choccy @choccy.gay · 05/10/2026then I rode up and down a blue trail in beaver creek. believe it or not, a fully rigid, 20kg, mid-tail, ultra-fat bike is not a great tool for downhill. still fun though! there's few feelings like 1.5psi grip. despite the hydraulic brakes, this has left me wanting for even more stopping power. 170
choccy @choccy.gay · 05/10/2026the next day brought a ride with mum, who trounced me on a rented ebike 130
choccy @choccy.gay · 02/10/2026after some customizations (surly, what the fuck were you thinking with the cruiser bars), I've taken this bike into some really pretty places. can't wait for snow... 391
choccy @choccy.gay · 01/10/2026big thanks to @papapandamonium.bsky.social, @scandinavian101.bsky.social, and @wersimmon.bsky.social for putting the prompts together this year! this was the first time i've participated, and it was really fun to have a Thing To Do every day (even if i wasn't exactly doing them day by day) 050
choccy @choccy.gay · 01/10/2026> flameout. "Think they're gonna make it?" > everyone leaves unfinished business; that's what dying is. "Guess you're right, as usual. I love you." > i love you too. The craft soared into the critical node of the Empyrean structure. #exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 30: Finale/Homage 132
choccy @choccy.gay · 01/10/2026The shuttle was able to glide through the web of crystalline tendrils by cutting a hole for itself. V3N rolled the craft as they went, spiraling a simmering hole as it went. "I KNEW these lasers would be useful someday!" #exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 29: Lasers 132
choccy @choccy.gay · 30/09/2026zen's Firefox! you might be think of arc. that went the way of the venture capital 💀 110
choccy @choccy.gay · 30/09/2026it's not everybody's cup of tea, but im loving the rethinking of how a browser UI could look that you get with zen zen-browser.appzen-browser.appZen BrowserBeautifully designed, privacy-focused, and packed with features. 110
choccy @choccy.gay · 30/09/2026it's worth watching the whole bonus feature about the robots! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdOP...youtube.comInterstellar - TARS and CASE (Bonus Feature)YouTube video by Guitarfollower22 091
choccy @choccy.gay · 29/09/2026"Welcome to Muskö! Said you've slagged the portside of your ship, hmm? I know Jugaad has been itching to inspect the damage you managed to do!" > We're a bit short on water, so it's quite a relief to see your delivery. We'll get you fixed up. #exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 28: Repair/Harbor 143
choccy @choccy.gay · 28/09/2026"There's no way point-defence cannons are the best solution here. A complement of lasers would be far less trouble." > Less trouble to build and integrate, sure. But the little 'drones' are mostly tungsten. You could hold a beam on one all day. #exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 27: Guns 132
choccy @choccy.gay · 28/09/2026A Talus shuttle came to a careful stop in the narrow hexagonal chute. The parrot relay drones flew from the cargo hold. The swarm split into 6 groups, filing through holes on each wall. "I worry about them. We've lost so many just this week." #exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 26: Scanners 142
choccy @choccy.gay · 28/09/2026A heavily modified freighter screamed through the canyon. What were previously bays for containers, now held 8 shuttles, their mission requiring a full load of reaction mass. > RF OPAQUE ZONE IN 5 SECONDS > RELEASE IN 15 SECONDS > GOOD LUCK #exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 25: Mothership 132
choccy @choccy.gay · 26/09/2026i have a mouth and i am speaking at a normal volume, by sam altman 030
choccy @choccy.gay · 24/09/2026A soft-bodied worm wriggled his way into the back of the ship. The warmth of the fusion core was just a bulkhead away, and he was bathed in the Cherenkov radiation emanating from the tanks. "You said you've got a blockage in the aft bladder, right?" #exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 24: Blue 132
choccy @choccy.gay · 24/09/2026whipped this up to explain some bits of nchọ, might as well share here too #exegesis #ocsky #oc #character #robot #scifi #space #vrchat 0224
choccy @choccy.gay · 23/09/2026> radar indicates a roughly spherical cavity > CORRECTION: Fibonacci sphere, 29 faces > ⌀ ~631km "LiDAR agrees. We've got a spatial anomaly, the U-turn we took 80 klicks back shouldn't be possible." > absolute vacuum detected > not even trace dust #exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 23: Huge 132
choccy @choccy.gay · 23/09/2026The expedition team shuffled into a massive vertical shaft, greeted by the wreck of a cargo hauler. "We're way too deep for a freighter to ever get down here." > Its black box is still running. > Logs go back over a millennium. > More time bullshit. #exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 22: Ruins 131
choccy @choccy.gay · 22/09/2026Nysa's Wake held an arcology aboard, featuring Earth's biospheres. Expeditionary crew couldn't visit, due to the damage their fusion would inflict. Exploring new frontiers demanded they become incompatible with the life that birthed them. #exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 21: Organic/Accident 142
