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Kaye Elling

@k000.bsky.social

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Short, round, tattooed, middle-aged academic with a game dev past. TTRPGs, art, sketching, movies, minis, dogs, tattoos, metal, lefty politics, snark and memes. Goth adjacent but #NotaGoth. Fully anti-AI. Probably neurospicy. She/her.

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · Mar 20

Behold: The Dryangle V0.1!*

A philosophical model for the most efficient and effective way of drying laundry outside on a washing line or airer, depending on weather conditions.

*V0.1 because there are probably more accurate ways to explain the considerations.

A visual model of a triangle that explains the considerations for the most efficient way to hang washing on the line depending on weather conditions. The triangle has corners labelled Warm, Sunny, Breezy. Each line is labelled Space, Time, Mass. In the centre is a gradient going from teal (less) to orange (more). The idea being that the closer current conditions are to the centre of the Dryangle, the most efficient conditions are for Space (how close together you can hang the washing), Mass (how thick the fabrics can be), and Time (how late in the day you can hang the washing and still get it dry before dusk). This was made by me, Kaye Elling, an academic and middle aged woman, and almost certainly undiagnosed neurodivergent.

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 12h

Oooooh!

Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 13h

Gilding Mr Hanky?

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 3d

horror movie posters but with muppets: thread

Oscar the Grouch in the movie poster for Alien.

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 15h

A quote on Tolkien by Terry Pratchett: "JRR Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all susbsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it's big and up close. Sometimes it's a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it's not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji." This quote has not been fact checked.

Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 15h

And some laxatives, I hope.

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 15h

Fun fact: I buried one of my mother's half golden teeth in the cemetary that held her brother's and parents' remains after my dad selfishly ignored her final wishes and had her cremains buried near him in Germany.

Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 15h

Well yes if you dump the entire urn like some kind of human garbage. But a little bit here and there:
A) makes for less environmental impact
B) enables you to carry amusing baglets of suspect powders with you, just in case
c) facilitates far greater roaming for their ghost

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 15h

In that case, I expect my fully build Mother room by Christmas, cheers!

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 16h

Thread-
Mudlark
11th of the #Emberlings of Oct.
Originals £35 (plus post) each, in UK because people should be able to afford human art.
Message or reply to claim. First come, First served. She is A5. All will be collected in a book with words by @taliskimberley.bsky.social. #witchsky

Pencil drawing with chalk on toned paper. A witch mudlarking by moonlight with her finds in the foreground.

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 15h

Everything remains awful, but I'm up and about again, more or less. Currently wandering the house like a disgruntled middle aged woman in need of snacks.
And maybe more painkillers.
👀

Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 15h

One of these but for a Waylan-Yutani Mother room.

Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 1d

Damnable targeted ads, don't serve me up the ultimate flight sim rig when I couldn't possibly afford more than a mop handle duct taped to an old Atari joystick and an old seat from a 60s Ford.

Probably the most elaborate video game controller you could buy off the shelf.

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 1d

"I think the video game industry, as we know it today, might not be around for much longer [...] but I think video games as an art form and as a product are stronger than they've ever been and will only continue to be."
@jasonschreier.bsky.social

www.patreon.com/posts/140869...

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 1d

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Goldie Lookin Chain - Guns Don't Kill People (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by RHINO

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 1d

Very occasionally, if I was properly unlucky, it was this guy.

a man with blonde hair and glasses is wearing a black turtleneck and looking at the camera .

Alt: A gif of German crooner Heino, with his signature blonde hair and large dark glasses, altered to give him weird googly eyes and a twtiching face. Oddly, this is exactly how I remember him on German TV in the early 80s.

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 1d

Nooooo!

Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 2d

Look, this is Nobby. The less you know or can see, the better. ;)

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 2d

**shudder**

A job lot of cassette tapes by 70s crooner James Last.

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 2d

Doing some online roleplaying tonight, in between sniffles and painkillers washed down with hot tea. Managed a doodle of Nobby Nobbs in the meantime.

A quick and dirty doodle of Nobby Nobbs, the scruffy old night watchman in the Discworld series. He has his hands in his pockets and a Burleigh & Stronginthearm crossbow on his back. he's smoking the remains of a rollup. His armour is filthy. By Kaye Elling.

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 2d

Feeling marginally better this morning. Put some washing on.
So tired though. (Yes, even more than usual).
Have an actual flask of tea, which might be the best thing in the world.

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 3d

Feeling refreshed after a Wotsit sandwich and some fresh fruit.

Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah just under the weather. Damn Freshers, bringing their fancy new flu strains every year.
And a week before my annual flu vaccine too.

Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 3d

Only if he is rewarded with a pavlova.

Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 3d

Walked the dog.
Nearly died.

Ok that's not true, but I was a bit wobbly in the knees and sweated an awful lot. Should have rung a bell to keep people away.
Showered now. Considering eating something.

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 3d

The lurg, in 3 cyclical acts:
Me: shitting hell it's cold in here.
**Drinks 1/3 of a cup of tea**
I BURN WITH THE HEAT OF A THOUSAND SUNS!
And why do my glutes hurt so much?

elmo from sesame street is on fire with his eyes glowing

Alt: elmo from sesame street is on fire with his eyes glowing

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 3d

Spectacular!