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William Peter MacMason

@wpmacmason.bsky.social

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Fighter. Lover. Amateur European political enthusiast. Military History, Star Trek, politics, potpourri.

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William Peter MacMason @wpmacmason.bsky.social · Jan 25

Good Morning!

New pinned post for all my new followers!

I'm a Military Historian very interested in space, politics, humor, war, and art.

I've been obsessed with the design of fictional spacecraft since I can remember and I post daily about a lesser-known ship and artist, usually from Star Trek.

a kickass sci fi bookshelf with a lego droid tank and a lego Mark I Star Viper

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Brain Glitches @cinemajules.bsky.social · 12m

this is where I post from

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William Peter MacMason @wpmacmason.bsky.social · 2m

this piece of Trek art always reminds me of a very specific scene from this novel in which Kirk decides, "fuck it!" and uses the Enterprise's main phasers to stop two nation's from ICBM-ing each other

star trek prime directive by the reeves-stevens

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William Peter MacMason @wpmacmason.bsky.social · 4m

What's a quote from a show that lives in your head?

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 1h

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 1h

ICE can gargle my balls.

Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 1h

Ice is the gestapo

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2h

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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William Peter MacMason @wpmacmason.bsky.social · 8m

"...and Laura, I even heard that nowadays these freshmen college lesbians are literally made of STRAW! Can you believe that? These libtards are sending actual straw men and straw women to get indoctrinated by these straw professors!"

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 43m

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 1h

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

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William Peter MacMason @wpmacmason.bsky.social · 11m

www.shipschematics.net/startrek/rel...

#startrek #starships #betastarshipspotlight #keldon #frigates #scifiart

Starship Schematic Database -

www.shipschematics.net

William Peter MacMason @wpmacmason.bsky.social · 12m

Beta Starship Spotlight
Frigates of Ian Keldon

Mr. Keldon has a ton of fun kitbashes I've enjoyed browsing; tonight I picked four of his smaller Miranda-style starships to examine.

I love the Abbe torpedo pod included on Stemmonds and "Avenger" is a fun reference.

William Peter MacMason @wpmacmason.bsky.social · 1h

ughghghh I'll check on Tuesday, I haven't the strength now

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 3h

More federal health employees axed amid shutdown-linked terminations

HHS would not say how many are being let go, but union says “thousands.”…

arstechnica.com

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 7h

A military explosives facility blew up in Tennessee, United States today.

Several people are still missing, there are reports that some have died, according to CNN.

Rescuers are not able to step in fully due to the risk of secondary explosions.

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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 7h

❗️🇺🇦Azov Corps fighters repelled a large-scale 🇷🇺Russian mechanized attack.

The Russians hoped to break through to Shakhivka and Volodymyrivka, taking advantage of the bad weather.

In total, the Russians deployed 35 armored vehicles and 41 motorcycles.

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 3h

Wilson's point: "I'm a slave owner.. "

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William Peter MacMason @wpmacmason.bsky.social · Jul 17

"Vance" was really Neale Davidson, who passed away in 2016. He had an outsized influence in the world of Trek shipbuilding, read more about him and see a ton of cool ships over at Cygnis X-1:

www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/...

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William Peter MacMason @wpmacmason.bsky.social · Jul 17

Beta Starship Spotlight
Vance's Schematics

When you look at lots of fan-made Star Trek ships you inevitably see that some were made with parts by an artist named "Vance".

These asset packs enabled many burgeoning artists to create their own ships via simple programs like MS Paint.

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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 1d

The first US space station was Skylab: a repurposed Saturn IV-B tank, an Apollo command module and a telescope already integrated on the ground, all launched in a special shroud.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

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Star Trek Corrupted Captions @startrekcc.bsky.social · 4h

Phlox's Film Fest of Frights

Now Showing: Child's Play (1988)

#StarTrek #StarTrekMemes #StarTrekEnterprise

Top panel: It's movie night on the Enterprise, and the crew are gathered in the mess hall watching Child's Play (1988). The screen depicts a scene where the doll Chucky is uttering an incantation over an unconscious Andy. The subtitle reads, "Ade due Damballa. Give me the power, I beg of you!"

Bottom panel: Close-up of Phlox who is in the audience eating popcorn. He says, "Astonishing! There are some superstitious Denobulans who invoke that same prayer prior to sexual intercourse in the hope of appeasing the gods of male potency."

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 7h

what

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 6h

just purely as a game, the Reconstruction period would be an incredible setting

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 11h

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...

The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

www.polygon.com

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 6h

🚨 Breaking: WGN Video Producer arrested for doing what she does — in Lincoln Square. 1/2

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