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e. drake kajioka
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Game designer, research applier, writer, speaker, parent, teacher fan, impatient optimist, sincere shit disturber. Views mine &c. 🎲 they preferred, she accepted. was @3spce/gryphoness on twitter, @[email protected].
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I'm sure not a coincidence with Halloween coming up and whatnot, but I just started doing foam armor for the kids this year and was just thinking it could make a great after-school program!
A white foam pauldron or shoulder armor piece shown on a white long sleeve shirt with silver sequins on the arm. The pauldron has two pieces and is rimmed with gold ribbon and decorated with gold rivets and a gold tassel.
October 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Does bsky do #FlowerFriday?

Just some farm field flowers that made me happy. (Food forest, even!)
A clear plastic glass with yellow mustard flowers and purple clover flowers. It is sitting on a black glass induction surface in front of a white and gray rhombus tiled wall.
October 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Sometimes I think about hitting the button on posts like this just to see what would happen.
October 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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I did, however, walk around for a couple of hours at the con and did not have this shirt recognized, so - room to grow? 😂
A photograph of a white t-shirt with a white goose with an orange beak and feet on it.
August 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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I opened up the comments on the fb post to see if the artist was discussed. The first (buried) comment was indeed someone discussing the artist, in this case because he is semi-famous in bio art. But the original poster replies thanking them and saying they tried to find the artist and couldn't.
A screenshot of a facebook post titled "Kenneth's Post" with a comment from Natalie Snyder that says "Artist is Ray Troll. He's amazing." Replies follow from Kenneth Gevaudan (Author): "Thanks. I wondered who to credit" and Jim Whaley: "Kenneth Gevaudan Art from 'Crusin the Fossil Freeway', a tale of a 5000 mile fossil-hunt Western road trip with paleontologist Kirk Johnson and artist Ray Troll, or 'Cruisin the Fossil Coastline', ditto except driving and boating down the Pacific coast." Below Jim's comment is an image of the cover of Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway'.
July 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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I used Lens to search for the artist. Google did not know. THIS IS BECAUSE this image has been shared so many times without attribution. I had to dig through dozens of shares of the image before I found a blog post by Duke University that added a caption with Ray's name (good job, Duke).
A screen capture of a Google Lens search with an infographic and the word "artist" in the search bar. The text reads "Search Labs | AI Overview: It is difficult to determine the specific artist of this geological timeline illustration based on the available information, as the image itself does not contain an artist's signature or credit, and a search for "artist" in relation to this image did not yield a definitive answer." A screenshot of a Duke University blog post from researchblog.duke.edu showing an infographic of geological time. At the top are two people and a pickup truck with a nautilus in the back of it. The earth, divided into slices, is below them. A center column denotes cenozoc, mesozoic, and paleozoic eras (top to bottom). On the left side slices show drawings of fossils matching their eras. The right side is divided into eras from the Holocene to the Archaean from top to bottom, and notes on the outside of the 'earth' show time in millions of years, ranging from 11,700 years (separating the Holocene from the Pleistocene) to 2.5 billion years (separating the Proterozoic from the Archaean). A box at the bottom notes "Earth forms 4.6 billion years ago". Boxes also note the T/K and T/P extinctions on the left side with "big big extinction" and "gigantic extinction" marked respectively. Below the image are the words "Ray Troll's geological time scale".
July 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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I posted about this on mastodon years ago, but it bears repeating: if you care about artists, CREDIT their work when you use it.

I saw this amazing infographic shared on facebook and its situation with credit tells a story that is critical context on AI art outrage today. (The artist is Ray Troll.)
A screenshot of a facebook post showing an infographic of geological time. At the top are two people and a pickup truck with a nautilus in the back of it. The earth, divided into slices, is below them. A center column denotes cenozoc, mesozoic, and paleozoic eras (top to bottom). On the left side slices show drawings of fossils matching their eras. The right side is divided into eras from the Holocene to the Archaean from top to bottom, and notes on the outside of the 'earth' show time in millions of years, ranging from 11,700 years (separating the Holocene from the Pleistocene) to 2.5 billion years (separating the Proterozoic from the Archaean). A box at the bottom notes "Earth forms 4.6 billion years ago". Boxes also note the T/K and T/P extinctions on the left side with "big big extinction" and "gigantic extinction" marked respectively. Almost unreadable is light purple text at the bottom right that says Ray Troll 2016.
July 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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I couldn't help it, I'm sorry
June 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Kind of a v1 prototype (I want to do another, better one) but I made an Amida Buddha #Lego minifigure for a dharma school activity this past weekend.
A metallic Lego minifigure with gold hair standing with right hand raised on a Lego flower made of purple petals and a green base. The minifigure has downcast eyes and robes made of patterned washi tape.
May 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Thought for sure this was a hallucination, but no -- this is actually how you can propagate moss. Sometimes reality is weirder than even #AI can come up with. #Moss, I raise a glass to you. 🍺

