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by day sculpture fabricator and restorer. by night activities include sculpture, RPGs, visual design and other anomalies both online and off. he/sidhe/they

Photo of a blonde woman from the back sitting on an air mattress in a lake or river with an electric fan strapped into an improvised frame behind her. To the upper right corner is text that says "blow-up fan boat" and a red arrow in the upper left corner points to the fan.
a picture of Lying Cat from the Saga comic. their speech balloon says "LYING"
Screenshot of white text against a dark background at the top that says "the idea was this" followed by a central block of white text against a light pink background that makes it nearly unreadable. Below this another line of white text against a dark background that says "And it's fine. But it's really random. Dice tend to be that way."
Picture of a bunch of hot dogs stacked up with white text against a dark green background below it that says, "24 hours of relaxing hotdog sounds. Playlist. 24 hours"
Photograph of a red panda. The pose and facial markings make them look as if they're feeling aggressive and/or annoyed.
An ominously shadowed picture of the Gundam Aerial's head and torso looming in a cavernous hangar. Suletta Mercury, the Aerial's pilot, stands in the foreground.
Photograph of a taxidermied deer head hanging on a wall. The low angled shot has the deer staring at the viewer with the mouth open baring sharp, fanged teeth
Screenshot of a post commenting on Amy Klobuchar's post about Trump's tariffs affecting V Day costs. The text of the reply to Amy reads "hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message: - the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next - a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9
screenshot of a Gizmodo article by Matt Novak. the right side of the screenshot is a an uncanny image of a prune-faced Benjamin Franklin. the right half has the text: artificial intelligence, Darren Aronofsky's new AI series about the revolutionary war looks like dogshit. "used to be that when Darren Aronofsky wanted to feature a dead-eyed actor, he'd just employ Jared Leto." by Matt Novak published January 29, 2026
screenshot of some vermin commenting, "File under: shit that didn't happen"
screenshot of text that says: When you use the word "fraud" that implies breaking of laws with evidence. "Waste" is a useless, but also harmless term. So if there is that much FRAUD, and you had access to every bit of digital storage/history/logs, then I expect criminal cases with evidence. Otherwise you are a lying piece of shit.
For any of the outcomes Cassandras feared, they could cite rhetoric from Trump. For example, Ryan, a 43-year-old white professor in Texas, mentioned “his refusal to accept an election, if lost ... that's a moment where, OK, this is someone who's antidemocratic." This had been clearly stated both in the 2016 primary "and in the debates with Hillary." The common understanding at the time was that all of that was political theater, or rhetorical excesses-that Trump had no real convictions. But Cassandras didn't see it like that. "I kinda think people have it reversed," Joe, a white 30-year-old from upstate New York, who now teaches at a university in the U.K., said. "Lots of people don't detect that he's lying about what has transpired, but they think he's full of hot air about what he wants. But in reality, he's a total liar about what has happened, and he's deadly sincere about what it is he wants."
You don't start a wood bank in a country with functioning institutions. You start one when heating assistance programs can't keep up, when the grid flickers every time the wind shifts, when propane and heating oil costs swing so hard that families can't budget more than a week out. You start a wood bank when seniors stop turning on their heat because they're scared of the bill. You also start one when the country pretends energy insecurity doesn't exist because acknowledging it would mean that entire regions were left behind on purpose.
close-up view of a blue finger pressing a button labeled DESTROY on a multicolored Jack Kirby style control panel. a speech balloon says "this should take care of the ignorant clods!"
plush version of Arianna from Castoff-comic sitting on the back of a small steel crablike sculpture that stands on a cluttered shelf. the Arianna plushie is light-skinned with a head larger than the rest of her body, blonde hair held back by a black headband, heterochromia, and is wearing black trousers and a loose red shirt under a purple vest and black cloak. to her left on the cluttered shelf are two partially visible critter sculptures made from steel and bone.
screenshot of Bluesky feed first post text saying that a human studying aliens would think humans sitting cross legged is adorable. second post is about a Yoko Ono retrospective with a black and white picture of her sitting cross legged
photo of a shrike, aka butcherbird, perched on top of a fence post. a small, round looking bird, it has a white throat and belly, dark wings, tail, and beak, and a blue-grey head and back. although adorable looking, shrikes are known for impaling the corpses of their prey onto sharp spikes both as a way to store food and to attract mates.
figure in white coveralls, full face respirator, heavy boots, and blue rubber gloves sitting in front of overlapping translucent plastic sheets. everything is tinted and stained with red-orange paint, giving the scene a lurid, almost bloody hue. picture taken in 2020 at the height of the pandemic.
