Matt Smith ❌👑

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Engineer, ISS, Space Shuttles, nuke electrician, newest docent at the Galveston Naval Museum; trying to figure out where I'm wrong, and to fix it.

The Sea Duck, flying boat flown by Baloo in the TV show Tailspin. It's a yellow and orange flying boat, twin engined, with twin tail booms like a P-38.
A screenshot of the current front page of infowars.com. It's just a blank white page with small text in the middle saying "Off Air"
This is a solar powered aircraft, at slow speed and descending, at night, 10-15 miles offshore from Key West. Not squawcking 7700, but this really seems like an in-flight emergency
An image of a bird with a large grub, about to feed three little chicks in a nest that looks VERY well tailored, like suspiciously well tailored using a large thread that does not look natural.
The infowars website, with Alex Jones face still on it, a headline about the Onion lying that it owns infowars, and multiple pop-ups for some supplement scam.
Shuttle carrier aircraft aft attach point, with orbiter attached. Fine print says "Attach orbiter here Note: black side down"
A somewhat startling claim that the first star wars from release date was closer to the death of Cleopatra in 30BC than to today.
Same pudgy tabby, with some stitches, a paw bandage, and a cone. He's doing well though
A pudgy tabby laying in the sun
Kyrylo Budanov, a Ukrainian military leader who has served as the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine since 2 January 2026. Before that, he served as the chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine from August 2020.
AI garbage about Autism. The most accurate part is a styalized brain that has 'Autism' written next to it. The rest of it talks about 'Fexcectorn' and 'medical frymblal.' Really, you are better off if you can't actually see this image, it's worse than useless. And published in Nature.
Hundreds of people at the No Kings rally in clear lake Texas, October 18, 2025
Federal Detention Center - Houston from google maps
A metal slotted track, with circular sections drilled out every 1 inch. Called Seat Track, and used for mounting seats in Boeing made aircraft. Also, useful in space
A generic threaded fastener, with an offset cruciform head
USS Indiana (BB-1) the US Navy's first battleship. She has more freeboard than the monitor, but not by that much
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Probably several hundred folks at the No Kings protest in League City Texas on June 14 2025.
A cartoon semi-truck covered in rusty metal armor and guns for fighting baddies in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. A screenshot from the game Badlands Crew by Runner Duck.
A meme of John Paul Jones, saying "I wish to have no connection with any politician that does not fight for democracy, for I intend to go into harm's way", a play on his famous quote.
A spotted tabby cat on a beige carpet, doing her best to look cute.
Chief petty officer working gray uniform cap
A US Navy Chief's cover
An orange and white US Navy T-2 Buckeye trainer aircraft, taken from forward and port of the aircraft, level with the horizon. The terrain below looks desert-y.
A bunch of dirty blueshirts (and one chief and one LT JG) underway.
A cute little striped tabbie cat, in mid-bath on a beige carpet. She's fiercer than she looks.
Stollen is a fruit bread of nuts, spices, and dried or candied fruit, coated with powdered sugar or icing sugar and often containing marzipan. It is a traditional German Christmas bread. It's also not what Trump meant. He's just stupid.
Space Shuttle Atlantis, mounted on top of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 747 N911NA. They're parked inside the Mate/Demate Device at Kennedy Space Center, returning Atlantis after landing from the STS-125 Hubble servicing mission. Photo taken 2 June 2009.
FlightRadar24 granular data of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 during it's last 75 minutes, showing wild swings in ground speed and altitude. Source in the linked article.
Two AN-124s leaving Syria, ~1:38 UTC on 9 Dec 2024
A Pizza Hut P'Zone, and early 2000s food product that looked kinda like a calzone or similar.
Luna trying to eat my pen
A smol striped tabby cat named Luna, sitting on the back of a gray upholstered chair. Background is a yellow wall and tile floor
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
A team of US sailors from the early 2000s wearing blue coveralls, in a ship's crew's mess decorated with green naugahyde upholstery
An icon resembling an X-box achievement notification, saying "Achievement Unlocked - I left the house."
A large black-striped tabby named Newt curled around a tiny gray tabby kitten named Luna. Sitting on an orange futon, with a blue throw pillow and a white knitted afghan blanket around them.
A happy 24 year old male wearing a set of yellow clothes (including a hood) with orange rubber gloves duct taped on at the wrists, while holding some clothing shears. May or may not be anti-contamination clothing worn during a radioactive contamination drill onboard a nuclear submarine.
An equestrian statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest, formerly visible along I-65 in Nashville Tennessee. It has since been removed and is not publicly shown, probably because the face on the statue appears to be that of a total madman, but drawn by a cartoonist. Also, he's holding a pistol in his left hand, but pointing backwards with an arm that looks like his shoulder must be dislocated. Really, read the wikipedia article on it. You really have to wonder who looked at it and decided "Yes, that is a good statue to show the public."
A first person view from the game Satisfactory, with many floors and buildings arranged in a not-very-organized manor.
A photo of the red NASA worm-shaped logo in front of the NASA headquarters in Washington DC, in front of which many people are taking photos of the logo with their smart phones. No worms were harmed in the making of this photo.
An 8 pound socket identical to this one dropped by a worker in a Titan II silo at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas caused a massive fuel leak which led to an explosion that killed one man and injured twenty one others.
Plots from the NOAA website of GOES X-ray flux, proton flux, and estimated planetary K index
A sketch of USS Kentucky converted to an anti-aircraft battleship, by Deviant Art user Tzoli.
The tiniest, cutest kitten. Who might also be a vampire.