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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel

@skimbrel.northsky.social
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enby & queer & AuDHD af | non-LLM computerer | too many hobbies | program chair @northbaypython.org | “is usually underestimated. try again. no again. still no.” —@chrisjrn.fyi | they/them | fuck fascists also occasionally at wandering.shop/skimbrel

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 18/10/2026
Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and post one that you like
A man standing atop a long, wide boat with a green roof. He's facing away from the camera with his hands clasped behind his back, taking a break from doing some repair work. The boat is one of many docked along the banks of the Kanda River in central Tokyo; a bridge and some tall buildings are in the distance.
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 15/10/2026
fuuuck
The Peak Fire in Azusa, CA, seen as a column of smoke rising above the San Gabriel Mountains
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 13/10/2026
next, seattle. particularly proud of the shot from underneath aurora bridge — i was just out for a walk and discovered that the light does this amazing thing to the bridge structure at golden hour
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 13/10/2026
it's "sam actually finished processing some photos" day! to start, some trains at LA's union station
A platform at LA Union Station with a large Metrolink train waiting alongside.The switchyard at LA Union Station, with a Metrolink locomotive looming in the right side of the frame while a Metro LRV approaches on an elevated track in the background.The switchyard at the entrance to LA's Union Station. Many platform tracks converge into the main lines, where an Amtrak Surfliner train is pulling into the station; an elevated line for the LA Metro is on the left side with LRVs approaching as well.
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 13/10/2026
tried a recipe from an instagram post and it turns out that mapo tofu lasagna is absolutely fucking delicious
A tray of lasagna with perfect crispy edges and lots of melty cheese on topThe same lasagna, sliced and plated with chili oil and scallions on top, with sides of garlic bread, gai lan, and spicy smashed cucumbers
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
back home just in time for… another heat wave
The iOS weather app, showing conditions in LA. It’s currently 100 °F, with forecasted daily highs of 101 for the next two days, followed by four more days above 95. The “y tho” meme.
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
getting a “well done” on a stall recovery from a guy who’s spent half his career training airline pilots felt real great (even if he did add a “pretty easy, isn’t it?” after… it isn’t *that* easy!)
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
this week’s adventure: up to seattle to spend some time in a full-motion 737 simulator courtesy of alaska airlines’ loyalty program
The cockpit of a Boeing 737 simulator. Sam is sitting in the pilot’s seat, seen from behind so just the top of their head is visible. Mount Rainier is prominently shown in the simulated view out the windows. Sam and a flight instructor in the pilot’s and copilot’s seats of a 737 simulator. A runway is visible on the simulator’s window displays. Sam standing in front of a full-motion flight simulator cab
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 26/09/2026
spent an hour catching up on what we're gonna be voting on here in six weeks and it's like California's Worst Hits
"Now That's What I Call Music" cover meme reading "Now That's What I Call A Shitty Ballot Measure"
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 25/09/2026
tag yrself im ACSIESR
Screenshot of the video in the quoted post showing a clearly AI-generated testing device of some sort plugged into an outlet. 

The device is branded with a logo for “Abstract Enterprise, LLC” and has a row of eight illuminated green lights labeled EP, LT, L2, L1, F9, ET, E1, and F6, above another five darkened LEDs labeled NONER, ACSIESR, CANRER, HRDSR, and … BAKIFER? It’s hard to tell because so many of the letterforms are distorted in the way that AI-generated images of text frequently are.
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 22/09/2026
The same face from the stele as in the previous post, but now it's in place of the smiling baby in the sun from Teletubbies.
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mount Rushmore, but all four of the presidents' faces have been replaced with the face engraved in the stele pictured in the quoted post, which has a severely disapproving expression and exaggerated features.
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 21/09/2026
always worth a repost
Meme image designed like a species fact placard you'd find at a zoo:

North American Fiber-Seeking Backhoe (Backhoe fili-comedens)
AKA "Big Yellow Fiber Finder", "That $%#@*&^"

Continent: North America
Habitat: Mostly urban, occasionally sighted in suburbs or rural areas
Diet: Fiber optic cables primarily, although it will consume other cables such as power lines when hungry
Weight: 5800 – 11000 kg (approximately. 13000 – 25000 lbs)

Know for its inexhaustible appetite for buried fiber optic cables, this invasive species has multiplied across North America in recent years, A relative, the European Fiber-Seeking Backhoe, has also emerged across the Atlantic, although it has evolved to be smaller than the North American variety due to smaller European roadways. Scientists are still seeking a means to reduce the multiplication of this species; since current regulatory methods are proving ineffective, limited hunting permits are being proposed.

