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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 15h

So yeah, I don’t know I’d call him a plumber. Just a successful businessman. That said his main business tactic was to absolutely blast the airwaves (tv and radio) with Mullin Plumbing ads. For years you couldn’t go one ad break on radio without hearing an ad.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 15h

He was born into it. His dad is the one that started his plumbing company and I imagine he taught him as he grew up. To his credit he did expand the services the company offered when he took it over (though going from limited specialty plumbing to full service business isn’t a huge innovation).

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 15h

Went to a Free Will Baptist church in early HS. Reverend was a huge Cowboys fan. If they were playing the early game the sermon was done before noon. If they played late or Monday night, well buckle up.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yeah that must be nice though. Still dealing with 30°+ here, at least until the end of next week. Might have some folks turning on heating for cooler mornings but all day heat probably won’t start until November.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

While it wasn’t my first (started on an a 286) the 486 DX2 was really where my love of computers and gaming started! So no, not weird!

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So just like your regular Wednesday calls? Sounds good, looking forward to it!

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

To be fair, they are playing against the Papal blessed Sox so it was an uphill battle to begin with.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No one is asking the real question - what kind of cheese did you use? Looks wonderful!

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“And Matt’s insistence on pursuing organic farming leads to him to try an unconventional method, or two”

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Rumors, accidental and deliberate misinformation, propagandized talking points, etc./etc.

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Shane Ross at Virginia Tech created a simulation of what 500k orbital data centers, as proposed by SpaceX, would look like from your home latitude sdross0.github.io/orbital-data...

sdross0.github.io

What would orbital data centers look like from your sky?

500,000 satellites from SpaceX's FCC filing, two published brightness models and the real stars, for any latitude, date and time. Computed in your browser.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can’t believe I forgot about Fallout. Swap that in over KOTOR.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Really all of my choices are just selections out of wonderful series of games.

Games like Ultima, Simcity, Final Fantasy are included in a Top 9 image.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A truly wonderful collection!

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Adding complexity to a program that still hasn’t had a flawless flight, much less meeting all of their various launch goals without some asterisk(s).

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Bryan R. Early @brephd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m happy to share that my new book with @togzhankassenova.bsky.social “Banks and the Bomb: Understanding Proliferation Financing” will be published by Stanford University Press in July 2027. It explores how to prevent international financial transactions that facilitate WMD proliferation. 1/4

A green book cover for Banks and the Bomb: Understanding Proliferation Financing.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Ultima series. The games were wonderful on their own, but they also came with runes and moonstones and cloth maps. The immersion began before the games were ever installed.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Aha, so you’ve seen me dance before! Well then…

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Like the original season of South Park, as long as you shout out “It’s coming right for us’” before you shoot you’re in the clear.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not to mention they have a small scoreboard on the outside of their stadium overlooking their mascot cemetery, so the dogs can know the score of the game(s). I wish I was joking.

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Conquer the Moon all you want, if you can't ensure freedom of navigation of Earth's oceans, straits, and chokepoints then the American dominance of the world economic systems is kaput.

independent.co.uk

US troops must be ready for space combat near moon, Trump’s top military adviser says

China created its own dedicated military space unit in 2024, assigning it to enhance its capability to handle conflicts in space

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One metropolitan district here in OK shared their fuel expenses essentially doubled between the first week of school (mid August) to last week. And everything just shot up another 25c/gal at the start of this week, so yeah it’s going to be rough.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Looks like a decent pepper/seasoning salt blend to use on burgers.

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Please note that this project is not an initiative of the current administration, or cause for alarm because of that. (I've worked just upstairs and now down the hall from the WI State Cartographer's Office, and they've been updating people about this for years, along with lots of other good work.)

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Ah so you’re choosing to skip the online hater boss fight… well played. Well played.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We literally don’t work with the Chinese space program because it is ran by their military. Keep NASA separate, as it has always been!

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Well there’s the 3rd. Still the wrong 80-something to go.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Well with insurance premiums, you’re also paying for someone else’s medical costs, especially if you’re not using insurance yourself.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Well if they do come in 3s, I know of another 80 yr old that’s “acted” in a movie before…

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

And again, nobody seems willing to discuss the radiation environment and the hardening required to protect any hardware they want to send up. It takes years, often better part of a decade to harden tech for space flight, which means any data center tech they send up will be years obsolete.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Goldfish are good to snack on! Pirates Booty is good too. But she brought you that big a container of candy corn? You might want to consider if your “friend” is trying to poison you… lol

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

At a quick skim, this looks interesting

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

You played the recorder in part to strengthen your fine motor skills and in part to introduce you to basic music theory concepts like rhythm, the C-major scale, and reading basic music notes. Your teachers wanted to make elementary music education available to all, not just the rich.

Threads post "And then for no reason, no reason at all, they made us all learn how to play the recorder"

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

And any time I might decide to do something, here come all the IRQ conflicts! A great analogy btw and unfortunately it resonates.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

And don’t forget to change up your IRQ settings so you can avoid the inevitable conflict(s)!

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Aha! Looks like someone is interested in making an apple pie!

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ESO @eso.org · 05/08/2026

Earlier today, the discarded upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket impacted on the Moon. As part of a coordinated observing campaign, our Very Large Telescope detected spectral lines of sodium and lithium gas in the impact plume lasting for 5-10 minutes after impact. 🔭 🧪 📷 ESO/C. Schmidt et al. 1/4

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Wonderful! Looking forward to reading it.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

While I’ve never used drugs (aside from a 10mg weed gummy once) I would imagine his brain was still deep in a K-hole whenever it tried to string together this sentence.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I’ve switched to a pdf viewer for reading them and PDFgear to edit them. Life is so much better the further away from Adobe and their ecosystem.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

And brought it to use for immediate disposal. Roughly 400 tons of frozen bread dough. We had to take take pictures of it being buried so they knew it was fully disposed. Do the right thing no matter the cost not just because it’s right, but also it protects you and your reputation.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Years ago, worked in office of a land fill. A bakery that supplied a major fast food place found their flour sifter had fallen apart during a shift, potentially allowing bits of wire mesh to have gotten into the bread dough. They pulled every loaf made since that shift (since the last inspection)…

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Reminds me this weekend I came across a profile on a dating app that said the conspiracy theory she believes in was that the Titanic was an inside job and that it was sunk in order to create the Federal Reserve. lol

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

You have to subscribe to HBO’s streaming service (who knows what its current name is, they change that all the time) and because it’s not a network show they can do all the crazy stuff that never would have been allowed on “the Tiffany Network” (CBS).

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Sounds a little dangerous. Should probably check to make sure there’s plenty of First Aid kits around the place, just in case.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

And inflation from higher fuel and fertilizer prices due to the mess in Hormuz/Red Sea.

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Josh Chesser @jchesser.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

My family could only afford the Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia set that the local grocery store sold 2-3 volumes at a time. But yes, I used to read it for fun. At one point me parents realized if I was sent to my room as a punishment I’d just read my encyclopedia. So they took those away from me.

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