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Connections Museum @connections.museum · 11/09/2026

I took the time today to fix this hostile design so that y’all don’t have to deal with it. 😤

Connections Museum @connections.museum · 15/08/2026

We've got a heartbeat! The rectifier is online at our new switchroom in Seattle. No load yet, but that will come soon enough.

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Connections Museum @connections.museum · 13/08/2026

It’s panel switch maintenance week, and that means using bespoke Western Electric tools and jigs from the 1920s to check concentricity and alignment of vertical drives!

A closeup of an old machine showing a vertical drive shaft with a Starret dial indicator pressed against a driving element.

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Connections Museum @connections.museum · 09/07/2026

Anybody in our orbit good at CAD/CAM stuff and have a lil free time for a project? I’d like to get these covers for our 5XB made. I can get exact measurements but I do not have the ability to turn them into something that a manufacturer wants :/

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Connections Museum @connections.museum · 19/06/2026

Dual-wielding chain hoists, and using the intergalactic death ray to make sure things are level. The new switchroom in Seattle is coming together!

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Connections Museum @connections.museum · 16/06/2026

youtu.be/SzGaWZ8COfk New video, in case you haven't already had it pop up in your recs!

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Connections Museum @connections.museum · 02/05/2026

for those of you at VCF PNW this weekend, yep, we are open tomorrow (Sunday)

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Michael 🌀. Levy @professorlevy.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

hmm, sorry, i'm going to make Bell rims now, you can't stop me Saul

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HistoryLink.org @historylink.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

#OnThisDay in 1883, a telephone exchange started in Seattle with 90 subscirbers. Henry Yesler reportedly asked whether or not "one could swear over that thing." www.historylink.org/File/875

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Connections Museum @connections.museum · 03/03/2026

unhinged patent filing for the no. 5 crossbar. there’s over 100 pages of just this.

a page from a patent document. it looks like someone was playing a joke on the patent attorneys

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Connections Museum @connections.museum · 03/03/2026

the most important step in setting up my new toolbox

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Galactica Actual @1xb.co · 21/02/2026

current mood

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

New treasure get!

A faux brass sign that reads “No job is so important and no service is so urgent that cannot take time to perform our work safely. Bell System”

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Connections Museum @connections.museum · 17/02/2026

We are packing up the JKL Museum switch room for shipment to Seattle, which means that I’m spending the day crawling through the ceiling.

A selfie of a girl standing on a ladder. Many cables snake around her.

A distant photo of a friend smiling and waving while standing on a ladder.

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Connections Museum @connections.museum · 12/02/2026

one of our coziest girls, in her natural habitat

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Connections Museum @connections.museum · 12/02/2026

Some doofus in the youtube comments section was big mad that the museum's account has pronouns listed. I didn't even know we did, but now I'm keeping them there, just to be a tar-pit to catch the next asshole who wanders through. Trans rights are human rights, motherfucker.

a screenshot of youtube, showing the connections museum homepage. the name of the account is visible, along with the pronouns "she/her/hers"

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Galactica Actual @1xb.co · 12/01/2026

girlfriends, on the other hand, have teletypes.

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Connections Museum @connections.museum · 17/12/2025

Oh yeah, Western Electric? Tell me more about how you don’t make washing machines and toasters.

A 1950’s western electric advertisement, depicting, telephone equipment being raised into a newly constructed telephone exchange. Several curious people are looking on from a distance.

A close-up of text from the Western electric advertisement. The text reads as follows. “ Making telephone equipment for the Bell system is Western electric‘s job and has been for 68 years. We don’t make toasters or washing machines or electric ranges. We make telephone equipment. Good equipment that helps give you good service at low cost.”

A picture of a western electric washing machine

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lycamania ☉∇ ☣ 🏜️ @wolf.moda · 02/10/2025

nobody talking about sacred machines is talking about telephony equipment and they ought to be, like all of this metal was directly connecting your ear to someone's gaping maw and into literal orbit and back while simultaneously handling hundreds more. and it sounds like this it's like a critter

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Sansa Sandisk @cheatlines.co · 23/08/2025

telephony

watermarked stock image of witchcraft supplies (salt pentagram, crystal, candle)

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Cait 🦇 @gendercoffin.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

HEY IT'S THE CONNECTIONS MUSEUM ON BLUESKY They're the ones with the amazing 3ESS telephone exchange that I discovered on Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=k865... Give them a follow!

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Booting up the 3ESS

YouTube video by Connections Museum

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Connections Museum @connections.museum · 16/11/2024

Also, I know we haven't released any new videos in *ages*. I'm really sorry. I haven't stopped traveling since June. I've got a script written though, so filming should start soon.

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Connections Museum @connections.museum · 16/11/2024

Heyo, it's us, the telephone weirdos. Also on the fediverse tacobelllabs.net/@connections

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