IUCN Status: Too #$%& Many [added to the scale before "Not Threatened"]

[A picture of a large backhoe and a map of North America, almost entirely shaded-in, occupy the left side of the image.]
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cranky Dorkfest was excellent again; ramp visit and bus tour of the entire airfield were spectacular! cheers to @chrisjrn.fyi for making it out this year — always great to hang out with you
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 19/09/2026
things i learned: santa barbara’s approaches are surprisingly tricky, especially for a first-timer; restricted airspace is restricted for very good reasons, like “there are F-18s doing maneuvers practice in here at several times your speed” (see video)
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 15/09/2026
sunday was even better — got in early and stood at the rail, went back to camp for a dinner break, then parked in some chairs on the terrace for the rest of the night Leaving Laurel, Jody Wisternoff & James Grant, Rezident, and Ben Böhmer all played incredible sets vibes were off the charts
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 13/09/2026
and on the other hand, this place continues to be magic and beautiful beyond words
The Gorge Amphitheatre. A wide lawn on a hill slopes down toward a large outdoor stage in front of a sweeping view of the Columbia River Gorge in eastern Washington. Tall cliffs, weathered by erosion, flank both sides of a wide, twisting river. Zoomed-in picture of part of the Columbia River Gorge. A small lagoon-like pond sits to one side of the river, which flows across the scene with steep, weathered basaltic cliffs behind it. A crowd of people in front of a large outdoor stage, which is in turn in front of a grand river cutting through rugged steppe terrain, under a cloudy but still somewhat pink-orange sunset.
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 10/09/2026
huge thanks to @ariadnetalchik.bsky.social for meeting up and showing me around — lovely to meet you and you’re just as much of a delight in person as on the internet!
Sam and Ari standing in front of the Concorde on display at the Museum of Flight. Sam has blue hair and Ari has red hair; both have huge grins.
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 10/09/2026
museum of flight yesterday was an absolute delight; especially cool to see so many of the aircraft my grandfather helped design in his career at Boeing!
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 07/09/2026
DUCK AND COVER
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 07/09/2026
here’s that panel switch doin its thing
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 07/09/2026
finally made it to @connections.museum and it was even better than i had hoped this place is disneyland if your special interests include telephones
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 06/09/2026
in seattle again and i continue to be impressed by how much the waterfront has come back to life with the viaduct gone
The Seattle waterfront on Puget Sound, looking back across Alaskan Way at downtown. Several groups of people are walking across the road and up/down a large set of stairs set into the hill. Sunset over Puget Sound, seen from high up in a hotel. Some buildings are in the foreground under a bunch of puffy/wispy clouds, turned pink by the sun. Mountains are on the far side of the sound. A large neon sign reading “public market” and another in the shape of a fish, atop a red-roofed building. Behind the building in the distance are the last colors of sunset in the sky over Puget Sound, with the lights of buildings lining islands in the sound.
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 05/09/2026
here’s me landing the plane on my own
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 05/09/2026
guess who’s got two thumbs and a shirt with the back cut off because they just did their first solo flight
The back of a t-shirt that’s been cut off the shirt it came from. The shirt is decorated with a red sharpie: a drawing of a small airplane, registration N353MV, with Sam at the controls; the word SOLO in large letters; a cawing crow near the plane; and a congratulatory message from Sam’s CFI Kayla.
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 04/09/2026
mostly californian at this point but there are still some traces of my time in seattle and new york
A dialect map for the way Sam speaks English. California is shaded as the region "most like you", with more areas of similarity in the Pacific Northwest and the New York/New Jersey area.
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 23/08/2026
ah look, it’s us-east-1
A smartphone, with a battered case, and a large heatsink and cooling fan attached to it. There is a sticky note on the side of the fan…The same smartphone, with the sticky note right-side-up so it can be seen to read:

This is a server
Do not touch or unplug!
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 18/08/2026
lovely sunset tonight with some lenticular clouds over the san gabriels
Several lenticular clouds over the San Gabriel Mountains, softly glowing gold with evening sunlightA wider shot of the cloud formation, with downtown LA in the foreground
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 16/08/2026
the best part of my relationship with my partner is how much we love spending a day in the kitchen today's dinner: gnochetti sardi with corn-mascarpone sauce, pea purée, poblano pepper succotash, pancetta, tomato, basil oil and yes the pasta is from scratch
A lovely bowl of pasta
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 14/08/2026
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 12/08/2026
okay which bozo in my building tried to stuff the box from their new 80" flatscreen tv down the chute this time
Screenshot of an email from apartment management reading:

Dear Residents,

We are currently experiencing an issue with our trash chute compactor and are actively working to have it repaired as quickly as possible.

