Ben Steele

@bensteele.bsky.social

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Gorgeous redhead with peculiar ideas

An exercise to find the slope of a tangent line at point (2,2) on a curve (4-x)y²=x³, which is apparently called a cissoid.
Don Morgan presents the rough structure of oversight for the Bank of North Dakota, with the legislature and industrial commission overseeing the advisory board over the bank itself.
A shirt with large text reading BDSM Over a janky image of a bus over more text reading Buses Do So Much For the environment
The rear leg of Lambda in the northeast corner of the park, which we threw some water on to see better, and lit up in green. It reads coping, healing, and sharing.
A PAC mailer calling Jamie Pedersen, the sitting senator, our path to progress. The path includes multiple switchbacks and meandering turns.
A tote bag made to look like a paper bag next to a paper bag. It is all at a very 2000s angle. The tote bag reads "CECI N'EST PAS UN PAPER BAG"
GUINEA PIG written in somewhat similar kerning and font to NASTY PIG
A sign which originally and now states "Scooter and Bike Share Parking [somewhere to the right]". The S in Scooter and B in Bike have been marked over, and then the marker has been re-covered with another round of markings to correct back to what was there originally.
A millstone, unchanged at a site for centuries
The Fremont Lenin sculpture is a soccer ref with a ball head
A bag almost with the shape of a paper bag without handles.
Beige (muslin) fabric cut to the previous specs. The table is messy around the cutting mat.
Pattern pieces cut out and marked up for the canvas paper bag design.
Schematic drawings for a 3 panel tote bag patterned off a paper bag that says "CECI N'EST PAS UN PAPER BAG" where the grocery store logo would go. A small sample of the wording is on muslin so I can check the sizing of it all. I have not trimmed the auto-embroidery ends, because I am lazy and this is a sample.
A pile of picked-through fleece ready for it's first cleaning soak. It's off-white, kind of golden brown
A prickly pear in a small blue pot with four lobes, three arranged around a central one. One lobe is up top, and two are arranged somewhat to the side as if they were outstretched arms.
A mallard drake, posing and cheesing
A male and female mallard rest on the grass amongst a smattering of daisies
Ben gives a peace sign while wearing a hat and having a first-pass trimmed beard after letting it get too long. He is putting out his tongue so you cannot allege he is posting bear face and his crop is strange but provides all the details he determined were essential while also admitting this is a mirror selfie because he keeps putting off going back to the phone repair guy that fixed his screen but in the process made his front camera very blurry. His phone case is very loud and distracts from him. This might be to his benefit.
Saruman's pitch to Gandalf to switch sides: ‘ ‘‘And listen, Gandalf, my old friend and helper!’’ he said, coming near and speaking now in a softer voice. ‘‘I said we, for we it may be, if you will join with me. A new Power is rising. Against it the old allies and policies will not avail us at all. There is no hope left in Elves or dying Nu´menor. This then is one choice before you, before us. We may join with 338 the fellowship of the ring that Power. It would be wise, Gandalf. There is hope that way. Its victory is at hand; and there will be rich reward for those that aided it. As the Power grows, its proved friends will also grow; and the Wise, such as you and I, may with patience come at last to direct its courses, to control it. We can bide our time, we can keep our thoughts in our hearts, deploring maybe evils done by the way, but approving the high and ultimate purpose: Knowledge, Rule, Order; all the things that we have so far striven in vain to accomplish, hindered rather than helped by our weak or idle friends. There need not be, there would not be, any real change in our designs, only in our means.’’ ‘ ‘‘Saruman,’’ I said, ‘‘I have heard speeches of this kind before, but only in the mouths of emissaries sent from Mordor to deceive the ignorant. I cannot think that you brought me so far only to weary my ears.’’ ‘He looked at me sidelong, and paused a while considering. ‘‘Well, I see that this wise course does not commend itself to you,’’ he said. ‘‘Not yet? Not if some better way can be contrived?’’ ‘He came and laid his long hand on my arm. ‘‘And why not, Gandalf ?’’ he whispered. ‘‘Why not? The Ruling Ring? If we could command that, then the Power would pass to us.
