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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 16/10/2026

Y'all they're making snow at A-Basin and Keystone... it's happening also these signs have no idea whats coming for them when the pass finally gets its feet of snow

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 10/09/2026

Looooooooong night. Fuck this pass (cant wait to go back)

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 31/08/2026

Never did I ever think I'd be spending my last day at #denfur carrying pieces of a St. Andrew's cross through the hotel lobby and across the street.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 27/08/2026

making the gloop that gives you a headache and vertigo

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 30/07/2026

I just spent an hour throwing bricks at my computer only to realize I missed step 2 on the WinPE build instructions. Im so mad but the suffering is over now...

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 23/07/2026

I love having those "Aha! Thermodynamikz" moments. Who could have possibly guessed having a hose in my room whose surface is ~120°F would mess with the temperature? What a novel concept, hot thing in room makes room hot.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 09/07/2026

My magnum opus at work. I know its simple but i don't get to make virus-core programs that will outlive my time here often lol.

A terminal window (PowerShell...) with an ASCII raccoon peeking out of a trash can on the left and "Lab Build Helper" in ASCII on the right. It's installing Lenovo software underneath.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 05/07/2026

Its dark out and I'm going to bed... yippee

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 04/07/2026

Guys, I think we got too silly...

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 01/07/2026

Doing a lot of really good things to my body. Really nice hike tho

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 07/06/2026

Poor choices all for nothing. Pretty cool area though

The continental divide sign for Willow Creek Pass on the Jackson-Grand County line, flanked by the respective county welcome sign. Its dark outside too and there is a forest behind the signs.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 03/06/2026

This is gonna go insane on film. Cant wait to take the roll to the lab.

Picture of a US highway sign in front of a field with storm clouds over the not-so distant mountains.

Picture of a road winding over a distant hill with a rainbow below distant storm clouds.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 13/05/2026

Who's up hitting they braska? (im so eepy now)

The Welcome to Nebraska sign lit by headlights in the middle of the night. It says:
Nebraska
The good life
Home of Arbor Day

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 04/05/2026

Good morning Summit County. Very depressing as per usual.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 30/03/2026

A full weekend of poor choices and almost a "quick" Old Faithful run. 10/10 would do again.

The BLM sign for the Bonneville Salt Flats at night illuminated by headlights.

An informational sign that reads:

NUCLEAR REACTORS
Since 1949, more nuclear reactors - over 50 of them - have been built on this plain than anywhere else in the world.
This 900 - square - mile Idaho National Laboratory is the birthplace of the Nuclear Navy. Commercial power reactor prototypes, including reactors that breed more fuel than they consume were developed here. Also, internationally renowned for its materials testing reactors and reactor programs, this laboratory has become a major research center for developing peaceful uses of atomic energy.

A picture of the Bonneville Salt Flats looking east at the sunrise as a vehicle crosses the salt in the distance.

Looking northwest at the Idaho Rockies down from the top of a volcanic bassalt hill at Craters of the Moon National Preserve.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 27/03/2026

Speaking of poor choices...

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 27/03/2026

I was making poor choices a few weeks back and found @urbis.bsky.social up in Dillon. Best trash can in town lol.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 19/02/2026

I should not be sending memes to my friend over the radio at 3 am, but here we are. This is my first adventure into SSTV since getting my license, and I'm going to mess with it way more. (Hmu if you wanna exchange memes over the air in Denver, it would be so funny)

Art of my sona in a pile of leaves deep fried to hell.

A random meme I got in response. It's some dude with blonde hair and glasses looking at the camera. It's also deep fried to hell and back.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 18/02/2026

I fucked up and got myself locked out of the BIOS on my laptop (set a pw and didn't write it down). If Samsung can't help me then I get to reverse engineer the firmware to see if I can tweak the hell out of it to clear this guy.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 02/01/2026

I'm not mad that I spent 20 dollars, I'm mad that I now have more equipment I need to find a "cloud based" solution for to manage. Arista stuff is fancy fancy, but god, why does everything need to be cloud managed only, as opposed to literally anything else for smaller operations.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 08/12/2025

Excellent perk of a head that makes light lol. It's keeping me from hitting the walls as I drunkenly pace the room sipping water

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 07/12/2025

Day 4 of the Banquet drip at MFF. Most challenging yet since I'm out of branded sweaters. Gonna be cruising around with my shitbox proto taking pictures and doing the scavenger hunt. Let's get 'er done

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 24/11/2025

That's it, I'm gettin me mallet (3rd system I've tried and failed on)

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 23/11/2025

Istg I'm gonna lose it if I run into another hardware dependency issue after days of trying to get my homework to run on my computers. I'm one CUDA/PyTorch compatibility error away from throwing this system out a 3rd story window.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 07/11/2025

Small added context to the bearing failure (that still isn't fixed). It was cooked cooked by the time it blew the seal. I'm surprised none of the other bearings in the rear end ate it with how much metal it shed. Looked like someone dumped a tube of big glitter in there 💀

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 26/10/2025

Wheel bearings took a piss and shredded the seals. I have no idea how I managed to drive 400 miles like that, but I'm still mad I have to replace them again.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 10/10/2025

Even if it's free, I don't need a 44" printer to try fixing so I can print whatever I want on shower curtains and the like. But, it would be cool as fuck and save the shame of being judged by the print shop for ordering a big ole pinup. But I have nowhere to put it...

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 08/10/2025

Good motivation to get to my 4 hour lab at 8am on time: every day I do this, the closer I get to having bags so dark I'm just my sona.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 20/09/2025

Uh... girl, uh... breakfast?

