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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 27/09/2026

At Erh Hanks in Capitol Reef National Park on Sept 9.

Maurice and Chip the plush pup at the base of Erh Hanks in Capitol Reef National Park.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 27/09/2026

At the New Mexico Museum of Space History, Alamogordo, a few weeks back.

Infrared thermography photo of Maurice making an Vulcan salute.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 24/09/2026

Ran across this frame-grab from a video I shot in Auckland 24 years ago this month. The image on the right is how the Moon looked just above the horizon there, and the left image is rotated to how it appeared back home in California. It was something I hadn't even considered before going there.

Comparison video frame of how the Moon appears just above the horizon in San Francisco and in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 22/09/2026

Nope. No Beryllium Spheres to be found. And still nothing with which to fashion a rudimentary lathe…

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 17/09/2026

JASON NESMITH: It's a rock! It doesn't have any vulnerable spots! GUY FLEEGMAN: I know! You construct a weapon. Look around you. Can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe? Yes, we were there.

Chip the Plush Pup in Goblin Valley State Park, Utah.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 16/09/2026

A few phone photos I took of the original ≈3 ft U.S.S. Enterprise model on display at the Roddenberry exhibit at #STLV2026.

Original ≈3 ft USS Enterprise model on display at the Roddenberry exhibit at STLV 2026. Fore.

Original ≈3 ft USS Enterprise model on display at the Roddenberry exhibit at STLV 2026. Aft.

Original ≈3 ft USS Enterprise model on display at the Roddenberry exhibit at STLV 2026. ¾ angle from forward port.

Original ≈3 ft USS Enterprise model on display at the Roddenberry exhibit at STLV 2026. Port side.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 13/09/2026

Adventures in Arches National Park, Sept. 8. Chip joined me on most of the hikes but rode papoose-style on my backpack.

Chip the plush pup held atop Maurice's head at Elegant Arch in Arches National Park.

Chip the plush pup posed before Landscape Arch in Arches National Park.

Chip the plush pup with a bottle of water at the South Window arch in Arches National Park.

Maurice stands beneath the Double Arch in Arches National Park.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 11/09/2026

More road tripping. 1. Taos Pueblo. 2. Beer-52 at the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum. 3. Psygnosis alums Matt & Maurice in Boulder, CO. 4. Chip with lunch during the drive west over the Rockies.

Maurice and Chip the plush pup at Taos Pueblos.

Chip the plush pup at the Wings Over the Rockies Air Museum sits in the beer garden with a beer and a USAF B-52 in the background.

Chip the plush pup seatbelted in the passenger seat with his hot dog and potato chips.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 11/09/2026

Sampling new-to-me tequila and mezcals at Joe's Tequila Bar in Santa Fe, NM, a few weeks ago. Chip, of course, stole the show.

Chip the plush pup wearing sunglasses, seated atop a bar, with a double shot of tequila and a red plate adorned with orange slices, salt and cinnamon arranged like a blue agave plant

Tasting Mezcals: left, Fidencio; right, Granalta.

Lost Lore reposado high-proof tequila double shot and bottle, and a red plate adorned with orange slices, salt, and cinnamon arranged like a blue agave plant.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 10/09/2026

Recent adventures in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The pizza crust at Upper Crust Pizza was magnificent.

Maurice with a margarita in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The courtyard of the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Chip the plush pup at Upper Crust Pizza in Santa Fe, New Mexico with a soda, a slice and a salad.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 31/08/2026

Fun at the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo yesterday.

Chip the plush pup with a segment of the V’ger interior.

Maurice and Chip the plush pup prepare to beam down in a partial replica of a Star Trek transporter.

Chip the plush pup in an astronaut jumpsuit in from of a lunar landscape featuring an LEM, rover, flag, and Earth.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 29/08/2026

Day trip to Puerto Palomas de Villa, Chihuahua, México. 1. Border sign at Puerto Palomas. 2. Monumento Pancho Villa. 3. La Catrina figure in the Pink Store (La Tienda Rosa). 4. Chip the plush pup gets rabbit-eared while enjoying a Fresca in the Pink Store.

