Aperture Flash

Aperture Flash

@apertureflash.bsky.social

Hello! Long haul truck driver, amateur drone pilot, truly bad banjo picker. Expect photography and long silences ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ He/Him and in a wonderful relationship with @starlightserpent ๐Ÿ’“ (My opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer)

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I've been in the t680 for just under 3 days now, and honestly at this point I'm tempted to email the lead designer at Kenworth to personally tell him to go fuck himself lol.

The local radio station just played AC/DC thunderstruck, and then immediately followed it up with freebird. It's like they're TRYING to make me commit felony speeding.

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I've had to block every single locally owned dog poop clean up business because they constantly fill the local groups with AI generated pictures of literal dog shit. God what a stupid time to be alive.

I've had to block every single locally owned dog poop clean up business because they constantly fill the local groups with AI generated pictures of literal dog shit. God what a stupid time to be alive.

Furthermore, if you think I'm somehow more qualified or a better trucker simply because I'm a white dude who was born here with a rural background, you can fuck right off, you ain't my brother. Experience, diligence, and practice is what makes the gear jammer, not background. #Trucking

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The other day somebody called me "one of the last white Canadian truckers." Like it was some kind of compliment. That shit annoys the hell out of me. Please don't use me as a White Knight for your racist bullshit.

The other day somebody called me "one of the last white Canadian truckers." Like it was some kind of compliment. That shit annoys the hell out of me. Please don't use me as a White Knight for your racist bullshit.

I mentioned off-handedly that there wasn't much going out this week and my dispatcher said we have majorly scaled back production because there's some uncertainty with the tariffs. That fuckwit Trump is directly hurting my paycheck.

Went through Newark New Jersey today. Christ that airport is huge. If you live in Newark, do you get used to the smell after a while or, like, is it just sort of omnipresent there in the back of your mind?

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If anyone likes The Elder Scrolls I suggest looking at Lantern of the Laughless Saint. It's a ScrollsLike that's done a good job of capturing that Morrowind feel. It's been a ton of fun. Still in early access, but it's fully beatable and has lots of content. Including caked up mushrooms.

Just had another one of my wild wasteland moments here out on the highwayHelping out a couple green horns that some jackass decided to stick in a truck and make them run team. One dude had 6 months experience, the other dude had 2 weeks.

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He was the one that had the least experience. I didn't notice the tattoo until I had already started helping them, it's pretty dark here and frankly I needed their parking space lol. Honestly the first thing I noticed about him was the bright green Coachella sweater he was wearing.

My Hope, is that this dude is recently out of an organization and just hasn't had a chance to get the tattoos covered or removed, they looked pretty old. Who knows, maybe this will be one of the rare times that Trucking leads somebody to a less hateful, better life. We can only hope, right?

Just had another one of my wild wasteland moments here out on the highwayHelping out a couple green horns that some jackass decided to stick in a truck and make them run team. One dude had 6 months experience, the other dude had 2 weeks.

They had a real loud air leak coming from there trailer, and they were unable to slide their tandems. They didn't realize that they couldn't slide their tandems because of the air leak. I gave them a technique to make it work to get them legal but that trailer definitely needs some service.

What was weird was it was two dudes, a guy who seemed to be of Hispanic origin, and a white dude. The white dude struck me as interesting because his head and neck were completely covered in tattoos, his eyebrows were tattooed, and he had a very prominent "HATE" tattoo on his forehead.

I want the meta Ray-Ban glasses, I feel like they would be good to make trucking content, but I also don't want to be giving money to meta, and they tend to send certain messages about the wearer that I don't really want lol.

Nightmare DnD situation

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I once quit a DnD group for scheduling reasons. When I came back like 6mos later for a cameo, they were all using ChatGBT... The DM was using it to figure out scenarios, players were using it to figure out what to do, etc. Like, do any of us need to BE HERE? The computer is playing with itself...