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   Derek Caelin is writing a book (derek@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jan-2026 23:42:05 JST Derek Caelin is writing a book

   From "Le vingtième siècle: la vie électrique" (1893) by Albert Robida.

   #airships

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     Derek Caelin is writing a book (derek@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jan-2026 23:53:24 JST Derek Caelin is writing a book

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     From "Omega: The Last Days of the World" by (1894) by Camille Flammarion

     https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/omega-the-last-days-of-the-world-1894/

     #airships

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     Derek Caelin is writing a book (derek@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 01:15:30 JST Derek Caelin is writing a book

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     #R101 Over St. Paul's Cathedral in 1929(?). From "His Majesty's Airship" by S. C. Gwynne.

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     Derek Caelin is writing a book (derek@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Feb-2026 13:14:03 JST Derek Caelin is writing a book

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     I present to you... the Argus One UAV

     #airship

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     Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Feb-2026 13:14:41 JST Luis Villa

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     @derek it is, uh, definitely non-rigid

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     Derek Caelin is writing a book (derek@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Feb-2026 23:46:43 JST Derek Caelin is writing a book

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     • Luis Villa

     @luis_in_brief Give it a few minutes for the next flight.

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     Derek Caelin is writing a book (derek@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2026 21:28:56 JST Derek Caelin is writing a book

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     There I was playing "Nobody Wants to Die", a nice hammy future #filmNoir, and an #airship shows up. "That's nice," I said to myself. "Bonus airship."

     Not 2 minutes later... explosion.

     Why can't I have a nice, not explode-y airship experience?

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     Derek Caelin is writing a book (derek@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 10-May-2026 04:03:52 JST Derek Caelin is writing a book

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     I found a sweet illustrated book of #JulesVerne stories and the #airship illustrations are 🤌.

     #airships #bookstodon

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     Derek Caelin is writing a book (derek@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 24-May-2026 13:30:45 JST Derek Caelin is writing a book

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     Some things never change. This quote from "Thr Clipper of the Clouds"

     #JulesVerne #Airships

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     Derek Caelin is writing a book (derek@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jun-2026 11:11:37 JST Derek Caelin is writing a book

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     Le Jaune, 1903

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     Derek Caelin is writing a book (derek@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jun-2026 12:48:33 JST Derek Caelin is writing a book

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     • Jessamyn

     @jessamyn rad! Love that picture.

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     Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jun-2026 12:48:34 JST Jessamyn

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     @derek They were big in the airship business at the time. I remember this photograph from a bit later (sister is an airship nut)

     https://www.flickr.com/photos/8623220@N02/53679323117/

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     Adam Greenfield (adamgreenfield@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jun-2026 17:47:32 JST Adam Greenfield

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     • Jessamyn

     @derek @jessamyn ELADATL!

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     Derek Caelin is writing a book (derek@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jun-2026 20:40:26 JST Derek Caelin is writing a book

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     • Adam Greenfield
     • Jessamyn

     @adamgreenfield @jessamyn excellent, thank you!

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     Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Monday, 22-Jun-2026 10:52:05 JST Jessamyn

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     • Adam Greenfield

     @derek @adamgreenfield Yes, that. And there is some good airship content on Flickr Commons. I had started a gallery but it's mostly trying to showcase as many commons members as possible so it's not all the airships just select airships.

     https://www.flickr.com/photos/flickrfoundation/galleries/72157722171195645/

     There are some blimps in KSR's Antarctica

     https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/node/344

     and a few more noted in this newsletter

     https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/might-there-be-blimps