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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today's genet tinkerer brain: "what is happening"

Norman the spotted genet, in a rare moment of stillness from trying to sit on Tree Kitty, on the floor of kinkatopia.org, a kinkajou animal sanctuary. Staring straight up, ears in alert, and looking very bemused-wired, which is... quite a normal state for genets.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy Spooky Month from the things wot go sniff and scoot in the night. [Genet prowl!]

A large-spotted genet, inquisitively sniffing about the forest floor for morsels in the light of a camera setup. Nose and whiskers to the ground, this nocturnal viverrid is in their element, alert but relaxed; no threat crest raised on its hackles, ringstriped tail low and loose.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I feel like this'd be one of your River Forge ships, @tinselfire.bsky.social It's actually a through-axle, hub motor stator core mount, but it does have a Tiny Spin-deck Shippy look to it.

A shiny aluminum CNC milled axle core for an ebike hub motor. Three flanges extend out from a tubular, machine-tooling polished central tube, for bearing mounts and other hardware to sit on when this piece is complete, but this raw part never made it far enough to receive them, cut short by a machining defect. The largest ring of three has holes and sockets cut into it, partly for lightening, and partly to interface with the spokes of the motor stator that is not attached.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My favorite spokey pokey-tool finally died. Slightly contoured bitted end for prying potting rubber, making little end incisions in circuit traces, and Just Bein' Useful. Steel Sapim spoke off cut, scrap of pallet wood used for so long it got polished by my hands.

A broken handmade "pokey tool". About 4 centimeters of broken bicycle spoke off a rounded, ovoid contour wooden hand whittled grip polished smooth by years of use. The sad remains of a beloved scrappy tool

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I shall have you know we're very triangular if you happen to look at us from exactly the right angle in the right lighting! Pay no mind to the unusually rounded, clearly not sergal ears. Or the total absence of a tailpoof. 100% genuine sergal!!

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I feel like it's worth mentioning while Milo Yiannopoulos is the latest entry in the "Leopards Eating People's Faces Party" annals, I literally banned the guy from an MFF Telegram for being so attention-desperate he was trying to get in with altfurs and raid MFF. I am not joking.

A small image snippet of the Telegram "Removed users" UI in gray. The name search "milo" reveals one entry for "MILO" with a fake gold Twitter verified badge and the handle @miloinc. Yes, he was pathetic enough to try raiding a furcon in his nadir.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Not joking on "deploying the battery iron" for some field repair. (If I had a Cyberpunk archetype, it's definitely Nomad)

The red and white checker paint decorated battery of Siddeley's ebike build over a backdrop of concrete floor. The lower frame is currently playing host to a Haxbox soldering station, Sid's homebrew battery powered soldering iron for field repair work on bikes like this, with a D16 type tip in the iron, crusty from recent work

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I might have gone a little too full-send. (First time I've actually straight up kicked a pedal off the crank peg getting started from a stop)

The left hand crank of a bicycle, over a concrete slab. It's in a very sad state, broken nearly in half with one lobe of two hanging on by the slimmest sliver of sun-bleached black plastic. Rest in pieces.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

More "Living River Forge", @tinselfire.bsky.social Decorative light strings of scrap electronics and shipping tubes with resin, every vertical surface used like a spacer (note the magnetic tool plate on the fume hose!

The soldering worktop at Siddeley's bench. Every conceivable point on the gray slat wall behind the fice pointed iris nozzle of the fume vent front-center is hung with tools, tape and electrical sundries. A few small lamps hang decorative; small glass spice vials with a fill of phosphorescent resin mixture and LED cores, one of them with a tiny shade made of scrap circuit panels. In the foreground above, plastic clear tubes of heat shrink insulation hang in a row, suspended from magnetic strips on a bolt-tipped cord to allow them to attach.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Having a River Forge moment here, @tinselfire.bsky.social Workspace like I'm in an orbital habitat or spacecraft without spin gravity

A look up in part of Siddeley's work space. Tools and wiring festooned over vertical surfaces. Most of the focus on this photo is on an overhead arm lamp with magnetic strips holding an assortment of electricians scissors, flush cutter and pliers. Electronics schematics are out of focus on the wall behind, and other homebrew electronic work gadgets are attached vertically to all surfaces

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Well, here, have s'more genet teef.

a spotted genet, zonked out and snoozing, in close focus. Just the creature's silly head, on its side, snout upturned and mouth wide open showing the various sharp teeth lining its whiskery muzzle. Probably dreaming of mice to chase.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Oh, for your ref, on the earlier topic of ride gear being a good idea, @renegadekangaroo.bsky.social - this lives in my front hall. Saved my face and probably my life. Totem reminder now, every time I head out for a ride.

