Sign in

walking mirage

@wolf.observer
3.9K followers 312 following 9.8K posts

gregarious canid. also an elk sometimes. i go by "wolf." they/them

PostsRepliesMedia
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 21h
huh. that "rip your ceiling off" one looks like the toroidial propellers that are supposed to make drones way quieter
160
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 29/09/2026
setings -> general -> software update, press (i) next to automatic updates, flip these
110
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 29/09/2026
messages from Dad:

[youtube link to S1E1 of "The Fairly OddParents"

Have you seen this addlepated cartoon? It's loud and worthless, yet entertaining
2401
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 29/09/2026
just learned about the Nikon Coolscan LS-10, a film scanner that connected via SCSI and was meant for installation in a 5.25" drive bay
the cool scan
5463
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 28/09/2026
AI-driven social analysis is truly the future. You can learn so much about what things are related to each other and it's so informative and reliable
dumbass graph claiming that "fictional vore fantasies" is somehow related to "domestic spider encounters"
913822
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 28/09/2026
eric adams presenting rat poster
16610
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 28/09/2026
Video from 2009 of the works at the Kagyu Samye Ling Merit Plant in Eskdalemuir, Scotland, in service since 1967. This facility converts electrical power to both worldly and spiritual merit through the rotation of dharma texts and mantras, in a process analogous to electrical generation via dynamo.
68414
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 28/09/2026
i learned a lesson at Folsom: check if my flasholder fully works before leaving home. my Tilt-a-mite II turns out to not be able to fire bulbs for some reason and flash cubes do NOT have the juice for daylight fill flash at a distance of more than 5-12 feet
flash cube exposure chart
1100
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 26/09/2026
in case you were wondering, i look like this photo by @cynosurae.bsky.social
photographer photographing the photographer, from behind a manzanita, barely visible. with green tilley ltm6 airflo broad brim hat and red flannel barely visible
0221
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 25/09/2026
13 years ago
120
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 25/09/2026
new bike brain personal best: i saw this bike on the back of someone's car at a stoplight, thought "the fuck is with that extra tube? the bike is weird and green. is it a rivendell? i can't read it" and took a picture zoomed in once I got home. it's a Rivendell
rigid bike with basket, straight bars, knobbly 29" tires, extra tube connecting the seat tube and head tube in the middle of the main triangle, dark green (barely visible due to red taillights)Hunqapillar
1200
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 24/09/2026
we need both spices and weed in gamma gardens now. it's fucked that nobody's exploring this
120
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 24/09/2026
one of the weirdest things about working in e-waste is how people recycle so many things that are still perfectly useful
coup d' etat a practical handbook by Edward Luttwakillustrative map of physical targets in coastal city: 

X = Road blocks at focal traffic points and city entry points
P = Densely populated sea-front district
B = Mixed residential areas
G = Governmental administrative and other public buildings
R = Governmental leaders residences
dashed lines = Perimeter within which active teams can operate in safety

text on opposite page about interrupting the flow of different forms of transport
3261
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 22/09/2026
apple photos has reminded me of the time i tried to melt my dad's fat-free jarlsberg cheese
it's not melting. it's ballooned into a sort of shiny pillow
6520
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 21/09/2026
pro strats
Pyrex media bottles in pot with 68F sous vide
1120
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 20/09/2026
here's the last few years of darkness I've captured in my photos
accumulated black stuff at the bottom of a glass bottle of clear liquid shaken up with another bottle's worth added: opaque rich black liquid
1360
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 20/09/2026
you like The Lighthouse? dude that's my favorite movie too
poster for The Lighthouse, a completely different movie from the one people talk about
0100
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 19/09/2026
yeah
050
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 17/09/2026
behold: the box of Apple devices that I re-test every 3-8 months in the hopes that the people who dropped them off for recycling have finally noticed that they're still attached to their Apple IDs. If we're lucky one or two of them will have become usable by sometime next year.
lots of nice phones and ipads
1671
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 16/09/2026
you can tell this one is from near the 1995 end of the strip's run from the handlebars, but not necessarily '95 exactly because of the fork
bar ends, rigid fork
1443
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 15/09/2026
what do you think, chat? should I upgrade this iPhone 12 to OSName 27?
iphone 11 software update screen, offering an upgrade to IOS 26.7 or OSname 27zoom on on OSName 27
2435
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 14/09/2026
3294
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 14/09/2026
we stan an autistic girlboss
ventress annihilation2018
4510
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 14/09/2026
look at my allies dawg i'm going to a place i'd much rather not imagine
quoted post by liquid coyotes:

