The blast furnace & hearth at Redcar Steel Works. Went for a look before it's all gone. The scale is quite mind boggling!

Former Bethlehem Steel site

Steelstacks, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

As shown in figure 13.58, this is an enormous chemical reactor in which heating, reduction and purification occur together.

"Chemistry" 2e - Blackman, A., Bottle, S., Schmid, S., Mocerino, M., Wille, U.

Metallurgist working by the blast furnaces in Třinec Iron and Steel Works, Czech Republic

the b in bdubs stands for barista

(this one's got a large resolution, so click for better quality)

closeup after the cut

first time drawing an interior in this amount of detail and i decided to go ham on the lighting. spent about 20hrs on the bg alone. there are a few things I'd change but overall I'm real happy with how this turned out :]

coffee shop AU anyone? ;]

on a side note i never want to paint a blast furnace ever again

Carrie Blast Furnace

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

August, 2022

sometimes im normal and then i think about the pines family

Shipbreaking on Pluto.

Once a significant "last stop" refuelling for some of humanity's early colony ships, tiny Pluto has long since declined in significance, and has become last stop of a very different kind for many of Sol's venerable spacecraft.

Yards on and around Pluto have employed generations of hard-worn workers, first maintenance technicians, expert engineers, and now primarily shipbreakers, and its yards are entrusted with government contracts too sensitive for yards further from Sol's watchful eye.

Atrocious working conditions in the yard's early days led to the formation of the Plutonian Union of Workers which to this day positions itself as the de facto government of Pluto, though the SCG does not recognise them as a unified state.

i just switched my browser to firefox (from brave bc i’m a freak and they were kind of changing the game tracking protection wise like 4 years ago) and it took a mere 15 minutes to port everything over perfectly ✨ i sound like an ad sorry lmao but i’ve been wanting to do this forever and was prevented by needing chromium’s ability to use different profiles in the same browser for my old job. which apparently already got fixed by firefox getting containers. whatever i’m a new man now

ik its silly to say this when it's -10f and my window is cracked but its so fucking hot in my roomi wanna crawl out in the snow

Guys,

I'm a fucking genius.

Look how cool the throne room looks so far

the @art-that-fucks-you-up-tournament is inching dangerously close to finally pitting two different works of grief art from the AIDS crisis against each other and when it finally happens it's going to be so brutal and impossible

THINKING ABT OUR FIRST CENOBITE OC WHO WAS AN INDUSTRIAL STEELWORKER IN THE 1930s ANDHAS ITS HEAD COMPLETELY PINCUSHION CRUCIFIED BY HEAVY GALVANIZED RAILROAD SPIKES BUT JUST ONE HALF OF ITS HEAD. ALL SHOVED IN THERE LIKE SOMEONE WAS TRYING TO STAKE A VAMPIRE RLY HARD BUT IN A BOUT OF MANIA. WITH ENDLESS HANDFULLS OF RAILROAD SPIKES. ITS LEFTEYE IS DESTROYED. ITS JAW IS ALSO COMPLETELY CRUSHED CLOSED BY THE SPIKES.

steel town

Photo taken from the top of blast furnace no. 1, Dunaújváros, 1953. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.