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problemecium? 🚫AI🚫 @problemecium.bsky.social · 2d

As my Day 7 (Diagram) entry, here is an infographic version describing the components and steps.

Original artwork not permitted for use as AI training data or input. Diagram describing the major components and functionality of a Q-drive.

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 1d

The Q-drive (and related "plasmadyne propulsion") is one of the coolest concepts I have come across. It can be used interplanetary and interstellar. It‘s a hard sci-fi *sailship*, except it can harvest energy from a different direction than it thrusts. So in IP travel it powers from solar wind.

problemecium? 🚫AI🚫 @problemecium.bsky.social · 2d

For #toughtober Day 8 (Plasma) I made an animation illustrating how a Q-drive works. Annotated diagram to come later. Once again entirely nondestructive #scifi #space #art thanks to #blender3d #geometrynodes

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problemecium? 🚫AI🚫 @problemecium.bsky.social · 2d

For #toughtober Day 8 (Plasma) I made an animation illustrating how a Q-drive works. Annotated diagram to come later. Once again entirely nondestructive #scifi #space #art thanks to #blender3d #geometrynodes

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triple cheeseburger @triplchii.bsky.social · 6d

thank you...
it's this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darian_...

Darian calendar - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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triple cheeseburger @triplchii.bsky.social · 6d

guy from Mars

Digital illustration showing various doodles of a guy with pale skin, ginger hair, and yellow eyes. In one of the doodles he's shown eating a sandwich. Next to the sandwich is some text reading: "Sandwich featuring GMO-derived bread, cheese derived from cultured milk, and cultured GMO ham."

In the background is a coloured heightmap of the western region of Hellas Planitia, with the lowest sections coloured blue to represent water. Surrounding the water is a haze of green, pressumably representing flora coverage.

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triple cheeseburger @triplchii.bsky.social · 8d

big set of electric RCS engines

Cel-shaded 3D render depicting some spaceship hardware. Two cylindrical propellant tanks are secured on trusses and have pipes leading into a pair of large flat sections with many small electric engines fitted to them.

Same as the 1st image, just viewed from a different angle.

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megasoups.bsky.social @megasoups.bsky.social · 9d

Seconding this post. Please keep calling and mailing. ESPECIALLY if you're in Germany.

If Germany flips to opposed, with how the current shakeup is looking, chatcontrol is dead in the water once again.

🔞Risax🔞 - Smut Writer @risax.bsky.social · 9d

#SaveSpeech

The vote on Chat Control is in October, I believe, and there's only 7 countries opposed. But there's a whole lot more that are undecided since this all started.

I know it's felt a lot like 1 step forwards, 2 steps back. But keep calling and mailing, please!

Fightchatcontrol.eu

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triple cheeseburger @triplchii.bsky.social · 9d

i made a cardboard cutout of one of my characters to use as a size reference in blender scenes

3D renders depicting a cardboard cutout of a 2D illustration of a girl with brown skin, neck-length pink hair, pink eyes, a yellow t-shirt, and black pants. The cardboard cutout is stood on a white plane with a simple dark grey background.

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triple cheeseburger @triplchii.bsky.social · 9d

i couldn't live on a venus balloon habitat i'd be stressing out all the time over the idea of something going wrong and the whole thing and all of its occupants plummeting into the clouds below

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10d

Sharing this again because despite all of the horrors, you are not alone. MILLIONS of people around the country are standing up and saying NO, and you can join them.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15d

"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!"

Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!

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triple cheeseburger @triplchii.bsky.social · 10d

i like the idea of a "tachyon drive" not as an FTL drive but instead as a handwaved regular engine just with an exhaust velocity greater than c

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triple cheeseburger @triplchii.bsky.social · 12d

spinning around slowly

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triple cheeseburger @triplchii.bsky.social · 14d

idk what happened to the audio that was bsky's fault 😭

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triple cheeseburger @triplchii.bsky.social · 14d

wormhole

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 16d

Actively talk about how insane this is let people who are not online know how much this will impact them and how fucking creepy is. Stuff like this pass easily due to apathy and distractions like what’s going on in global politics. Once shit like this is in no government will chose to remove it

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 16d

For-profit age-verification providers are now pushing for "continuous biometric monitoring" — AI scans of your face, your voice, your behavior — while you're online to protect children.

Every session. Every website. Every keystroke. Monitored and recorded.

Why biometric AI holds the key for the UK’s Online Safety Act | The AI Journal

The next phase of the UK’s Online Safety Act, which prescribes how content platforms can serve children, has finally come into force following years of

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problemecium? 🚫AI🚫 @problemecium.bsky.social · 17d

Early concept art for some of the girls from my WIP sci fi story. Cam is an interceptor/destroyer specialized in fast attacks and Lisse is a long range sniper and surveillance platform.

Lisse has a very dark, rounded conical hull, oversized radiators protected by movable plates, and a retractable suite of turrets and scanning equipment. Original artwork not permitted for use as AI training data or input.

Second image of Lisse showing major interior components such as her bio-core, internal exhaust bell, and large focusing mirrors for lasers and telecopes. Original artwork not permitted for use as AI training data or input.

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 18d

Science is dominated by male native-English-speakers with elevated affluence. It's a demographic that makes up less than 3% of the total global population. If someone wants to keep politics out of science, they are comfortable enforcing the status quo that benefits them (a small privileged group).

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aj 🧃lyse’s wife @lalafellss.bsky.social · 19d

img that says “got a really crazy art coming up in the next 7-8 years. Stay tuned.”

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Doc Vivi Leandra - Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 20d

Here's your reminder that Meta platforms are responsible for around 85% of CSAM distributed on the internet - not porn sites, not sites that allow NSFW content, the stringently-SFW Meta platforms.

www.proxyimpact.com/facebook

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 21d

ftr this isn't the first time bluesky has done stupid as fuck shit. I was here in the trenches in 2023 watching them pull dumb moves and get yelled down by everyone to back down, successfully. the people running this place are not on your side but they are hilariously easy to bully. go hard.

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Doc Vivi Leandra - Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 22d

Seeing some nuclear fusion hype on YouTube again so here's your occasional reminder that nuclear fusion will never be more practical for generating electricity than nuclear fission and is really only of interest for space propulsion systems

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triple cheeseburger @triplchii.bsky.social · 23d

resting on a neutron star... the gravity pulls down like a weighted blanket, the surface is warm and the little millimetre-scale deviations are fun to run your fingers across, the view above is a hypnotising cascade of blueshifted starlight rushing overhead

Three-panel digital illustration depicting a person laying down on the surface of a neutron star. In the first panel on the left we see them from above, hands rested on their stomach, looking up in awe. Their body is lit from beneath by the neutron star's glowing surface. In the middle panel we see a close-up of their hand, which is now tentatively touching the surface. Small lumps and dents are visible in the otherwise stark white ground. In the third panel on the right we see what the space above looks like, with numerous stars tinted blue and with a lot of motion blur applied to them.

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triple cheeseburger @triplchii.bsky.social · 24d

*wakes up on the surface of a neutron star*
Aw dammit, not again!

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triple cheeseburger @triplchii.bsky.social · 24d

🫂 (i don't really know what to say exactly i just hope that you're okay and that things can improve for you. i know we don't interact much but i still appreciate you and wish nothing but the best for you)

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triple cheeseburger @triplchii.bsky.social · 27d

also i think it's kinda funny seeing the people in the comments of these videos praising the "90s cgi" when these images actually come from the 2000s instead

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