cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️

cafuego@misanthrope.social

Professional computer turn-off-and-on-again-er. Amateur all the other things.Avatar: A lego figurine with a worried look on its face, wearing a classic lego spaceship shirt and a space helmet. It is holding a whisk and is flanked by a cat. In the background, a rocket and star are mounted on a wall.Banner: Wide panoramic view of the southern Milky Way crossing over into a pink aurora australis, with the large magellanic cloud above.

Posts

Post #4324344
Harvested the last zucchini. 3.7 kilograms, straight to the pool room.
Post #4235447
Why is the #drupal gitlab showing me some AI chat garbage?
Post #4128182
Bumped into the whole mob today. #bird #birb #wildoz
Post #2514572
Pride chicken at leet o’ clock.
Post #2294461
Channeling Ivanova today. “Fifteen things, all of them annoying.”
Post #2208761
☄️ And here is the properly processed version, with cloudy subs excluded from the stack. #astrophotography #space #Astrodon #c2025r3
Post #2079969
Well that’s a bit of a doozy isn’t it. Meet #comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) A few minutes of 30 second exposures stacked together on the seestar. #Astrodon #astrophotography #c2025r3 #space
Post #2069314
Is there an Atlassian office in Melbourne? Jira just without warning opened a chat bot window at me and I want to go punch a human in the face about that.
Post #2002628
✨ Are you in Australia and do you like being able to see the sky at night? The Australasian Dark Sky Alliance have submitted a petition to request parliament introduce legislation to control light pollution. Not to ban lights, but ensure lighting is effective and directed, not far too bright, and not on when and where not needed. If you’re an Australian resident or citizen, your signature would help. A lot. The petition is at https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN7346 and you can f...
Post #1710817
Weeks of warm and dry sunny weather, so naturally we end up with this again. #bloomscrolling
Post #1615901
🐓 A few hours of Lambda Centauri last night #astrophotography #space #astrodon
Post #1558818
🦢 🦅 And one from last month, which I think hadn’t posted yet. The Milky Way core is back from around midnight, so all the shiny things near it are too. This pair are the Swan / Omega nebula in Sagittarius (M17, top) and the Eagle Nebula in Serpens (M16, bottom). The latter is more well known because of the Hubble “Pillars of Creation” photo. You can *just* make out those pillars at the center of the nebula. So yes, you can image them yourself from home with a $600 phone-controlled “toy tele...
Post #1081998
Managed to sneak up on this little red rumped parrot on my walk. Usually they’re pretty shy. #birb
Post #567191
Liberated the two largest zucchinis and pickled them for later according to a CWA recipe. One left for dinner and there will be more in the coming week for trading with the neighbours. Also popped coriander and spring onion seeds in a tray and put the rooty bay twig in a pot.