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Apostate Makes

@apostate-makes.bsky.social
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He/him. I like making stuff for fun. Almost entirely mini painting, some food, some leather. TTRPGs/wargames as an excuse to print and paint more minis. I like cats and art. 🇨🇦, Land Back, Every Child, trans rights.

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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The one thing contra: 🇨🇦🇺🇸 are built to require cars; 15m drive either way and 2h shopping trip for two weeks of groceries priced for stockholder value. 🇪🇺 Is usually a 5 min walk and 5€ whole chicken, 0,6€ veg. To a degree I'd never have believed, it changes the mental/physical effort to make dinner.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I recently moved and had to get a lot of takeout because I didn't have a kitchen for a few weeks. There are so many simple recipes that are so cheap and so much better than restaurant food. Stuffed veg, homemade sauces, roasted chicken, soups! 1/2
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Long story short I'm in Greece (♥️🇬🇷) for the next couple years. Left almost all my possessions behind as donations. Building my kitchen supplies back up, and threw together some local ingredients. Needs wine but worked out pretty well. Pan seared chicken, rice, potatoes.
Steel pan simmering a chicken and rice soup with potatoes.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
[visibly smug about moving] Christ what a shitshow though. Electoral bloodbath next year pls.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...
A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
That said, there's a point at which the difference between malice and ignorance in motive doesn't matter, and I prefer to think of them as both. They weren't playing 4D chess, they were too dumb to think of the obvious outcomes and too evil to care. Piss on their graves.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There's some real parallels to the billionaire funded psyops that led to the (growth of) anti-socialist christian fundamentalism and its influence in the 20th. They just piled up a bunch of money and waited for an articulate True Believer they could amplify with it.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Hot agreement take as a middle aged tech with multiple degrees; degrees are deeply unnecessary for most tech jobs. If degrees reliably taught problem-solving thinking instead of being glorified trade school, I'd have a different opinion.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Big fucking talk for the dickhead that invited precisely those people into his party for "big tent" conservativism. If only literally everyone had seen this coming and said something about it at the time.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
As the kid who started drinking Earl Grey in the 90s cause Picard did... yeah, it is.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Bronze is "harder" to make than iron in that it's an alloy, but it was a solved problem in the bronze age, and everyone that fell back on iron always had that option. They chose not to because it was worse both in general and in cost:benefit, until they ran out of tin.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The bronze age collapse and subsequent adoption of iron was due to trade lines (for tin) failing between western europe and the empires of the fertile crescent, starving their militaries of a core strategic asset. Iron is primarily superior in *accessibility*.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Mild disagree; bronze is definitely better for blades than iron, and has some advantages over early steel (mostly corrosion resistance). It's not so much that bronze is harder and more expensive so much as tin is a stone bitch to acquire at scale in the fertile crescent.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Thanks! ♥️
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Aw thanks man! ♥️ Appreciate! (technically not a conversion, these are raw puppetswar sculpts!)
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Yeehaw, FINALLY had the time and spoons to finish up #miniaturepainting these Puppetswar #ghostbusters #orks. I'm satisfied with how they turned out and learned a lot about the comic style of painting.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Oh those light effects, that's delightful. ♥️
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Depends if you're scamming child actors or not, I guess. Lookin at you, homophobe Haim Saban.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It has been a hell of a summer. I'm finally sitting down for #miniaturepainting again. Still #wip for a modern-day set but here's some finished #urban #bases I have prepared for the finished models.
A set of five 32mm miniature bases, modern pavement with scattered garbage.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Well I'm sending this to my forensic anthropologist wife immediately.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Looks like I'm installing Graphene sooner than I thought.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
✊🫐
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Had to use up about five gallons of fresh and frozen berries yesterday. #baking #pie was the answer. #saskatoon #blueberry and #peach pies. P:
A pair of peach pies with crumble topping.Four saskatoon berry pies and two blueberry pies with crumble topping.A saskatoon berry pie.Three slices of pie: saskatoon berry, blueberry, and peach.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I live in Alberta, home of the oil propaganda sucker population, and the separatists are down from 28% to 18% in the last six months.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Fuckin gorgeous. Inspiring!