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Search Labs AI Overview result that reads "To grow moss on cheesecloth, gather some moss, ideally from a damp, shaded area. Place a piece of cheesecloth in a location with similar conditions, and either loosely place some moss on top or create a slurry with crumbled moss and a liquid like yogurt, buttermilk, or beer, then spread it on the cheesecloth. Keep the cheesecloth moist, and in time, the moss will spread and attach to the fabric."
May 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Greetings from Milky Way! Was my favorite as a kid and shows it. There is a Plum Blossom and a Tiffany in another box somewhere around here. I'm kind of bummed at how Buttons has faded.
A pink first generation My Little Pony "Milky Way" sitting on a black surface. Another pony is behind it ("Buttons") partly obscured. In the background is a tile wall.
May 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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@seananmcguire.bsky.social Picked up Indian food for dinner tonight and the chicken tikka masala was super tomato-ey. Couldn't help but think of Sarah.
A plastic container of red chicken curry sitting on a wooden table next to a bottle of organic ketchup.
April 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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It's really incredible here. (Seattle, a bit south of you.)
White and pale pink cherry blossoms in spring on dark branches of a cherry tree.
April 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Headed to #gdc. And here's your reminder that even if you don't want to mask at the event, doing so as you travel reduces the risk of being a vector!
March 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Timeline cleanse: two moments from our puppy's first snow day.
A photograph of a gray, brown, and white young dog standing on snow-covered grass. A large ball of snow is in the foreground. The dog's left eye is blue. A photograph of a gray, brown, and white young dog running across snow-covered grass. The dog is blurry with motion and his eyes are wide in a funny expression.
February 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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I never get tired of this gif
An animated gif of Aslan the lion from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe saying "do not cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written."
January 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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This weekend in northwest Washington a #TransRights sunset. Nature knows.
A photograph of a lake framed by leafless trees in winter. Centered is a frost-covered shore with evergreens. Bright pink clouds are visible atop a forested ridge with bright blue sky above them. The pink and blue sky is reflected in the water of the lake.
January 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Frost on fern, quite close to the Canadian border.
A green frond of a fern plant edged with ice crystals. Stems of frosted plants are visible in the background. A close up cropped view of a green fern frond with long visible ice crystals on its left edges.
January 19, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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The chicken soup of So Many Reasons. Recommended if you can. 🍽
A green bowl filled with chicken soup. Broccoli, carrots, elbow noodles, chicken, broth, and a green spoon are visible. A large two-handled pot of chicken soup sitting on a black stovetop.
January 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Amazing to get this update from #PasadenaBuddhistTemple. Local neighbors climbed the fence to put out spot fires in the temple gardens. Heroic work from Rev. Gibbs and temple members who repeatedly watered down the exterior to protect it from the fire that reached up Montana. 🙏
A social media post with photographs of the Pasadena Buddhist temple. The photographs show caretakers standing in front of the temple intact, and a second photograph shows a singed fence and smoking ground at the foot of a patio. Text reads: Fire update. We are still standing on the morning of January 9. The Eaton fire is still not contained, but for now, the fire seems to be moving away from the temple. We are beyond grateful to our neighbors on Montana, the street behind the temple. While houses were burning on their street, they climbed over our fence and put out burning embers in our temple tea garden and were watering down the area. Temple Co-President and a couple of our SOGs (Sons of Gardeners volunteers) and Rev. Gibbs returned to unlock the temple parking lot gate and found them working and helped them water down the smoking embers beneath the Hondo portico and some of the tea garden structures. They returned today to check on the temple and took this photo. You can see the smoke to the upper right. Air quality is terrible and the City of Pasadena has advised to not use the tap water until further notice. Sadly, we have already heard of five members and temple friends who have lost their houses to this fire. We are still gathering information about our Sangha and happily have no reports of injuries. We will be assessing the damage and setting up ways to help our members recover following this disaster. The high winds are expected to continue at least through the weekend. We hope this is the end of the danger to the temple. We appreciate so much all of the good wishes and concern you have shared with us via social media, texts and calls. Namo Amida Butsu.
January 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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In case anyone else needs this today.

#BlueSky #Facebook #Meta
January 8, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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We moved to #Seattle and it's absolutely obnoxious how happy this place makes me. I don't think seeing Rainier on the descent will ever get old. On the one hand this is a terrible photo of it, but on the other I love it, the snow and rock just melting in and out of the clouds.
A photo of Mt Rainier from southern approach in an airplane. Fluffy white clouds fill the bottom half of the image. A horizontal slice of the mountain is visible with flat gray clouds obscuring its peak.
November 22, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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Classic cat move from Olive this morning.
November 6, 2024 at 2:53 AM
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November 6, 2024 at 2:49 AM