A white motorcycle helmet with noticeable cracks and damage to the chin bar. The visor is missing and the rubber gasket normally running flush behind that visor is sagging at the top where it was almost squeezed off by the missing visor cracking off. A red NASA "CRITICAL SPACE ITEM" sticker adorns the crown.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

My bike's main battery, for reference: Two ports, charge and discharge (vehicle drive supply). This charge port has recessed sleeve receptacles and matching posts that mesh with recesses around each pin of the M connector. Silicone dust and spray cap.

A very closely framed snapshot of an ST3 type ebike battery charging port. Three crescent-like shapes mark the ends of each pin sleeve in this black plastic socket with cutouts for the unseen plug end to index into.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

30 kilograms of groceries onto a 25 kilogram vehicle. Milk crate bike gang. (I'm a leatherworker for goodness sakes, I should build myself some saddlebags or fork bags already.)

Siddeley's red salvaged Ohm bicycle frame with its hallmark "RATFOOD!" battery mounted to the front step-through low tube. Flags of orange gaff tape mark peripheries of the bike, the handlebars are utterly festooned with a mess of ride electronics, voltage buck power supply, and truck horn. Two phaserunner motor controllers are currently redundant, because there's currently only one rear hub motor on this frame. The poor "20 pound maximum" load tail rack is hanging on for dear life with at least twice that perched on top of it. Out of frame is the backpack and hip-bag loaded with a good ten to fifteen kilograms more of stuff.

A week's worth of food, snacks and treats on one bicycle

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Cal Kestis, demonstrating the appropriate handling of space-fascists: (Silly Imperials.)

The Jedi character Cal Kestis, posed in a Jedi-style wanderer's outfit with a roughspun tunic over wrapped sleeves, a bandolier and pack, with tasseted waistcloth traveler's cloak rolled up at the beltline. The not so fortunate bounty hunter sharing this Jedi temple courtyard in the game screenshot, rather lifeless and prone on the ground, is minus a lightsaber-snipped hand on the tiles in the background. Cal has a boot up on this poor Imperial hireling.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

So, mustelidae in my circle, you now know what to do, right? Especially if you're a fisher. Mechwarrior up after six Timbiqui Dark ales and rise, Drunken Fisher.

A cropped snapshot from the game Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries. The BattleMech repair bay in the background isn't quite the focus of this clip of the neuro-helmeted Mechwarrior Duncan Fisher, quoted in a text-box in game by name, saying "Ah, she had the misfortune of meeting my intoxicated alter ego "Drunken Fisher"... she wasn't a fan."

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I love my little mutant Phaserunner. Did some preventative maintenance on it; Odd cable boot on the XT connector's for a Hall grounding reference splice to route around damage. Original prototype Phasesink mount. Mutare ad custodiam!

A GRIN Technologies Phaserunner motor controller. The bare stainless finish type, with a shiny steel casing, mounted in a fin-ridged anodized aluminum heat spreader and heatsink expansion. Black cabling snakes out of frame to the left, and it's sitting on a bit of shop-towel after having just undergone a little electrical surgery. One of Siddeley's custom touches to this repaired and recycled motor controllers is a pentagonal laser-engraving badge-art from XCOM on top in black oxide, with finer print reading "MUTARE AD CUSTODIAM" over the stylized biohazard symbol below in the pentagonal shield. It also reads "There are many Phaserunners, but this one is also mine. - S"

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Built a thing. Servo controller for a bicycle spoke lacing driver. Programmable quadrature-sensor motor drive that can deliver repeated, precise rotation counts when setting spoke-nipples.

A prototype board of a small servo motor driver. A red riser card sits over a mostly obscured blue servo power board below. The top and bottom edges of the PCB are populated with 0.1" pitch header rows pinning the two circuit boards together. Connectorized wiring is routed over from the left, with a DC barrel plug, thin red and black wire connector for the control trigger button, and a rainbow of wire attached to the motor connector JST group of 6 pins. Far right, an adjustable DC-DC power supply sports chubby little electrolytic caps on its top face and a transistor package for regulator switching.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Post a picture you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed (be polite and alt-text tho!)

Ten battery cells in an open enclosure. Corrosion damage is evident on the nickel terminal strips. Green rings of barley paper alternate with the blue cell wrappers, and milky translucent silicone surrounds the cells in this small battery pack.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

It's only polite, so the test battery doesn't run down on the meter's passive draw.

A close look at a very hack-bred meter cluster of three LED numeric displays inset into a clear acrylic frame stuffed with flying circuit and multiple colors of wire.

