Photo of 3D printed articulated bird wings. The skeleton is printed in black and joints are fastened with gold Chicago screws. Here the wings are tucked in with the ends bent out for flair.

Photo of 3D printed articulated bird wings. The skeleton is printed in black and joints are fastened with gold Chicago screws. Here the wings are half tucked in.

Photo of 3D printed articulated bird wings. The skeleton is printed in black and joints are fastened with gold Chicago screws. Here the wings are half extended.

Photo of 3D printed articulated bird wings. The skeleton is printed in black and joints are fastened with gold Chicago screws. Here the wings are fully extended showing their range of motion.

Got both wings printed and bolted! These turned out bigger bc Chicago screws don’t come in smaller sizes. I plan to try for smaller wings using rivets

#ArticulatedBirdWings
#3DPrinting

Alke just has so much love to give, my precious cinnamon bun

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I’ve been saying this! Autistics have been hit hard tbh

Loki is living the good life today

Photo of a Seep Monkey Flower made of chenille wire from the front. It’s petals form two bright yellow lips, the upper lip with two lobes and the bottom with three. The bottom lip has a single large orange spot.

Photo of a Seep Monkey Flower made of chenille wire from 3/4 view. It’s petals form two bright yellow lips, the upper lip with two lobes and the bottom with three. The bottom lip has a single large orange spot.

Photo of a Seep Monkey Flower made of chenille wire from the side. It’s petals form two bright yellow lips, the upper lip with two lobes and the bottom with three. The bottom lip has a single large orange spot.

Working on some seasonal projects and today I made a new chenille wire design for the Seep Monkeyflower that grows nearby.

After trying many different things, I finally got one I’m mostly satisfied with.

Screenshot from the game Princess Maker 2 showing my daughter Odette winning the Cooking Contest in the very first year of the game with 124 points. She has 103 Cooking and 94 Sensitivity.

Crunchyroll licensed Princess Maker 2 for mobile and I somehow managed to win the Cooking Contest in Year 1 of the game. 😱

Without a guide, just based on my old memories. I’m shocked lol.

PM2 is what initially got me interested in gamedev.

#PrincessMaker
#PrincessMaker2
#MobileGaming
#SimGames

Photo of silk threads pulled tight on a ronghua frame and sectioned with annealed brass wire. The silk is white with hints of blue on the edges.

Photo of handmade chenille wire made with silk and annealed brass wire. Two of the petals failed but the rest came out fluffy.

Photo of silk flower petals that have been flattened with a hair iron. Each petal is white and shiny. To the left are the templates I made for wrapping wire.

I continue petal production. Unfortunately, I did not have enough white thread. I will have to make the strips thicker next time.

#artificialflowers
#velvetflowers
#fakeflowers
#ronghua

Photo of my cat, Alke age 14 orange, sitting on my chest. His eyes are closed in bliss and his two feet and very politely tucked together under his chin.

Look at Alke’s polite little feet

Photo of four 3D printed templates in the shape of flower petals. Two variants of inner and outer petals. Some of the small details may be too subtle for wire wrapping, if so I will adjust and reprint.

Finally made time to take a trip to the Makerspace today. I’m taking another crack at silk flowers, so I needed to make some tools.

Personally I really love wire borders on the petals so I printed some templates to speed things up. Also started on a set of clamps, but they’re not done just yet.

Bernie gotta flop!

Bernie would like to respectfully inform me that she is not done playing yet.

Epstein survivor: "Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government still belongs to the American people or to those who prey on them."

I want ask you if freedom is important to you? Then I want to ask you to repost this video & across your socials & ask your followers the same thing.

Because they aren't just detaining undocumented people. They are also detaining permanent residents & citizens & you could be next.

#ICELawlessness

Mike Johnson's Epstein bungling is a disaster for the GOP The House speaker and his boss put on a masterclass of failure.

New in PN: Mike Johnson's Epstein bungling is a disaster for the GOP

"Observing Johnson in recent months has been like watching an extended Road Runner cartoon, where the Coyote fashions intricate knots of congressional procedure in order to tie himself to a giant stack of lit dynamite."

“ At just 16 years old, she took a job at Mar a Lago, believing she had secured a dream summer position. But that dream quickly morphed into a nightmare when Ghislaine Maxwell preyed upon her…. They trafficked her”

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

“They’re trying to somehow tie President Trump to the scandal”

Photo of a bush mostly bare with a few yellow leaves and a single pink flower. Zoomed out to show the mostly empty bush.

Photo of a bush mostly bare with a few yellow leaves and a single pink flower. Zoomed in to show the pink flower.

This bush is holding onto a single flower, somehow unaware that it’s the middle of November lol

Screenshot from Tumblr user “closet-keys” which reads: “biological” really just means “state enforced” at this point “what is your state enforced sex?” “there are two state enforced genders” “use state enforced pronouns to identify students” “transition is against your body’s state enforced purpose” A reply by capnsoapy reads: When TERFs started saying “biological name” (insert “deadname”) it really said this out loud

This goes hard tbh

#TransSky

Trump Officials Admit Math Error in Plan to Gut SNAP Funding The Trump administration will fund the food stamp program more than initially planned, thanks to a fact-check on its math.

The evil clown car posse strikes again.

When busted, "USDA then said it would fix the 'error.'", & “All of this would be solved if Senate Democrats vote to reopen the government."

Sticking to incompetent regime playbook:
☑️ Downgrade your f-up
☑️ Blame someone else

Cruel AHs.

Digital painting of a happy corgi at the beach on a sunny day, a graphical crown and stars around his head.

King of the beach 🦊

Painting of my boy for today’s #dailyart , clocking in at 1hr 30min.

#corgi #petportrait

War worsens climate and environmental challenges in Ukraine A new study finds reduced greenhouse gas emissions in Ukraine amid war but increased toxic pollution risks.

Today Nov 6 is International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. Given the environmental impacts of recent conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, we clearly need to do better. joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and...

It's truly magnificent here. I've lived here 15 years and still marvel at the beauty every day.

A shot while in a cave in Sedona that reminds me of a scene from Jurassic Park.

US job cuts surge to decades-high level amid Trump recession fears Employers have cut over one million jobs so far this year, with announced layoffs surging in October to levels not seen in decades.

www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

Who benefits the most from SNAP?
CHILDREN—this is who trump is hurting.

#ProudBlue
#Voices4Victory

Green 3D printed articulated bird wing. Wing is tucked in and joints are held together temporarily with bits of wire.

Green 3D printed articulated bird wing. Wing is extended and joints are held together temporarily with bits of wire.

First try with these bird wings but they seem to work!

I can see some room for improvement to stabilize the lower arm joint. I’m thinking maybe a long hole that lets the joint slide like a rail. 🤔

Screenshot of Autodesk Fusion of an articulated bird wing, resembling a skeleton. Starting from shoulder to wingtip there are 10 components.

Getting back into the swing of things now that the weather isn’t constantly trying to kill me.

Finally made a 3D prototype of an articulated bird wing. Next step is to print it out, insert pins, and see what needs to be fixed.