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Jackalgirl
@jackalgirl7.bsky.social
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Orthodox Kemetic, sat Yinepu, Freemason, generally interested in just about anything, but not everything.

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Gorgeous sky last night, saw the #NorthernLights for the first time in a long time. And such colors! Incredible.
Photograph of mostly bare October maple trees silhouetted against a night sky smeared with bright green, pink and red Northern Lights.
November 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Cystybits (more like whole cysts, like the picture from the loading screen) from #TheOuterWorlds2 (using Babish's Master Fried Chicken recipe). They turned out just fine and thank goodness, because the Boarst Rockets were a disaster.
Photograph of a rectangular blue-glazed plate sitting on a black marblesque countertop. There is a pile of deep fried things, roughly the size of baking potatoes, piled up on the plate, their fried coating all craggly, golden brown and, as it turns out, delicious.
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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It's Ancient Babylonian *Math*, actually
#TheOuterWorlds2 #TOW2Spoilers
Screenshot from the video game The Outer Worlds 2 main menu screen, showing a cardboard stage with the Spacer's Choice Moon Man as a cardboard marionette. The text caption says, "Wow, you're a Professor? I'm impressed! Unless it's in Ancient Babylonian Poetry" (and options for continuing or starting the game). A large book has been propped up against the TV screen: Jöran Friberg's "A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts".
October 31, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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I made a thing! This just might be turning into a #craft -- #OrderOfTheAscendant #TheOuterWorlds2
Mad props to Bree Guthrie for incredible illustrations & logo design!
October 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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I'm ready, @obsidianent.bsky.social
#TheOuterWorlds2
#OrderOfTheAscendant
Copy of an edition of Fibonacci's "Liber Abaci", translated to English, open to the section titled "How Many Pairs of Rabbits Are Created by One Pair in One Year. [26]"
October 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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I'm ready, @obsidianent.bsky.social
An edition of Fibonacci's "Liber Abaci", open to the section titled "How Many Pairs of Rabbits Are Created by One Pair in One Year"
October 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Here is the setup to my degenerative, book-cipher-enhanced encryption: 1) x-y-z for book cipher meaning "page, line, word (first letter of the word)"; first line is the red key letter, next line is the letter that indicates how many places & direction you'll rotate the red wheel. (26/32)
Photograph of a CrunchLabs Cipher Encryption device, a pair of copies of the paperback edition of Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon", a pen labelled "CrunchLabs", and an enciphering pad with the initial key (Nc S) and the message (A BITTER QUITTER LOST THE LITTLE BATTLE) along with the ciphertext (ODHBJ LNMQU QAZIR SQIUB ZZKHQ DIWDG UDQ) and the numbers 208-14-1; 424-20-5; and 463-9-8
June 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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If I write "208-14-1", I'm saying "page 208, line 14, word #1". Looking at your copy of Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" (softcover), you'll see that the word is "No" and starts with the capital letter "N" so this is your red wheel key letter. (24/32)
Photograph of page 208 of a softcover edition of "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson"
June 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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If you're familiar with Criptoquip puzzles (a popular staple of newspaper puzzles back in the day), this is basically the same thing. It's not a shift cipher because Mark and the team at Crunchlabs have essentially "scrambled" the connections between the top and bottom plates. (2/32)
Photograph of the cipher wheel construction from the Crunchlabs cipher machine: two static circular pieces, with holes to receive the fiber optic cables, magnetically receive a letter wheel. The red side is the encryption side; the blue side is the decryption side. The letter wheels can be removed, rotated, and snapped back into place so that different letter-pairs line up. A white arrow on the red and blue side mark which letters have been selected as the keypair. The wheel's keypair is currently set to "N" on the red side and (not visible) "S" on the blue side. The fiber optic cables snake around in seemingly random ways to connect the holes on the blue side with those on the red side.
June 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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I've been following along with @crunchlabs.bsky.social (site at www.crunchlabs.com) and I'm woefully behind, but did pick up this build out of order Because Cryptography! It's a cool #CrunchLabs build kit that lets you build & use a pretty snazzy gadget for cipher encryption. (1/32)
Photograph of a contraption consisting of a pair of wheels, letters around the edges, with their letters connected by fiber optic cables. The top wheel is visible, and is red and labelled "encryption". It is sitting on a base that allows the user to rotate the encoding device and select a letter, visible through a viewplate. When the letters is selected on the plate, an LED lights up a different letter on the encode wheel via the fiber optics. Currently the selected letter is "A" and the lit letter on the encoding wheel is "O".
June 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Back to the project of reproducing the credit tokens from #Silo (thanks @tested.com for activating my crow brain when you visited the set; you had me at "they go 'clink'!"). (1/4)
Photograph of a set of 3D printed tokens, all squarish, indicating credit values 20, 10, 5, and 2: reproductions of the props from the Apple series "Silo". The tokens, printed in black resin, are in an organized pile on a pale tan-brown tile, and the tokens show the scratch marks from sanding as well as some lingering resin dust.
June 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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I am creeping up on my #Silo tokens. I'm almost there. I still also need to model the 10 cr and 2 cr tokens, but I'm hoping () that those will go faster once I get these ones nailed down. (These are, of course, pre-paint.)
Photograph of tokens from the TV series Silo, printed in black ABS-like plastic on a 3D printer and sanded down, with evident markings from the sanding process (or possibly residue resin dust).
April 8, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Messing around with #Blender to model the credits in the TV series #Silo - the numbers aren't quite right here (I fixed them in the model that is, as I type, printing up on my Saturn) and I haven't sculpted in any wear, but I intend to use this as an excuse to teach myself pewter casting. (1/3)
Screenshot of a 3d-rendered 20 credit token from the TV series Silo. It's in perfect condition -- this is a model that is "pre-distressed".
April 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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What could possibly go wrong?
#USPol
Headline from the website ground.news, reading "White House taps Musk to investigate Signal chat mishap"
March 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Gurl, help, I made myself a thirst trap in #Avowed

