Max
@maxnippard.bsky.social
Maker, builder of things mechanical, electrical, wooden and not wooden. He/him
Browsing a 1899 book on small steam engines & the preface starts with this banger.
The intention of the author in writing this work has been to furnish specific directions and correct dimensioned plans for small engines and boilers, in lieu of sketches and gossip about such machines
The intention of the author in writing this work has been to furnish specific directions and correct dimensioned plans for small engines and boilers, in lieu of sketches and gossip about such machines
August 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Browsing a 1899 book on small steam engines & the preface starts with this banger.
The intention of the author in writing this work has been to furnish specific directions and correct dimensioned plans for small engines and boilers, in lieu of sketches and gossip about such machines
The intention of the author in writing this work has been to furnish specific directions and correct dimensioned plans for small engines and boilers, in lieu of sketches and gossip about such machines
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July 23, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Well, it's three years until the big total solar eclipse that will cut across some remote parts of Australia. Time to start planning! 😄
I'm thinking I'll head for Devil's Marbles. Never been there and it's right in the path.
I'm thinking I'll head for Devil's Marbles. Never been there and it's right in the path.
a drawing of a sun with clouds in the sky
ALT: a drawing of a sun with clouds in the sky
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July 23, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Well, it's three years until the big total solar eclipse that will cut across some remote parts of Australia. Time to start planning! 😄
I'm thinking I'll head for Devil's Marbles. Never been there and it's right in the path.
I'm thinking I'll head for Devil's Marbles. Never been there and it's right in the path.
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I reposted this last month and I'm sharing it again because it's great
![cartoon for the guardian by Stephen Collins - script as follows:
[Scene is a darkened LOFT. Amongst the boxes and junk are FOUR KNACKERED OLD FANS - three tower fans and one circular, with cracked grey plastic and buttons missing. One fan, TOWER FAN 1, is a bit taller than the others, and is addressing them]
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TOWER FAN 1:
Right lads, get ready.
2
TOWER FAN 1:
This is our time.
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TOWER FAN 1:
The time when we remember who we are, and why we’re here.
4
TOWER FAN 1:
We are the four crap fans in a British person’s loft,
and we are here to make absolutely no difference whatsoever.
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TOWER FAN 1:
I know what you’re
thinking, lads:
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TOWER FAN 1:
Surely this will be the year they finally replace us?
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TOWER FAN 1:
Our plastic’s gone all brown... I haven’t oscillated since 2018...
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TOWER FAN 1:
Dave here sounds like a spitfire and blows like a sad cat’s sigh…
TOWER FAN 2:
Cheers mate
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TOWER FAN 1:
But no. These people are British, and every year, they forget the sun exists.
By the time they remember,
new fans will cost *four million pounds* on Amazon.
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TOWER FAN 1:
So we’ll be back down there... shovelling thick air across the moaning faces of a species that cannot comprehend the concept of air conditioning, or even just closing the curtains when it’s hot out...
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TOWER FAN 1:
...while they incessantly bang on about normally hot countries which this country is now temporarily a bit hotter than.
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[The loft hatch opens and a person comes up the ladder]
PERSON:
APPARENTLY IT’S HOTTER THAN GREECE, LISA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreidbpfu2ioghspjcg4xitzv655jzjwp5lgxk5hi3ag7sechgh222ze@jpeg)
July 7, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I reposted this last month and I'm sharing it again because it's great
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I thought about it for a bit and I think I've come up with a more optimized layout for the one acre subsistence farmstead
July 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I thought about it for a bit and I think I've come up with a more optimized layout for the one acre subsistence farmstead
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![r/tipofmytongue
u/chafos • 3y • 5
[TOMT] What are those dogs that look coconuts called?
Solved
They're not really dogs exactly but if a dog was made of coconuts and had a different shapes head, it'd be them.
Edit: Sorry for the typos on this post. It was late at night and I was trying really hard to remember what Capybaras were called.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:awzzrtrcrvpnxi3ph2sbhxwv/bafkreievjfayjquqjedie3cjnuzhrgnwmfzd56glyewbtapexopq5blvhe@jpeg)
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I saw a Swamp Wallaby! 😳😃❤️
In the decades I've lived here I kind of knew they were around. I'd heard them, caught glimpses (never with camera ready) and seen scat.
But not boldly out in the open like this 👍
This one moved decisively (and silently) over the bank towards the creek upon seeing me.
In the decades I've lived here I kind of knew they were around. I'd heard them, caught glimpses (never with camera ready) and seen scat.
But not boldly out in the open like this 👍
This one moved decisively (and silently) over the bank towards the creek upon seeing me.
June 30, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I saw a Swamp Wallaby! 😳😃❤️
In the decades I've lived here I kind of knew they were around. I'd heard them, caught glimpses (never with camera ready) and seen scat.
But not boldly out in the open like this 👍
This one moved decisively (and silently) over the bank towards the creek upon seeing me.
In the decades I've lived here I kind of knew they were around. I'd heard them, caught glimpses (never with camera ready) and seen scat.
But not boldly out in the open like this 👍
This one moved decisively (and silently) over the bank towards the creek upon seeing me.
