Cal
@skyquake.bsky.social
Likes: history, horror, video games, religion(s), and staring at pictures of space! he/they. Queer. 🏳️⚧️
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Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
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Ambedo
n. A kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details; raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream in your coffee. Briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake.
n. A kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details; raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream in your coffee. Briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake.
November 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Ambedo
n. A kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details; raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream in your coffee. Briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake.
n. A kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details; raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream in your coffee. Briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake.
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
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Great, our cyberpunk dystopia is also an urban fantasy where we confound the soulless Fae with poems and riddles.
November 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Great, our cyberpunk dystopia is also an urban fantasy where we confound the soulless Fae with poems and riddles.
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Our feature artist/reference for today is this BRILLIANT lesson on LIGHTING by the talented @Shouty_y! The two approaches here show that in art it's not about RIGHT and WRONG, it's about discovering ways to ENHANCE your art through SMALL CHANGES! #manga #anime #digitalart #PAINT
November 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Our feature artist/reference for today is this BRILLIANT lesson on LIGHTING by the talented @Shouty_y! The two approaches here show that in art it's not about RIGHT and WRONG, it's about discovering ways to ENHANCE your art through SMALL CHANGES! #manga #anime #digitalart #PAINT
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Preview of my piece for @novamali.bsky.social and @damesprod.bsky.social ‘Villainness’ artbook. The Kickstarter is live!
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Preview of my piece for @novamali.bsky.social and @damesprod.bsky.social ‘Villainness’ artbook. The Kickstarter is live!
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Video game where you play a fae, all you do is make a series of deals and promises.
You start out with a pinecone. You win when you've eliminated and consigned to fates worse than death the entire population of the mountain town on the edge of your forest.
You start out with a pinecone. You win when you've eliminated and consigned to fates worse than death the entire population of the mountain town on the edge of your forest.
September 8, 2023 at 2:12 AM
Video game where you play a fae, all you do is make a series of deals and promises.
You start out with a pinecone. You win when you've eliminated and consigned to fates worse than death the entire population of the mountain town on the edge of your forest.
You start out with a pinecone. You win when you've eliminated and consigned to fates worse than death the entire population of the mountain town on the edge of your forest.
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I for one was massively disappointed to learn that the 'Toronto subway deer' just refers to an extinct deer (Torontoceros hypogaeus), a partial skull of which was discovered during excavation for the Toronto subway.
I was hoping it would be some kind of uncannily impossible cryptid.
I was hoping it would be some kind of uncannily impossible cryptid.
November 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I for one was massively disappointed to learn that the 'Toronto subway deer' just refers to an extinct deer (Torontoceros hypogaeus), a partial skull of which was discovered during excavation for the Toronto subway.
I was hoping it would be some kind of uncannily impossible cryptid.
I was hoping it would be some kind of uncannily impossible cryptid.
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Grandview Barn in Stowe Vermont
📸Ken Rachlis
📸Ken Rachlis
November 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Grandview Barn in Stowe Vermont
📸Ken Rachlis
📸Ken Rachlis
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When multiple supernova explosions and stellar winds combine, you get something super!
Below is a raku vase inspired by the Orion–Eridanus Superbubble, where smoke, flame, and drifting starlight meet on clay.
#space #astronomy #pottery
Below is a raku vase inspired by the Orion–Eridanus Superbubble, where smoke, flame, and drifting starlight meet on clay.
#space #astronomy #pottery
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
When multiple supernova explosions and stellar winds combine, you get something super!
Below is a raku vase inspired by the Orion–Eridanus Superbubble, where smoke, flame, and drifting starlight meet on clay.
#space #astronomy #pottery
Below is a raku vase inspired by the Orion–Eridanus Superbubble, where smoke, flame, and drifting starlight meet on clay.
#space #astronomy #pottery
I was getting absolutely inert and nonsocial from the amount of stress I was under and one round with nitrous oxide at the dentist has revived me.