choccy @choccy.gay · 22/09/2026A new contact was made, from the same place as always. > The router was supposed to spit us out on the surface, but I've lost ELF. "*It always happens on my shifts,*" Hàozé thought, as she joined the craft into the wider intranet. "Welcome to Zeta Site." #exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 20 131
choccy @choccy.gay · 22/09/2026"It was no simple feat to get such large primion shielding panels fixed to your shuttle, but you didn't ask for me because I'd complain at such a challenge." "...Still, this spec is insane. You'll burn like hell and see me again, won't you?" #exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 19: Armored/Torus 131
choccy @choccy.gay · 22/09/2026Nysa's Wake stood as a massive pillar of water ice. From the corners of its cross-section splayed out radiators, practically two dimensional compared to the massive craft; this orientation minimized damage as the ship cruised for four hundred years. #exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 18: Angular 131
choccy @choccy.gay · 19/09/2026YTA, you should've used telepathy to know what he wanted, smh my damn head 010
choccy @choccy.gay · 18/09/2026they already made markdown horny, it's called .mdx and it's awesome 010
choccy @choccy.gay · 17/09/2026Explorers called areas where nuclear fusion didn't work "no-fusion-zones", or NFZs. Batteries allowed for a fairly clean retrofit, but had a limited capacity compared to fusion cores. Ships usually went back to the violence of chemical propulsion. #exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 17: Variant 141
choccy @choccy.gay · 16/09/2026> Cross over the cell bars, find a new maze, make the maze from it's path, find the cell bars, cross over the bars, find a maze, make the maze from its path, eat the food, eat the path. 050
choccy @choccy.gay · 16/09/2026A crowd gathered on the hull, looking aft towards the binary system. After 383 years of cruising at 1/4 c, Nysa's Wake began its decade-long insertion burn. The massive engines only produced a tiny acceleration, and spooled up over a few days. #exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 16: Realism 141
choccy @choccy.gay · 16/09/2026The rubies had to be cut on site; adding the ancient standard of corner fittings to the TEU-sized chunks of crystal allowed for easy fitting to the freighters. As one took off, the light from the thrusters created a disco in the cavernous tunnel. #exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 15: Luxurious 131
choccy @choccy.gay · 16/09/2026The pilot struggled with the controls. On Earth, shrapnel had scarred her right leg, though her body no longer bore that damage. She limped the craft away from the fireball, balancing it between RCS thrust and a single functional main drive cone. #exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 14: Asymmetry 121
choccy @choccy.gay · 16/09/2026> i still feel bad. i knew several of these people. "Theta needs the parts a lot more than the old crew, especially this far from home." He paused. "...We can bring them back and put them to rest, if that would make you feel better." > it would. #exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 13: Bandits 122
choccy @choccy.gay · 16/09/2026"I fucking love this part." Nchọ and obi-me braced as the catapult initialized. The electromagnets in their hands and feet were suddenly dwarfed by the magnetic field of the rails in the cargo launcher. > 3 > 2 > 1 > HAVE A NICE FLIGHT #exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 12: Slender/Thin 231
choccy @choccy.gay · 16/09/2026> PEER TO PEER NETWORK ESTABLISHED "We'll hit the zone of high primion flux in 5 minutes. I know it increases mental latency, but make sure your personality is running twice for redundancy. We get in, we get the downed team, and we get out." #exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 11: Dropship 121
choccy @choccy.gay · 15/09/2026wait now what she's asking to be let out i didn't have a plan for this part oh my god 030
Reposted by choccyalix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here. 5949491462
choccy @choccy.gay · 11/09/2026The shuttle opened its cargo door. It displayed an alert on its team's HUD, "213 seconds to impact". The battered survivors maneuvered in freefall, aligning with the opening. The shuttle burned hard retrograde, and the team crashed into the hold. #exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 10 142
choccy @choccy.gay · 09/09/2026Tlaltecuhtli team had repurposed a freighter deep within sector 7-E, and embedded the ship in an ancient vertical tunnel. The behemoth laid surrounded by similar corpses. Explorers knew to bring broken things, including people, here. #exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 9: Space Station/Scavenger 141
Reposted by choccyCasey @brickwork.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"Runner Cavalry; Also known as Maschuvuu, Tserik, R-Cav, Arcav, or simply 'Runners'" "Technology first perfected and distributed by the Tuotlac on Taltbeh, whose culture of Shuvuu beast riding across the planets vast steppes eventually necessitated a mechanical answer to the large bipedal beasts." 04910
