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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 5h

I just hit 200k miles in my car a couple of weeks ago. Today, I have the cover off to adjust the valves, but I'm proud to say that it looks so damn clean because of regular oil changes. This car has given me 154k miles so far, and here's hoping we can make it to 300k 🤞

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm on day ten of fifteen consecutive days off and I can already tell you that I'm going to be fuckin' USELESS when I go back to work 😆

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Introducing Gurpo

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Post vacation depression sure didn't take long to hit. The idea that I will not be able to wake up tomorrow and see a mountain quietly watching over me, and following as I go about town, is enough to make me cry. Texas really is the ugliest state in so many ways.

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've got four new books for my library and I'm so excited to see what I can learn from them!

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

this is wrong for several reasons, chief among them the fact that at least one person is on record saying L. Ron Hubbard was good at sex

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We were out exploring backroads for shits and giggles and accidentally drove right up on a herd of about thirty elk! I don't have pictures or videos because I was absolutely entranced by the sight and listening to them grunt, bleat, and bugle at each other. I definitely won't forget that soon.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Being back out here in Flagstaff is making me consider some crazy things to try to make it possible to live out here again. This town has its issues, but I wouldn't be living in a finance bro and war machine hellhole where the air hurts to breath 🤷‍♂️

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fifteen years ago, in a fit of boredom, I made a silly little label for an e-brake valve in Grand Canyon Railway's venerable GP7. I was stuck babysitting a work train in the middle of nowhere while everyone else went into town for lunch. Yesterday I received confirmation that it's still there!

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sorry but no

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Slap these in the replies or comments of any AI generated material you see. I'm not even going to put on the airs of decency or politeness.

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

*suspicious lobster wife* where did you get that shrimp *still confused lobster* you're never gonna believe this

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026

HaJ3FgupAm8RrDJW3MHgT9X7Ft27eVaD What is that? That's a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

get in loser we're gonna go do the fast and furious truck robbery scene but instead of VCRs it's for a bunch of kirkland signature motor oil

Vicki smiling and leaning on the door of her Jeep

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New locomotives for the TRE? I think you mean new locomotives for Zach If my dog recognizes it, so should you

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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Cartoonist: Slyngstad

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Good morning to everyone except those who put the toilet paper roll on the wrong way Don't give me that excuse; train your cats better

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections

My jeep with a gas pump in her fuel filler

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“Is your mayonnaise too spicy? Does seeing a four story apartment complex fill you with unnatural dread? Are you worried your kids might hang out with ‘those people?’ If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, try our new BEEEIIIIGGEE line of bland, uninspiring children’s toys!”

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I hate plecos Okay, not all plecos, but I hate THIS pleco I spent hours working on the tank yesterday and setting it up to look pretty again, and I woke up to find that this finned fucker evicted an entire fucking bush from where I planted it. ...anybody in DFW want a free galaxy pleco?

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

hey man i’ve been hesitant to bring this up but lately you’ve been leaving a lot of items in my enclosure that i find, shall we say, less than enriching

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's a wonder that my wife tolerates the way I smell when I get home from work because I just caught a whiff of my work clothes as I put them in the laundry and gagged a bit The fact that she doesn't hose me off in the driveway is a fuckin' testament to her love for me

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I tried to explain a very nuanced opinion about why I'm EXTREMELY jaded about 9/11 to my boomer mother-in-law and was *immediately* accused of being a terrorist sympathizer. She furthered my point AND played the stereotype of a person that made me so jaded simultaneously. Incredible stuff.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Literally every fucking election, except maybe 2 of my adult life

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Why is it that every fucking time Trump comes to Dallas, every bit of public transit turns into complete operational chaos? Fuck it, I get a bunch overtime, which is really the only good thing he's ever done for me.

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So it turns out that going from a very inactive job to a very, very physically intensive job in triple digit summer heat is a bad idea, just FYI If y'all need me I'm going to be sleeping off the heat exhaustion over here...

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Russia is inventing a whole new kind of guy

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"oh wow, you're so good at using that ladle to glop the slop! Did you make that ladle yourself? No? That tracks. Bless your heart." 🍲

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

From now on AI use shall be described as "glopping the slop". No, I will take no further questions at this time.

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Working as a conductor again for the first time in two months and we've got a student engineer with us who I fucking loathe. Shockingly enough, telling him not to talk to me about anything that isn't today's work has actually made him quiet. Usually he babbles when he's anxious.

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I just realized that this is the first Labor Day that I haven't worked in nine years. Holy moly, I forgot what it was like to just get an extra day to do whatever the fuck I want and it's nice. The overtime I usually get working is missed, but I can't beat relaxing. DON'T LET THEM TAKE THIS FROM US

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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josh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world · 05/09/2026

successful climaxes; or as i like to call them,

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HyperBurner @hyperburner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sweet, merciful clouds have graced us today and brought a slight reprieve from the heat!

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You know it's a passion project when you're up until 4 in the morning doing research for a thing that will probably never pay a single dime (Holy shit the music industry is so weirdly interconnected and I can't stop geeking out)

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

People who dump photos of just anything at all into the wrong place on Google Maps piss me off. I'm looking for photos of Stevie Ray Vaughan's grave, not photos of the funeral of somebody completely unrelated 30+ years after the fact. C'mon man, it's not THAT hard.

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

There's a guy that tags a car in one of our storage tracks just about every weekend and they are ALL fuckin' bangers

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I thought that I just got a random urge to shave my face entirely clean, but nope, it's not random. I realized that this happens every fucking year - right about the same time, even - when we get sustained 100F°+ temps for more than a couple of weeks. Go figure.

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This locomotive is back after more than a decade out of service following some major mechanical failures. Place your bets now on how long it will last before it breaks down again in a spectacular fashion.

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engineertexavery.bsky.social @engineertexavery.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When I was young, I used to think "only the good die young" meant dying before the age of 30ish Today I realize "young" has been pushed way back because Dolly Parton died at 80 while Henry Kissinger made it to 100, and Donald Trump is still kicking at 80. We continue down the worst timeline.

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