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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 8h

Trying something new WHAT YOU SOW Page 1

Panel 1: A young woman walks alone down a city street at night, toward the viewer. She has pale skin and shoulder-length blonde hair, and is wearing a cropped jean jacket over a black hoodie.

Title: WHAT YOU SOW

Panel 2: She climbs a short staircase to the front door of an apartment.

Panel 3: She looks up at the door with a troubled expression.

Panel 4: She bangs on the door, labeled #9
Woman: MARK!!
SFX: BANG BANG BANG

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

SUPERhumanHERO: Page 5 Cops police

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

SUPERhumanHERO: Page 4 Fwoosh smash fling clang shpwow zwooop

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

SUPERhumanHERO: Page 3 Some kind of robot anime?

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

SUPERhumanHERO: Page 2 Some jerks appear!

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

SUPERhumanHERO: Page 1 A normal day in Centropolis.

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

A watcher... The heroes of this setting are by and large Not Having a Great Time. It's a tough job. #oc #ocart #ocsky #superhumanhero #angeleye

Character sheet of a petite woman with pale skin and light blonde hair. Her left eye is blue, and her right eye is multicolored and iridescent. She weara a white supersuit with blue accents, goggles, and a quadrotor-inspired helipack on her back. She appears discontent.

Alias: ANGEL EYE
Name: Madison Ward
Age: 2
Height: 5'2"
Ability: Hypervision (Right Eye)
Smile: Unconfirmed
Affiliation: AEGIS
Status: Active
Role: Support (Spotter)

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Yesterday I coped with The Horrors by making a very stupid meme: #politicalcompass #futurecompass

A 4x4 grid of possible post-Trump American political futures, organized as follows:

Leftward < > Rightward

Nothing ever happens
^
v
The Happening

Top row:

Everything magically goes back to normal

Quadrennial red-blue flip perpetual stalemate

Last concerned American sighs, turns on NFL

Talibangelical post-coup bureaucratic stagnation (spreadsheets are hard)

Second row:

Mayor Pete takes charge! Golden age of transit ensues (ignore the national debt)

Nation comes to its senses, sheepishly apologizes to allies

Musk-Muscovite State-Bankrupting Space Megaproject Hell (Mars still 4 years away)

GOP Sunni-Shia split: MAGA true believers vs. Thielite Broligarchs

Third row:

Surprisingly-benevolent DOGE AI accidentally implements perfect socialism

Trump '28 gambit backfires into third Obama term, neolib great restoration

Entire nation privatized, sold to highest bidder (MBS)

Divine Trump-corpse interred on golden throne (40k starts early)

Fourth row:

Ocasio-Cortez woke-quistador ascensión (Puerto Rican statehood and brutal incel purges)

"God's favorite country" once again saved by direct divine intervention

Yarvinite techno-feudalist patchwork corporatocracy (constant armed uprisings)

Multiple Trump assassination plots converge in hilarious caper (Vance nukes everyone)

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

#HourlyComicsDay 4/ in which I rush a little. Rest will have to come tomorrow since we're busy all evening.

1pm
Train Lunch
Fruit & Cheese Box
Turkey Gouda Sandwich

2pm
Arrived!
Hotel ->

3pm
Checked in
*FLUMPH*

4pm
Power Nap & Hourlies

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

KEPLER: Second City of the Lunar Nearside, established by the ESA with significant collaboration from international partners, Kepler has districts dedicated to the preservation of its languages and cultures. Best food anywhere, and legendarily quarrelsome politics. #scifi #worldbuilding #lunarcity

An illustrated passport page depicting a row of German-style half timbered buildings. One has a clocktower, another flies a German flag. Two Volkswagen-styled vehicles are present in the street. Above is a suspended monorail train. The "sky" is tiled with hexagonal panels. The lower right corner reveals that these buildings are built on a ledge, with a lower level of the city below.

Willkommen sie am
KEPLER
Deutsches Kulturviertel

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I Am Willing To Entertain The Idea That This Might Not Be Entirely Butter!

A tub of Land O Lakes "Butter with Canola Oil"

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

ARMSTRONG: The most populous settlement in the system, home to over two million people, established centuries ago by the American space program in a cavernous network of Lunar lava tubes, some over 1km in diameter. Overhead light panels approximate a day/night cycle. #scifi #worldbuilding

An illustrated passport page depicting a large underground city. Central to the image is an angular statue of a figure holding a torch aloft, surrounded by high rise buildings on all sides. Above, a paneled blue cieling approximates the sky, and outlines the shape of a tube branching in several directions. A highway runs through the center of the scene. Trees and greenery are visible between buildings in the foreground. Several quadrotor aircraft are above.

