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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Update: We built it! This thing took two adults nearly 3 hours, but it looks awesome! #Destiny2

Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Finally put up the shelves! Destiny shrine coming together. We made an insane find at the local thrift store, traded in fifteen books for the Arcadia Jumpship. We're putting it together later today!! #Destiny2

Corner of a living room, featuring a TV, a record player and vinyl collection, shelves above each holding Lego plants and various Destiny merchandise

Record player face on showing the new shelves! With Lego plants and vinyls displayed on the wall

Wall surrounding the TV covered with Destiny merchandise, the vinyl soundtrack insert, the edge of fate collectible statue, statues of Crow and Eris, the Tower, and a destiny 1 era Jumpship. Project hail Mary also makes it onto the shelf of immaculate space experiences

Super excited to make this!! We're very happy to have found it!

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Bi-monthly photo dump to indicate life signs The new house has cactus! The cats have met each other! T H E S U N

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

̶U̶n̶l̶i̶c̶e̶n̶s̶e̶d̶ PROFESSIONAL Metal Wizard I graduated! Now I can go back to school for another, different degree! Newly certified machinist. Maybe technical writer in the future? Maybe telescope lens technician? Maybe marine machinist? Who can say. Certainly not me

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I've become absolutely enamored with sea creatures and I would like to see more creatures very soon, please

Jellyfish slowly rotate in a viewing tank at an aquarium

A glowing green-yellow kelp forest in view behind a large window. Fish swim between the stalks

A large Pacific octopus swims through its tank, briefly pressing itself against the viewing window as if to show off all its tentacles at once to onlookers

A man in a yellow hat standing aboard a wooden sailing ship, gripping the rigging on the stern.

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I think I am in love with boats

The USS Midway museum ship seen from the top deck of a ferry

Surprise! It's a submarine! A boat that sinks on purpose! The USS Dolphin

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Carlsbad Caverns caverns and White Sands national park! The sand was indeed, very white. I love geology and the interconnected desert southwest is always fascinating! Both these places (and Guadalupe mountains) are the result of the same geologic processes, a shallow Permian sea, and time!

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Got prescription safety glasses for work I'm so used to the high index glass, getting the polycarbonate lenses and seeing how ridiculously thick my prescription is sent me reeling

A pair of glasses seen from below so the edges of each lens are visible. Both lenses are thick but the right lens is about twice as thick as the left.

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Gifts have been sent, received, and opened so here they are! I made corkscrews I kept the prototype I dropped on the floor and can confirm, they look pretty AND they also work

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Photos of this beautiful dumpster child because I love him

A Russian blue cat sitting upright on a green woven rug. He stares at the cameraman with no thoughts at all behind his gaze.

A Russian blue cat loafs in the exact center of a queen size bed. His bed now. He's a queen.

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Machining some shiny new gifts! I'm engraving the names of the recipients onto them as well. Fun to design and to make! Unfinished pictures only, so I don't spoil the surprise

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

We looked at some cool plants today I love arboretums Boyce Thompson Arboretum is a really good one

A gnarled and twisted tree shades a bench with someone sitting on it

The tallest eucalyptus tree I've ever seen stretches three white trunks into the sky

A very bad, blurry photo of Coatimundis in a date palm tree

A different gnarled and twisted tree shades a statue this time

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Well we get these every morning and night so it's a fair trade off

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

It's #destinytober25 and my sketching skills are unpracticed But my build is meta and we take those I fully support the turret building, wizard hat wearing, orb pondering Warlock main Yes it's generalization It's also a perfect portrait of me 😤

A warlock from Destiny 2 struggles to hold the leash on their turret buddies, taking them on a long walk to the top of the Warlords Ruin dungeon. The turret buddies run free during their off leash time and destroy Hefnd

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

He's so beautiful and full of hate ❤️

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Labor day is a wonderful time to visit your closest national park or monument! Go touch grass, but don't touch the angry succulents! And bring a comb for the Cholla 👌

A saguaro cactus stands ten feet above it's neighbors in the desert

A saguaro estimated to be at least 175 years old has grown 8 arms, towering over its nursery Palo Verde

The ocotillo are green! It must have rained here in the past two weeks

A Sonoran desert landscape, with a rocky hill set behind a stand of several saguaros, Palo Verdes, Cholla, Ocotillo, and Desert Brittlebush scattered all between

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Great trip to LA, I get the hype now. LA people, you've convinced me! Seeing MCR was a bucket list event, and I highly recommend the Aquarium of the Pacific and the Huntington library/museum/gardens! The world should have more library/museum/garden combos, I could have easily spent all day there!

A view of My Chemical Romance performing at Dodgers Stadium from high up in the stands.

The Huntington gardens has themed garden exhibits, and this one had marble statues!

The gorgeous bridge over the Chinese garden water feature at the Huntington gardens

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

One last little road trip before summer!

The San Francisco peaks still have snowcaps in May

Montezuma Castle has nothing to do with Montezuma, and it isn't a castle, but it IS one of the best preserved cliff dwellings in the southwest US

One of my all time favorite state parks, Tonto Natural Bridge! It's a bridge. It formed naturally. It's really cool!

I always forget how flat the Grand Canyon looks in photos. It doesn't move in person either, unless you hike a long ways

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Fun in the machine shop today - this endmill galled, filled up with 17-4, and turned brighter than the sun for about three seconds Before the thermal shock made it explode The fun never stops because now the 17-4 workpiece is VERY hard and will likely cause more explosions in our near future!

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Something cool I started doing while #machining is compare the tools that start to wear and make bad parts with fresh tools as I switch them out Direct comparison on a 3/8 flat carbide endmill, new tool on the left and the worn tool on the right G10 is abrasive to cut, and wears out the tools.

Direct comparison between a sharp, new endmill and a worn out, full endmill

The fresh and new endmill has perfectly ground rake angles on the cutting face along the bottom

The old and worn tool has almost worn all the way through the rake angles along the bottom face of the cutter, making it almost entirely flat along the bottom

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Got the vinyl of one of my favorite bands today! Flipped it over and found out - it's signed!! #thefamilycrest

Beneath the Brine by The Family Crest on vinyl

Oh shit the back of the cover is signed!

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I work as a machinist. Sometimes parts just... Don't want to work with you 🥲 It's beautiful! It needs to be deburred! ...The letters overlap the chamfer because the programmer accidentally chose the wrong edge and now the entire part is scrap because of .005 of an inch! 😭

Very pretty machined part in nitronic 60

Zoomed in version of the first photo, higher details on the engraving

The engraving just barely overlaps the chamfer on the edge of the part 😭 which is not in spec

Also the hole needs to be deburred but... This part isn't shipping anywhere

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I heard a variety of bad noises on the machine shop First one was supposed to be a straight cut and the table caught on something behind the ways, making it leap forward Second one just cut a little too heavy and decided to marry the plate

This noise went like "weeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEE-RRRRarararRRararrRr"

This noise went like "nnnnmmmmnnnnnmm-TING"

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Regular Bard @regularbard.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Haven't gotten deep into a phone for a while but it feels good to take things apart and put them back together, especially if they still work afterwards! And work even better in this case. Ignore my choice of workspace, the cat was on the other table 😂