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A very wrinkled piece of undyed cloth (Ben really wanted to run something through this machine to prove it worked). To the right is a straight seam and what is probably an edging stitch. In the middle, highlighted under harsh LED light is a red embroidery pattern machined on. On a red through line are asterisks and smaller baubles. It's a little bit... Messy, but Ben is blaming this on the fact that he shoved unpressed fabric in.
A set of shears and snips along with a shear holster from LDH Scissors.
A screengrab of a quotation from Randy Shilts' The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (p. 203): “The media coup of the year and the issue that best symbolized Harvey’s theories on how government should work, centered on the mundane subject of dog feces. Survey after survey showed that sidewalk dog droppings were San Franciscans’ biggest complaint about city life. Milk, therefore, sponsored a bill requiring dog owners to clean up after their pets, waxing philosophically that, ‘It’s symbolic of all the problems of irresponsibility we face in big, depersonalized, alienating urban societies.’ […] ‘Whoever can solve the dogshit problem can be elected mayor of San Francisco, even President of the United States.’ Years later, some would claim Harvey was a socialist or various other sorts of ideologues, but, in reality, Harvey’s political philosophy was never more complicated than the issue of dogshit; government should solve people’s basic problems.”
A train arrival time screen in Seattle's Sound Transit Link light rail Capitol Hill station showing, in addition to the standard 1 line service to Federal Way in 5 minutes, 2 2 line services to International District/Chinatown in 1 and 8 minutes. Yes, the photo taker needs to clean his lens.
A sign on a door reading "ONE PERSON PER STALL"
A small piece of paper in the AFGE colors reads "AFGE Local 2391 stands with AFGE Local 3669, our VA counterparts, morning the death of member Alex Pretty, RN, and recognizing his honorable work as a caretaker while condemning the violence perpetrated against our membership." Below it is Ben's name plate.
Bright green leaves float in a black pot over undissolved sugar
A square tin of threads with the lid removed. In the tin are around 30 spools of thread in a vibrant set of colors. On the lid of the tin in the background, a younger woman in Alpine dress speaks with an elder about a similar box of thread. Behind them in the upper right of the lid in script is the number 1930. Lower, in script (handwriting, not Fraktur), it reads "Gütermann's Nähseide" (Guetermann's Sewing Thread).
A green pouch with tan lining and a tan zipper that matches the description I gave of it.
My scraplique evergreen tree of trapezoids cut from my extra fabric is put together after I begged a friend to assist me in figuring out what went wrong with my machine.
The Anakin and Padme meme. Anakin: "It is a little bright if you're curled up with someone." Padme, smiling: "On a couch?" Anakin, stoic: Padme, distressed: "On a couch?'
A squeeze bulb that looks like an oddly short rectal enema.
The Department of Commerce org chart, with the director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) circled. The National Weather Service is not shown on this, but it is part of NOAA. This dude that cannot show basic numeracy skills is in charge of telling you if you're at risk from a tornado or a hurricane in addition to poorly running trade policy.
The 2022 Winter Woodland Animals series and 2024 Baby Wild Animals series. Both feature relatively flat, bold animals done in high contrast colors. There is a stag, a rabbit, an owl, and a fox in winter scenes. In the second series, a fox pup, a pair of owlets, faun, seal pup, rabbit kit, raccoon cub, bear cub, baby skunk, bob kitten, and a pair of chipmunk kittens are adorned with a small amount of regalia. They all aggressively stare down the viewer. If you do not go aw immediately, they will leap from the plane and attack you.
A red and white hat with a green logo sits on a desk with a Post-It reading "Got to Catch them All".
A yellow volume with "hermeneia" cascading down it in a sans serif and stylized font
Cancellation screen for NYT Cooking via Google Play with a reason for cancellation listed as "The NYT's reporters protected Jeffrey Epstein."
A video titled "The Documentary That Exposed a Genocide." Directly beneath the title of the video, Alphabet (YouTube's parent company) links, in the way they do for climate change content and COVID matters, to a Wikipedia link. This time, rather than linking to the appropriate page regarding the genocide at discussion in the video, which is about the 2012 documentary The Act of Killing, which covers the genocide Wikipedia refers to with page title "Indonesian mass killings of 1965-66", Alphabet highlights the Shoah specifically.
A small screen grab of an email featuring a URL with domain "myftpupload.com".
A paper crane in front of a tape measure. Its wingspan is about 1¼" or 3cm.