rocketfox

@rocketfox.bsky.social

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A cross fox musician into adventures, languages, history, and culture. Once a software developer, but trying to heal now. They/he. Queer, agender, and adorably fluffy. 18+ please.

Screenshot of a news headline reading "Text of new Gordie Howe bridge deal seems to contradict Carney"
A smallish box covered in irregular patches of felt in white, neon orange, black, turquoise, and pink. There are two round black knobs set into the top, a purple cable going off to the left, and two googly eyes on the upper right side of the front.
Common elements or characteristics of an aerial shell: Lift charge. This charge propels the aerial shell upward. Delay element. This element prevents the shell from functioning until the shell reaches the design burst height. Burst charge. The delay element sets off the burst charge. The explosion of this charge breaks the shell casing and ignites and projects the shell’s pyrotechnic effects (stars). Break. The break is the bursting of an aerial shell. Single-break shells burst only once. Multibreak shells produce two or more bursts in succession. Stars. Stars are the pyrotechnic components within a shell that are ignited and projected by the burst charge to produce the design effect (patterns and colours). Report. The report is the loud noise produced by a pyrotechnic article. Not all shells contain reports. Shells that contain reports produce a powerful shattering effect and are thus limited to 85 grams of flash powder. During set-up, mortars (single or in mortar racks) that contain report shells should be buried or placed separately from other shells and effects. Burst height. The height at which a shell bursts is approximately 33 m per 25 mm of the nominal shell diameter. Stars dispersion. The maximum distance that stars (pyrotechnic effects) are projected by the explosion of the burst charge is approximately 27 m in diameter per 25 mm of the nominal shell diameter.
A small box is seen sitting on a desk. It has two knobs on the top, and its exterior is covered in orange, white, black, turquoise, and pink felt in irregular shapes adding up to a sort of harlequin pattern.
Text from a Wikipedia entry: The story of Wiarton Willie dates back to 1956. A Wiarton resident named Mac McKenzie wanted to showcase his childhood home to his many friends, so he sent out invitations for a "Groundhog Day" gathering. One of these invitations fell into the hands of a Toronto Star reporter. The reporter travelled to Wiarton looking for the Groundhog Day event. None of the townspeople knew about a festival, but one suggested he check at the Arlington Hotel, the local watering hole. There the reporter found McKenzie and his friends partying and was invited to join them. The next day, the reporter lamented to McKenzie that he needed some kind of story to take back to justify his expenses. So McKenzie grabbed his wife's fur hat, which had a large button on the front, went out to the parking lot, dug a burrow in the snow and pronounced a prognostication (which no one remembers). The picture of Mac and the hat ran in the February 3, 1956 edition of the Toronto Star. A year later, about 50 people arrived for the festival. Half were reporters from various media, including the CBC and Canadian Press. Seizing on the opportunity, McKenzie invented a festival that has been added to over the years.
A red fox pawing and nuzzling at a person's knee, and receiving headscritches.
The box art of the Super Nintendo game "Populous". Amid lightning storms and lava, a wizard face and a skull face fly around over a castle. I've never played the game, so I have no idea what they're up to.
Screenshot from the game "Undertale," with the main character examining themself in a mirror, in which the famous quote "Despite everything, it's still you." has had the final word replaced with "cum".
A view from near the front of a car ferry, looking out over fairly calm water to some forested islands ahead. Some piping can be seen on the edge of the ferry, as can part of the ferry's front loading ramp, which is currently raised and has a safety net strung in front of it. In the foreground, an adventure motorcycle is almost entirely hidden underneath luggage, a guitar, a helmet, and a small plush fox.
A fully-loaded adventure motorcycle parked at the side of a road lined with coniferous trees, with mountains visible in the background. The sky is blue with light clouds. There's a plush fox sitting just inside the windscreen of the motorcycle.
Two adventure motorcycles, both loaded with gear, parked beside a building wall covered in a beautiful mural depicting a river flowing through a valley between forested and snow-capped mountains. Text on the mural reads "Native Art & Crafts". Beyond the building, a forested mountain can be seen in the near distance, shrouded in dense clouds that seem to cling around it against a much more distant overcast sky.
