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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

What a surprise! I wish we could replace Carney with someone who believes that the things they say should bear some consistent relationship with the actions they take

Screenshot of a news headline reading "Text of new Gordie Howe bridge deal seems to contradict Carney"

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Everyone, meet my first MIDI controller! His name is Fred, and his idea of the perfect date is a few hours sending CC messages on channels 20 and 21

A smallish box covered in irregular patches of felt in white, neon orange, black, turquoise, and pink. There are two round black knobs set into the top, a purple cable going off to the left, and two googly eyes on the upper right side of the front.

A smallish box covered in irregular patches of felt in white, neon orange, black, turquoise, and pink, with two round black knobs in the top. This picture shows the rear view, where the pattern is different. The black felt is not completely glued flat to the box; there's a fold creating a small loop that stands out on one corner.

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Hehehe. Well if you really want to go for accuracy, there's also variance in fuse times on real ones, and occasionally shells burst low. My very first show we had a 12-inch shell burst low enough to rain burning stars on us in the danger zone (genuinely the formal term for the launch area)

Common elements or characteristics of an aerial shell:

Lift charge. This charge propels the aerial shell upward.
Delay element. This element prevents the shell from functioning until the shell reaches the design burst height.
Burst charge. The delay element sets off the burst charge. The explosion of this charge breaks the shell casing and ignites and projects the shell’s pyrotechnic effects (stars).
Break. The break is the bursting of an aerial shell. Single-break shells burst only once. Multibreak shells produce two or more bursts in succession.
Stars. Stars are the pyrotechnic components within a shell that are ignited and projected by the burst charge to produce the design effect (patterns and colours).
Report. The report is the loud noise produced by a pyrotechnic article. Not all shells contain reports. Shells that contain reports produce a powerful shattering effect and are thus limited to 85 grams of flash powder. During set-up, mortars (single or in mortar racks) that contain report shells should be buried or placed separately from other shells and effects.
Burst height. The height at which a shell bursts is approximately 33 m per 25 mm of the nominal shell diameter.
Stars dispersion. The maximum distance that stars (pyrotechnic effects) are projected by the explosion of the burst charge is approximately 27 m in diameter per 25 mm of the nominal shell diameter.

4.6 Maintaining the perimeter of the danger zone

From the time of the arrival of the display fireworks until after the clean-up, you must control access to the danger zone. Maintain crowd control by all available means (e.g. security personnel, signs, barricades, natural boundaries, roads and fences).

The minimum distance from the fireworks articles to the public must be 30 m.

The danger zone must be in effect as soon as the fireworks are brought on site and must be maintained until the full perimeter (as per distances in Table 3-1 and Table 3-4, Chapter 3) of the display site is established.

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

i have a homemade midi controller and everything! another month gives me time to add more controls though

A small box is seen sitting on a desk. It has two knobs on the top, and its exterior is covered in orange, white, black, turquoise, and pink felt in irregular shapes adding up to a sort of harlequin pattern.

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Don't expect some American groundhog to predict the future! That's just stupid. Look instead to the Canadian groundhog, Wiarton Willie! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiarton...

Text from a Wikipedia entry:
The story of Wiarton Willie dates back to 1956. A Wiarton resident named Mac McKenzie wanted to showcase his childhood home to his many friends, so he sent out invitations for a "Groundhog Day" gathering. One of these invitations fell into the hands of a Toronto Star reporter. The reporter travelled to Wiarton looking for the Groundhog Day event. None of the townspeople knew about a festival, but one suggested he check at the Arlington Hotel, the local watering hole. There the reporter found McKenzie and his friends partying and was invited to join them. The next day, the reporter lamented to McKenzie that he needed some kind of story to take back to justify his expenses. So McKenzie grabbed his wife's fur hat, which had a large button on the front, went out to the parking lot, dug a burrow in the snow and pronounced a prognostication (which no one remembers). The picture of Mac and the hat ran in the February 3, 1956 edition of the Toronto Star. A year later, about 50 people arrived for the festival. Half were reporters from various media, including the CBC and Canadian Press. Seizing on the opportunity, McKenzie invented a festival that has been added to over the years.

