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NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · 2d

Just when you thought the Penguins forgot how to collapse in the third period…

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NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · 3d

Aaaaaand I just broke a fourth…

I’m now launching an official investigation into what the hell is going on with me!!!

NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Friday the Halloweenth!

NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · 5d

Doorstop

#Photography

Black and white photo of the baseboard in a bathroom. A metal door stop with white rubber head is screwed into the baseboard in the bottom right corner

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NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · 5d

I saw a barred owl last night!

I can’t be 100% sure but it was a big bird, at night, that wasn’t shaped like a hawk, and I’ve heard a barred owl on that road multiple times

It flew right in front of my car and disappeared in a tree but I’m sure enough to feel super lucky!

NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · 10d

I don’t recommend two 8+ hour drives in a 39 hour period

NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · 12d

Om nom, bitches!

A food tray with a steak, egg, and provolone sub cut in half and a side of French fries from Uncle Sam’s Subs. It’s one of my favorite foods and I can’t get it in NC

NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · 15d

Can we stop calling them video podcasts and just call them what they are, which are Internet Talk Shows

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 16d

Not to be THAT dictionary, but…

It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’
It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’
It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’
It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’
It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'

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NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · 16d

I’m waiting for someone to try to copyright AI prompts…

NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · 18d

I’m aware that attention bids are often how people initiate time with others, but sometimes my PDA simply won’t have it and I come off like an asshole, then later I ruminate over how shitty a person I am and end up planning ways to fawn in recompense, because I owe it to them for being shitty

NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · 18d

I have successfully conceived, carried out, and printed a modification of someone else’s 3D model, a soft tape measure spool!

It was way harder than I expected, mostly because I struggle to think in 3D, but I’m so happy with the result!

(grey is mine, teal is original)

A small, grey, 3D printed puck with a knob on top that houses a spool of soft measuring tape

A small, teal, 3D printed puck with a finger indent on top that houses a spool of soft measuring tape

NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · 20d

I thought I was a brown switch guy but I just got hold of a blue one (making a new fidget) and hot damn!

Maybe I should consider moving to a blue switch keyboard, too…

NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · 22d

Check the credits for Pixar’s Ratatouille

You’ll see a note that there was no use of motion capture; they did all animation by hand, no shortcuts

Oddly ahead of its time given where AI is in relation to art/animation

NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · 22d

Crunchy peanut butter is underrated

I still prefer smooth most of the time, but crunchy isn’t some abomination like everyone makes it out to be

Except extra crunchy, because you can’t just dump whole peanuts into smooth peanut butter and act like it wasn’t a mistake Fred made on the product line…

NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · 22d

I’ve discovered that the brand-specific fork of Cura I (sometimes) use can sort of communicate with my printer (it didn’t at first), but it’s unpredictable, unstable, and if the connection status changes while I’m printing from an SD card it will immediately stop the print…

a man in a black sweater is standing in front of a chain link fence with the words `` c mon man '' .

ALT: a man in a black sweater is standing in front of a chain link fence with the words `` c mon man '' .

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NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · 24d

Not only did I find a Speed Champions scale two-post lift to 3D print, but I successfully managed to edit the model to fit in my tiny printer!

Two LEGO Speed Champion cars, a white Lamborghini Countach and a red Ferrari F40
The Ferrari is sitting on a to-scale, 3D printed, two-post lift, with the Lamborghini sitting directly beneath

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NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · 25d

Hiring manager for home renovation company:
“So, do you know how to remove old carpeting?”

Doomguy: “Rip and tear, until it is done”

NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · 26d

I, as it turns out, would download a car

A 3D printed classic Mini Cooper in grey, about 4 inches (10cm) long.
I downloaded the model online

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NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · Oct 5

This is my absolute favorite print I’ve done so far!

It’s just a worry/fidget object I found online but I sanded it smooth and it feels SO GOOD!!

#AuDHD

A white, 3D printed object that looks like a large hex nut has been worn completely smooth, even in the inside where the threads would be.
The center hole is large enough to put a finger through.

NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · Oct 4

I just had to solve a captcha for a basic ass, not-gonna-find-anything-relevant, web search

How much longer till Web 4.0 takes off and forces our browsers do this by default?

NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · Oct 3

I’ve broken only two screen protectors across my first eight smartphones dating back to 2010

This one?

I’ve broken three and it hasn’t even been a year…

Likely just coincidence or a return to the mean but it feels sinister, like the beginning of a crappy horror movie

‘‘Tis the season, I guess

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NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · Oct 2

So I’ve figured out how to use three different slicer programs (technically two), two of them directly talk to my printer, but only one is officially compatible and it’s the one that doesn’t connect, naturally…

NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · Oct 1

The variables are varying, even when they aren’t supposed to be!

Evidently I have a knockoff printer with no real support…

But it’s based on another, more popular model!

…that’s so old any support documentation is a bunch of dead links…

But I printed a cute little cassette!

A small, 3D printed cassette tape a bit larger than an SD card

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NigelTheMini @nigelthemini.bsky.social · Sep 30

I picked up a small, cheap 3D printer about a week ago on Craigslist (NIB, no less!) and it’s given me both the Instant Dopamine of a new toy, as well as Extended-Release Dopamine by way of ALL the variables to FAFO with!

A small, white, 3D printed maneki-neko, aka Lucky Cat, aka Calling Cat, the kind that are often depicted holding a large coin and beckoning with a raised paw, but this one is a static model.
Its file was included with the printer and was my first print.

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