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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 12h

Not yet! Once I have a final design, yes.

Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 12h

Work on making a gigantic alien xenomorph egg continues. It’s turning out to be harder than I anticipated to cover it with silicone. I’m making progress but had I known, I’d’ve gone about it differently. At this rate it’ll be months before any tentacle violation happens!

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 1d

Attention WordPress users: Do you use a plugin called Slider Revolution? If so, update it immediately! A critical security vulnerability affecting FOUR MILLION SITES allows anyone to take over your site. #InfoSec

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland war rages on. Burning tanks dot the horizon. The constant wail of air raid sirens cuts through the smoke-filled air. I’m weaving between hulks of wrecked APCs to shelter myself from sniper fire.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 1d

On my way to the clinic for my October STI testing. I test once a year plus whenever I’m considering a new lover, a practice I’d love to see normalized. I’ve talked to SO MANY monogamous folks who are shocked and embarrassed about talking openly about testing, and I don’t get it.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 2d

I love Portland so much.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 2d

Having lunch with a friend at a little Thai place in downtown Portland. They have no mangoes for mango sticky rice. Wartime rationing, you see. It’s getting harder to get supplies into and out of the combat zones here in Portland.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 5d

Finished plastering the front of the medical scanner. Next, I’ll cover it with silicone to make a giant alien xenomorph egg.

When I started I got my clothes covered in plaster, so I’ve been working naked and now I look like a Wall Street executive after a $20,000 cocaine bender.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 5d

So me trying to build a desktop scanning tunneling electron microscope is a dumb idea, right? I have too many other projects in the pipeline, right? Besides, I have no use for an electron microscope anyway, right?

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 7d

Portland, Oregon!

Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 9d

I’ve spent the last three days, and nine rolls of plaster bandage tape, covering the front of a medical body scanning pod with plaster. When it sets I’ll pry it off and cover it with silicone to make an alien xenomorph egg a person can sit in whilst being violated by tentacles.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 13d

Working on the giant ovomorph, a person-sized alien egg to ravish an Innocent Victim™ inside it with long silicone tentacles (dripping slime, of course, for the full experience). Experimented with dribbling silicone to create veins over the window…not perfect, but interesting!

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 15d

The jury pool has been excused for lunch! They make us wear these big neon “JUROR” tags even if we go to a restaurant because apparently some years back the prosecutors in a major case went to lunch and discussed the trial w/o noticing one of the jurors sitting next to them.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 16d

THIS JURY POOL ROOM PROVIDES COMPLIMENTARY FIDGET SPINNERS.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 16d

Sitting in the courthouse with a huge pool of fellow potential jurors. Security confiscated the handcuff key off my keyring, which I’ve carried since 1989. I mean, good on them for even noticing, but…

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 17d

Wish me luck! I’m braving the war-ravaged streets of Portland right now. I’m having to dodge sniper fire between the burning wrecks of cars, but if I can just fight off the roving bands of Antifa cannibals, maybe I’ll be able to scrounge enough food to survive the long night.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 17d

New on the More Than Two blog: Polyamory, kayfabe, and low-trust societies. In which your humble scribe looks back on almost 30 years of writing about polyamory, and muses on how the sex-positive community is on a spiral into deceit and dishonesty.

www.morethantwo.com/blog/2025/09...

Thirty years later: Kayfabe, history, and low-trust societies - More Than Two™

Image: Chris Liepelt As 2025 draws to a close, the twenty-eighth anniversary of my first online writings on polyamory draw near. 28 years years. Nearly thirty years of recording my musings, thoughts, ...

www.morethantwo.com

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 18d

I’ve been called for jury duty Monday. This will be…um, my sixth time, I think? I’ve never served on a jury because it always goes like this:

“Number 17, what do you do for a living?”
“Well, I’m a computer programmer, and—”
“Thank you, Number 17, you’re dismissed.”
Every. Single. Time.

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 22d

A billboard that says "Zero days since last failed prophecy"

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 21d

It is an unbelievably, almost impossibly gorgeous day, I’ve accomplished a ton of work so far today, and on a walk I found this lovely pattern of light and shadow. ❤️

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 23d

New signs have appeared in the local post office. I cannot help but wonder if there’s a story here.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 23d

Just found out that Evangelical groups are predicting the Rapture tomorrow. You know what’s amazing? None of them will question their beliefs the day after tomorrow.

I used to host parties whenever a Christian group predicted the end of things. Quit when it got too expensive.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 29d

Same reason email never had any verification system built in from the start: the utopian techbros who create these systems cannot imagine anyone deliberately using them for harm, so they simply don’t think about ways their systems can be exploited or weaponized.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks to Pumpkin Führer’s moronic trade war, shipping a $19 poster to Europe now costs me $35, with €24 tariffs for whoever receives it.

Until now they’re all printed in the USA. I’m now looking for Europe printers and shipping services.

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · Sep 12

Okay, so, if you’re in Canada or the UK and you order posters or books from me, be prepared to be hit by “landing fees” when your package is delivered. Retaliation for Trump’s imbecilic tariffs.

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