(In another life he's a Vicar. Should have made him a priest but wasn't thinking about it at the time. OTOH he has a bow named, and I am not making this up, "The Long Touch")

Gods bless @obsidianent.bsky.social
Screenshot of a player character from the videogame "Avowed", who bears a striking resemblance to an NPC from another Obsidian game, "The Outer Worlds" named Maximilian DeSoto.
March 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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#Resonite #CreatorJam #MMC25 it's almost time...
February 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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It occurs to me that if there are sheep in the #Silo to serve as a source of wool (there's got to be flax also, for linen, right?), then there have to be "tali" or "knucklebones", which people would use as a game (like jacks), to gamble, or to cast lots.
Photograph of 3D printed knucklebones
January 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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If you know, you know.

#TheOuterWorlds #VicarMax #HarkAVagrant
Two-panel comic copying the extract from Hark! A Vagrant's comic about Edgar Allen Poe receiving fan mail from Jules Verne. In this version, Vicar Max from the Outer Worlds is examining a book, his expression skeptical. In the next frame he is holding it up to look at it more closely and his expression is one of outrage; the bottom of the book is visible now, and has the name "M. Bakonu" written on it.
January 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Progress on the Nixie Tube clock in #Resonite - I got the art files set up, plus some other meshes that for now, are procedural, but of which I will eventually make a baked copy. Right now, the numbers are being driven by the seconds of UTC time.
November 30, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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I am working on texture maps to build into a new clock for #Resonite - this will make use of Nixie tubes, for an imo satisfying intersection of digital and analog. (The fathometer on the ships I served in used Nixie tubes, and I have always loved them.)
Simple digital image of a number 8 from a Nixie tube, with connecting rings on the top and bottom for installation in the tube: light grey on a transparent background.
November 27, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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Here's the first clock I made: an old analog clock that rings a ship's bell to mark the passing of the watch. Those of you familiar with how color is rendered will recognize this video as being from Resonite's predecessor, but the clock graces the wall of my beautiful Cloud Home. #Resonite
November 25, 2024 at 3:09 AM
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So looking forward to #CreatorJam on #Resonite this weekend -- it's been ages (I've been so busy, I haven't been able to jump inWorld for months). There will be SO MUCH RUST to knock off, but it'll be great. @creatorjam.bsky.social is the BEST
Excerpt from a label of PILK in pink, black, white, blue, and tan, reading "PILK Toast and Jam", 12 FL OZ (360 mL) and "Contains Milk", an in-joke from the VR Sandbox creation game Resonite.
November 20, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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cults3d.com/en/3d-printi... - my Skyrim Soul Gem holder, printed on an @elegoo.bsky.social Saturn 4 Ultra, using KAGR3NAC's 3D file, but I cast the gems in transparent resin (with glow in the dark mica powder) as a separate process.

#JGMakes #Skyrim
Photograph, in regular lighting, of a 3D-printed soul gem holder finished in a black and silver wax finish, on a small pedestal on a piece of woven cloth in browns and oranges. There are three purple-toned soul gems cast in semi-transparent resin in the holder. Photograph, in dark lighting, of a 3D-printed soul gem holder finished in a black and silver wax finish, on a small pedestal on a piece of woven cloth in browns and oranges. There are three purple-toned soul gems cast in semi-transparent resin in the holder, and the gems are faintly glowing with a pale blue light. Photograph, in regular lighting, of three purple-toned soul gems cast in semi-transparent resin, resting on a piece of faux grey-and-silver fur. The long strands of fur hide the fact that I managed to leave a loose hair from the brush I used to apply glow-in-the-dark mica powder to the mold in the mold, and it got incorporated into one of the gems. Staging is everything -- hide the crimes!
November 20, 2024 at 12:06 PM
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Proud enough of this, despite its flaws, to post it on its own. More here: www.tumblr.com/jackalgirl/7...

Printed on an @elegoo.bsky.social Saturn 4 Ultra, frame by Walmart

#JGMakes
Photograph of a 3D-printed celestial sphere-map in a globe frame. The art is derived from Willem Janz Blaeu's 17th Century celestial map, traced into Corel Draw by Marcos Antônio Luiz, then adapted by Jackalgirl for use as a displacement map in Blender, and finally printed on an ELEGOO Saturn 4 Ultra resin printer. The sphere has been primed in dark blue, washed with black paint, and then finished with a dark silver wax rub.
November 20, 2024 at 11:59 AM
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Vicar Max from #TheOuterWorlds (or as close as I could get), printed with my @elegoo.bsky.social Saturn 4 Ultra, from an STL created on @heroforgeminis.bsky.social; the Hero Forge face options are pretty amazing!

#JGMakes #3DPrinting
Photograph of a 3D-printed figurine from Hero Forge, in grey resin: it is Vicar Max from The Outer Worlds, or as close as I could get to him using Hero Forge's assets.
November 20, 2024 at 11:56 AM