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Hell yeah.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Not at all about mini painting. I snapped my shit up overexerting in a marathon 4 years ago. Gained 100lb on the couch, lost all conditioning. Been struggling. Today I tried a very little jump rope and I think I've finally found my slow-starting incremental on-ramp back to running. Hope, finally. ♥️
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Bike lanes/MUP are grade separated mobility aid pathways, plus function as ambulance routes, in nations where EMD/FD aren't constantly advocating for giant vehicles and roads to support 'em.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Bruh my town has an amazing hole in the wall pizza place and they lifted so much of the og PH aesthetic, then added punk/adult. Terrific pizza, red cups, stained glass lamps, checkered tablecloths, local brewery drinks. ♥️
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Yeah, that's an extremely good point, concentrated wealth and authoritarianism are great friends.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I don't think "the only time people think alt right thoughts is when russian botnets make them." But I think there's an acceleration of it that's funded and orchestrated.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
How curious that the primary nuclear power of Europe should be encountering precisely the same problems that recently plagued the primary nuclear power of the planet so badly. How lucky for Russia that their nuclear adversaries all seem to be having the same set of problems.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Welp, I've hit the part of the job search process that describing would invoke content warnings. I don't need any more material conditions, I'm already class aware, thanks. Hmu if y'all know someone looking for a DBA/SQL dev/data warehouse engineer type.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Yeah, I've been pondering. But I've just had one move and I'm about to have another, so I'm holding off on new stuff until then. Nice work!
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I need to set up a better photo booth but I finished up some Draconis Combine #battletech #miniaturepainting for a friend. Last time I try anything but smooth airbrush coats, edge highlights, and panel lining, but he's pleased with em at least!
Two house kurita mechs with banners and swords.Two house kurita mechs with banners and swords. From behind.Two house kurita mechs with lots of missiles.Two house kurita mechs with lots of missiles. From behind.
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 05/07/2026
Okay and well now I'm upset that the two frightened grey lint balls that my catsitter is fostering are now two lovely little grey girls and NO ONE HAS APPLIED TO ADOPT THEM COME ON EDMONTON 😭
Text message: NO applications. How? 
Image is two very cute grey kittens on a lap.
My reply: HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE look at their little faces
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
FINALLY had time to sit down for #miniaturepainting today. Just knocking the rust off with this little guy from @reaperminiatures.bsky.social . Consistently satisfied with copper nmm at last! Took me three hours and I feel a weight off from getting back to the hobby. ♥️
A miniature of a kobold holding an unfurled scroll and a stick with a skull on it.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
GDI PIRACY I MEANT
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
You are *proveably* correct. Source; did my MA thesis on copyright. Repeated research proves privacy is a net benefit (via exposure -> more fans/sales) for everyone except top billing artists, for whom the harms are literally negligible.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Holy shit, the colours in the photo with the redhead. 🤯
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The amount of "great use for it" posts I see in work chat that boil down to "things linux did in 1995, only worse and burns the planet" are infuriating. Saw a guy bragging about using it to [run a cron job only it breaks sometimes] this week.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Hell yeah, that's nice and creamy.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Chef kiss. The transition from translucent on flesh to dress colour feels a little abrupt? Like we should be able to see a fading hint of skin colour in the transition? It's a nitpick, though, looks better than anything I've ever managed!
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What, violence on the three block line between SA and DI, after UCP shut down safe injection sites and defunded social support for the unhoused and those struggling with addiction? Quelle surprise.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Reasonably so. No upper limit to effective paranoia.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Huh. That *is* odd.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
If several websites were targeted over time and didn't use good security, a brute-force attack on password databases could eventually expose each of them. If someone then sold bulk user/pass lists on the darkweb, they'd all show up at once. Theoretically.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Roast em both beforehand and go light on the parsnips, I think.
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Apostate Makes @apostate-makes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This is some hella CEO coded shit. Whoever is telling you to do this, stop listening to them; they are suckers or charlatans.
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Ted nails it. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
theatlantic.com
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
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