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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

91 garlic cloves planted, covered with a layer of homemade compost, and a layer of home-shredded leaves. Then surrounded with some random janky fence parts to discourage my idiot dog from stomping around in the precious soil.

Same view as picture above but now covered with shredded leaves and surrounded by a blend of random fence parts.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Garlic is going into the ground later than usual this year because I jacked up my back, got super busy at work, and other candyass excuses. But I finished expanding the garlic bed today (3x the space) and will plant tomorrow. Should be fine. Garlic is the easiest fucking thing to grow. I love it.

25-foot longx 3-4 foot wide dirt bed made from rocks and pavers in a janky grassy backyard. A few carrot plants in the bed in the foreground with almost no leaves on them because of a douchebag groundhog.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Some of this year’s Carolina reaper harvest. They literally look scary—like the orange handle on a diner coffee carafe, nature’s way of saying, “Do not eat.” I grow these for fun. I can only use them by processing into “insanity pepper” flakes and adding micrograms to make soup spicy. #hotpepper

Six shriveled, red, ripe Carolina reaper hot peppers with green stems in my left hand. Close crop. Square aspect ratio.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Merganser from today. Chilling on a log after dabbling a bit.

Side view of a female (I think) merganser on a log with blurry background. Bird looking to the right. Square aspect ratio.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Cylon-occupied Caprica

Still from a Battlestar Galactica episode of an partly cloudy orange sky above buildings and a skyscraper. Title text identifies it as “Cylon-occupied Caprica.”

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

There are many photos of Blanche where the lighting and framing make him look exactly like The Turk from “The Godfather.” Or maybe it’s just me.

Still of Sollozzo “The Turk” from The Godfather.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Made another one. Tiles missing.

White-on-black Cyrillic letter tiles form words on colorful Scrabble-like board: псих хуйло вор путин военный престоопник (last one not real word)

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A nearly perfect rasher of future tomatoes (“Tommy Toe” from Seed Savers).

Central focus eight (8) still-green cherry tomatoes growing in the standard cluster formation surrounded by a more-blurry background of tomato vines and leaves.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I know you have great lawyers… but be careful you don’t get sued for copyright infringement by Putin’s gas station.

LUKOIL gas station sign with an onion for the O (“Luk” means onion in Russian.) it is possible that the O/onion on the sign is meant to be a drop of oil, but this interpretation literally never occurred to me until I started writing this alt text. So I stand by “it’s an onion.”

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The thing looks like what Twiki from Buck Rogers would turn into if Twiki was a transformer.

Picture of gold humanoid robot with “glans” shaped head and some crazy light panel on its chest. Articulated arms like gutter extensions and pincer hands.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This should be the button you use most often on this website.

Screen cap of the red “Discard” button for Bluesky posts.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Oh, come on. Little cuties.

Looks pretty much like previous photo (see its alt text) but the birds are at 7:00, 9:00, and 11:00. The 7:00 bird has its yellow beak WIDE open (nearly 90-degrees) demanding food from my phone camera. No bare bird skin visible anymore—real feathers cover them all. Greyish with white spots. can still see the wispy white eyebrows on the 7:00 bird.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Screengrab from earlier with points of light all along the ridge and one at the highest point visible from this location (probably the summit). #Everest #Madness

Portrait screenshot of Everest in the dark under starry sky with points of light along the ridge and one point at the tippy top.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

They are now more or less cute.

The same three baby robins from the previous post, in the same nest, from the same angle. They completely fill the nest and are resting their beak-chins on the rim. One pointed at 9:00, one at like 10:30, and one at 12:00. Definitely some tiny feathers now visible if you zoom in. Orange-y highlights, but mostly dark grey/black.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

This is kinda cool. View of Mt. Everest right now from a nearby webcam. I have watched through two reloads. The strings of lights along the ridge move up the ridge, and the stars do their star thing. Pretty sure these are climbers. Link to webcam in post below.

Himalayas at night viewed from near Namche Bazaar. Stars. And two strings of lights along the ridge heading up to the summit of Everest.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Birb update. Three hideous monsters growning apace… they will potentially be cute in a week or so.

Overhead view of a round dried-grass bird nest containing three baby robins chilling out with their huge, bulging eyes closed, starter beaks, hilarious little wispy “eyebrows,” and proto-feather quill-like things where real feathers will presumably form eventually.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Boid and her babies in the nest behind the porch light sconce thing.

