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DutchSpace @dutchspace.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

Statement from Isar Aerospace on the other site: "We’re in orbit! And just made European history: This is the first time a privately developed rocket reached orbit from continental Europe; and a testament to the dedication, expertise, and teamwork of everyone involved."

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 03/09/2026

🔴 LIVE NOW: #BepiColombo's Mercury Transfer Module separation. Follow events live from our Main Control Room. • 14:00: MTM separation • 14:30: Stream pause • 15:30: Stream resumes • 15:53: Earliest signal acquisition & spacecraft check Watch live: youtube.com/live/oC7lQngNG3o

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BepiColombo’s Mercury arrival begins (Official ESA broadcast)

YouTube video by European Space Agency, ESA

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SpaceKate @spacekate.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ooh cute - you can adopt a pixel from one of Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s first images. Check out go.nasa.gov/adoptapixel - they just launched the site during the launch livestream. You get a little certificate too - great for kids (and big kids!).

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Adopt a Pixel Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - NASA Science

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a next-generation space observatory designed to settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy,

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シャポコ🌵 @shapoco.net · 23/08/2026

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Alethea Kontis 알리티아 @aletheakontis.com · 13/08/2026

My favorite photo from today's eclipse. 📷 Andrew McCarthy cosmicbackground.io/pages/ea-sha...

From the photographer: "My favorite capture of the night: The moment the moon's shadow split the sunset in half, leaving a diamond ring in the sky and a breathtaking view. I call it "Shadows on the Balearic Sea"."

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Honored to say Peter Lassally and his wife took me to dinner once, partly to just talk TV, partly to talk where this country was going - and largely because he was a holocaust survivor who went to school with Anne Frank: he knew what evil looked like #RIP www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/p...

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Peter Lassally, Producer for Johnny Carson and David Letterman, Dies at 93

The "Host Whisperer" started out with Arthur Godfrey, spent 23 years with 'The Tonight Show' and engineered Dave's move to CBS.

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Ruthsarian @ruthsarian.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

China has joined the orbital booster return club.

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Loren Grush @lorengrush.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

She was just the coolest. Loved getting to watch her chance to finally fly to space www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/s...

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Wally Funk, Who Set an Age Record for Space Travel, Dies at 87

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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Happy 100TH BIRTHDAY to the king Mel Brooks, who wore a fake extra finger to his handprint ceremony🥳🎂🥳

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

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Ruthsarian @ruthsarian.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Been waiting for this one for a couple years. It's out now! Deer & Boy youtu.be/u9F-B0xatzI

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🦌✨ DEER & BOY - OUT NOW! ✨🦌

YouTube video by Deer & Boy Game

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Cape Cod Adventure Pictures @capecodpictures.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Check out my write-up of the 1976 Muhammad Ali vs Antonio Inoki fight that happened 50 years ago today

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Li Chen @exocomics.com · 24/06/2026

At my Brisbane book launch last night a little girl asked if I would be back next year and I told her I hope so, if Penguin lets me. Her eyes went so wide and she was like “you have a pet penguin?!”

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Ruthsarian @ruthsarian.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Under a Killing Moon was my first Tex Murphy game. It was groundbreaking to me. Its soundtrack is forever embedded in my brain. I've bought and played every Tex Murphy game since, even the rereleases. I couldn't back this fast enough. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tex...

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Tex Murphy: Killing Moon Rising

A high-fidelity modernization of Under a Killing Moon, the 1994 cyberpunk noir adventure classic video game.

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DutchSpace @dutchspace.eurosky.social · 18/06/2026

That pitch-over was.....rather sporty ! Source: ESA - S. Corvaja #VA269 #Ariane6 #CSG #P160C

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Ami Yamato @amiyamato.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Today marks my 15th Amiversary on YouTube! I made a compilation featuring EVERY video I've made (so far), showing the evolution of my channel. Thank you all for your support over the years! It's what drives me to continue. 🙏🏻 ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_2p...

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15 YEARS on YouTube: Every video in 4 minutes.

