Inktober 2026 19, Confused

Captain’s log, Day 19

Impact. Then nothing.

I came round hanging in my harness, the deck over my head, the ceiling underfoot. Alarms are screaming but I can’t tell which are real. Smoke in the cockpit. Instruments reading everything at once: climbing, falling, dead.

The lights cut out and I couldn’t tell up from down.

Through the cracked glass: mountains, and a column of smoke rising from the wreck.

Inktober 2026 18, Flightless

Captain’s log, Day 18

It’s gone. We won, if you can call it that.

The hull is torn open. The power is dead. The ground is coming up fast.

We paid for this in lives I’ll have to name later. Everyone aboard is still breathing. Nobody is leaving.

We are flightless.

New posts on this blog now get announced on Bluesky automatically, alongside the Mastodon toots that were already going out. If you’re reading this via a Bluesky link card, that’s the thing working.

It went live on 16 October, with the Inktober “Gangly” post being the first one through, and it’s been quietly doing its job since.

How it works

The whole thing is a GitHub Actions workflow plus a small Python script, with no third-party service in the middle.