All day every day on bsky

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

Finding growth in field operations (coexisting in nature with bugs, technically that’s THEIR house). Morse code contacts tonight into Colorado, Connecticut, and Tennessee over the 20m band before packing up and rushing back home for Thursday night net.

Rescuing the occupants of the burning starports in Lhou Mans after the attacks from Lady Zi's pirate faction was lucrative enough to finally lock down my own fleet carrier, the Kilowatt Drifter. Next up - flying toward Colonia! #EliteDangerous

RPG Maker U2U has been officially revealed which will allow users to create HD-2D-style games. Called "P2D" (Perspective 2D), users can create 3D depth and rich effect expression to conventional 2D maps.

I grew up on the shore of these sand dunes, looking at this sunset skyline view over and over - and I will never, ever, ever get tired of it.

Part of me wants to ask if anyone's aware of a printer brand that will literally just print in black and white with a cartridge of black ink installed but at this point, I'm convinced it's just life-as-a-service now and I'm going to hate handwrite everything I need printed out of spite.

w00t! "You can now manage microcontrollers that support serial communications in Firefox via the Web Serial API. This lets you program microcontrollers and development boards, such as ESP devices, Raspberry Pi Picos, 3D printers, CNC machines, and other devices." Time to ditch Chrome completely.

v3. The exercise was teaching myself new things, trying new things, understanding how keys work, and gaining the ability to make - and repair - my own gear. Longer platform, felt pad feet, 3.5mm jack, mostly toolbox parts. Beauty pageant winner, he ain’t, but I still love this little thing.

Look at this fine Finch. His name is Atticus

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

Beating the impostor syndrome by getting on the air as much as I can, whenever I can. Quick spin after work tonight while chilling in the park, one more in the logbook.

Seen in Logan Square

Four Schlitz Tied House buildings. Chicago, IL.

Took the light kit with me while running a few errands this morning (why are drills so expensive 😩) and, just spinning the dial and testing, made contact on 20m with a CW op in Hawaii. I'm still so rusty and have a long way to go til I get "good," but this shit is so much fun.

Had a little time while the spouse was at the library so I ran over to the woods to try a 20m vertical that I put together last night. Ran the (tr)uSDX with my paperclip key and a $10 knockoff power bank just for fun. Didn't have time to fight pileups, but even without measuring - not too shabby.

Moonlighter sequel 👀

I copied today's #Morsle at 35 WPM on hard mode! morsle.fun

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

A year ago today, I passed my technician exam and started down the amateur radio path on a whim. I've learned a ton, built some stuff, broke some stuff, FIXED some stuff, met interesting people, got up with a crew here in the city, and touched so much grass. It has been a busy, fun as hell year.

Happy Mother's Day

I copied today's #Morsle at 40 WPM on hard mode! morsle.fun

Northerly Island is another rare chance to pull out this Illinois park service meme

"The Switch is so old," you all said. "I need better graphics," you demanded. "Wah wah," you cried. And now, you sit here before Slippy Toad, the slippiest he's ever been, slippier than a fucking banana peel under a kart wheel, all thanks to the raw power of the Nintendo Switch 2—and you reject him?

Breeze into the early morning 🕊️

My brother @blondetanamobay.bsky.social asked me to make a Metal Slug card, so this is what I came up with. "You were there... When I needed you the most!"

This is basically how I see the new game lmfao. (The actual gameplay part looks great though)

Passed my General exam this morning! Relieved to be done studying (license material) for a while and start really diving into the high frequency bands.

PSA: AI is Unhalonic. And if you use G(ob)mail, you can turn it off by going to Quick Settings > See all Settings > General and down to Smart Compose and Smart Compose personalization.

FB, indeed 👀

A new project is set to make the Windy City safer for the estimated 150 million to 200 million birds that wing their way over the city on their journeys north and south in the spring and fall. https://to.wttw.com/4tSv46u

Every time I feel myself getting mad watching people entrust their lives to Claude/Gemini/(insert your technocorporate flavor of intellectual acquiescence here), I'm just going to go teach myself a manual skill instead. Today, adding a 3.5mm jack to my DIY key v3 for connecting/removing the cable.

Meet me at the 24 hour harmacy.

A point of discussion in my local radio club right now is potentially suspending in-person meetings because of the absolutely insane price of gas and how scattered our membership is across the Chicago metro area.

How it feels when the sick guitar riff idea hits but there's another hour and a half of sprint planning and design meetings

I copied today's #Morsle at 35 WPM on hard mode! morsle.fun

Shirobako exists in a parallel timeline where Sega never left the console market

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@nylafoxphrey.bsky.social 👀👀👀

Put some gas in the tank today at almost five bucks a gallon. My summer plans include radio operating from parks and preserves within walking distance and otherwise staying home. Absolutely not it.

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

Two can play that game.

Fly by over Abel Laboratory on Arque, putting some bells and whistles on the new Lynx Highliner #EliteDangerous

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

I copied today's #Morsle at 40 WPM on hard mode! morsle.fun

I choose to believe this is how most 90s arcade race tracks were initially conceived #gaming #retrogaming #arcade