Kaleb Brown

Kinda nervous about putting this up, because it's been hanging over me for some time now.

We've never considered a GFM before, but we're in a situation that has pushed us into looking at every thinkable angle.

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Baker at 91 posing in a Doctor Who contest in the TARDIS

Few things make me happier than when a performer I admire and grew up with get the recognition they deserve. Though frankly why he doesn’t have a knighthood and is just now getting his MBE I don’t know! But still lovely to see. Pic from Radio Times. He still records audio stories for Big Finish!

A crocheted critter sits atop a laptop monitor. The creature is an oversized white eyeball with multiple pupils and irises, and an array of twisty red tentacles hanging over the laptop monitor. This is the T. Ocellus from Alien : Earth, a slightly adorable, highly intelligent but vicious little critter that will enucleate a victim, nestle into the liberated socket, and hijack its body, piloting it for its own nefarious purposes.

Iris the Trypanohyncha Ocellus says Heyello!

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:)

YouTube video by xnamkcor X Mario Paint Music: Play All RAM As Music Notes

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp0x...

It's, uh, two hours long.

By changing only a single byte in the code of Mario Paint, the music composer will not stop at the end of the song and instead continue to play the entire contents of the console's memory as music.

3 months ago, Senator Melissa Hortman, her husband, and their golden retriever were shot and killed in their home in a politically motivated attack by a conservative Christian disguised as a police officer.

Not only was Trump golfing during her services, he doesn't even recognize her name.

4 strip comic. first frame, we see Horst Wessel and two other storm troopers carrying a large nazi flag. text reads : Horst Wessel was a young storm trooper recognized as a skilled public speaker by the nazi party. he also wrote the song that became the partys anthem and german co-national anthem until 1945. second frame, we see a portrait of Horst. text reads : in 1930, his landlady hired two men who happened to be communists to evict him over unpaid rent and alleged proxenetism. He died in the fight. thrid frame, we see Goebbels speaking in front of a large crowd. text reads : Goebbels, the nazi chief propagandist, had been looking for someone to turn into a christian martyr for the party and drum up enrollment. he turned wessel's funeral into a major propaganda event full of speeches antagonizing leftists. fourth frame, we see the State Farm Stadium with a large banner advertizing Charlie Kirk's funeral. text reads : thinking about him today for no particular reason.

No particular reason

An animal crossing character wearing a motley blue and purple patchwork coat a la the Sixth Doctor from Big Finish's Doctor Who audio series.

An animal crossing character wearing a motley blue and purple patchwork coat a la the Sixth Doctor from Big Finish's Doctor Who audio series. The back view.

Of course I'd be remiss if i didn't do Sixie's blue Big Finish Coat too. I started with this one, actually. Took a few liberties, but also the jeans and shoes look good with this getup.

An animal crossing character wearing a motley multicolored patchwork coat a la the Sixth Doctor from Doctor Who.

An animal crossing character wearing a motley multicolored patchwork coat a la the Sixth Doctor from Doctor Who. I found a chart of the pattern and spent way too much time doing the pixel art when i should've been sleeping. Work was a drag today. Still worth it.

An animal crossing character wearing a motley multicolored patchwork coat a la the Sixth Doctor from Doctor Who. The back view. Here's where i started to kinda get tired, but it still turned out well, i think. He looks adorable as he fishes. Sixie would be proud. Though i caught a shark instead of gumblejack. Yummy!

I picked up ACNH after a long hiatus, and after I finished squishing all the roaches in my house, I decided I needed more sartorial elegance, so I made Dear Sixie's coat in the custom clothing designer. Just need to find yellow stripe trousers and orange spats!

A Garfield comic dated 9-10. Three panels, Garfield reclining in the foreground, Jon speaking on the telephone behind him. First panel, Jon looks concerned, "He WHAT?" (onomatopoeia click click from phone) Second panel, Jon looks irritated. "Could you hold on for a moment? I have another call coming in." (onomatopoeia boop from Jon's finger on phone) Third panel, Jon looks aghast. (larger font) "He *WHAT?*" Garfield looks smug. Thought bubble : "I've been a busy boy."

A dictionary entry: Hoist with one's own petard (adj. phr.) Caught in your own trap or trick. -- A cliché. "Jack rolled office gossip to the boss until he was hoisted by his own petard." (The boss became disgusted with Jack for gossiping about others and fired him.) [From Shakespeare: literally, blown up with one's own bomb.]

Speak Truth......

Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use The tool's creators are seeking to make it so that AI model developers must pay artists to train on data from them that is uncorrupted.

And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...