The real focus is the sticker on top of it reading "Unplug after alien abduction". Don't want the batteries draining, after all

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Yeah, there's actual structural black iron gas pipe on my frame at the moment. Gaze upon my shame, @clapptrap.bsky.social

Siddeley's gas pipe kickstand. An old German alloy bike stand with the original leg snapped off halfway. A sleeve of half inch black iron (and at least 5% rust now) pipe forms the leg supporting 30 kilograms of red framed ebike above, with a bodged rubber foot made of inner tube bound into a ball with number 23 splicing rubber.

A shameless bodge for old, broken but beloved parts

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Today's ride is already interesting. Almost ate it by finding unexpected black ice - caught enough dry pavement to keep it upright and not go sliding into King George highway, but... yikes. (The Fraser river is somewhere down there. I think. Ice fog.)

An almost entirely dogged photo frame with near zero visibility on the right half. The faintest hints of the iron framed Pattullo bridge are visible at top, and a barge is the sole hint at the river below completely engulfed in fog.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Apparently the genet of 2026 is "WITNESS ME!" and-or hold my beer and watch this

A snapshot of a post from @merriam-webster.com. It reads "Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go."

The teal-green to yellow fade reads Your 2026 Word

zip-line

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

QTP with a robot that's not Star Wars or Transformers. Hard Mode: No Gundam Series,Battletech or Macross allowed. [Saraba Yasashiki Hibiyo intensifies in the distance] It's probably cheating a tiny bit to invoke Dougram with Battletech forbidden.

The Dougram, titular mecha from Dougram Fang of The Sun, slumped over in the Deloyer deserts after being scuttled and abandoned by its crew in the first episode recap / final ending. Damage is evident all over from its many trials on the journey, and the machine is no longer operable. It sits like a man slumped exhausted, body hunched over knees, a hand in its lap, and the cockpit slouching lifeless. Sepia and sand tones further carry the desolation of this end to the iconic mecha's adventure.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Vent system had to be shut off again to deal with a shop rag getting ingested by a port. Decided to fix that problem. Test cut, built a thing. Finished devices being lasered in 1/16" aluminum. BaggieBlocker9000. No more eating stray cloths, parts baggies or other dross, fume-slurper.

A busy worktable with wiring scattered to the right, some decorative chain to the left in progress, and dominating the frame to the center, the Baggie Blocker 9000, a fume vent hood attachment that would normally be a foot-wide open suction port, but it is instead, equipped with an X shaped bar of laser cut plastic sandwiching aluminum expanded mesh, which quite effectively will block this vent port from ingesting bags, rags and other lightweight objects which it would normally ingest, then eject through a fan onto the building roof, jamming said fan and requiring someone to go climb onto the roof to retrieve it.

A much needed device.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I made a cheeky suggestion in the workshop for Christmas party activities. Other crew have run equally wild with it.

Handwritten text on a whiteboard, for suggested Christmas party activities

It reads, top to bottom:
- Finish kegs
- (redacted) Disco hoe down
- All the rum
- none of the rum
- some of the rum
- schrödinger's rum
- schrödinger's cat's rum
- pin the tail on the reindeer

Very normal whiteboard workshop stuff.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Building a thing. (It's a backlit sign for my lab-space)

A sign box on a cluttered worktable. Laser cut hardboard frames the sides of this box, painted a deep gray matte finish with scalloped vent slots on the top. Art deco nouveau style print is laser cut into a gloss black acrylic finish, inlaid with "MR-T" in a brushed, shiny mylarized acrylic finish.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Shenanigans with salvage: Bootleg modular batteries.

A black plastic rectangular 3D printed battery shell. Inlaid text in the print identifies its contents as 36 volts nominal with a 99 watt hour capacity. More importantly, whomever, on this homemade battery is the bright yellow paint pen reading "NO OCC - DO NOT SERIES". Only slightly sketchy homebrew.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Built a thing. Pi-clone single board services host for an ESP32 device net. VOC sensors, anemometer, and other devices to automate a network of soldering smoke extractors on a central filter and evacuator

A single board computer in the Raspberry pi family of devices. The computer itself is nested into a bright orange 3D printed plastic housing with a small touchscreen LCD on top, framed by a grey printed bezel. This device is built to automate a series of workshop machines and sensors.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

On why we always ride with gear, folks: That's the quick release for my rear axle. Its missing about 3 millimeters of metal from Wednesday's slide.

