Sean McKnight
@ynot1989.bsky.social
(He/Him)
Cartographer, Writer, Futurist, multiverse traveler. BLM / ACAB 🇺🇦
Patreon: http://patreon.com/SeanMcKnight
dA: ynot1989.deviantart.com
Beehiiv: https://sean-mcknight.beehiiv.com/
Cartographer, Writer, Futurist, multiverse traveler. BLM / ACAB 🇺🇦
Patreon: http://patreon.com/SeanMcKnight
dA: ynot1989.deviantart.com
Beehiiv: https://sean-mcknight.beehiiv.com/
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Sean McKnight
@ynot1989.bsky.social
· Jan 15
I'm Sean McKnight, I make #maps, #flags, and stories of worlds that never were or are yet to be.
And I'm taking #commissions
#cartography #worldbuilding #alternatehistory #scifi
Gallery: deviantart.com/ynot1989
Patreon: patreon.com/SeanMcKnight
And I'm taking #commissions
#cartography #worldbuilding #alternatehistory #scifi
Gallery: deviantart.com/ynot1989
Patreon: patreon.com/SeanMcKnight
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🚨 The Dropout 24/7 broadcast stream is LIVE NOW with the Dimension 20 marathon!
Drop in, anytime :D
Drop in, anytime :D
February 18, 2026 at 8:00 PM
🚨 The Dropout 24/7 broadcast stream is LIVE NOW with the Dimension 20 marathon!
Drop in, anytime :D
Drop in, anytime :D
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notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
February 18, 2026 at 4:03 PM
notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
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honestly either the CAQ or PLQ could toss a haymaker against the Parti Quebecois by pointing out how friendly PSPP is to MAGA
Quebecers believe the US would likely use economic, political, and military means to compel Quebec to join the US
February 18, 2026 at 10:21 PM
honestly either the CAQ or PLQ could toss a haymaker against the Parti Quebecois by pointing out how friendly PSPP is to MAGA
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February 18, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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So happy for yall to see what I've been working on! And huge shoutout to @admiralbounti.bsky.social for this incredible original concept.
There are a whole bunch more awesome pics of her in here for Voidfarers, if you aren't subbed you are missing out!!!
And we've got so much more on the way!
There are a whole bunch more awesome pics of her in here for Voidfarers, if you aren't subbed you are missing out!!!
And we've got so much more on the way!
It's Ash Wednesday, voidfriends! Today we are unveiling the second round of our hero ship reveals: Windsong rendered in beautiful high poly splendor by @brickwork.bsky.social.
Our Voidfarers can login to their account to download more beautiful virtual photography.
Our Voidfarers can login to their account to download more beautiful virtual photography.
Windsong Revealed (#2/3)
One trøllkvin of a voidrunner.
stardust.sublightgames.com
February 18, 2026 at 10:46 PM
So happy for yall to see what I've been working on! And huge shoutout to @admiralbounti.bsky.social for this incredible original concept.
There are a whole bunch more awesome pics of her in here for Voidfarers, if you aren't subbed you are missing out!!!
And we've got so much more on the way!
There are a whole bunch more awesome pics of her in here for Voidfarers, if you aren't subbed you are missing out!!!
And we've got so much more on the way!
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Some of the miniatures Martin Bower worked on for Alien, Outland and Space 1999. From The Guide to Fantasy Art Techniques (1984)
February 18, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Some of the miniatures Martin Bower worked on for Alien, Outland and Space 1999. From The Guide to Fantasy Art Techniques (1984)
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Neat.
Three ICE agents accidentally shot themselves in the leg during routine training exercises within two days last year.
ICE Agents Keep Accidentally Shooting Themselves
www.newsweek.com
February 18, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Neat.
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It's Ash Wednesday, voidfriends! Today we are unveiling the second round of our hero ship reveals: Windsong rendered in beautiful high poly splendor by @brickwork.bsky.social.
Our Voidfarers can login to their account to download more beautiful virtual photography.
Our Voidfarers can login to their account to download more beautiful virtual photography.
Windsong Revealed (#2/3)
One trøllkvin of a voidrunner.
stardust.sublightgames.com
February 18, 2026 at 9:20 PM
It's Ash Wednesday, voidfriends! Today we are unveiling the second round of our hero ship reveals: Windsong rendered in beautiful high poly splendor by @brickwork.bsky.social.
Our Voidfarers can login to their account to download more beautiful virtual photography.
Our Voidfarers can login to their account to download more beautiful virtual photography.
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Some more art from Aether Nexus.
February 18, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Some more art from Aether Nexus.
"Major war?"
Its gonna be another bomb-and-bounce with maybe another JSOC kidnapping. It will be stupid, pointless, and destabilize a region bordering an already unstable nuclear power, but it won't be a major war.
Its gonna be another bomb-and-bounce with maybe another JSOC kidnapping. It will be stupid, pointless, and destabilize a region bordering an already unstable nuclear power, but it won't be a major war.
February 18, 2026 at 9:29 PM
"Major war?"
Its gonna be another bomb-and-bounce with maybe another JSOC kidnapping. It will be stupid, pointless, and destabilize a region bordering an already unstable nuclear power, but it won't be a major war.
Its gonna be another bomb-and-bounce with maybe another JSOC kidnapping. It will be stupid, pointless, and destabilize a region bordering an already unstable nuclear power, but it won't be a major war.
And if that weren't enough, China's air force has no pilots and hardly any living officers with combat experience, their admiralty has no experience with anything more than close shore operations, and their army is really only for domestic security.
They're a paper tiger.
They're a paper tiger.
74% of China's crude oil comes from abroad. Almost all of it passes through the Strait of Malacca.
China's navy isn't blue water capable.
Park one carrier group on the Indian Ocean side of the Strait and China will have weeks to live.
China's navy isn't blue water capable.
Park one carrier group on the Indian Ocean side of the Strait and China will have weeks to live.
February 18, 2026 at 9:26 PM
And if that weren't enough, China's air force has no pilots and hardly any living officers with combat experience, their admiralty has no experience with anything more than close shore operations, and their army is really only for domestic security.
They're a paper tiger.
They're a paper tiger.
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real talk: both China bears/hawks make the same mistake people in the 90s made about Japan - extending current trends into infinity
I appreciate that people are more interested in my subject matter but it reminds me of Weebery from a decade ago.
February 18, 2026 at 7:32 PM
real talk: both China bears/hawks make the same mistake people in the 90s made about Japan - extending current trends into infinity
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and i think the example of washington — whose peer, in this regard, is frederick douglass — is a reminder that artifice and performance are important parts of democratic society, and that the contempt for virtue signaling is corrosive. virtue is meant to be signaled!
February 18, 2026 at 4:29 PM
and i think the example of washington — whose peer, in this regard, is frederick douglass — is a reminder that artifice and performance are important parts of democratic society, and that the contempt for virtue signaling is corrosive. virtue is meant to be signaled!
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i really love @alexiscoe.bsky.social's biography of washington because she gets at exactly this: the fact that "george washington" is a character created by george washington, a man so consumed with presenting himself as an example of republican virtue that he became one
The Uncanny Artifice of George Washington
I got a number of fascinating replies to yesterday’s post about the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 18, 2026 at 4:29 PM
i really love @alexiscoe.bsky.social's biography of washington because she gets at exactly this: the fact that "george washington" is a character created by george washington, a man so consumed with presenting himself as an example of republican virtue that he became one
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tbh i think a lot of this comes down to the hollowing out of state capacity in global nations
neoliberalism has basically driven so many states to P3s that people don't get "states doing things" is still possible, but not necessary radical
neoliberalism has basically driven so many states to P3s that people don't get "states doing things" is still possible, but not necessary radical
china is incredible in its own way but don't mistake that with it being a radical government
February 18, 2026 at 7:12 PM
tbh i think a lot of this comes down to the hollowing out of state capacity in global nations
neoliberalism has basically driven so many states to P3s that people don't get "states doing things" is still possible, but not necessary radical
neoliberalism has basically driven so many states to P3s that people don't get "states doing things" is still possible, but not necessary radical
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As I mentioned on Twitter, 90% of the counteroffensive maps you'll have seen are mappers correcting overmarking of Russian advances.
Those villages were never truly under Russian control. It was small forward units in contested areas; these are largely just fluctuations in the contested zones.
Those villages were never truly under Russian control. It was small forward units in contested areas; these are largely just fluctuations in the contested zones.
On the Zaporizhzhia / Dnipropetrovsk boundary, Ukraine pushed through Sosnivka towards Ternove.
Ukraine has also attacked west from their positions around Dobropillia, towards Solodke.
Ukraine has also attacked west from their positions around Dobropillia, towards Solodke.
February 18, 2026 at 7:01 PM
As I mentioned on Twitter, 90% of the counteroffensive maps you'll have seen are mappers correcting overmarking of Russian advances.
Those villages were never truly under Russian control. It was small forward units in contested areas; these are largely just fluctuations in the contested zones.
Those villages were never truly under Russian control. It was small forward units in contested areas; these are largely just fluctuations in the contested zones.
I wonder how long after China implodes everyone will memory-hole that they believed it would inevitably replace the US?
It was years into Japan's Lost Decade before people finally stopped acting like they were gonna overtake the US.
It was years into Japan's Lost Decade before people finally stopped acting like they were gonna overtake the US.
"China is gonna win the future because..."
Libleft: They spend a lot on climate
Libright: They have low taxes
Authleft: They have an aggressive, state-led economy
Authright: They hate the minorities and gays
Libleft: They spend a lot on climate
Libright: They have low taxes
Authleft: They have an aggressive, state-led economy
Authright: They hate the minorities and gays
February 18, 2026 at 7:13 PM
I wonder how long after China implodes everyone will memory-hole that they believed it would inevitably replace the US?
It was years into Japan's Lost Decade before people finally stopped acting like they were gonna overtake the US.
It was years into Japan's Lost Decade before people finally stopped acting like they were gonna overtake the US.
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the deeply funny thing about this is that late industrialization almost always happens alongside labour repression which uh... is part of why the government nuked the iron rice bowl
Manufacturing export-led economy with strong implicit and explicit state support of a handful of heavy industrial national champions, rapid urbanization and consumption suppression? A bold socialist experiment never tried before except in Japan, S. Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong,
February 18, 2026 at 6:57 PM
the deeply funny thing about this is that late industrialization almost always happens alongside labour repression which uh... is part of why the government nuked the iron rice bowl
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February 18, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Renee Good memorial site in south Minneapolis doused in gasoline
Damage was minimal but police are investigating.
bit.ly
February 18, 2026 at 5:19 PM
This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.