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Lauren Herda @herda.me · 01/08/2026

I once submitted a proposal to make a blimp emoji a thing (theres planes, ships, cars, helicopter… but no blimp!?!) but sadly they rejected it 😭

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

There is exactly one thing that needs to happen on Independence Day. One tradition The only thing that absolutely had to happen was fireworks, and Trump fucked it up because he couldn't stop talking

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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

She is very lonely

A unicorn resembling a neuron styled like the titular character of The Last Unicorn

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Lauren Herda @herda.me · 18/04/2026

This makes me want to revisit the cavern too.

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Lauren Herda @herda.me · 21/03/2026

This is absurd. If Superhive goes through with this, I'll simply never purchase from them again. There's not a single thing they could offer that would make me buy into a model like this.

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GoalieLax @goalielax.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

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Lauren Herda @herda.me · 08/03/2026

Right after people who design shopping center parking lots.

Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 26/02/2026

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CW: transphobia. See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤 This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did. But it's not just similar. It's *identical*. In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938. Paragraph 175 and 183.

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Lauren Herda @herda.me · 25/02/2026

Twice now (that I know of), a major artist has chosen to bring their work to #Baltimore rather than entertaining the censorious Trump regime in Washington DC, and I am LOVING it. First Amy Sherald, now Philip Glass. I hope this becomes a trend. Baltimore is a beautiful home for the arts!

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After Kennedy Center exit, Philip Glass to bring new symphony home to Baltimore

Famed composer and Baltimore native Philip Glass pulled his symphony from the Kennedy Center in protest of Donald Trump. Now, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will perform “Lincoln” in 2027.

Lauren Herda @herda.me · 18/02/2026

Got a new book about airships, so naturally I’m back on my bullshit. Excellent title, no notes 👌

A copy of the book “Skyhookers” by William Wolf, sitting on a wooden table.

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Lauren Herda @herda.me · 17/02/2026

On the bright side maybe they’ll go back to making dumb TVs and take the internet back out of refrigerators 🤔

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Lauren Herda @herda.me · 17/02/2026

Your trapeze/skyhook design is intriguing! Is it like a dangling cable with an anchor, or a rigid structure?

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Misha Siegfried @mishasiegfried.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Trying my hand at doing new Trek style lighting and compositing. Made the hull materials much more metallic than I normally do and much more modern/vivid color palette. Rendered in Blender Cyles Composited in After Effects with Red Giant #startrek #blender3d #scifi #3dmodeling #adobe #aftereffects

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Lauren Herda @herda.me · 21/01/2026

Hmm, I guess as far as canon rules go, this could imply that TOS-era workbees (at least from around the time of "Space Seed") looked basically the same as they would up through the TNG era.

Howie Day @howieeday.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

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Alrighty - my final update on this shot for now! Tons of revisions and fixes, as well as new Music SFX and VO. Added the welders welding, a few more work bees, the Arges in the background, and some changes to the lighting angle. 4K in the 🧵! I hope everyone likes it!

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Cody @atiredgay.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Like so… Keep in mind this is a quick and rough edit, but I would absolutely believe that this was the original song for the opening.

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Lauren Herda @herda.me · 14/01/2026

The thing I'm most excited to find out from Starfleet Academy is which damn uniform is *the* uniform... I've seen like eighty of them in all the promo photos and trailers.

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Lauren Herda @herda.me · 13/01/2026

Scott Adams really paved the way to the deep end so people like JK Rowling could go off of it.

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Lauren Herda @herda.me · 13/01/2026

LinkedIn these days is just a constant feed of professionals posting rationalizations for why having an LLM do their (or worse, someone else’s) job for them is actually a very very good thing and totally isn’t just them taking shortcuts and cutting corners.

Lauren Herda @herda.me · 13/01/2026

Why are these weirdos always so obsessed with protein and supplements? God they’re bizarre.

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Lauren Herda @herda.me · 12/01/2026

That bass drop 😑👌

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Lauren Herda @herda.me · 11/01/2026

I happen to believe that starships and uniforms and all that stuff isn’t just art in a meta production sense, but is also considered art in a very literal in-universe sense. Starships are simultaneously functional vehicles for space exploration, and beautiful objets d’art.

Happy New Year! Now everyone can finally start using their 2026 #StarTrek Ships of the Line calendars! 😉

In 2026 I'm hoping to knock out at least one or two more Aerodex planes! I want to expand on that world some more, whatever it may end up becoming, and I've got so many little plane doodles laying around my desk for inspiration. I'm sure there will be more Trek art to come, too 😉

Pandora Class - SS Baychimo, Lauren Herda

Needing a bit of a break from that, I took a stab at designing a custom Trek ship, the Pandora-class S.S. Baychimo... a human (but not Starfleet) design with a similar spooky backstory to its namesake! www.artstation.com/artwork/XJYNel

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The S.S. Baychimo (NAR-337) is a Federation-registered ship operated by Earth's planetary space authority, the United Earth Space Probe Agency (UESPA). It was built for long-duration deployments in un...

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A Visit to Consorpine - 202 Thunderhead, Lauren Herda

Probably one of my favorite planes so far, the Vistalux 202 Thunderhead was completed at the tail end of a run of 5 different fantasy aircraft designs that started back in 2024. www.artstation.com/artwork/RKQZWW

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A visiting Vistalux 202 Thunderhead from the nation of Ebbtide pays the city of Consorpine a visit during the city-state's Fleet Week celebrations. It is painted in the colors of the Ebbtide Air Warde...

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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Looking back on 2025, I got a lot of cool 3D modeling done, but a significant portion of it was in service of a final piece that will likely still not be published for at least several months. But I did manage to eke out an Aerodex plane and an original starship design, so there's that!

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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

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Howie Day @howieeday.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

So as I'm healing, I'm getting the creative spark back - here's a shot from after the battle, with some wonderful EVA suits by Robert Rose! This is totally WIP, low-sample, and missing SFX. I'm gonna add workbees and repaired panels!

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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Only two of the 83 crewmen aboard USS Macon (ZRS-5) when the aircraft carrier airship crashed in a storm off Big Sur California in 1935, and the USN's intention to use ships like the Macon for long range scouts died with it. Given its explicit role to warn of potential Japanese surprise attack...

The USS Macon flies over Manhattan in B&W.

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Spent a little time today refining my TAS shaders. I'm pretty happy with how things are looking right now! Used some compositor nodes as well to add some post-processing. These are all 'in-camera' renders straight out of #Blender3D

Model of a ship like the USS Kelvin, in the style of Star Trek The Animated Series.

Rear view. I used the Kelvin model because it's one of the nicer models of all the ones I've made so far. Just about the right amount of detail!

Model of a ship like the USS Kelvin, screenshot taken from within Blender.

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Lauren Herda @herda.me · 25/11/2025

THE FOUNTAIN (2006). Everyone I've talked to about it has either felt "meh" or downright hates it, but I love it. I think I enjoy stories that span history and/or involve reincarnation, and combined with the impressive VFX and score, it just works for me.