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Ryan Pierce 🇺🇦 🌻 @RyanPierce_Chi

EE student at @ASU, three time Chernobyl explorer, maker, fintech professional, cryptography machine collector, private pilot, horologist, brewer, science geek. mackenziegems.com Chicago, IL Joined April 2016
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Ryan Pierce 🇺🇦 🌻 @RyanPierce_Chi

2 years ago

In case it isn’t clear, I’ve stopped posting original content on this hellsite. I much prefer the Skies to be Blue. If we follow each other and haven’t connected over there, please DM and I’ll send you a link and some personal updates.

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Elizabeth Koprucki is ekoprucki on the sky app @ekoprucki

2 years ago

Excited to be part of the Chicago Materials Research Center team!

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University of Chicago Materials Research Center @UChiMaterials

2 years ago

#UChicago #MRSEC welcomed Elizabeth Koprucki as our new Operations Manager. Elizabeth joins us from the @polskycenter, where she designed and ran the Fab Lab. In her spare time, she enjoys making jewelry, writing, and traveling.

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Ryan Pierce 🇺🇦 🌻 @RyanPierce_Chi

3 years ago

@RSudowe I’m now picturing someone pouring that on a stack of pancakes. Forbidden breakfast! 🥞☢️ I suppose that would best be served with bacon from German wild boars.

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Elizabeth Koprucki is ekoprucki on the sky app @ekoprucki

3 years ago

I checked back on the @HiRISE website today...and found out that my HiWish was granted! A crater within a crater near Noctis Labyrinthus:

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Ryan Pierce 🇺🇦 🌻 @RyanPierce_Chi

3 years ago

@BreakingTaps And then there's the moment where your mind gets bent along with the pipe once you realize that the pipe effectively gets longer each time you put a bend in it!

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Ryan Pierce 🇺🇦 🌻 @RyanPierce_Chi

3 years ago

Then the next big problem: What do you do when your BLÅHAJ claims your brand new computer chair? How do you argue with a such cute, soft shonk? I don’t think the warranty will help here…

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Ryan Pierce 🇺🇦 🌻 @RyanPierce_Chi

3 years ago

Warranty by default is 3 years and you can upgrade that to 5 years by posting a pic in social media and registering that with them.

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Ryan Pierce 🇺🇦 🌻 @RyanPierce_Chi

3 years ago

My horrible old computer chair finally died, so I went all out on a replacement. This is a #Secretlab Titan EVO 2022. It came highly recommended by several friends, and I have to say, it’s quite comfortable. The adjustable lumbar support sold me on it.

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Ryan Pierce 🇺🇦 🌻 @RyanPierce_Chi

3 years ago

@Casillic @nuclearkatie Well, there were insinuations that Teller was a Soviet spy. He was blindly insistent on the Classical Super design that Ulam & von Neumann later showed clearly could not work, and advocated the US produce tritium instead of Pu which meant less fission weapons in the stockpile.

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Ryan Pierce 🇺🇦 🌻 @RyanPierce_Chi

3 years ago

@CleanFutureFund Was that photo taken in Starry Tallinn, Slavutych? I remember Celsius vodka. That was how we “decontaminated” on my first Chernobyl trip.

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Ryan Pierce 🇺🇦 🌻 @RyanPierce_Chi

3 years ago

@GrantWTrent I guess we got really lucky on our 2019 tour. Our docents were incredibly knowledgeable and one was an old timer who was involved first hand with the testing. He mentioned how he personally filled a bank vault that was going to get nuked with money and papers.

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Ryan Pierce 🇺🇦 🌻 @RyanPierce_Chi

3 years ago

@GrantWTrent Icecap was really fascinating. Unfortunately, our group spent so much time there that we had to cut the Apple houses from the tour. But we did get a chance to walk around at Frenchman Flat and saw some incredible examples of blast damage.

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Ryan Pierce 🇺🇦 🌻 @RyanPierce_Chi

3 years ago

@GrantWTrent Our guide’s camera was messed up and it lost the group Sedan crater pic…

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Ryan Pierce 🇺🇦 🌻 @RyanPierce_Chi

3 years ago

Valves reassembled and tested at pressure. Portafilter and basket acquired. First test shots of espresso are a success!

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Ryan Pierce 🇺🇦 🌻 @RyanPierce_Chi

3 years ago

The hot water valve doesn’t fully close. When the water boils, the pressure forces the water in the boiler out via the hot water arm. Taking apart the valve, I see it’s completely covered in scale. I can try to descale it with citric acid, or I can try to get a valve rebuild kit.

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Ryan Pierce 🇺🇦 🌻 @RyanPierce_Chi

3 years ago

Espresso machine update: I’ve got it assembled on top of my kitchen sink to test it (in case it has leaks.) So far, with the heater disconnecting, it’s working fine. The new hose fixed the leak. The group head seems to work. But turning the heater on causes problems.

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Ryan Pierce 🇺🇦 🌻 @RyanPierce_Chi

3 years ago

@Casillic I just love the addition of “Eschatologically”

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn

3 years ago

The way that Bud Light and Target are reacting to the far right angry at including LGBTQ+ people is EXACTLY why many of us have railed against corporate pride. If your advocacy consists merely of rainbows that disappear at the first gust of fascist wind, it amounts to net harm.

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