Max Ritter

Octopus diorama

Giant sequoia tree from 550 AD

cephalopoda museum display wall

Little Foot skeleton display

Had an existential crisis in front of the giant Sequoia tree from 550 AD, and got to meet a celebrity (Little Foot)!!

Agreed, I like Bluesky because it's a chill place to scroll & learn from interesting people

'Whitechapel Bell Foundry' (from 'Odd Jobs', 1935) by Pearl Binder

Currently midway through S1 of Mr. Robot, and WOW what an amazing show! Thx for the TikTok recommendation @jasonkpargin.bsky.social

I would be curious to hear a software engineers take on the show.

Now that my dissertation is in the can I have such a backlog of books and fanfic and tv shows to enjoy without feeling guilty — I feel like Burgess Meredith in twilight zone. I’ll be entertained forever.

What was your favorite episode / plotline?

I loved the prison break episode

Concept art for a spaceship in the science fiction story I'm working on. It is white with weathered surfaces with larger blue segments. It has swept forward wings and two forward facing wings like prongs.

I'm slowly setting aside my paleoart to work on my science fiction story. (For real this time)

I'm writing it as a novel so I don't restrain the narrative knowing I have to then draw the things I'm writing.

I still take breaks to poke at concept art. Have a little sneak peak at a spaceship.

Very cool 😎

My mesh of a Soviet Lunar Expeditionary lander, processed to look like a charcoal sketch.

My mesh of a Soviet Lunar Expeditionary lander, processed to look like a charcoal sketch.

Asteroid Bennu, before and after sample was taken, in anaglyph 3d. Animation by me,

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

Gives me Jody from Shameless vibes

The camouflaged and highly venomous anemone Phyllodiscus semoni. Worst case can apparently give you acute kidney failure. This is the biggest one I've seen.

A beautiful stainless steel silo I got to work on a little, mostly drafting the waterjet cutout patterns in the alcove.

The fabricators knocked this project out of the park! #STEM #Dairy #foodprocessing

A video I took of a Bend-Tech "Dragon" plasma cutter, it's a very cool machine! So much better than making paper patterns for the fabricators to fit up parts with. #STEM #engineering #CAD

Latest pastel sketches

#art #birds #nature #illustration

Right! Just here to see cool content and posts from interesting people!

The Last of Us S2 is getting a lot of hate online.

I haven't played the games yet, so I don't care about it being faithful to the source material.

Enjoying it so far! If you dislike it, why??

#TLOU #TheLastOfUs

Ink painting of a bacteriophage in indigo

Now that is a good-looking virus #sciart

I started watching #Andor S1 last night! Definitely was missing out.

Time to withdraw my lawsuit 😂

bearded vulture - A bird with a fluffy red crest on its head, dark wings and an orange belly, perched on a broken branch.

The bearded vulture

What's the coolest technology that was made pointless by something else more efficient? E.g. blimps when planes are invented, or pneumatic mail tubes made pointless by email.

Rigid airships are so cool, I so wish there were still a thing, all we have now are advertising blimps 😭

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If it's a dog I'm immediately converting to Catholicism 😂

What breed would make a good pope?

A video I took of a Bend-Tech "Dragon" plasma cutter, it's a very cool machine! So much better than making paper patterns for the fabricators to fit up parts with. #STEM #engineering #CAD

A comically shitty picture of a man at a podium talking in front of a slide with his name and face on it. It says Timothy Swager and 2025 American institute of chemists gold medal awardee

At the @sciencehistory.org Institute at their awards night.

Timothy Swager is discussing the critical importance of patiently explaining that the new innovations, whether it’s the newest phone or cancer drug, is not going to come from AI. It’s going to come from a lab. From people. From scientists.

YouTube video by Magnus Midtbø I went down the DEEPEST cave in America (this cave has claimed lives)

Watching this #cavediving video, it's both fascinating & beautiful, yet terrifying.

I'm going to be doing some (safe & touristy) cave tours in the #blackhills this summer, and I'm so excited!
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