THIS IS MY HOLE! IT WAS MADE FOR ME!!

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If you want to know how it works I am going to do my best to share that here! (I am no mechanical expert, I could not design something like this, but it is simple enough I can observe how it works)

with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭

Counter Crafting: Okay the mechanical counting machine is complete! It can theoretically count to 999 tho I have not tried, LOL. I did not break any pieces on this one but I did have to juryrig a gear spacing by shoving some folded paper in there.

One of the things I am most excited about is the release of Free Stars: Children of Infinity game, the longcoming sequel to the amazing The Ur-Quan Masters (which you may have known as Star Control II) Space exploration! ship combat! resource management! hilarious dialog! freestarsgame.com

This is the thing that’s so stupid/horrifying about Big Tech’s shiny promises of our “AI future.” *If* it works like they promise (and there’s no evidence it does or ever will), the result will be massive unemployment and conscious human-level intellects treated as slaves. Who wants that?

Rosed can be other colors Violets can be found in some parlors I can't read this without saying one of the rhyming words wrong And this is why I don't make a living in song

Counter crafting: pieces coming together, but not in working order yet (I hope this works!) It says to rub a candle on some parts I assume to reduce friction on rubbing points. I am using wax from a sewing kit I hope that is good enough

ICE is still very active in my neighborhood this morning. They just grabbed someone nearby. Don't believe the propaganda.

I would really like people to take this into account. Yes, arguably some of the worst people are not conventionally attractive in some way or another, but focusing on that and not their behavior, lack of empathy and compassion, only tears down everyone around you who shares that physical trait.

As I've been on a roll with Star Trek threads today, let's continue with this one: you know one of the best parts of Geordie's visor? 90% of the time, nobody fucking mentions it.

I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them." That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.

If my followers have been inspired by the fierce resistance the Twin Cities has put up to ICE, you should make it a point to take a trip here (April through October 😬), enjoy the wonderful things MN has to offer and support our small businesses. It continues to be a really tough time for them.

statement from minnesota lt gov and US senate candidate peggy flanagan on tom homan’s announcement of the ICE surge ending soon

I keep hearing from friends getting confused/caught up in bookclub promotion scams and wasting time because of them. IME, a book club doesn't need to contact you to choose your book for their club. Any book club that contacts me, from a group I don't already know, wanting anything more then to say-

craft time: working on my mechanical counter

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

I hear a lot of people saying that ai makes art accessible.. well I personally think that's bullshit- so I made this to drive my point home. #regalsart #illustration #fuckai #digitalart

No industry has yet managed to appropriately adapt to language models in a way that preserves labor. Software engineering itself has been gutted as devs are laid off in record numbers. We don’t put enough value in actually employing people as its own social good, and we’re seeing the results.

I’d be willing to rethink my stance on AI if it wasn’t actively killing our planet, leading to measurable cognitive decline and psychosis, being used to generate revenge porn, plagiarizing the work of millions of writers and artists, threatening to end thousands of jobs, and actually worked.

I am old enough to remember a few years ago when all of these same people were telling me condescendingly that we all would be doing all of our business in the metaverse soon and I was just going to have to get used to that. these are rubes and you don't have to take them seriously.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

DIY kit, this one is a stem kit to make a mechanical counting machine

they pissed off the WeRateDogs guy enough from him to break character to directly tell them off, that's genuinely impressive levels of being an asshole

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

I know we're all mad about ICE/DHS but we also need to be mad about RFK Jr. He's killing -- and is setting the stage to kill -- waaaaay more people than DHS does, it's just that it happens quietly and in people's homes. Vaccine recommendations matter. Lying under oath matters. IMPEACH RFK JR

What good is a whistle, you might wonder? Whistles don't stop bullets. Renee Good and Alex Pretti were surrounded by the blasts of whistles, and they're no longer here. I print whistles because they make neighbors come running, ensure enough people are recording, so we can believe our eyes.

.... I just... I will just never understand the measures to which some publishers will go to avoid doing right by the writers who actually make the stuff they build their magazine out of. This ain't it.

Ok folks, I've updated the wishlist page of our ragtag group of whistlesmiths and we have a number of people running low on filament - if you wanna help contribute to our efforts of making and distributing free community safety whistles around the country, here's the list! linktr.ee/WhistleWishL...

Y'all, we did it. 💕 This crew of chaotic nerds has sent half a million whistles to people requesting them, for free. With your help! Need whistles? linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

Yeah if somebody just wants a cute hat that's cool too but the fact that it's a visual symbol of telling nazis to go to hell is not nothing for a lot of reasons.

Re: craftivism; we don't know what's gonna work til we do it. If you had told me last year that 3d printed whistles were going to be the big deal thing that really fucks up the gestapo... i'd have believed you because this moment is very weird BUT I'd have had to stare at the horizon for a minute.

Dragon Stitch: Okay, ready for a new color. OK back to the castle, go to a variety of sandstone type colors

Dragon Stitch: a little blending of green under the fin

writers, in this industry, sometimes you have to make difficult decisions. sometimes that will look similar to what someone else did... sometimes it will be totally different. know that it is okay if your path doesn't mirror someone else's; and that it is important to take care of yourself.

Dragon Stitch: FIN. (Not, as in, the end. But that splash down there is a dragon fin.)

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

TWIN CITIES Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action. No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group. Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest." acatusa.com

ARTE

Dragon Stitch: mixing a fruit cocktail down there or something, I dunno

Dragon Stitch: a splash of grape juice

Day 36! I read When Eve Chose Us by @tiatashiro.bsky.social published in @diabolicalplots.com. I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together. Read my review here: mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/s...

Red Ogre (@ogre.red) gets rights to your work upon *submission*. And those rights are ridiculous. They can change your work, not credit you, use your work for advertising, or put it in an anthology. Don't submit to this one, folks.

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

Victoria (and Writer Beware) is a great source for things to watch out in guidelines and reports of questionable publisher behavior. (And I totally agree with this "by submitting you grant rights" is a major issue)

States can just do this! Don't let your local gov get away with triangulating their way out of effective resistance.

Dragon Stitch: connected to another part of the dragon. It... looks like the dragon is taking a wiz

This would be a good time to donate to @wikipedia.org, if you have the means: donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php