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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 15h

Lol got me. But also this just seems like a company keeping sales records and then saying "you like to buy the things you've bought." I mean, yeah. Like wow, you know I have a cat, could it have been the recurring cat treat orders??

Product preferences: Values technical aerospace documentation

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 21h

My least favorite kind of post on this site is "wait, you guys in a totally different country/climate/situation/whatever aren't doing what I'm doing? Why don't you just..." "It's easy for me" levels are off the charts here

Someone in Sweden smugly shocked that the US still has people who heat with oil, someone else patiently explaining the economic factors for it and even including a graph, and the first person ignoring it in favor of their "why don't you just..." bullshit

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Obviously I'm posting this because it's a romance novel about a space shuttle astronaut, but the more I look at the cover I think I'm really posting it because of that car 🧐

"Too Near the Flame", an extremely 1970s romance novel with a painting on the cover of two people in evening wear kissing next to a very weird looking car while a space shuttle lifts off in the distance

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't know what everyone else is talking on here right now but I got a bunch of 1950s cafeteria trays today for a buck fifty a pop and I'm excited about it. These things are so versatile. Cat food dishes and the cilantro I'm growing in the kitchen are about to be living in style

A light teal, minty type green tray sitting on a white metal appliance/countertop

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Frary's Restaurant, Painsville, Ohio, 2026 (You know this is a John Margolies fan account)

An old white abandoned restaurant set off from the street. It's a small, simple building with RESTAURANT on it in big red letters

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

FlashTrek: Broken Mirror, an unlicensed Star Trek game from 2005 made by one guy that I played way too much of in college Honorable mention goes to Tradewinds and Tradewinds 2, which I also played way too much of in college and uh what's that? They're on Steam? Oh shit ⛵⛵⛵⛵⛵

Screenshot of FlashTrek. Top-down view of a Jem Hadar battlecruiser fighting with some Federation ships near a planet

Tradewinds. A bunch of western sailing ships in the foreground lobbing cannonballs at a bunch of junks in the background

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Canned vegetables mean one thing and one thing only: it's chicken pot pie night

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Finger on the monkey's paw going down after all the times I wished for written instructions instead of everything being a video now

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sorry to intrude but you would love Nature's Metropolis if you haven't already read it. It's about Chicago, but what it's really about is the standardization of wheat, which standardized railcars, which standardized the meat industry, which standardized everything

Cover of Nature's Metropolis by William Cronon

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What blows me away is that this is also James Cromwell. He did not need to be wearing all this shit, and yet there he was. He couldn't even use his thumbs in this, there were wacky hand prosthetics!

An unrecognizable James Cromwell in a naked molerat alien makeup

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Nobel Prize for whoever invented the Rhythmic Bonker™

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just a little game I like to call "Star Trek planet or Frankish king"

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This thread goes to some incredible places. Well worth a read.

A scantily clad woman posing in front of a huge, hulking "robot" on tank treads, with two claw arms and USAF written on it. This "robot" is actually a sort of mecha suit operated by a driver and intended for use refueling nuclear powered bombers.

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Streamline moderne is where it's really at. Art deco can be a fussy esp when the Egyptian motifs are heavy, a lot of esp later MCM is very your grandparents' house, but streamline moderne takes the best of both and cranks it way up until you're looking at the future even though it's 90 years old

The 1938 Phantom Corsair, a car with extremely exaggerated elongated smooth shapes, such that it almost doesnt look like a car

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Do I need to buy another copy of this? No. Am I going to? You better fuckin believe it

Upcoming Criterion release of The Shop Around the Corner

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Stereotypes about getting old: grey hair; divorce; sports cars Real stuff about getting old: you realize you have a specifically designated mixed nuts dish

Little yellow dish with mixed nuts in it

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Haven't read it yet but I recently picked this up

Front cover of "The Questor Tapes" by DC Fontana

Back cover explaining that the book is based on the TV pilot by Gene Roddenberry and Gene Coon

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hey everyone, we got a new Glup Shitto over here 🚨

Wikipedia page for a real guy named Dick Shatto

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy birthday Star Trek, you are the foundation for all the enduring relationships in my life, from very early childhood through to today. It's not an exaggeration to say that I learned how to relate to the world and other people through watching and talking about Star Trek. Good show, check it out

Data offering too much stuff to O'Brien in an attempt to be a good host who makes sure his guest is comfortable, a scene I practically took notes on as a child

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Resurrecting the History Channel's 2006 show "Dogfights" for a Very Special Episode

DVD cover for Dogfights, a show about planes fighting each other

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What's an example of perfect casting? (She lived an amazing and sadly short life en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Do...)

