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Ben

@localtoast.ca
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He/him, aspiring musician, artist, lover of astronomy and self taught programmer. Sober, no AI art or music My GitHub: GitHub.com/heckmarr

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Ben @localtoast.ca · 02/09/2026
If it wasn't obvious, I'm taking a break from social media. Too much brain drain. Ttyl, love and kisses, me
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 22/07/2026
Rofl, yep!
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Katherine Copsey @katcopseygreens.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Gather round for the story of the Very Hungry Data Centre... 🧵 (1/4) #datacentre #ai
A parody of the Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Text reads "The Very Hungry Data Centre" and the image shows a large black-and-brown shape, like a rounded rectangle with the top divided into three 'towers', with a smiling face reminiscent of the Very Hungry Caterpillar in the middle - red with yellow and green eyes.Text reads "One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of nowhere came a very hungry data centre."

Image shows the VHDC on brown ground with the orange sun rising.Text reads "On Monday he drank a quarter of the city's annual drinking water." 
Image shows a blue shape, with a circle cut out of the middle, reminiscent of the foods with circles cut out in the Very Hungry Caterpillar.Text reads "On Tuesday he ate so much that he doubled demand on the country's power-grid.
So he opened a new gas plant, just for him."
Image shows two yellow spiky shapes representing electricity, also with circles cut out of them.
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 06/07/2026
I blame reading it on my phone and skipping around a bunch. I realised I had even skipped chapters after having read like two in the book. Bad me!
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 06/07/2026
I'm getting a lot more out of this reading of Game Patterns. The first time all I really got out of it was "Singleton Bad!"
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 05/07/2026
Yes, thank you for the pain button, Gnome.
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 05/07/2026
If there's one doodad I'm very happy about getting added to Gnome, it's the digital well-being timer. I've lost count of the number of projects I've lost to bashing my head against a problem one way over and over until I eventually give up.
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 05/07/2026
Yes, I see it is MIT licensed, and no! I do not think the trend to adopt MIT is a good thing. Yes, I once thought otherwise. That was before I realized that it's community that makes software tick, not business.
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 05/07/2026
I managed to waste an afternoon trying to fix something that, a few years ago, would not have even popped up on my radar to use. Thanks for diluting Open Source with the most useless MVP trash for creds, AI!
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 05/07/2026
I really could've chosen my friends better over the years. I can't believe the garbage that comes out of my mouth.
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Peter Wartman @peterwartman.com · 08/02/2026
gob
A goblin guy standing and holding a sword. He's looking at something off-screen with some trepidation
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maddi <— @quasimaddi.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Phooey to the semiquincentennial. Happy birthdsy only to Peperonie youtu.be/RS1UddsRRFM
youtu.be
HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY BIG DOG PEPERONIE!!!!
YouTube video by peperonie babie
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Also, please support us, and get a paper in the mail: membership.theonion.com
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Join The Onion
Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 03/07/2026
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Animations and rigging
It didn't really come up in the past few, but rigging more than one thing to do something is a lot more effort than making one thing move one way. This time it was practice in sculpting, mesh creation...
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Mhuyo @mhuyo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
ATTENTION EVERYONE!!!
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 01/07/2026
So far the errors in Blender have been pretty good at offering solutions, blink and you'll miss the error popup warning though.
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 01/07/2026
With Blender, you get problems like "why can't you do (x)", and the answer is invariably in a five second YouTube video explaining that they moved (x)
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 01/07/2026
In Rust, you get detailed compiler errors that explain how to fix them. It is one of the reasons the language has stuck with me.
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 30/06/2026
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Impulse
I find myself driven more and more to learn as much as I can about Blender. Above you see my attempt at learning to sculpt. I found it's not really feasible to make something a shape, like a cylinder,...
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 30/06/2026
Maybe that's why my project fell apart into a pile of ungovernable ants.
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 30/06/2026
I was using a finite state machine horribly wrong. Rust even has the ability to map enums to multiple entries. Also I was using a null string.
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Steeeve Duffy @stevenduffysstuffy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Star Fox sometimes reminds me of group projects in school
Fan comic of the Nintendo series StarFox

Panel 1: Peppy Hare gestures to formation diagrams, asking “and we all know what to do when the enemy’s on our tail, right?”