ARMSTRONG
First & Finest Lunar Tube City

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

KOROLEV SHIPYARD: Situated at the Lagrange point between Earth and Luna, the system's largest shipyard is a constant stream of activity, with separate sections devoted to commercial and military vessels. #scifi #worldbuilding #shipyard

An illustrated passport page depicting a shipyard in space high above the Earth. The Sun is visible in the distance, lighting the scene from behind. The Earth is visible as a crescent, the rest dark. The focus of the page is a series of scaffolding-like shipyard structures linked together, with a number of ships and other dark silhouettes contained within. Worker craft flit about, moving materials and ship sections.

КОРОЛЁВ
KOROLEV SHIPYARD
EARTH-LUNA L-1

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Everyone get in here, new Greature just dropped

A Greature in the form of a black cat with four eyes and a head as long as its body.

Caption: wow, it's CCAATT!

"mrp."

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

EARTH: Access restricted to ecological missions only. Protected transport required through orbital debris field. While ambient radiation is now within acceptable levels in most areas, other dangers remain... #scifi #worldbuilding #Earth

A passport page illustrated with the ruins of a 21st Century city, with skyscrapers present as leaning, hollowed-out skeletons. Birds are present in the sky. A meteor streaks by, the fireball of reentering orbital debris. On the near skyscraper, deer graze on a mid-level roof. Something lurks within.

EARTH
Hudson River Remediation Zone

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

VENUS: Due to the difficulties imposed by the planet's harsh environment, the only large-scale human activity is in the form of aerostatic mines, dredging metallic "snow" deposits from the mountaintops 50km below. #scifi #worldbuilding #Venus

An illustrated passport page, depicting the Venusian sky, cloudy and streaked with diagonal sunbeams, featuring a mining facility suspended from a balloon, raising and lowering dredging buckets by cable through the clouds below. Another such facility is visible in the distance.

VENUS
Ishtar Terra Aerostatic Dredging Facility

Warning: do not descend below 40,000m

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

MERCURY: Largely uninhabited, with the Solar system's preeminent sun observatory, and maximum security prison, as the two notable exceptions. #scifi #worldbuilding #Mercury

An illustrated page of a "Mars Passport": A thin horizontal strip crosses a large red angry sun. Each side of the strip is a barren horizon with a couple buildings. On the top side, an observatory and a radio dish, with a spacecraft landed nearby on its tail. On the bottom side, several squat buildings and a control tower, with a patrol craft in the sky.

MERCURY
<<authorized landings only>>

North Pole Heliophysics Station
South Pole Supermax Facility

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Rude! 5'9" is average height! AVERAGE!!

A screenshot of the NYT Strands game. The daily theme is "I now pronounce you..." and I have submitted a guess of less than four letters, which the game has flagged as "too short", so it looks like the game is calling me short.

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I think that's an airport "crash tender" (fire truck)! They look really cyberpunk.

A red eight-wheeled fire truck for use at airports. It looks cyberpunk.

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Comic isn't out yet so like for spoilers!

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Congrats! Throwing my cowboy hat in the ring. She is a character from my webcomic which I will totally probably make some day. It's not a western setting, she's just really committed to the bit.

A character sheet for Flaire, a tall, slender woman with brown hair, dressed in western/cowboy clothes. Her superpower is "finger guns".

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

Chopped and propped the monster 🌱

A tall, gangly Monstera Deliciosa plant with eight leaves

The plant's root ball, looking like tightly packed spaghetti noodles

The plant, now chopped into two halves, both replanted into a larger pot, looking bushier.

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

The website on the banner has a video with a 3D model of the same character. I think the mouth is supposed to be a toothy grin? If I squint, I can sort of see it.

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

How can we decarbonize ocean shipping?? If only there was a way!

A picture of large fully rigged sailboat with five masts and tons of sails, emitting zero carbon

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MechanicalBrain @mechanicalbrain.bsky.social · 30/06/2024

Big things are afoot! Coming eventually to an internet near you.

The prototype cover page of a notional webcomic, title stylized as SUPER human HERO. A young woman in a blue super suit with yellow boots, gloves, belt, and cape is descending from the sky. Her fists and eyes are glowing with a golden energy, and she is grinning.

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