Border sign at Puerto Palomas de Villa, Chihuahua, México.
Monumento Pancho Villa in Puerto Palomas de Villa, Chihuahua, México.

Monumento Pancho Villa in Puerto Palomas de Villa, Chihuahua, México.

La Catrina figure in the Pink Store (La Tienda Rosa) in Puerto Palomas de Villa, Chihuahua, México.

Chip the plush pup gets rabbit-eared while enjoying a Fresca in the Pink Store (La Tienda Rosa) in Puerto Palomas de Villa, Chihuahua, México.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 26/08/2026

I was the oldest dude in the mosh pit before and after this, at The Queers show at Launchpad in Albuquerque, Aug 25.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 16/08/2026

White Sands. I was here last as a 14 month old tot newly arrived from Europe. Chip tried to blend in but his spots gave him away. Mr. T. and I were even more obvious.

Chip the plush pup sits on a dune of White Sands National Monument.

Milton, Maurice and Chip the plush pup on the dunes of White Sands National Monument.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 14/08/2026

Canyon de Chelly. Paid for a four-hour guided tour. You’re not allowed in most of the canyon without a guide.

Maurice in front of White House Ruins in Canyon de Chelly.

Photo of pictograms on the cliff face below the cliff dwellings of the White House Ruins in Canyon de Chelly.

Chip the plushie pup spies cliff dwellings from the rim at Canyon de Chelly.

Chip the plush pup on the overlook to the Spider Rock pinnacle.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 13/08/2026

A few of many many pix taken on a 2.5 hour guided tour of Monument Valley sites.

Maurice holding up three fingers to match the Three Sisters in Monument Valley.

Maurice making shita-mabuta o hiku beneath the Eye of the Sun in Monument Valley.

Petroglyphs at the Eye of the Sun in Monument Valley.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 12/08/2026

Road tripping from Utah into Arizona. The 100+F temp on top of being wiped out from the previous days’ hikes nearly did me in on the relatively easy alien world of the Toadstool Hoodoos. The shortehike at Glen Canyon Dam was not difficult but I was stick-a-fork-in-me I’m DONE for today.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 11/08/2026

Past two days did five hikes in two National Parks in utah.

Maurice on the overlook of the Bryce Amphitheater.

Zion National Park and the Virgin River seen from the Kayenta Trail.

Maurice on the trail by the Lower Emerald Pool in Zion, with a minor waterfall behind him.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 11/08/2026

Pan-o-rama looking east from the end of the Canyon Overlook Trail in Zion National Park.

View from the canyon overlook trail terminus in Zion National Park.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 13/07/2026

Busy painting parts of early aughts toys to re-create some props I originally made 15 years ago for a film, but which wandered off with the DP and may be somewhere in Saudi Arabia now.

Photo of disassembled early 2000s toys with the parts being repainted before reassembly for use as sci-fi props.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 24/06/2026

The Excelsior ship in this very short Cyber Studio animation was a mesh built from the construction plans for a small miniature of said ship built by Ed Mirecki and Tom Hudson for #StarTrek VI, and which appeared only (as far as I know) on a Klingon targeting display. The 'splosion is 3D, too.

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GLAAD @glaad.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous to the existence of an independent and free media. Take action: glaad.org/fcc

Tell the FCC: LGBTQ People on TV Don't Need A Warning Label

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 19/05/2026

In a Public Notice April 22, 2026, the FCC is asks Americans for comments about whether to create TV ratings to alert viewers to “transgender and gender non-binary programming” & “the discussion or promotion of gender identity themes.” Say NO. Here's the form. glaad.org/fcc/ @glaad.bsky.social

Feedback sent to the FCC in response to Proceeding 19-41. The commenter argues that such ratings would single out a protected class for differential treatment, associating LGBTQ content with categories typically reserved for harmful material, and raises concerns about viewpoint neutrality and a chilling effect on speech and creative expression, urging the FCC to refrain from supporting any rating framework that targets LGBTQ content for special designation.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 01/04/2026

I made this video and shared it with my friend *the* Martin (Marty) Kahn who co-created it. #Apple50

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Regarding what the film's title would have been had it been made, in this interview with Philip Kaufman in Star Trektennial News 3, no. 21 (May–June 1977), Susan Sackett refers to it in the opening sentence as STAR TREK—THE MOTION PICTURE.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 16/02/2026

Going through photos from last October's stops in the UK.