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Inventor of the GIF, hearing about Notre Dame burning: oh no the jarjoyles
June 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Inventor of the GIF, hearing about Notre Dame burning: oh no the jarjoyles
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One feature of eucalyptus species is the cap (or operculum) that covers developing flower buds (L). As the flower develops the cap is popped off revealing numerous fluffy stamens (R)
#ozflora #wildoz #eucalyptus #nativeplants
#ozflora #wildoz #eucalyptus #nativeplants
June 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
One feature of eucalyptus species is the cap (or operculum) that covers developing flower buds (L). As the flower develops the cap is popped off revealing numerous fluffy stamens (R)
#ozflora #wildoz #eucalyptus #nativeplants
#ozflora #wildoz #eucalyptus #nativeplants
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GM was ahead of it time.
June 16, 2025 at 3:33 AM
GM was ahead of it time.
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I NASA estimates it will take 20+ launches to refuel StarShip HLS for its moon landing.
It is unclear to me how they will accomplish 20+ fuelling launches in the 54 months left in this decade when they still haven’t made it to orbit.
No Moon with SpaceX this decade... and no Mars.
It is unclear to me how they will accomplish 20+ fuelling launches in the 54 months left in this decade when they still haven’t made it to orbit.
No Moon with SpaceX this decade... and no Mars.
June 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I NASA estimates it will take 20+ launches to refuel StarShip HLS for its moon landing.
It is unclear to me how they will accomplish 20+ fuelling launches in the 54 months left in this decade when they still haven’t made it to orbit.
No Moon with SpaceX this decade... and no Mars.
It is unclear to me how they will accomplish 20+ fuelling launches in the 54 months left in this decade when they still haven’t made it to orbit.
No Moon with SpaceX this decade... and no Mars.
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The one benefit of not having time to watch a lot of television is occasionally I'll watch a thing that's become inescapable, like the first season of THE BEAR, and enjoy it, and keep meaning to go back to it -- only to find out that I was in fact better off just watching the first season
June 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The one benefit of not having time to watch a lot of television is occasionally I'll watch a thing that's become inescapable, like the first season of THE BEAR, and enjoy it, and keep meaning to go back to it -- only to find out that I was in fact better off just watching the first season
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How fast could cheetahs go if they learned to drive cars?
February 7, 2024 at 11:53 PM
How fast could cheetahs go if they learned to drive cars?
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He is going to be such a good boy 🐶
June 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
He is going to be such a good boy 🐶
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I learned today that people being born this year are considered “Generation Beta,” as part of a pattern that continues to piss me off. We aren’t Gen X because we followed Gen W; this is historically conflated nomenclature. I will die on this hill.
June 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I learned today that people being born this year are considered “Generation Beta,” as part of a pattern that continues to piss me off. We aren’t Gen X because we followed Gen W; this is historically conflated nomenclature. I will die on this hill.
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A gorgeous Swallowtail (Papilio machaon) in the Norfolk Broads 🦋💛 The British subspecies lays eggs only on milk parsley, while caterpillars of migrating European Swallowtails feed on various umbellifers like wild carrot 🐛🌸🌿❤️
#SundayYellow #butterfly #wildflowers #nature
#SundayYellow #butterfly #wildflowers #nature
June 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
A gorgeous Swallowtail (Papilio machaon) in the Norfolk Broads 🦋💛 The British subspecies lays eggs only on milk parsley, while caterpillars of migrating European Swallowtails feed on various umbellifers like wild carrot 🐛🌸🌿❤️
#SundayYellow #butterfly #wildflowers #nature
#SundayYellow #butterfly #wildflowers #nature
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I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
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June 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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since younger people are asking how shockingly stupid things were in 2003, may I present to you this circa-03 sign that I bought from a local restaurant and their (unrelated) going out of business sale a few years later
June 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
since younger people are asking how shockingly stupid things were in 2003, may I present to you this circa-03 sign that I bought from a local restaurant and their (unrelated) going out of business sale a few years later
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Look at this artwork. My Dream by Sam Yoon. So simple and perfect.
June 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Look at this artwork. My Dream by Sam Yoon. So simple and perfect.
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If I pulled off this shot, I'd jump for joy. Nobody in danger and a beautiful photo of a picture perfect tornado. Maybe one day... Nice work @charnick.bsky.social
The perfect tornado.
16mm full wide. Dickens, Nebraska. 6/16/25
16mm full wide. Dickens, Nebraska. 6/16/25
June 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM
If I pulled off this shot, I'd jump for joy. Nobody in danger and a beautiful photo of a picture perfect tornado. Maybe one day... Nice work @charnick.bsky.social
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There’s an old Slavic expression:
On average we live well. Not as good as last year, but definitely better than next year
On average we live well. Not as good as last year, but definitely better than next year
May 31, 2025 at 8:57 PM
There’s an old Slavic expression:
On average we live well. Not as good as last year, but definitely better than next year
On average we live well. Not as good as last year, but definitely better than next year
Built the little Bambu Lab Cyberbrick forklift. Much fun, but also much fiddly tiny parts.
Only had blue TPU filament for the tracks so I laser cut some shiny Perspex hub caps to make it more fun looking.
Only had blue TPU filament for the tracks so I laser cut some shiny Perspex hub caps to make it more fun looking.
June 1, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Built the little Bambu Lab Cyberbrick forklift. Much fun, but also much fiddly tiny parts.
Only had blue TPU filament for the tracks so I laser cut some shiny Perspex hub caps to make it more fun looking.
Only had blue TPU filament for the tracks so I laser cut some shiny Perspex hub caps to make it more fun looking.