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 22/08/2025

Car drives pretty good engine wise. Transmission leaves something to be desired, but that's what I get for not rebuilding it. Dumb thing is the power steering box leaks because I didn't fix the brake master cylinder leak two years ago, and brake fluid really hates rubber seals.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 19/08/2025

Oh yeah, motor and transmission are in the car, and it drives ish. It was a whole thing, and I may or may not have dropped the rad into the fan, but hey, it works and didn't explode. It's having some weird idle stuff, but after I stuck the power valve in my mouth, it seems to be feeling better.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 19/08/2025

The transmission pan is still leaking even after hammering the dents out of the edge. I'm gonna tweak it down a little more, but I'll start tweaking if i have to pull the pan again.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 30/05/2025

Two weeks staring at this and I've barely done anything. Tomorrow should be the day I drop the motor back in and break in the new cam. If it doesn't explode (knock on wood), I'll get to decide if I want to rebuild the transmission too, or just suck it up so I can get it driving faster.

An ancient turbo 350 transmission, viewed from the driver's side, sitting on jackstands over a trash bag laid out to protect the floor. It's filthy, caked in dirt mixed with oil (I've been told it's called schmoo in the pil industry) that is very thick.

Small block Chevy on an engine stand, looking from the front. It has a new water pump and shiny intake manifold. Two very orange but worn looking valve covers are on either side, and a chain is strung across the top so it can be lifted. Close to the back, the messy spark plug cables can be seen sticking off the top of a grey distributor cap.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 22/05/2025

This makes me very not excited to graduate knowing the market is still this bad even for people with high grades. Doesn't help all the nuclear power plants I looked at are only hiring senior engineers/operators with 7+ years experience.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 23/03/2025

"Keebler elf reject" This show is so hilariously unhinged lmao

Picture of a clip from Ghost Stories. It's their cat Kaiya being a sassy lil dood.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 19/02/2025

The folks who make these tools are the best because they put in the time and effort to make them. Also because they're sometimes so silly you gotta take a sec to laugh yourself sore. I just about died when this loaded. This masterpiece was made by fohdeesha for crossflashing Dell raid cards.

A GRUB boot menu with the background set to a random mess of Mudbone, a Dell RAID Controller (PERC) covering the dude's "mudbone", and a still from a movie I don't recognize. Looks like two dudes in business casual dress from the late 80s or early 90s, and one is holding a baseball bat like he's gonna hit something behind Mudbone's head. The menu is pretty much unreadable on first glance due to the text blending with the background.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 09/02/2025

My one buddy is asking what I'm doing with my servers, and it's always some shit like this. Istg I'm gonna do something productive with them, I just have to get better at doing my school work on time.

A Dell PowerVault sitting on the bottom rolling part of a server rack with a clothes hamper on top.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 30/01/2025

I spent 4 days trying to update the bios on one of my servers, only for it to end with doing something completely different that worked. But of course, not before the bios corrupted and a whole bunch of shenanigans went down because i did that different thing.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 21/01/2025

I love how I see things like springs and look at them like they committed a war crime. "I know what you do and how." Then I get my machine design textbook out and pull spring design equations, wasting 4 hours when all that happened was i saw a cool squishy spring.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 08/01/2025

When your math aint mathing but the beepers are beeping and your boss is giving you the stink eye.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 02/01/2025

After about 7 months of work, I finally have something that looks like an engine. The intake and carb are just sitting there, I didn't have time to clean the insanely grimy bolts before I needed to leave. I'll probably paint the block before it goes on the car so it looks less weird.

An old Chevy v8 on an engine stand with most hardware installed. It is just missing a fuel pump, water pump, flex plate, valve covers, and the bolts that hold the intake and carb on. It is very weird looking because the intake is the cleanest part of the engine by a very, very wide margin. The car it belongs to is in the background with boxes of parts piled on the hood and the old parts piled underneath. It has a heavy patina with spots of its old green paint showing.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 01/01/2025

The engine isn't 100% done, but the odd bank is cleaned and ready for final assembly tomorrow morning. I should also get the intake installed tomorrow so it should be fancy

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 31/12/2024

Ah yes, there is half an engine here now. Got the even bank its lifters, pushrods, and new roller rockers in last night. I even got to bed at a reasonable time.

An old Chevy v8 on an engine stand with one bank of the engine assembled. The rocker arms are clearly visible on top of the head.

The same v8 but from the front driver's side corner. You can see the pushrods and lifters in the valley with white grease on the edges. The odd cylinder bank can be seen clearly and is missing its head. The deck is a little dirty, and there is more white grease around the top of the bores.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 31/12/2024

It has an oil pan now and will have one cylinder head tonight. Maybe two if I can motivate myself to do the valves on the other tonight.

An old V8 on an engine stand with no cylinder heads and a tap sticking out of a bolt hole in the deck. There's an ancient can of spray lubricant in the lifter valley and white grease on the cylinder walls of the four visible pistons.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 02/12/2024

What's about to happen to me over the next twelve days brings to mind the quote, "writing checks your body can't cash." Don't remember who said it but yeah, I've bitten off more than I can chew, and the revolving door of life is about to make sure I don't forget this lesson.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 28/11/2024

It's so fun how porn bots are a universal constant now in social media. Granted, it only started ~3 weeks ago for me and isn't nearly as bad as twitter. Sucks you can't have a public service free of bots, but it is what it is.

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SandyRacc @sandyracc.raccoonz.gay · 23/10/2024

BF and I just saw that scene from Avatar season three with them at the top of the stairs with the sun behind them. Now I want to find somewhere to take a similar photo because that went hard af.

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