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Shannon Eichorn
@shannoneichorn.bsky.social
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Scifi writer and aerospace engineer. Obsessed with supportive body-possessing aliens, friendly werewolves, and fantasy & flight hardware. Alpha 2005, SHU WPF 2023.
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The X-59 flew for the first time yesterday!!!

64,000 of us were tracking the flight, since we couldn't actually watch it live.
Screencap of FlightRadar24 tracking NASA859 from Palmdale to Edwards. Sidebar show it as the #1 flight tracked worldwide by 64,683 people.
October 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Other parts of that hike were extremely picturesque, too.

#photography #MountCharleston #ThatMountainProbablyHasAnOlderBetterName #TeamHike
A view of vegetation framed between two rocky cliffs, showing a distant desert on the horizon.
October 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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I loved this view from a hike on Mount Charleston last year when my team and I ducked out of AIAA Aviation for an evening to explore.
#photography #mountains #NotThePhotosTheyExpectedMeToBringHomeFromVegas
A photo of wooded mountains with evergreen trees in the foreground and the mountain's shadow slashing across the view.
October 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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I love this photo, even though it's not perfectly crisp. Someday, I want to recreate it in ink and colored pencil.
#photography #IAmASuckerForLitRoadsAtDusk
Sodium-yellow roadway in a pink and blue dusk with a slim crescent Moon
October 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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This casual crosswalk photo of Playhouse Square turned out unexpectedly attractive.
#photography #Cleveland #SupportTheArts
A streetside view of an illuminated theater with brassy sign labeling it Connor Palace at Playhouse Square and advertising Wiz. The standstone canyon of buildings breaks for a pale blue sky with wispy, golden clouds.
October 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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I'm supposed to be cleaning the house today and working on back cover blurbs, but I'm locked out of my computer, on mandatory rest, and being held catpive.

So I'm going to subject you to photos I've been sharing on flickr in my free time.
Black cat sleeping on colorful blanket in sunbeam in front of planner. Her fur is brown where illuminated.
October 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Talking to someone who understands how the themes of history repeat.
Daniel asks, Exactly how many of these loops have you... have we been through?
August 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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When *that one person* gets back on Bluesky and is totally not with the times.
Jack carefully studies flagpole while Daniel walks in, shirtless, wrapped in the SGC flag.
August 1, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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People lying about why they worked for NASA.
Daniel: no, we did it for the money.
August 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Carter: I'm not sulking. (Clearly lying)
August 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Carter: I'm not sulking. (Clearly lying)
August 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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The next job interview for the 4000 civil servants leaving NASA this year. #ImNotBitter
Jacob Carter: From your analysis of deep space radar telemetry, you mean.
August 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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2025 be like
Teal'c gets slammed in the face with a door, grabs the door, and pushes the bespectacled Air Force paper pusher back into the side room, slamming the door.
August 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Jonas and O'Neill armed in a Goa'uld temple. Jonas asks, Is it really necessary to further antagonize him?
August 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Discord has stopped answering me, so I'm bringing my shenanigans here.
Stargate spaceship battle over Antarctica. Dogfight between gliders and F-302s over a little Teltak beaming into the ice while Promethus supervises.
August 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Funny you say that
Photograph looking down into a mug of tea with slices of ginger and turmeric at the bottom
July 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Yes, and it's affecting my writing.
Photo of someone farming in a green field with columns of wildfire smoke filling the sky. Smoke labeled, the world in the book. Farmer labeled, characters just trying to build cozy lives.
June 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Bonus round. One of my all-time favorite photos. I love dusk on the road, when the sky goes dark blue and the sodium lights flare orange. I want to paint this photo someday.
A lonely street lit orange at dusk. Streetlights rise past the treeline and the last pink hues of sunset toward a pale blue sky and a sliver of crescent moon.
June 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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This one came out of context, and I didn't remember why I took it, but I liked it. It's plain. It's mundane. It's out of focus. But it feels like road trip, and I love traveling. Also, unusual deer sign. (From my first real trip to Canada.)
The side of a road coming up to an overpass. The sky is gray. The grass and cattails are brown. Coming up on kilometer marker 30 and a deer sign.
June 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Humerous writing complaints
May 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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I remembered to make blueberry chamomile tea tonight (so I don't keep mulling over fictional battle plans instead of sleeping)!
China teacup and saucer with dark tea on fluffy turquoise rug with steeping pot with floating chamomile bobs and a laptop keyboard
May 17, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Talked to my accountability group tonight about posting more to cultivate an online presence, and since I was doodling as we talked, I promised to post the doodle.
A branch with six green leaves, surrounded by green dots and framed on the sides with wavy lines and spirals in black
May 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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There. 8÷3= 2.52525
Long form division in seafoam green on black. 8 divided by 3. 8-6= 2. 20 in the next decimal place, but in base 8. In base 10, that's 16. 16-15=1. 10 in the next ocimal place, 8 in base 10. Minus 6 is 2, and the pattern restarts, resulting in 8 ÷ 3 is 2.5252525.
April 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Look at these little toe beans!
A black plastic cat, seen from the front, paws outstretched to show four toe pads on each paw.
February 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Also started yesterday: the cats from the Black Lagoon.
Two black plastic cats on a wooden table in front of a 3D printer. They seem to be dripping plastic, and tentacles hold up their chins and tails. Two black plastic cats, tentacle-free, stretching languorously with chins and front paws turned up. There's a flat spot on their backs and a shelf for phones to rest.
February 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM