Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026My first attempt receiving MetOp-B weather satellite. Baltic states from space. Unlike popular NOAA series (15, 18, 19) satellites from the past, which could be received (almost) with a piece of wire - this requires satellite dish and tracking. 070
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Quite a few diatoms here - algae with silica shells. Those tiny creatures are responsible of large fraction of oxygen in our atmosphere. Took this image with Swift SW380T microscope & Fuji XT30 II camera 000
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Nice printing calculator with vacuum flourescent display from late 1980s - early 1990s. Printing part, due to disintegrated rubber on paper feed roller, is no longer working. Although, ink is still not dried up. 000
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Building interactive map of The Universe. Visible part of it, at least. Data is from Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) sky survey. 000
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I'm still stuck with Data Release 1 (DR1), but man, lost myself for a day or so trying to visualize our universe by my own. Not only static images, but videos as well Open data, scientific in this case, is vastly underrated. There's petabytes of it. From Earth observation satellites imagery to this 000
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Now I'm doing microscopy. This week got myself first live sample - a bit of moss with some dew, and few drops later - kablamo - tardigrade! 241
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 13/11/2025First private (US) rocket sending something to Mars... is not made by SpaceX. Despite constant babble about Mars for a decade.media.tenor.comGiggles GIFALT: Giggles GIF 120
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Artemis - to the Moon at first try 🟢 Vulcan - orbit at first try 🟢 Ariane 6 - orbit at first try 🟢 New Glenn - lost booster, but orbit at first try 🟢 Starship - 11 x 💩 030
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Very last (for me) images from NOAA-15 weather satellite, received directly from space back in Aug 17th. Now all of them - NOAA-15, 18 and 19 are defunct. It was a great hobby for many. 010
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Have a proper camera, but first art-sy image I've shared on social media in years - is this one. Made with a smartphone, while drinking some stout. 010
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Wrote a relatively simple Python script, capable of transforming maps/visualizations in equirectangular projection to orthographic one... ... and that led to this. "Ketvirtoji dimensija" - "Fourth dimension" in lithuanian. 110
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Artemis - to the Moon at first try 🟢 Vulcan - orbit at first try 🟢 Ariane 6 - orbit at first try 🟢 New Glenn - lost booster, but orbit at first try 🟢 Starship - 10 x 💩 020
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 28/05/2025By accident I have learned that asteroid #7000 is Curie and #8000 is Newton. Now my script can highlight specific asteroids & their orbits. Gaussia is for funzz here. 000
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Artemis - to the Moon at first try 🟢 Vulcan - orbit at first try 🟢 Ariane 6 - orbit at first try 🟢 New Glenn - lost booster, but orbit at first try 🟢 Starship - 9 x 💩 051
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 24/05/2025My little Solar system. Python script takes orbital elements of asteroids and planets from JPL Solar system dynamics tables, plots them both in 2D and 3D with user defined time steps. This is from early May. Now it's a little more capable. 030
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Few views with Foldscope - little, (mostly) paper microscope, which actually is not so toy-ish. More that 1,000 scientific publications mentioned it and/or it was used for research, leading to those publications. Left: cross-section of linden tree stem, right: paramecia, unicellular organism. 020
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 11/04/2025"It Can’t Rain Forever" Well, it can. It can get even worse. Without ever recovering. It can be terminal. Final. Just a thought. Not having in mind anything in particular. Although there's plenty of things, happening right now, to remind this. 021
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Artemis - to the Moon at first try 🟢 Vulcan - orbit at first try 🟢 Ariane 6 - orbit at first try 🟢 New Glenn - lost booster, but orbit at first try 🟢 Starship - 8 x 💩 13402121
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 22/02/2025#mood youtu.be/LT3cERVRoQo?...youtu.beDavid Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans (Official Music Video) [4K Upgrade]YouTube video by David Bowie 020
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 20/01/2025So Twitter aka "eks" now is state-owned social media platform. 000
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Artemis - to the Moon at first try 🟢 Vulcan - orbit at first try 🟢 Ariane 6 - orbit at first try 🟢 New Glenn - lost booster, but orbit at first try 🟢 Starship - 7 x 💩 1111
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Eeeeeew, not this again. Followed by innoucous looking lady, having few followers in common. Nothing suspicious. After that I started being followed by several *attractive ladies NOT from my area*. With first lady following them as well. Twitter-like BS 🤦♂️ 010
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Me 2014: gee, how I'm going to extract few 1000s of rows from this 4.5 GB text file. Oh, I'll use this Java tool, but first need to increase heap space to like 75% of available memory. Me 2024: so I'm going to encode 7.5 TB of frames to video file and slice it for 8 projectors?! #OddJobsProblems 010
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Genius myth will die the last. Many, who praised him in the past, and now are unable to admit (even to themselves) that they were f*cked over - STILL grasping at straws. Like "hey, he must be genius in something". No, he isn't. Pointing at old issues of Pop. Mech and asking others to build ain't it 010
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Seems to be good news. Worst people on hellsite are mad. And this... for like 37th time: 010
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Youtube recommended me to watch this. And I did. I think it's fair. No labels. No interpretations, pulled out of thin air. They themselves are saying openly what they want to do. For years. Although, what suprised me, that Curtis Yarvin is more influential than I thought. youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?...youtu.beDARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy AmericaYouTube video by Blonde Politics 021
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Might be useful tools to indentify & repell crypto-AI spammers: 000
Reposted by Tony M.e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 14/11/2024imagining a dystopian future where I have to finish every sentence of an email myself, and literally shaking 311018
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Ok, having first issue with BSky. Laggy as hell whole evening. Might be servers, unable to keep up with heavy load. 000
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Cautiously optimistic about this place. Which isn't a bad thing. We'll see. 010
Reposted by Tony M.Ukraine Advocate 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.eurosky.social · 12/11/2024Ukraine must win war, says next EU foreign policy chief Quoting Timothy Snyder, she told MEPs: "In order for a country to become better it has to lose its last colonial war." She said the EU had to do everything to ensure "russia loses its last colonial war." www.rte.ie/news/world/2...rte.ieUkraine must win war, says next EU foreign policy chiefThe candidate to be the EU's next foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Ukraine must win the war against Russia. 08134
Tony M. @macijauskas.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Gawd damn it. Had this account for a year or two. Might start using it, if everyone is moving here. 150