YouTube video by Ami Yamato

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Ken Shirriff @righto.com · 13/06/2026

Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point chip in 1980 to make math faster. The chip does tangents, square roots, and so forth, but fundamentally everything is computed through additions and subtractions, performed by an adder at the heart of the chip. Let's look at the adder's circuitry... 1/N

$A die photo of the 8087 chip, with functional blocks labeled. The die has complex patterns with roughly rectangular shapes. Around the edges, thin bond wires connect the die to the chip's 40 external pins. In the bottom center, the adder is highlighted. It is a tall, thin rectangle in the middle of the "fraction datapath". Above it is the exponent datapath.$

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Elizabeth Tasker @elizabethtasker.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

We are launching a rocket 🚀. Here is a live feed (launch at 09:53 JST). This is JAXA's new H3 launch vehicle, which will launch the Martian Moons eXploration (#MMX) mission later this fiscal year. There's been a couple of failed launches, so we're all watching slightly anxiously 😅

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Launch live streaming of H3 Launch Vehicle flight No.6, 30 configuration Test Vehicle（English）

YouTube video by JAXA | 宇宙航空研究開発機構

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Ruthsarian @ruthsarian.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Oddly, all I know of Love Hulten comes from their YouTube channel. Their custom synths are wonderful, whimsical pieces of art. When they released their first album on vinyl I had to grab it. youtube.com/@hulten1000

Love Hulten iron on patch, white text and line art over a black background, sitting on the cover for the LP.

a white record with an orange label in the middle.

a close-up of the text "public play is encouraged" from the back of the album cover.

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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!

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Ruthsarian @ruthsarian.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Ah, the internet. Where I can start out watching a video documenting the process of refurbing CRTs and wind up buying 3 CDs of 80s synth music in a buy 2 get 1 deal from a book reseller a thousand miles away.

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The Craft of Picture Tube Rebuilding

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Ruthsarian @ruthsarian.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

That's a bummer. The Maxx is one of my favorites, easily top 5 comics. His work on Sandman, Zero Girl, Four Women, and so much more... Gonna go dig up my trade paperbacks and issues and read them again.

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Ruthsarian @ruthsarian.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I can't seem to figure out JLCPCB's tooling hole requirements. I put one in each corner. I specified in the order I had added tooling holes. Yet they went and added their own within a couple mm of mine! What gives?! Are min too close to the edge??

A small PCB with a single VQFN20 package IC in the middle and with traces fanning out to 9 2.54mm pitched holes along the top and bottom edges. This is a breakout board for the MAX14778 analog multiplexer. It can handle +/- 25V on just a 5v power rail. Should work a treat for multiplexing RFID antennas. I hope ..

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Ruthsarian @ruthsarian.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I have a project in mind that reads multiple RFID tags so I bought a bunch of readers. In the time it took for them to arrived I realized it wasn't going to work the way I thought. So here's what 10 RFID readers looks like. They'll go into a storage container for a rainy day.

A PCB with V cuts separating 10 RFID readers in a 5x2 array. Under the PCB is a bag with 10 rectangular RFID antennas.

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Carrie (prev of Alpenglow) @alpenglow.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Last day to get any Alpengoodies!

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Ruthsarian @ruthsarian.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

"You cannot explain away a wantonly immoral act because you think that it is connected to some higher purpose!" -Picard 6:3

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Ruthsarian @ruthsarian.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I need more coffee. Been staring at code for the last 30mins wondering why it was skipping every other byte. I mean, pos modulo 1 should be flipping between 1 and 0 as I increment pos. right? RIGHT?! oh. oh yeah. anything divided by 1 has a remainder of 0. pos % 2 hey, the code works!!

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Ruthsarian @ruthsarian.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

blizzard hits tonight. so I check my lone flashlight. ah, a battery leaked. I'll clean it. But it's still crusty, wth?! Oh, no, it's not battery juice, that's just where the battery juice eroded the aluminum housing. the crater is a good mm deep! Right, all good. Now, do I have any C batteries?

looking down the tube (battery housing) of a flashlight. Most of the tube is clean metal, but a small portion looks crusty.

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Ruthsarian @ruthsarian.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

wanted to code new stuff today. instead spent the day rethinking and rewriting stuff I have rethought and rewritten about a dozen times now. surely I've cracked it THIS time!

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Ruthsarian @ruthsarian.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I've previously bought the Krampus and SMT Garden kits. Both are wonderful. If you want to get some cool soldering practice in or want a pretty electronical of your own then definitely check Alpenglow out while you still can!

