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Fidel Destro

@fideldestro.bsky.social

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Tech artist, writer, anti-establishment agitator, broke anarchist with no friends, and the sovereign Witch King of Mars. I'm using science & art to make magic and fight evil. I don't like your employer and I don't like your party. Foster human excellence.

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · Jun 19

Back in the summer of 2023, after my cat died, I spent 2 weeks building a particle physics animation engine in Blender Geometry Nodes, entirely on intuition. I also built a system to record animations as curves so they can be played back dynamically.
#Blender #Programming #memoir

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 4h

What I noticed is that this kinda scary sounding feature that hardly anyone uses is basically exactly like the AI search every lazy dipshit uses in every program now, except it's accurate and doesn't need to burn down a small forest every time you use it.

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 4h

The other day, I noticed this funny thing... a lot of super technical programs I use have this feature called a Command Palette, which it seems like few people use. It's a bar where you can type in the name of the command you want, and it'll execute it there and show you the hotkey.

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 6h

I appear to be making screen toys for stoners.

Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 8h

There aren't a lot of options, but there are a few (aside from Blender w/ CAD addons). FreeCAD is really the leading contender, and recently revamped their interface. There's also OpenSCAD, if you're into doing CAD work by code.

Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 8h

I believe my enemies have been scammed. They built machines designed to con people, then they fell for the con. Now they're over invested in these machines, they've slashed their employee rosters, and they need those who remain to become multiple times more efficient.

The iron is hot.

Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 8h

I gotta find something to replace Marvel Rivals for my dopamine hits. That game is no good.

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maxfieldev @maxfieldev.bsky.social · 10h

Shaders are pretty cool! Vid on how I made this in #Godot coming soon :) #shaders #gamedev #mandelbrot #GodotEngine

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quirky-iri.bsky.social @quirky-iri.bsky.social · 10h

show off for my geometry nodes setup for automatically applying sticky strings between 2 touching objects

sticky and wet things need more 3d love

#blender #geonodes #procedural #sticky

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you. That is often how my work is described.

Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 11h

Can't figure out why it's doing that. So weird. Solid glitching, tho. 😅

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 12h

Built an alternate 10Print pattern using Godot's Label node, but after it fills up it starts causing the whole thing to glitch violently. Which.... is kinda cool, tbh.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 21h

She's a U.S. sponsored opposition candidate and the daughter of a steel oligarch. Machado champions the privatization of Venezuela's oil, power, and steel industries.

Connie Schultz @connieschultz.bsky.social · 21h

New York Times:

“Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela & for her struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 13h

In this new video, we do a beginner-friendly deep dive into the "double subdivision" method which is a very easy, fast and fun way of making 3D models. This is a longer version of a video I made about a year ago. Watch it here: youtu.be/YCd_tS_3BTU #blender #b3d #blender3d

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WobblyPython: 🐍 @wobblypython.bsky.social · 12h

Watching a video of a crab shed an old exoskeleton, and imagining an alien species of bug folks. A proud grandma at a dinner trotting out someone's first molt to show how big they've gotten. Gods they were small then.

They are, of course, deeply embarrassed.

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 13h

Some people very genuinely despair that they can't focus on the things they want to accomplish, and the one thing they won't try is sitting down at whatever kind of workstation is required and focusing on the things they want to accomplish.

Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 13h

Instead, they'll just keep doomscrolling, because that's actually what these machines are for. And if they do try to do work on them, they'll find themselves at their desk, desperately trying to jerry-rig their tablet into a high price low power barely useful workstation.

Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 13h

Announcements of creative apps for tablet elicit oohs and ahhs. "Oh, I'll be able to do my work on the couch! Or while I'm out at the coffee shop or on the train."

But then people don't do those things. They're fantasizing about making work more relaxing, but it's still work.

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 13h

I think touch interfaces are bad and devices that rely on them are fundamentally unserious. We were promised interfaces that were more natural and intuitive, and a decade later we have tons and tons of crappy apps with 3 huge buttons and only 2 features.

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Krormwrorm @krormwrorm.bsky.social · 14h

I could really use like 20 bucks today if anyone can spare it. Please take a look at my work and throw some money at me if it moves you to. Thank you.

Krormwrorm @krormwrorm.bsky.social · Feb 13

If you like my art and would like to support me, here's my links for prints or general support. I have no income rn, every little thing helps.

Thank you for looking.

Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/kror...

General support:
www.patreon.com/c/Krormwrorm
ko-fi.com/kamonmccoy
venmo.com/u/Krormwrorm

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The Technician @thetechnician.bsky.social · 14h

Saw a article about a new design for robot-tentacles, and needed to make a robot around it!

the researchers have a website about their tentacle design here www.spirob.com/home

#robot #scifi #blender #blender3d

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 14h

lol

About Me
High heels. High maintenance. High standards. I play chess, not checkers. Come correct.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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Inferno Duck Games - TANKEGEDDON! Demo Out Now! @infernoduckgames.bsky.social · 16h

Whilst testing, I noticed that the menus in the garage weren't the most user friendly.

Today I improved the colour customizer UI. I didn't make many changes, but I did make the colour picker a lot easier to use 🎨👨‍🎨🦆

#gamedev #solodev #indiedev #indiegame #godot #lowpoly

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Jay Gunn/Wilson @gunnwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Saw this (credit where credit is due).

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21h

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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