atomicthumbs

remote sensing practicioner

gregarious canid. avatar by ISANANIKA.


Website League address
@wolf@forest.stream
send me an email
atomicthumbs@wolf.observer
twitter but hopefully i only post photos there in the future
twitter.com/atomicthumbs
newsletter!! this one will let me tell you where i go
buttondown.com/atomicthumbs
newsletter rss same thing
buttondown.com/atomicthumbs/rss
Website League (centralized federation social media project)
websiteleague.org/
Push Processing (Website League photography instance)
pushprocess.ing/
88x31 button embed code
<a href="https://wolf.observer/88x31"><img src="https://wolf.observer/images/wolf-88x31.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a>
forest.stream (general admission website league instance)
forest.stream/
bluesky (probably just for photos)
bsky.app/profile/wolf.observer
this will be a cohost museum someday
cohost.rip/

NireBryce
@NireBryce

Telescope Building with John Dobson

this is like a full hour of hand grinding a telescope mirror. if you're a medium to huge nerd you'll like it


cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

you see, the mirror turns around a lot but the tool doesn't have to turn very often, because diseases of the tool are not contagious to the mirror. because the mirror's turning all the time, even if the tool has a big chip out of it don't make no never mind


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in reply to @NireBryce's post:

i have too much youtube oral history and do not want to pollute feeds TOO much, but #nire-random-youtube and #nire-random-youtubes (when I am high I forget which one it is so it's an even split) are where they end up living

in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

This is a really interesting property of spherical optics! I spent a semester in college working in an optics fab shop, and the key to getting a nice, symmetrical lens shape was just to rotate the part all the time.

Our supervisor was this old Russian guy who defected out of the USSR, had been making optics basically how whole adult life, and even he had a hard time explaining how to fix a non-spherical part. So much of making lenses is just following the vibes