Fulfillment Centaur stands in a shiny steel and concrete space, two dark grey reinforcing bars criss-cross behind its back. Fulfillment Centaur is a grey-skinned, emaciated looking figure with black eyes. two stainless steel sockets cap the shoulders where arms would be, and the lower body and legs are surrounded by a spindly rusted steel exoskeleton.
Photo of a sculpture titled Little Brother at the Hygienic Gallery. Little Brother is a little under a meter tall. The body is a cow skull with the snout towards the back with a variety of metal rods and other mechanical looking pieces running into it. The head is a ribbed black 1960s microscope illuminator attached to a steel ring at the back of the cow skull. The tail is several corrugated metal pieces and rings forming an abdomen-like structure. Little Brother stands on four vaguely insectile legs made from steel rods and bars.
Head and shoulders photo of Republican senator Joni Ernst. At the top it says, "This is the Republican healthcare plan." Below her head is a text quoting her statement, "Well, we all are going to die." Which was her snide, flippant reponse when constituents said that people will die due to Trump's cuts to healthcare funding.
King Cooler from Dragon Ball is staring at the viewer with a slight smirk, one handed extended towards the viewer
Overhead view of a miniature scale aluminum model of the Nadezhda, a 200 ton starship for the Mongoose Traveller RPG. From above it resembles a chisel-tip arrowhead with side notches halfway along the body. The color is a medium grey with a bright yellow orange striping pattern
Three panel soul comic. First panel is two concerned looking cartoon people conversing, the one in a plum colored shirt is saying to the one in a blue shirt, "okay, so here's the thing:" The second panel shows the speaker's hand gesturing towards a husky staring at the reader with eyes all black except for yellow irises. The third panel shows the blue shirted character leaning away from the husky that is now staring at them with an expression of great trepidation and sweat beads.
screenshot of huskcummerbund quote replying to ChosenName ChosenName: For an administration that seems to care very much about potential children, to the point of attempting to force mothers to carry them to term, it seems not to care very much about actual children, in terms of protection them from preventable disease.... huskcummerbund: "Boy, these conservative are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no daycare, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn you're fine; if you're preschool you're fucked." -George Carlin, RIP to the GOAT
rough sketch of a design for a robot sculpture titled SandKingCrab. the main body is two hemispheres with a space along the equator where limbs emerge. the sketch shows a top view and side view of the sculpture as well as more detailed sketches of limb and gripper articulations. four lines of text read 1) SandKingCrab, 2) 5 legs, 3) 5 upper crown limbs, and 4) 5 lower crown limbs.
Picture of an Onion article from 2004 titled "Masturbatory Prose Style Fails To Reach Climax"
A photo of two stainless steel pots of slightly different sizes hanging from a hook in front of a window. The pots are hanging with their mouths toward each other with the smaller pot slightly inside the larger pot. A Christmas poo named Mr. Hanky is partially visible behind part of another pot visible to the right of the other two. Outside the window a recycling bin and a rubbish bin are visible in the lower right pane.
Picture of a pale woman in a dark space with clawed hands turned upwards at waist level reaching out towards the viewer. She wears what looks like ridged black leathery armor and is partially draped in greenish grey fabric that also forms a hood. Her eyes are white and pupilless, the visible hair above her forehead has a white streak in the middle
Comic panel showing the head, upper back, and tail of Doctor Dinosaur, who resembles a featherless yellow umber velociraptor wearing a harness loaded with assorted tech junk and tools. Speech balloons show Atomic Robo is off panel to the left arguing with Dinosaur. Robo: Sorry. You're not stupid. Dinosaur: NO! Robo: Just a little insane. Dinosaur: INSANE WITH GENIUS!
