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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The computer tells me two hours until an NRO launch using the FalconH. But, family called about a malfunction with their water - well supplied without any manual interrupt to irrigation. :/ Better go to sleep rather than watch another goofy spy bird.

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

'We're offering a new, more capable drop-in replacement for our years-long standard motor starters. So the machine's footprint will be just a couple centimeters different in the x and y-axis.' 😒

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reportedly a second blanket had to be fetched because Olive wouldn't share the one she was using for nesting.

Olive and Titan the Boston terriers.
Olive has a large blanket ballsd up infk a singular nest leaving Titan to use the bare carpet for his loafing.

After moving a second blanket in both dogs have made nests for themselves on the office floor.

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Mykael Wyvern — 🔮🧙🏻‍♂️🐉 @wyvern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The hand written sharpie is perfect

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🦇 Murphy @mjosmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I appreciate how someone discovered it before and just sharpied "DANGER" on the side of the drum. Well done.

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Someone might have found an unusually novel orphan source here in the states and shared it over on another site. Good advice all ready from professionals on how to proceed. :) I hope we get to learn later if it was actually an orphan source or simply a poorly neglected pig. :D

Radiation source container reportedly found in an outbuilding. Southwestern United States.

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Dave @deemoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

While showering you can watch geckos hunt moths on the illuminated bathroom window. They love it and greedily stuff themselves fast as possible before the light is out. :)

Gecko outside a bathroom window, hunting bugs.

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Got up at 0500, took her outside and then we went back to bed until I absolutely had to strap my boots on and leave at 0600. She then starts her daytime gig with some help from Titan dog.

Olive the Boston terrier at her spot in the office this morning.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

A lot of people like to imagine they'll get in an epic fistfight with a nazi or rapist, but won't even go "hey, that's not fucking cool" to a coworker being a fashy or sex pest asshole.

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On this day in 2018, at UCF's engineering campus. :)

Oppssum, nervously caught outside the engineering building as students begin their morning.

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jeez. I made a last minute grocery store trip for work lunches and an older man, dressed like an Italian mobster from the movies started yelling at the young woman bagging his groceries. Cursing at her, berating the cashier too before physically stepping up to her, inches away and a solid 12" taller

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RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Some mothmans

Mothman statue in point pleasant West Virginia. It is a large silver statue depicting a roughly humanoid figure with tattered wings and red eyes.

Mothman costume inside the Mothman museum. It is rubbery with textured muscles and large red orb eyes.

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One from the Mark Rowley collection.

Old advertisement for a cloud chamber, aimed at schools and Universities for demonstrations during lessons.

Afaik, found and shared by Mark Rowley suring his archival efforts.

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Kaw! 🍉 @kawotter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As a legitimate 'greymuzzle' (middle-aged+ furry who has been in the community a long time) take it from me: furry hate/phobia is always, without fail, simply a vehicle for homophobia and/or transphobia. Tommy is very clearly attempting to use it here as another angle against trans people.

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So, we have completed our obligatory National anthem, playing as skydivers dropped in towing American flags. Ended with an AC/DC track, Thunderstruck, and fade into an ad encouraging folks to speak with your local recruiter today about joining "our elite fighting forces!"

Naval skydiving act, flying American flags down in tandem as the National anthem, and some AC/DC plays before a military recruiting advertisement.

A pair of skydivers towing an American flag with an aerobatic plane in lower left frame pictured here.

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fingers crossed for no alarms - I'm going to try attending the airshow today. Hoping to pick up some decent photographs, a little chatter on my mesh radio and a couple of radioactive planes or things on the tiny scintillation detector. :D I packed an ok microphone too ,for any video worthy acts. 🙂

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Orlando Wetlands Park, an engineered wetland that serves as a final treatment step for effluent destined for discharge into the St.Johns river, has a nice new visitors center. In one room this video on our wastewater collection and treatment system here was looping. :D youtu.be/D-EPhRq09FU?...

youtu.be

Orlando Wetlands - Water Reclamation Presentation

YouTube video by Grant Trent

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Very busy morning at the wetlands park. This young alligator, enjoying some sun, seemed mildly concerned about all of the attention it suddenly met. 🐊😬

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Judging by currently listed asking prices I'm feeling pretty good about holding on to my only ³He tube even as I have no use for it. Before the clear upswing in the hobby, and before the war drastically heated up, I remember these little Soviet vintage ³He tubes being around $70USD. Not anymore. 😳

Listing for NOS ³He tube, modified for immediaye use. Presumably targeted at the fusor hobbyist community.

