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Calpain (Bday Oct 19) @calpain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

These little libraries bring a lot of joy to the areas they are in. Can you spare a little to help expand and remodel this one for this family's local area? From gifts to children alongside food and books it really is a little godsend. <3 At least spread the word if you can! #booksky #mlp

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Please go support this fundraiser for my local community! The Little Free Library they have not just helps with books, but they provide people with non-perishable food, and gifts for children that are without. Anything helps. gofund.me/912083e1f

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Donate to Help Replace Our Town Little Free Library, organized by Aly Rivera

Aly and family are raising support for the town’s little free library, a space th… Aly Rivera needs your support for Help Replace Our Town Little Free Library

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

What’s this?! Light Wire has reached his final form?! Maybe, but he’s just right after waiting 12 years to get this done. Also, huge thanks to @jezebelremedy.bsky.social for working with me to get Light just how imagined him. I highly recommend him and I hope to work more with him in the future!

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💙HYPERCRASH! @ EFNW #46 🧡 @hypercra.sh · 20/02/2026

I had the incredible privilege of doing the conbook from front to back for @harmonycon.bsky.social !!! It was one of the coolest projects I've ever worked on and it was an amazing experience. I'll post some of my favorite spreads in this thread, starting with the back cover! #mlp #art

Several convention booklets on a desk. On the left, the back cover is shown, while on the right, the front cover is shown.

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

My first OC hanging out with my good friend @legatnightstar.bsky.social! Big thanks to @jezebelremedy.bsky.social for making this gorgeous art and an extra big thanks to @legatnightstar.bsky.social for gifting this to me!

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Calpain (Bday Oct 19) @calpain.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Another weekend, another push for PonySky! Anyone interested, you're more than welcome to join as our community pushes ever closer to 900 members. A chill place and LGBTQ+ friendly for both pony fans and furs alike. Check the thread below for more info! #mlp #mlpfim #furry discord.gg/chqZSYfucT

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Join the PonySky Discord Server!

PonySky started as a place to help bridge Twitter refugees with BlueSky back in 2013 by offering keys to let people into the new social platform. Today it is a burgeoning community of MLP fans, friend...

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I made it! If you see me say hi!

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Roxi Wheels @roxiwheels.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This goes so fucking hard dude

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

It may not be a big deal to most but I haven’t seen snow in probably around 7 years.

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Aaaannnddd it’s snowing now.

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

First shift working overnight on North Texas upgrade, it’s already below freezing.

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Haven’t had shotgun damage in years. What’s funny is out of all the pellets that hit the cable only 1 broke through the shield causing a short leaving 200ish customers without services.

Image of hardline distribution cable damaged by multiple bird shot pellets

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Also my wrist and elbow hurt from splicing in the new cable in the cold. Contractor’s didn’t think to bring splicers with them, and of course the crew left me alone after they finished building the new lines.

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

This ended up being an all-nighter to fix. Only because the power company took most of the night to replace the pole. Apparently it was a drunk driver who ended up being ok.

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ShadowReindeer @shadowreindeer.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Two Moons Merry Christmas!

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Posting the only #MLP art I made for Luna Day. I drew this for #LunaDay 2020 so here are some different versions I came up with as I was finalizing the sketch. I'm in no way an artist so I don't know the proper terms. Also, this is a redraw of a piece Yakovlev did that I really liked, link below.

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

This one isn’t as interesting as the previous outage. This outage looks like old chainsaw damage to the feeder cable. In this case corrosion over time eventually caused AC power and upstream traffic to stop passing through the damage. What’s funny is this happened sometime ago with obvious no issues

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Why 6.4MHz? Because that is the bandwidth of each of the four upstream channels. Not really sure exactly why the distortion repeats every 6.4 MHz rather than acting more like common path distortion which would be a flat elevation across the whole upstream spectrum.

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The pic of the computer is from the upstream spectrum analyzer for the node. This particular issue wasn’t strictly an AC short but also an RF short bridged by the AC path. When that bridge happens we get a RF distortion which repeats every 6.4MHz. This distortion interrupts modem traffic severely.

Picture of cut of damage from BB or pellet.

Shot of an upstream spectrum analyzer with severe distortions across the whole spectrum. So severe that it causes loss of upstream lock resulting in loss of service.

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Had a couple of fun outages over the past week. This one was due to old BB or pellet damage to feeder cable. In all my 11 years I’ve never seen what I’m assuming is water vapor from the heat created by an AC short.

