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Kaye Elling

@k000.bsky.social

1.4K followers 590 following 8.5K posts

Short, round, tattooed, middle-aged academic with a game dev past. TTRPGs, art, sketching, movies, minis, dogs, tattoos, metal, lefty politics, snark and memes. Goth adjacent but #NotaGoth. Fully anti-AI. Probably neurospicy. She/her.

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · Mar 20

Behold: The Dryangle V0.1!*

A philosophical model for the most efficient and effective way of drying laundry outside on a washing line or airer, depending on weather conditions.

*V0.1 because there are probably more accurate ways to explain the considerations.

A visual model of a triangle that explains the considerations for the most efficient way to hang washing on the line depending on weather conditions. The triangle has corners labelled Warm, Sunny, Breezy. Each line is labelled Space, Time, Mass. In the centre is a gradient going from teal (less) to orange (more). The idea being that the closer current conditions are to the centre of the Dryangle, the most efficient conditions are for Space (how close together you can hang the washing), Mass (how thick the fabrics can be), and Time (how late in the day you can hang the washing and still get it dry before dusk). This was made by me, Kaye Elling, an academic and middle aged woman, and almost certainly undiagnosed neurodivergent.

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 6m

I did a 2-hour workshop, a 1-hour lecture, 2 departmental tours (across campus), and manned the open day stand for another 2 hours. Must be 15K steps in that, easy.

Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 7m

A wonderful timeline cleanse.

Christina Stephens 🐯✨ @christinastephens.bsky.social · 35m

Parish meets a butterfly for the first time, hilarity ensues.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 43m

I'm not trying to be a dick.

But they picked two fat republicans for a bunch of jokes when the young republicans said the worst shit imaginable.

My fat ass is out there fighting for what's right.

Stop equating fat with bad or less. Stop telling ME I'm one annoyance away from being your target.

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Jennifer Adcock @jenkatwrites.bsky.social · 22m

"Tron: Ares flopped" well yes. where was there to go after "we made the glowy lightcycle trails look wet". that was the peak of the technology. it's all downhill from "making things look wet", as I have learned from video gamers

Jennifer Adcock @jenkatwrites.bsky.social · May 14

in Tron, the lightcycles had glowy trails, but in Tron: Legacy, the lightcycles have glowy trails that also look wet. this is significant technological advancement

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Furious Floridian @lmh82.bsky.social · 3d

The negative environmental impact of AI use alone is enough to never use them. Please stop using AI to generate your images or anything else. We already can't opt out of their use entirely.

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 11m

Apparently Leg Day means something completely different in Glorantha.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 8h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 15m

Oh gods, what's happened?

Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 15m

I am getting old. Being on my feet for 7 hours today has nearly killed me. Should have worn a fitbit to count the steps.

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 8h

Leftovers. This is why you should always have some in the fridge.

Anne Mo 😷 @toughestfrail.com · 9h

What's your favorite low effort meal?

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Neil Miles (but spooky) @miles-online.co.uk · 8h

"...and Tiny Tim, who DID NOT get a dildo jammed up his hoop"

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 8h

The fellowship.

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah, I have committed to too many games for the time of year - 1 weekly, 3 fortnightly with a 4th imminent. May need to excuse myself from some of them until Christmas. :(

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THE CODEX NOIRMATIC @thecodexnoirmatic.bsky.social · 19h

Proclamation of the Imperium- II
2022

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 20h

I would also love to know this.

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 21h

Well, fuck.

Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 21h

Oh no, one of my favourite artists of all time has passed away. RIP Dru Struzan, your incredible portraiture will endure.
Here's one of my many favourites.

A signed movie poster from Big Trouble In Little China, by Dru Struzan, showing a hand-painted collage of characters and scenes from the movie.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 23h

It’s wild how much whiteness wants credit for putting out fires it started.

Black people are told to be thankful to white people for “saving” us from slavery they created.

US presidents boast about ceasefire deals for conflicts they funded with tax money.

Whiteness isn’t water. It’s Kerosene.

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 22h

I really, really, really love my #TTRPG gaming groups, but occasionally, on days like today, I'm so relieved it's not a game night.
Nothing major happening, except all the work I've been piling up while on sick leave. You'd think I'd been gone for 4 weeks, not 4 days.

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 1d

Always :D

Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 1d

The blood price must always be paid.

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 1d

😍

Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 1d

There's a huge golden retriever in our neighbourhood called Dave who also runs exactly like this. And he sounds like a slavering beast from hell as he does so.
Many times he's come bounding towards me and Dash on a late night walk through a local alleyway, scaring the life out of me in the dark. 😅

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☠️ Ichabod Cranium ☠️ @snowintheair.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who is in need of excellent & friendly audio production and cutting out AI should be talking to Fitz. I love a lot of peoples’ podcasts, but some of y’all should really be talking to him to uplift your end results. ;)

Knock Once For Yes @knockonceforyes.com · 1d

AI has tanked my audio production business, exchange rates and the cost of living crisis have tanked my English tutoring and, as someone with health conditions that needs to social distance, the remote jobs have all dried up with RTO.

Pretty desperate for work if anyone knows of anything!

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 1d

It's a little bit punk rock. :)

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