In Memorium: Comedy legend and Fraggle Rock guest Cathrine O'Hara

New episode of The Oracle! Please don't tell Satya #Nadella he's getting dunked on by #puppets. #youtube #microsoft #microslop www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_qB...

Winter just kills my exercise routine. Can't go for touch grass walks so either need to do treadmill or ex. bike, and those are so gruelling that I *need* long form video to distract. And when I don't have that... bleh. My fitness has come to depend on other people's content, which is just weird.

Finished this Legally Distinct Celebrity Amphibian(tm) today for a client. Want one of your own? Hit me up! #puppets #puppbuilding #kermit #notkermit

#puppet friends, no build stream today but a new tutorial video is up for your crafty needs! #maker #youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B9X...

Open Gaming Collective (OGC) formed to push Linux gaming even further #Bazzite #Linux #OpenSource #UniversalBlue #OpenGamingCollective

Hilarious when the Instagram algorithm just forgets everything and reverts to showing me the most milquetoast generic white person slop like Seinfeld and The Office memes. Great job, Meta, you’re really encouraging me to not look at your crap.

Hey kids, need to do some non-build stuff tomorrow so no build #stream *but* there will be a new #puppet building tutorial video out so you won’t miss my face.

I was almost ready to poke #DiabloIV again and then *as I'm installing* I get a preorder ad for an expansion that is min $60 CAD without which I won't have access to the new class. That's money I literally don't have and won't have. Uninstall. Old(er) games is the only way forward in my Poor Years.

Glad to see the news #Tiktok account deletions are spiking following the Trump government takeover. It‘s not just a protest move, you are depriving fascists of data by nuking that shit.

We created a word guessing engine and then it got so good at guessing words we think it’s alive. It’s a Ouija board. We’re reading in consciousness because it *sounds* like it. It is not. Trust me. Puppeteers know about this shit.

Legally distinct celebrity amphibians got a lotta fingers. #puppets #puppetbuilding

You can *feel* things changing, even up here in Canada. Shameful it took murdering 2 white people to move the needle after decades of black & brown people saying it, but there’s a tectonic shift happening. The fascists will lose. The people are pissed.

We gettin’ globe levels of sno. ❄️

I was gonna #stream some gaming but not feeling camera worthy. However I did just finish the script for the first episode of S4 of The Oracle, so #content is in the works! Everyone loves content!

Why you should be on the #fediverse: I posted a low cal #diabetic friendly #hoisin style recipe that was too many characters for #bluesky. Also it's actually decentralized and hasn't verified ICE. mastodon.content.town/@operationpu...

From the Jazz age to 60's rock, every fight against totalitarian brutality has been accompanied by a soundtrack. I know what I'm proposing. I 'aint even kidding, this is battle poetry. Let it fuel you. #bloodywood www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsy5...

I'll tell you this: if we can forge a new world where the fascist pigs are gone and it's safe for me to travel to the US again, #Minneapolis is at the top of the list for a visit. Because they're leading the fight against this shit.

I remember thinking how it took Kent State to really get the 60's counter culture galvanized into real action, apart from "vibes". The ICE motherfuckers are doing a slow burn Kent State.

It speaks well of #Warframe that they’re adding another plus-sized female frame and the community reaction has been hugely positive. Well done everyone, devs and fans alike.

The result of today’s #stream. Who needs patterns when you can spend a couple of hours draping? 😵‍💫 New Legally Distinct Celebrity Amphibian in the works 🐸 #puppets #puppetbuilding

Timeline cleanse! #Puppets! Chill crafty hangoutage on the build #stream. #YouTube #Twitch #puppetbuilding www.youtube.com/@OperationPu... www.twitch.tv/operationpup...

It can be difficult to make two identical #puppets even working from the same pattern, but a client wanted a copy of one I did years ago and I think I got pretty darned close. #puppetbuilding

Dear Mr Smart President, if you invade Canada I’d advise doing it around February because we’re all huddled in our igloos eating moose jerky and you’ll be able to conquer easily by moving your troops around empty streets and flying bombers in clear blizzard-free skies.

Someone spray paint a whiskey bottle gold and tell Trump it’s the Bestest Boy And Also Smart Prize so we can dodge WW3 for another couple of weeks, k?

Hey 2026, if this was a sign I’d be tapping it.

Progressive #content creators should mix it up with small unknowns more. When Cory #Doctorow went on Fireside Fedi it was amazing. Real "money where your mouth is" vibe. More of that would make the web a better place and de-stratify online voices.

Fellow #artists, consider adding a #noAI tag/logo to your site or portfolio. People *are* actively seeing out genuine human-made things as the #slop era continues to metastasize and genuine work is harder to find via search engines. no-ai-icon.com

I know learning & switching to #Linux seems intimidating but imagine not being in a war of attrition with your own computer. #microslop

Year 4 of the Pixels and Puppets #podcast begins! Recent #puppet builds, streaming, what #games we're playing, the death of #Anthem and rebirth of #Marvel Heroes Omega and how #CES had no juice but plenty of slop. Search Pixels and Puppets where you get your podcasts shows.acast.com/pixels-and-p...

Considering the current vote is overwhelmingly No, please consider making it opt-in instead of on by default at the very least. Don’t do a Firefox and alienate your core user base.

Timeline cleanse, I think we all need it. #Puppets! Chill crafty hangoutage on the build #stream. #YouTube #Twitch #puppetbuilding www.youtube.com/@OperationPu... www.twitch.tv/operationpup...

I ask myself, "Self, being such an advocate for the #Fediverse, why haven't you made a #Mastodon puppet yet?" and I find I have no answer. I think that's on the agenda for 2026.

I've learned to be a good communicator and found a way to make a usually obscure craft (puppet building) more accessible and welcoming. When you watch one of my streams not only will you likely learn something but you'll enjoy doing it.

At 57 I have become my grandmother cuz I save the teabag since I know I can get a second cup out of it.

Hey kids, weird sleep and a major snowstorm (making opening the shop window for ventilation dodgy) mean that I’ll move the #puppet build stream to tomorrow. But the show will go on!

One again reminding folks that the if you’d like something I list for general sale, please try to do it on my direct shop at www.operationpuppet.com rather than #Etsy. This is literally the fees from one sale. $70 CAD. It’s bleeding artists for corporate profit. #smallbusiness

Definitely excited to be going to Italy 🇮🇹 #puppets #smallbusiness #artist

I swear I would lose so much weight if I just had a space with privacy, a dance floor and a decent sound system to blast #bloodywood. #metal #folkmetal youtu.be/i4FqGPRQWFM?...

Hey wanna hear something positive? Sold my first #puppet to a client in Italy today. And it was a random shop browse, and it’s only Jan 13 which is earlier than sales usually start. Small thing but a hopeful sign as my wee #smallbusiness is struggling.

Worked hard on several #puppet builds today, including this prototype hand insert for a mysterious amphibious figure 🐸

Every motherfucker arguing for Elon’s little CSAM engine, including Sweeny and Carmack, need to have their hard drives carefully searched.

Catching up on the Better Offline CES pods and as a GenX’er lemme say: @edzitron.com is right about us. I am consistently disappointed in my own generation. We may not have caused the problem but we sure as hell didn’t find any solutions.

If you see this post a vampire

The #podcast was supposed to start again this weekend and I *was* going to game stream but today went totally sideways and I’m at a serious spoon deficit. We will try to get the train back on the tracks next week.

Hey 2026, I know you’re young but could you calm the fuck down for 5 minutes, thanks.

Had a client send a #AI image for concept art. I bit my tongue but please don't do this to any working artist, in any medium. Plus the results would have been exponentially better if we'd just brainstormed ideas and you trusted my artistic license instead of the bland sludge ChatGPT extruded.

First new listings for 2026 are up! Some old favourites, Greeblees! www.operationpuppet.com #puppets #puppetbuilding #smallbusiness #artist #handmade

In retrospect, putting Jimmy’s bench in front of the puppet monitor when I’m trying to do product photos was not well thought out.

Remember dear friends, every day you exist, every day you laugh, make art, feel anger, communicate with people and actually feel *anything* is an act of sheer bloody mindedness defiance. They want you to feel despair and helpless. Never give a fascist what they want.