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

And just to confuse things a little more: POPULOUS (noun)

The box art of the Super Nintendo game "Populous". Amid lightning storms and lava, a wizard face and a skull face fly around over a castle. I've never played the game, so I have no idea what they're up to.

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

They're amazing! I used to do that too. Eventually my partner and I actually got some, and rode them 5000km around the Rocky and Coastal Mountains, and it's one of the best things I've ever done.

A fully-loaded adventure motorcycle parked at the side of a road lined with coniferous trees, with mountains visible in the background. The sky is blue with light clouds. There's a plush fox sitting just inside the windscreen of the motorcycle.

Two adventure motorcycles parked by the side of a road at the edge of a small town in some wooded foothills. In the foreground, my hand is seen, holding a partially-eaten ice cream.

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Ahh, sounds like Hope would've been way west of you then. Found a picture of the mural your photo reminded me of:

Two adventure motorcycles, both loaded with gear, parked beside a building wall covered in a beautiful mural depicting a river flowing through a valley between forested and snow-capped mountains. Text on the mural reads "Native Art & Crafts". Beyond the building, a forested mountain can be seen in the near distance, shrouded in dense clouds that seem to cling around it against a much more distant overcast sky.

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Amazing search engine Zehrs, just absolutely top quality

A screenshot of the first results from searching products on Zehrs' website. The search query was "walnuts", and the first listed product is bananas. The second and third items are, at least, walnuts.

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I'm not just a guitar player anymore. And it feels fucking amazing!

A partial screenshot of the interface of some Digital Audio Workstation software, showing the individual tracks of a piece of music I'm working on. To those familiar with such software, the names and structure of the tracks show that the music involves several sampled orchestral instruments a couple of synth sounds set to a repeating breakbeat.

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Whatever you RTed is deleted - maybe they've reposted?

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

@anforsorrow.bsky.social Made a copy of the Animalia Tarot for one of my partners. They came out great!

The front side of a folded-and-glued paper package containing tarot cards. The front design has a canid with a sword on the left and a skeleton on the right, with the text "Animalia Tarot - Cartes Fines par A.S." in the middle within a decorative circular design.

The back side of some paper packaging for tarot cards. In an 18th-century-style font and typesetting, it reads, "Animalia Tarot: jeu de tarot de haute qualité avec arcanes majeurs sur papier fin inspiré du Tarot de Marseille. Produit par A.S. en l'an de grace MMXXV"

A spread of coloured tarot cards with anthropomorphic animals drawn in the style of the Tarot de Marseille, a famous deck from a few hundred years ago. The cards are clumsily spread in an arc on a table, with the open package placed below.

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

You're a guitar tech, so you might like this -- my husband converted an old Washburn into a headless for me, which fits (with stand, fx/amp modeller, speaker, etc) in a gig bag for a 3/4 scale strat. So I can strap the whole thing down on top of my top bag and take it everywhere! :D

A motorcycle loaded up with bags of gear, a plush fox, and a guitar in a gig bag.

An electric guitar on a black stand sits next to some bags laid out on the ground at a campsite

A headless electric guitar on a stand, connected to a Boss Pocket GT effect unit and amp modeller, which is connected by wire to a speaker. A tuner sits on the floor nearby.

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

Oh absolutely! It's just gonna be a little while, right now our "adventure" is figuring out cash flow and renovations to make it work. xD Don't have any epic mountain shots handy sadly, but here's a few shots from the trip last year.

A picture of my motorcycle, a 2005 BMW F650GS. There's a plush fox on the rear luggage, to keep me company and guard my guitar.

Two fully-loaded adventure motorcycles parked on a dirt road in front of the info board for Shingle Bay, a backcountry camping area in the gulf islands national park. It's located in forest, with a lot of evergreens in the background.

