Toadie 🏳️⚧️
@toadie2k.bsky.social
3D Artist and Animator-Commercial/Freelance, heckin' trans, heckin' trains,🦘| She/Her |💓@rotogote.bsky.social |🎙@niarms.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/toadie2k
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It's over: I've already depicted you as the seething broad gauge train, and myself as the smug narrow gauge!
October 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It's over: I've already depicted you as the seething broad gauge train, and myself as the smug narrow gauge!
hi yes, i am McDone with computer shit. and also the AI bubble driving up prices on shit that's 6 years old and literally just remainder stock left on shelves. and also all of the other computer andcomputer part bullshit
December 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
hi yes, i am McDone with computer shit. and also the AI bubble driving up prices on shit that's 6 years old and literally just remainder stock left on shelves. and also all of the other computer andcomputer part bullshit
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gamer pro tip: crack open kirby to reach the sushi within 🍣
December 4, 2025 at 2:40 AM
gamer pro tip: crack open kirby to reach the sushi within 🍣
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being that this is the case, imo there should be a platform through which any group of folks can recieve donations easily and this should get normal
for instance everyone from a laid-off dev team gets put in a group, i donate 100 bucks, my 100 bucks is split equally between the people in the group
for instance everyone from a laid-off dev team gets put in a group, i donate 100 bucks, my 100 bucks is split equally between the people in the group
December 2, 2025 at 3:26 AM
being that this is the case, imo there should be a platform through which any group of folks can recieve donations easily and this should get normal
for instance everyone from a laid-off dev team gets put in a group, i donate 100 bucks, my 100 bucks is split equally between the people in the group
for instance everyone from a laid-off dev team gets put in a group, i donate 100 bucks, my 100 bucks is split equally between the people in the group
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Tomix model railway freight wagons turned into their real life counterparts. Tamiya powders/panel line outliner and matte clear, Mr Weathering liquids completed the look.
November 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Tomix model railway freight wagons turned into their real life counterparts. Tamiya powders/panel line outliner and matte clear, Mr Weathering liquids completed the look.
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Today's historic pic: GM23 sits at South Dynon depot, West Melbourne, September 28 1985. Due to motive power shortages, three of these classic locos (GM23, GM24 and GM28) were hired from AN by VLine from 1983 until 1985 to haul passenger and goods trains on the Melbourne - Albury standard gauge line
December 2, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Today's historic pic: GM23 sits at South Dynon depot, West Melbourne, September 28 1985. Due to motive power shortages, three of these classic locos (GM23, GM24 and GM28) were hired from AN by VLine from 1983 until 1985 to haul passenger and goods trains on the Melbourne - Albury standard gauge line
Hey, you looking for some nice, deep background noise in the form of a classic EMD block and a great run of late afternoon country vistas that turn into a magnificent twilight approach to a city? Here, take this (video by Driver667)
youtu.be/rHlx2S_3H2w
youtu.be/rHlx2S_3H2w
Drivers eye view, Ballarat to Southern Cross via Nth Geelong, A class, Aug 2025
YouTube video by Driver667
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Hey, you looking for some nice, deep background noise in the form of a classic EMD block and a great run of late afternoon country vistas that turn into a magnificent twilight approach to a city? Here, take this (video by Driver667)
youtu.be/rHlx2S_3H2w
youtu.be/rHlx2S_3H2w
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Studio 346 is a collection of artists, historians, & engineers joined in a common goal: to make our shared love & knowledge of railroading into a fun, meaningful experience. Since day 1, we’ve pledged never to use generative AI slop. Century of Steam always will be a game made for people, by people.
November 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Studio 346 is a collection of artists, historians, & engineers joined in a common goal: to make our shared love & knowledge of railroading into a fun, meaningful experience. Since day 1, we’ve pledged never to use generative AI slop. Century of Steam always will be a game made for people, by people.
Hey protip for anyone doing anything creative - whether that's 3D modelling ,animation, drawing, model trains, hwatever - if you ever get stuck in a thing that needs a process to do but you can't figure out the full fo0rm of the thing needed to get through the process, do the bits you know first.
December 1, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Hey protip for anyone doing anything creative - whether that's 3D modelling ,animation, drawing, model trains, hwatever - if you ever get stuck in a thing that needs a process to do but you can't figure out the full fo0rm of the thing needed to get through the process, do the bits you know first.
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I am immediately reminded of this wonderful sequence from "Model Railroading Unlimited"
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November 30, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I am immediately reminded of this wonderful sequence from "Model Railroading Unlimited"
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getting side-swiped by remembering the stand of shareware 3.5" floppy disks that the news agent sold from like.... 94 to 2000. And, yes that late.
November 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
getting side-swiped by remembering the stand of shareware 3.5" floppy disks that the news agent sold from like.... 94 to 2000. And, yes that late.
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Melbourne Metro Tunnel opens today.
Take a look at the newly released update of my Melbourne Train and Tram Map on the Australian Rail Maps website. 😁
railmaps.com.au/melbourne.htm
Take a look at the newly released update of my Melbourne Train and Tram Map on the Australian Rail Maps website. 😁
railmaps.com.au/melbourne.htm
November 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Melbourne Metro Tunnel opens today.
