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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The more things change the more they stay the same

Puppy Rex, a black and white border collie wolfhound, curled up fast asleep on the couch against my left hip. My left arm’s lying along his back with my elbow behind his head and my hand on his hips just above his tail.

Rex at almost five years old, asleep on the couch with his head resting against my left hip. He now takes up a sizeable portion of the three seater couch with his legs sticking out over the edge.
My left arm’s resting on him again, with my elbow once again behind his head, but my hand only reaches to just past his left shoulder.

Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Could you perhaps add bands of thick wire with connecting lengths of the same? Basically what it looks like you’ve already done with foam but it may give you a more rigid armature connecting the inner & outer components. Something like this…

The same photo of the headpiece but I’ve crudely circled the interior sections of the headrest in red to illustrate the bands I was suggesting, with red lines nominally indicating where you could span between them with more wire.

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So true, for bonus points I even made the San Francisco chronicle driving a forklift (despite being in Aus)

A screenshot from the San Francisco chronicle website showing me driving a forklift carrying a giant NFL ball on a stand outside a stadium while my colleague guides me

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve never come across it before I’ll have to check it out. While we’re talking childhood vampire stories, a friend gave this book to my kids, though I don’t think either of them ever read it, but it stirred very dim memories of reading it when I was a kid.

A copy of “The last vampire” a kids book by Willis Hall. The slightly spooky slightlyvhumorous illustrations are by Babette Cole and feature a stereotypical vampire with a flowing cape driving a sleigh pulled by four wolves through the snow with young boy beside him and a bemused looking couple seated behind him.
In the background four villagers are trying to shoo away bats. Two of them are wielding farm implements whilst one is inexplicably swinging a chook.

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Looking at this it’s no wonder I feel knackered after yesterdays ride

A screenshot of the stats from yesterdays training ride showing we covered 86.42 kilometres and gained 207 metres of elevation in just under 3.5 hours with an average speed of 25.4 kilometres per hour

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And people wonder why I have such little faith in our intelligence as a species…

A bag of cable ties on my metal workbench. It has a snaplock seal (which has been opened) at one end, but for some utterly unfathomable reason someone else has chosen to access them by tearing a hole in the other end of the bag.

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Name a non lotr character (or two) that could resist the one ring

Vyvyan from “the young ones”. A scruffy punk in a studded denim vest over a Motörhead tshirt, metal stars in his forehead, a septum piercing and bright orange hair.
He’s reclining on his side with his head resting on his hand and a sneer on his face.

Zaphod Beeblebrox from the bbc series version of “the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy”. A humanoid character with two heads (both with very eighties mullets), three visible arms and a fairly bedraggled coat. He’s standing in the bar of the restaurant at the end of the universe surrounded by alien drinks and various other space paraphernalia.

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The guy on the left is Eddie Williams, two time winner of Australia’s strongest man, the guy on the right is my acrobat turned powerlifter mate Alex who’s the strongest person I personally know (& it’s a crowded field). As Alex said, he looks like a kid out for a walk with his dad.

Two very muscular blokes in a gym with their arms around each other, each is flexing their free arm and smiling at the camera. Eddie, on the left, towers over Alex, who’s by no means a small man.

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There’s kintsugi And then there’s whatever the fuck this is

A sink in a public toilet. It looks like the previous sink was ripped out of the wall, taking several tiles with it.
What’s odd is that instead of installing new tiles the plumber has messily siliconed a panel of clear acrylic onto the wall leaving the broken tiles and bare wall covered but on full display.

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I may not be straight but if my work needs to be then it absolutely fucking will be

An end-on shot of a bunch of lengths of 50 millimetre square steel tube welded upright down the centre of a long piece of plate steel. They’re so well aligned that if it wasn’t for the fact that the ones at the front are shorter it would look like one single upright.

The same piece shot from a different angle so you can see that there’s actually eleven separate uprights in a line.

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Proving once again that there’s no such thing as too many clamps

Eleven lengths of fifty millimeter square steel tube welded upright to a long piece of plate steel. There’s another length of square tube running horizontally about three hundred millimetres off the bottom to keep them aligned as I weld them, with an individual clamp for each upright length.

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Was literally just referencing this the other day

A tweet by @sephiramy with photos of Michael Caine and Tim curry in their respective muppet movies.
Text reads:
the reason Michael Caine and Tim Curry are so good in their respective Muppet movies is that Michael Caine treats the Muppets as fellow actors, and Tim Curry treats himself as a fellow Muppet
discuss
@emmaubler replies:
No, no need to discuss your analysis is spot on.

