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The Wishing Well Cluster, NGC 3532 // Glenn Baxter

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Unusual polybasite specimen from Mayo Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada.

Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com – CC-BY-SA-3.0

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The Fighting Dragons of Ara (NGC 6188) and the Dragon's Egg Nebula (NGC 6164/5, lower right) // Joey Troy

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Grabs your sunflower asks and runs away with my new bouquet >:D

Oh shit! Well off my sunflowers go

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I'm thinking about the skuks and I'd like to say that it is impossible to understate just how vain they can be as a species, generally speaking. On the extreme end of the spectrum, fashion and aesthetic expression comes before nearly everything else. A life spent away from style is a life spent on nothing. If its not expressed through art it doesn't matter. These guys break rigid internal diplomatic rules to collect specimens from other empires, entire bodies-- both skuk vessels and just actual alien cadavers-- are purchased and hoarded for the sole purpose of decorating them. Their culture revolves around dress-up when it doesn't revolve around scientific advancement (mostly accurate) and frying their mechanical brains to invent new sensations in new places in new states of conscious existence (more accurate). From the outside they look like a noble and vast and mysterious empire, and they are that. They lead a life of technological and cultural complexity that seems incomprehensible to pre-FTL and even some post-FTL civilizations. But they can also be your filthy rich label-whore neighbors who do mushrooms and throw parties like they're testing how long they can go running on rich-people cheese and no sleep. And they're buildings. And this is not where I expected to end up with this empire but here we are

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Lucid dream, Fuco Ueda

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Arrival, SpY

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Bust a move, Ronit Porat (because)

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I tried making an ENA sona (even though I know nothing about ENA) but the colors just would not cooperate. But maybe someday I'll fix it. I really liked the concept around the two sides. The astronomer and the monolith

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SAFETY FIRST

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what's your favorite musical?

I've actually only been to see two because my love of musicals/plays was very recently discovered. So far it's Clue: The Musical though!

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this is how i got notified... gmail eated 75% of the flower 💔

i was gonna say something else but i completely forgot

uhhhhhhh go uranium and malachite my 2 dumb pups i found. malachite left me to die many times and i abandoned uranium in filtration. but they left to find their true purpose in life

i love these idiots so much i accidentally turned them into outer wilds ocs.. in the form of tadpoles

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I'm basically allergic to movies but I love plays and musicals a LOT

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The first Surfs Up movie influenced a lot about how I write dialogue. So did That 70s Show

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I need to work on a big project again... so bad...

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Caine was germinated to construct, detonate, and measure semiohazards in a controlled digital space. As a scientific tool of harm reduction and a steward to the simulation, his job has always been to ensure the safety of the humans that interact with him. After the first human got stuck, Caine’s focus shifted entirely to maintaining the sanity of the agents trapped in what is effectively an active blast chamber. He cannot help where hazards emerge in his stimulation exercises, “adventures,” and may not be aware of how to identify hazards when they do appear.

The Moon, Sun, and Bubble are nonsophont AIs subset to Caine’s subconscious cognitive power. Each is built to handle different aspects of the circus simulation. Bubble assists with robust adventure setup and Grounds upkeep, appearing at a single angle in observers’ vision, regardless of observer position or number.

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I CANNOT STOP LISTENING TO MIMIDEATH... It's a problem