Jane Dornacker as Nurse Murch in THE RIGHT STUFF

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I got got by the hunger for gizmo with the LG G8 with the second screen case and it was the dumbest thing ever, and I know that even learning this lesson I WILL get got again

What it sounds like. An early attempt at a foldable smartphone by giving it a case with a second screen inside. Apps generally didn't know what to do with the second screen and you couldn't use it to display things like an open book

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Hoagies World of Hoagies ᴴᵒᵃᵍⁱᵉˢ

Map listing for Hoagie's World of Hoagies, Hoagies

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Yes, there were ppl who made a 2nd career out of getting their name in the paper promising an amazing new space station was on the horizon, but even those guys, who were spouting things that never came to pass, did so in an atmosphere of excitement abt the wonders of progress, not of hasty bullshit

November 1959 issue of Popular Mechanics, featuring a cover story on "10 Years from Now: Coast to Coast in 90 Minutes" and a painting of a never-built two-stage space plane

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It would be easy to think that the shorter test thinking I'm from Kansas and the longer one thinking I'm from California is a flaw, but in fact it's a pretty cool way of showing the linguistic remnants of dust bowl migration from the central plains to the exact part of California I grew up in

Dialect heat map with the most red on Kansas and the central part of California

Same map, now the red is more squarely on central California and there's a lot more blue on other parts of the country (RIP New England)

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Advertise your account with one (1) Simpsons image

Moe Csizlak hooked up to a lie detector test, looking defeated as he finally speaks the truth: "Sears catalog"

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Simpsons "Do it For Her" gag, but in this case "Her" is knick-knacks and doo-dads

Two vintage metal desk models. One is Explorer 1 (the first US satellite) and the other is the Vanguard rocket (second US satellite, it's still up there to this day)

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Me when I'm not the fool you take me for

Dr Apgar from TNG's "A Matter of Perspective"

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In 1963 a group of NASA test pilots and engineers surreptitiously special ordered a Pontiac Catalina, turned into a hot rod with drag slicks and roll bars and a big engine, and drove it across the lakebed at Edwards AFB at 110mph towing an experimental aircraft behind it. All in the name of science

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Thank you for this important information, movie theater

Theater listing for a special showing of Star Trek The Motion Picture that helpfully informs the viewer that this film includes the additional language of Klingon

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's true, the hot dog probably does have a lot of protein

Google maps pin for Costco listing "protein packed entrees" as the description

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I think everyone should see this schematic from wikipedia of how cats right themselves while falling

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I have a lot of thoughts about the use of domestic spaces in GHOST WORLD and of the characters' reactions to them, but it all boils down to this cartoon and how we are all always both of these guys. Is domesticity surrender to the normal, or is it just... normal? Yes.

The R. Crumb comic panel of one guy seething over a second totally oblivious guy who's labeled "Normal guy"

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I gotta be honest, I don't think they're joking

Anonymized screenshot of a Teams post about the upcoming launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, with a reply asking how TV host Nancy Grace gets a telescope named after her, a second person replying with the Wikipedia page for Nancy Roman, ans the first person replying "My faith in NASA is now restored"

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Not sure what Stayed a While means exactly so I just used it for places I've been to often/regularly. Can't see DC but that's a Lived There, and I *will* be fixing that north-central gap next year, gas prices be damned

Map of the US showing where I've been, lived, etc. It's over half full

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The ultimate "Goddamn that's a useful tool" tool I have found are these files (there are more of them). I use them for everything. Need something to be a little flatter or a hole to be a little bigger? File it down, baby. Wood, plaster aluminum -- just file it down

Two old metal files with wooden handles on a table next to some other tools

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Don't be sClaired @isolinearchip.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Today in "I've lived in this house for almost two years and I'm still finding old tools all over the place" we have a seven foot long cast iron Hargrave clamp (?) tucked away in the garage (No audio because you don't need to hear me ask my dad a bunch of questions)

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