A screenshot of the first results from searching products on Zehrs' website. The search query was "walnuts", and the first listed product is bananas. The second and third items are, at least, walnuts.
A partial screenshot of the interface of some Digital Audio Workstation software, showing the individual tracks of a piece of music I'm working on. To those familiar with such software, the names and structure of the tracks show that the music involves several sampled orchestral instruments a couple of synth sounds set to a repeating breakbeat.
The front side of a folded-and-glued paper package containing tarot cards. The front design has a canid with a sword on the left and a skeleton on the right, with the text "Animalia Tarot - Cartes Fines par A.S." in the middle within a decorative circular design.
A small excerpt of some sheet music for guitar, with both staff notes and tablature. 'Slur' is a term in music theory for when notes are to be played without separations between them, and the middle two notes in the image are decorated with curving lines indicating they should be slurred.
A motorcycle loaded up with bags of gear, a plush fox, and a guitar in a gig bag.
A picture of my motorcycle, a 2005 BMW F650GS. There's a plush fox on the rear luggage, to keep me company and guard my guitar.
A photo of the circuit board inside the case of a networking appliance. there is a heatsink on a chip in the middle of the board, but just above and left of that, there's another heatsink which is sitting partially on top of a transformer. That heatsink is supposed to be attached to a chip which can now be seen, bare, to the left of the first heatsink.
Two motorcycles, loaded with luggage and camping gear and a guitar, parked in front of a cottage in a temperate rainforest. There's a plush fox sitting atop the tank bag on the nearest bike.
A diagram showing several parallel lines (representing light) going into a concave mirror and being reflected. The reflected lines almost intersect at one point, but don't quite; the region where they all come closest to each other is labeled "circle of least confusion".
A view looking at a long Rocky mountain ridge in the distance. In the foreground is a small wild meadow, with a large leafy tree on the left. The sky has scattered fluffy clouds, and just behind the mountain peaks it's turning a little red from sunset.
A picture of a sunny day on a mountainous shoreline. The mountain ridge is lush green, covered in temperate rainforest, with only a few isolated near-vertical slopes showing bare rock. The ocean is blue and calm, and the clouds are well-defined big fluffy ones with very visible texture, clustered around the top of the ridge.
Two fully-loaded adventure motorcycles parked on a dirt road in front of the info board for Shingle Bay, a backcountry camping area in the gulf islands national park. It's located in forest, with a lot of evergreens in the background.
A section of ground at a campsite, lit by flashlight. There's a firepit (covered with a black garbage bag because there's a fire ban), part of a picnic table is visible, and in the foreground a rolled-up sleeping pad and sleeping bag sit near an empty gig bag and a headless electric guitar that's been set up on a stand. Lying on the gig bag are a patch cable and a small effects unit.
A gear-laden motorcycle, visible from the seat up, at the front of a car ferry. The sky is blue with partial clouds, the seas calm and dotted with sailboats. A number of densely-forested islands are visible.
A picture taken at a small picnic area near a coast. On the right is an information board with a map and the title "Welcome to the Sunshine Coast". The skies are overcast, and in the background sections of mist-shrouded shoreline can be seen.
Our fully-loaded ADV bikes in a parking lot. Behind are craggy hills, with bare grey rock on the steeper sections and brown scrub vegetation with sparsely-distributed evergreen trees covering the rest.
A panorama of part of the Rocky Mountains, with forests, bare peaks, and sections of snow all visible
A view from a balcony in Jasper, Alberta. A couple of buildings are off to either side, and the bottom centre of the image shows a road intersection and a small park speckled with trees, with a huge rocky mountain ridge in the background where trees cover the lower areas, then peter out higher up, leaving a band of bare rock across the tops
A picture of me from waist to below the knees. I'm wearing motorcycle armour pants in olive green and black, and am reaching back to hold the matching jacket which hangs down from the back of my pants in order to keep the arms from dragging on the floor. The jacket has armour pads in it, so it's pretty heavy.
Two adventure motorcycles with offroad tires and a bunch of luggage (including a guitar)