(trips and drops one million massless particles into a latin sampling of trajectories around your moon's trailing lagrange point) ah! my particles!

Greg Egan novel experience

I do think one of the more embarassing trends in recent SF is "well MY robots use magic biochips, so they're Ethical and Ensouled, unlike icky digital turing machines, which I have convinced myself are fake and evil".

Awesome to remember that Scott Manley used to be a DJ. Imagine you're at the club and you hear booming across the floor "hello, it's scott manley here"...

It is crazy to me that people use this like a gotcha. Like arguing fridges are fake and evil because they only move heat around rather than magically deleting it. Also that is *not* 'the heat island effect'! The heat island effect is a product of urban materials absorbing and re-radiating more heat!

dude where are you going. get back here

I feel like It Depends. There was definitely a weird period where a lot of SF novels that had fairly tasteful and/or descriptive covers in the UK got Generic Artstation Spaceships/Windows 7 Background for their US releases for some reason. Compare, for example:

Dragonfly is under construction. recommended listening:

The english dub of Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children is kind of unbelievably funny.

"drunken" hilbert curves with a perspective camera <3 They look like some abstract spaceships.

Finally got my Deltarune speed throttle/buffer input and frame-advance program running... time to finally beat the superbosses and not instantly fail every chapter 3 minigame. Just in time for chapter 5!

Year of Linux desktop

undertale mod that makes all the echo flowers recite random posts from blockedforthispost.bsky.social

Happy Father's Dad! www.smbc-comics.com/comic/number...

adopting regenerative agricultural practices and turning my aura farm into a swagroforest

An oil painting I did based on a paper by Brian O'Leary about the merits of the Censorinus crater area as an ideal location for a Lunar mass driver, a device now known as a 'rail gun' that throws a stream of packets of Lunar material to a processing facility floating beyond the Lunar far side.

enhanced XUV driven volatile escape around red dwarfs is a lie promoted by astronomers to hide the fact that they drinked all the water

the revised ramscoop design in "Design Concepts for the Interstellar Ramjet" (BN Cassenti, JBIS, 1993) is kind of dope as hell I think. an intake the size of Ceres, all spindly trusses and superconducting cablework...

youtube.com/shorts/fsE51... taken out by the bird name reveal at the end here

[decelerates from 0.9992c to a dead-stop stationary hover ~16000km above your homeworld's north pole using my lightest-Kaluza–Klein-particle ramjet] hiiii :33333

The VABN-P/C, a ballistic rocket+ramjet worked design for SSTO spacelift on Titan - Saturn's largest moon - that I commissioned off of @attritionmaxxer.bsky.social. 42 tonnes/128pax(economy) to Low Titan Orbit, with a klick a second of delta-v to spare.

images that involuntarily cause the star trek enterprise theme song to play in your head

where we're going, we won't need EUV machines

antimatter crab btw

Synths in music are ubiquitous now, and what many young musicians learn on! We've never had more musicians than we do now, and synths and drum kits are part of why that is. But in the early 80s, many musicians were *extremely* against this. Here's a liner from a Queen album. Seem familiar?

installing gentoo in the club

It is very funny that bluesky and tumblr don't get counted in the social media restrictions coming up in the UK... I do think that tumblr basically does not count as social media any more. just a totally different species to the things that came after. the last bastion of longform text...

My home screen makes me smile ⛅ 🎨 @timberwind.bsky.social

Something very, very big has been sleeping under the plains of Isidis since the brief volcanic summers of Mars' youth. It's ready to wake up again.

out: mascot horror in: mascon horror

Tony Jay (ReBoot, TaleSpin) was really up there with Tim Curry in the "campy-but-arch theatrically evil patrician voice" department I think. So good.

Icarus shoulda used carbon fiber that’s way better than whatever wax bulkshit they were pulling on Crete. Yet another cautionary tale solved by materials science, losers

Urban renewal win: the good ending cutscene from I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream (1995) has bike racks now

Read @andymasley.bsky.social for context "the water all American data centers will consume onsite in 2030 is equivalent to 8% of the water currently consumed by the US golf industry" or "water usage of 260 square miles of irrigated corn farms, equivalent to 1% of America’s total irrigated corn"

getting really into sixplexes lately

I think one of the funnier little quirks about switching to dvorak is that I've found that my typos are a lot more... phonetic? accentid? (<-unintentional example of what I mean) by vowels being clustered.

Watching MST3K - Teenagers From Outer Space and wow, the back half of this has a surprising density of lines that became samples in songs I like. You've got the "Turn the power back on!" from 2 Mello - Pump Up The Love, "Sometimes I feel I've always known you..." from G Jones - In My Room. Funny...

youtu.be/nLbNEl1HquM?... Remembered out of the blue this ancient AMV that was Caz c. 2009's introduction to Blind Guardian. Mildly surprised it's still up? I wonder how the Chzo Mythos games hold up these days...

On one hand it feels very unlikely for Mike the unseen deltarune ch.3 character to be a nod at 1994 cartoon series ReBoot. On the other, possibly the most Tenna coded character ever? I'd go as far as to say that this is how I imagine his voice. youtu.be/Cxv7scAYCMw?...

Deltarune ch.5 releasing Real Soon Now and civvie Claude Mythos access... exciting day, wowie

Good news everyone! I finally have a website viewing portal that will scale with my pace mino.mobi/mappa/ A proper generate world button with tectonic histories, biomes, politics. Look at the globe, look at the map, roll again, play with the sliders, enhance, enhance, ENHANCE and it’s an api