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Sean McPherson

@seanmcp.bsky.social
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🤓 1st modem an acoustic coupler. Burning Man ‘93+. LVL1 Makerspace ‘11+. NB Sloe Patrol ‘24+ (for sale). Hybrid NB launching Oct/26! Loads more time on the UK canals soon after retirement (2027/2028-ish). Built datacenters (not AI ones).

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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 20h
Is it a protection racket if the people paying you are glad you’re doing it? 🤔 www.cnn.com/2026/08/28/w...
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Meet Roger, the seagull with a job | CNN
In Devon, England, a rescued seagull named Roger works the docks as an unofficial “security guard,” protecting local businesses from food-stealing gulls in exchange for prawns.
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hoping everything is ok for @thejollysnail.bsky.social and they’re just off doing amazing boat stuff and too busy to play with social media stuff 🫥
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/09/2026
Thread. This was a journey. Literally.
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Louisville City FC @loucity.com · 20/09/2026
Serrano starred 🌟 With a goal vs. Loudoun, he's your Man of the Match!
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Louisville City FC @loucity.com · 20/09/2026
A game winner for Donovan 💪
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Louisville City FC @loucity.com · 20/09/2026
Taking the lead into the break!
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Louisville City FC @loucity.com · 20/09/2026
Chris finds the corner 🤩
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Louisville City FC @loucity.com · 20/09/2026
FIRED UP FOR THAT RAY SERRANO FINISH 😤
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Updated mid-construction pic of the air source Heat Pump installed across the saloon bulkhead (bathroom behind) @anamca.bsky.social Bar/storage below. Sofa marked out on subfloor to left. Bathroom door upper panel will be replaced with in-progress commissioned Kate Webley glass in spring 🤩
Image of a Vision air source heat pump installed in a Narrowboat
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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I have been making more seaglass pendants and earings and have these ones available now. Made from seaglass from #Shetland beaches
Green, blue and orange Seaglass earings Green, blue and orange Seaglass Pendants
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mid-Oct launch date at Calcutt! I’ll be in 🇬🇧 ~Oct 11-24😬Up for shenanigans? @boatingdavid.bsky.social @thejollysnail.bsky.social @naturallynarrow.bsky.social @lovetwotravel.bsky.social @yaca-uk.bsky.social @thefloatingnomads.com @graham-linn.bsky.social @kedeld.bsky.social @wobblyboater.bsky.social
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
😢
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Titled “A practical determination of the different kinetic energies of a 5500kg RV traveling 120kph and a 2kg American Gull traveling at 60kph”
Rv w/ broken front window Shattered windows Taped window Rv with taped over window
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
First ‘third’ of the trip done! 650 ish miles behind us. Tomorrow the Cheyenne/Laramie hop ⛰️
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Wait a sec! Heya @explodingthephone.bsky.social are you in the UK for the Bletchley event?! Make sure you take a walk along the Grand Union canal; if you like it, you can prolly come visit with us some day! Our electric Narrowboat is on schedule for launch this fall, for our future long holidays 😃
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Louisville City FC @loucity.com · 19/08/2026
With his brace last Saturday, Ray Serrano joined some elite company 🔥
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
@thordale.bsky.social Did you all do this? 😆
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
More storms after mid-90s temps; like a wet sauna stepping outside. Just west of here the heat index hit ~120F/49C 🥵 Another couple days then we get a break in theory. Just in time for me to drive to a desert! 😆
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Louisville City FC @loucity.com · 16/08/2026
Ray Serrano gonna Ray Serrano 😏
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
More rain in central Indiana, so now a 0.1% chance of occurring event (often misstated as 1-in-1000 years). Major floods in the White River basin & all the nearby catchments near Indianapolis that eventually flow to the Wabash River & then the Ohio River.
Flood map showing the white river setting new records
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Statistics often simply say how unlikely something is, not that it’s fundamentally impossible.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Just overheard in airport security: "Oi Paul - look! It's another bloody colander!" My work is done.
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
*checks the forecast as this rain means the humidity will be nuts* Yup, as expected🥵 EXTREME HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT SUNDAY *WHAT: Dangerously hot conditions with heat index values up to 115. *WHERE: Southern Illinois, southwest Indiana, western Kentucky & southeast Missouri.
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Louisville City FC @loucity.com · 13/08/2026
PERFECT IN PENS AND WE'RE MOVING ON IN THE PRINX TIRES USL CUP 🤩 #TBRvLOU |
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Oi. Ended up with 7” of rain just up the road this morning. Makes our 3+” look like a sprinkle. Lots of flooding again. 😢 Can I bottle this up & send it overseas to refill the #ukcanals? 🫤
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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I updated my total eclipse webcam viewer for today's eclipse! Once totality begins you'll see a live-updating umbra, so you can race to the next webcam and see the eclipse happen over and over again. jonty.github.io/2026_eclipse...