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

For some reason this makes me think of this gem from years back

A laminated note stuck on a whiteboard it reads

“CANCELLED
Today In One Hour
The cast have taken a good hard look at themselves and will not be performing this show again.”

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Quick and dirty plasma cutting setup is quick and dirty But it works

An odd shaped offcut of plate steel with a ply jig clamped to it is lying on a crude platform of three millimetre angle steel lengths that have been welded together. It’s all supported by two post stands that I’ve placed underneath. The earth for the plasma cutter is clamped to the far end

The same setup without the piece I was cutting. You can see that I’ve constructed it by lying three lengths of angle point up and then welding four lengths of angle on top (also point up) perpendicular to the base three, forming a rectangle which supports the material I’m cutting whilst minimising the amount of material beneath it.

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This was us & another mate many years ago, for reference we’re both substantially bigger & stronger than we were at that time

An unfortunately blurry photo of three people training an acrobatic balance position. Alex is on the bottom, standing with his knees bent. He’s leaning back holding onto my thighs while I stand on his and lean forward so we counterbalance each other. My arms are up in a V position and Tara is standing on my head with her hands on her hips.

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I too want to be growing the loneliness out of my soul

$The back of a box for an “LED flame bulb”. There’s a bunch of low res photos of it in action under the heading “application scenario” with a blurb underneath that which reads exactly as follows: “FEATURES: Artificial Vivid Fire, Dynamic Moving Flame, Simulate Nature Fire Flicker Flame, But Flameless, Safe & Energy Saving Of Led Light Source,Replacement Of Tradicional Gas Lantern, Oak Retrofit Oil Lamp,Hurricane Lamp,Atmosphere Mood Lamp,Decorate Your Space With Its Orange Hot Flame Color, Give You A Quite Romantic And Relaxed Moment When Lighting Up A Flame,And Then With Jazz Music,And Helping You To Sleep Ahead, Growing \The Loneliness Out Of Your Soul.”$

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

These are some of our favourites, cranium may be a bit challenging for his age but you never know. There’s also classics like chess & UNO (we have UNO flip). Most of these we’ve had since our kids were at least as young as your godson & still play now they’re teens & they’re fun for us too

A selection of card and board games laid out on a table. There’s cranium, codenames, telestrations, six second scribbles, exploding kittens, Bandido, herd mentality and taco cat goat cheese pizza

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I could cheat & show one of my latest jobs, but this quick & dirty torch holder I threw together from scraps seems more fitting.

The object in question. I welded two pieces of angle together to make a ‘U’ shape and then fashioned a handle out of two semi-circular pieces that I attached to the back. The torch rest is made from another semi-circle welded to the top of a section of key plate, it’s very junkyard chic.

The torch holder in use. The ’U’ fits snuggly over the edge of my workbench & the bottom of the welding torch handle rests in the cradle with its tip on the bench

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is what happens when 35kg of dog attempts to stop suddenly on a sodden oval

A section of muddy oval with two deep skid marks leading away from the camera which were left by my dog skidding sideways across the wet grass

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Fuck that, I & the sleepy muppets hope it doesn’t knock you about too much.

Rex and Winter, a large black and white border collie/wolfhound and a medium sized grey cat respectively, curled up together on a brown leather couch. Rex is lying with his head on the footstool looking up at the camera, while Winter’s asleep facing away from him with her head on a crocheted cushion.

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Fortunately for me I hated him long before I discovered what a piece of shit he is

A meme showing Facebook’s react symbols, thumbs up, heart, laughing face, shocked face, crying face and angry face.
There’s text below then which reads:
“Facebook's six react symbols secretly reflect a timeline of every fan relationship with Morrissey.
From first encounter to present day.”

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I suppose everyone’s got a side hustle these days

A screenshot of an iHerb ad for what they’re calling “cooling cryo globes” which are apparently “facial massage tools”. However they look like fancy meth pipes.

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Oh absolutely, I totally get it. Abby & Fin saw us through both some of the best & some of the hardest periods of our life to date so any reminder’s bittersweet as you say.

Abby, a small tabby cat around 17/18 years old, fast asleep beside me in bed with her head on my shoulder and her left front leg draped over my upper arm

A close up of Fin, a large tuxedo cat, also around 17/18 years old, asleep in the crook of my arm.

