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Fred Robel

@froebull.bsky.social
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Aerospace inspector, sometimes writer; calling Northern Lower Michigan home. (he/him)

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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I appreciate your shit stirring. Keep on carrying on.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A Radio Shack TRS-80, plugged into the family color television in the den.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
He’s a mentally impaired edgelord.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Jerky needs that air cushion to avoid crushing! That’s how we get Jerky Crumbs.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yeah, big no on the insurance preferred vendor. Your BIL sounds like the way to go. Hope it goes smoothly for you. We had to clean and fix after a basement flood two years ago. It was memorable.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just an evolution of corporate techno speak. I hate it. Those TPS reports done yet?
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Christ. I haven’t thought about that short story in awhile. I’ll have to revisit my Ellison.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I don’t know how this would work on Air Force 1; but on a regular commercial jet, you could fly it, as long as you removed the spent slide, deactivate that door slide system, and you can’t use a certain number of seats near that door.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The emergency slide has to be disengaged before opening the door. They are put in the armed cond. for every flight. Each door has its own “arm-disarm” lever. It happens at least once every year or two in our cargo fleet. Just takes one person forgetting. Or not aware of the need to disarm it first
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I mean, Pythagoras was known for promoting a pagan communal living lifestyle. No surprise that our hyper anti communist right wing Christian leaders would diss on him. Not that they are in any way aware of any of the guys history. Nor would they care to learn.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If I get any of these in the wild, I’m gonna deface them so hard.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Dude, I lost not one, but two, good 15 years of experience type aviation jobs in 2008. It was a fucking brutal roller coaster.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I always loved that Picard one. I’m just a sucker for nice profiles.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Bone
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I hate these times when I can’t really tell if you made this up or not.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I was disappointed in the adaptation too. Too many liberties taken with the science for the sake of brevity.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is what we need, unfortunately.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Atari’s Computer Space! 1971
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We are kind of beating this point to death. I can easily damage equipment, or myself, by misusing a screwdriver. Heck, a screwdriver is a legit tool to unalive someone. So where do you draw the line of where the user bears all the responsibility? One person hurt? Ten? A hundred?
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Ok. Now make me a regulation for a wrench. Or a screwdriver. You can’t regulate your way out of everything.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
He doesn’t have a hair on his ass if he doesn’t do it. I triple dog dare him.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Most tools can be useful for one thing, and a disaster for others. That is on the user for not using it correctly in the end.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Conversely; Biden’s four years moved along quickly. Human time perception is BS. I hate it.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The wry side of my brain recognizes that any disingenuous person could say “ I support the military” and as a taxpayer, not be lying.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
That’s some Warhammer looking shit.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
See, They’re “McDonald’s”.  I’m “Mcdowell’s”
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Looks like I’m on Team Bollard for this round.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Reminds me of those old fresh air cages that could hang out a high rise apartment window. You could put an infant in it to get fresh air “safely”.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Ah. I misunderstood where the watermark was hiding.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Better arrest all the FBI peeps that pay informants in various groups too, then.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Wouldn’t the old school “hand transcribe” technique defeat this? Have the AI generate your text. Then you hand type it into your word processor. Gaining the side benefit of tweaking things slightly as you go? Essentially a copy paste with typing skills.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
They’re probably feeing all the articles into an AI blender, and will post the resulting word smoothies as new content.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It’s a dang shame when bad things happen to bad people. Just a real shame.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I’m happy with the way Bluesky is. I’d even pay to play. But if it becomes a sewer like Twitter did, I’m out.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Are we to the “Fuck it, smoke’em if you got’em” point yet? Or should we still hope for better Green Policies?
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I get that sometimes too. It’s weird. Then I have to go through my emails and hope I didn’t delete the order confirmation.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Switching from one job to the next is so stressful. I’m probably going to have to do it at least one more time before I die/retire. Not looking forward to it. Maybe I’ll get lucky, and won’t have to though. 16 years in this time around.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Glad you’re able to move on from it.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Good is bad and bad is good. It all makes sense when the old noggin is full of Jello pudding.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Aside from the Elon ruining thing by his involvement thing: I dislike newer Teslas for old man reasons. I like having my gauges in front of the steering wheel. New teslas have gone to center screen only. I like separate buttons for things like climate control. I like mechanical door handles
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Some days all the projects at home are more appealing for sure
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
That’s so wonderful! We had one over the past year. I have not seen her in a couple months, but she is at least two years old. I hope she had some babies as well.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Me. 1994. On my toolbox.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I mean, if anyone would know how to win “not legally”, it might be him.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Fragile men don’t need to be running for office. If you feel the need to whip out your man card and list your man qualifications to justify yourself; I don’t need you screwing up our country even more than it is. I respect people LESS when I get a verbally vomited resume when I meet them.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
They sound more like old school televangelists every day. I suppose that is the natural evolution of the GOP merging with right wing Christian nationalism.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The ones with question marks for a level are the most dangerous in the games I’ve played. Lol
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Keep yourself and your animal friends cool. I hate heat waves.
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
This is such a bad idea. Those planes are old, and put under high stresses. They need inspecting even more than regular planes. What is that man thinking?
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Fred Robel @froebull.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I’m not familiar with the author. Do you think he presents that contradictory point of view through a lack of self awareness? Or is he doing it on purpose? I’ve noticed when I write, that I sometimes focus on one perspective at the detriment of an even more important point I could be making.
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