Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 02/10/2026So if we have "Energy cells" and "Power cells", surely this means "Plasma cells" can't be far behind, and we get pew pews? 010
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I should laser-cut a plaque to stealthily install on it somewhere. Just a little "you did the absolute minimum" nose-thumb for the local planners. 010
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Also, to enter the "lane" requires you to either ride over a sidewalk, or down the shoulder of a road with no sidewalks. Or directly through a pedestrian crosswalk with traffic doing 60 at your back. It is a good candidate for the GVRD's worst "lane". The gold star "You Tried" lane. 150
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 01/10/2026So, so many "travel problems" are rooted in roads designed solely around car culture with zero concept of any other existence. I like that they finally put in a bike lane locally on the 60 zone. It runs exactly two blocks, is on a sidewalk with no barrier, and the far end is... just a sidewalk. 1130
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Happy Spooky Month from the things wot go sniff and scoot in the night. [Genet prowl!] 192
Reposted by Siddeley GenetAlgon @weezol.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Hold still while I inspect you 9587147
Reposted by Siddeley GenetStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 27/09/2026 116848
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Ah, a very different sense of "engage". Indeed. 011
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Perfectly Normal* Jeep Things... *normality not guaranteed by any less psychopathy-steeped subculture's standards. 130
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Broken record time: Do not use Meta products. Do not be a Meta product. Do not engage with Meta products. Do not tolerate Meta in your spaces. 2115
Reposted by Siddeley GenetDOG of BLUD @dogblud.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026hey Millennials remember the whole trend of doing horrifically brutal shit to extremely cute things that ran rampant in the 00s. I think it's time that came back. 1520361
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Beaten to the thought by you, capy. But yeah, imagine being all "Geordie selections" against kobolds. 020
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Being kink-filtered by kobolds of all things. 030
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It was surreal; ended up turning into this whorled mess as parts of it expanded and contracted under the light, so the buttons ended up as curved bean-shapes, the top grill started spiraling before it drooped entirely into the circ. Surprisingly still worked as a clock, but the buttons were fused. 000
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I had one of those clocks, but I'm not amplifying that AI-posting account there Shame I can't have a lamp accident that did in the clock the same way with the slop machine, though. Left an IKEA arm lamp in the wrong position with a toasty incandescent bulb. Drooped over the clock. Clock became art. 100
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I will perch upon the snoot and be an obnoxious weird scarf. 110
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So first we had the Perv Glasses, and now we have the Perv Tamagotchi. Time for a "recognition card" of them, furcons; most of our terms of service already ban nonconsensual recording, but outright banning the devices would be a nice addition. 11710
Reposted by Siddeley GenetGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One of the hardest things about being a cyclist is dealing with the nagging feeling that a serious crash is inevitable. Because you can indeed do everything "right" and it still does not matter. 3682104
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And keyboards with a distressing tendency to blow out a motherboard if you hot-plugged one. 120
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I can feel myself crumbling into dust in realtime. I remember using computers that you had to "park" in the command line before switching it off to prevent hard drive damage. 110
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Well that guy built the orphan smashing machine!" Yes, but... your guy didn't pull the off switch on the orphan smashing machine and just let it continue to smash orphans, because? In a shellnut. 090
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Now, I'm not an RF nerd, but, uh. Surely there's a wavelength we can microwave these things with that won't cook the human wearing it too badly, right? 050
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Weevil Ronald is not real, Weevil Ronald cannot haunt your dreams, Weevil Ronald has... no... poweaaaugh! 120
Reposted by Siddeley GenetCoffeespots™ 🏳️🌈 🔜 Howloween @coffeespots.ca · 26/09/2026#BCpol time, you can mute this tag if you don't want to see this. The BC Cons are acting like they are a new party because the second a snap election was about to be called, they forced their bat shit insane leader out and many of the MLAs that jumped ship ran back to save their own jobs. 192
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 26/09/2026And no, not like, a household coat rack, but like. The kind of thing you used to have in a disco, full on rail 'o vestments on a flatbed cart with wheelbarrow tires for just. Having a roaming coat-check at a festival. 110
