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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

fucked up that computers don't look like this anymore. tell me you wouldn't live here if you were a one or a zero

side on view of a wilkinson ADC full of DIP ICs. it is very orderly and rectilinear and densely packed

side angle narrow DoF view of part of the board, showing lots of tantalum capacitors and 74 series logic

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We are all wondering that...

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Some solar eclipse pics. Not bad for a telescope that really needs some calibration and a camera that was basically held by electrical tape to the adapter

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Aesthetics of a Skodafied Chinese long wheelbase Passat lmao

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

In this case it's literally just the sedan with a double trunk lid

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Fun fact. The Superb is (or at least was, idk if they still do that) simultaneously a sedan and a liftback

Skoda Superb showing it's trunk that can open as in a regular sedan or like a liftback

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

You should but an old non functioning car covered in moss and bring it back to life. I'm doing this right now to a 1990 Ford Sierra and it's a so much fun. That is, a solid mix of type 1 and 2 fun.

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Haters will say that it’s a “wreck” and a “money holy” but in reality, this 1990 Ford Sierra is in mint condition with only some minor flaws like not working. I’m sure putting it back on the road won’t be that hard.

A moss overgrown 1990 Ford Sierra from the front. The tires are visibly deflated and the original color is hardly visible though the grime

Same Sierra but from the rear-side view. The moss and grime are even more obvious

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Idk that just looks like a launch price for Falcon 9. Maybe a bit higher than normal (from what we know) but hardly bailout money. Maybe the contract also includes a Falcon Heavy or two which would increase the price significantly.

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

At least New Glenn had the decency to go out in style when its engine failed

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I wrote my BA thesis like that lmao

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 01/07/2026

Sony is opening up bold new ground in the video game market by releasing direct to lost media

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

As a European I have absolutely no idea how a window unit could work here. There just isn't any sensible way to mount it. Best we can do on the cheap is a portable unit with a horrible material windows seal. They do suck and are loud but at least they are there for extreme heat

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Équipe Radar Love @midnightdorifto.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Lamborghinis play this wild optical illusion where they don’t exist in my brain until they’re 15-20 years old, at which point they’re fascinating and wonderful and I can see them again collectingcars.com/for-sale/200...

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Nah, here in Europe we've been doing that before Tesla even made a car. Those are Peugeot wipers actually.

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

You need to go around the city to see all of David Černý's funky statues. There are more babies out there

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Starship isn’t designed to splashdown, it was obvious that it’ll tip over and explode, it’s supposed to return to land. The issue with this testflight is that it’s the 12th one and it still doesn’t work. The booster lost engines and smashed into the gulf. Fuck Musk but this video is not the problem.

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

They were successful in convincing the people that explosions are a normal part of a testflight. They could have easily prevented the vast majority of failures in this entire program by just doing a good job designing and simulating the rocket before actually building anything

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

No visible burnthroughs on reentry but visible discoloration on the heatshield. It’s actually embarrassing. 12 test flights and it’s still nowhere near finished. Oh and fun fact, test flights are usually meant to validate that the design works, not to check if it does, you use simulations for that.

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Starship flight 12 review. Nothing improved. The new engines still don’t work, lost one during the burn, one seems to have exploded during boostback and the ship lost one immediately. Ship engine relight wasn’t conducted. Booster slammed into the gulf at supersonic speeds...

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Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Pictured: the valiant crew of Zond 5 RIP to the crew of Zond 6 (parachute failure)

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/05/2026

SpaceX? The makers of Grokipedia?

Jim Downey Epstein the financier meme image

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

You know things are going well when the IPO talks about building a Kardashev Type-II civilization. A very normal and serious company.

A paragraph from SpaceX IPO filing staying: "We believe the next paradigm shift for humanity is the creation of a resilient, perpetually expanding spacefaring civilization that drives continuous innovation across new frontiers, ultimately propelling us to Kardashev Type II status—a civilization that harnesses the full energy output of our Sun. In the near term, we expect space-enabled technologies to enhance life on Earth through greater global connectivity and breakthroughs forged in the harsh environments of our solar system, leading to accelerating progress in energy and AI. As we build infrastructure in the Earth’s orbit, and potentially on the Moon, Mars and beyond, we believe we are capable of unlocking an era of unprecedented economic expansion, while also contributing to the safeguards of humanity’s future against existential risk."

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Adem @adem.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

aerospace engineers realizing all the fancy air-breathing rockets they've come up with have negative payload to orbit

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Thinking back to one of the greatest hater editorials of all time, along with its sheepish correction (49 years later): 🧪https://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/arts/1920editorial-full.pdf

His Plan Is Not Original.

That Professor GODDARD, with his "chair" in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react --to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out dally in high schools.

JULY 17, 1969: On Jan. 13, 1920, Topics of The Times, an editorial- page feature of The New York Times, dismissed the notion that a rocket could function in a vacuum and commented on the ideas of Robert H. Goddard, the rocket pioneer, as follows: "That Professor Goddard, with his 'chair' in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react - to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." Further investigation and experimentation have confirmed the findings of Isaac Newton in the 17th century and it is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum as well as in an atmosphere. The Times regrets the error.

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Hex @hexcat.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

[The Apollo 11 plaque] reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock. - Carl Sagan

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Hey there's the Exploration Company doing stuff and like 3 different spaceplane technology demonstrator design studies in going on

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Anton Strezhnev @astrezh.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Can this be a solution?

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Dane Owens @owendanes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The US used to be a real country

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

That'd be a great idea which you won't regret

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 19/02/2026

After a spot of pre-dinner retouching, a lovely new photo of a Myasishchev VM-T Atlant during a flight test with a Buran orbiter test article on its back.

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Big Orange is fully fueled. No leaks this time. Bisexual colors for fuel levels are back on the menu.

Screengrab from NASA's SLS wet dress rehersal livestream showing an animation of the Artemis II SLS in a fully fueled state.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 17/02/2026

The age of the crossover SUV is ending, now is the time for Woke 2 to bring the sedan back

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The satellites are gonna fall down eventually but Ariane Space gets a lot of money to do cool stuff. Block 2 being just one thing and it'll be useful later for other payloads.

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Shirokami @shirokami.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Blatant attempt of union busting in Germany of all places? Lol, lmao even, that's gonna be fun.

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Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Elon Musk (you may recognize him from the Epstein files) has just given up on Mars.

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