“[We] 𝙘𝙖𝙣 defeat the false prophets of oligarchs who exploit fear and monetize hate.” youtu.be/hG8HZJhB4xo

never crossed my mind that the crab could consider the immortality of the crab too

I remember reading this last year on the Hellsite, and it made a very big impression on me. Worth the read.

The battle might be over but the war most categorically isn't – companies and conglomerates will keep coming after the Internet Archive again and again and again, trying to undermine one of the great bastions of knowledge of our time. Please, donate to the Internet Archive if you can. They need it.

A great little gem from @quantamagazine.bsky.social's article " The Road Map to Alien Life Passes Through the ‘Cosmic Shoreline’", written by Elise Cutts: “M dwarfs are both tiny and temperamental, the yappy lapdogs of astronomy.”

happy 9/11

saw it Star Trek's anniversary today so here's a little something👏 While Voyager was the series I grew up with, my earlierst memory of Trek was actually seeing "The Devil in the Dark" when I must have been 4 or 5 years old. The visuals really stuck with me even when forgetting what they were from.

Happy Star Trek Day! Here are some of my favourite Lower Decks drawings from the last year or so.

Once again in sheer awe at Princess Mononoke and how it both REFUSES to vilify either side of the conflict it depicts, nor to depict violence as ever being virtuous, but instead as a sometimes necessary horror.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that any men's rest room stall door in an institution of learning, must be in want of scribbles.

Some wholesome Trek content to start the week right #startrek #tng #voyager #ds9

Oh god Spaceshiptember is coming up again, isn't it...? My yearly reminder that I don't know how to stick to long-form routines... 🫠

Diogo cooks a lean, mean Starship folks.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

I once went through a whole Kanji dictionary in order to find out how to write 'Gabu' (which is what my name would be shortened to in Japanese) in the singularly funniest way possible. In the end I went with 芽蕪, meaning... ... TURNIP SPROUT

Grim Reaper [ 2 ] Part 5 or 5.

And among the many great articles in this batch of JTAS, my first submission: the humble (perhaps too humble...) Flea Trader!

#TrekTuesday The Enterprise 'D' Wasn't a fan of her to begin with but I had an epiphany roundabout Season 2 when I came to realise how beautiful she is. #Lightwave3d #StarTrek

UK folks - reiterating that it's super important that you download Wikipedia for offline use like now-ish if you want to guarantee you can keep having that incredible resource!! www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-t...

i think the indieweb is such a great idea. but guys. you've gotta start talking like beginners. because the indieweb wiki is a travesty of "oh this is simple and user friendly [uses 30 acronyms in 2 sentences] see anyone can get it"

"Bluesky is dying" Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.

Lower Decks pals just reminded me I designed the original Moopsy, which I had totally forgotten. The artists love to laugh at me for my crappy drawings. Enjoy.

I think I might've learnt more about exoplanet interiors in the last 10 hours than I did in the last ten years combined. Shout-out to C. T. Unterborn et al. (2023).

Traveller: Far Trader Graphic Novel Vol. 1 coming soon! Here’s a cover preview!

A short and sweet tale of stalwart scientific integrity.

The first three episodes of the thing I've worked on for the last... [counts on fingers] SEVEN years is now available for my most favourite price... ... FREE! :D

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

Betelgeuse has a companion - a pre main-sequence B/A star with a semimajor axis of only 8 au. Required speckle observations to dig it out. noirlab.edu/public/news/...

(🧵1/3) NASA blueprints for the Lunar Module

David Corenswet killed it as Superman, but I've got to admit my favourite Supes is still Jack Quaid.

Bit more on the Subsidised Merchant...

The existence of 'doubloons' implies the existence of an inferior monetary unit 'monoons' and a superior monetary unit 'triploons'.

#Traveller Sophont of the day: the Ormine of Akhlare (Dark Nebula 1313). Despite often being annoyed by the short-sighted, rushed and sloppy nature of humaniti, humans are value members of the Gerontocracy of Ormine.

My take on the Llellewyloly of Junidy (Spinward Marches 3202) – more commonly known as the 'Dandelions.' One of the most interesting Sophonts in Traveller canon in my opinion, and delightfully scrunkly fellows!

I need to practice drawing more regularly, so I'm seriously entertaining the idea of at least once a week drawing one of the many Sophonts of Charted Space... After all, if one thing's bound to keep me engaged long-term, it's gotta be Traveller.

“If the only difference between the being described and a human is external, the being is nothing more than a person in an alien suit and the physical description should include a zipper down the front.” — Loren Wiseman, on sci-fi aliens

Want to take Traveller online and play with people across the world? Traveller is now on Roll20, with lots of titles featured and many more being worked on right now! marketplace.roll20.net/browse/publi... #ttrpg #TravellerRPG #Roll20

Achievement of the day: after wanting to do it for literal *years* I now have a full star catalogue for the Tantalus Cluster, created with a full stellar lifecycle of death/formation, all tracked through time. Why did I do this, you ask?

fellow nonfiction writers! if you're not currently saving EVERY SINGLE web page/web news story you cite to the Wayback Machine YOU SHOULD BE!! no more dead links in footnotes! no more dead links in bibliographies! never ever forget how fragile the internet is—save internet history!

One of the coolest designs to ever come out of STO, just a beautiful ship.

Newsletter: It's time for a radical new approach to tech CEOs: mocking them, because they talk like idiots and provide little value to society outside of their dedication to shareholder value. They sound stupid, they do nothing, and it's time to fight back. www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...

The more I learn about exoplanetology the more it sinks in on me just how dead the universe is out there. Not even talking 'there's no earth-like worlds'; I genuinely mean that most exoworlds are hostile even to technological habitation.

Time for one of my favourite poems.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...