Is it a bobbin or a mandrel? Form for miniature wire basket weaving.

Couldn't the Navy just pick up the entire Orion capsule with a CH-53K and lower it softly onto the deck of a ship? They've spent a lot of time bobbing around in the water waiting for this elegant Front Porch Experience. #splashdown

Oops I designed a #math toy.

Fuzzy boi

Browser-based, safety-critical software is all fine and good-- unless it's untested? #ArtemisII

2026 is the year of “Let’s verify you are you” 🐡 #surveillance

Fun fact: Nearly all airports with scheduled passenger service in the U.S. are publicly owned by city, county, or state authorities. Not the Federal government.

Living

They should make crimes against humanity illegal! #justice

Too bad we ate all the probiotics. #health #gutfeelings

Fishburger

Preview of 2026 election ads www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lj8...

Every single time it shows up in a Very Important Conference Room

Golden Gate Peek

No one may ever have the same knowledge again.

Fish Doorbell season has opened in Utrecht. visdeurbel.nl/en/about/

Regime change begins at home, I hear.

gaggle of Goshawks

A chuba is a cross between a chorn and a tuba.

Designing a one-piece, 3-printable T-shank jigsaw blade handle. This feels like some kind of rite of passage.

Sand Hill Cranes, Staten Island, CA

The LLM AI bubble can’t pop soon enough www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I’ve got no data to back this up, but: pre-AI Google search used to be better at finding obscure, long-tail, niche results when you provided more specific keywords. Now it’s happy to provide 100 variants of the same wrong answer.

Yeah, well, I’m Barnacle Bill the actual barnacle. (Also a sailor. )

Maybe the GOP should follow the example of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, who all have national single-payer, universal healthcare systems. #AffordableCareAct

When your view from the airplane coalesces into abstract shapes & colors? That part of flying never gets old.

What’s this…enhance!

I ❤️ the Utrecht Library.

Automated “dance organ“ from the 1920s, at the Speelklok Museum in Utrecht. The depth of sound!

Nano braids (from a paper describing HCNTs)

In order to reduce air traffic control workloads, the White House / DOT is also canceling private jet flights, right? How many eg NetJets, Flexjet, JSX flights have been cancelled? @flightradar24.com #taco

Honest question: What have LLMs contributed to global society in the past year that justifies the unprecedented investment the upper arm of the K-shaped economy is dumping into that black hole?

Autumn Lights festival, Oakland CA

Expo2025 certainly had the dramatic architecture on display, some more temporary than others.

Takeaway from the Japan Pavilion at Expo2025: the Future will continue to be weird.

Who decided to call it “A Discovery of Witches“ instead of “Always Be Witchin’ “?

There must be a band named “Baba Yaga O’Riley“.

Always be tweening. (Got path morphing to work. ) #rustlang #no_std #raspberrpipico #rp2350

Progress with eyebulbz project using #rust #no_std #embedded on #rp2350 #RaspberryPiPico drawing SVG paths.

Spent a little time on module mounting options for the eyebulbz project. The pupils can now be drawn at about human interpupillary distance (IPD)

Chaos Crags Crater critter

Fresh ground pepper for your salad, except it’s freshly shredded Slim Jims.

More progress on rendering asymmetric eyebulbs with rpi pico2 and two small lcd displays. github.com/tstellanova/...

Playing with dual LCD driving with raspberry pi pico and rust embedded_graphics crate.

One does not simply walk into a bar.

Recently fascinated by the hypothesis that early photosynthetic organisms absorbed mostly yellow-green light and so the Earth appeared purple. When red-blue absorbing organisms showed up and started spewing oxygen, they wiped out the purple ancestors. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_...

Hey man, nice house