Starship 🛰️ Amelia 📡 @StarshipAmelia@witches.town

You can actually tell much better in that image that the "shine" on the planets and the ships don't line up than you can in the final animation!

(The backstory for that is to save on rendering time the sky is pre-rendered as an equirectangular projection, and I just shuffled it around enough so that it'd look convincing in motion ^^)

Oh I realized that I never showed a close-up of the picket ships that appear in the background of my animation (which I'm just about done with the companion writing for!). Here's a quick and dirty render of one up close! https://witches.town/media/zl0kvZ2-Mb_u4kZzkiI

Holy shit I get back from a doctors appointment and my mentions are filled with awesome conversations!!

This is super cool and hasn't happened before tbh ^^

Oh there's an idea - The Solar Collective ends up with a lot of AGI sophonts living in their settlements - maybe they could live in big bulky and chunky mainframe-adjacent things in many cases?

Vintage computers, workstations, and minicomputers are (one of) my aesthetics! https://witches.town/media/81Xvc7vkEu9AldJbkCc https://witches.town/media/ekWZKfkd2OH7by8l6qg https://witches.town/media/hc5p3gDqgGaIuTEt9_w

Now if only I could figure out a sensible reason for this aesthetic to persist through the early 2100s to the late 2200s ^^ (Especially on mass-conscious spacecraft!)

I wonder how long it'll be before wikipedia starts using ancient (by future standards) wikipedia articles as references, if ever. Will articles eventually be "archived" and locked away as historical things?

(I'd imagine that there might procedures written down and in place for that already?)

A friend linked me this article, and I think it's really great how these folks at that factory are doing things without a boss! We don't need bosses to tell us what to do!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/18/cope-capitalism-failed-factory-workers-greek-workplace-control

The solidarity of the people in the surrounding city, helping to protect the factory from capitalist scumbags there to "take back" equipment is great as well, as is their support of refugees!

We really need more factories like this. (All workplaces should be self managed imo!)

me_irl https://witches.town/media/XnyGRfrf0SokEAGH0V4

(I've no idea what this is from but I can totally get behind the idea of basic rights including existing forever and unimpeded movement in space!!)