Val Delane
@valdelane.net
Autodidact, Capricious Optimist, Dork, Gender Mashup, Holist, N-Dimensional Queer, Neurospicy, Perpetual Experiment, Postmodern Humanist, Pragmatist, Reductionist, Self-Rescuing Princess, Sentinel, Social Synapse, Systems Engineer
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I just thoroughly huffed Rudy Rucker's latest trippy surreal gonzo scifi adventure novel, _Sqinks_. Thought-sparking, slightly disturbing, and redonkulous fun. I helped fund it on Kickstarter and glad I did. Check it out!
SQINKS. A vintage Rudy Rucker rollercoaster: fresh ideas, big laughs, and high emotions. A novel about our new AI, set in today's San Francisco. A transreal cyberpunk love story! For sale everywhere.
Books2Read.com/sqink
Books2Read.com/sqink
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I just thoroughly huffed Rudy Rucker's latest trippy surreal gonzo scifi adventure novel, _Sqinks_. Thought-sparking, slightly disturbing, and redonkulous fun. I helped fund it on Kickstarter and glad I did. Check it out!
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I can finally post videos so...
Hi, I'm Cressa and I do stop motion. You may have seen my preshows at your local movie theatre.
Here's a cute thing I made for the release of Godzilla Minus One:
Hi, I'm Cressa and I do stop motion. You may have seen my preshows at your local movie theatre.
Here's a cute thing I made for the release of Godzilla Minus One:
February 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I can finally post videos so...
Hi, I'm Cressa and I do stop motion. You may have seen my preshows at your local movie theatre.
Here's a cute thing I made for the release of Godzilla Minus One:
Hi, I'm Cressa and I do stop motion. You may have seen my preshows at your local movie theatre.
Here's a cute thing I made for the release of Godzilla Minus One:
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November 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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The improved Magic Wand tool is exhilarating.
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The improved Magic Wand tool is exhilarating.
I occasionally add albums to my large collection of music. As I listen on random over the decades I delete what I find offensive to ear or heart to evolve the "very best of" collection. I'm still surprised how many songs are men complaining about noncompliant women (delete delete delete).
November 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I occasionally add albums to my large collection of music. As I listen on random over the decades I delete what I find offensive to ear or heart to evolve the "very best of" collection. I'm still surprised how many songs are men complaining about noncompliant women (delete delete delete).
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I don’t know who needs to hear this (yes I do it’s everyone) but you’re allowed to have fun with your own existence.
You can enjoy it, make it art, take the piss out of yourself, laugh at and enjoy and be absurd strange little creatures all you want.
In fact I recommend it.
You can enjoy it, make it art, take the piss out of yourself, laugh at and enjoy and be absurd strange little creatures all you want.
In fact I recommend it.
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this (yes I do it’s everyone) but you’re allowed to have fun with your own existence.
You can enjoy it, make it art, take the piss out of yourself, laugh at and enjoy and be absurd strange little creatures all you want.
In fact I recommend it.
You can enjoy it, make it art, take the piss out of yourself, laugh at and enjoy and be absurd strange little creatures all you want.
In fact I recommend it.
Over the last couple of decades my responses to various challenging events have resulted in a constrained and somewhat isolated life. There are excellent reasons to maintain the structure under present circumstances.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Over the last couple of decades my responses to various challenging events have resulted in a constrained and somewhat isolated life. There are excellent reasons to maintain the structure under present circumstances.
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please don't threaten me with a great time
November 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
please don't threaten me with a great time
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I'm seeing reports that "rude" is one of the labels that defaults not just to "warn" but to "hide", which is bonkers.
Be sure to go through the immediately visible labels, the ones where you have to click the "Bluesky moderation" labeler, _and_ the special "adult content" checkbox.
Be sure to go through the immediately visible labels, the ones where you have to click the "Bluesky moderation" labeler, _and_ the special "adult content" checkbox.
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I'm seeing reports that "rude" is one of the labels that defaults not just to "warn" but to "hide", which is bonkers.
Be sure to go through the immediately visible labels, the ones where you have to click the "Bluesky moderation" labeler, _and_ the special "adult content" checkbox.
