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Metallurgist, tinker, scientist, engineer, woodworker. FN32at. Making good choices. P.S. I will never be offended if someone doesn’t follow me back. I probably wouldn’t follow me either.

Still from a Battlestar Galactica episode of an partly cloudy orange sky above buildings and a skyscraper. Title text identifies it as “Cylon-occupied Caprica.”
Still of Sollozzo “The Turk” from The Godfather.
White-on-black Cyrillic letter tiles form words on colorful Scrabble-like board: псих хуйло вор путин военный престоопник (last one not real word)
Brown, square, Scrabble-like game board with colored squares where the premium squares are in Scrabble. White-on-black Cyrillic letter tiles form words on the board: путин хуйло убийца вор военный преступник
Central focus eight (8) still-green cherry tomatoes growing in the standard cluster formation surrounded by a more-blurry background of tomato vines and leaves.
LUKOIL gas station sign with an onion for the O (“Luk” means onion in Russian.) it is possible that the O/onion on the sign is meant to be a drop of oil, but this interpretation literally never occurred to me until I started writing this alt text. So I stand by “it’s an onion.”
Picture of gold humanoid robot with “glans” shaped head and some crazy light panel on its chest. Articulated arms like gutter extensions and pincer hands.
The other red discard button (the one for replies). See previous alt text.
Screen cap of the red “Discard” button for Bluesky posts.
Looks pretty much like previous photo (see its alt text) but the birds are at 7:00, 9:00, and 11:00. The 7:00 bird has its yellow beak WIDE open (nearly 90-degrees) demanding food from my phone camera. No bare bird skin visible anymore—real feathers cover them all. Greyish with white spots. can still see the wispy white eyebrows on the 7:00 bird.
Portrait screenshot of Everest in the dark under starry sky with points of light along the ridge and one point at the tippy top.
The same three baby robins from the previous post, in the same nest, from the same angle. They completely fill the nest and are resting their beak-chins on the rim. One pointed at 9:00, one at like 10:30, and one at 12:00. Definitely some tiny feathers now visible if you zoom in. Orange-y highlights, but mostly dark grey/black.
Himalayas at night viewed from near Namche Bazaar. Stars. And two strings of lights along the ridge heading up to the summit of Everest.
Overhead view of a round dried-grass bird nest containing three baby robins chilling out with their huge, bulging eyes closed, starter beaks, hilarious little wispy “eyebrows,” and proto-feather quill-like things where real feathers will presumably form eventually.
Robin bird in profile so her left eye is pointed directly at camera. Sitting in brown nest of mud and dry grass.
Dr Evil and his evil cronies laughing in a still from an Austin Powers movie
Still of Number 5 from the movie Short Circuit.
Lovely 4-inch tall tomato plantling with at least three “generations” of true leaves and a glowing halo of hairs growing from the stem+leaves. Dark green leaves, purple perimeters and stem.
Black quartz clock with three blocky black hands narrowing by duration as typical with clocks. No face or numbers. The clock’s battery box/mechanism is taped to a cardboard box on a wire shelf.
Circular FlightRadar24 track of a Boeing E-3A Sentry flight (callsign NATO09) north of Batman, in Turkiye.
Long poplar board running away from the camera on a workbench. Shims support the not-yet-flat surface—the one in contact with the bench—so it doesn’t deflect when I press down when planing the top surface. Keen observers may notice the scrap blocks and bench dogs used to stop the board from moving around when planing. An extruded aluminum “winding stick” is lying across the board about halfway down its length. Another winding stick is at the far end. You can’t tell from the photo, but the sticks are reasonably close to parallel to one another. When the sticks are parallel when placed at any two points along the length of the board, the top surface is flat.
STOP PRETENDING JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED BECAUSE HE PREACHED GOOD VIBES AND PERSONAL GROWTH.
Wiper blades up on a grey car with the first dusting of snow visible on the hood and windshield.
Looks to me like a whale spouting backlit by low sun. Snowy mountains in the background. Could just be an iceberg though. Screenshot is a view southeast when the ship was puttering around in the channel north of Lemaire island.
Screen shot showing FR24 track of the plane.
Unbroken, but open pistachio shell with no nut inside.
A strip of 47 uF surface-mount ceramic capacitors resting on a ruler. Three of the capacitors have been removed from the strip and two are still there. Based on the ruler, the capacitors are about 1.5x2 mm.
Sony ICF-SW1 on a wooden desktop tuned to 89.7 (WRUC). Inaudible through the photo: “American Pie” is the song on the radio.
Poster announcing the 16 June 1996 Russian presidential elections. The poster is attached to a chalkboard by magnets. There are white xmas lights inexplicably across the top edge of the poster.
Pete Hegseth on a sidewalk wearing a blue suit and sneakers getting hit in the nutsack by the skateboard he tried to flip.
Photo of the 1977-78 entry of the TSR Monster Manual for Shambling Mound. The illustration looks a bit like a wookie maybe. The stat block and first paragraph of the description can probably be read but I don’t have my glasses on and I don’t really care what they say—the joke is that Trump is a literal D&D monster. Here is what the phone’s ocr says the text is: SHAMBLING MOUND SHAMBLING MOUND FREQUENCY: Rare NO. APPEARING: 1-3 ARMOR CLASS: 0 MOVE: 6" HIT DICE: 8-11 % IN LAIR: 30% TREASURE TYPE: B, T, X NO. OF ATTACKS: 2 DAMAGE/ ATTACK: 2-16/2-16 SPECIAL ATTACKS: Suffocation SPECIAL DEFENSES: See below MAGIC RESISTANCE: See below INTELLIGENCE: Low ALIGNMENT: Neutral SIZE: L PSIONIC ABILITY: Nil Attack/Defense Modes: Nil Shambling mounds, or "shamblers," are found in dismal marshes or certain wet subterranean places. They are omnivorous, feeding upon any living material (via their weird roots and tendrils). They attack fearlessly, clubbing with their limbs twice per melee round. If both of a shambler's clubbing attacks hit a single opponent, the victim is entangled and will be suffocated in the creature's slime in 2-8 melee rounds unless the creature
Banner part of the lower-right corner of an AFC Richmond iron-on patch with visible, sloppy, stitching around the edge.
Still frame from the video. It shows Hegseth wearing a natty blue suit and sneakers at the moment that the skateboard strikes his nuts. His face appears to say, “Ow my nuts!”
Screenshot of “LOOK, HOMER, THERE'S THAT BIRD YOU LIKE TO ARGUE WITH” scene
Close-cropped image of Donald Trump’s mouth while he’s presumably bellowing some arrant bullshit.
Middle aged white guy in khaki shorts, a blue windbreaker, and a blue baseball cap, with one hand in his pocket and the other one holding up a sign that says, “TRUMP IS A DICK” in red and blue letters.
Low-res image of Clippy
Still from “The State” sketch “Da Pope is A Coming.”
ESRI Streets map of upstate NY with ADS-B airplane tracks and icons overlayed. The colors all map to altitudes, but the legend isn’t visible. Numerous distinct green (approx 10,000 feet) oval tracks near Poughkeepsie, blue (20k feet) oval tracks near Albany. These oval tracks are airplane holding points.
Bernese Mountain Poodle sleeping on an upholstered chair in front of a bookcase.
Screen capture of the standard Signal “Verify your Signal PIN” message
Screen capture showing the ADS-B track of a French military Airbus A-330-200 (callsign CTM001) going southwest from around Manchester, NH to o Elizabeth, NJ.
Three-eyed fish Blinky from The Simpsons