iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 9h

why are you trans? wrong answers only Many millions of years ago, on the planet Cybertron, life existed, but not life as we know it today. Intelligent robots that could think and feel inhabited the cities. They were called Autobots and Decepticons, but the brutal Decepticons were driven by a...

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 13h

"You see, we got the hats in crates, but we had to buy the keys, which was the style at the time."

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 16h

You know what, I don't know if I've ever properly said this: you coming out was one of a series of kicks-in-the-backside that finally got me to figure myself out, so thank you thank you thank you 💕

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Clearly the only sane naming convention is to use the original ITV regional broadcast areas 😜 : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV_(TV...

en.wikipedia.org

ITV (TV network) - Wikipedia

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

eyeders. spylids. speyedelids. eyeliders.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Personally, I really miss when space was black with sparkly bits. Nebulae are fine and all, but space should be black with sparkly bits.

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Looking into it, yeh, seems to be the case. Her quote: "When two [sexual] scenes were put into 'The Naked Now', in addition to other scenes which I felt debased the female characters of the series, I put my sentiments into a frankly worded memo of comment on the script. My comments were ignored."

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It was actually written by the legendary DC Fontana (under a pseudonym), but it is FAR from her best work 😄

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Early on one of the big concerns with TNG was that it would fail to connect with fans of the original series, so they tried various things to address this. This ep was one of these attempts, a sequel to a TOS ep that tried to recapture an element they deemed core to the TOS style: horniness.

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You've got this! The phone will not defeat you!

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Have it at Christmas and it becomes an Oscar winner, you know, a Yule Brinner.

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LoadingReadyRun @loadingreadyrun.com · 05/09/2026

The Reality Fracture Pre-PreRelease is all set for Friday, September 18th at 10:00AM Pacific. Your first chance to see sealed gameplay in action with your friends at LoadingReadyRun, and our two special guests @behravesh.bsky.social and @briamgilbert.bsky.social! #Sponsored

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There's an OUTside?! Who authorised this?!

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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Admittedly there are potential risks in the rapid development of Dalek tech: extermination, loss of civilisation, possible destruction of all human life. But we must consider potential benefits in productivity, medicine, scientific discovery. And even if we DO slow down, other countries might not...

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 14/09/2026

#⏰🐘🧵

A typewritten note that reads:

survive. they fucking hate it. it makes them so damn mad. do it.

With a doodle of an elephant in trans pride colors

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We'd get to see the ship without the compartment, which would have looked interesting. Maybe that's not something that was possible with the filming model.

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The real tragedy is we never saw the whole interchangable rear compartment concept played out on screen - would love to have seen, for example, a situation where they have to emergency jettison the rear compartment (because it has a bomb on it or something).

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I think often they *wanted* the feel of a more cramped shuttle-like environment, as there are at least a few examples of the 'I'm stuck travelling with someone I dislike' trope played out in DS9 eps.

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's not the size, it's the puff that counts.

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's the logo of the Klingon Assault Group, a fan club that's been around since the late 80s 😊

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My go-to online dictionary is hol.kag.org , which also has a great set of beginner lessons.

hol.kag.org

Hol 'ampaS

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Surely it has to have been used for something, right? Unless it's in a really awkward location.

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Looking forward to the sequel, "Larry Laser versus the Flock Camera".

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A brief tutorial on how to do this effect in Blender. First, animate and render a regular beauty pass, but do so by leaving the ship static and animating the camera (actually how most physical model shots are done). Then, turn off all sun lights and such, and give the ship a nice blue fill...

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Incidentally, this effect can easily be adapted to make the Superman titles effect, or the Star Wars hyperspace stars effect, as they both used the same motion-controlled long-exposure camera trick that this method emulates.

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

...emissive spheres scattered using a simple particle system. LLAP 🖖

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

... create streaks that expand out the back of the ship as the motion blur increases. Alternatively, you could keep the offsets all the same and instead keyframe animate the motion blur shutter value. Render this out, and composite over the beauty shot. Starfield background is just done with...

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

... along the axis of the ship such that on each frame it's keyframed to be at the same position as its parent, and every half frame it's keyframed to move forward in the direction of the ship's travel. Have these half-frame keyframes steadily animate to a further and further offset. This will...

Blender timeline. Keyframes form a sawtooth-like pattern.

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

...light (I just used the World for this). Important step: set Motion Blur to 'Start on Frame' position, 0.5 shutter. Duplicate the camera, set the new camera's parent to the old camera, and remove the new camera's animation. Turn off any DOF on the new camera. Give the new camera animation...

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 60th Anniversary, Star Trek! Excelsior model by Chris Kuhn, vfx shot by me. #startrek #blender #vfx

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

ah, an Ikea sentence, some assembly required

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Also a brilliant examination of how important the language we use to discuss things is: Picard doesn't even think about the link between what is happening with Data and the concept of slavery until Guinan points it out to him, because it simply hadn't been discussed through that lens.

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 60th Anniversary, Star Trek! Excelsior model by Chris Kuhn, vfx shot by me. #startrek #blender #vfx

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What is consciousness? What is sentience? These are philosophical question that have been asked since the dawn of time. How lucky we are to live in a time where 7 people in Northern California realised the answer is “being able to predict the most statistically significant next word in a sentence”

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Emoria - Aftertaste OUT NOW @emoria.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Artists: never, ever restrain your vision for fear of being too over-the-top or exaggerated. Look at our actual, real world. Thousands of traumas more painful than you could ever write and thousands of joys more pure than most can imagine both happened today, to real people. Make bold art.

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

AI isn't even fit to be stripped of its wheels and made into a pumping engine like poor old Stanley. It deserves nothing less than the scrapyard.

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'd heard of some variation of 'kitty corner' before, but only in relation to folding bedsheets (presumably diagonally).

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I like that that page contains the oh-so-relevant-and-useful fact "Gwen Cooper once exclaimed "Jesus!" when realising she was late for a dinner appointment. (PROSE: Slow Decay)"

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Jen Carling (mangledpixel) @mangledpixel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Seems like the American Northeast is the closest to my Hampshire (south England) accent, which makes some amount of sense. I had no idea that some of you had a word for 'the night before Halloween'.

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