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Samoht Lion Creations @samohtlion.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Introducing Princess Luna and Princess Celestia in a stunning parody poster that reimagines their magical sibling rivalry. Perfect for fans of Broadway, ponies, and whimsical mashups! 🖤 🌕 Luna takes on the dark and mysterious role, while Celestia shines as the radiant counterpart. #mlp #Wicked

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Sounds like something a chicken would do

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

After swapping out the power supply BER values decreased down to nothing and also MER (modulation to Error Rate) also increased, which is good. Last time I found one of these issues it was so severe it was causing an actual outage.

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The LE’s power supply has a bulged capacitor which you can hear buzzing in the video. This causes harmonic interference which will give major bit error rate (BER) issues. As a customer you may have video breakup on a cable box, or for internet service you may have slow to intermittent connection.

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

More cable issues! While not an outage, this issue was affecting an apartment building with roughly 30 subscribers. In your typical cable plant there are numerous signal amplifiers used to help distribute RF to subs. Here we have a bad power supply to a line extender (LE)

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

If anyone actually reads this and wonders how hardline coax breaks like that its most likely due to slight damage when the cable was first being built.Then over time from the swinging of the span from the wind to the changes of seasonal temps the outer shield cracks followed by the center conductor.

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

After removing the jacket the cable completely separated, mostly due to the weight of the ladder and myself on the span. I quickly spliced the break together with a .625 straight splice. I didn’t think to take the picture of the repair.

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I busted out my measuring wheel and measured out the footage I got from the TDR. At the 167’ mark I can see the cable looks damaged under the black PVC jacket. Getting out my ladder and climbing up on the span I cut off the jacket revealing completely broken outer and center conductors.

Picture of a cable plant map, circled out areas indicate the places I TDR’d the cable and were damaged cable was found. Other yellow boxes are redactions for the privacy of myself and the residents of the area.

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I started testing the run expecting to see passives around 250’ and 585’. I saw them but I also saw a small fault at 167’, most likely my elusive cause. I moved over to the next property over, luckily the owners were outside getting ready to smoke some pork or something.

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Only to get called out again around 2:30am this morning. Of course, I put the outage on hold due to access issues. I returned that morning around 8am only to find that outage was already cleared. I went ahead got access at the last connection we TDR’d yesterday and I used my TDR this time.

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Nothing obvious was found. I had a coworker run a trace with his TDR (look up time domain reflectometer) but as he was running it the battery died. He said that he didn’t see anything before the TDR died. So after checking everything we could we left with our fingers crossed hoping that was maybe it

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

So the outage has to remain off until the morning. What makes this one tricky is that by morning the issue clears. Yesterday I spent the morning hopping fences, getting scratched by thorny trees and poked by cacti, climbing poles and opening connectors and passives to find something broken.

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The cable runs along the power utility easement in the back of the properties. So with no alley way or open easement the only way to access the cable and equipment is through the properties. Pretty much everyone has locked gates and dogs, so there’s no safe way to enter overnight.

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

First entry into what I will deem as the “Outage Diaries”. So for the past 3 nights I had about 6 customers lose service around 10pm and come back on around 7am. Normally it wouldn’t be an issue to find at night, but this particular area has no utility access ways for overnight access…

Picture of .625 hardline cable completely broken.

Graph of a cable modems online time and signal levels.

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Same here Cal. Coincidentally today my 13 year old daughter asked me if I knew about the Rainbow Dash jar and I was mortified.

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Since I’m going to try and actually use this site I guess I’ll post about stuff I do for work. You know, given that it’s where I spent the majority of my time for the last 11 years. Here is some pics of a fiber splice enclosure I built and spliced in training a few weeks ago.

An open fiber enclosure with a bundle of fibers coiled up on the side waiting to be spliced

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

New addition to my hat, GO VOTE!

Hat with the phrase “Less ego, more soul” embroidered on it with an “I Voted” sticker on the brim.

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Anyway, I’m going to try to post stuff when I can. Will it be interesting? Probably not.

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Is it weird that I’m terrified to interact with people online? Not just places like here or Twitter, but also Discord etc. I was on Twitter for 4 years and I never posted once. Trying something new with this.

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Laproxie @laproxie.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

A comic based on my observations these past few days

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[PoxyBoxy] @poxyboxy.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

It's giveaway time! 👁️ We have to reach 1000 followers here on Bluesky. I'll give you an illustration. -Follow this account -Like -Repost Good luck to everyone!

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Light Wire @bigcabledog.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Don’t have an OC, but RT-ing anyway.

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🌹 VOID (Opal Acorn) ✈️ HarmonyCon 2027!⭐️ @viralcosmos.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

❤️Alright its happening - AS PROMISED, here is the Bluesky ONLY raffle!! TY all for the follow ;-; Requirements for the raffle are ⭐BE a Follower ⭐RT ⭐Comment your OC The prize will be something like these examples, or a simple comic. 💙I will draw the winner in one week. See you next Sat!!!!

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