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• Post #3048062

  "There is a certain attraction in extreme ugliness, especially when it is fit to purpose." So says Kroum Batchvarov, of the gundalow USS Philadelphia.

• Post #3048061

  Well, my first 28mm scale ship is done. This will be the French buccaneer sloop the Alouette, captured and renamed from the English ship Lark. #minis #BloodAndPlunder #ships

• Post #3048060

  New hobby unlocked: auscultation.

• Post #3048059

  A strange game. The only playing move is not to win.

• Post #3048058

  Summer of Plunder 2026 kicks off with me getting crushed against a lee shore by the Spanish and not even getting a moral victory by running away with the objective. https://transneptune.games/Miniatures+Games/Summer+of+Plunder+2026/Week+1+-+Raid+at+Asunción #minis #ships #OakAndIron #SummerOfPlunder2026

• Post #3048057

  And here’s Stede Bonnet, in colours inspired by Our Flag Means Death. #minis #BloodAndPlunder #SummerOfPlunder2026

• Post #3048056

  Mark Kanemura dancing to "Cut to the Feeling". If it's in your head now, 🩷💜💙

• Post #3048055

  “Beach House” continues to be very good.

• Post #1815556

  Got my deadeyes done on the Bermuda sloop. Not very taut and not very even, but I’m really happy for my first go! Gotta get ratlines and select running rigging on it next! #minis #ships #BloodAndPlunder

• Post #1031062

  I’m seeing lots of sentiments like this: https://mas.to/@emmetoneill/116333159772251814 https://social.treehouse.systems/@Elizafox/116334182924904790 And I’m thinking of Gil Scott-Heron. As ever. #artemis2

• Post #1031061

  #BloodAndPlunder galleon starting to get primed. Realized I forgot the stern decorations, but green stuff, superglue, and a hobby knife to rough up the underlying surface makes up for many faults. I hesitate to tag this #minis because it is so huge, but it is still 28mm scale I guess!

• Post #1031060

  I’m still strangely proud that I can carry the title Hunter of the Shrouded Ghost.

• Post #1031059

  Having one of those days where I want to look up information on bending a sail to a yard, but the internet only understands “bending” in the everyday sense. I refuse to search for “attaching” because that’s not the Right Word. Yes, this is what happens when you let a linguist learn a bit about tall ship sailing. It’s bad for everyone.

• Post #1031057

  RE: https://woof.group/@aphyr/116369290751171224 Clinical and accurate, and I’m enjoying it.

• Post #1031055

  Billionaires anywhere are a threat to human flourishing everywhere.

• Post #722159

  1/60 scale sloop is getting there. Finished painting. Varnish, sails, and rigging to come. #minis #BloodAndPlunder #ships

• Post #722158

  Strategizing model ship stuff with a friend, he says: > What I notice looking at various small ship models is that things aren't convincingly under tension is almost a hallmark of the look. > Like doll dresses, the material is too stiff for the scale and there's no wind holding it taught. The lines are sewing thread and there's a little bend in it partway along so it looks small.

• Post #722153

  My dear spouse has said she believes that American evangelical Christianity is what you get when Calvinist style “salvation by faith not works” spends a few generations marinating in Tornado Alley. I think there’s something to that.

• Post #722152

  Today I met a kid, maybe 7 or so, who corrected someone saying something was a Triceratops by observing that it was a Styracosaurus but that both are ceratopsids. He then went on to tell me every zebra fact he knew. I was made very happy.

• Post #654069

  Toddler saw pix of Kirk and Spock on her Little Golden Book and said “Captain Kirk can hug Mr Spock!” The kid gets it already.

• Post #654068

  With vim and python getting slop commits, do we make “Vibe Check” to monitor for this shit? Or killthevi.be ?

• Post #654067

  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@renatoram/116207357205976393 I am also team “ukuleles are beautiful and fun”.

• Post #654066

  Not me reading up again on Peronism on a casual Tuesday night. Nope. No way.

• Post #654065

  I know this has been said by many people many times, but let me put it as simply as I can: the only tragedy of the commons is enclosure by the wealthy.

• Post #654064

  New Metric is *good*.

• Post #654062

  Songs that fade out bother me deeply.