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meldritch.bsky.social @meldritch.bsky.social · 14h
(Like, to be clear, Starlink isn't *really* their idea either - Teledesic tried the strategy of "what if we launch a whole *shitload* of satellites to boost our launch volume enough to make space launch cheap" back in the '90s, but SpaceX is the first one to actually make it work.)
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meldritch.bsky.social @meldritch.bsky.social · 14h
(This is the actual innovation SpaceX can be credited for. Their reusable rockets aren't all that special - their genuine contribution was the *financial* engineering required to boost launch volume enough to make a reusable rocket pay for itself.)
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meldritch.bsky.social @meldritch.bsky.social · 14h
The real bottleneck is just launch *volume* - this kind of infrastructure needs a *lot* of space traffic to pay for itself, and right now, we just don't have the kind of market that'd make these make sense. It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem.
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meldritch.bsky.social @meldritch.bsky.social · 14h
However, there's plenty of ways to get powerful surface-to-orbit infrastructure less crazy than a full space elevator - skyhooks from above and beamed launch from the ground get you a lot. (And if you want crazier but less material-dependent solutions, orbital rings and Lofstrom launch loops)
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meldritch.bsky.social @meldritch.bsky.social · 14h
The tensile-strength-to-weight ratio required for a practical space elevator is fucking nuts - you need essentially single-molecule perfect filaments, like carbon nanotubes or graphene, and we absolutely positively cannot make those that long (and any flaws would instantly become failure points)
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Brae! 🔞 @brae.gay · 13/10/2026
this is an old sticker design but I've always imagined there was actually a different eeveelution inside but then what would it be? espeon? sylveon? maybe just an eevee?
A sticker design by Braeburned, of a latex "Umbreon" featuring a zipper mouth.
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Bee, dog in the city @brodnork.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Back in the day we called those petpets
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Grace @gracekind.net · 19/09/2026
Disassemble for atoms? And waste a perfectly good bioactuator?
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Grace @gracekind.net · 19/09/2026
The takeover scenarios where humans stay alive are more realistic but people don’t really like to talk about those
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A Low Poly Robot @lowpolyrobot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
thinking about this hidden wall keypad from Witch Hunter Robin again....
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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 09/10/2026
HELLO EVERYBODY I AM HAVING A MARVELLOUS TIME BEING A HUMAN PERSON.
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Edith! 🔞 @edith-is-dead.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
(mostly) being discreet
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meldritch.bsky.social @meldritch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
(Still not entirely sure how much of my experience was pure placebo or otherwise driven by a sociocultural attachment to a particular gender *presentation*)
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meldritch.bsky.social @meldritch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Gender's fuckin' weird and I wish I could just opt out of having one. Things would be so much cleaner, philosophically speaking, if this shit *was* just 100% a social construct.
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meldritch.bsky.social @meldritch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I didn't know it could be a thing either! I hate ascribing any kind of particular bioessentialist meaning to hormone balance, as if my reaction to chemicals proves anything fundamental about my identity like a witch-finder's test, but there does seem to be a hormone balance that feels 'right' to me.
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meldritch.bsky.social @meldritch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
(I actually had to add a little T *back* to my hormone regime)
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meldritch.bsky.social @meldritch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yeah, actually. That's how I found out I was really, actually, *definitely* nonbinary - because I was experiencing masc gender dysphoria and fem gender euphoria, but when I went on feminizing HRT for long enough, I started getting dysphoria from the *other end*.
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meldritch.bsky.social @meldritch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Might I strongly recommend Rain World? It's a 2D platformer, but it's got a similar thing: unusual, floppy controls which (at first) kinda feel like you're being punked and playing a Bennett Foddy game- but which, once you get used to them, are astonishingly fluid and expressive.
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Dizzyspells @dizzyspellss.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I added a bunch more about Floral and the world they live in! The Perpetuus Umwelt is a diverse realm with an abundance of primordial digitally based life. The umwelt actively produces and spawns these life forms to collect data for its supernormal database; failing to do so means starvation.
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Dizzyspells @dizzyspellss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
some critters from the Perpetuus Umwelt! They come in all shapes and sizes but tend to mimic a combination of living creatures from our world, a lot of them (especially the larger predators) tend to have a gimmick that twists the rules of the umwelt.
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Dizzyspells @dizzyspellss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
a cute character moment with Lune I'd like to appear in my little game, doing or saying something stupid that for some reason impresses impressionable kids (like Lune)
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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
PIDEC: using nuclear-driven excimer fluorescer gas a light source for a band-gap-matched photovoltaic panel, converting fission into electricity at 30-40% overall efficiency without a thermodynamic process. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Chara @astrochara.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today's arXiv day went almost 6 hours past UTC midnight. I predicted it's going to be a monster. I was right. - Possible mechanism for variable He escape from LHS 1140 b - 2-ary eclipse+phase curve for TOI-2431 b - NEID Earth Twin Survey part 6 - TOI-125 trans. spec - TOI-210 b discovery
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lete lyre@C108乙 @letelyre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
『転生したらSpiders Georgになって蜘蛛1万匹を食うチートスキルでなんと平均をめちゃくちゃにした件』
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Chara @astrochara.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Apparently there are like, three sets of proposals for HR 8799's fifth planet candidate that aren't consistent with each other?
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Bee, dog in the city @brodnork.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Bee, dog in the city @brodnork.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Stomp demo update coming soon............... and a new trailer
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Bee, dog in the city @brodnork.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Thinking about puppy lunch again .. i need to make puppy lunch again
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マツクラ @matsukura.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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LZ Dark Matter @lzdarkmatter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Our new results are out! We have observed a single nuclear recoil in our detector that we find difficult to explain with our background model. Could it be a hint of dark matter? It’s far too early to say, but it’s certainly intriguing! #darkmatter
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triple cheeseburger @triplchii.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
with my worldbuilding i want to make colourful and diverse cultures and societies for the 27th century that are as different from our own as cultures 600 years ago were. but unfortunately i have no idea how to do that...