A fresh baked pan of cornbread in a clear glass baking pan sits on top of a black glass stove top. The bread is a rich looking yellow brown with variegated darker brown spots across the top and around the edges
Major Kong from Dr Strangelove riding a nuclear bomb waving a cowboy hat as it plummets to earth and detonates
Photo of an 18 foot tall sculpture made from 8 polished stainless rings intersecting at various angles with cables strung between the rings. View is from widest side clearly showing the overall mirror symmetry of the sculpture
screenshot of text saying: Democracy doesn’t depend on everyone being polite to each other. It doesn’t require critics of power to moderate their language so that those in power don’t feel uncomfortable. What democracy absolutely requires is that power be held accountable—that its abuses be named clearly, that institutions stand firm against authoritarian pressure, that the right to criticize those in power be defended even when that criticism is harsh.
A woman's cartoon face done in mid 20th century style looks downward at the viewer with an ambiguously startled expression
Photo of a sculpture made from 4 1/2" stainless tubes rolled into ten foot diameter rings and welded together at various angles. The sculpture nearly touches the twenty foot ceiling
Black and white sketch of a humanoid robot made from Lego pieces. The head is a box with cat ears and the face is a screen displaying >w< The body, upper arms, and thighs are mostly white, with the lower legs and forearms mostly grey. The thighs and forearm are thick and bulky with the lower legs long and spindly. There is long, serpentine tail that is dark grey ending in a lighter grey short rod with a ball on the end shaped much like a microphone or massager
Elon Musk on a boat soaking wet wearing only a pair of black shorts. His flesh is a blinding fish belly white and his torso is weirdly boxy and protruding. From the side his face profile is rather flat with slitted eyes and his mouth turn slightly downward at the end giving it that rather troutlike appearance it usually has
right back side view photo of a quadrupedal sculpture with spindly limbs with a deer skull cranium for a body and limbs, neck, and head made from assorted pieces of scrap steel like rebar, square tubing, cable clamps, wood screws, shopping cart, car exhaust pipe, and propane tank bits
Three panels from the comic Hellboy. The first panel shows a closeup eagle and swastika insignia. The second shows Hellboy with an intense expression as if looking closely at something. The third panel shows Hellboy shouting "NAZI!" with a large WOK sound effect as he punches the Nazi
Photo of a steel and copper crab-like sculpture mounted on a wall with a yellow glow shining between the shell segments
picture of a black and white badger against a white background charging head on at the viewer jaws open wide. blue handwritten looking text to the left of the badger reads "this meeting could have been a fist fight"
A picture of two white marble Greek columns against a dark red gradient twisted around each other in a helical shape. Below the columns is white text against dark blue grey background that says "The Atlantic" and "how progressives broke the government"
photo of a freshly opened cardboard box. Nestled within the bubble wrap is a book titled "Monty Python's Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme," a box with a drawing of a mass of hair and eyes with polyhedral dice visible through circular cutouts, and two plastic coconut shell halves in a zip lock bag
screenshot of text describing the profound ignorance of Musk and his cronies of any of the systems that allow a technological society, or any other society, to function that isn't physical technology or videogames
overheard view drawing of a world war 2 twin engine bomber with clusters of red dots indicating areas the planes were damaged after returning from missions
Cartoon of a sock puppet with stick-like arms holding up a sign that says "this pleases me immensely"
an image from a vgcats comic. titled Behind the Comic and framed like a behind the scenes documentary it features the vgcats superhero Pantsman taking offense at the chyron below him that says he has an underwear fetish and walking off the set.
Pomi from The Amazing Digital Circus asking the Ringmaster "what the *expletive* am i looking at?!"
a yellow tube of Arm & Hammer ULTRA MAX unscented deodorant resting on a red and black patch of the punk band The Exploited
photo showing a clear plastic spray bottle of the type used for surface cleaning products sitting on a piece of wood with translucent plastic sheets hanging behind it. most of the original labeling is gone with only a "100% ocean bound plastic' label remaining on the bottle's neck. the lower part of the bottle has three wide strips of white tape with "dihydrogen monoxide" and "do not inhale" written in marker.
4 panel comic. 3 panels are two characters watching television and discussing how the superhero social justice mutants comics and cartoons have been telling stories about fighting against bigotry and prejudice since the 1960s. the last panel is a guy in a store whining to the owner that superhero social justice mutants have suddenly gone woke