Cyan

@cyanmatter.bsky.social

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Recovering student of astronomy and computer science. Committed to climate justice on the outside. Flesh, bones and guts on the inside. ────── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ────── he/him ⋅ 🇳🇱 ⋅ 1995

Two slides containing a title card of Star Trek Voyager. On both slides we see the USS Voyager heading off into the vast and dark expanse. The text that's superimposed on the first image reads: "No matter how alien the biology of the species, there must be some kind of physical limit to how soon the age of consent can be ethically attained." The text contiues on the next slide: "And the question I pose to society isn't whether the Ocampa have crossed that line, but whether we even truly want to figure that shit out."
A title card of Star Trek Deep Space Nine. It features such a large wall of text that the titular space station is barely visible in the space between the lettering. The text reads: "Bashir claims that he's a top who is tricked into bottoming for Garak every time. But the spiel has been going on for so long, even Rom has voiced his suspicions that it's all just foreplay for the both of them."
A title card of Star Trek The Next Generation. We see the Enterprise-D facing us on a backdrop of open space and a speckle of stars. The text that is superimposed on the image reads: "When you nut in space, it push you backwards." The phrase being a reference to the podcast My Brother, My Brother, and Me.
Two Star Trek The Original Series title cards. On the left we see the USS Enterprise in orbit of Earth, and the moon behind it. The text conveys: "Spock logically deduces that the aliens that are black on the right half and white on the left had the right of it, actually." On the next slide, where we see the USS Enterprise in orbit of a different planet that is green with a magenta atmosphere, the text says: "He refuses to explain why. When prompted he reiterates that as a half-vulcan, he cannot lie."
Two slides of a Star Trek Deep Space Nine title card. Visually, each features a wall of text, and the titular space station can only just be made out in the space between the lettering. The text conveys: "Indeed, there is a concensus—that we as a culture have made peace with—that the continuity of a mind is disrupted and lost at the transporter pad, and another mind inherits the body that is newly constructed elsewhere." The text continues on the next slide: "And the notion that this act would call for grief reflects more poorly upon your culture's norms and values than ours. For we are obviously the more advanced one."
A title card of Star Trek The Next Generation. We see the starship USS Enterprise-D facing us in orbit of a grayish blue rocky planet that has an atmosphere. The background is vast open space with only a speckle of stars. Superimposed on the image is the phrase "The Interplanetary Military Tribble-nals at Nuremberg."
A title card of Star Trek: Voyager. We see the starship USS Voyager drifting purposefully into space where there's only a speckling of stars visible. The phrase "Year of Smell" is superimposed on the image.
In an animal shed, a black goat faces the camera. The goat, named Black Philip, personified the devil and had the ability to speak in the movie The Witch.
A screenahot from The Witcher TV Series. Mousesack amicably greets Geralt at a feast in a palace, saying: "I haven't seen you since the plague."
A drawing of a person wheezing, with tears in their eyes, from laughter. This picture is often shared as a meme.
A generative AI's rendition of the "disaster girl" meme in Studio Ghibli style. The girl overlooks a structure fire while facing the camera, with her expression, described by The New York Times as "a devilish smirk" and "a knowing look in her eyes", jokingly implying that she was responsible for the fire.
Two colorful identical shapes lie on top of an open notebook. Each shape is the first stellation of a rhombic dodecahedron. In the notebook are written notes on the shape's geometric properties.
Putin in his office during a teleconference call in January 2025. The monitor on his desk displays the same image it has for years.
Putin in his office. The monitor on his desk displays the OS' desktop.
Vladimir Putin in his office in the middle of a broadcast teleconference call. The monitor on his desk displays the OS' desktop.
A mysterious hooded figure sitting at a desktop, tapping at a keyboard. Their surroundings give the sense that their job is technological in nature. Surrounding this person there are many floating numbers, indicating that they are processing lots of information.
The images in this post are panels of a comic. In the first panel, an astronaut who just landed on a landscape dotted with craters kicks out the hatch of their lander.
A screenshot of a post by cyanmatter that says "I'm at @cyanmatter.bsky.social's first post." And YouTuber Tom Scott stands directly next to it.