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Sudro Brown II

@sudro2.bsky.social
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Gamer, model railroader, husband, cat dad, leftist. That just about covers it.

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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Memeified photo of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders appearing to say "I am once again asking for you to use Alt text on your images"
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Timeline synergy: check out the Josh Marshall post that was just above yours.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Our view for tonight. Let's go Red Sox!
The view from section 415 of Angels Stadium pregame on July 4 2026.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The collection. Taking the opportunity to document it laid out while the upstairs flooring gets redone. Caveats: I've filled the collection at least twice in my life so it's probably half what it could be. Not pictured: the many, many digital comics I've bought since about 2015.
30 short boxes of comic books laid out on a garage floor.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The power may be out, but a box is still a box.
A black cat sits in a box just big enough for his narrow butt.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I love so many, especially her takes on literature and authors, and most especially her takes on Shakespeare (Glam Castle!), but I love this one, perhaps mostly for Anne's expression in the last panel, the most.
Hark! A Vagrant comic titled Dude Watchin' with the Brontes. Panel one: A Bronte sister points and says, "What about that one?" Panel two: an angry looking man with unshaved appearance in Victorian clothes and top hat says, "What the hell are you looking at." Panel three: the three Bronte sisters; one says, "Nice." The second, "I know right." The third (Anne), "That guy was an asshole!" Panel four: The second Bronte and Anne; the second, "Honestly Anne, you have NO taste." The first, off panel, "What about that one?" Anne, "I'm just telling the truth!" Panel five: a scowling man in a black suit, bottle in hand with one of the sisters in the background. Panel six: the three Bronte sisters; the first, "So passionate." The second, "So mysterious." Anne, "If you like alcoholic dickbags!" Panel seven: the three sisters; the first, "Ann you are SO inappropriate!" The second, "No wonder nobody buys YOUR books." Panel eight: the three sisters; the first, "What about that one." The second, "So brooding." Anne, scowling with her arms crossed, looks away from her sisters.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Jerry Remy, onetime second baseman for the Boston Red Sox
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Now, with the video that was supposed to be attached!
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Gotta love getting to see Nine Inch Nails twice in the span of a year.
View of the Honda Center in Anaheim CA from almost the very back row. The arena is set up for Nine Inch Nails Peel it Back tour 2026.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Well, shit. #modeltrains #modelrailroad
A model railroad turnout, with the throw rod from a switch machine poking through a broken throw bar.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Here's the page from USGS.
Screenshot of of the US Geological Survey's recent earthquakes website, showing a 3.5 magnitude quake near Rancho Palos Verdes CA on February 22, 2026.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Once again, FedEx is sending my package on walkabout. At 7pm Wednesday, it was about 70 miles away and FedEx was promising to deliver it by 8pm Thursday. 9am Thursday, it had moved to more than 100 miles away and just before 11pm, it was more than 300 miles away. FedEx says it'll arrive by 8pm today
Image shows detailed tracking for a FedEx package that gets within 70 miles of its destination on a Wednesday, then spends Thursday getting progressively further away.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Rainy windshield, but a double surprise. #trains #amtrak
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
One of our members is putting together a really nice farm scene on our show layout. #modeltrains #modelrailroads
A trackside farm scene on a model railroad layout.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Mistakes were made in touching up the road at the crossing, but the sand verge looks pretty good for a starting point. Needs lots more work, but it'll do for the show this weekend. #modeltrains #modelrailroads
A model railroad module with a paved road, edged with sand, crossing a double-track main line on a curve.A model railroad module with a paved road running the four-foot length. On the left, four yard tracks lie next to the double-track main line.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Came across this vintage beauty tonight.
A 1970s era station wagon, painted sky blue and white, sits in a parking lot.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
And two days before the show, I find a switch with a broken stock rail. Well, it was on the list to be replaced eventually. Eventually just came sooner than expected.
A model railroad module with a turnout removed awaiting replacement.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Someone got a bit too precious when this siding was originally laid and used a much lower profile roadbed. So, down to the table we go to relay the whole siding instead of just the 1.5 inches at the end of the module. #modeltrains #modelrailroads
A model railroad module with a shot siding pulled up down to the roadbed.Photo showing the height difference between the roadbed on two adjacent model railroad modules.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Upgrading the building storage for the traveling layout. #modeltrains #modelrailroad
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Kludgy, again, but it works to throw the crossover with the DPDT switch seen at top. Honestly pretty psyched I was able to figure this out and got it right the first time.
