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Will Work for Launch. Spacecraft troubleshooter at Flying Circuits. Building hardware for the ISS (and beyond!) with BioServe Space Technologies at CU Boulder. Former toymaking elf at Sparkfun Electronics. Friend of parrots. He/him/ally.
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Troy Hunt Gets Phished In case you need proof that anyone, even people who do cybersecurity for a living, Troy Hunt has a long, iterative story on his webpage about how he got phished. Worth reading.

DIRNSA Fired In "Secrets and Lies" (2000), I wrote: It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. It's something a bunch of us were saying at the time, in reference to the vast NSA's surveillance capabilities. I have been thinking of that quote a…

Someone once said we need to see regular ass people against Olympic athletes to really see the wild difference. Exhibit one 😂

This is a WILD list of data to disappear. I was braced for climate stuff, but not, like, shoreline maps and coastal bathymetry

We need to be better at repairing things in the Western world. In Hong Kong or Taiwan, a 16-year-old at the night market will replace your iPhone screen or battery for a few dollars.

I love everyone's mind horses holy shit

There is no bird in this picture. Scroll along.

This product is so good that you don’t even mind when it leaks all over your refrigerator because it fell on its side and somehow manages to do it every single time you buy it. That’s just the bargain you make with this stern old woman

What it's like living with birds. Look everywhere for pomegranate. Finally find one single nice one for almost $7. Bird decides they don't want no stinky pomegranate. Bird gets told he's good boy and gets scratches.

Today in Jeremy's salad: romaine, hibiscus, pansy, and wine cup

Our VLT has found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these ‘polar planets’ orbiting a stellar pair 😲 Discover more: www.eso.org/public/news/... 🔭 🧪 ☄️ Illustration by ESO/L. Calçada

Eddie the tortoise's eye (approx 2.5X) 🐢 👁️

Fellow consultants/contract workers: Has anyone found a good tool that can link various calendars across Google & Outlook so that if you add an event on one of them, it updates across all of them? Handling calendars across multiple clients who all insist on using their own tools is getting unwieldy!

RETURN! (This was my first car and it was nigh on perfect)

This is super accurate. Obviously my "viral" post was on Mastodon, so that's where my highest follower count is. In theory, that's where I should post most. But the truth is, I've mostly abandoned it in favor of Bluesky. Because, legitimately, Bluesky is fundamentally better. v.cx/2025/04/mast...

From 1968 a beautiful book of Ukrainian pysanky designs - the technique for egg decorating using wax & dye. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/p...

On April 20, 2025, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will fly past the three-mile-wide main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson as a test run to the main event: visiting the never-before-explored Trojan asteroids in the Jupiter system. 🧪🔭 ☑️ www.nasa.gov/missions/luc... ☑️ www.swri.org/newsroom/pre...

The PicoMicroMac has been updated with a new design that integrates the SD card reader! In stock right now at JCM-1! jcm-1.com/product/pico...

I currently have one Fibonacci512 PixelBlaze available for sale, DM me if interested. Please note this one uses WS2812 LEDs, not SK9822. It's still gorgeous (if I do say so myself). 😁 Fully assembled, includes #PixelBlaze by @bhencke.bsky.social More info: www.evilgeniuslabs.org/fibonacci512...

I don't remember the last time I was this emotionally invested

every day hardworking aerospace engineers are adding new pie wedges to the V/STOL Wheel of Misfortune

This is a bit too close to a subplot of Soylent Green (1973) for me to handle today 🥺

Going into Tuesday like...

We continue to be told that ROSES is still coming out, but a 2 month (and growing) delay is still significant for researchers who *depend* on grant funding. Scientists are already reporting being unable to pay salaries.

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

The menu from the Warner Bros. Studio Cafe in Burbank, California, February 17, 1941

Underwater camera documents daily life on a Miami coral reef : NPR

Really feeling for all lawyer comrades right now especially those in immigration law. Thanks for your zealous advocacy.

My honest advice (on another platform) to someone who was making extravagant claims and being indistinguishable from a crackpot.

so glad europa clipper is already in the steely grasp of newton at this point

For 16 days this spring, an international kite festival will soar above the beaches of Cervia. Artenvento returns to northern Italy from April 19 to May 4 with more than 200 participants from 50 countries and five continents. A short 🧵of photos from previous years...

A 🧵of wildlife photos from Rosamund Kidman Cox's Unforgettable Portraits, published by the Natural History Museum The watchful pelican by Helmut Moik A Dalmatian pelican photographed at dawn, on an island in Romania’s Danube Delta #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #mypicturethread

I found the most incredible graph on the other site

us government went from telling miners “learn to code” to telling coders “learn to mine” in less than ten years