kirin
@koboldstyle.bsky.social
Creative Technologist & Animator/Dev in LA. Tabletop and Videogames, Weird Culture, He/Him. Operating at about 0.42 self-actualization. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ally
One half of Scuttlebutt: https://www.youtube.com/@scuttlebuttery
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kirin
@koboldstyle.bsky.social
· Nov 26
Make art that you think is fuckin sick as hell. Make the shit you never thought you could that you always wanted to see. Beat your insecurity to death and fight to become your own favorite artist.
The best art is made for the self. It’s the very act of making art that itself is the gift to the world.
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ICE is crushing Minneapolis economy. On the pod, Mayor Jacob Frey tallies up damage:
$203 million overall
$80 million small biz losses
$5 million hotel cancellations
75K people food insecurity
"Impact is staggering," Frey tells us. Bleeding city for being diverse:
newrepublic.com/article/2066...
$203 million overall
$80 million small biz losses
$5 million hotel cancellations
75K people food insecurity
"Impact is staggering," Frey tells us. Bleeding city for being diverse:
newrepublic.com/article/2066...
Minneapolis Mayor’s Emotional Message to Trump: You Failed to Break Us
In an interview, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says ICE’s attack came from the top—and shares new details about how badly it damaged his city, while explaining how the people there are emerging utterly...
newrepublic.com
February 18, 2026 at 5:43 PM
ICE is crushing Minneapolis economy. On the pod, Mayor Jacob Frey tallies up damage:
$203 million overall
$80 million small biz losses
$5 million hotel cancellations
75K people food insecurity
"Impact is staggering," Frey tells us. Bleeding city for being diverse:
newrepublic.com/article/2066...
$203 million overall
$80 million small biz losses
$5 million hotel cancellations
75K people food insecurity
"Impact is staggering," Frey tells us. Bleeding city for being diverse:
newrepublic.com/article/2066...
Man it took me forever to land on the right hexmap distance scale. And I can't figure out whether the 11.5-degree off-kilter hex recursion is genius/elegant or infuriating (or both?).
That the triple scale up is 3 miles to 8 miles breaks my brain a bit.
That the triple scale up is 3 miles to 8 miles breaks my brain a bit.
February 18, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Man it took me forever to land on the right hexmap distance scale. And I can't figure out whether the 11.5-degree off-kilter hex recursion is genius/elegant or infuriating (or both?).
That the triple scale up is 3 miles to 8 miles breaks my brain a bit.
That the triple scale up is 3 miles to 8 miles breaks my brain a bit.
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I've said it often, but libraries are, without hyperbole, one of the greatest things humans have ever done. Like ever.
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
August 13, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I've said it often, but libraries are, without hyperbole, one of the greatest things humans have ever done. Like ever.
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It sure seems like when we have our basic needs met, and don't have to hustle to survive, humans will almost always choose to create art.
And there is a lot of evidence that when a society decides to honor and promote art and artists, everyone who lives there is measurably happier.
And there is a lot of evidence that when a society decides to honor and promote art and artists, everyone who lives there is measurably happier.
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
I’m constantly astounded at the sheer level of artistic production coming out of Iceland. Novels, movies, music. Amazing.
February 18, 2026 at 6:29 PM
It sure seems like when we have our basic needs met, and don't have to hustle to survive, humans will almost always choose to create art.
And there is a lot of evidence that when a society decides to honor and promote art and artists, everyone who lives there is measurably happier.
And there is a lot of evidence that when a society decides to honor and promote art and artists, everyone who lives there is measurably happier.
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Sten's Inventory
February 18, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Sten's Inventory
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Heya! I'm garin, a freelance artist and currently I'm looking for work and open for commissions!
Feel free to hit me up anytime!
garincomms@gmail_com 📩
Feel free to hit me up anytime!
garincomms@gmail_com 📩
February 7, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Heya! I'm garin, a freelance artist and currently I'm looking for work and open for commissions!
Feel free to hit me up anytime!
garincomms@gmail_com 📩
Feel free to hit me up anytime!
garincomms@gmail_com 📩
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February 16, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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In what way? Are there not enough jobs? Not enough space? Not enough money? I would like to hear one credible report of an American who is suffering because of migration. I have been around for almost 50 years and never heard one. Just uncritical parroting of xenophobic dogshit.