Three blue robin eggs viewed from directly above. In brown nest of mud and dry grass.

Three hideous baby dinosaurs (robin birds, turdus turdus?) with pale pink skin and scruffy thin feathers. Closed giant creepy eyes. Little beak visible on one dinochick.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

That picture. Jeez these people are evil.

Dr Evil and his evil cronies laughing in a still from an Austin Powers movie

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The thing in that photo looks disturbingly like Number 5 (of “Number 5 is alive” fame).

Still of Number 5 from the movie Short Circuit.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

“Black From Tula” from Seed Savers Exchange. Seed planted 8 February.

Lovely 4-inch tall tomato plantling with at least three “generations” of true leaves and a glowing halo of hairs growing from the stem+leaves. Dark green leaves, purple perimeters and stem.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I’m looking at you, masking taped brother. 👊 💪

Black quartz clock with three blocky black hands narrowing by duration as typical with clocks. No face or numbers. The clock’s battery box/mechanism is taped to a cardboard box on a wire shelf.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I keep following the AWACS-looking NATO planes circling over and over and over again in Turkiye and wondering what they can see with whatever sensors they have on board. Also happy to learn there’s a Batman in Turkiye.

Circular FlightRadar24 track of a Boeing E-3A Sentry flight (callsign NATO09) north of Batman, in Turkiye.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Making decent progress today. Stopping here to make sure the board doesn’t “relax” too much and warp back in the distortion I just removed.

Long poplar board running away from the camera on a workbench. Shims support the not-yet-flat surface—the one in contact with the bench—so it doesn’t deflect when I press down when planing the top surface. Keen observers may notice the scrap blocks and bench dogs used to stop the board from moving around when planing. An extruded aluminum “winding stick” is lying across the board about halfway down its length. Another winding stick is at the far end. You can’t tell from the photo, but the sticks are reasonably close to parallel to one another. When the sticks are parallel when placed at any two points along the length of the board, the top surface is flat.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Begun the snowstorm has.

Wiper blades up on a grey car with the first dusting of snow visible on the hood and windshield.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I discovered Viking Cruise ships have panoramic webcams. Have been occasionally watching the stream from their ship “Polaris” that was at Antarctica this past week. Amazing scenery with good (solstice) lighting. Also, I think I happened to spot a whale and an albatross (see alt text).

Looks to me like a whale spouting backlit by low sun. Snowy mountains in the background. Could just be an iceberg though. Screenshot is a view southeast when the ship was puttering around in the channel north of Lemaire island.

Looks to me like a soaring bird following the cruise ship maybe 2 points off the larboard stern, just above the horizon. Parts of the ship are visible on the lower left side of the image along with an antenna in the middle. Screenshot taken when the ship was in the Drake Passage, heading north on the way back to Argentina.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

My airplane tracking app says it is taxiing in Albany and that’s the best information I can get.

Screen shot showing FR24 track of the plane.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

When I see one of these I break it anyway because this is bullshit.

Unbroken, but open pistachio shell with no nut inside.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

These are the smallest ones I had to solder. The ruler is in millimeters. I genuinely cannot believe I managed to install these.

A strip of 47 uF surface-mount ceramic capacitors resting on a ruler. Three of the capacitors have been removed from the strip and two are still there. Based on the ruler, the capacitors are about 1.5x2 mm.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

WAIT!! It lives!! The button pad is twitchy and there’s a built-in rechargeable battery that supports its “computer” and may need to be fully recharged before the thing works properly. But here it is tuned to an FM station and playing music (will test the other bands later).

Sony ICF-SW1 on a wooden desktop tuned to 89.7 (WRUC). Inaudible through the photo: “American Pie” is the song on the radio.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The last Russian presidential election that wasn’t openly a Putin scam.

Poster announcing the 16 June 1996 Russian presidential elections. The poster is attached to a chalkboard by magnets. There are white xmas lights inexplicably across the top edge of the poster.

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&y @zombiecube.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I don’t usually add stitches to iron-on patches. But sometimes you gotta go the extra mile. (Though not so far as to match thread colors or do a particularly good job.) This is on a hoodie and has now been through the wash a dozen times without falling apart.