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@markgarlick.com

🔭 Astrophysics Ph.D 🍩 Illustration and animation in Blender 🪐 Space art and astronomical art specialist ✨ Fellow of International Association of Astronomical Artists 🦕 Dabbling in paleoart and scifi art 🚫 Porn/AI/NFT/MAGA = Block 🌐 linktr.ee/spaceboffin

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Latest posts by ⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com

I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over. I wanted a blue badge on LinkedIn. To get it, I gave a US company my passport, my face, and my biometric data. Then I read the fine print.

thelocalstack.eu/posts/linked...

"Verifying" on LinkedIn?

They take your data, hand it to 17 companies, and use your biometric face data and passport to train AI.

For a blue tick.

06.03.2026 07:23 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 2

Jesus H. Sickening.

06.03.2026 09:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Procyon is approaching the Forge Station in Earth orbit. The model is currently available as a bonus for my kitbash set :)

06.03.2026 07:31 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Excellent work, Tobias

06.03.2026 09:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ditto. It just works. And looks beautiful.

04.03.2026 09:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It's fake. No other sources.

04.03.2026 09:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good luck with it, Robert

04.03.2026 09:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Linux Mint forever

04.03.2026 09:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Dragon's Egg is the only one which 'hard' Sci fi. 😉

04.03.2026 09:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

🤣 At least there isn't a deficit or excess of phalanged digits, for a change. What's next, a TV series called Neanderthal Manor, where a lucky sapiens woman gets to choose her ideal neanderthal?

28.02.2026 14:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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A fly by of the Destiny from Stargate: Universe.

Enjoy.

#scifiart #scifi #fanart #stargate #stargatesg1

26.02.2026 19:40 👍 39 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
This illustration, created in Blender and Photoshop, shows a scene from the end of the Cretaceous Period in Earth's history. A pair of tyrannosaurs - a mother and infant - cross a water-logged landscape, while a comet looms in the sky. A comet or asteroid is widely thought to have provoked the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of this Period, when it collided with Earth. It was not the worst mass extinction in Earth's potted timeline, but it was certainly the swiftest. The dinosaurs and many other creatures would be extinct months after this event, if not sooner.

This illustration, created in Blender and Photoshop, shows a scene from the end of the Cretaceous Period in Earth's history. A pair of tyrannosaurs - a mother and infant - cross a water-logged landscape, while a comet looms in the sky. A comet or asteroid is widely thought to have provoked the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of this Period, when it collided with Earth. It was not the worst mass extinction in Earth's potted timeline, but it was certainly the swiftest. The dinosaurs and many other creatures would be extinct months after this event, if not sooner.

Latest artwork, created this afternoon in #Blender and Photoshop. I don't usually give my artworks 'poetic' titles. Usually this would be 'Tyrannosaurs Regarding comet' or something equally prosaic. But I decided to break with tradition, and named it 'Impending Doom'.

#sciart #paleoart

26.02.2026 19:13 👍 23 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

They'll never get a chance to realise the European take on healthcare while big pharma pays off all the politicians, who then lobby against it with lies and propaganda. Ditto for guns and NRA.

25.02.2026 13:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Beat me to it. Yes, Tim White

25.02.2026 10:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is brilliant. A piece of written English where the language gets older as you go on. For me, before about 1400 it starts to become really hard to follow.

22.02.2026 12:39 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

This is excellent! After 1400 it all becomes clear.

22.02.2026 12:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Absolutely fascinating! Thank you for this. I started to struggle at 1400 and older.

22.02.2026 12:31 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hi, folks! Here's one of my earliest and still favourite animations, created in 3ds Max in 2011. It's shows the hellish landscape of Earth's Hadean Eon, shortly after the formation of the Moon, more than 4 billion years ago.

Who wants to go?

18.02.2026 10:40 👍 31 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

Rare to see decent #Blender work on this platform. Thanks.

18.02.2026 10:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A version of Macready waits to be rescued. A helicopter approaches him. He looks at his hand and it hasn't yet formed into a fully human hand

A version of Macready waits to be rescued. A helicopter approaches him. He looks at his hand and it hasn't yet formed into a fully human hand

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"Rescuing MacReady"

One year ago today I posted this miniature 'The Thing' photo I created using real figures, lighting and cotton wool for snow.

#thething #scifi #horror #photography #visualart #creativephotography

18.02.2026 07:35 👍 71 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

'You gotta be f*cking kidding!' One of my all-time faves. Shame that Carpenter hasn't made a decent flick in decades.

18.02.2026 10:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Earth revolves not around the Sun, but rather around the US, they like to believe. I too loathe this blinkered view.

18.02.2026 10:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Hi, folks! Here's one of my earliest and still favourite animations, created in 3ds Max in 2011. It's shows the hellish landscape of Earth's Hadean Eon, shortly after the formation of the Moon, more than 4 billion years ago.

Who wants to go?

18.02.2026 10:40 👍 31 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

Blew me away too. Must be incredible in the flesh

17.02.2026 16:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'd only ask for a takedown in lieu of a decent chunk of money. Infuriating.

17.02.2026 14:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My all-time favourite SFF Illustrator, @michaelwhelan.bsky.social

17.02.2026 14:14 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Wow. I haven't seen this one before, Michael, or at least I don't remember it. Stunning!

17.02.2026 14:12 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That's fantastic

14.02.2026 13:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lucky man

14.02.2026 13:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

😎

12.02.2026 23:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0