February 16, 2026 at 10:17 PM
In what way? Are there not enough jobs? Not enough space? Not enough money? I would like to hear one credible report of an American who is suffering because of migration. I have been around for almost 50 years and never heard one. Just uncritical parroting of xenophobic dogshit.
I’ve been sick with a sore throat and it really drives home the weird fact that half the time orange juice is the most delicious throat soothing liquid on the planet and the other half it’s weirdly tart and sour, there’s no telling which with any given glass.
February 16, 2026 at 9:51 PM
I’ve been sick with a sore throat and it really drives home the weird fact that half the time orange juice is the most delicious throat soothing liquid on the planet and the other half it’s weirdly tart and sour, there’s no telling which with any given glass.
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@thebandcake.bsky.social Parody of Short Skirt, Long Jacket about Greg Bovino. They forgot to get someone to play the vibraslap though. You can't do CAKE without a vibraslap.
www.youtube.com/shorts/kUDCV...
www.youtube.com/shorts/kUDCV...
send this to Greg Bovino #parody #ice #minneapolis #politics
YouTube video by Sub-Radio
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:28 PM
@thebandcake.bsky.social Parody of Short Skirt, Long Jacket about Greg Bovino. They forgot to get someone to play the vibraslap though. You can't do CAKE without a vibraslap.
www.youtube.com/shorts/kUDCV...
www.youtube.com/shorts/kUDCV...
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August 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Elon’s emails to Epstein.
Location: Starbase, Texas
Location: Starbase, Texas
February 8, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Elon’s emails to Epstein.
Location: Starbase, Texas
Location: Starbase, Texas
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oh my god??
February 13, 2026 at 3:01 AM
oh my god??
Just 90s stoner comedy nightmare boss level of bad boss to work for.
“.. Noem and Lewandowski frequently berate senior level staff, give polygraph tests to employees they don’t trust and have fired employees—in one incident, Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem’s blanket was left behind on a plane ..”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
February 13, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Just 90s stoner comedy nightmare boss level of bad boss to work for.
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Los Angeles neighborhood installing sirens to warn of federal immigration agent presence
Los Angeles neighborhood installing sirens to warn of federal immigration agent presence
A grassroots effort led by residents and community activists in Los Angeles’ Highland Park is working to install warning sirens to alert people in their neighborhood when federal immigra…
ktla.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Los Angeles neighborhood installing sirens to warn of federal immigration agent presence
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This is your regular reminder that in the year 2000, Paul Rudd, with frosted tips, appeared in the Hong Kong film GEN-Y COPS as a bad guy (kinda). In the movie, he does martial arts, fights a robot, and, most shocking of all, does an entire scene in Cantonese.
February 12, 2026 at 10:47 PM
This is your regular reminder that in the year 2000, Paul Rudd, with frosted tips, appeared in the Hong Kong film GEN-Y COPS as a bad guy (kinda). In the movie, he does martial arts, fights a robot, and, most shocking of all, does an entire scene in Cantonese.
Thinking about how these panicky leftist prison camp memes from 2020 were in fact deeply aspirational towards creating some form of prison state, and now literally the softest leftists I know have gone from "lolwhut" at this to "yeah Nurembergs absolutely need to happen" in a single year
Every single election it’s like, “if the Dems win they’re going to put us all in camps” and after several of these I’m just like “seems like you guys really just spend a lot of time fantasizing about camps”
February 12, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Thinking about how these panicky leftist prison camp memes from 2020 were in fact deeply aspirational towards creating some form of prison state, and now literally the softest leftists I know have gone from "lolwhut" at this to "yeah Nurembergs absolutely need to happen" in a single year
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Pam Bondi testifying in front of Congress
February 11, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Pam Bondi testifying in front of Congress
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Notice that Bondi doesn’t turn around.
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Notice that Bondi doesn’t turn around.
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Stuff like this makes me love humans. Feats of engineering accomplishing under dire circumstances to secure people's freedom.
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Stuff like this makes me love humans. Feats of engineering accomplishing under dire circumstances to secure people's freedom.
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad