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Seth Williams
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Seattle based engineer of loud noises and blinky things.
Sometimes I post helpful notes or things I find interesting.
https://seths.bio
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Flowers
Gouache
July 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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xkcd.com
Laser Danger

xkcd.com/3108/
3-panel comic. (1) PERSON WITH SHORT HAIR to Person 2: Shining laser pointers at planes is a federal crime. It’s incredibly dangerous. PERSON 2: Oh, because it can blind the pilot? SHORT HAIR: That’s one reason… (2) [Laser pointed at flying airplane] (3) [Cat close to the size of the plane pouncing on airplane and taking it down]
July 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
seth.fm
#climbing at Exit 38.
Climbing a mountain at night with a headlamp
June 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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emmathorne.bsky.social
I've come to believe that, if properly educated on misconceptions about wealth, the average person's choice to be economically progressive or not comes down to this:
-Do you prioritize the well-being and comfort of all
-Or the chance you will become wealthy & hope to hoard that wealth
June 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
seth.fm
I went for a walk with my friends today.
Railroad tracks as far as the eye can see. A thin trail through a meadow leading into the forest A thin trail through the overgrown forest Some ferns
June 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
the universe wishes you a very happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈🌌
This image of the Ring Nebula, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements. Stars litter the scene, with a particularly prominent star with 8 long spikes in the top right corner. Colorful clouds of gas and dust crowd the image. Deep red and orange clouds surround the image's edges, with some violet in the upper left portion. Near the left middle, a region of teal and yellow shines. A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright. A colorful, glowing nebula that reaches beyond the top and bottom of the image. This translucent cloud of gas holds wispy and thin filaments with hard edges in some places, and puffy and opaque in others. Blue, red, and yellow colors mix together, showing light emitted by different types of atoms in the hot gas. Scattered across the colorful nebula are bright and point-like foreground and background stars. The background is black.
June 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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esa.int
This was our #WeekInImages for 19-23 May 2025 👇

www.esa.int/About_Us/Wee...
Norwegian tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl: this remarkable vessel is home to ESA’s six-week Advanced Ocean Training Course, which involves a transformative journey from Norway to France where next-generation researchers have been immersed in the world of ocean science. Part of the feature-rich Deuteronilus Cavus depression on Mars. Evidence of glacial activity is apparent around much of the inner crater walls as rock-covered ice has flowed downslope. At the bottom a channel with several branches breaches the crater wall; it likely once contained flowing water. Bright and dark streaks covering the slopes of the Olympus Mons aureole, as seen by the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) on board ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. A spiral galaxy in space. It is seen tilted at an angle, as a stormy disc filled with clouds of stars and dust. It is coloured more yellowish in the centre, and bluer out to the edge of the disc, where the ends of curved spiral arms break away from the disc. Spots of red light scattered through the galaxy mark where stars are actively forming. The galaxy is on a black background
May 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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drandrewthaler.bsky.social
Why, why, why?! Does Notepad need to have a Co-pilot implementation. It is Notepad. It exists to have no features.

The whole point of Notepad is that it doesn't do anything but text.
May 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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geohenning.bsky.social
On May 18, 1980, Richard Lasher got up early to get some photos at Spirit Lake. Instead, he was forced to stop because of the massive, explosive Mount St. Helens eruption and captured this iconic photo with his own red Ford Pinto on the road. 🧪⚒️ #OTD

www.hemmings.com/stories/mt-s...
Photo by Richard Lasher. Horizontal and vintage photo of a road in a mountain forest. Red car with a motorbike on the road. In the distance a huge ash cloud from the eruption of Mt St. Helens on May 18th, 1980.
May 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Paine Field vintage binoculars
#travel #aviation #photography
A photo of a yet-to-be painted Boeing airliner taken through vintage binoculars at Paine Field in Everett, Washington.
May 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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This seems like an obvious need. Live music is often dangerously loud, either by necessity or by preference. Providing hearing protection for those who want it costs the venue nearly nothing- maybe a few pennies per ticket.
May 18, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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The Museum of Flight, all to myself.
#aviation #photography
The front tire of a Lunar rover. Showing the fine detail of the mesh outer tire. Looking down the nose of an SR-71 Blackbird. Many other aircraft are "flying" around it, all meticulously hung by the museum. The top components of an Apollo-era F-1 rocket engine. A colorful airplane with a wooden prop on an air-cooled radial engine.
May 17, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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astronomy.bsky.social
What does the Milky Way look like from the side? Thanks to data from ESA’s Gaia mission, we now have a detailed map showing its thin, warped disk — home to our Sun and billions of stars. A stunning view of our galaxy’s true shape.

Credit: ESA, Gaia, DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar
What does the Milky Way look like from the side? Thanks to data from ESA’s Gaia mission, we now have a detailed map showing its thin, warped disk — home to our Sun and billions of stars. A stunning view of our galaxy’s true shape. Credit: ESA, Gaia, DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar
May 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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markhamillofficial.bsky.social
Who could've guessed joining a make-believe Resistance against an Evil Empire would ever happen in real life?
May 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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About a month ago, I started a new habit, “When I’m on the train, I read.” Two notes:
A photo of the book “Manage Your Day-to-Day” by 99U being held open in a hand. Pink highlighter is marking several sentences that Seth found noteworthy 2 years ago, yellow highlighter is marking sentences from today.
May 14, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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My camera and I went for a walk.
#seattle #streetphotography
May 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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With hectic events and high workloads, it feels like a victory to just to turn my camera on. But then when do I edit the photos? Two years later, apparently.
#eventphotography
Photograph of Henry Rollins on a very dark, minimal set. Speakers surrounding his feet and sparse lighting from above. Shot at the Federal Way Performing Arts and Event Center, November 1st, 2023.
May 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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science.esa.int
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured candyfloss clouds!
The sparkling cloudscape comes from one of the Milky Way’s galactic neighbours, a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Read more 👉 esahubble.org/images/potw2...
🔭 🧪
A part of a nebula in space. It is made of layers of gas and dust clouds in different colours, from blue and green shades to pink, red and black, indicating light emitted by different molecules. The background cloud layers are thicker and puffier, though still translucent, and the upper layers are thin and bright at the edges. Behind the clouds are very many small, mostly orange and some blue, stars.
May 12, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Happy DMX day to all of my lighting friends! May your patch be true.
May 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM