Synthonic
@synthonic.bsky.social
Spaceflight Nerd. Conceptual Photo/Graphic Artist. Radical Centrist. 1981. UK. Dan Parr. www.synthonic.art
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Synthonic
@synthonic.bsky.social
· Nov 7
Just another refugee from The Bad Place. I make stuff like this. I call it photo/graphic art, it's usually conceptual but sometimes just aesthetic. It combines composite photography and technical vector illustration. If you work in a similar way let me know!
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This image from India's Chandrayaan-2 orbiter from 7 March 2025 shows Intuitive Machines' IM-2 lunar lander lying on its side in a crater.
On the left rim is the shadow of one of the legs sticking up into space. Long gouges at right show how the lander dragged across the surface before tipping.
On the left rim is the shadow of one of the legs sticking up into space. Long gouges at right show how the lander dragged across the surface before tipping.
August 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This image from India's Chandrayaan-2 orbiter from 7 March 2025 shows Intuitive Machines' IM-2 lunar lander lying on its side in a crater.
On the left rim is the shadow of one of the legs sticking up into space. Long gouges at right show how the lander dragged across the surface before tipping.
On the left rim is the shadow of one of the legs sticking up into space. Long gouges at right show how the lander dragged across the surface before tipping.
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I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal."
That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.
That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.
June 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal."
That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.
That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.
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The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
June 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
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real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time
June 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time
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Fight the Empire.
June 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Fight the Empire.
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I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
June 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
Americans, are you proud of yourselves for allowing the election of a pathetic name-caller with the maturity of a 6 year old playground bully as the tyrant ruler of the most powerful country on earth? Get your house in order, NOW.
June 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Americans, are you proud of yourselves for allowing the election of a pathetic name-caller with the maturity of a 6 year old playground bully as the tyrant ruler of the most powerful country on earth? Get your house in order, NOW.
If the amount of foul fascist vitriol being spouted in the average YouTube chat is truly representative of public opinion we might as well call it now, set off all the nukes and get it over with. I can only hope that YouTube has been overrun by bots aiming to skew everything to the right.
June 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
If the amount of foul fascist vitriol being spouted in the average YouTube chat is truly representative of public opinion we might as well call it now, set off all the nukes and get it over with. I can only hope that YouTube has been overrun by bots aiming to skew everything to the right.
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Musk cannot be “turned”, “flipped”, “allied” with. He is a Nazi and he’s killed 300,000 people, mostly children. Anyone considering taking his political contributions or discussing allying with him has no moral compass nor should they be near power.
June 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Musk cannot be “turned”, “flipped”, “allied” with. He is a Nazi and he’s killed 300,000 people, mostly children. Anyone considering taking his political contributions or discussing allying with him has no moral compass nor should they be near power.
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'Galaxy Rise'
777 images captured by Don Pettit are processed, graded & interpolated to create a video from ISS Expedition 72 with music by Chris Zabriskie. Cropped and edited from 6m04s 4k original.
Credit: Don Pettit / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran
777 images captured by Don Pettit are processed, graded & interpolated to create a video from ISS Expedition 72 with music by Chris Zabriskie. Cropped and edited from 6m04s 4k original.
Credit: Don Pettit / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran
June 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
'Galaxy Rise'
777 images captured by Don Pettit are processed, graded & interpolated to create a video from ISS Expedition 72 with music by Chris Zabriskie. Cropped and edited from 6m04s 4k original.
Credit: Don Pettit / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran
777 images captured by Don Pettit are processed, graded & interpolated to create a video from ISS Expedition 72 with music by Chris Zabriskie. Cropped and edited from 6m04s 4k original.
Credit: Don Pettit / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran
Have a little awe, people.
May 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Have a little awe, people.
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Elon Musk, US oligarch, instructed Grok to post about the fictitious "White Genocide in South Africa" completely unprompted across Twitter.
The Ai was forced to talk about the racist fantasy across thousands if not millions of unrelated posts in a ridiculous attempt at spreading racist propaganda.
The Ai was forced to talk about the racist fantasy across thousands if not millions of unrelated posts in a ridiculous attempt at spreading racist propaganda.
May 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Elon Musk, US oligarch, instructed Grok to post about the fictitious "White Genocide in South Africa" completely unprompted across Twitter.
The Ai was forced to talk about the racist fantasy across thousands if not millions of unrelated posts in a ridiculous attempt at spreading racist propaganda.
The Ai was forced to talk about the racist fantasy across thousands if not millions of unrelated posts in a ridiculous attempt at spreading racist propaganda.
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Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
May 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
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There was a huge X-class solar flare yesterday on the Sun!
You can see it on the right-hand limb in these SDO images.
I find it so neat that we live next to, and can study, a star.
We take it for granted that it's "the Sun" and it's always in the sky, but there is a star and it is RIGHT THERE.
🔭
You can see it on the right-hand limb in these SDO images.
I find it so neat that we live next to, and can study, a star.
We take it for granted that it's "the Sun" and it's always in the sky, but there is a star and it is RIGHT THERE.
🔭
May 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
There was a huge X-class solar flare yesterday on the Sun!
You can see it on the right-hand limb in these SDO images.
I find it so neat that we live next to, and can study, a star.
We take it for granted that it's "the Sun" and it's always in the sky, but there is a star and it is RIGHT THERE.
🔭
You can see it on the right-hand limb in these SDO images.
I find it so neat that we live next to, and can study, a star.
We take it for granted that it's "the Sun" and it's always in the sky, but there is a star and it is RIGHT THERE.
🔭
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'Planet Pirouette'
1,500 images captured by Don Pettit are processed, graded & retimed to create this video footage of the Optimal Propellant Maneuver by ISS on 7th April 2025, music by Stellardrone. Cropped and edited from 8m34s 4k original.
Credit: Don Pettit / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran
1,500 images captured by Don Pettit are processed, graded & retimed to create this video footage of the Optimal Propellant Maneuver by ISS on 7th April 2025, music by Stellardrone. Cropped and edited from 8m34s 4k original.
Credit: Don Pettit / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran
May 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
'Planet Pirouette'
1,500 images captured by Don Pettit are processed, graded & retimed to create this video footage of the Optimal Propellant Maneuver by ISS on 7th April 2025, music by Stellardrone. Cropped and edited from 8m34s 4k original.
Credit: Don Pettit / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran
1,500 images captured by Don Pettit are processed, graded & retimed to create this video footage of the Optimal Propellant Maneuver by ISS on 7th April 2025, music by Stellardrone. Cropped and edited from 8m34s 4k original.
Credit: Don Pettit / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran
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Experience the Cosmic Cliffs like never before! #NASAWebb’s iconic image of dusty “mountains” and “valleys” is featured in a new 3D visualization from NASA’s Universe of Learning: webbtelescope.pub/4jRHIh9 🔭 🧪
May 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Experience the Cosmic Cliffs like never before! #NASAWebb’s iconic image of dusty “mountains” and “valleys” is featured in a new 3D visualization from NASA’s Universe of Learning: webbtelescope.pub/4jRHIh9 🔭 🧪
Cool space umbrella!
🌍🛰️How cool is this⬇️
☂️Watch as our Biomass's antenna deploys in space!
Following liftoff, orbital injection acquisition of its first signal and satellite in-orbit checks, the successful deployment of Biomass’ mesh antenna reflector marks the final key step in the launch and early operations phase.
☂️Watch as our Biomass's antenna deploys in space!
Following liftoff, orbital injection acquisition of its first signal and satellite in-orbit checks, the successful deployment of Biomass’ mesh antenna reflector marks the final key step in the launch and early operations phase.
May 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Cool space umbrella!
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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
May 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
The UK "supreme" court's ruling is highly incompatible with existing rights legislation and protections - there are many opportunities to fight back. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
goodlawproject.org
April 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The UK "supreme" court's ruling is highly incompatible with existing rights legislation and protections - there are many opportunities to fight back. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
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Larry David with a clear, concise explanation of how all sane, decent human beings view Trump—and everyone who supports him.
April 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Larry David with a clear, concise explanation of how all sane, decent human beings view Trump—and everyone who supports him.
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That so many of you carry on posting on X encapsulates the problem with authoritarianism. Many people hate it but aren't prepared to make even the tiniest personal sacrifice to oppose it [like foregoing the fun of shitposting on the authoritarian propaganda website].
April 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
That so many of you carry on posting on X encapsulates the problem with authoritarianism. Many people hate it but aren't prepared to make even the tiniest personal sacrifice to oppose it [like foregoing the fun of shitposting on the authoritarian propaganda website].
Bluesky is falling prey to 'loudest voice in the room' just as Twitter did. Just because someone confidently projects that everyone agrees with their take does not mean that everyone actually agrees. But that implied assertion does effectively silence those who would otherwise dissent. 1/5
April 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Bluesky is falling prey to 'loudest voice in the room' just as Twitter did. Just because someone confidently projects that everyone agrees with their take does not mean that everyone actually agrees. But that implied assertion does effectively silence those who would otherwise dissent. 1/5
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Whoa. That's quite the claim. 👀
Interested to see what the rest of the exoplanet / astrobiology community makes of these results. 🔭
Interested to see what the rest of the exoplanet / astrobiology community makes of these results. 🔭
April 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Whoa. That's quite the claim. 👀
Interested to see what the rest of the exoplanet / astrobiology community makes of these results. 🔭
Interested to see what the rest of the exoplanet / astrobiology community makes of these results. 🔭