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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Still one of the most bittersweet things from last year for me. Seeing her in Mobile at Sunset as the train left for New Orleans, I figured that'd be the only and last time I'd ever see her in person unless I learn to scuba dive...

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Wheeling out the term "ALASKAN KING" At some point...

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So for the Guppy aircraft, they're hinged on one side, so the front opens up and you can load things into the aircraft that way. The Beluga airplanes just have a hinged door at the front above the cockpit. The Dreamlifter is hinged so the tail opens up for loading cargo inside.

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Airbus used to use Super Guppy aircraft for this before modifying their own planes to do it, so there's a pretty solid lineage. These were also used to transport Apollo components to Florida for assembly!

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

But yeah, back when you could still get 35mm from the Film Photography Project, I shot 4 rolls of it on my dad's old AE-1 and it's still some of the most incredible stuff ever made.

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I love this, along with the idea that Columbo is straight up a fae or something. <3

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Oh, definitely! Pictures don't do it justice, but it is still one of the most awe inspiring and moving things I've ever seen with my own eyes. <3 Enjoy it, and I wish I was in line to see this one and the 2027 one!

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Papaya Badger did have a few that are sort of in that ballpark!

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Man, but he should watch the vampire cosmonaut show...

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

There's actually an amazing final gag I laughed even harder at just now. One of the accessories on the car is a TV antenna... which is funny because now I have a car with a cellular antenna that can stream videos on the dash. Wild that, in a way, 75 years later, the car of tomorrow really is here.

The "affordable" working man's car... which isn't QUITE so affordable once you add all the accessories. Incidentally, adjusted for inflation, that price is the equivalent of $108,009.79, so that joke only gets more accurate and funnier with time.

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

"What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with." Happy #towelday and don't panic!

A person holding up their hand with an extended thumb in the universal motion for hitchhiking, above a copy of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" resting in a towel on a green director's chair.

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

God, Swear Trek was wonderful. I still have this one saved because it's brilliant.

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Look, blame the latest @wtyppod.bsky.social for this idea and I'm only mildly sorry...

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

A McKinnon G-21G Turbo Goose (an upgraded version of the Grumman Goose). Because really, it's a plane that can land on water, a runway or a rough strip somewhere. This thing can get out of dodge and land anywhere you want, within reason.

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Boy, disenfranchisement is FUN, y'all! It's SUPER fucking wonderful! I _LOVE_ participating in this process and having it not fucking matter! So anyway, fuck Jeff Landry and the rest of the GOP, because what the fuck, man.

A sign at a polling place indicating that the race for LA District 3 for the House of Representatives has been cancelled and that votes cast in the race will not be counted

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This moment still lives rent free in my head yeeeeears later

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

So, I'm in Houston for the day looking at a car, but while I'm here... I paid a visit to the site of the Outpost Tavern, the astronaut bar near JSC that you might have seen in For All Mankind. It burned down many years ago and not much is left, but I'm the kind of space nerd to want to go there.

A wooden railing in front of an empty field that once held a bar frequented by astronauts.

A small pile of broken concrete, dirt and pieces of wood, some with red paint on them. These once made up a legendary astronaut bar near Johnson Space Center.

A wider view of an empty field with mown grass near some abandoned pipes and debris and a fence that once marked where an astronaut hangout was.

An empty field with some overgrown pavement in Webster, TX. This was once the site of the Outpost Tavern, a bar frequented by astronauts working for NASA.

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Regular long distance service is important! Dire Wolf Station has proven that and also proven that I really need to work with schedules more to balance things out...

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Olive the Aftonsparv has been given a proper protective suit! They look pretty cute in it, honestly. The former owner of it has been gifted to my mom, so she now has a fuzzy teddy bear while my alien gets a snazzy outfit.

A green IKEA Aftonsparv plush toy in an appropriately sized white polyester space suit with blue stripes, propped up in a green recliner for a photograph.

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

"—when suddenly, the animator suffered a fatal heart attack!"

The animator suffers a fatal heart attack in Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

They literally had "HOME OF THE X-37B" on one of the doors when I was on a tour there in 2014 and I was just laughing at the absurdity of "We can't tell you what it does, but it lives here and we are PROUD OF IT." (Picture below not mine, sadly, but of the door to one of the OPFs)

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

It came from the latest bulletin from these folks, who apparently have dominion over these things. Congratulations!

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

@postoctobrist.bsky.social So someone in a server I'm in linked this... you now have an asteroid named for you, it seems.

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

What's going on over there, o' quill-ed friend of the north...?

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

... well, I'm adding this right up there to "listening to the audiobook of 'The Hot Zone' in the Atlanta Airport and seeing news of an Ebola outbreak" as forms of existential terror I wasn't aware I could experience.

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Alright. Who's the snow leopard that's tagging the gondola cars?

A gondola freight rail car with the word "MOW" and "DO NOT HUMP" sprayed on it with spray paint.

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I can hardly believe it and I just saw it: the aurora borealis, visible from a rest area north of Opelousas, Louisiana. I could even see a red glow with the naked eye... thats the coolest thing this space loving nerd has seen since the eclipse. <3

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

If you see this, repost with a game that released the year you were born.

"Deep in the Caribbean, the island of Melee..."
The opening title screen to The Secrete of Monkey Island.

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I took the Mardi Gras Service the week it began operation just to go see her down in Mobile, and... yeah. She doesn't deserve this. She deserved to be a museum ship and live on with dignity and restored to what she looked like running on the Atlantic. Now she'll be a reef. Just... damn.

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Going back to read something in @minusculetask.bsky.social's comic and noticed something... Well, let's just hope Director Loktu never needs to open that envelope and burns it unread when the new PM of Arctica in sworn in. 😇

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

As ever... Glory to you and your identity!

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Jean the adventure opossum is, unfortunately, at home and cannot offer his insights on this, so please have this image I took earlier. I'm sure he'd approve highly!

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Yeah, looks like they'd be inhibited below 70,000 feet.

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

YEAH. It is literally "ditch the tank, do a flip, and pull out of the dive with enough delta-V to get back to the SLF." It is absolutely unreal. I'm in a Discord server with the guy who suggested the video and as soon as I woke up and saw it, I was just going wide-eyed.

A space shuttle orbiter performs a "split-s" aerobatic maneuver during a return to launch site abort. The orbiter is in the middle of completing a loop after reaching apogee and is diving downwards while heading back towards its launch site to land.

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Hey, Bill Cassidy! Thanks for voting to let this happen! And before you say RFK, Jr. lied to you and this wouldn't happen... we freaking warned you and you're not ducking your responsibility for this mess, pal.

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Been in North Carolina for the weekend for my cousin's wedding! Flying out of Charlotte in a few minutes to head back home. Meanwhile, Ike the little Aftonsparv has been observing strange new sights. The airplanes have fascinated him along the way.

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I do this a LOT with my stuff, since I tend to use the real world as a framework/inspiration for stuff. The most obvious example of this, though, is an astronaut bar in my setting which is explicitly an homage to the Outpost Tavern in Houston, down to the interior decorations.

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hoomiku.bsky.social @hoomiku.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Such a good space doggo! <3 *Has his fellow space related canines wave at her.*

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