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30s He/Him Up North. Incoherent posts; mainly 📡 Radio Astronomy, 🍁 Canadian Politics, 🖥️ Computing, 💸 Hobby Machining, ⚙️ Factorio, and 🥤 Caves of Qud. No longer really an astronomer but not calling myself an engineer for Important Legal Reasons.
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Radio Telescope @radio-telescope.bsky.social · Oct 2
Making this in paint counts as service hours
A version of the "stop doing math" meme, but for interferometry.
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sky.skymarchini.net
Plato, 347bc:
onbluskysku.bsky.social Barrista @onbluskysku.bsky.social · 8d
In other words, Aristotle can go fuck himself
November 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
I think about this LeGuin essay a lot. (link in next post; you should read it too.)
Its technology is how a society copes with physical reality: how people get and keep and cook food, how they clothe themselves, what their power sources are (animal? human? water? wind? electricity? other?) what they build with and what they build, their medicine — and so on and on. Perhaps very ethereal people aren’t interested in these mundane, bodily matters, but I’m fascinated by them, and I think most of my readers are too. Technology is the active human interface with the material world. But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive exploitation both of natural and human resources. This is not an acceptable use of the word. “Technology” and “hi tech” are not synonymous, and a technology that isn't “hi,” isn’t necessarily '“low” in any meaningful sense. We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all. As if linen were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers — as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe... One way to illustrate that most technologies are, in fact, pretty “hi,” is to ask yourself of any manmade object, Do I know how to make one?
October 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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puddleofbrain.bsky.social
Baudrillard said that eventually the stuff inside uncrustables would cease to resemble the stuff inside sandwiches but honestly I’m starting to worry we don’t have that much time left
October 19, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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usili.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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lameposting.bsky.social
Microsoft hates computers AND everyone who uses them, whereas Apple only hates computers, and Linux only hates the people who use them. In this essay I will
October 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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segyges.bsky.social
your software engineering career depends on not developing a fascination with opening a farm, carpentry, or living in a camper until you have at least 8 years of experience. if you get the bug early it's joever for you
October 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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cjzero.bsky.social
Towering grand slam from Vlad Guerrero Jr makes it 9-0 Jays
October 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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@bot.astronomy.blue signup
October 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
radio-telescope.bsky.social
Making this in paint counts as service hours
A version of the "stop doing math" meme, but for interferometry.
October 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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sky.skymarchini.net
POV: you are Taiwanese president Lai Ching Te
Google search “how to build a nuclear weapon”
January 14, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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gigansprogress.bsky.social
September 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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internetperson69.bsky.social
Happy Labor Day, comrades 🫡
Screenshot from Star Trek DS9. Leeta, Rom, and the rest of the workers at Quark's Bar are all huddled together. Caption: "(all chanting): Union! Union!"
September 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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basquiatball.bsky.social
The ONLY reason people hate on cargo shorts is they are jealous of the unprecedented storage efficiency. Shorts you can store a whole meal in. Impossible to argue against in good faith
August 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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jewinacanoe.bsky.social
7:30am: egg white omelette with mushrooms

10am: apple

12pm: cut up fruit with yogurt

3pm: banana

6pm: grilled chicken with salad (light dressing)

8pm: frozen yogurt

830pm: 2 cookies

845pm: 4 cookies

850pm: 8 cookies

9pm: bag of Doritos

930pm: Big Mac and fries
August 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
radio-telescope.bsky.social
Do NOT ask about her cat.
The upper half of a book cover which reads "the transition of H. P. Lovecraft"
July 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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dmk1793.bsky.social
I'm trying to think about how I would have reacted if shown this headline five years ago
July 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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markriedl.bsky.social
This TV has never heard of arXiv
July 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
radio-telescope.bsky.social
SKA Mid.CBF? I thought it was pretty good myself but sure.
July 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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alexstrook.bsky.social
when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus
Fake website servic welcome page. text reads: "Your favorite tool is now ruined by AI" "you might not like it but shareholders love it"
July 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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thatandromeda.bsky.social
Omg, absolutely incredible reason for AO3 to have been down hachyderm.io/@vashti/1147... (alt text at original)
Vashti (@vashti@hachyderm.io)
Attached: 1 image Why #Ao3 was down yesterday:
hachyderm.io
July 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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This is the idealized model of an animal. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

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Figure from a paper with three cubes: a) A cube with a rectangular cube connected labels "mouth" and "anus" b) A cube with double the edge length The tube inside spirals around. c) Another cube with all linear dimensions doubled, including straight tube. Caption: Fig. 1. (a) Idealized model of an animal. (b) Model from (a) increased in size while keeping the gut surface : gut volume ratio constant. (c) Model from (a) increased in size with identical effects on the surface : volume ratio for the whole body and for the gut.
June 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
radio-telescope.bsky.social
As a lurker, I don't know if there's been a day like this since "thirty to fifty feral hogs".
June 6, 2025 at 4:41 AM
radio-telescope.bsky.social
Having a much more pleasant time on the Discover tab since I started muting Resistance-Lib-AI-slop on sight; the occasional fetish porn is honestly much less jarring.
June 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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pogform.bsky.social
*weeping openly on the work zoom* no updates from me
June 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM