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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 4h

Greetings, and happy #PortfolioDay! My name is Mark A Garlick. I've been space illustration for 30 years and animation for around 15.

#SciArt #spaceart #Blender

Illustration of an asteroid repurposed as a space colony. The interior is a hollow cylinder.

Illustration of the interior of a space colony called a Stanford torus

Illustration of a rocket launching from Mars.

Illustration of an orbital ring. It encircles the entire earth. Structures can be build on it, of hung from it (e.g. space elevators)

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 5h

This is normalization, it's also grooming. Even from the short samples quoted, its simple to pick out actors who are guiding participants towards comfort with dehumanization and hatred. The party is endorsing genocide and rapidly moving towards it, confident that AI can backfill the dead. It can't.

Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 5h

Except that the car is assembled from metadata about every car part ever built, and lovingly assembled by statistical rules aimed more at user engagement than functional decision making. If your idea of flying a car is to rebuild it in flight repeatedly while it pulls stunts to amuse you, lucky you.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 11h

Actual republicanism is popular among nations with royal remains. We do like interesting bloodlines and fancy hats, garden parties and daintily cut sandwiches though.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 11h

The Wizard Nebula (Sharpless 142) in the constellation of Cepheus. This region of star formation is being energized primarily by a massive spectroscopic binary system called DH Cephei. The stars in this system are young, near the start of the main sequence and are a source of X-ray emissions. 🔭

A bright nebula of colorful gases, with a cluster of bright stars that are ionizing it. The primary star system ionizing the gases is a massive binary system named DH Cephei. Cold molecular pillars and bok globules are evident and indicative of star formation. This is the Wizard Nebula or Sharpless 142, 8500 light years distant in the constellation of Cepheus. Six hours of imaging, evenly split over SHO filters. 840mm, cropped.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 15h

I’ve just learned (from a post by Colin Edwin) that Imaginary Records’ Alan Duffy has died. Like Colin, I knew little of him. I always loved this lyric he wrote for the nascent Porcupine Tree.

#ninecats #porcupinetree #alanduffy #stevenwilson #voyage35

m.youtube.com/watch?v=aE6u...

Steven Wilson, Nine Cats, Dec. 2018

YouTube video by Michael Boothillier

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 17h

I played one note. It was harder on my back than anything else. Steve Hogarth performs at ProgStock with some enthusiastic audience members.

Photo credit: Linda Heath
#progstock2025 #hnatural #SteveHogarth
#Marillion #cunningstunts
@marillion.com

Steve Hogarth performs Talking heads’ Once In A Lifetime as part of his first US “h Natural” show at ProgStock 2025 accompanied by some enthusiastic audience members on faux arpeggio. Photo credit: Linda Heath.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 18h

Is a "known DTO route" what this administration calls a designated shipping lane?

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 20h

It’s the name for a part of the prison population.

Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 21h

The word he's looking for is summoning. I suspect he's considering an Outer God like Nyarlathotep.

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Dr. Bobby Gagnon, LsD @58lespaul.bsky.social · 21h

They're stealing everything.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 21h

Remarkably, they're making the solution more simple with every heist. Three or more orders of magnitude of QE will reduce all fortunes to inconsequential and the substantial fiscal ownership by the new government can provide greater equity. Money is just a promise, and they've abandoned the law.

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