Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

My life is divided into two equal parts: What the fuck is this, and What the fuck is that?

Not every flight goes to plan, and today that's how it went. 7.5 out of 9 were successful. The half a point was for a cluster rocket that didn't fully light off the rail (3 out of 4), but was still recovered.

Three pics. The smashed one is the newest version of a BT60 Goblin. Again the chute release pin didn't let go despite several successful tests with the small chute bundle. It made it to 2878' on an Aerotech F67C motor.

The black sleek one is an upscale Estes Ninja, 2.5" diameter. Flew on an Aerotech F40W. Perfect flight to 1500'.

The skyracha rocket, a 4" upscale Big Daddy, flew great on a H130W to 1354'

#rocketry #highpowerrocketry #modelrockets

Wholemeal Sourdough: Dark Chocolate + Raisin + Sunflower Seed ... With Carrot 🤔

Recipe: https://lupyuen.codeberg.page/articles/sourdough.html

Sleeping with the Ancestors review: slavery and the fight for Black history
Joseph McGill Jr tells a fascinating, necessary story of his direct engagement with truths many Americans would rather ignore https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/17/sleeping-with-the-ancestors-book-review-slavery-black-history

click. 👇

Just Miss Kitty admiring classic, timeless design. Design far better than anything we have today. Miss Kitty has great taste and knows good design when she sees it. 😄

Landed in Austin, Texas, US. Apx. flt. time 2 h 15 min.

I signed up on a Lemmy instance (Lemmy.world) the other day and have been learning my way around that side of the Fediverse.

It's been interesting.

Tonight, I discovered that I can follow a Lemmy Community and view its posts from the comfort of my Mastodon account!

All you do is enter
@[Community]@[Lemmy Instance] in the search bar.

For instance, if I want to see posts from the Coffee community on my Lemmy server, I type @coffee in the search bar and click the Follow button when it shows up in my timeline.

This new learning amazes me!

There is little in life more magical than a colorful sunset in the mountains on a warm #summer's evening. Where better to view this than the historic Harpers Ferry area nestled in the #BlueRidgeMountains where the #Potomac and #Shenandoah Rivers converge.

https://lois-bryan.pixels.com/featured/the-view-from-the-brewery-lois-bryan.html

Digitally hand painted in #CorelPainter from my own #photography. Not created using Artificial Intelligence / AI.

#art #giftideas #HarpersFerry #WV #MD #VA #sunset #humanmade #LoisBryan #FineArtAmerica #NotAi

Changing a flat tire at Hamlin Beach Park near Rochester, NY. June 1959. Scanned from a 35mm Kodachrome slide.
#OldPhotos #Kodachrome #Rochester #ROC

A Road to the Stars
Credits: ESO, Petr Horálek, ESO, Photo Ambassador, Inst. of Physics in Opava
#nature #space #astrophotography

The Ohio GOP has gerrymandered themselves into a supermajority – and that supermajority is very unhappy that a petition from Ohio citizens allowing a vote protecting reproductive choice will be on the ballot in November. So they rushed through a constitutional amendment to try and raise the threshold for passage from a simple majority to 60%.

Yeah, Ohio Democrats are mobilized and fighting hard on this one – and need your help and support to get the word out to every voter in #Ohio.
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"Everything [Trump] is doing and saying right now has one goal: getting him back into the White House so that he can realize the strongman's dream of committing crimes with impunity and neutralize anyone and anything that can harm him."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#Trump #strongman #crime #LawandOrder
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https://lucid.substack.com/p/for-strongmen-like-trump-holding

Bun update: the buns are in a pile. A PILE OF BUNS!!!!

The one thing I'll say if you're new from Reddit, as someone who was new from Twitter several months ago, is that you can sort of listen to the Fediverse community *lightly* when they try to tell you about the ettiquette.

Like, I'm not saying completely ignore it (doing alt text is a great norm, and Masto has a wonderful blind community because of it), but if people seem really intense abt norms you disagree with you can totally mute or ignore them and nothing bad happens.

They teach you about the Alamo. But they don't teach you about the Nueces massacre. At the start of the civil war, almost a hundred armed German Texans (who opposed slavery♥️🙏🏿) tried to flee South to Mexico, so that they could make it over to New Orleans. The Confederate soldiers caught them and massacred them.

Robstown in Nueces County, was one of the last places to begrudgingly give up slavery 2 years after the emancipation proclamation.

This is the logo of the Robstown football team today.🤡

#Caturday 🐈 🐾🐈‍⬛️

So go to this website for more details on voting and on the issue.
https://votenoinaugust.org/

Go to this mobilize link for phone banks and other ways to pitch in with the official campaign.
https://mobilize.us/s/FbKTqG

#PostcardsToVoters is also running a campaign on this issue.
https://postcardstovoters.org/addresses/

Help if you can, however you can. #Ohio #AbortionRights #GetOutTheVote

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Behold, my freezer storage hack —

Freeze soups and stocks etc in zipper bags on a cookie sheet so they freeze flat, then store them upright in a little basket like a filing system. Bacon fits too.