Dutch Barracuda🏳️‍🌈🛠☢️🌎♻️

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I'm a 40 year old Jack Of All Trades, still trying to make a place for myself in the world. I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.

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Dutch Barracuda🏳️‍🌈🛠☢️🌎♻️19h ago
Natasha 🇪🇺1d ago

The way my brain works:

1970 was 30 years ago
1980 was 20 years ago
1990 was 10 years ago
1995 was 10 years ago
2000 was 10 years ago
2010 was 10 years ago
2015 was 5 years ago
2017 never happened
2018 was two years ago
2019 was last year
2020 was also last year
2021 was a few months ago

Dutch Barracuda🏳️‍🌈🛠☢️🌎♻️2d ago

I just read about Artemis II's impromptu Easter dehydrated egg hunt and it prompted the question in my mind.

Would a chocolate easter egg (Hollow, your average one from the supermarket), survive the G forces of being launched into space, or would it crumble?

#science #space #question

Dutch Barracuda🏳️‍🌈🛠☢️🌎♻️3d ago

New blog post about adding some sidecases to my motorbike.

#Suzuki #GZ125 #Marauder #Motorcycle #Motorbike #Blog

https://dutchbarracuda.tumblr.com/post/813965099721195520/upgrades-people-upgrades

Upgrades, people, upgrades!

One factor that has eluded me somewhat in my entry into motorcycling, is luggage. Beyond a backpack and what little space available beneath my seat, there wasn't any way of say quickly packing away...

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Dutch Barracuda🏳️‍🌈🛠☢️🌎♻️3d ago
Lisa Melton3d ago

Recently I read a post by some jackhole techbro who wants a default automatic feed algorithm here just like Big Social™.

Opening the door for AI bullshit is not even the worst part of this idea.

Folks, all of us here ARE the algorithm. Personal curation is a feature, not a bug.

We make Mastodon awesome by following people and boosting what we find meaningful, significant or just cool. That's how it works.

Let's keep making friends. Let's keep sharing. Let's keep Mastodon alive. Together. 💖

Dutch Barracuda🏳️‍🌈🛠☢️🌎♻️4d ago
Project Hail Mary is a cautionary tale about accidentally becoming too important in the workplace.
Show threadDutch Barracuda🏳️‍🌈🛠☢️🌎♻️6d ago

Enjoy the video, thank you Hank Green.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaXRREHVkHo

Explaining the Most Important Artemis II Photos

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Show threadDutch Barracuda🏳️‍🌈🛠☢️🌎♻️6d ago
Space and science has and will give you more than those jokers ever will.
/End of vent.
Show threadDutch Barracuda🏳️‍🌈🛠☢️🌎♻️6d ago
It's that we keep going, that we keep putting one foot after another, keep solving one problem and moving on to the next.
It is dangerous, perilous, and overambitious, but don't ever call it a waste of resources when you drive your car 'for fun' or get helium balloons, or subscribe to Amazon Prime. Not when they are millionaires and billionaires asking for 'donations', and you willingly give your money, time and attention to them.
Show threadDutch Barracuda🏳️‍🌈🛠☢️🌎♻️6d ago
We were early. And now, even with maniac CEOs and mad kings, now we're finding our feet. It's not a race against time. It may take hundreds of years, it may only be another 50 to colonise the solar system, but we'll get there. The ISS has been faithfully orbiting since 1998, 28 years!
It does not matter who is first with anything, if it's by America, or Russia, or China, or Europe, or SpaceX or Boeing or BlueOrigin.
Show threadDutch Barracuda🏳️‍🌈🛠☢️🌎♻️6d ago
And even now I'm watching an alternative history series 'For All Mankind' where the space race continues at the same belligerent speed it did in the 1960's. Lead was still in paint and gas, asbestos was common everywhere, computers were only just being implemented, and virtually all the math was still being done by hand by genius women who have only been truly acknowledged in the last decade or so!