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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When the Muse is with you, I think it's perfectly reasonable to stay up hours after bedtime to make a chart for an afghan, don't you?

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is a male either a Bombus vagans (half-black bumblebee) or the less-common Bombus sandersonii. His pretty yellow face distinguishes him from the rusty-patched queen, another frequently mis-IDed two-yellow-striped bumble.

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Also saw a male red-belted, Bombus rufocintus.

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Foooook, the app ate my detailed post and alt text. Anyways sighted two female worker rusty patched bumblebees by Wisconsin’s Rock River in Friday, including this Absolute Unit. Check out her delicate little lady peet on the boneset blossom!

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Along the Rock River, common boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum) is in bloom, and it smells so sweet, both to me at to the pollinators! I saw this endangered rusty-patched bumblebee (Bombus affinis). Later, I spotted another, though it might be the same individual. Both females.

A rusty-patched bumblebee perched on a dense cluster of common boneset flowers, which are small, white blossoms. She has a black, heady, a yellow thorax with a large black spot, and brownish wings that partially obscure her stripes: a yellow stripe at the top of her abdomen, and a second yellow stripe in which is imbedded a brown stripe. The rest of her abdomen is black. She has black legs.

In the upper part of the frame, the Rock River is visible.

A rusty-patched bumblebee fills most of the frame. She has a black, heady, a yellow thorax with a large black spot, and brownish transulucent wings that partially obscure her stripes: a yellow stripe at the top of her abdomen, and a second yellow stripe in which is imbedded a brown stripe. The rest of her abdomen is black. She has black legs. She is perched on common boneset flowers, which are small, white flowers with long stamens that stick out a long way.

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

First day of General Physics I word clouds. 1/2

A word cloud. The largest words at the center are:
helps
physics world
allows us
understand

The other words are:

allows physics helps things around because way works am better many move planes real cars energy etc everything every where explains gives good gravity ground happen help helpful keeping lets math movement natural others possible science space think understanding work able actions actually aerodynamic almost along anything applies apply astronomy away basically basis beautiful big boats build building buildings calculate careers classes scientific comes concepts construction motion create detail determine develop dictates engineering essential everyday explain explanations exploration explore extend falls fan fascinating feet float fly forces found fundamental further future generated govern great handy however imagination infinite innovations involved know laptop laws learn letting life live make makes mass mechanics medicine mediums modern motion moving normally number objective occur one's people possibilities practically previously problems process

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My astronomer-brain was quite certain this was an HR diagram and therefore I could not find the red star because I was looking for it on the right.

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Day 4 of #AvianAugust, a Common bronzewing getting themselves measured.

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

In this house we stan a dilute oramge.

Two tawny (dilute orange) tabbies cuddle in the sunshine.

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Avian August Day 2: Rainbow-bearded Thornbill Expect my borbs to continue to arrive late. They are borbs. They cannot read the calendar. I hope my frands will forgive. #avianaugust #avianaugust2026 #birdart

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Hi, frands of borbs, it’s me, back on my bullshit* for #avianaugust I’m already behind, but this is Day 1: The northern lapwing. * drawing people banding borbs and using too many (or too few???????) colors of ink.

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I have successfully trained my Qobuz algorithm to recommend absolutely demented musical nonsequitors.

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Rolling through the Ages on a Sunday afternoon, as one does.

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Evergreen: www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...

A black-and-white drawing of a 19th century woman riding a bicycle, kicking her legs up, smoking a cigarette, by the incomparable Kate Beaton.

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The CDC has stopped monitoring for blue, red, yellow *and* black cubes.

A close-up of the board game Pandemic, showing translucent red and black cubes plastic cubes that represent the spread of viruses on a stylized world map where color-coded cities such as Chennai, Ho Chi Minh City, and Taipei are linked by yellow lines.

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I thought it was comets that were made of pure snow.

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

How I killed time during our 13th Age game: decorating my spellbook. #ttrpg #conchaRootbinder #13thAge #druidLife

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Studying up on flying helicopters to get better at #MSFS, as you do, by reading “Learning to Fly Helicopters” by R. Randall Padfield. I hit this line and LOLed.

How do you get clearance to move in toward the helicopter? Wait in front of the cockpit until you get the pilots' attention. Don't bother to shout because they can't hear you. If they're looking down at something inside the cockpit, wait until they look up.
You won't have to wait long.
They'll either wave you in or give you the universal thumbs-up signal. Pilots like to
use thumbs-up because it looks cool.
Never, never, never approach a helicopter from the rear (Fig. 4-10).
Tail rotors spin fast, are hard to see, are often low to the ground, and will kill you in

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

We are all living vicariously as we fantasize getting the hell off this planet.

The Artemis II mission patch a black triangle with the bottom corners truncated. Most of the patch is a stylized view of the Earth as seen from behind the moon with a red swoosh representing the spacecraft orbit forming the cross bar of a capital A, with two slanted bars for the roman numeral 2. The astronaut's names, Wiseman, Glvoer, Koch, and Hansen are stitched along the left side.

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

#cats #housepanther Me: *gets out yarn to mend a hole in my hat* Me: *forgets to return it to bombproof storage* Winona:

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

#art #drawing My colleagues and her sister, a biologist and a physicist, respectively, do a podcast about The X-Files. I am their creepy #1 fan, and did a fanart celebrating the Round 1 win of the Fluke Man in their Villians Bracket. Check them out at www.wewanttobelievepod.com

The "Fluke Man," a white-skinned humanoid monster with a sucker mouth, with an expression of surprise and delight. Surrounding his head in a halo are sinusioudal traces invoking both sound waves and the DNA double helix. He is encircled by a laurel wreath, and a ribbon at an angle bears the phrase "Celebratory Fluke Noises" in cursive. A black and white digital drawing with a black background.

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

E.g. Sable, in cross five gears Argent.

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Despite all the legitimately important things I need to do today, I spent thirty seconds making a meme for my computational physics class.

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Our housepanther is a genteel fellow. Doesn’t steal food, never claws (people or furniture) and has prefect play manners: soft paws, and has never broken skin with a bite. Our vet calls him “a gentle soul.” He can chase after our sr cat, but he is the best bigbrother for our youngest cat.

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Picked up a lovely print of “The Messenger”, by www.candicebroersma.com

A painting: a chipmunk in a blue cloak perched on a shelf fungus holds a curled fern frond in one hand and reaches upward toward the glowing body of a butterfly with eye-like shapes on its rings.

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Here’s the prize from last time.

A grayish rock with a coating of fine-grained quartz on a light-colored wooden tabletop. It looks like a frosted shredded wheat crossed with a poop, if we are being honest.

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

My spousal unit is upset because the free trickle chargers that were here when we stayed at this hotel are gone now, but I’m not mad. Last time I glanced down at the landscaping rock and picked up a Paleozoic #fossil horn coral, and this time I looked and saw these smol tabulate friends.

A yellowish limestone with hexagonal holes each surrounded by radial stations. Probably a Paleozoic tabulate (communal) coral fossil.

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Space Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Here’s Mark Kelly, in outer space. He’s at the pilot’s seat of the Space Shuttle Discovery… because he flew the damn thing. Just sayin’.

Astronaut/Senator Mark Kelly in the cockpit of the space shuttle Discovery in orbit during STS-124. He is wearing a light blue polo shirt and khakis. He is floating above the pilot’s seat surrounded by the controls and cockpit instruments.

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