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I mean, one of the other builds from the fella that made himself a motorized knee scooter was using spare Bafang hardware, some laser-cut steel and motorcycle chain to make a motorized rideable coat rack. 110
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Oh, that thing would *definitely* be an excellent way to break a leg if mishandled. Or break an everything, probably. Absurdly top heavy, and the sole concept of throttle management is "don't goose it too hard". Speed limits? Pff. Actual speedometer, even? PFF. Display? PFFFFF. 020
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 25/09/2026One of the crew built it after he had an ankle pinned back together, so he could still zoom around. 220
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There's also the staff-built monstrosity in the shop. It's a knee scooter, like, the kind of thing you ride around on as a substitute for crutches with a broken leg. Four wheels. Two of which are motorized and *definitely* not low speed. Cursed thing can spin its tires, on smooth concrete. 130
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 25/09/2026You joke, but one of the things I've done R&D for specifically involves mounting 4 ebike hub motors to one chassis, and it's apparently for a 3rd party mobility vehicle. 150
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 24/09/2026That a Lectric frame by any chance? Might know something about it if it is. :3 001
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I don't think I'd want to do that on a fairly short, weirdly balanced rickshaw with a cargo bed that's sort of "bakfiets but a tricycle and made of mixed steel". This is how the heavy beastie has a physics argument with the rider it outweighs. :D 110
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Cutting metal with spicy protons would be... very spicy. o.o (We call that a particle beam. Might be some bremmstrahlung problems with that! :D ) 010
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There's a tadpole-trike cargo rickshaw I've been tempted to adopt. Never mind that it currently has *rusty* coaster brakes, questionable welds on a steel frame, odd geometry... Genet brain insists it would be so much fun as a dual motor build! 210
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The last time I needed hardware spacers on the ratbike, I just. Doodled them in Solidworks, sent them to the laser, and watched spicy photons do my bidding to make the part out of sheet aluminum. Lasers enable lazies :c 110
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I have a very small mill of my own, but it's a manual, and rarely sees use. Having access to a metal-cutting fiber laser and a production machine shop spoiled me. 110
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Said shitposting satellite intercom lasers are, themselves, not particularly capable of much more than shitposting between his constellation of Kessler additions. 120
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 23/09/2026You might be able to laser something to death from orbit if you could convince it to hold still for ten seconds while painted black and standing in volatiles. It would only take a nuclear powered satellite somewhat larger than the ISS. Musk's babbling about his shitposting data-intercom lasers. 130
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This also was at ploddingly slow speeds and miniscule range compared to orbit. Orbit also has to contend with the lensing atmosphere, inconvenient things like clouds, and that pesky "keeping it focused" problem. Also that the atmosphere practically drinks the useful "weapon laser" wavelengths. 110
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 23/09/2026For the less steeped in physics: Keeping a laser focused to "laser focus" becomes increasingly difficult over distance. The tighter the focus, the more "damaging". The best efforts at weaponizing atmospheric lasers could destroy missiles. Over several seconds. By heating them. Not cutting. 120
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Seems like the kind of thing he'd brag about, ignorant of just how bad at "being a weapon" lasers from orbit to ground would actually be, but it sounds cool! It sounds edgy and evil to have space lasers! He's not an ignorant manlet that managed to buy enough talent for him to steal cred from! 151
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Even the failed parts out of the machine shop end up looking like intricate sculpture; if I had a time machine, I'd go back and learn how to do this, just for the art. Sometimes end up with QC rejects or interesting pieces of laser scrap; turned some of the aluminum lasercuts into Borg set-dec. 110
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It's a CNC-machined through-axle core for a fatbike style e-bike direct drive motor. Stator mounts overtop of this hardware, bearings fit onto it at the flanges, and the neat "looks like a spaceship gravity deck" segment has those holes just to shave off a couple grams of weight. 000
Siddeley Genet @sergalprojects.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I 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. 330
Reposted by Siddeley GenetBut Thou Mustelid @rewhan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We'll get out the Good stepladder, then. 1102
Reposted by Siddeley GenetDr. McDingo, electricity knower @bigskwigg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I yearn for the day where hydrocarbons are a chemical feedstock and nothing else. 1123