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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

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Shawn McKee @shawnrmckee.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Quick tip 1: empty your dust collector more often. Quick tip 2: if you don’t remember the last time you emptied it, it’s too late. Quick tip 3: tell a friend what you’re doing before you open the filter bucket… just in case. Quick tip 4: AHHHHHHGH..*

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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

YOU SON OF A BITCH PHO KOLACHES ARE A SIGN OF HOUSTONS SUCCESS AS A DIVERSE GLOBAL CITY, ALSO TEXAN KOLACHES ARE BASICALLY HOMEGROWN AND BEAR LITTLE RESEMBLENCE TO THE CZECH KOLACH I AM GOING TO TAKE A SHIT ON YOUR BALD FUCKING CARPETBAGGER HEAD

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Shawn McKee @shawnrmckee.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Picked up some 1800’s handles for my tool cabinet. I’ve fallen hard for Victorian cabinet hardware. #woodworking

Antique cast iron door handle, ornate, Victorian, sitting on top of a door panel made of walnut and birch plywood.

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Shawn McKee @shawnrmckee.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I wish there was a cheap matte PETG. I love the material but I don’t care for the glossy sheen. #3dprinting

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Shawn McKee @shawnrmckee.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

That’s some pretty lumber. I’m really pushing the limits of my pokey older tools on this project. #woodworking

Several 11” wide freshly milled boards of black walnut, ready for dimensioning.

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Shawn McKee @shawnrmckee.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Welp, the 2 page synopsis is done. The initial query list is pretty much done. I’ve just got to get personalized query letters done, prep the excerpt pages, and then… wait. Because querying starts in January. And it’s still December. #writing #querying

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Shawn McKee @shawnrmckee.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Hot take: walnut sapwood is gorgeous and should be featured, not cut away.

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Norin 🦈 🔜 Designercon @mahoukarp.com · 23/12/2024

Its almost crimus 🎅 🦈 #art #sharks

Illustration of a shark saying
happy crimus
its chrismun
merry crisis
merry chrysler

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

just cruising into the holiday season, nothing bad could possibly happen today oh come on

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Shawn McKee @shawnrmckee.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Lathes are hard y’all. I have so much respect for anyone who turns a pile of gifts every year like it’s nothing. I’m trying to turn one damn thing and it’s kicking my ass.

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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

As we confront a second Trump presidency, here’s a path forward: 🧵

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Sarah Nicolas @sarahnfisk.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I've literally signed 3 clients i told this to

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Shawn McKee @shawnrmckee.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

It occurs to me this morning that when Leia says “Dantooine” to Tarkin, she is knowingly throwing an *entire inhabited planet* under the bus to save her own “peaceful” people.

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Shawn McKee @shawnrmckee.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Beta feedback has been great so far. There’s still plenty of research to do, but come January I’m back in the query trenches.

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Shawn McKee @shawnrmckee.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The hand wringers in the 3D printer community worried about backlash against the hobby forget that this country has proven time and again that it lacks the collective will to do *anything* about guns, even the *wrong* thing.

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Shawn McKee @shawnrmckee.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Recent gift for a my best friend of 30 years. Walnut frame with an oak panel… the oak was one of those pieces of wood you have sitting around waiting for the perfect project. Kaisen foam insert, the tools are all vintage Starrett or Browne & Sharpe.

Walnut tool case with a book matched oak panel, mitered frame.

The same tool case, opened, to display a series of 6 vintage machinist tools in their own custom foam inserts. A hand shows one of the tools (a Starrett outside caliper). Other tools shown are a set of dividers, an inside caliper, a micrometer, a machinist square, and a solid brass Vernier caliper.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Whoa black betty

A screenshot from the movie Hook, where Peter Pan and the Lost Boys are shouting "Bangarang!"

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Shawn McKee @shawnrmckee.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

In other news, dovetail chisels really are wonderful for cleaning up dovetails. Go figure.

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Shawn McKee @shawnrmckee.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Line edits are nearly done, and beta feedback has been wonderful. Pretty soon I’m going to run out of excuses not to start querying.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Old classic, new platform.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

a ruthless predator, alligators will sometimes use jazz hands to lure musical theatre people to their deaths

A alligator, floating in a swamp, its front legs held out over the water, appearing to be doing a "jazz hand" movement

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Mx.Roxy⚡ @goodboyroxy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Disabled people are worth it. They are worth whatever cost and resources to keep them alive. None of them are worthless. The value of someone's existence is NOT tied into how seemingly productive they are. Care for the disabled like any other human life.

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Shawn McKee @shawnrmckee.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Made a Stanley No. 5 tote today using Dave Corinth’s method. It couldn’t be any easier.

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

#11. Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Sir Adrian Boult. Westminster 1959 Yes, it's *that* Planets. ⭐

Album cover. Holst: The Planets. Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Sir Adrian Boult. Westminster 1959. Infamous cover art featuring man and woman in kitschy 1960s sci-fi costumes and holding plastic ray guns.

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Shawn McKee @shawnrmckee.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Started restoring an old vise today, and was stripping the crap black paint off and I found… vintage teal paint!

Photo of a tiny little cast iron vise with surprising vintage teal paint

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Wood Whisperer @woodwhisperer.com · 16/11/2024

Ok, where my woodworkers at? Need to make sure this algorithm doesn’t do what algorithms usually do. #woodworking #finewoodworking

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LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Wow! Just watched S6 E13 of Deep Space Nine, Far Beyond the Stars. It’s a tour de force from all involved. Simply one of finest episodes of storytelling in the entire Trek canon. #bydhttmwfi

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/11/2024

I open my Bluesky feed and it is full of really cool people saying really smart things and being really passionate about really interesting stuff. I like this version of social media, and the world. Thanks, folks.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

always post and repost without fear about what u are proud of creating here your people here will never shame u for this

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Shawn McKee @shawnrmckee.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The Veritas shoulder plane is the fiddliest damn plane I’ve ever used. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a beautiful tool, but I shouldn’t need a headlamp, a ball of string and a canary to install the blade.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Well I'm fucked.

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Shawn McKee @shawnrmckee.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

He’s all grown up now. Also he’s very disappointed in you.

It’s a black and white cat who is looking at you *very* judgmentally.

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Shawn McKee @shawnrmckee.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Welp, guess it’s time to think about posting here again. Character tracker… nice. Ooo, gif support? Cool, cool. Guess it’s all about engagement now.

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Shawn McKee @shawnrmckee.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

I never put boots on Halsin because he prefers bear feet.

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Velociraptor hunting a small multituberculate mammal, possibly one of its most usual prey Some Protoceratops and another Velociraptor perch on rocky outcrops in the background. Late Cretaceous of Asia. 🐡🎨🪶🧪 #paleontology #dinosaurs

Cover illustration I did for the book “Ultimate Dinosaurs: Velociraptor” showing on the left side a Velociraptor running after a small mammal, both are running towards the viewer. In the background on the right side a Protoceratops observes the Velociraptor while another Velociraptor and Protoceratops perch on rocky outcrops further away in the background

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