Photo shows the underside of a model railroad module with newly installed Tortoise switch machines, now wired into a 12 volt accessory bus and a DPDT switch for control. The two machines are wired to one switch to enable them to set the crossover with one switch.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Finished a prototype for an improved crating system for the club's traveling layout. It's rough, but the modules are firmly bolted to the cart and each other, which is a monumental improvement over the slide-in racks.
Three sections of a modular railroad layout are bolted to a cart for transport.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
My plans for new modules on my club's traveling layout. Most of the current scenery is very rural, but we're 45 minutes from LA; we should have a city scene! Still some spots to figure out, but overall, I'm happy with the design. #modeltrains #modelrailroad
An image rendered in TinkerCad depicts two sections of a modular railroad layout. These modules contain a city scene with buildings from three to 10 stories high, plus a donut shop down front. The cityscape is elevated so that the tracks pass underneath to a subterranean passenger platform.An image rendered in TinkerCad depicts two sections of a modular railroad layout. These modules contain a city scene with buildings from three to 10 stories high, plus a donut shop down front. The cityscape is elevated so that the tracks pass underneath to a subterranean passenger platform.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
My front lawn when I got home from work today. Fortunately, no one was hurt, none of the vehicles are ours, and the house was untouched. This in a 35 MPH zone in which people routinely drive 20+ over.
Photograph of the aftermath of a traffic accident. A silver van sits askew in the street with its front end demolished, having sideswiped a parked silver sedan and rear ended a parked Jeep. The Jeep sits on the front lawn of the house fronting the street.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Heh. Makes me think of Sutro Tower in San Francisco. No relation to the tower's namesake.
Sutro Tower in San Francisco, a tripod shaped broadcast tower painted in alternating bands of red and white.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I'm going overboard. Three of our four cats.
Two tuxedo cats, Xeno at left, Mr. Kitty at right, share a bar-height chair next to a black composite counter.Cirice, a two-year-old black kitten, lounges on a shelf above the stairs.Mr. Kitty, a 16-year-old tuxedo cat, lounges on a deep window sill with all four paws dangling off the edge. The sun shines through the Venetian blinds behind him.Xeno, a 9-year-old tuxedo cat, faces off through a sliding glass door with Scruffy, a local feral cat.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Marlowe would like you to know he's very agile. #cat
A black cat balances on the back of a chair and stares intently at the camera.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Ballasting complete! I'm hoping that the two colors I used on the main lines dry to a more common color (I ran out of the darker stuff about halfway through), but if not, I'll weather it down later. #modeltrains
A model railroad module with two main lines and four yard tracks shows off its fresh ballast, gray on the main lines and black in the yard.A model railroad module with two main lines and four yard tracks shows off its fresh ballast, gray on the main lines and black in the yard.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I've been hard at work on my model railroad club's traveling layout in prep for the Ventura County Fair, our signature event. The yard on the layout, which was previously barely functional, has been entirely redone, new track, switches, and switch machines. Hope I can ballast it before the show.
A set of two foot by four foot model railroad modules stand in a cluttered garage. Two of the modules have brand new track laid on dark cork roadbed.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Ultimately, I look at organized religion and I see people far more concerned with the appearance of religion rather than the underlying message. I realize that this is not a unique revelation, but how is it that so many have strayed so far from Christ's core message.
Christ sits speaking to an opulently robed man standing nearby. In a speech balloon above Christ's head are the words, "Just don't be a dick. Boom. It's that simple."
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Working on my club's traveling layout. The yard was in desperate need of updating. No yard lead and a three-way switch at the start of the "ladder." New yard will have one fewer tracks, but a true ladder and a working lead off the main. Also straightening out the inside main.
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Relevant to the conversation...
Charles Addams cartoon: a bespectacled patent attorney stands at his open office window holding a strange looking gun. He's looking back over his shoulder at the gun's inventor and says, "Death ray, fiddlesticks! Why, it doesn't even slow them up."
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Seems like something we should be sharing more often...
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Sudro Brown II @sudro2.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,434,810! Now I feel special!
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