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Ruthsarian @ruthsarian.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

One last (virtual) ride. Dinosaur closes tomorrow. I wonder what'll happen to the replica of Sue (a T-Rex skeleton on display in Chicago). youtu.be/4MofIhWR2cI

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DINOSAUR Ride at Animal Kingdom | FULL RIDE & QUEUE 4K Low-Light

YouTube video by Blog Mickey

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Ruthsarian @ruthsarian.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

For a distraction, I sat down with this TNG effects generator keychain given to me by a friend. The batteries inside had leaked and eaten most of the copper pads that provided the LR44 battery connection. And in taking it apart I destroyed the speaker and had to order a replacement.

A blister pack for a Star Trek: The Next Generation keychain with a folded up piece of paper showing the text "warranty". To the right is the keychain itself, out of the package and laying on the workbench. it's about 1x2 inches in size with a silver chain coming out of the top to act as the keyring. The device itself has the TNG communicator design, the ttitle of the show, and beneath that a 4x2 array of buttons.

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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 17/01/2026

Next Stop, THE MOON! NASA's SLS rocket has made the 11 hour trip from the VAB to LC-39B, ahead of the launch of the crewed Artemis II mission to the moon for the first time since 1972, launching NET February 6. Stay with NASASpaceflight for all updates on this historic mission.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Happy 85th birthday to Hayao Miyazaki ♡

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Ruthsarian @ruthsarian.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Was gifted this yard sale find a few months back. It's a "Cool Keys" music toy from the 90s. However, not all the keys were cool. The bond between the carbon track ribbon cable and the keyboard and logic PCBs was failing. So I replaced it with a couple connectors and a ribbon cable. Is it cool now?

The logic PCB is on the left It's about 1 1/4 inch square in size. Soldered to it is a 25 pin, 1mm pitch connector. On the right is one end of the keyboard PCB with another 25 pin, 1mm pitch connector Between them is a 25 pin, 1mm pitch flat flex cable.

Beneath the cable is the old, carbon track flat flex cable.

The carbon tracks also act as resistors of a few kiloohms. Is the now lack of resistance going to matter? I hope not!

The electronics installed in the top half of the Cool Keys case. The logic PCB is screwed down on the right side and the ribbon cable bends back in over itself in an S shape before connecting to the keyboard PCB on the left.

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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

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Ruthsarian @ruthsarian.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Posted a new video today taking a look at The Stranger legacy lightsaber from Galaxy's Edge. Should have stopped to read the instructions, but who does that? youtu.be/NsJrulg4btA

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Teardown of The Stranger Legacy Lightsaber Hilt and Blade from Galaxy's Edge

YouTube video by Ruthsarian

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Ruthsarian @ruthsarian.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

The control board from a UV sanitizer case that was being tossed. It has three LEDs inside, two UVA/B and one UVC LED. Confirmed UVC with a UVC detector. Surprised it's not a scam. PCB has two separate DC boosting LED drivers. It also has a sounder to alert you after 1 minute of use.

The back of the PCB. There's a micro USB connector and a tactile switch at the top, middle.

Below them is a 2-color (red/green) LED used to indicate status.

Two low-value resistors on the left used to control the current output of the LED drivers.

Bottom right is a PNP transistor labeled 2TY. It is used to drive the sounder.

The front of the PCB In the middle is a 4-pin ribbon cable connector that connects the LEDs to the PCB. To the right are 2 identical circuits for driving the LEDs. On the top left is an STC 8F1K08S2 microcontroller in a SOP-16 package that controls everything. Bottom left is a square plastic element that contains the sounder.

The LED driver IC on the right (there are 2) is labeled 5121M is a G5121 LED driver in a sot-23-6 package.

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Ruthsarian @ruthsarian.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Was asked about accessing the battery on a Qui-Gon legacy hilt. Found how to get in. Remove the covertec wheel (2mm hex) and pry up the black plastic oval piece nearest the base. Some light heat and/or IPA may help. I used a hobby knife and spudger. The electronics housing pulls out.

The base of a Qui-Gon legacy hilt from Galaxy's Edge sits horizontally. There is a circular area with a square hole in it. This is where the covertec wheel was installed. To the right of that is an oval shaped hole through which the inside of the metal housing of the hilt is visible.

The plastic tube that was inside now sits at a 45 degree angle above the base of the hilt. Holes for the covertec wheel screw and plastic oval are present on it as well. The oval area has adhesive all around it.

The oval piece that locked the inner plastic sleeve to the outer metal housing is laying near the base of the inner sleeve next to a silver screw.

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