Nerva_Xe

Made some updates to the Refractor-Terrane, planning on cooking up a fresh wave of ships pretty soon as well…

Prompt 25: Fracture "wuh.. what am I even looking at??"

hyelp

it's like that thing Nietzche said about killing yourself or having a cup of coffee. in a way.

Say that again? #deadlock

Current mood

genuinely shocked i haven't seen this on the tl yet with all the winstonposting

istg if this is a prelude to it getting turned into SEO slop im gonna be MAD (don't get me wrong making the UI more accessible on other devices make sense but it's also just. worse now? the titular encyclopedia should always be on top, rather than two screens down)

they took Encyclopedia Astronautica's charmingly 1990s UI design away it's so incredibly over the UI's now so "claude, make me a website"...

Hexagonal growth in a black olive tree.

For #MineralMonday, a beautiful example of amazonite, a relatively rare example of a green potassium feldspar (microcline) from the Pikes Peak region. 🧪⚒️💎

the devil you don't

Eating the sun whole

‘Flower nails’ by Masaharo Ono, 2005

day 26 - nuts and bolts

My mother gives Tama Q-tips to leave her alone and she grabs them and leaves like a dog awaiting his morning bone treat

National Theatre, London r/brutalism

Title text: "The 'light' refers to bremsstrahlung." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3315#Transcript

like 3 years ago you drew vio and prunsel and tbh that was kinda awesome

bonus: Using them for a reversal of that one meme whose original artist continues to elude me (cursory search suggests it mighta been comic artist Jesse Lonergan but I haven't found the original post to confirm)

Moving forward www.eso.org/public/video... Today’s Picture of the Week shows an exciting milestone: the massive altitude structure of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) was tilted for the first time in October 2026.