Skateboard stop-motion

i should rewatch Danger 5 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhHx...

Telstar-1, the first telecommunications satellite, zipping around the Earth.

Check out this Southampton, PA McDonald's after a remodel in 1984. That Ronald stained glass piece is ridiculously cool.

Reminiscing now about my first job as a game developer, when lighting was so expensive we couldn't even pre-bake it. We made a single texture sheet with a lit side on top, a shadow side on the bottom, and a gradient in between, and placed all our shadows by hand with geometry cuts and UV mapping

Oh I gotta check this out. That’s like, 3 of my favorite things.

My goofy ass could not resist lmao

My new article is up: thespacereview.com/article/5169/1

never forget what they took from you (hot pockets sleeves)

This is Beau. He is a textbook example of a golden retriever. They really will try to be friends with anyone. 13/10 for both (IG: beaugoesoutside)

Will also touch on this:

Thank you for being a friend

I gave a PowerPoint presentation on Great Tartaria at a New Year’s party this year.

Are vultures cute? Yes, and yes. Yes they are. Yolo is showing off his newly colored beak, shifting towards orange. His full transition to bright king vulture adult colors will take about five years! 🪶

Thinking about Yolo again

they made Europa look so delicious here... like that thing is a fancy cake or a cuboid of baja blast flavored turkish delight

Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.

Peak

from the instruction and alt build idea booklet for LEGO Set #7171, Mos Espa Podrace (1999) you can't do this to me, man

Postage stamp from Cameroon, commemorating the Soviet Luna 9 mission.

"is there a technology the left are actually excited about?"

About half the time I night clock a file, it’s to rename it. Guess what’s buried under “Show more options” now

windows 11 update: for the first time in my life, simply right clicking a file has a load time. unreal

THE KING HAS SPOKEN

A Soyuz 7K-T docks with the MKBS. This was a Soviet space station concept that would act as a central hub for a whole ecosystem of orbital stations and vehicles that was collectively known as MOK. The modules were planned to launch on N1s.

Interesting read!

Glad that people _do_ recognize it :-) manuschwendener.ch/horses #LEGO #AliBati #SFW2025 #Skærbæk2025

Now the first real version: The F.O.R.G.E. station marks the beginning of a new chapter for me in the field of space exploration. The First Orbital Research & Gateway for Exploration - Station is used to explore space without the disruptive influences of light, air, and atmosphere on Earth.

My new article in The Space Review should be up by this evening. It concerns the IDSCS satellites developed as part of IDCSP--how about those confusing acronyms? Relatively simple satellites. This followed the cancellation of the complicated, little-known, Advent comsat program.

🗺️🌍 Mittelafrika: Territorial Evolution of German Africa (1914-1925) Rising triumphant during the Weltkrieg, the German Empire took its rightful claim over Africa after the Treaty of Versailles, and took it once more when the crimson banner flew across the British Empire.

#Skylab food tray and a selection of Skylab foods.

OK Tracer Bullet was good but I assume we're all in agreement that this is the all-time BEST Calvin & Hobbes strip, correct

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

Some advanced less-known radiator concepts: -Inflatable roll-out fins -Telescoping heat pipes -Liquid rotating belt -Spinning liquid film on disk Also described are Curie-point, liquid droplet, inflatable bag radiators and more: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I need more fun Elder Scrolls people to follow, tag some people in the comments pls.

Excerpts from a NASA/NASA contractor public info publication in my collection. This one, from North American Aviation, was tucked into newspapers across the US ahead of Apollo 4, the first flight test of the Saturn V, in November 1967. I post one of these in its entirety on my Patreon every Sunday.

My architecture column today. "To show off these structures that are being developed in Chicago, I think it’s a really beautiful art," Chicago Architecture Center Chief Marketing Officer Lauren Bakos said. "And it’s sad that it’s kind of a dying one."

Wishlist and play the demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4097480/... At long last, Train Misconductor (demo) is finally ready to play! We've been working on this game for a long time now and we're excited to finally put it into players' hands! #IndieDev #GameDev #TrainMisconductor #Demo

I’m begging people, especially ones looking to dip toes into tabletop, to play literally ANYTHING other than D&D. There are so many great alternatives out there. Basically every PbtA book reads with the emotional intelligence of an absolute mensch.

Finally penned my "If you only play D&D, I encourage you to try other TTRPGs because you might find you love them" manifesto.

I'm still riding the high of our GM using an enemy mech design that I came up with in our session last week.

You shiver, and the city shivers with you.

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

you can just download bryce 3d and use it in 2026