The people "protecting children" by requiring age verification on the Internet are the same people protecting child rapist Donald J. Trump by helping to block the release of the Epstein Files. They don't care about children.

🎶Guess who lost six fucking hours to tiktok last night and didn't sleep a wiiiink~🎶

🎶This biiiiitch!🎶

Also as an addition; sign this petition ASAP if you're someone in the UK.

Rather than just sitting around and doing fuck all, we need to make it clear that this Bullshit OSA won't work. Ever. Nor do folk fucking want it.

Contact your MPs about the bill too.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

A stack of several crocheted yarn circles in lovely variegated rainbow colors.

More rainbow circles lined up behind a stack of completed hexagons. The hexagon portions of the motifs are tans, rusts, and browns, though that's difficult to see with the color balance.

A burgeoning pile of completed hexagons and partially completed circles. The stacks of each are held together with doubled yarn threaded through the center of each motif to keep them organized.

I started with circles & worked my way through two skeins of RHSS Bitty Stripes in Rainbow, which gave me 65 circles. Hexagon borders using RHSS Latte Stripes took under 1½ skeins. I just started my fourth & final skein of Rainbow. I have 65 full hexes & 40 circles. HOME STRETCH! Very 70s colors...

A room with deeply-colored wood paneled walls. The walls are a grid of circles, several of which contain backlit abstract stained glass. In the middle of the room, circled by a wood and brass railing, is a hexagonal dais, or console. One panel on top of this dais is open, showing an array of multicolored buttons. To the right side of the room, several steps lead up to a dark alcove in the wall. To the left rear, an ornate wooden chair sits next to a small table.

Tom Baker as Doctor Who and his companion (mostly hidden behind The Doctor, not sure if it's Sarah Jane or Leela) are looking at a screen which shows a field of stars. The Doctor is manipulating the buttons inside the top panel of a hexagonal dais, on top of which rests a shaving mirror on a tall stand. To the right of the viewscreen is a wooden paneled wall, with a motif of repeated roundel medallions. Some of these roundels have backlit stained glass in abstract arrangements.

I was inspired by stained glass roundels in Tom Baker's Secondary TARDIS Control Room from the 14th season of Doctor Who. I've always loved that control room. It fits beautifully with the dark Gothic feel of that season's adventures.

On an e-ink device, crudely drawn circles are arranged in a rough rectangle using a hexagonal grid template.

2/? At least 123 of them. Possibly 136 of them if i have enough yarn, but at least 123.

Circle in a Hexagon Circle in a Hexagon Motif Rnd 1: With MC, ch 3 (counts as dc now and throughout) dc 11 times in 3 rd ch from hook, join with sl st ...

I'm making a bunch of these :

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Hiya! Been a bit, hasn't it? With all of *gestures broadly* I haven't really had much to say, and although I know that Bluesky is Good People, I'm sure that y'all are just as irked as I am, so I've been keeping a bit of distance for mental health. BUT I'm feeling really good about my latest project!

Short but important thread about overreacting.

Oh, today seems to be International Tea Day, so please to see the tea dyed wool crochet comfort brew blanket! 🫖
#Internationalteaday

My dishes. But then I'd feel bad so his about you wash and I'll dry?

If you don't have a copy of my e-cookbook I put together during Covid confinement, here is the pdf.

All it costs is a smile, a kind word, a follow, and to post a photo of anything you make from the cookbook on Bluesky (and Instagram) and tag me.

drive.google.com/file/d/1Hctk...

Two stylized ceramic mugs sit upon a wooden kitchen surface with assorted culinary bric-a-brac in the background. The mug on the left is dark teal in color, with a shallow tapered base and a cylindrical top. The mug on the right is a deep purple color and tapers nearly all the way up to the mouth, with two semicircular indentations below the top. This particular style of mug is known for being the vessel of choice in which to serve Raktajino, a popular Klingon variant of coffee, throughout several series of Star Trek. qapla'!

Definitely not. I thank you for the warning for the public good!

I have some proper food-safe Raktajino mugs for my coffee and tea. I get enough poison from my workplace. <3

A decorative mug of dear Sixie now adorns a mantelpiece with other sculpted objects visible in the background. The mug is an approximate likeness of Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, dressed in red and spangles with a yellow cravat. Although Colin Baker's nose is magnificent, I believe that it is likely more prominent on the mug than in real life. I also strongly doubt that the very top of his head is missing and hollow in real life, as it's been my experience that Colin Baker is a very thoughtful and erudite man, which is a very difficult thing to be if you do not have anything inside your head.

Dear Sixie now graces my mantelpiece. My favorite classic Doctor in one of the most beautifully blursed pieces of Who memorabilia I have encountered to date.