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personal recording of it i made earlier today with an old outdoor directional FM radio antenna. to actually describe what's being heard, the oscillating/changing jingly tones are analog telemetry with a lower sub-carrier below that you can barely kinda hear with a deeper sound. the background ticking/triple click(?) sound is the PCM (pulse code modulation) or in normal terms, the digital portion of the telemetry signal.

the actual navigation hardware on this satellite failed 19 days after launch in 1964 (part of the early NNSS or navy navigational satellite system constellation) , but since then it's been dutifully making this silly noise for literally 61 years and shows no signs of stopping. ya' gotta love it

need to fall down this rabbit hole immediately.

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something ive been up to in my boredom is looking into stuff like this as kind of an avid radio person, someone mentioned it in the comments but this is transit 5b5 or 5e5 (JPL seems to have gotten their names mixed in the launch documents) but it's a 60s GPS precursor satellite that is, as far as anyone knows the oldest still transmitting satellite, more interesting is that it's still modulating telemetry data into the carrier signal. a lot of old satellites are just transmitting a carrier tone which is just a solid sound with no information.

satellites that come back to life are interesting in it of themselves since battery technology will eventually open short and the solar panels will get direct current from the sun and turn the satellite back on. one of the oldest functional amateur radio repeater satellites (AMSAT Oscar-7) also still works because of this

need to fall down this rabbit hole immediately.

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y'know i think it's important parents somehow learn the importance of just engaging with their kid if they talk about something they're interested in to them, like i hate to be the bearer of bad news but repeatedly trying to engage to only be met by "mhm, that's cool can you go do [x]" or other stuff that just immediately brushes it off is how your kids stop fucking talking to you lmao

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what is your favorite vocal stim I need to know cause mine is

"ew what is this throw this away." "dude I can't it's not mine I'm holding onto it for my uncle until he's out of the hospital." "hello handsome." "ewwwwww"

i had to look it up cause i had no idea where it actually came from but clay davis from The Wire going "SHEEEEEEEEIT"

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"You can call me Toby...heh...everyone really calls me ticci Toby.."

I am not calling you by your street name Tobias

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after eons of searching for an aot military police jacket the fuckin stars aligned and i came across a very kind lady on eBay who had one for sale for like $20, and while it's not one of the fancy handmade ones im still over the moon

it seems like you can only ever find the survey corps jackets, every manufacturer said the other two be damned lol

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long post but go buy my friends things yes ok bye

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really neat style

odio esto!

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y'know i don't mind how basically every toby artist just decided one day "yeah this trash gremlin has a fuckload of piercings" honestly i love it

Redraw (again)

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something weird i always see on social media is people who were like part of something that was initially frowned upon/ostracized (one i saw recently being about about like alt/emo folks) talking like

"yeah we got bullied for this before" to which most reasonable people reply "well it's a good thing that people can be how they'd like to be now that there's less stigma/stereotyping around it" and some people unironically replying with "no" like bro the fuck? lmao

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realized i slept through our towns halloween on the 26th from a good ole 9 hour ✨ depression nap ✨ and was insanely pissed off about that because y'know we aren't normal people and do it on the 31st like everyone else so that's Fun

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i know no one probably cares but i just wanted to say i love how gut wrenchingly melancholic this song is

it's exactly what nostalgia for a better time feels like, made into music

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i mean this in like the least weird way possible but how does hot topic always hire such pretty people with the coolest outfits

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wtf this is so pretty

He’s feeling so late downs and early sunsets rn guys

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i fuckin love this song

especially how blown out and loud the intro gets in the live versions lmao it's great

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I did a cosplay of his 25 year old design and I absolutely love how it turned out :D!!!

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why isn't having silly gimmick bottles for drinks more normal this is great