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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 26/08/2026
Alien of the Day: A martian fox critter! Its large ears can detect sound in the thin atmosphere, while its ears and tail both help keep it warm during the Martian nights, with thin legs adapted to the low gravity. From the Picture Atlas of our Universe; a favourite book of mine as a kid.
an illustration of a large eared martian creature.
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Zando @zandoarts.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Can’t remember the last time I shared my lighthuggers #revelationspace
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casi-bev-art.bsky.social @casi-bev-art.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A New Look at Vulcan A (fictional) NASA infographic about Vulcan, the closest planet to the Sun.
A fake NASA infographic of a fictional planet, Vulcan. The planet is a reddish brown, marked with many small craters and a few dark lava basins. Text on the infographic explains the planet. It reads: A New Look at Vulcan. The Solar System's innermost planet has historically been out of reach of most telescopes, due to its small size and the glare of the nearby Sun. Although the Mariner 10 spacecraft passed within 10,000 miles of this hot, rocky world, its instruments were damaged by sunlight, and no photos could be returned. Now, thanks to NASA's VERIFY mission, the face of this mysterious world is finally coming into focus. Size comparison text: Vulcan is about 60% the size of Mercury, smaller than even the Earth's Moon. Globe text: This virtual globe of Vulcan's surface was made using digital processing of ground-based imagery. Label text: Bright rayed ejecta; ancient impact basin; basaltic lava plains; heavily cratered surface.
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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
seems all the kink pipelines have dried up, fallen to disrepair. how in heaven might I be radicalized into a shygal, drone, pooltoy, or clowngirl if there's not a healthy cluster of accounts I can follow? isn't this what "starter packs" are for? the internet of the 2020s is hollow and vapid.
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INIRO @ bg tips pdf is out!! @iniro.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
my dear friend
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Forming Worlds Lab @formingworlds.space · 23/07/2026
New paper led by Joe Williams (@exeter.ac.uk), with our group among the co-authors ❄️ "Planetesimal Formation Across the Stellar Mass Spectrum and its Influence on Exoplanet-Inherited Volatile Budgets" Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2607.20271 #Exoplanets #PlanetaryScience
Two-panel schematic comparing how a protoplanetary disc evolves around a very low mass star and around a heavier one. The top panel, labelled 0.1 solar masses, follows a disc fed briefly by material falling in from the collapsing cloud: the disc expands, dust coagulates into icy pebbles, the pebbles drift inward and deliver their ice to the water snowline where a single generation of planetesimals forms, and the dust is then depleted, leaving grey dehydrated planetesimals. The bottom panel, labelled 0.3 solar masses and above, shows the same sequence but with a first generation of planetesimals already forming during the infall phase and a second generation later at the snowline, leaving a mix of blue water-rich and grey dehydrated bodies. A colour key marks rocky pebbles, the water sublimation front, water ice, dehydrated planetesimals and water-rich planetesimals, and an arrow along the bottom marks time running left to right.Portrait of Joe Williams.
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helloimthedeevil.bsky.social @helloimthedeevil.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
@penumbracorp.bsky.social classic remains relevant
A white wolf chokes a latex covered cat wearing a pink visor. 

Wolf: sometimes, i wonder what goes through that shattered, conditioned toy vrain of yours

The inside of tbe latex: WHAT THE FUCK IS A YOT
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SexTheHex @sexthehex.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I've heard the complaints men always think with their dicks. We've corrected that. These test subjects think with their prostate instead. Look at him going all face-down ass-up just like that, all to sate his new primary erogenous zone.
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Minor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Licking every lcd screen I come in contact with until I find the one
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FALLEN Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
*seeing a wall of industrial cum flowing towards you like the Boston Molasses Flood* "Aw man, extremely leaf~ coded."
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Fletcher 🇨🇦 @fletchers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
If you liked Iron Lung, I'd recommend Moonrot! Great aesthetic and atmosphere, and very spooky
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Bee, dog in the city @brodnork.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Demoiselle Porcelaine :7 @bagoflenas.bsky.social · 21/06/2024
busy week so have this from my exhausted brain
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raine 🏳️‍⚧️‼️ @neoncaelestis.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
doing isnt she lovely at karaoke was fun just because i got told after by someone that it made their jax fictive come out. life is beautiful always
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PLASTIC_DOODLES @plastic-doodles.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
if i were better at doing backgrounds i would never stop drawing squeaky creatures getting their ID card changed or figuring out how to use a keyboard with big paws
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Salamanding @salamanding.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
idk if bluesky would be ok with me posting the full page, so here’s some selected parts
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CD Seadragom @seadrag.com · 16/06/2026
Really, the preponderance of abandoned dronification factories in the furry universe is evidence of vast industrial decline, and we should be asking why the dronification industry was allowed to wither and die on the vine while others prospered. I think, ultimately, it would seem that Margaret Thatc
CD standing in front of a large building labelled "Abandoned dronification factory" in a parody of the "hope I don't have a long day" meme, saying "Hope I don't get accidentally and irreversibly transformed into a mindless rubber slave"
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cee @cee.wtf · 11/06/2026
So extraterrestrial first contact is 100% going to be an AI on a chip that we can just talk to in real time that knows everything about their civilization, kinda negating the whole “it’ll take 100 years for a message to send” problem
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 13/06/2026
anthropic endlessly bouncing back & forth between "we love being regulated by the wonderful and very democratic united states of america and hold the present administration in high regard" and "wtf why is the government being mean to me"
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