Just to make our position clear and obvious for all the bigots who are going to be seeking clarity and what is surely ambiguous messaging to them: I would happily grind every cishet centrist liberal into catfood if doing so made one working class trans life better.

quoting thread by george pearkes:
The position "I would mass murder [any groupl for any improvement of [other group]" is indistinguishable from Nazism. This is one of the most disgusting political opinions I've ever seen posted on this site (though of course the only person who needs to answer for it is the poster themself).

Anyone calling for the murder of millions of people will always and forever be my enemy and any politics rooted in the value of all human life must be the same. Thankfully the poster in question is irrelevant to the rest of the world, but y'know...teachable moment.

Very funny how people are trying to dogpile this and just giving me more blocks to improve my TL. It's a little annoying I can't automate that process tho.
5585
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 11/09/2026
it also has paid tiers for worriers and professionals/autistic people, respectively. and it's a non-profit
Membership
$24.99 / year
Get more from Watch Duty with special features.
Keep our volunteers reporting 24/7
Track firefighting aircraft in real time
Add alerts for more counties and places
Unlimited weather and flooding alertsPro Membership $99.99 / year
Professional tools to help you adapt to fast-changing conditions.
*
(g)
Track firefighting aircraft in real time
Add alerts for more counties and places
View critical electric and gas infrastructure
Pre-planned evacuation zones
Radio Repeaters and channels
Fire progression models
Private Land Ownership
Live fuels and forecast layers
COMING SOON
0110
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 11/09/2026
it does all this
290
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 11/09/2026
Watch Duty is a very good app. i'm surprised nothing like it existed before but it's just really well-implemented
map with fire indicated and evacuation zonesinfo on fire including specific zones and updates
2273
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 10/09/2026
zte axon m
110
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 10/09/2026
we have to put a stop to this
some regular monitors and then another one that's curved and like 4 feet wide
11624
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 10/09/2026
lol
iphone duo. visible crease
1612811
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 09/09/2026
gaijin 4koma

iPhone Duo: men sitting still and watching expressionlessly on couch
Samus with broken visor and glowing eye, subtitle "It's eat or be eaten": men pointing and cheering
0286
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 08/09/2026
this is what the AI CEOs are afraid is going to happen if they don't keep developing the thing they're insisting is extremely dangerous
The Christian author Christoph Arnold in a letter written in 1674 reported the creation of a golem by Rabbi Eliyahu thusly:
Polish Jews say that there was a Jew in Poland named Rabbi Eliyahu Baal Shem who made a golem from lime for the purpose of being a servant and doing housework. It was animated by having the word emes (truth) written on its forehead. But it kept on growing and getting stronger. To stop this, the alef needed to be erased from the word emes, leaving the word meis (dead). And when the rabbi noticed that the servant had grown so large that he could no longer reach its forehead and erase the letter, he came up with the trick of commanding the golem to take off its boots, assuming that when the golem bent over, he could erase the letter from its forehead. And so it was, but when the golem returned and turned into clay, all its weight fell on the rabbi and crushed him.[21]
1584
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 08/09/2026
hey man we were thinking of hitting up Tasty Delicious after we finish up at City Real Estate. wanna come?
sign: City Real Estaterestaurant sign: it's called Tasty Delicious
2110
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 04/09/2026
today I learned that Bird made wattmeters other than thruline. behold: the Termaline wattmeter, which apparently uses thermocouples to determine RF power by how much you heat an oil-filled dummy load? these things are bizarre
boxes with weird things sticking out. one has a meter, the other has finstermaline wattmeter model 67. property of US navyanother box with fins. us army TS-118A/APcover open, showing a meter and thermocouple reading chart
3201
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 04/09/2026
so are they. no wolf wants to fight this
040
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 04/09/2026
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the last wolves in the area were extirpated in the 1860s. this is incredible, wonderful news they're getting closer to the Lost Coast, and the redwood forests that make it hard to hunt them, and the thousands of elk who don't know what a wolf is... archive.is/8PkCN
Wolf spotted in California coastal mountains just north of Bay Area


A gray wolf was spotted last week in rural Lake County, marking new territory for the endangered carnivore in California’s Coast Range.
The sighting, one of the closest to the Bay Area in modern times, was confirmed by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife in and around the Mendocino National Forest, not far from Lake Pillsbury.State wildlife officials do not know whether the wolf, which is believed to be 3 or 4 years old, is traveling alone and looking for a mate or is in the process of establishing a pack. Either way, it’s one of few wolves documented west of Interstate 5 since the return of wolves to the state after being killed off a century ago. Other wolves detected close to the state’s coast have been near Oregon or in Southern California.

“It’s the first time we’ve seen a wolf in this area,” Axel Hunnicutt, state gray wolf coordinator for the Department of Fish and Wildlife, told the Chronicle. “Internally, it’s something we’re excited about. It’s ultimately one of the areas where we want wolves to be.”
317657
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 03/09/2026
shimano XTR parallelogram V-brakes squealing due to linkage wear? reduce noise now with this one weird old trick. LBS mechanics HATE them
covered them in fucking hot glue
250
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 03/09/2026
this is a new and fascinating strategy
ad on back of bus:

Who would foster a child just cuz they saw a poster on the back of a bus? No one. There's not even any pictures to tug at your heart strings. Anyone who fosters after reading this dreck must just be a really good person.
MarinFosterCare.org
1343
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 03/09/2026
rode it to work for the first time
old mountain bike with blue and yellow highlights next to black and yellow walk behind forklift "Big Joe"salticid on handlebar grip
5540
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 02/09/2026
Of COURSE I can help you scale up your tabun pilot plant, Mr. Amodei! I'm so pleased we get to work together on this!
0182
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 02/09/2026
after this they switched to making carbon versions of the Xenith (X-100 in 2004 left, carbon in 2005 right). the Team version of the carbon weighed a pound less than the X-100 version; the Pro version weighed a quarter pound more. but neither of them looked as good, and carbon can be fragile
1100
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 02/09/2026
found on ebay for $200: the only production bike ever made with Reynolds X-100 aluminum-lithium alloy tubing. with all the components on it, this would have weighed 16.5 lbs. reynolds stopped making X-100 tubing after the cancellation of the Shuttle program (and its metal supply chain for ETs)
jamix xenith reynolds x-100 lithium alloy tubing 55cm top tube ($199)
2273
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 01/09/2026
plug end of an extension cord, sticking out of a wall, with a power outlet above it
118610
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 01/09/2026
My East Peak was a low end mountain bike, but Marin also sold the Mount Vision, a very well-renowned top-end bike, at the same time I'd assumed mine was compromised and what I'm doing to it is silly. But I learned something from the guy at the bike shop THEY'RE THE SAME BIKE
mountain bike. same frame better components 1999 cover of Mountain Bike Action with the Mount Vision Pro in the corner guy riding one in brush
1100
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 31/08/2026
xteink is a magnetic esp32 ebook reader that sticks to the phone. it looks like both it and the reterminal sticky have an esp32 and can run crosspoint ebook reader firmware. mysterious...
010
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 31/08/2026
quote with your red art
a cadillac lurks to the right of the frame. it is yellow. everything else is unearthly redwoodcut: a man dashes into a red hallway
0243
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 30/08/2026
forgotten technique of the ancient sages
front-pointing: the art of utilizing the outer chainring as a third wheel to climb over logs and other organic obstacles
1556
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 30/08/2026
1 1/8" ec34, and there is one main reason I would go with a competitor
120
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 29/08/2026
so far
beat up old bike with nasty components the same bike but recabled with yellow housings, new yellow grips, gold and blue fork, silver derailleur same bike from front (cool front brakes)
7250
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 29/08/2026
is this a carbon rim?? the $75 I paid for this wheelset (with XTR FH-M950 rear and Chris King Classic front rim brake hubs) back in June keeps turning into a better deal
2130