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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The vibes on here have been kind of dire lately; going to take a break for a while. See you guys in a few megaseconds?

Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Finished Bruce Sterling's "Holy Fire"! Between this, Heavy Weather, and Taklamakan, I've found that I quite like Sterling's prose and vividly sketched nineties imaginings of future tech. Kind of wonder whether this particular queasy future was Gibson's inspiration for the Jackpot in The Peripheral?

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

baru cormorant book 2 mood board

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Codetaur @vibe-coded.com · 10/09/2026

globe showing windborne weathermesh6 outputs from sept 1-9, about 2GB of VRAM to load it all. layers are precip, 10m wind, and mean sea level pressure

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Luis Villa @lu.is · 09/09/2026

Lots of devil in the details of course but this seems like a very reasonable way to drive demand for clean power, putting the cost on entities that can certainly bear it.

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

> looking for new indie horror game > ask forum if it's twin peaks or sonic.exe > they don't understand > pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is twin peaks and what is sonic.exe > they laugh and say it's an innovative deltarune inspired take on the pokemon canon > play game > it's sonic.exe

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Very Sane AI Newsletter @verysane.ai · 12/02/2026

My take on Searle's Chinese Room, which is terminally engineer brained in that my entire argument is "okay, how would you actually build it, though" www.verysane.ai/p/building-t...

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Building the Chinese Room

Suppose also that after a while I get so good at following the instructions for manipulating the Chinese symbols and the programmers get so good at writing the programs that from the external point of...

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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Fee Carmichael was based on a true story

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this neural network has accidentally been trained to naruto run

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dame @dame.is · 20/08/2026

the difference between slop and not slop is usually just care

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

truss-of-truss structural elements

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Finished Sheri S. Tepper’s “Grass” (1989) today. Fun stuff! Kind of can see it as an anti-Dune, or at least in conversation with it. Does a very good job of braiding many strands of intrigue and mystery together - with a nicely satisfying denouement to it all.

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

the current version of the firefox mascot is so cutes

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European Space History @eurospacehistory.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

September's Object of the Month from the #ESAarchives stays with our recent run of 1980s nostalgia! Find out more about this ESA ESOC staff ID card and its fantastic late-80s branding 👇 historicalarchives.esa.int#oom @esa.int @operations.esa.int @de.esa.int

ESA ESOC Main Control Room, 1986 (pic: ESA)

Aerial view of ESA ESOC, Darmstadt, 1991 (pic: ESA)

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 02/09/2026

This post is predictably getting dunked on by some of the most antisocial people you'll ever meet but if you started yelling "neck yourself slop eater" to folks at a restaurant, you'd be, at minimum asked to leave, and rightfully so.

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Anyone else notice that the way people use the word ‘credibility’ has gotten very strange lately

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“Oh so you think it’s glonzo slopulism to oppose Chernobyl, huh?” - guy in the eighties who refers to all nuclear reactors as ‘meltdown cancer machines’

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

they’re posting abiotic explanations for your homeworld’s atmospheric disequilibrium on HD 98618 g twitter

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 30/08/2026

This morning's launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from the Kennedy Space Center was amazing! Roman is now on a million-mile journey to Lagrange point 2, where it will soon reveal the universe’s darkest secrets: go.nasa.gov/4qIa69I #NASARoman 🔭 Credit: J. Barrientes/STScI.

A rocket is launching into the sky from a launch pad, emitting bright flames and smoke. Trees are visible in the foreground.

Crowd capturing a SpaceX rocket launch with smartphones, against a sunrise sky.

A rocket launches into a cloudy sky, emitting a bright trail of light and smoke.

A rocket with a fiery trail ascending into a clear blue sky, leaving a thick plume of white smoke underneath.

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Funny that it was long thought that the sky was teeming with brown dwarfs - like, more common than stars, maybe closer to us than Alpha Cen - and then in the early 2010s the data from WISE came in and showed that they're just...not that common. You see the shadow cast by this in a lot of 90s-00s SF!

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

(door chime) do you guys have any cheese snacks in there

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Aw man, Dolly Parton *and* Tim Curry within 24 hours is real real rough. Rest in peace to two legends.

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The original Starwalker, voiced by Michael Dorn. Rotate this in your mind

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

From NASA: It happened again! Here's Phobos passing in front of the Sun as seen by the Perseverance rover from the surface of Mars on Aug. 12. science.nasa.gov/photojournal...

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJLf... periodically reminded of this ytp slash wernicke's aphasia simulator

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zelda and link's glorious adventure to the nonsense dimension

YouTube video by madanonymous

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Paydroe @mandofeovg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

wolf scholars be like

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Fallout 2 is an extremely good game but also oof ow ouch the early game difficulty curve is rough. OTOH starting as a gal with a spear in a world of SMGs does make you feel awesome once you can finally survive one (1) random encounter without hearing the dulcet tones of the game over narration.

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Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

On this date, August 23 1966, The Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft obtained this first view of Earth from Lunar orbit. On the left is my treatment of the the wider angle photo taken the same time as the more widely circulated high res image. Also a contemporary poster describing the photo's context.

This is Lunar Orbiter 1 frame 1102 M, for 'Moderate' resolution. The Lunar Orbiter camera system was a modified reconnaissance satellite system that used a film camera, developing the B&W film spools and scanning the negatives and converting the opaqueness detected in the precision scanning of 'rows' into data. The signals were reconstructed on Earth making large negatives whose contact prints were impressively large, roughly 20 X 30 inches.

While serving the needs of landing site investigations and map makers, the Lunar Orbiter images had issues. They were scanned on board in little strips whose tonal values did not necessarily match between adjacent 'framelet' edges, and there were sometimes repeating variations in the recorded intensity within each scanned line making up a 'framelet' which added more tonal idiosyncrasies. These were only of esthetic concern and the high quality camera system overall performed magnificently, although bad fogging of optics ruined much of Lunar Orbiter 4's systematic Lunar mapping effort and the chemical development process occasionally left defective globs on the negatives.
The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project was undertaken to rescue the original telemetry data of those Lunar images. The great majority of the Mission images were successfully recovered using a lovingly reconstructed massive high end tape reader in a leftover MacDonalds building at the fringe of Moffett Field.

Once the best such image data is available the various stages of accounting for and 'cancelling out' the known departures from what the pristine negative must have looked like can begin in earnest. This attempts to reconstruct something closer to what the original negative from the spacecraft could yield. The famous view that appeared in many magazines and books a the time is here seen in more of a context. The prominent dark lava filled crater is Tsiolkovsky, among the first farside features to be named. Earth is about to set for the spacecraft.

This is a scan of a NASA poster from 1966 giving background to the landmark first photo of Earth and the Moon from Lunar orbit by Lunar Orbiter 1 on August 23, 1966. This photo was widely circulated at the time, in horizontal presentation, and appears in NASA's classic Special Publication SP-168 'Exploring Space With a Camera'.

Lunar Orbiter was a Lunar mapping project funded in support of the Apollo Moon landing program to enable high quality maps of the Moon to be prepared, particularly of the candidate landing sites.
The camera system was modified from a spy satellite design, using dual cameras with wide and narrow angle optics capturing a detail and context image. This reproduction of the narrow angle High Resolution image 1102H shows the 'stripes' caused by uneven scanning of the negative on the spacecraft, which while doing the job of conveying the needed information also bought a distinct 'look' to most photos from that mission. Scanned from my collection.

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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 · 22/08/2026

Inner Moons The small, short-lived moons of the inner Uranian system.

Digital painting of a landscape of one of Uranus' moons. The reddish-brown landscape is rugged and barren, with scarps and ridges scattered with flat, dry rocks and a few craters. In the background, Uranus is a blue-green giant planet with subtle storms and bright clouds. Another small moon passes in front of the planet, as do its dark rings.

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

the "Come on Reggie, give us Mother 3!" robot chicken skit aired over a decade ago now

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Thinking about Sputnik Planitia (image 2, the 'heart' feature) today... a sea of airsnow, convecting like a pot bought to the boil slowed down a millionfold...

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