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@swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy

Aerospace engineer working to make aircraft greener & safer. He/him. 🇺🇲 [TBD - What else goes in a profile?] [bridged from mstdn.plus/@swope on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

#LosAngeles

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Third and final Metrolink train of the morning departed before dawn. Service frequency is way down, but the train is getting full and gasoline prices are way up. Seems like #Metrolink should be doing better.

Lancaster Metrolink station before dawn, seen from the train

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

desert landscape with a few sad scrub bushes and a sign saying "revegetated area / KEEP OFF / by order of the commander"

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

This translation leaves me wondering why.

screenshot of an automatic translation of Dutch to English

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

Artemis 2 photo #nasa #artemis #Artemis2

Moon and Earth framed by the window of Artemis 2 with glare and reflections.

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

View from the Metrolink AV line today in Southern California #socal #photography

landscape view of trees, mountains, and clouds.

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

Seen on WSJ

"Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query," reads an open source line in ChatGPT's base instructions for its coding assistant.

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

#tasmania in 2006

panorama of an estuary between forested mountains. next to the water is the town of Hobart, Tasmania.

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

low clouds lit from below by city lights, as seen from an airplane

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

Final scene in Star Trek IV: [Bird of Prey flies under the Golden Gate Bridge and crashes in to the sea] Humpback: "holy shit, WTF just happened?!" Whaliens: "Oh hey! We've been trying to reach you." Humpback: "the hoomans had us captive but we escaped" Whaliens […] [Original post on mstdn.plus]

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

I took this photo earlier today. Can you guess the context? 😉

View of open double doors below a green exit sign. On the wall and on the doorframe are taped printed signs that say HUMANS.

Through the doors is a hallway with three humans.

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

photo of the corner of a post office at Moffett Field, building 67

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

This isn't great. Wouldn't be SpaceX in this hypothetical scenario, but the problem is the same.

Screenshot from the prediction market website Polymarket featuring a trending market regarding a hypothetical scenario for the NASA Artemis II mission.
The market asks "Artemis II explodes?" with an 8% probability currently assigned by users.
The total volume traded in this specific market is $80,906.
Included below the market details is a social media comment speculating on a fictional cause for such an event:
[Tom Hanks from Apollo 13 voice] in the following months, it was determined that a damaged coil built inside the oxygen tank sparked during our cryo stir and caused the explosion. It was a minor defect deliberately caused by a guy with $80K in gambling debts who worked at SpaceX.

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

Be cozy. #CatsOfMastodon #ChristmasCat #HolidayVibes #IfItFitsISits #Catstodon #CozySeason

A high-angle shot of a fluffy, cream-colored cat with ginger face and ears. The cat is peacefully curled up and napping inside a blue and white polka-dot cake box. The box sits on a dark wood floor next to a patterned rug. To the left, the bottom branches of a Christmas tree with glowing warm lights and a wrapped gift are visible, creating a cozy festive atmosphere.

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

Post-solstice peace.

solar corona in a clear blue sky above the silhouettes of trees.

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025

car controls

normal people:
- steering
- break [sic]
- gas

physicists:
- accelerator
- accelerator
- accelerator

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025

Go out on Friday night? Sorry, I've got plans with my buddy. #Cat #CatsOfMastoDon

white cat with orange ears laying between my legs

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2025

@futurebird My kid is imagining future co-evolutionary branches or ants and the pangolins that chase them into the water. I thought you might enjoy the sketches.

Black and white sketch of an imaginary "water ant" and its predator, the "aqua pengolin". The bottom portion depicts a floating ant hill on water.

A digital painting of an imaginary ant that walks on water like a water skipper, and its floating ant hill.

A digital painting of an imaginary aquatic pangolin. It has a long tail with extended scales forming a fluke.

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025

Yuki is very focused when playing. #Caturday #CatsOfMastoDon #cats #stangerdanger

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025

@ai6yr

Example of a Data Matrix code, similar to QR code.

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

X-59 first flight. Photo by Gavin Douglas

NASA experimental aircraft X-59 flying overhead.

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2025

#catsoftodon #Caturday #kitty

a white kitten with blue eyes looking up at the camera

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2025

This is Yuki's first #Caturday (and my first one, too.)

A white 3 month old kitten laying on the armrest of a couch.

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2025

uspol

chart of US electric price increase with meme of Trump pointing up with text "I DID THAT"

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025

@nyrath seems like an artist you would know or want to know: Nathan Nun

A portrait of a cat in a cyan Star Trek uniform, holding a tricorder. Artist: Nathan Nun.

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2025

Did you know...

[math equations]

To prepare for her role as Wednesday
Addams (a dark, hitter teenager who
never smiles), Jenna Ortega derived the
Navier-Stokes equations in spherical
coordinates.

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2025

@futurebird Need help IDing this largish any (mimic?)

Playground equipment in the shape of an ant with too many body segments.

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2025

Years ago I saw a British guy ask a Dutch guy why the Dutch don't wear bike helmets and the Dutch guy got annoyed and asked why people don't wear helmets when using stairs, because stairs are more dangerous, which seemed plausible but maybe not obvious. Then I […] [Original post on mstdn.plus]

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2025

X-59 taxied under it's own power this week. #NASA

Extremely long jet aircraft with X-59 on the engine housing and NASA 859 on the vertical tail. Airport control tower and desert mountains in the background.

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2025

top half, red background, black text: "NO KINGS"
bottom half, rainbow letters: "YAS QUEENS"

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2025

@clolsonus

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