A map showing the path of the 2026 total eclipse over Iceland and Spain, with markers showing webcams and a countdown until the eclipse begins, and it hitting the first webcam.
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Yup, there it is. Duck and cover continues! *quietly mutters under my breath* I could be on a canal boat right now…
80.7 mph from a local weather station here in Kentucky
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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 11/08/2026
Tomorrow is the total solar eclipse and Iberia will operate a special flight into the path of totality carrying scientists and broadcast via live stream. Follow #IB1473 on 12 Aug beginning around 16:45 UTC. www.flightradar24.com/blog/flight-...
Iberia A321XLR EC-ORZ
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Heat indexes of 110F? Check. Forecast for 3” of rain and flash flooding? Check. Expected winds to 75MPH? Check. Yup, just another Tuesday in the Midwest US. And Wednesday doesn’t look much different. And people wonder why I’d rather be on the #ukcanals 😆
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Louisville City FC @loucity.com · 09/08/2026
An amazing atmosphere for tonight’s Fill the Fam match 🙌 Thanks to everyone who joined us for our biggest crowd of the season!
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Louisville City FC @loucity.com · 09/08/2026
Akale electrifies the atmosphere with our opening goal of the night ⚡️
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Louisville City FC @loucity.com · 09/08/2026
Mukwelle Akale seasoned that finish with a lil nutmeg 🧂
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Got loud!
95 dB
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Good guys score! @loucity.com goes up
Akale Akale1-0 home team
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Game day!
Crowd shot
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Oh hey @boatingdavid.bsky.social I spotted you! www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/2643723...
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New safety measures at Pontcysyllte Aqueduct after boater's 'unpleasant journey'
The Canal & River Trust has introduced new safety measures at the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, including staff managing traffic during busy periods.
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Jose Maria Madiedo @jmmadiedo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Nuestro equipo del IAA-CSIC ha registrado en primicia el impacto de una etapa superior del cohete Falcon 9 de SpaceX contra la Luna. Adjuntamos un vídeo preliminar en el que puede apreciarse la evolución del material eyectado. La zona negra corresponde al disco lunar.
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Watford Locks @watfordlocks.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Watford Locks will be open 10 - 3 this weekend and Mon 10 & Tue 11 after which it will close From Friday 14 August the flight will be open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday only from 8am to 12pm. Last boat in at 11am This will also apply at Foxton Locks #ukcanals
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Thread!!!
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Louisville City FC @loucity.com · 05/08/2026
Louisville's own keeps showing up for the Stars & Stripes 🌟
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Louisville City FC @loucity.com · 01/08/2026
Brandon Dayes finds the back of the net at the U-20 Concacaf Championships 💪🇺🇸
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My phone call w/ @americanair.bsky.social sorting out a refund/credit issue went dead air at 6PM; they’d auto-dialed me from a case I opened last week & patched me to an agent when I answered. When it died, I waited 60 sec to see if the agent just had to sneeze, etc. Coincidence? Doubt it. IT Kaput.
Down detector showing a massive spike in issues reported w/ American Airlines at 6PM eastern Call log showing a 25 minute call from American Airlines starting at 5:35 PM
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
One more day of the worst heat and humidity & then we get a break. Parts of KY had a heat index of 124F/51C this week - that’s how muggy it’s been 🥵 It was 80F w/ a 78F dew point as I left before 6AM. That’s a heat index of 88F/31C before dawn! I should be on a canal boat somewhere 😆
Chart showing heat index values this week including 124F/51C for Murray KY
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
See? I should be asleep on a canal boat somewhere on the Staffs & Worcs, ready to explore a @nationaltrust.org.uk property Tuesday, not On-Call for work watching yet another line of severe weather. 30 years of this stress is enough.
Radar image showing a long line of severe weather marked with warning boxes and with hundreds of lightning strikes in the last few minutes
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
*looks at this post* *looks at wall of tornado warnings* *looks back at this post* 😬
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Yikes.
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Ahh, another week I’d rather be on the canals 😆 Here’s the latest forecast notes: “Dangerously hot conditions with heat index values up to around 115 degrees expected, with locally higher values possible.” Oh, and storms w/ 70+ mph winds. You know, Midwest summer during corn sweats season!
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Boatie friends!
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I had a ‘78 Ford Ranchero in the 90s that was invaluable when building my folks’ house. If Ford makes a decent go at the small EV truck (possibly the ranchero name resurfacing?), I’ll prolly get one. Built here in Kentucky so home economy support. Does Ford monitor Bluesky like other social media?🤔
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Sean McPherson @seanmcp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Center, KY possible #tornado 18:25E 17:25C
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