Until further notice, please do not place any trash into the trash chute or compactor.
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 12/08/2026
the "sickos" / "ha ha ha… YES!" meme
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 10/08/2026
i hate that i knew exactly what this easter egg in a @chloehowie.bsky.social is
Screenshot of a youtube video from Chloe's Disaster Breakdown channel showing the lyrics to "Ievan Polkka" over a picture of an airliner cockpit's navigation radio controls (because one of the aircraft's radios had been tuned to a Finnish folk music station)
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 09/08/2026
went to NYC for a Metric/Stars/Broken Social Scene concert last week so i could go with my sister and our high school bestie, neither of whom i’ve been to a show with in two decades — it was excellent, but wow we have gotten old
Torquil Campbell, Amy Millan, and Pat McGee of Stars, performing on a red-lit stage.Broken Social Scene, with 13 musicians on stage.Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw of Metric, performing. The stage is dark except for dramatic white spotlights on the two musicians. Emily Haines and Joshua Winstead of Metric. They’re lit from behind with dozens of beams of white light piercing through stage fog.
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 09/08/2026
very happy i got one flight on this before it was repainted; its new livery is *even better* though:
Alaska Airlines' "X̱áat Ḵwáani" ("Salmon People" in the Alaskan Tlingit language) livery on one of their 737s. The livery features Northwest Coast formline art depicting several large salmon in a bold blue, white, and salmon-pink color scheme.
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 08/08/2026
my flight tracking display just showed an air premia flight going by and it made me realize their logo/livery is just a Set card
An Air Premia 787; the tail is painted dark blue with a line of three red ovals (they’re pretty obviously airplane window shaped, but so are the oval cards in a Set deck)
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 08/08/2026
immediately made this one and saved it to my shitpost arsenal
Now That’s What I Call Autism
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 07/08/2026
santa monica tower had to deal with some Fun involving too many bizjets arriving at once while i was up trying to do landing practice so i am now very good at flying standard rate turns for holding and i have become one of my favorite niche aviation memes
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 06/08/2026
new ring from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social arrived and i am in love with it!
Sam’s hand, wearing a ring on their middle finger. The ring has two large uncut, roughly rectangular, pieces of green gemstone set in sterling silver brackets with gold tips, and two smaller, pale yellow gems to either side.
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 06/08/2026
yeah reading the posts here just has me all…
Meme of a movie character (played by James Franco) about to be hanged, looking over to the person next to him and asking “first time?”
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 06/08/2026
whyyyyy
Squidward angrily staring up at the replied-to post
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 05/08/2026
made my own version of that flightwall thing i kept getting IG ads for 🥳
An LED matrix display on a wall shelf, showing live flight information. The left side of the display has the logo of the airline (Qantas), and the right side shows the flight number, origin and destination, speed, altitude, the aircraft’s heading, and the distance and bearing to view it from the location of the screen.
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 23/07/2026
how dare you attack me like this, apple
Screenshot of a macOS notification banner from Apple’s user tips system, reading “Learn how to organize your desktop.”
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 22/07/2026
angelenos realizing that, as much as we dislike bass and villaraigosa (who is probably ecstatic that he's getting any attention at all), they don't deserve this bullshit and we should fight for them
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 18/07/2026
cooking experiments with my partner yesterday: - taiwanese-influenced esquites - tacos with grilled mushrooms, homemade refried beans, salsa, scallion cashew cream, and marinated tofu "cotija" - grilled chayote
A table laden with bowls of taco components, corn salad, and grilled squash
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 15/07/2026
learned how to do power-off 180° approaches and flaps-up landings today! we're in a heat wave so the tiny cessna 172 cabin was *very* warm but the views were lovely
Venice Beach and the Pacific Ocean seen from about 1000’ above the ground, under the wing of a small airplane
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 08/07/2026
hawk: *minding its own business* crow: absolutely the fuck not, get out
A hawk perched atop a light pole, and a crow diving at it from above
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 06/07/2026
and finally some shots from the macro lens
The grill of a propane patio heater. The grill has a grid of small round holes, and the flames behind it shade from blue at the base to red at the top.A purple and white wildflower poking up from a field of grassA purple wildflower, photographed very close upVelella velella, a small relative of the jellyfish, washed up on a sandy beach. The creature is translucent and shaded from a rich blue at its base to clear at its other edge.
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 06/07/2026
point reyes–petaluma road and highway 1: still one of the most beautiful drives one can experience
A large flock of waterfowl, circling very low over the water of Nicasio Reservoir. A small island covered in trees sits in the middle of the reservoir, and high rolling hills rise behind it.A grassy hill protruding into a lake, with green hills in the background under a blue sky with puffy cloudsTwo isolated houses on the shore of Bolinas Lagoon, seen from the other side of the lagoon. The houses are painted pink and sit in front of a dense stand of tall pine and eucalyptus trees.An old, dilapidated building, possibly a church, tucked halfway up a grassy hillside with a stand of oak trees.
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social · 06/07/2026
some birds from a lovely drive down the coast after the conference
A large raven, perched atop a loosely-aligned pile of driftwood that somewhat resembles a fort, on a beach.Three long-billed curlews wading along the shoreA dumpster with a painting of a seagull yelling "TRASH" on it, sitting next to a beach access path.The same raven from the first photo, but it's hopped down from the driftwood fort and is strolling across the beach
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