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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Interestingly for NeverEnding Story it was either the wolf or Artax sinking into the swamp for most, but for me it was the sphinx gate. The sphinxes are such a good design, too.

Original model in the Bavaria Film Studios.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not sure if I got a limited run, but mine is a large bottle with a golden cap. I couldn't resist trying a Ghost Pepper sriracha - it definitely got bite. I think the vinegar is too forward, could have done with something milder. Good pepper & garlic taste behind that, though. Pretty unique.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New geese! Tried the Super Hot: Less sweet and a tad less hot than Blackout. I would put this on fish and the Blackout on duck. I think the Blackout peppers have been allowed to ripen more, if that makes sense. This is nice to have as an option, though.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Saw this green waterfall today.

A garden on a downward slope between buildings, completely overgrown with vines that have white blossoms.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

IMO Miranda is hard to beat when it comes to interesting terrain features crammed into one place.

Mosaic of the Uranian moon Miranda. Incredibly varied surface terrain, most prominently the L-shaped Inverness Corona.
Image credit zelario12 https://www.flickr.com/photos/197038812@N04/53467048107/

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I got an angry nerve in my knee and when I walk it feels like my leg had been amputated and glued back on at a wrong angle. I bet it was those clicky TNG subspace aliens doing a bad job as usual.

TNG robed alien from Schisms about to amputate some Riker.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Neo Gotham is Blade Runner + Gilded Age Art Deco Gothic, but all the tech gizmos are pure Space Age and that is such a good choice.

Cobra's computer terminal thingy, looking like someone dyed the set of the Jetsons black.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

can they even get any more pavlovian with the phrasing?

One of those dog communication buttons thingies.

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

Hypnos & Thanatos, resting Waterhouse, 1874

Two young adult men resting on a canopy bed. One's legs are under the sheets, head held back and one arm around the back of the other. The latter lies above the sheets, cradling a flower bouquet, his head resting on the shoulder of his brother. Lyre and Aulos are positioned just out of reach of either. Behind the bed a brazier with low flame and smoke, further behind a window to a garden with marble columns and a balcony.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For Flat Friend Friday, please behold Holoplatys lhotskyi, the flattest jumping spider I've ever seen. I don't know where it puts its organs. www.arachne.org.au/01_cms/detai...

Black jumping spider that is cartoonishly flat. It looks like it was birthed by a hydraulic press. Imagine the flattest animal you know and make it flatter.

From another perspective, you can see that the eyes are larger in diameter than the prosoma. It looks like it wears NV goggles.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Actual Rhizophysa siphonophores, even if your pareidolia tells you otherwise. Photo by Larry Madin, WHOI

Three siphonophores (marine animal-composite-organism-things) looking like pale blue dancers in pink translucent dresses.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Shield bug on my roof thinks it is Batman

Silhouette of the roof edge and a shield bug sitting on it, overlooking all of the land.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Bonus map: The other Mercator

Mercator projection, but form pole to pole. Africa looks like it's squished wide at the bottom.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm totally on board with using Eckert IV over Mercator. However, I will still be in the corner over there waving the Waterman Butterfly flag.

Comparison between the much more distorted Mercator against Eckert IV map projections.

The even less stretchy and esthetically superior Waterman Butterfly.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There is probably a paper or two on the uncanny effect of reducing a face to eyes an mouth.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Did someone fry a root server or something? Not getting it on this side of the pond.

Downdetector, major stuff being down synchronous. AWS, Coudflare, and Google. Also all the AI shit, but that looks like symptom to me.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Asbestos in buildings was actually pretty good for preventing fires.

bluesky post: AI is not going away and it's better at coding than you will ever be. Deal with it.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

absolutely spellbound by every single design choice on this Boschian mouse demon knight

Bosch painting detail: a knight with the head of a white mouse is stabbing some damned soul with a longsword. He is wearing a white hood/cloak/tail combination over black, starry dotted cloth. On his back is a blue shield shaped like a parabolic antenna, a knife pinned into its painting of a severed hand balancing a die.
His left boot appears to be using a wooden spoon as a spur.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hive Enforcement Troops, post-nuclear People's Republic of Catarina-Astora

Black and white photograph of six men in Michelin Man costumes.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

As a dilettante I can't contribute much to #NeutronStarWeek, but it's a good excuse to repost this gif of the Vela Pulsar, courtesy of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory:

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I can't believe it's not degrees! What, not degrees! Could it be degrees? Unbelievable, these aren't degrees. Gradians.

Youtube thumbnail of someone looking at an angle gauge with the words THESE AREN'T DEGREES superimposed on it.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Friday night delight: looking at different colored-noise cube gifs on wikipedia

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My ISP set me on time-out for most of the day, so I finally got around to have @ascalaphid.com's Herbert and Mort help me organize my spice jars.

Six glass jars with spices and herbs: Turmeric, tarragon, onion, chili pepper, garlic, lovage.
Each is labeled in German kurrent cursive on a sticker depicting either a badger (Mort) or shrew (Herbert) in a monk's habit.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Full set: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor... I like how the sorcerer manifested their hate in the clay faces. Little postcards to Anubis that say "MAKE THEM SUFFER".

Black and white photograph of a clay tablet with a face distorted in agony.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I swear condensed matter physics is just alchemy with extra steps. "Here's how to hole dope a holographic superconductor. Gotta watch your Fermi liquids, but first of all you have to place a black hole into anti-deSitter space."

Hole doping diagram. Did you know the gap between Fermi liquids and the pseudogap before antiferromagnetism is occupied by strange metal?

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Sometimes youtube throws me the Good Stuff only to rugpull it immediately with a last upload date five years ago :(

Cat boi vtuber Xenosum explaining a Hamiltonian in a youtoube video on charge density waves.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

One of my favorite spells, from the Grand Grimoire (1730) What makes this even better is that the rest of the book is straight up black magic, up to and including summoning Satan.

To make Three young Ladies, or rather three Spirits come into your room after Dinner

Preparation:
Eat neither meat nor fatty foods for three days; on the fourth day clean
your room as soon as you have arisen from bed, fast for the entire day and ensure that no one enters the room all day and that there is nothing hung on the walls, neither clothes, nor hats, nor bird cages, nor curtains on the windows or on the bed and above all, put freshly washed white linens on the bed.

Ceremony:
After dinner, go secretly to the room that you have prepared, light a good fire, put a clean white cloth on the table and three chairs around the table and three loaves of bread and three glasses of clear, fresh water at each place. Then put a recliner or chair beside your bed and get into bed.

Upon entering the room the three persons will seat themselves beside the fire and taking refreshment and thank he or she who has received them, since, if he is a man who makes the ceremony three ladies will come, and if it is a woman, three men will come. The three spirits will choose by lots among themselves to determine who will remain seated in the chair beside your bed to converse with you until midnight.

At midnight she will leave with her companions without you having to ask her to leave, as for the other two, they will remain by the fire while the other converses with you beside your bed and you will to ask her about any art or science that you desire and she will immediately answer your questions, you can ask her the location of the nearest hidden treasure and she will reveal to you the most opportune time and place to recover it.

She will also be there accompanied by her two companions to protect you from any infernal spirit who could be in possession of the treasure. When she leaves, she will give you a ring which will make you lucky in any game when you wear it and if you place it on a young maid’s finger you can make her your wife.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Yes! Complementary PIA11655 for shadow action on the rings:

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I mean, just look at this so-called 'planetary gearbox'. Just look at it.

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Never hurts to splurge when your days are numbered. Eheeheeheeheehee!

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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I swear this information is being suppressed by Big Chef

Image of LLM generated SEO site, the info I needed (grain to water ratio) is literally two numbers that are buried in fucking Couscous War and Peace and I can't even be sure they are the right ones.

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