Take a look at the newly released update of my Melbourne Train and Tram Map on the Australian Rail Maps website. 😁
railmaps.com.au/melbourne.htm
Take a look at the newly released update of my Melbourne Train and Tram Map on the Australian Rail Maps website. 😁
railmaps.com.au/melbourne.htm
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Much as I like good clean design (and flat-shaded rounded squares IMO aren't - good, that is ), I love this energy so much. What if the classic mouse-made pixel art icons of old got more definition and went wild with it?
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
November 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Much as I like good clean design (and flat-shaded rounded squares IMO aren't - good, that is ), I love this energy so much. What if the classic mouse-made pixel art icons of old got more definition and went wild with it?
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Please give this a watch, comment or share.
It's a lovely video that's being quickly buried by the algorithm, and more people should see this incredible layout in which all the rolling stock has been custom painted by me over the last 15 years!
It's a lovely video that's being quickly buried by the algorithm, and more people should see this incredible layout in which all the rolling stock has been custom painted by me over the last 15 years!
November 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Please give this a watch, comment or share.
It's a lovely video that's being quickly buried by the algorithm, and more people should see this incredible layout in which all the rolling stock has been custom painted by me over the last 15 years!
It's a lovely video that's being quickly buried by the algorithm, and more people should see this incredible layout in which all the rolling stock has been custom painted by me over the last 15 years!
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My dad is in his 70s. He had never painted a thing in his life.
5 years ago he picked up a water paint brush for the first time and followed a tutorial on Youtube.
Just last week, he painted this.
5 years ago he picked up a water paint brush for the first time and followed a tutorial on Youtube.
Just last week, he painted this.
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
My dad is in his 70s. He had never painted a thing in his life.
5 years ago he picked up a water paint brush for the first time and followed a tutorial on Youtube.
Just last week, he painted this.
5 years ago he picked up a water paint brush for the first time and followed a tutorial on Youtube.
Just last week, he painted this.
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
Small progress over the last couple days - added just a little more flower scatter to the wildflower patches to bring them out more, and added some signage for the trail.
November 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Small progress over the last couple days - added just a little more flower scatter to the wildflower patches to bring them out more, and added some signage for the trail.
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Same energy
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Same energy
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Curl up today and watch one of my favorite layout tour videos I've ever made: Visiting the Vasona Branch!
This route is canonically part of the ALTA, so I ran over it with 4-4-0 #2015.
youtu.be/QlVzQQPxmIw
This route is canonically part of the ALTA, so I ran over it with 4-4-0 #2015.
youtu.be/QlVzQQPxmIw
Vasona Branch Layout Visit: Bay Area California HO scale model railroad tour.
YouTube video by Interurban Era
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November 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Curl up today and watch one of my favorite layout tour videos I've ever made: Visiting the Vasona Branch!
This route is canonically part of the ALTA, so I ran over it with 4-4-0 #2015.
youtu.be/QlVzQQPxmIw
This route is canonically part of the ALTA, so I ran over it with 4-4-0 #2015.
youtu.be/QlVzQQPxmIw
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Melbourne Metro Tunnel opens this coming Sunday (30/11). So today I have updated the Melbourne Train & Tram Map on the Australian Rail Maps website:
-> railmaps.com.au/melbourne.htm
Sunbury and Pak/Cran lines run via MetroTunnel and also still via the City Loop until February.
-> railmaps.com.au/melbourne.htm
Sunbury and Pak/Cran lines run via MetroTunnel and also still via the City Loop until February.
November 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Melbourne Metro Tunnel opens this coming Sunday (30/11). So today I have updated the Melbourne Train & Tram Map on the Australian Rail Maps website:
-> railmaps.com.au/melbourne.htm
Sunbury and Pak/Cran lines run via MetroTunnel and also still via the City Loop until February.
-> railmaps.com.au/melbourne.htm
Sunbury and Pak/Cran lines run via MetroTunnel and also still via the City Loop until February.
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
To speak from my experiences in 2023 - The company I worked for was small enough that I just could go straight to the owner, highlight what was happening with me and what might happen for them, and despite not having a policy and contingency for employee harassment beforehand, they set one up
For @aftermath.site, I spoke to @imodrew.bsky.social, the Sucker Punch dev fired after making a Charlie Kirk joke.
She paints a picture of an industry that all too often ignores bad actors until those bad actors threaten them financially.
aftermath.site/sucker-punch...
She paints a picture of an industry that all too often ignores bad actors until those bad actors threaten them financially.
aftermath.site/sucker-punch...
Two Months After Firing Over Charlie Kirk Comments, Ghost Of Yotei Dev Blames Harassment Campaign, Not ‘Bad Joke’
"I really don’t want this to happen to anyone else, because I feel like with the state of everything, it will absolutely happen to other people," says Drew Harrison
aftermath.site
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 AM
To speak from my experiences in 2023 - The company I worked for was small enough that I just could go straight to the owner, highlight what was happening with me and what might happen for them, and despite not having a policy and contingency for employee harassment beforehand, they set one up
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YOOO EVERYONE, DANGER ⚠️
This account “tyrooart” just DM’d one of the bidders in my current auction. This is NOT me. Please do not interact and report on sight.
This account “tyrooart” just DM’d one of the bidders in my current auction. This is NOT me. Please do not interact and report on sight.
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
YOOO EVERYONE, DANGER ⚠️
This account “tyrooart” just DM’d one of the bidders in my current auction. This is NOT me. Please do not interact and report on sight.
This account “tyrooart” just DM’d one of the bidders in my current auction. This is NOT me. Please do not interact and report on sight.