Ed Ivory
@sandboxbob.bsky.social
Mechanical Engineer, Electronics Prototyping Program Manager
@aptshadow.bsky.social I just preordered Children of Strife on Libro.fm. It made me curious, where do authors get paid the most per audio book purchase these days?
November 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
@aptshadow.bsky.social I just preordered Children of Strife on Libro.fm. It made me curious, where do authors get paid the most per audio book purchase these days?
@peterclines.bsky.social Any chance you’ll write the origin story of the Bucephalus?
October 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
@peterclines.bsky.social Any chance you’ll write the origin story of the Bucephalus?
I grew up in rural Oregon, hearing about how “scary” Portland is. I took a winding road, visiting many times, finally making Portland my home 10 years ago. I’m downtown 5 days a week and the only war in Portland I guarantee has been manufactured in the minds of people who won’t ask or don’t listen.
October 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I grew up in rural Oregon, hearing about how “scary” Portland is. I took a winding road, visiting many times, finally making Portland my home 10 years ago. I’m downtown 5 days a week and the only war in Portland I guarantee has been manufactured in the minds of people who won’t ask or don’t listen.
The money in the bubble goes round and round.
AI companies are pumping that financial bubble to new heights in creative ways.
www.reuters.com/business/amd...
www.reuters.com/business/amd...
AMD signs AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI, gives it option to take a 10% stake
AMD said on Monday it will supply artificial intelligence chips to OpenAI in a multi-year deal that would bring in tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue and give the ChatGPT creator the option to buy up to roughly 10% of the chipmaker.
www.reuters.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The money in the bubble goes round and round.
Stranger than fiction.
My coworker told me that you don’t need to eat on Ozempic because the medicine is so calorically dense (“something like 14,000 calories) that each shot provides all your nutritional needs for a week.
We work for a pharmaceutical company.
We work for a pharmaceutical company.
October 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Stranger than fiction.
At the Oregon Coast Aquarium and I found this dude in plastic recovered from the ocean. @peterclines.bsky.social your my action figure hero, any clue who it is?
August 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
At the Oregon Coast Aquarium and I found this dude in plastic recovered from the ocean. @peterclines.bsky.social your my action figure hero, any clue who it is?
Early in the protagonists journey, when the big bad almost doesn’t notice. @jrobinsonauthor.bsky.social
A salmon's revenge.
Bear 602 gets butt-bonked by a salmon, is mostly unfazed.
Bear 602 gets butt-bonked by a salmon, is mostly unfazed.
August 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Early in the protagonists journey, when the big bad almost doesn’t notice. @jrobinsonauthor.bsky.social
@peterclines.bsky.social I got to 1:19 in this video before I had to stop and get this to you. youtu.be/zlm1aajH6gY?...
The Riemann Hypothesis, Explained
YouTube video by Quanta Magazine
youtu.be
August 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
@peterclines.bsky.social I got to 1:19 in this video before I had to stop and get this to you. youtu.be/zlm1aajH6gY?...
Oh about that Starship? Go ahead, reuse it now. I’ll wait.
Seems like there should be some sort of safety regulations about this sort of thing...
So this? All this complicated tank works? Is *right next to the static test pad*. *All* of that is blowing up now.
June 19, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Oh about that Starship? Go ahead, reuse it now. I’ll wait.
I built my first 3d printer around this time 14 years ago because of all the wonderful work that went into #RepRap. It was Clonedel but I wish I had bought Prusa Mendel parts instead. reprap.org/wiki/Clonedel
May 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I built my first 3d printer around this time 14 years ago because of all the wonderful work that went into #RepRap. It was Clonedel but I wish I had bought Prusa Mendel parts instead. reprap.org/wiki/Clonedel
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Today is the launch day for the Humanitarian Technology Trust* - a charity devoted to advancing open-source humanitarian technology through local manufacturing.
Please take a look at httrust.org
Please also repost.
And, if you can, please donate - link above.
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* I'm chair of the trustees.
Please take a look at httrust.org
Please also repost.
And, if you can, please donate - link above.
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* I'm chair of the trustees.
May 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Today is the launch day for the Humanitarian Technology Trust* - a charity devoted to advancing open-source humanitarian technology through local manufacturing.
Please take a look at httrust.org
Please also repost.
And, if you can, please donate - link above.
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* I'm chair of the trustees.
Please take a look at httrust.org
Please also repost.
And, if you can, please donate - link above.
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* I'm chair of the trustees.
And you may ask yourself: well… how did I get here?
May 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
And you may ask yourself: well… how did I get here?
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If I may interrupt the retail madness for a moment, I'd like to present my traditional Black Friday offer to any of you who may need it. ❄️
Black Friday XI – The Offer
Okay, this may feel random to some of you, but it’s sort of a tradition I’ve got here. I’d like to interrupt your post-Thanksgiving shopping stress with a little tale of poverty and capitalism and hop...
www.peterclines.com
November 29, 2024 at 7:09 PM
If I may interrupt the retail madness for a moment, I'd like to present my traditional Black Friday offer to any of you who may need it. ❄️
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Okay, here we go. Sign up at the link below before 8:50 to join the Friday Call at 9pm EST. Bring your #3Dprinting and #Maker projects to show off.
forms.gle/9xVqYwxvSkHv...
forms.gle/9xVqYwxvSkHv...
a cat is standing in a doorway with the words `` you made it to friday yay '' .
ALT: a cat is standing in a doorway with the words `` you made it to friday yay '' .
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Okay, here we go. Sign up at the link below before 8:50 to join the Friday Call at 9pm EST. Bring your #3Dprinting and #Maker projects to show off.
forms.gle/9xVqYwxvSkHv...
forms.gle/9xVqYwxvSkHv...
@peterclines.bsky.social the copyright statement on peterclines.com seems to be either a clue to another mystery or broken.
November 22, 2024 at 4:02 AM
@peterclines.bsky.social the copyright statement on peterclines.com seems to be either a clue to another mystery or broken.
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Today's word of the day is "Kakistocracy".
It's also tomorrow's.
And Monday's
It's also tomorrow's.
And Monday's
November 16, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Today's word of the day is "Kakistocracy".
It's also tomorrow's.
And Monday's
It's also tomorrow's.
And Monday's
Discord seems to be down right now. I don’t remember the last time that happened.
November 17, 2024 at 5:53 AM
Discord seems to be down right now. I don’t remember the last time that happened.
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Apparently we are having a Friday product drop! Get your Cocoa Press 1.0 --> 2.0 upgrade kit!
There's a lot going in here (all new electronics, machined parts wire harness etc) so we kept the price down as low as we could as a thank you to 1.0 owners!
cocoapress.com/products/coc...
There's a lot going in here (all new electronics, machined parts wire harness etc) so we kept the price down as low as we could as a thank you to 1.0 owners!
cocoapress.com/products/coc...
Cocoa Press 1.0 to 2.0 Upgrade Kit
Bring your Cocoa Press 1.0 up to the latest standards with the Cocoa Press 1.0 to 2.0 Upgrade Kit. This comprehensive kit includes all the essential components to transform your 1.0 model into the adv...
cocoapress.com
November 16, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Apparently we are having a Friday product drop! Get your Cocoa Press 1.0 --> 2.0 upgrade kit!
There's a lot going in here (all new electronics, machined parts wire harness etc) so we kept the price down as low as we could as a thank you to 1.0 owners!
cocoapress.com/products/coc...
There's a lot going in here (all new electronics, machined parts wire harness etc) so we kept the price down as low as we could as a thank you to 1.0 owners!
cocoapress.com/products/coc...