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@drdarkstar.bsky.social
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Programmer, Brewer, Astrophotographer, Bibliophile, and more…

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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Yup :)
Smashed tots covered in cheese
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
“Only I can drain the swamp”
the Golgothan
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The wait is killing me
Screen clip of book 8 “Platform Decay“ by Martha Wells coming May 5 (in three hours, but it’s 11pm here)
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
And the Award goes to the Trump Reich!
Fake award to the US for having zero time between being national embarrassments
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Yup
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Guess I’ll see you all The Day After Tomorrow
The top part of the Statue of Liberty covered in ice holding the torch up

From the movie “the day after tomorrow“
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Sympathies to anyone who cared about him but I appreciate this headline — I really dislike it when a horrible person dies and the media covers up who they were.
People.com headline “Scott Adams, disgrace Dilbert creator, dies at 68“
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Is this why they call it Fall? — leaves on a slope are slippery :)
Fall Leaves on a slope
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
From YouTube — apparently nerdese is a language
Comment that says “Nooo waaayyy !!!” and offers to translate to English Comment that says “Nooo waaayyy !!!” has been translated as “Wow!!!” In English.
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I got this plant from @goddessburstall.bsky.social back in 2008, two rounds of cat attacks over the years left just one little sprig, I think it is finally gone (this last little bit did ok for a couple of years)
Little plant drying outBetter times for the little green plant
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars," "Star Trek," "Doctor Who," or "Transformers."
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The crown
Trump wearing Burger King crown
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Final product
Absolute Raspberry Bedlam mead, nice ruby color
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
The early fermentation looked like this (thus the Bedlam)
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
From a quick search (not an expert) the difference is how long it’s left on the vine? — more red = ancho, more brown = mulato www.mexicanplease.com/what-are-mul...
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I have good news and bad news :)
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
GOP Today “And Achtually…”
Problematic dude saying “it’s still the Democrats”
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Holy mole
Packaging for Trader Jose’s Avacado’s Number Guacamole to Go (an actual product)
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I’m not built to experience mornings but here we are
Sun peeking out on the horizon
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Yeah I have an ok telescope and nice mount — I can do better just not from my parking lot with Bortle 8/9 skies :) And finding it harder to drive 2 hours each way these days and find the time.
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I may need to work harder on mine… :) Was just a short test shot in poor lighting but I really would like to work on it eventually
Test shot of M31 Andromeda Galaxy, not looking at all like a Galaxy; mostly just washed out blue
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I’ll add to the mayhem
Clippy with a bunch of eyes titled “Biblically Accurate Clippy”
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
If Biden had done a tenth of what Trump is doing MAGA would have been violently rioting and shooting officers trying to enforce even the most mundane and uncontroversial laws Remember what happened when the government tried to make them stop stealing from federal lands (not paying the grazing fee)?
Right wing armed militia at the Bundy standoffRight wing armed militia at the Bundy standoffRight wing armed militia (sniper) at the Bundy standoff
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Yeah, we do way worse things and that they came up with a way to save them is kind of endearing — at least CO2 poisoning is painless (for birds too as best I can tell). Meanwhile our Housecats kill billions of birds a year.
US Bird Deaths
Wind turbines 320,000
Fossil fuels 750,000
Communications towers 6,600,000
Powerlines 39,950,000
Buildings 675,500,000
Domestic cats 2,650,000,000
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
This is the “Bochet” process of caramelizing the honey for that batch — a lot of people record the “time” but to me the temperature is what is important, just like in candy making. It also has some homemade vanilla extract added (in a good bourbon) Estimated at 13.5%
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
When then moron in chief rails about windmills…
Causes of US bird deaths
Wind turbines 320,000
Fossil fuel pits & ponds 750,000
Communications towers 6,600,000
Powerlines 39,950,000
Buildings 675,500,000
Domestic cats 2,650,000,000
Source: US Fish and Wildlife Services
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. not a selfie.
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Did you see the moon and Venus?
Crescent moon and Venus very close in the early morning sky
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Prophetic (looks like waving bye)
Quoted post was deleted and the gif interpreted as waving bye
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
And what did they do to get that peace? Did they have fun little debates with the Redcoats? What they (Thomas Jefferson in this case) actually said are things like: www.monticello.org/research-edu...
letter dated November 13, 1787, to William Stephens Smith, the son-in-law of John Adams, from Thomas Jefferson

And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
So there is this video of “hellfire missile hits UFO and bounces off it” These fucking morons can’t identify what is CLEARLY A MOTHERFUCKING BALLOON. The missile hits it and it “pops” into several pieces AND IS CLEARLY JUST BLOWING IN THE WIND. We are too stupid to have a country
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
This is very confusing satellite imagery
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Bit of a double rainbow
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
It’s happening…
Sea Moss but looks like cordyceps from Last Of Us
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
That’s how I felt, especially since it was super cloudy — got VERY lucky to have a tiny window where we could see through the clouds for totality. And then was shocked and happy we could see the prominence. This was the sky — I almost didn’t set up
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Trump announces Caesar Flickerman for White House Spokesperson.
Caesar Flickerman, the announcer from Hunger Games
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Post one of your favorite movie characters 🎥
Clip from movie Silent Running, one of the little robots Huey, Dewey, and Louie
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it? I’m doomed
Airplane the movie meme where Leslie Nelson bursts into the thrashing cockpit and says “Good luck, we’re all counting on you”
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Haven’t been here in a while but this dish used to come with a proper deep fried wok egg with a luscious runny yoke. Now it’s this sad blob… The dish itself (Pad Kra Prow) is still good with a serious amount of heat.
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I’ll share some of mine 😂 but yay for good books
Caffeine 500 capsules of 200mg each
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Looks like Kerrville in Texas is about to get hit again
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Then there is the emoji programming language www.emojicode.org
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
That’s an insane amount of water for 12 hours. It’s already hit 650.00 in just 20 minutes since I took the screenshot.
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I got the Concorde today, it’s pretty complex Graphics are a little 1990s but should be interesting to learn
Concorde flight deck, lots of dials and knobs and switches
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Deleted and Reported, I also don’t live in CA So tired of these shithole mfers
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Dennis Moore
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Absolutely disgusting and downright evil and corrupt — I’ve seen less suspect emails from Nigerian Princes.
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Dark Star @drdarkstar.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Neat! I keep a “geo history” as a custom map in google maps that I shared with my son.
Google map showing a trip through Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and ArizonaGoogle map with custom location markers all over
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