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Gabriel GAB Fonseca

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Astronomy Undergrad (UFRJ) ⬢ Producer & Science Advisor for The Sojourn Audiodrama ⬢ Retired Minerva Rockets/Sats ⬢ Occasional writer-of-things He/Him ('They' in a pinch) Blog: https://orangehexahedra.blogspot.com/

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Gabriel GAB Fonseca @gabrielgabfonseca.bsky.social · 1d

Have missed the visage of Pensive Pablo with his trusty mug, do have to admit.

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 2d

Really excellent custom-made CD case for the FTL soundtrack!

Elite Spud @elite-spud.bsky.social · 2d

FTL

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The front cover of the soundtrack, showing the Kestral ship

The inner panels of the case, showing the Kestral on the left, with UI elements from the game surrounding it, while the Rebel Flagship sits on the right, centered behind the CD tray

The back cover of the case, showing the tracklist. Each track affiliated with one of the alien races seen in-game has their respective sprite placed beside its name. The version of the track (Battle / Explore) is shown to the right of each track on its own column

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Gabriel GAB Fonseca @gabrielgabfonseca.bsky.social · 3d

Printing them in and of itself, yes. Getting the models is a bit more complex, legally speaking.
Unless you model them yourself or commission someone to model them! That'd be legal.

Gabriel GAB Fonseca @gabrielgabfonseca.bsky.social · 3d

Mas que série é essa minha gente?

Gabriel GAB Fonseca @gabrielgabfonseca.bsky.social · 3d

I actually really like the 'face' design and how the shapes flow into the haircut.

Gabriel GAB Fonseca @gabrielgabfonseca.bsky.social · 5d

Either the stars have aligned or the end is nigh, because there's a new post on my blog!
The second part of my Mass Effect Astrographics series is finally here, where we have a look at the... peculiarities... of Mass Effect 2's many systems.
orangehexahedra.blogspot.com/2025/10/mass...

Mass Effect Astrographics (Part II)

This is the third of a series of five ( Introduction , I , II, III, IV) posts about the astrography of the Mass Effect galaxy. This specifi...

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Gabriel GAB Fonseca @gabrielgabfonseca.bsky.social · 5d

a horse drinking from a bucket with the words " you have alerted the horse "

ALT: a horse drinking from a bucket with the words " you have alerted the horse "

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Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 6d

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

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Gabriel GAB Fonseca @gabrielgabfonseca.bsky.social · 6d

Oh lawd, he SCHMOOVIN'

Gabriel GAB Fonseca @gabrielgabfonseca.bsky.social · 6d

Consider this line of reasoning dully pilfered

a raccoon is sticking its head out of a hole in a tree trunk

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Gabriel GAB Fonseca @gabrielgabfonseca.bsky.social · 8d

FEZ was like some sort of fever dream to me; played it all in one go for 12.8 hours straight obsessively – got to a point where I could actually sight-read its cipher – and then never touched it again.

My contact with it was brief but its effects VERY long-lasting.
What a game, man.

Gabriel GAB Fonseca @gabrielgabfonseca.bsky.social · 9d

É porque eles fazem o PDF manualmente, digitando cada 1 e 0 do arquivo no computador 🙏

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Gabriel GAB Fonseca @gabrielgabfonseca.bsky.social · 9d

Today's Sophont: the Zhodani.

Humans they might be, but to a Citizen of the Imperium, a society wholly built around Psionics might as well be alien...

A traditional drawing of a Zhodani infantry soldier at rest, rifle over their shoulder, and the Zhodani trefoil symbol on the background.

Their armour and especially their helmet has a distinctively insect-like feel, with the helmet's visor divided into two wide "bug eyes" instead of a single-piece viewplate.

Gabriel GAB Fonseca @gabrielgabfonseca.bsky.social · 11d

"And now the weather report from our local correspondent Gabriel, in Rio de Janeiro. How's the weather in this beautiful early spring day?"

a skeleton is standing in the middle of a fire with his arms outstretched .

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Gabriel GAB Fonseca @gabrielgabfonseca.bsky.social · 12d

That might genuinely be the single best distillation of the whole thing I've ever seen.

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Gabriel GAB Fonseca @gabrielgabfonseca.bsky.social · 12d

O Rio algumas semanas atrás tava num pique de 16°C com a raiar do sol e o sol TORANDO uns 35 grau umas duas da tarde, mas graças a deus foi uma semana só, tá maluco?

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · Sep 17

incredible photo on wikimedia commons that isn't currently used in any articles

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 13d

a Wikipedia editor with the username Vigilantcosmicpenguin explained, "I contacted Brian David Gilbert with a request for freely licensed photographs. He delivered."

gilbert poses after his pizzas fall on the floor

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 16d

This week (!) is the 30th anniversary of the announcement of 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet found orbiting a star like our Sun - since then, we've found over 6,000!

To celebrate, @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com collected some astronomers' favourite planets:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

These alien planets are astronomers’ favourites: here’s why

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits.

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Gabriel GAB Fonseca @gabrielgabfonseca.bsky.social · 13d

Don't tell me – Tuesday?

Gabriel GAB Fonseca @gabrielgabfonseca.bsky.social · 14d

He's a good cookie!

Gabriel GAB Fonseca @gabrielgabfonseca.bsky.social · 14d

🫵 Traveller detected!
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Gabriel GAB Fonseca @gabrielgabfonseca.bsky.social · 15d

Aqui no grupo da faculdade a gente tem um sticker que diz "Dias de luta dias de luta" 🫠

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Gabriel GAB Fonseca @gabrielgabfonseca.bsky.social · 16d

The Reimagining's Battlestar, but *specifically* the early war version from Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock.

[COLONIAL ANTHEM INTENSIFIES]

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Gabriel GAB Fonseca @gabrielgabfonseca.bsky.social · 16d

Y'all should follow @hetlaursa.bsky.social, the English account of one of my favourite Brazilian artists, @hetthepumpking.bsky.social.
Not only is her art generally kickass, she's also super well-versed in Brazilian folklore, so if you dig that she's the gal, pal.

HET @hetlaursa.bsky.social · 18d

Veeeeeeeeeery old ocs that I redesigned a while ago.

And i mean it. The first one is 15 yo, the others were created almost 20 years ago.

#furryart #furry
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