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Artist, weirdo, cat person. Graphics wonk

I repost almost all OC that comes across my feed. I try to avoid human-free graphics.

Simping for GenAI is a good way to get uninvited

All opinions expressed are strictly mine

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Inspired by @ginnydi.com my wife and I are putting together a #DnD adventuring party made of thrift store dolls. One of our first finds was this amazing Jimi Hendrix doll. He cannot be anything but our Bard. His Battle-Cat is a great touch. More pix as we progress
A Jimi Hendrix doll sitting on top of a a small animatronic kitten.
December 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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You get a threefer!

Safi Pants, Sam Vimes, and Sebastian Proper are cuddling for warmth on one of our chairs
A tuxedo cat, a tabby cat, and a black cat curled up together on a blanket
December 6, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Hey, look what I did with my afternoon! If my boss is going to basically make me spend a thousand bucks on video equipment, by the gods I'm going to make use of it.

This is for an upcoming #HowTo video about our #NoSewCollar

There's no audio. That's a separate track.
December 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Feb 25, 1998 "Clinton Threatens to Drop Da Bomb On Iraq"
An Onion description of George Clinton's Operation Supergroovalisticprosifunkication Storm" plan from Feb 25 1998 including numerous jokes including a battle map of Chocolate City forces invading Iraq and a quote from Clinton saying "If Saddam does not comply with U.N. inspectors by March 1, we will have no choice but to tear the roof off Baghdad"
December 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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I am completely not shocked at my #1 word. I love that "fuck" and "those" are the same scale, which means that "fuck those" is one of my more common phrases.

#FunWithStats

Check yourself here

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A graphic displaying my most used works in BlueSky posts in 2025. Surprising no one, my most used work is 'fucking' with 'looks,' 'fuck those,' 'shit,' and 'wife' coming in close behind.
December 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Loving this email I got from our CRM provider this morning. "My AI Agent Went Rogue And Helped My Customers" seems like something @chucktingle.bsky.social would dream up. There would have to be some butt-pounding for it to be a real Tingler but. It's so there.

#AIFail
#StupidMarketing
A screenshot from an email from marketing@gorgias.com, received Wednesday December 3 at 6:45AM. It's the Gorgias Ecomm Digest. Headline article is 'How to Keep Your AI Agent From Going Rogue (And Actually Helping Your Customers)' which honestly gives "did AI write this" vibes because obviously the WORST thing for a business is to have AI help the customers.
December 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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More #photocritique time!

Another September 28 2024 picture. Cape Cove, Oregon looking west.

What went wrong?

1/
An out of focus picture of a rock protruding from the ocean on a cloudy late afternoon
December 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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OK, I've been slacking on my #NWPhotography lately. Here is the Siuslaw River Bridge on September 28, 2024. #Nikon body and kit lens. Also, #bridge
The underside of a bridge over a river. The supports are pointed gothic arches. The point of view is a centerline with all arch points aligned
December 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I might have found Peak Terrible AI Slop Product in an email from AliExpress.

#AISlop
#FuckinWhat
#BadProductDesign
A confusing AI-generated sign with four pistols and the words "Befk You Ts Inth Ous M Your On Reoe Jsus" No rational mind can know what this says with any certainty
November 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Lemme share onna mine with you :)

This was Sunday morning.
A man with a beard and glasses cuddles with a gray and white tabby cat
November 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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This is Tobias Caeks. I stole him from a crack house on a sub-freezing January night in Seattle. He was painfully shy of humans and not fond of cats for years after, but fell in love with my wife and she became His Human quickly. He lived a full life, departing this vale of tears in 2023, aged 18
A very elderly ginger cat loafed up in a sunbeam
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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#SketchPractice today using a great pose from @grafitstudio.bsky.social because they are awesome.

I'm actually impressed with what I got done in the like 4 minutes I had on this one...
A figure study of a nude woman, from the back. The photo is on the left side, the sketch is on the right.
November 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Scene from The Bad Place where Jason figures it out and Michael is hurt, but Jason's name is replaced with Gorsuch
November 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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For #PhotoOfTheDay today, we're going with #Waterfall!

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Shot through the foliage at, I believe, South Creek Falls along Hwy 58 between Eugene and Oakridge.

#WaterfallWednesday

#photography #naturephotography #nature #scape #thewildimages
A small waterfall seen through some downed trees. Everything is every green
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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It is time for #RockinTuesday art challenge!!

This is the Haceta Head lighthouse on the #Oregon Coast. October 10, 2004
Haceta Head lighthouse in Oregon at sunset, viewed from the south
November 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif.
November 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Found a skein of the perfect yarn yesterday for crocheting my grumpy unicorn, Jed

It's the exact same color as the Baskin-Robins bubblegum ice cream I used to get with the free cone certificate from my dentist.
A skein of bubblegum pink yarn in a checkered wood yarn bowl A pink unicorn with a grumpy face
November 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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The news is horrid lately. So here's a snuggle with a very soft #SamVimes

#CatSky
#CatsOfBlueSky
#Caturday
A gray tabby cat cuddling up with a man with a beard and glasses
November 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Working on curtain rings.

The bands indicate printing edges.

#ProductDesign
#WIP
Two mendhi florets and two mendhi paisleys on a background gradient of turquoise, rose, and cream. Black bars run through the edges. A section of topographical map of Mt Pisgah in Lane County. Translucent pink bars represent print boundaries
October 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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A still from 'Clerks' with Randall's quote "This job would be great if it wasn't for the fuckin' customers" in yellow with "job" crossed out and replaced by "design" and "customers" with "intended users"
October 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Too fucking right. This picture is from the eye of Hurricane Beryl, 2024. The aircraft here is another P-3 Orion, named "Miss Piggy"

I'm no coward, I love adrenaline but this? I would shit myself inside out and die.
The propeller nacelle of a NOAA aircraft against the inner wall of Hurricane Beryl's eye on 2024
October 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Helping my partner set up a booth at the Mushroom Festival at Mt Pisgah and found this absolute unit of a polypore. They made it known to me that their name is Daryl. #eugeneor #fungus
A really big shelf fungus growing at the base of an oak tree A really big shelf fungus growing at the base of an oak tree
October 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Crunchy spicy leaf season!!

See a leaf, post a leaf.

#leafposting
A cluster of dried oak leaves on pavement
October 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Front Line Assembly - Airmech
The cover of Front Line Assemby's 2012 album "AirMech" - There's a very stylized mech along with the text and the FLA logo
October 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Working with video editing a bit for upcoming projects. Drone is a DJI Mini2. Music by Aleksey Chistilin

#DroneVideo
#Waterfalls
#LaneCounty
#EugeneOR
October 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM