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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 2d

Finished plastering the front of the medical scanner. Next, I’ll cover it with silicone to make a giant alien xenomorph egg.

When I started I got my clothes covered in plaster, so I’ve been working naked and now I look like a Wall Street executive after a $20,000 cocaine bender.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 2d

So me trying to build a desktop scanning tunneling electron microscope is a dumb idea, right? I have too many other projects in the pipeline, right? Besides, I have no use for an electron microscope anyway, right?

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 4d

Portland, Oregon!

Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve spent the last three days, and nine rolls of plaster bandage tape, covering the front of a medical body scanning pod with plaster. When it sets I’ll pry it off and cover it with silicone to make an alien xenomorph egg a person can sit in whilst being violated by tentacles.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 10d

Working on the giant ovomorph, a person-sized alien egg to ravish an Innocent Victim™ inside it with long silicone tentacles (dripping slime, of course, for the full experience). Experimented with dribbling silicone to create veins over the window…not perfect, but interesting!

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 12d

The jury pool has been excused for lunch! They make us wear these big neon “JUROR” tags even if we go to a restaurant because apparently some years back the prosecutors in a major case went to lunch and discussed the trial w/o noticing one of the jurors sitting next to them.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 13d

THIS JURY POOL ROOM PROVIDES COMPLIMENTARY FIDGET SPINNERS.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 13d

Sitting in the courthouse with a huge pool of fellow potential jurors. Security confiscated the handcuff key off my keyring, which I’ve carried since 1989. I mean, good on them for even noticing, but…

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 14d

Wish me luck! I’m braving the war-ravaged streets of Portland right now. I’m having to dodge sniper fire between the burning wrecks of cars, but if I can just fight off the roving bands of Antifa cannibals, maybe I’ll be able to scrounge enough food to survive the long night.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 14d

New on the More Than Two blog: Polyamory, kayfabe, and low-trust societies. In which your humble scribe looks back on almost 30 years of writing about polyamory, and muses on how the sex-positive community is on a spiral into deceit and dishonesty.

www.morethantwo.com/blog/2025/09...

Thirty years later: Kayfabe, history, and low-trust societies - More Than Two™

Image: Chris Liepelt As 2025 draws to a close, the twenty-eighth anniversary of my first online writings on polyamory draw near. 28 years years. Nearly thirty years of recording my musings, thoughts, ...

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 15d

I’ve been called for jury duty Monday. This will be…um, my sixth time, I think? I’ve never served on a jury because it always goes like this:

“Number 17, what do you do for a living?”
“Well, I’m a computer programmer, and—”
“Thank you, Number 17, you’re dismissed.”
Every. Single. Time.

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 19d

A billboard that says "Zero days since last failed prophecy"

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 18d

It is an unbelievably, almost impossibly gorgeous day, I’ve accomplished a ton of work so far today, and on a walk I found this lovely pattern of light and shadow. ❤️

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 20d

New signs have appeared in the local post office. I cannot help but wonder if there’s a story here.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 20d

Just found out that Evangelical groups are predicting the Rapture tomorrow. You know what’s amazing? None of them will question their beliefs the day after tomorrow.

I used to host parties whenever a Christian group predicted the end of things. Quit when it got too expensive.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 26d

Same reason email never had any verification system built in from the start: the utopian techbros who create these systems cannot imagine anyone deliberately using them for harm, so they simply don’t think about ways their systems can be exploited or weaponized.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks to Pumpkin Führer’s moronic trade war, shipping a $19 poster to Europe now costs me $35, with €24 tariffs for whoever receives it.

Until now they’re all printed in the USA. I’m now looking for Europe printers and shipping services.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · Sep 12

Okay, so, if you’re in Canada or the UK and you order posters or books from me, be prepared to be hit by “landing fees” when your package is delivered. Retaliation for Trump’s imbecilic tariffs.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · Sep 12

Heading to the post office frantically catching up on poster, book, and sticker orders now that I’m back in Portland.

Reminder, I’m still giving away Resist and Commit the Sin of Empathy stickers. Totally free, I even pay shipping!

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · Sep 12

Blog post: Understanding Porn: My wife is of the opinion I don’t understand porn. I think that’s silly; after all, I write porn! Porn is when you explore themes like personhood theory, agency, and philosophy through super-kinky sex. What say you?

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Thoughts on Understanding Porn - Franklin Veaux's Journal

My co-author Eunice and I write porn. We call it ‘porn’ without flinching; where some people like to claim there’s a categorical distinction between porn and erotica, we both are of the opinion that p...

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · Sep 10

I don’t understand why trans-dimensional demon-princes resort to abducting unwilling victims to feed their dark lust. All they need to do is go to an anime convention and say “who wants to hop through this portal? There’s a tentacle beast waiting to ravish you on the other side!”

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · Sep 10

Today I learned: you cannot instruct Siri to take a note that contains the word “ChatGPT.” Whenever I dictate a note to Siri containing the word “ChatGPT,” Siri stops and says “to use ChatGPT, you’ll need to enable it first.” Siri is incapable of seeing “ChatGPT” as a word.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · Sep 9

WordPress users! Beware offers of paid-for, premium plugins for free. Malware operators are tampering with premium WordPress plugins, then giving them away for ‘free’ to trick unwitting WordPress site owners into infecting themselves.

www.wordfence.com/blog/2025/09...

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · Sep 6

“I think we should coauthor some more porn.”
“So that means...research?”
“Yes.”
“Okay. I’ll start looking up Maylay grammar, you do a deep dive into Hittite funerary customs. When we’re done, we’ll circle back to the history of Cubist architecture.”
#AmWriting #AmWritingErotica

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · Sep 5

Back in Portlaaaaand! What a long, strange trip it’s been.

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