Maurice Molyneaux in Neal's yard, London, October 2025.

Plaque in Neal's yard, London, October 2025.

Maurice Molyneaux feeling groovy in The Sixties exhibit in the Castle Museum, York, UK.

Maurice Molyneaux outside Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, UK, October 2025.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 02/02/2026

Me, in front of San Francisco City Hall, October 21, 2025. I lost those cool sunglasses hours later. Dammit. Photo by @s-dudley.bsky.social

Maurice Molyneaux in front of San Francisco City Hall, October 21, 2025. Photo by Sterling Dudley.

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FACT TREK 🖖🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻 @facttrek.com · 27/01/2026

"Mister Spock here. We're intercepting a follow-up message, sir. There are crash survivors on Talos." The gooseneck viewers from the first pilot resemble the 1964 AT&T Picturephone 1, as encountered by the Fact Trek landing party at #SFO. More ➡️ www.facttrek.com/blog/fliptop

"Gooseneck" viewer in the first Star Trek pilot compared to the AT&T Picturephone 1. At over $100 per 10 minutes in inflation-adjusted US Dollars, let’s hope Picturephone rates dropped by the time Spock used it to call Captain Pike.

AT&T Picturephone 1 on display at San Francisco International Airport on January 27, 2026. Photo by Maurice Molyneaux

AT&T Picturephone 1 & 2 on display at San Francisco International Airport on January 27, 2026. Photo by Maurice Molyneaux

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 29/12/2025

@documentarymakers.bsky.social Does anyone post to this? Are we to share links to documentaries here?

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 24/12/2025

I found this silly photo from way back when. Yes, it's a 12-inch Woody.

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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

The hella-cringe 1-900-720-TREK recordings. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9W2...

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Star Trek IV 900 Number Promotional Phone Calls

YouTube video by fergonzo27

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/12/2025

This World AIDS Day, we honor the voices and activism that shaped the global fight against HIV/AIDS. "Victory Deferred"—a defining history of the crisis by journalist John-Manuel Andriote—is now an open access edition, free for all to read on the Internet Archive: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/a...

Cover of the book “Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America” by John-Manuel Andriote. The title appears in large white letters over a background featuring a stylized American flag and symbolic imagery. A red AIDS awareness ribbon is shown near the bottom.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 16/11/2025

I am briefly seen in this CNN video today (2:37 in), as per the screenshot. Video ➡️ www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...

Frame grab from CNN piece on the Internet Archive. Maurice Molyneaux standing just right of center.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 09/11/2025

Have you played #Atari today? How about back in the 14th century? That was in York, UK, about a month ago, outside Gert & Henry's at 2 Jubbergate (aka 4 Jubbergate).

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 31/10/2025

I made this silly little clip to accompany this delightfully spooky ditty from 1921. Make sure the sound is on!

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 31/10/2025

This Google Doodle is cute, but it breaks a couple of the Pac-Man rules drilled into me in my Namco days, notably: Pac-Man's mouth shouldn't animate when he's stopped against a wall, and zip-zig passages are generally a no-no. #PacMan

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 30/10/2025

Revised working Map of my recently-completed trip to Europe. Purple means there and back, blue is one way, and yellow is "you can't take a train or motorcar there".

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 23/10/2025

Yesterday was Internet Archive Day in San Francisco, and our big event was streamed live. You can watch it on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/live/9tuPzhT...

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The Web We've Built: Celebrating 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived

YouTube video by Internet Archive

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