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¡Jared!

@jaredhead.bsky.social
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Spaceflight yakyak at Griffith Observatory and @tmro.tv. Space Shuttle keeper at CMSC. Rocket Scientist. Writer. Bipolar T1. F1/WEC/MLB fan. Mountaineer. Jeeper. Gundam/Gunpla. Leftist. Split time between LA/SF. Pan/Poly We/They 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊#OpinionsOurs 🚫AI, ever

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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Here's what we've been listening to lately.
In listed numerical order:

1. Juno Reactor - Shango
2. Ween - God Ween Satan
3. Hans Zimmer - F1
4. Boards of Canada - Inferno
5. The Ventures - NEW SPACE
6. Hotel Pools - Evenings, Vol. 1
7. Pearl Jam - Binaural
8. Nine Inch Nails - Nine Inch Noize
9. Gorillaz - Demon Days
10. Makeup and Vanity Set - Chrome
11. The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
12. Test Shot Starfish - Music for Space
13. Aluminium - Aluminium
14. Fluke - Risotto
15. Blarf - Film Scores for Films That Don’t Exist
16. GUM - Glamorous Damage
17. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Cobra Juicy
18. William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops
19. Living Colour - Vivid
20. Van Halen - 1984
21. Dolly Parton - 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs
22. Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
23. Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
24. Beck - Ride Lonesome
25. Smash Mouth - Mercury Comet
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Highlights of #STLV today were seeing @mikemcmahan.bsky.social react to @tracey.science and @fennecuskitsune.bsky.social’s Dr. T’ana and Dr. Migleemo cosplay photos. The cosplay contest, so much talent! Watching @tracey.science win the contest with @cmdrnyce.bsky.social in Geordi Bear, and buns!
Kenzy and Tracey show off their Dr. T’Ana and Dr. Migleemo cosplays to “Star Trek: Lower Decks” creator Mike McMahan.The Star Trek Las Vegas Cosplay Contest Class of 2026.Tracey with Geordi Bear after winning the 2026 Star Trek Las Vegas Cosplay Contest. Our friend, Malik, is in Geordi Bear.Captain Steve attempts to charm me in an attempt to steal one of my bbq pork buns.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Today’s the day…
Griffin McElroy dressed in a cop uniform, riding in a small cop car, with the words “VORE POLICE” on the side of the small cop car.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
my son
A tuxedo cat named Apollo is curled up inside a Sparco travel bag.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Amazing thing we just noticed: our earthquake app shows Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket explosion being detected as a 2.5, DAMN.
A screenshot of the QuakeFeed app showing that the explosion of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket registered on USGS seismographs as a magnitude 2.5 earthquake.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Icon update because: It’s Pride bitch!
A photoshop of Us screaming and holding a small rocket pasted onto a pansexual pride flag background.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Last Friday LA1 and us were at the Los Angeles “INFERNO SESSION”, where Boards of Canada debuted their newest album, “Inferno”, in full, at an exclusive event. It was life-changing. The album is nothing short of a masterpiece, their best one yet. We can’t wait for it to be out this Friday.
The line to enter the Barnsdall Gallery Theater.A token that will allow us to purchase an exclusive cassette copy of Boards of Canada’s upcoming album, “Inferno”A red book containing art from Boards of Canada’s newest album, “Inferno”, and an envelope with Boards of Canada’s logo, seven hexagons, which contained a sticker, patch, and poster.The beginning of the 7:30pm “INFERNO SESSION”. The Boards of Canada hexagon logo was present on the screen through the playing of the whole album.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Just a few more minutes until the Los Angeles “Inferno Session” for Boards of Canada’s new album. Still can’t believe we managed to snag tickets to this!
A line of Boards of Canada fans outside the Barnsdall Gallery Theater in Los Angeles.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Time for the TGL Finals, go LA!
The TGL tee.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
A screenshot of Lord Farquaad from “Shrek” saying “Some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.”
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This is our first time watching four astronauts sit inside 3500F with our own eyes. It was stunning, and the sonic boom was deep, flexed windows, and activated our lizard brain “scary” response. Welcome home Crew-11!
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Just went past SLC-6, still has the ULA logo on it.
A large rocket launch pad is visible in a California costal chaparral environment. This is Space Launch Complex 6 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
To the 16th inning we go!
us, fading away
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Whenever anyone talks to us about work and efficiency and what we, as a worker, should be doing:
A wearing sunglasses and a hat holding a sign in its mouth that reads "Fuck You Pay Me"
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Missy said it best: Go Dodgers!
Our dog, Missy, is wearing a small baseball helmet that says “2024 World Series Champions: Los Angeles Dodgers”
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
A man at a hospital in a gown and bed with text saying “I lived bitch”
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Let’s go get these ears fixed!
Us, in a hospital bed in pre-op. Being 6’3”, we may be a bit too long for the bed.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
We’re one of the cool kids now and have joined as a science officer aboard the crew of NCC-1103, the @usssequoia.bsky.social! Looking forward to many more events with The Fleet in the future!
Us, in a science officer’s uniform from the “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” era, as per our assignment onboard of the USS Sequoia [NCC-1103]. It’s a sunny day at the Presidio of San Francisco, meaning we need to have our sunglasses on. The crew had gathered to watch the San Francisco Fleet Week Air Show and nerd out as usual both amongst ourselves and curious passersby!
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Can see the Chevron refinery fire from work.
A massive fire with a massive plume of smoke rises up in the far distance of the LA Basin.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Spent our weekend attending our first furry con since The Before Times: Another Furry Con in Ontario, CA, and brought our telescope out to join the Furry Astronomy star party on Saturday night, which over 500 people looked through our telescope alone! We stayed on Saturn all night long.
A fursuit looks through a refracting telescope.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The 3.5 earthquake in Rialto that happened 15 minutes ago has been detected on the seismograph here at Griffith Observatory.
An earthquake is recorded on a seismograph, a 3.5 approx 80km [50mi] away.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Me…me when your girl—no…you…you when your girl, when your, when your girl see—when your girl sees me when I’m like…when I’m like shirtless…s—soa—soaked…s—soaking wet…
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
A complete non-issue except for the local area. This map is the best we’ve seen so far, but it’s still actually not wide enough to show all of the actual city of Los Angeles. More concerned about National Guard and Marines deployed: in our eyes that’s an invasion, through and through.
An incomplete map of Los Angeles with the text “for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is roughly the red circle”
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
"then perish" meme
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
What it feels like to be a Ferrari fan.
An emoji combining the laughing face, angry face, and tears face.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Dr. Steve Brule yelling "Sweet berry wine!" before drinking a full wine glass to empty.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
LET’S FUCKIN’ GOOOOOOOOOO!!!
The title card for the newest Gundam series, “Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX”
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Some days at work just hit perfectly.
A view of sunset over Los Angeles from inside the dome of our solar telescope, as seen after sunset. The sky is blue with a thin strip of yellow, orange, and red on the horizon, leading to the endless lights of the city below.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
They’ve been quality all night tonight.
Fred Willard’s inane commentator character from “Best in Show”
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Overall view of the seismograph. We’ll see if it settles at 7.6, magnitudes tend to bounce around a bit as more data comes down the pipeline.
A view of the paper drum of Griffith Observatory’s seismograph, with the waves from the 2025 7.6 earthquake near the Cayman Islands clearly visible.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Saw there was an 7.6 earthquake just now near the Cayman Islands and we ran down to our seismograph at Griffith Observatory to see our detection in real-time. Note: we’re 4000km [2480mi] away from the epicenter.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
At Star Trek San Francisco with @fennecuskitsune.bsky.social @tracey.science this weekend! Say hello if you’re here!
Dr. Migleemo stands with a surprised expression in the booth of the local San Francisco Star Trek group the USS Sequoia NCC-1103.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
An article from The Onion titled “Trump Locks Bathroom Door So Elon Musk Can’t Follow Him In”
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Current view of SpaceX's Starship.
A waiter is making bananas foster, cooking the bananas in a high-potent alcohol drink's flames.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
cw: food doing the Korean bbq with @tracey.science during our monthly trips to each other, down here in LA this time!
making Korean BBQ with @tracey.science
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
We didn’t get it.
Eric Andre dressed in a skin-tight suit covered in Fruit Loops cereal pieces, carrying a box of Fruit Loops and a jug of milk while saying, “I have some bad news: I did not get the job at Fruit Loops.”
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
!!!
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Our current status for today’s journey home:
Dr. Robotnik looking at his pocket watch just before saying “The train is late!”
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
MY FACE???!?
MY FACE???!?
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
As we are now deep in the hunt for a vehicle to replace our Jeep, we may be about to do something super stupid as we have found one of our bucket list cars on the market and within our price range...
A sale listing for an E60 BMW M5 that is within our price range. The E60 M5 is one of our bucket list cars because it has a 5-liter V10 engine which is derived from BMW’s F1 engine used in that era. This is an absolute dream car for us, and this is likely a bad idea, but the devil /and/ angel on our shoulders is screaming at us to buy it, lol
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
Training today! Up the coast we go. We earned this vacation.
Union Station in LAAmtrak Superliner cars making up Coast Starlight 14.Front of the train heading through the yard at Union Station in LA.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
This is our third time moving a Space Shuttle, and we asked our SF partner, @tracey.science, to make a patch to celebrate this. They knocked it out of the part. Full meaning of the symbolism present in the patch in alt text for those curious.
A patch specially designed to celebrate our working on a third move of a Space Shuttle through urban Los Angeles. We first moved the mockup in July 2012, which led to the California Science Center asking us to come help with the Endeavour move in October 2012, and just moved the mockup again in on October 17. Three Space Shuttles blaze a trail to symbolize the three “missions” we have worked to move them, along with the clear statement of “THREE SHUTTLES MOVED”. Our current workplace with this mockup, the Columbia Memorial Space Center, the California Science Center, and NASA, are represented in the outer lining of the patch. 15 stars are present to represent the 15 years we have worked in aerospace since we started in 2009.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 29/09/2024
DnD time!
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Our view from the plane about 40 minutes ago.
A little Griffith Observatory with a vortex generator from the wing of the plane.Griffith in the distance with the port-side wing of the Alaska Airlines E175.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Gosh it feels so good to be back in the environment of where we came from while remaining on this cold, cruel Earth.
We are under a heat lamp as our hair is dyed, lost in the bliss that is warm existence.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Do we get a veteran discount?
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 04/08/2024
Out here at Trek To Vegas for the weekend. Say hello if you’re here too! #STLV
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 22/07/2024
Max: I WAS AHEAD AT THE APEX!!! Max, immediately after the apex:
A screenshot from yesterday’s F1 race showing Turn 1 with Max roughly five car-widths off into the run-off area.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
Know how in sci-fi movies they often show rockets flying in the background frequently to emphasis it being the future? Yeah. We’re there.
Starlink 9-2 spends its final seconds atop a full Falcon 9 rocket before main engine cutoff and separation. The exhaust plume, a combination of RP-1 and liquid oxygen combustion products, is backlit by the Sun as the rocket climbs above the shadow of the Earth.
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¡Jared! @jaredhead.bsky.social · 09/04/2024
A perfect 4 minutes 24 seconds.
My group of peeps stands looking up at the eclipse in totality.
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