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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lula bans online betting in Brasil

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Olive doesn't mind that we didn't bring home another dog or cat. She wants all the attention anyhow. :) And right now she is giving me a side-eye that says I should turn out the light and get into bed even if I don't join her in sleeping yet. heh

Olive the Boston terrier, claiming her half of my queen size bed and indicating it's time for sleep. :3

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

After work today we went to check on a four year old Boston who was in the local animal shelter. Fortunately he was adopted and walked out the door just an hour before we arrived. Walked through the whole place though, I'm glad it's a service our county provides but the necessity is very sad. 😢

A heartworm positive, male, 4-year-old Boston terrier at the Orange County animal shelter.

Fortunately he was adopted.
I'd say odds are if we had put eyes on him he would have come home with us.

The important thing is he has heartworm treatments underway and a home to go to. 😊

A friendly cat, part of an outdoor colony at the animal shelter.
A passing staff member described them as "security" because they habitually lay in front of the entrance doors, scrutinizing and/or soliciting petting from visitors.

A kitten asleep in their cage, awaiting adoption.

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Unknown rocket launch, I can't remember. Data indicates it was mid September of last year, 2025. A nice sunrise view of the vehicle well underway, high and down range. :)

Rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, during sunrise and viewed from inland(West) of the launch complex.

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skip intro @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 05/03/2026

good afternoon, fam sun ra NUCLEAR WAR youtu.be/vrwAk875sIc?...

youtu.be

Nuclear War

YouTube video by Sun Ra - Topic

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skip intro @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

good afternoon, fam... the mighty terror HYDROGEN BOMB

youtu.be

Hydrogen Bomb

YouTube video by Release - Topic

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am on emergency calls this weekend but hoping it stays quiet. I have a few little projects I've let languish too long. Need to mate that LaBr(Ce) crystal and try some spectroscopy with it. Also, have parts to build 2-3 solar mesh nodes. Aim to more reliably send messages to a pal across town. 😄

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Report from home, dogs helping in the office this afternoon. :)

Olive and Titan the Boston terriers, engineering assistants.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The Fort Worth Zoo is one of the few programs to successfully breed Texas horned lizards (Phrynosoma cornutum) in captivity, with the first zoo-reared group hatched in 2005. They've been so successful, they've been able to release them back into the wild to bolster declining wild populations.

A baby Texas horned lizard with eyes shut is approached by a giant human hand, about to scoop it up. It has a piece of bark on its back, and is yellow with dark patches.
CREDIT: Fort Worth Zoo

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Never have been sure how to feel avout this display but better, surely, than Laika. :/

The Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics - Belka and Strelka, taxidermy display of the space faring dogs.

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Cadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I would like to commend Tommy Tuberville for the construction of a colossal Munger Hall-esque residential space in his mind for every furry to live in rent free

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Stupidest man in America speaks out on an important issue: Alabama Sen Tommy Tuberville: “Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community. It's terrifying.” (CSPAN)

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Goodnight. Here's hoping it's a quiet one — I drew a short stick at work leaving me covering emergency calls for one of our recently departed technicians. 🫤 Some younger folks seem to be chasing lucrative but shorter term gigs within the data centers boom. I'm sticking to public service/sector. 🙂

Olive and Titan the Boston terrier dogs getting the last of their roughhousing in before bed. :3

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hmm, I do not recognize this critter. 😮 Does anyone have a suggestion for its identification? Thanks in advance. :)

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bat near one entrance to the engineering campus at UCF, University of Central Florida. :)

Bat on the wall of the engineering building at UCF.

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The whole zoo crew pictured out back not too long ago. :) Dogs, cats and some variety of other companion animals are one of the great treats in life. I find myself wishing them all more longevity but their time here as pals, however short, is good enough. 😌

This was the whole dog crew just a few months ago.

Cole/Roscoe the Labrador who stayed here because a relative who got him as a puppy was not home from work often enough to look after him.

And of course the Bostons - one being Titan, a rescue my Mom found listed for free at four years old in a local paper along the WV/VA border and then little Olive who we picked up after a two year waiting list from a family in North Florida.

Sadly, at ~13 years old just a few months ago Cole/Roscoe the black lab died in his sleep at the foot of my bed overnight. No apparent illness or unusual distress preceded his passing.

He was panting a bit that night as he did when his hip pain was acting up but it was nothing that seemed concerning.
He was a good dog and the only one I've ever lived with who went without calling a vet in for euthanasia. :/

I'm not sure if that's better or worse but I'm glad I got to enjoy a few years of time with him considering his official owners seemed indifferent to his presence. :)

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

She doesn't mind a bath, she doesn't mind a blow drying but Oli really doesn't care for teeth brushing. Still, she endures it and hopefully enjoys more years of fair dental health for the hassle. :)

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is my Aunt's dog, Chloe. She is supervising as I make some electrical repairs on their water heater circuit. :)

Chloe the Boston terrier with her favorite toy, a stuffed Christmas tree.

Chloe the Boston terrier, she has a very long tongue.

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