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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 24/09/2026

Nothing like a flight of three T6s doing circuits around your property to welcome you home

Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 10/09/2026

Furry migration this weekend! Packing up today, there tomorrow. (Like this post if you'd like to catch up there) Also, you might say I've been to a few cons...

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 09/09/2026

This icon on the packaging for 2032 batteries: tease your kids with them before using!

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 09/09/2026

One of the reasons I moved to Minnesota

Panoramic view of a large grassy yard bordered by trees at sunset, with pink clouds across a blue sky. A barn, camper, greenhouse, and small outbuildings sit along the far edge of the lawn.

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 05/09/2026

Can we also reset furcons to then too?

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 25/08/2026

Could stay longer in a few states I guess...

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 22/08/2026

I used to work on those! And I guess I still do 😁

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 17/08/2026

And finally, the raccoons!

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 17/08/2026

Earlier in the driveway...

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 17/08/2026

Turkey and raccoon baby time! 🧵

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 13/08/2026

Ramen with tofu to tame the unholy spices in this batch.

A saucepan of instant ramen noodles simmering in orange broth on a gas stove, topped with cubes of tofu and small pieces of green vegetables.

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 02/08/2026

Paws with Claws - retractable claws in a furry hand paw. www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 02/08/2026

No cheating Post your lockscreen

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 01/08/2026

App says common nipplewort

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 27/07/2026

Also today was warm. Uff da

Screenshot of a smart home app showing an outdoor temperature sensor. The current outdoor temperature is 97.0°F, updated 10 minutes ago. Below, a 5-minute aggregated history graph shows temperatures dropping overnight from about 88°F to a low near 76°F, then climbing steadily through the day to a peak of 101°F at 6:05 PM before falling back to 97°F. A tooltip on the graph highlights the 6:05 PM reading, with minimum, mean, and maximum all at 101°F.

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 26/07/2026

The first batch is canned and cooling.

Five sealed mason jars of homemade bread-and-butter pickles sit cooling on a white kitchen towel in front of a sunny window. The jars are packed with sliced cucumbers, onion rings, and visible whole spices in a yellow-green brine. Potted plants line the windowsill behind the jars, with green trees visible outside.

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 25/07/2026

Bread & Butter pickles time! 9 pounds of cucumbers. 1 mandolin. One fingertip missing Found it tho, got bandaged up then sanitized everything again and finished up Those darn things always lull me into not paying close attention! And no, the vegetable holder that comes with it is mostly useless

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 21/07/2026

Without saying your age - what's your favourite movie that came out when you were 18.

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 21/07/2026

Guess I'm making some Bread And Butter Pickles soon!

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 20/07/2026

If you see this, post a smiling OC.

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 18/07/2026

We do get a lot of them, and some nice specimens!

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 18/07/2026

And some video of it in the yard there

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 18/07/2026

I hear this weird clunking noise from the other side of the office area and I look up at the window and there is a turkey poking at the window!

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 18/07/2026

...and just like that, I qualified for fossil status

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 17/07/2026

Here's my (calibrated) sensor here east of the cities. Dug out my COVID masks to use when outdoors

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 12/07/2026

Because the chickens produce four to five a day. We've tried giving them away but can't sometimes so instead of having them go bad we use the freeze dryer

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 12/07/2026

Need some more? 7 dozen prior to freeze drying

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 12/07/2026

Was out on the deck getting photos of our local Rocket Raccoon in the pond when a hummingbird buzzed me and landed on the feeder. First time I've gotten a picture with the wings stopped! 😀

A hummingbird hovers beside a glass nectar feeder mounted near a window, with leafy green trees softly blurred in the background.

A raccoon stands in a part of a shallow drying-out pond among tall grasses and aquatic plants, illuminated by warm morning sunlight.

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 02/07/2026

Yesterday evening the clouds were amazing, a canvas of pastels so vivid that it gave everything a surreal look. This photo does not do it justice

A wide outdoor scene at sunset shows a large, dramatic cloud formation filling most of the left side of the sky. The cloud is lit in warm peach, orange, and pale pink tones, with soft, wispy edges curling upward and outward against a clear blue-gray evening sky. Below it is a grassy yard with scattered white clover flowers, bordered by dense green trees and darker conifers along the horizon. A large leafy tree leans in from the left edge of the frame, partly silhouetted against the glowing cloud. Near the center-right, a small fenced area and chicken coop sits at the edge of the field. The overall mood is calm and striking, with the sunset light making the cloud look towering and luminous above the quiet rural landscape.

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 17/06/2026

I like Mountain Dew, but no. Just... nope. www.wxow.com/news/wiscons...

Box of six Mountain Dew Dunker donuts from The Kwikery Bake Shop, with green glazed ring donuts visible through the windowed packaging. The box has bright green Mountain Dew branding, mountain artwork, and a prep/sell-by sticker on the top right.

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 17/06/2026

Wild rabbit? No. Free-range fursona

A tan colored rabbit sits alert in a field of cut grass

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 13/06/2026

New watch band for my new Pebble Time 2 watch.

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 12/06/2026

Hey, how about a 50 second video for #FCF? All soft and floppy.

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 23/05/2026

Pulled pork for a picnic tomorrow

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 18/05/2026

Yes, have a 12x10 shed where the power comes in and it's perfect. Has a temperature-controlled attic fan too. Budgeted for next year; waiting on some good battery technology improvements however

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 18/05/2026

Forgot to mention it registered on my seismograph. shop.raspberryshake.org - I have the 1D model.

Alt text: Dark-themed seismic waveform plot for station AM.S9B15.00.EHZ, showing vertical ground velocity in meters per second over time on 2026-05-18 UTC. The signal is mostly low-amplitude noise, with a smaller burst around 00:27:45 and a larger burst peaking around 00:28:14. A white arrow points to the trailing portion of the larger waveform packet, around 00:28:20, where amplitudes are decreasing but still elevated above background noise.

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 16/05/2026

I've had an 850 credit rating for a few years now with no late payments in 10 years. I just paid off my tractor loan ($23k) and it dropped from 850 to 826 overnight. So weird, and yes, I understand the rating has a metric for open accounts; I just went under some limit with that loan closing

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 13/05/2026

Oops, forgot to clean my NAS for too long. Back up and running now. Glad it didn't melt things... Noticed the fans spinning harder than usual this morning

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 12/05/2026

Huh. I'll take "Things I never expected to see in Minnesota" for $100 Alex

Screenshot of a post from the National Weather Service Twin Cities account (@NWSTwinCities) warning that strong winds have picked up dust from farm fields, reducing visibility to as low as half a mile. The post says the dust appears as a beige-colored plume moving southeast between Ortonville and west of Mankato, Minnesota.

Below the text is a weather radar-style map of Minnesota and surrounding areas, shown in vivid blues, purples, reds, oranges, and beige tones. A pale beige streak of dust stretches diagonally across western and southern Minnesota near Ortonville, Marshall, and Mankato. City labels including Duluth, Minneapolis, St. Cloud, Fergus Falls, and Eau Claire are visible. The image appears to be an animated weather GIF frame timestamped “Tue 19:00Z 12-May-26.”

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 11/05/2026

I've bought all my toasters from yard sales. Latest one is a 4-slice model with two separate controls (2 slices per control). Bought it in 2007 and still going strong. Perfect toast.

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 29/04/2026

For those that'd like a more serene warm scene, here's Moorea's bay with a schooner scene from 1987

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Duke Hyena @duke.hyena.zone · 29/04/2026

And enough doom-and-gloom posts Have a scene from 2021's big snowstorm here in Minnesota

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