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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 29/09/2026

"You're in the butter zone now, baby!"

A cordless rivet gun next to a pack of pop rivets, the manual. They are sitting on a large corroded aluminum panel

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 28/09/2026

The folks down at the powercoat shop are gonna laugh at my welds, but they passed QC with a 110V welder.

Two feet in sneakers and jeans standing on shiny metal brackets protruding from an old rusty orange trailer. Looking downward

A large plastic wheel cover, bolted to Hidden brackets on a rusty Orange trailer. A wheel is axle protrudes through the center on a jack stand

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 28/09/2026

The second best time to remember to bevel your workpieces. There is no third.

A piece of shiny new metal tack welded to rusty old metal

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 27/09/2026

Due respect to this paint and stickers for surviving admirably for probably 15 years.

Two areas the look like large letters wjere a sti ker has been scraped away on an aluminum surface

A laege clean auminim surface on a mobile table in a garage

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 26/09/2026

I'd like to know who designed this cover illustration. I just want to ask them a question. Ok, maybe two questions.

Book cover. Title "Practical PCB Design" Cover illustration, black and white vector. A humanoid robot is hunched over a table with some sort of circuit board. The robot is holding a soldering iron by the hot part. Another circuit board of suspect design and other tools scattered.

Woman in a collared shirt and protective eyewear holding a soldering iron by the hot part over a computer motherboard.

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 26/09/2026

Can you fix the links on the page so I can see who is credited for the cover illustration?

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 26/09/2026

In the "Can I still weld?" phase of the art project.

Too short pieces of square tube steel with 1/8 in walls, in a tee configuration welded confidently if not competently. Background: yellow oxide welding table, tools.

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 25/09/2026

Coworker asked what I was doing this weekend. "I have a date with a bottle of acetone."

An aluminum sheet with several holes cut in it. Much of the aluminum is bare, but thin scratched up paint and chips cover a portion of it. In frame is a paper towel and an open bottle of nail polish remover.

On a folded cardboard box is a small paint roller, a a cleaning brush, and a piece of aluminum painted jet black

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 23/09/2026

These potatoes are golf ball sze and the poor volunteers need to sort them.

An exceptionally large bag of very tiny yellow potatoes, fingers in the foreground

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 21/09/2026

When I ask you if you want to help out with my big art project this winter.

line drawing dude in sunglasses, giving fingerguns. Caption: "You son of a bitch. I'm in!"

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 21/09/2026

et voilà, a portrait of Garrett Langley, CEO of Flock, rendered from leaked Flock license plate camera images. Plates were redacted before rendering.

Bust of a man, outdoors. In the background, sky, telephone pole, Flock safety camera and solar panel. Rendered from a mosaic of smaller images.

Tight zoom of a mosaic of license plate camera images featuring a swath of red vehicles and an empty street in other areas.

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 19/09/2026

*sigh* why isn't my car a mobile crane

Four wheeled mobile crane, raised on four outriggers, boom raised but not extended. Background, dirt construction site with a line of trees.

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 19/09/2026

Calvert County MD finally answered my records request. They sent me their June 2023 invoice for two SignalTrace hardware packages. I've added a second SignalTrace location in Calvert County to my article. www.ryanohoro.com/post/thinkin...

Invoice from Leonardo to Calvert County Sheriff's Department (MD), dated June 27, 2023 (Invoice #48512M). Bills 2 units of "EOC Plus HDWE" ($21,000) and 2 days of "Engineering Day - Field Support" ($2,500), totaling $23,500 USD, due in 15 days. Signed by Maddi Plumer.

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 17/09/2026

Oconee County SC council member posing with a bagged Flock camera and a copy of the constitution.

Outdoors. Two men, one on a ladder, the other holding a book, posing next to a bagged flock camera pole.

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 16/09/2026

Fasinated by what seems to be a fiducial marker on a large bulk product carton.

Side of a cardboard box with a black circular emblem. Segmented into triangular pieces.

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 15/09/2026

Y'all, which conference should I submit this talk to?

Generic presentation slide with some pastel coloring in the background. Title agenda, text aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 13/09/2026

Please buy them some of these

A retail package of dinosaur capsules a colorful toy lag presentation 12 multi-colored pills

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 13/09/2026

Chicago has a pretty serious water caterpillar problem.

Overhead photo of a bridge Crossing a river, the river has numerous long rowing boats with 6 to 10 rowers each

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 12/09/2026

Me when I'm about to swerve the wealthiest, most powerful nation on Earth into a ditch:

George W bush in a golf t-shirt standing on a golf course tee, caption now watch this drive

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 11/09/2026

If you have the stomach for it, you can subscribe to the (no) alt text labeller and then set those labelled posts to hidden.

Moderation settings for missing alt texts hide selected

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 11/09/2026

Hot emergency contacts in your area.

Femme, looking into the camera, chin in hand, laying on a pile of folded clothing. Dog lingering in the background

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 07/09/2026

Heads up St. Paul! Contact your electeds about the expansion of the Skydio drone program.

CiTy CoUNCIL MAY VOTE TO AUTHORIZE THE EXPANSION OF THE CITY'S SKYDIO DRONE PROGRAM ON 9/9/26
Please continue to contact city council using the script below:
I live/work/attend school in Ward __ _ and ask that you vote against RES 26-1.399. Councilmembers Coleman and Kim have already gone on record saying they will not support this resolution and I am askina vou follow their lead and do the same. I do not support expanding the drone program and ask that the city end all contracts with Axon, Flock and Skydio and take the neccesary action to ban Al-powered mass surveillance
Ward1- Anika Bowie ward1@ci.stpaul.mn.us | 651-266-8610 Ward 2 - Rebecca Noecker I ward2@ci.stpaul.mn.us | 651-266-8620 Ward 3- Saura Jost I ward3@ci.stpaul.mn.us | 651-266-8630 Ward 4-- Molly Coleman I ward4@ci.stpaul.mn.us | 651-266-8640 Ward 5- Hwajeong Kim I ward5@ci.stpaul.mn.us | 651-266-865C Ward 6 - Nelsie Yang I ward6@ci.stpaul.mn.us | 651-266-8660 Ward 7 - Cheniqua Johnson I ward7@ci.stpaul.mn.us | 651-266-8670
EYES OFF SAINT PAUL

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 06/09/2026

Uh so... I FOUND THIS IN THE TIRE TODAY.

Photo of the underside of a tire, there is a large steel bolt and washer stuck in it near the edge of the tread

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 06/09/2026

The first thing I did was take out the batteries which were dead, so no light tests yet. But there it is, a full size 25 light arrow board. Wheels held up just fine on the 200 mi journey.