A close up view of a black metal "skewer" (a bicycle axle pin) with a conspicuous ragged scrape on its levered back face, on the outside of the axle. This is abrasion damage from a road accident. Smaller scratches are evident on the steel brake mount bolt above this.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Couldn't find a spare tack hammer in the shop, couldn't find mine. Needed to set small hammer-set inserts with a drive punch. Did find the gas plumbing supplies have a suitable solution, however.

A janky ersatz hammer, made from iron gas pipe. An iron T pipe joint attached to a section of merchant iron gas pipe, with steel pipe plugs in the ends of the T-joint.

A substitute bonking tool.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Made a thing. Salvaged motor magnets, a bit of epoxy and some laser cut hardboard. Modular tool hanger.

A homemade magnetic tool rail. Four nickel plated neodymium magnets sit in rectangular recesses in a bar of wooden hardboard with six spaced mounting holes in the bar. Domes of epoxy protect each magnet from chipping.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Figure that I should share more projects and less random postings. Little LM2596 based DC-DC handmade buck converter in a variety of salvaged ebike hardware. Borrowed the shell off a dead solar current monitor shunt, built a tiny little DC-DC for a colleagues formerly 4-AA powered bike light

A very well worn wooden worktop is in full frame, covered in years of toolmarks, bicycle oil stains and other well worked signs. The sole focus on this is a black-wired electronic device with a DC power jack on one side and a 2-pin "JST" connector on the other wire, with a black oxide finished steel case the size of a small matchbox in the center, filled with black potting rubber.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Sometimes the only explanation is "Haunted" What's wrong with it? "Haunted" No, really "Haunted" (I *think* its resonating feedback between sensors and analog throttle control, but... in a very weird, metastable way)

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Always a fun day when the Danger Cord has to come out and play. (Dear China: if you can't stick an IEC on it, at least put a heavy GX or equivalent on. Spade terminals on exposed screws are Nope dot avi)

A "Danger Cord". North American AC plug on one end of a short black cable curled into a circle on a workbench rag mat. The other end with the Danger Spades, has exposed forked spade terminals. This device is an excellent way to get a good zap if used without great care.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I probably should have stayed home today. Night City ass smog.

More Burnaby BC during the current smog. Full morning sun, not a cloud in the sky, and it looks near dusk out there. This building immediately adjacent to the Skytrain window is hazed against the backdrop of a gray sky.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Just brutal out there right now, like eating a spent housefire with every breath.

A view out the twin rounded rectangular windows of a Mark 1 Skytrain in Burnaby. Trees that range from 15 to 50 meters out form the background and are noticeably occluded by smog. The sky beyond is scarcely blue, and everything below the high horizon in that sky is a uniform shade of smokey beige. The evergreens in the view are, some of them, more like everbrowns from dehydration

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I think my sealant might be a bit expired.

A rather expired syringe of black RTV silicone sealant. The syringe plunger that has been pulled out from the barrel has a suspiciously syringe barrel shaped lump of silicone permanently fused to it. Not optimal for something which needs to remain a jelly for application onto electronics that need this for sealant.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Presenting the Mark 1 Skytrain Experience: Dunno if the mic picked up the meter diameter vent that is currently loud enough to be aggressively painful over the usual squealing din of these things, but yeah. Translink can't retire these things soon enough.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

"Robust Deer" brand. Two lies in one name, how economical.

A broken, blue rubber handled pair of electronics flush cutters. One cutting jaw has snapped clean off this budget tool at the base, ostensibly the strongest part.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

All hail Shai-HoseLud, extractor of smoke and holder of the holy silver fluxcore.

An iris gate soldering fume extraction system built DIY from 3D printed black plastic parts on a translucent white hose. An anti static work tray sits below, a tray behind that holds tweezers and other small electronics tools, and the trappings of a busy tech workbench litter the background.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

*Rough And Decent getting louder in the distance* (External repairs to a thermally damaged motor controller. That's a 1206 PTC perched flying. The threaded hole is M3 Metric)

A very close magnification photo of some delicate electronics repair made through black potting rubber on a motor controller circuit. Blue silicone wire snakes out from a green poly-fuse PTC device perched in a nook between components, with protective conformal coating glazing the new repair. Fidgety stuff.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Furthering the "I work like I'm on orbit" thing; Built a magnetic rail of scrapped motor magnets across my lowest bench shelf, hung canisters of heat shrink from steel hex nuts.

Six polycarbonate tubes hanging from a magnetic rail, filled with strips of black polyolefin heat shrink tubing for electrical repairs. A recent addition to Siddeley's workshop space optimization.

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Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

And before you come tut-tutting at me, here's a literal French fascist group celebrating him as "anti-democratic", "living large", and "identitarian". That last one should be really pertinent to you if you're not a fascist yourself.

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