Our fully-loaded ADV bikes in a parking lot. Behind are craggy hills, with bare grey rock on the steeper sections and brown scrub vegetation with sparsely-distributed evergreen trees covering the rest.

A gear-laden motorcycle, visible from the seat up, at the front of a car ferry. The sky is blue with partial clouds, the seas calm and dotted with sailboats. A number of densely-forested islands are visible.

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 11/07/2024

Weird, the white creamy sauce *I* buy from the horsing center comes in a very different container

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

If I had $1 for every time my partner opened up some new prosumer network gear to find a manufacturing mistake that would've been catastrophic if we'd just plugged it in and used it first, I'd have $2. Not a lot, but.. (the uppermost heatsink is not where it should be)

A photo of the circuit board inside the case of a networking appliance. there is a heatsink on a chip in the middle of the board, but just above and left of that, there's another heatsink which is sitting partially on top of a transformer. That heatsink is supposed to be attached to a chip which can now be seen, bare, to the left of the first heatsink.

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Pair of 05 F650GSes that saw my husband and I around 5000km worth of southwestern Canada in three weeks this year

Two motorcycles, loaded with luggage and camping gear and a guitar, parked in front of a cottage in a temperate rainforest. There's a plush fox sitting atop the tank bag on the nearest bike.

Two luggage-laden adventure motorcycles parked at a roadside rest stop. In the background a road can be seen, with small forested mountains beyond.

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

I've got a new favourite science term

A diagram showing several parallel lines (representing light) going into a concave mirror and being reflected. The reflected lines almost intersect at one point, but don't quite; the region where they all come closest to each other is labeled "circle of least confusion".

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Safe in Kaslo! A bunch of spectacular roads to get here. But I am pretty done; words aren't coming easily. So I'm going to sit with a beer and look at this view.

A view looking at a long Rocky mountain ridge in the distance. In the foreground is a small wild meadow, with a large leafy tree on the left. The sky has scattered fluffy clouds, and just behind the mountain peaks it's turning a little red from sunset.

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

The Sunshine Coast is looking much more aptly-named today! We're off the ferry now, and sitting in a parking lot while we wait for all the ferry traffic to pass us so we'll hopefully get more open road ahead of us on the way to Earls Cove!

A picture of a sunny day on a mountainous shoreline. The mountain ridge is lush green, covered in temperate rainforest, with only a few isolated near-vertical slopes showing bare rock. The ocean is blue and calm, and the clouds are well-defined big fluffy ones with very visible texture, clustered around the top of the ridge.

A picture of the Sunshine coast in broad sunlight. The sky is blue except for clouds around the mountain ridges and in the far distance. The picture is taken from the back of a ferry, on a car deck; bits of that deck are visible in the foreground, and the ferry's wake dominates the water, churning it to lighter blue with occasional smears of white foam. Further, forested islands can be seen in front of the more distant mountainous coastline.

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Also, we finally hit some dirt on the bikes today! Only about a mile of it, but it's a start!

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Getting set up at our campsite! First jobs are of course to attach a tail to my motorcycle pants and get out the guitar. Later I think there's gonna be a tent or something but whatever

A section of ground at a campsite, lit by flashlight. There's a firepit (covered with a black garbage bag because there's a fire ban), part of a picnic table is visible, and in the foreground a rolled-up sleeping pad and sleeping bag sit near an empty gig bag and a headless electric guitar that's been set up on a stand. Lying on the gig bag are a patch cable and a small effects unit.

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Love the BC ferries as a motorcycle rider. Just skip the line and go to the front, no fuss; no need for reservations, we just go where we want. ^.^

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rocketfox @rocketfox.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

Started today by riding west out of Kamloops (Tk'emlúps) and my goodness, what a surprise! I had no idea BC had this sort of scrubland, and the Thompson river valley is just spectacular!