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That's awesome. I love scratch building and kit bashing on vibes!

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Do you have meticulous plans and sketches or are you just winging it on the layout?

This is absolutely lovely. It's my life's ambition to build a real house like this and live in it.

Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 26/09/2026

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Get yourself some friends that you want to go buy an off-grid multi-house compound with in the middle of nowhere.

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Avius @avius.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My dad says that in La Paz the 1970s, he and his roommate had one of these as a pet for a few weeks until it escaped.

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Avius @avius.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My take, giving benefit of the doubt: 1. "It's weird that humans react negatively to a thing I feel is a net good for society" 2. people give negative feedback. 3."I want to clarify: people who feel negatively are normal. It's a common reaction within human nature, which itself is weird generally.

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Avius @avius.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Also Magic Earth: www.magicearth.com It's privacy-focused (keeps all your location data on-device) and it's 100% ad-free.

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I was not familiar with AstoCAD or PaddleStroke's massive contributions. It looks cool, I might sign up. I'm spoiled for UI since I came to CAD from Blender. CAD can be a little unintuitive.

Wow those look legit. Do you have it set up so the TechDraw workbench has layouts of each panel? One of the main things I want my workbench to do is generate a cut list for all the timbers, sorted by size.

My new hobby: take fun and interesting photos that totally destroy machine vision algorithms.

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The New River Gorge Bridge, the longest single-span arch #bridge in the Western Hemisphere. #photography #wv

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Gemini shop this look

Albert Finney as Kincade in 007 Skyfall, chilling with a shotgun

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I'll share it if it ever actually works the way I want. It should actually do cabinetry too, if you want to use hand-cut mortise and tenon joinery. But right now, it's totally busted and I only took a flattering screen shot because FreeCAD Friday was almost over.

Thanks! I'm not sure the custom workbench is actually worth it. I definitely could have designed my timber frame with the vanilla tools 2-3 times over with the amount of weekends I've spent on it. But I tell myself it will save me on the NEXT timber frame, and I am fooled into continuing.

Avius @avius.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Working on my custom #FreeCAD workbench. It's for fully parametric design of traditional timber frame joinery and structures. I'm no expert on carpentry, FreeCAD, or coding, but this is a great way to learn all three! #FreeCADFriday #OpenSource #CAD #Carpentry

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These tiny white mushrooms were out in force on the forest floor, but this one caught my eye almost literally. Emerging from a twig the size of a match stick at eye-level. Audra State Park in West Virginia. #fungifriends #hotsticksaturday

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Avius @avius.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I went on a great mushroom hike today in Audra State Park in West Virginia. Found this cute little Viscid Violet Cort, which I had never seen before. #fungifriends #mycology #mushroom #nature #photograpgy

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Avius @avius.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

During test taking, students should be able to copy answers off their neighbor's test. This will teach them how to implement important concepts such as knowledge specialization, teamwork, and delegation, preparing them for a successful career in middle management.

Avius @avius.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Great, now the Kennedy Center is once again named after only one serial rapist. Can we get it down to zero some day?

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Avius @avius.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I love Kagi. It might be the best online subscription I have. Image search without slop, product search without ads or paid placement. I can completely block Temu. It's a legitimately great search experience.

Avius @avius.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

You have to understand the morons if you want to keep them from taking over. Establishment GOP and Dems ignored these folks for decades and primed them for someone like Trump to use them to take over. I think an article like this is useful & not pro-trump. We need to understand to counter it.

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Avius @avius.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Thanks for sharing though! I'm a big fan of twiddly bits. We Yanks suffer from a severe shortage of twiddly bits of any age.

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Avius @avius.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

All the obviously AI-generated anti-AI memes in my feed... Can people not tell? Is it a bit? Are those accounts actually just bots clumsily trying to fit in?

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Avius @avius.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

X AI's Grok is sub-par and unprofitable, which looks bad for the upcoming IPO. Having that compute capacity contracted to one of the (for now) top AI darlings looks way better to investors.

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Avius @avius.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It's pretty standard to talk about data centers in terms of their power capacity, since the buildings and grid connections are long-term infrastructure, but the chips inside can be swapped and upgraded. True though, you have to do separate math to figure out how that translates to processing power.

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Avius @avius.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

For me, that's when the impostor syndrome kicks in and all I can see is what I should have a little differently, even if no one else will notice.

Avius @avius.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Is this a Roof of Theseus situation or are those babies original?

Avius @avius.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

What did you order? Maybe it was protecting the world from your product. I ordered a giant neodymium magnet once. It was shipped like that, and rightly so.

Avius @avius.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

There are lots of prescedants in the training data of human artists hiding commentary in a scene full of unhinged absurdism. I feel like the scenery often made judgemental comments in Mad Magazine, Looney Tunes, The Simpsons, etc.

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Avius @avius.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Goodhart's Law says "Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes." Usually that control is top-down but I think in prediction markets it's bottom-up. A study said they were good at predicting, so they no longer are.

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Avius @avius.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

"Other kings said I was daft to build a [church] on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp, but the fourth one... stayed up!"

Avius @avius.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Huh. I guess leather is skin and you take care of it by oiling it.

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Avius @avius.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Is that your hand? Can you just touch the earliest surviving intact European book? I feel like white gloves would be involved.

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Avius @avius.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

This is a direct quote that I have said unironically

Avius @avius.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I think basically the answer is "they have a lot of nukes and an unhinged dictator" so no one wants to go head-to-head with them and are hoping the leader will die before the worst happens. Same reason not many are meaningfully standing up to the USA.

Avius @avius.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Is the asteroid belt a TRIANGLE?!

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Avius @avius.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Not mentioned: it's DIY and self-repair enabled. All the fasteners are easy to get to and none of the components are software locked, so you can use it as a little EV drivetrain and mod it to smithereens. Sounds super fun. And it doesn't spy on you to the manufacturer.