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Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

@kevinblades.com

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Owner of Operation: Puppet. Professional puppet builder, amateur performer, really amateur podcaster, relapsed goth and maker of fun media.

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Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · Oct 17

#Bluesky keeps growing, so let's connect! #introduction post!

Hi I’m Kevin, professional #puppet builder and maker of fun media stuffs. Been doing this professionally since 2019. Here’s a small sample of my work. I also #livestream and #podcast! www.operationpuppet.com

Derpy goblin professional hand and rod puppet

Beige furry monster professional hand puppet with eyebrow mech

Nosferatu professional hand and rod puppet

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Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 11h

Been a real gut punch of a day. Routine vet bill suddenly shot up to $1k and they didn’t think to mention it *beforehand*. I’m barely scraping by and now this. But fuck me for being poor I guess.

Sorry. Not a lot of positivity around the inside of this skull today. 😣😣😣

Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 12h

It’s time for a certain sloth to very slowly wave goodbye. #puppets #smallbusiness

A sloth hand puppet being boxed for shipping

Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 16h

#antifa Frog is very proud of you. #nokings #funny #puppets

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Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 17h

While I can't make all my game streaming exclusive to the #fediverse (*yet*), I can give y'all a higher quality bitrate on #owncast and #peertube than I can on corpo platforms. Here's the VoD yesterday's fun #warframe stream.

puppet.zone/w/6f6BXk2Aew...

Old Man Plays Games Badly! It's the Pixels and Puppets game stream! This time: Warframe (aga... - 10/19/2025, 5:00:37 PM

Direct to the Fediverse!

puppet.zone

Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 1d

The thing I’ve realized about #streaming is I often don’t feel like doing it (because brain weasels) but I’m *always* happy I did & never regret doing it. Glad I pushed myself today. And #owncast is the best. Always.

Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 1d

Old Man Plays Games Badly! It's the Pixels and Puppets game #stream! This time: #Warframe.

www.youtube.com/@PixelsAndPu...
www.twitch.tv/pixelsandpup...

Pixels And Puppets

Second Channel of Operation: Puppet. Tech, Gaming, and sometimes, for no easily explainable reason, puppets! Presented by Operation: Puppet

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Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 1d

"King Slop". Is that a thing yet? Let's make that a thing if not. It's a very fitting thing. #nokings

Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 2d

As a Canadian I am *so* happy to see the scope of the #nokings protests. There are places in America I'd love to see again, but not until right wing nationalism is stomped into the dirt. Don't let up. There are more good people than evil.

Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 3d

#Antifa Frog with your morning announcements. #puppets #funny

Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 4d

Coming soon to the shop: he’s here to eat flies and crush fascism and he’s all outta flies. #antifafrog #puppets #puppetbuilding

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Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 4d

I'm been debating starting to make #warframe videos myself for some time just as a counter to the edgelord Meta THIS IS BROKEN fire hose. Reading all the whining is pushing me closer to doing it. 🤔

Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 4d

Timeline cleanse! #Puppets! Chill crafty hangoutage on the build #stream. #YouTube #Twitch #puppetbuilding

www.youtube.com/@OperationPu...
www.twitch.tv/operationpup...

Operation: Puppet

Puppet building streams and videos and the occasional visit from Frankie and The Oracle

www.youtube.com

Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 5d

Already the edgelords are complaining the Oberon rework made him *too* strong. Hint: this isn’t for you. This is for new players. Let them on-ramp easily. Find other ways to prove you’re a tough guy. #warframe #hottake

Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 5d

One again DE knock it out of the park with this update. Nokko is *adorable*, and that’s a puppet builder’s professional opinion. #Warframe: where it’s not weird you want to hug a mushroom.

Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 5d

I don’t always make #monsters. I just usually make monsters. #puppets #puppetbuilding

Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 5d

#Showerthoughts time. People misunderstand selfishness and egotism. Helping others is a *massive* dopamine hit. It feels great. I want to be good so I do things to make good happen. Empthy is a gateway drug to an awesome high.

Don't banish your demons. Put the fuckers to work.

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Bazzite @bazzite.gg · 6d

Is it a bad day to mention we support local accounts?

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Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 6d

#portfolio day you say? Bet you don't see a lot of #puppets. Here's my pinned post, lots more on www.operationpuppet.com. Please do share, it helps. Times are tight for indie artists.

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Windlass @windlass.bsky.social · 6d

#PortfolioDay

Hi, I'm Annabelle, non-binary artist who specializes in dark, bronze age inspired heroic fantasy, elves and goth :3

I'm available for indie work, especially TTRPG's!

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Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 6d

#Antifa Frog with your morning announcements! Please check out youtu.be/XeHviTKEqSo #funny #puppets

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Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 7d

It's been a very good #gaming day. Helped a new player in #Warframe and kind strangers helped *me* unlock ETA for the 1st time. Went on a successful bounty hunt run in my new ship in #EliteDangerous, and played a bit more #JumpSpace, which is feeling *very* good.

A nice day off.

Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 7d

Was hoping to stream some #warframe today but got in from Thanksgiving w/t inlaws late so meh sleep. Still, helped a new player do their 1st Archon Hunt! Feels good. We all lift, Tenno.

Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 7d

As a history buff I can assure you what you’re describing is accurate for just “nun” 😁

Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 8d

The worst part of Diane Keaton passing away is being forced to see all these pictures of Woody fucking Allen in my feeds.

Kevin Blades (Operation: Puppet) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @kevinblades.com · 8d

I’m going to have to go back and listen to our old #podcast episodes to figure out how long ago I switched to #linux. I keep thinking “a year” but I’ve been thinking that for a while. I’ll bet it’s closer to 2.