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is funny (congratulatory) because I had this conversation with my brother the other day

A screenshot my bro found and sent me reads:

“Introduced my son to ska and it's the best decision I've ever made since there's no chance this boy is getting anyone pregnant before he's at least 30.
Sam Shapiro
@bluecouch4sale
abstinence the best form of contraception. the second best is of course
*the trumpets*”

I replied:
That's very funny, although I have to keep reminding myself that when Americans talk about ska they're usually talking about the late 90s/ early O0s revival, not the two tone era. *redacted* is in for Igorrr, shall I grab tix for all of us tonight?

And he replied:
What, you don't put Barenaked Ladies on the same level as The Specials?

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Given the quality of the machine this is a better result than I was hoping for I had forgotten however that it was meant to be 65 degrees, not 60, but that’s why we do test pieces after all

A sideways shot of the cut pipe showing a clean and consistent cut at exactly the wrong angle

Another shot showing just how clean the cut is. Still the wrong angle though.

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Was talking about the utility or otherwise of cheap tools yesterday, this is a perfect example. The bandsaw’s a piece of shit but I needed to find a way to make clean, repeatable acute angle cuts in 60mm pipe & this way I could do it safely & no one would care if it went sideways & damaged the saw

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

It’s apparently mynah mating season because this one particular one keeps attacking its reflection in this window, shitting on our washing in the process. Hoping the shiny things will be an effective deterrent. Also doesn’t hurt to glam up the place a bit.

A shot looking up at a window through an undercover washing line, I’ve hung a string of small mirror balls at small bird height above the line and in front of the window.

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Not good my friend, I can send you animal pics & the hope that things pick up soon

Rex, a large black and white border collie/wolfhound, curled awkwardly beside me on the couch. He’s kinda on his back with his torso against the backrest and his head by my knee, looking at the camera with one front leg curled over my arm as I scratch his neck

Another shot of Rex and I on the couch, but this time he’s asleep curled up in a ball beside me and I’ve got Winter, a shorthair grey cat asleep on my lap

Our other cat, Soup, a longhair tabby hanging out on a shelf of their cat tower with her head hanging off one side and her ridiculously fluffy tail hanging off the other.

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Surely it would. Also you just reminded of this

A tweet from
Clinton J. Boomer
@boomer_kid

Vampire Queen: I feel there has been a misunderstanding.
Necromancer: Your ad CLEARLY said
'undead power-couple seeks necromancer 4 domination'.
Vampire Queen: Ah. It was supposed to say WORLD domination.
Vampire King: (through ball-gag) Well, as long as we're all having fun.

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Given my process this is exactly how drilling these holes should have turned out, but there’s always an element of uncertainty with pipe, especially as the holes are offset to accommodate the weld & they were drilled separately so I could use the pedestal drill.

A rectangular piece of plate steel tacked to my workbench with a 150 millimetre long piece of 42 millimetre diameter pipe welded in the centre. There’s a loose piece of 48 millimetre diameter pipe standing on its end next to the fixed piece and both of them have an 11 millimetre hole drilled laterally through the centre. The hole in the larger piece is approximately 5 millimetres lower than in the smaller to allow for the fact that it will sit on the weld when it sleeves over.

The same shot, only this time the 48 millimetre pipe is sleeved over the smaller one and you can see that the holes line up bloody close to perfectly so there’s a clear view directly through both pipes.

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Ours is the same, we go to a guy who’s only 20 minutes up the road for any steel components but it would certainly simplify things to be able to do it in house. It would have cut manufacturing time for these by around 75% for example

Three spigot brackets in various stages of completion on a ply board. They’re made of three layers of laminated 25 millimetre by 5 millimetre flat steel with a hole drilled in the end and the edges rounded off welded to a capped length of 32 millimetre pipe.

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I think this gem I found in the rag bag at work is up there with my favourite piece of bad auto-translate

The front part of an old shirt that’s been cut up for rags. There’s black text on the grey fabric that reads

“CUT THE SMALL TALK GROUND
CONTROL HYPE STICK
WIG ART OF NOISE CONM
UP YOURS
THE SMALL TALK”

None of this is a typo, just to confirm.

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Dylan. fairly male, very metal @dangermuppet.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

That’s a beauty, mine was all soft tissue damage, even with the partial dislocation of the other shoulder when I hit the ground. Although I hit the door hard enough to bend the hinges which was oddly satisfying to know.

A shot of my upper right torso and shoulder showing some impressive bruising running from my armpit up the front of my shoulder, culminating in a small hole near the end of my clavicle where I hit the top corner of the car door, surrounded by some striped bruising where a dressing was pinching my skin.

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