trench after yesterday's launch.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...
Before a Soyuz launch Thursday someone forgot to secure a 20-ton service platform
“We are going to learn just how important the ISS is to leadership.”…
arstechnica.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
#Space #Russia #ISS #NASA
#ArsTechnica believes that the #Soyuz launch pad failure was due to someone failing to secure a service platform that fell into the flame trench after yesterday's launch.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...
#ArsTechnica believes that the #Soyuz launch pad failure was due to someone failing to secure a service platform that fell into the flame trench after yesterday's launch.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...
It's criminalization of abortion in America that's causing young women to want to leave.
Canada decriminalized abortion in the late '80s & I helped do that!
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave America.
Canada remains the top preferred destination for younger American women looking to leave
Canada decriminalized abortion in the late '80s & I helped do that!
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave America.
Canada remains the top preferred destination for younger American women looking to leave
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It's criminalization of abortion in America that's causing young women to want to leave.
Canada decriminalized abortion in the late '80s & I helped do that!
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave America.
Canada remains the top preferred destination for younger American women looking to leave
Canada decriminalized abortion in the late '80s & I helped do that!
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave America.
Canada remains the top preferred destination for younger American women looking to leave
The service platform is the square part with the round top at the bottom of the pit, the folding service towers seem undamaged.
The service platform slides under the Soyuz once it's erected to give access to engines and set up the 'matches' used to light the engines.
Do they still do that, Anatoly?
The service platform slides under the Soyuz once it's erected to give access to engines and set up the 'matches' used to light the engines.
Do they still do that, Anatoly?
Russia's only pad for crew launches suffers major damage:
russianspaceweb.com/baikonur_r7_...
russianspaceweb.com/baikonur_r7_...
November 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The service platform is the square part with the round top at the bottom of the pit, the folding service towers seem undamaged.
The service platform slides under the Soyuz once it's erected to give access to engines and set up the 'matches' used to light the engines.
Do they still do that, Anatoly?
The service platform slides under the Soyuz once it's erected to give access to engines and set up the 'matches' used to light the engines.
Do they still do that, Anatoly?
Reposted by Just A Tinker
I am once again pointing to the imperial boomerang.
Imperial boomerang - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I am once again pointing to the imperial boomerang.
Reposted by Just A Tinker
Reposted by Just A Tinker
Every day, Americans are bombarded with the bad news of Trump 2.0, and it is exhausting to keep track of and absorb each new outrage. That is the clear intent.
When one is caught in the crossfire, it is hard to see, let alone address, the big picture.
When one is caught in the crossfire, it is hard to see, let alone address, the big picture.
Donald Trump and the deconstruction of America
Don't let the daily outrages obscure the big picture.
www.motherjones.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Every day, Americans are bombarded with the bad news of Trump 2.0, and it is exhausting to keep track of and absorb each new outrage. That is the clear intent.
When one is caught in the crossfire, it is hard to see, let alone address, the big picture.
When one is caught in the crossfire, it is hard to see, let alone address, the big picture.
Do they think that Canada, U.K. and European countries don't know this or do they just not care? 🤷
Steve Witkoff isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Is Steve Witkoff Trying to Do?
Trump’s envoy isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war.
www.theatlantic.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Do they think that Canada, U.K. and European countries don't know this or do they just not care? 🤷
@ubermeisters.bsky.social Had a chance to test fly the Wright Flyer in the Parish Hall at the Church I stream Sunday Services for.
Father Michael is a nerd priest (and 3D printer user) so he's all in.
It gained altitude but the plane was too fast and the hall wasn't big enough to do a full circuit.
Father Michael is a nerd priest (and 3D printer user) so he's all in.
It gained altitude but the plane was too fast and the hall wasn't big enough to do a full circuit.
November 27, 2025 at 5:47 AM
@ubermeisters.bsky.social Had a chance to test fly the Wright Flyer in the Parish Hall at the Church I stream Sunday Services for.
Father Michael is a nerd priest (and 3D printer user) so he's all in.
It gained altitude but the plane was too fast and the hall wasn't big enough to do a full circuit.
Father Michael is a nerd priest (and 3D printer user) so he's all in.
It gained altitude but the plane was too fast and the hall wasn't big enough to do a full circuit.
Projection all the way down.
Youth is fleeting, Trump is temporary, but lies are forever.
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Projection all the way down.
This 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 towards 'natural immunity' led to the deaths of three times as many Americans per capita than Canada during the Covid 19 pandemic.
An opinion is 𝒏𝒐𝒕 science! 😒
Canada did make mistakes during the pandemic but at least they were honest ones, not by imposing a deadly 'belief' on others.
An opinion is 𝒏𝒐𝒕 science! 😒
Canada did make mistakes during the pandemic but at least they were honest ones, not by imposing a deadly 'belief' on others.
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 towards 'natural immunity' led to the deaths of three times as many Americans per capita than Canada during the Covid 19 pandemic.
An opinion is 𝒏𝒐𝒕 science! 😒
Canada did make mistakes during the pandemic but at least they were honest ones, not by imposing a deadly 'belief' on others.
An opinion is 𝒏𝒐𝒕 science! 😒
Canada did make mistakes during the pandemic but at least they were honest ones, not by imposing a deadly 'belief' on others.
Channeling the Vegas Sphere in miniature... and just one image. 😁
BEHOLD, COMPLETION AT LAST! And no, I won't be making a nicer video than this LOL you get what you get haha. I'm not publishing this, it's just for a friend, so no need.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Channeling the Vegas Sphere in miniature... and just one image. 😁