MikhailBorg
@mikailborg.bsky.social
Professional geek. Amateur weirdo. Genderqueer. Makes the podcast serial "Managlitch City Underground". She/her because he/him needs a break. Also, pretty dresses.
Her breasts were full and luscious, like watermelons, Leon marveled—the mini “personal” size watermelons, that is, not the huge-ass ones that weigh 20 pounds each and feed six to eight people, which was a good thing, because no way did he want to share these melons with six to eight other people.
Since the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is no longer running (sad!), I guess I just have to present this would-be entry to you all, which I thought of while unpacking the groceries today:
Ever since I first learned about this effect watching “Cosmos”, I’ve wondered what traveling close to light speed would actually look like. Here, someone with astronomy and computer experience shows us! youtu.be/R_g9EeT233Q
Travelling At 99% of The Speed Of Light Looks Strange - Project Hail Mary's Space Warp
YouTube video by Scott Manley
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I assure you the scratch marks will only be on the inside of that wall.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h agoTuberville: "If we don't straighten out this country's voting and immigration system, we're not gonna make it. It's gonna be over. I'm gonna go back to Alabama and hey, we might build a 30-foot wall around our state."
Who else could watch this for hours? Defragmenting Drive C in Windows 95
“Yes, you could warn them. If only you spoke silly Hovitos.”
There’s a tweet going around where someone asks “if AI went away, how could you even function?” (Paraphrase) My brother in Christ, did you think the world was in stasis prior to AI? We got along without it before; we could do so again.
I remember Second Life. I could make a much better avatar now. I wonder if they make a viewer that works in VR.
qdot@buttplug.engineer · 2y agoOk, it's friday night and thanks to @defaultfriend.bsky.social's cursed Gorean Culture class idea that very much needs to happen, I will use this prompt to repost my story of having to be tech support for Goreans when I was at Linden Lab as a developer of Second Life. 🧵 follows
Almost 30 years ago, I made a video game level. Today, I got to wander around it in VR. This version is a bit broken, but *I* made this space. I'm a little verklempt. youtu.be/Ccbail4lArY
Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge VR test 01
YouTube video by MeidoRanger
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The SDF-1 weighs 18 million metric tons. In episode 3 of Macross, it reaches single-stage orbit using some kind of rocket propulsion. Trying to guesstimate a) how much propellant it would have required and b) how much of Macross Island would have been obliterated at takeoff.
By the way @librarian42.bsky.social , I'm sure you know about the new official Babylon 5 YouTube channel showing all the episodes, right? www.youtube.com/@Babylon5
Babylon 5
You’ve arrived at Babylon 5, the last, best hope for peace. A neutral station standing at the crossroads of galactic powers, where ambassadors, soldiers, traders, and dreamers all have a stake in the ...
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My two most popular tumblr posts are a Crittertongue short story about trying to accept yourself and this ridiculous trash.
The empty case was a Star Trek communicator for this 1970s kindergartner.
Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...
Seems to be human nature that the funniest people are very angry and/or very depressed
The Midnight Society@midnightpals.bsky.social · 2d agoStephen King: guys, i'm really excited King: tonight we've got an actual, genuine humor writer to talk to us! Piers Anthony: oh gosh, steve! you Anthony: you flatter me! King: i uh King: i wasn't actually talking about you, piers Anthony:
"Why, yes, officer, I did see the whole thing, and I would be willing to testify in court about it"
Science-fiction pedantry: you don't travel *to* another dimension, you travel *along* another dimension until you reach a new space with (usually) three physical and one time dimensions like what we are used to.
I tend to come to my science fiction and fantasy for wonder and hope. Unfortunately for me, “The Martian Chronicles” delivered large doses of “humans are awful and doomed” in with the wonder.
Sam J Miller@sentencebender.bsky.social · 2d agoToday is the day on which Ray Bradbury's “There Will Come Soft Rains” (pub'd 1950) takes place. It’s a short elegaic story about a smart home slowly dying after its owners are wiped out in a nuclear extinction event. Re-reading it now, I’m feeling softly sucker-punched by what it has to offer us.
I have friends visiting the British Museum today. Since I’m jealous, I had to make the Tumblr joke about “The British Museum after they’re made to give everything back”
Today, on MeidoRanger: I was obsessed with the Marathon video game for Mac in the 90s. I helped build an entirely new game using its engine, and I still revisit it often. So you can imagine my joy when I was offered access to an alpha test version of a port to VR! youtu.be/mvc90Gng8N0
Marathon 1 VR Ep.01 - Arrival and Bigger Guns Nearby
YouTube video by MeidoRanger
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I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses
There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.
Jareth the Goblin King said “I’m leaving here with *something*” and 60% of the audience volunteered as tribute.
Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com · 4d agoLots of arguments for Magneto, Ozymandias and Killmonger, but my money’s always on Darth Revan. I will also argue that Jareth the Goblin King was neither right nor wrong but behaving exactly the way that an ancient fey acts when some dipshit teenager invokes him to steal her brother.