Be sure to go through the immediately visible labels, the ones where you have to click the "Bluesky moderation" labeler, _and_ the special "adult content" checkbox.
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Stock videos of people eating in reverse
June 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Stock videos of people eating in reverse
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COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nerd-f...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nerd-f...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"," > "",
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nerd-f...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nerd-f...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
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Sorry spider haters, but this was just the most beautiful beast & I knew (nearly everyone) would need to see it 😉. It sat frozen, up on its toes, on the edge of Leeman (WA) salt lake while I took pics. Unfortunately it was too big (body length 1.4cm) for my lens. #spider #Lycosidae #Tetralycosa
October 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Sorry spider haters, but this was just the most beautiful beast & I knew (nearly everyone) would need to see it 😉. It sat frozen, up on its toes, on the edge of Leeman (WA) salt lake while I took pics. Unfortunately it was too big (body length 1.4cm) for my lens. #spider #Lycosidae #Tetralycosa
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Painting in progress for upcoming Waking Wonder show at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco. #terryribera #modernedengallery #sanfrancisisco #wakingwonder #sandiegotattooartist #remingtontattoo
October 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Painting in progress for upcoming Waking Wonder show at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco. #terryribera #modernedengallery #sanfrancisisco #wakingwonder #sandiegotattooartist #remingtontattoo
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I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.
October 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.
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Under Over Over - West Hampstead
So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.
The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.
So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.
The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.
October 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Under Over Over - West Hampstead
So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.
The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.
So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.
The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.
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If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.
October 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.
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If your protest privacy/security advice does not start with a discussion of threat models, it is probably not good advice.
October 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
If your protest privacy/security advice does not start with a discussion of threat models, it is probably not good advice.
I experience Soviet speculative fiction as dryly whimsical and refreshingly free from irrational optimism.
October 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I experience Soviet speculative fiction as dryly whimsical and refreshingly free from irrational optimism.
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Researchers in Taiwan have added a brand-new biochemical cycle to plants, allowing them to absorb & use carbon dioxide more efficiently than photosynthesis alone. Test plants carrying the “McG cycle” grew up to 3x larger, with bigger leaves & far more seeds and fats buff.ly/FIUA8Ca
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂
Engineered pathway lets carbon be plugged directly into key metabolic pathways.
buff.ly
October 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Researchers in Taiwan have added a brand-new biochemical cycle to plants, allowing them to absorb & use carbon dioxide more efficiently than photosynthesis alone. Test plants carrying the “McG cycle” grew up to 3x larger, with bigger leaves & far more seeds and fats buff.ly/FIUA8Ca
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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"Enceladus ticks all the boxes to be a habitable environment that could support life: the presence of liquid water, a source of energy, a specific set of chemical elements and complex organic molecules."
🧪🪐🔭
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🆕 The discovery of new complex organic molecules at Saturn's #Enceladus enhances the likelihood that the moon is habitable 🪐
On Earth, these molecules are involved in chemical reaction chains that lead to the more complex molecules essential for life.
Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭 🧪 ☄️
On Earth, these molecules are involved in chemical reaction chains that lead to the more complex molecules essential for life.
Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭 🧪 ☄️
October 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"Enceladus ticks all the boxes to be a habitable environment that could support life: the presence of liquid water, a source of energy, a specific set of chemical elements and complex organic molecules."
🧪🪐🔭
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🧪🪐🔭
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.
September 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.
Mental health tip in these trying times: Ignore emotionally charged content based on a screenshot, photo, or video unless it is accompanied by a link to a reputable, dated source that you verify. Even that isn't a guarantee of quality, but it will filter out most of the crap. 1/2
September 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Mental health tip in these trying times: Ignore emotionally charged content based on a screenshot, photo, or video unless it is accompanied by a link to a reputable, dated source that you verify. Even that isn't a guarantee of quality, but it will filter out most of the crap. 1/2
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Actually y'know, fuck my doomerism.
September 28, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Actually y'know, fuck my doomerism.
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Timeline cleanser 🐈
September 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Timeline cleanser 🐈