Reading articles where they talk about how they're totally trying to get it to the public as soon as they learn to upcharge it as a pill is maddening.
Reading articles where they talk about how they're totally trying to get it to the public as soon as they learn to upcharge it as a pill is maddening.
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I was getting absolutely inert and nonsocial from the amount of stress I was under and one round with nitrous oxide at the dentist has revived me.
Reading articles where they talk about how they're totally trying to get it to the public as soon as they learn to upcharge it as a pill is maddening.
Reading articles where they talk about how they're totally trying to get it to the public as soon as they learn to upcharge it as a pill is maddening.
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Rétro cars voiture 🚘 la Citroën Ami 6 de juillet 1965 ....
November 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Rétro cars voiture 🚘 la Citroën Ami 6 de juillet 1965 ....
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Fernando Lemos, "Stubborn Light", 1949-52
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Fernando Lemos, "Stubborn Light", 1949-52
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Update. We pink!
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Update. We pink!
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Prolific American photographer Ralph Gibson
Hand Through a Doorway (from The Somnambulist, 1969)
#RalphGibson #Photography
Hand Through a Doorway (from The Somnambulist, 1969)
#RalphGibson #Photography
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Prolific American photographer Ralph Gibson
Hand Through a Doorway (from The Somnambulist, 1969)
#RalphGibson #Photography
Hand Through a Doorway (from The Somnambulist, 1969)
#RalphGibson #Photography
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I have almost run through all of my silk filament (I do not use silk normally but it works great for these whistles!) but I'm gonna keep printing whistles.
If you want to donate filament to the cause, the stuff labeled FOR WHISTLES will, you know, become whistles.
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
If you want to donate filament to the cause, the stuff labeled FOR WHISTLES will, you know, become whistles.
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
Two thousand whistles packed up and heading out the door tomorrow. Thank you @moryan.bsky.social for hooking me up with the person who can use these in Chicago! 💕
(and thank you to discord for buying me enough filament to keep making them!)
(and thank you to discord for buying me enough filament to keep making them!)
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM
I have almost run through all of my silk filament (I do not use silk normally but it works great for these whistles!) but I'm gonna keep printing whistles.
If you want to donate filament to the cause, the stuff labeled FOR WHISTLES will, you know, become whistles.
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
If you want to donate filament to the cause, the stuff labeled FOR WHISTLES will, you know, become whistles.
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
I’m getting a couple dental crowns Tuesday, I have a stye, I’m having a POTS flare up, I’m going to physical therapy, I still have other long COVID symptoms from last July, and I’m doing a lot better than a lot of Americans because for now I can afford my healthcare.
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I’m getting a couple dental crowns Tuesday, I have a stye, I’m having a POTS flare up, I’m going to physical therapy, I still have other long COVID symptoms from last July, and I’m doing a lot better than a lot of Americans because for now I can afford my healthcare.
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Something I’ve noticed is there seems to be a sort of pervasive assumption that the status quo has gravity. That there’s a natural, comfortable way things should be and that deviations from the normal state of the world will correct themselves in time.
But as a paleontologist, I know this is false.
But as a paleontologist, I know this is false.
November 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Something I’ve noticed is there seems to be a sort of pervasive assumption that the status quo has gravity. That there’s a natural, comfortable way things should be and that deviations from the normal state of the world will correct themselves in time.
But as a paleontologist, I know this is false.
But as a paleontologist, I know this is false.
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Artwork for the game Secret of Mana by Hiro Isono, 1993
November 7, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Artwork for the game Secret of Mana by Hiro Isono, 1993
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Even at the unfashionable end of Ashcourt Necropolis, there are houses of the dead that try to lord it over their neighbours. For all the grand statements made by their stones, they still whisper lonely sorrows. Inequality wins few friends. – #CLNolan
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Even at the unfashionable end of Ashcourt Necropolis, there are houses of the dead that try to lord it over their neighbours. For all the grand statements made by their stones, they still whisper lonely sorrows. Inequality wins few friends. – #CLNolan
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This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This person took this when they called the race