Panel 2: Slippy says “Fly in front of Fox and let him shoot them down!”
Falco says “Fly in front of Fox, and let him shoot ‘em down.”
Peppy says “Fly in front of Fox! Let him shoot them down!” 
Fox yells “s-somersault! You somersault!!”
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The 15 most racist democrats you've ever seen are joining forces to recreate the Republican party from first principles
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 28/06/2026
I want Voidling Bound to go on sale so I can experience being a pokemon with the barrier/charge combo from Mass effect. Also it looks rad
store.steampowered.com
Voidling Bound on Steam
Hatch, evolve, and upgrade powerful space creatures in this action-packed sci-fi 3rd person shooter that reinvents the monster taming genre!
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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Mexico’s Socialist President to Roll Out Universal Healthcare For 120 million people novaramedia.com/2026/04/10/m...
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Mexico’s Socialist President to Roll Out Universal Healthcare
Mexico’s 120 million citizens will begin to enjoy free, universal access to healthcare from next year, following a decree by socialist president Claudia Sheinbaum.
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Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Happy Pride, little gay animals
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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Throw some money in if you can. I did. We're all we have. gofund.me/4df4cf2cd
gofund.me
Donate to Get Artist Des Revol Help with His Legal Case!, organized by Jonathan Rochkind
Our friend Des Revol has been wrongly arrested and convicted over a b… Jonathan Rochkind needs your support for Get Artist Des Revol Help with His Legal Case!
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 26/06/2026
Working on the designs for the things that've stuck with me since school.
A little printer with a fax head "ARP" arping like a little dog in front of some pieces of paper
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 26/06/2026
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Texture painting
One thing I always thought would be super cool is texture painting an object in 3D. I did about a year of spray finishing at one point so I'm familiar with colouring something one colour over and over...
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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 25/06/2026
The Monterey Bay Aquarium PROUDly presents “Otter This World,” written and performed by Monét X Change with special guest Trinity the Tuck.
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 25/06/2026
Because I don't like the wonky posting situation with brigdy I'm going to start posting my blogs here. localtoast.ca/starting/
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Starting
Starting the process of doing things again, as my life settles into what passes for normal these days. I find if I get up early with something to do I feel much better. Jumped out of bed to do somethi...
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
you live in my yard you're gonna get weed leaves as a snack sometimes. if you dont like it dont eat it
a chicken on a pile of weed leaves and branches
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Ben Wrex @benwrex.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Hi, I’m selling these stickers and will donate 100% of sales to legal fees and bail funds for the Prairieland defendents. I will be sure to post reciepts! $4 each, DM to order, and please help me spread the word!
A rectangular sticker featuring a long arm stapler on a light purple background. Below the sticker are the words “I only got into zines for the money”.
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 24/06/2026
I forgot all my hotkeys and my tablet was so dusty I sneezed. Looking forward to school this year.
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 24/06/2026
I love that it's compiled like a regular forecast in little app form. Oh, yanno, -50c with no humidity
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 24/06/2026
there, it's made #makeaterriblecomicday2026
a man in a bucket helmet saying, "it is okay my son" who then throttles his pink AI son, leaving a pool of his blood and the words, "Do not fear, for you were never sentient anyway"
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Simba @endeconfinement.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 24/06/2026
Tonight I will make hope
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 22/06/2026
I should mention this is un-ruding for myself. If I could do it account wide for you you'd know.
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BlackJew 🏳️‍⚧️ @blackjew.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Don't do it... Don't take this offer pay full price which is already a ridiculous bargain... But no matter what it is your duty to get a subscription.
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 22/06/2026
@nora.zone Hello again! I figured out how to un-rude you, I'll be muting you though so I don't end up liking every single post you make. I'll be back when the store opens!
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 22/06/2026
I've had the "Who shot Mr Burns" Mambo in my head all day. I'm tossing a trumpet and catching another.
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 22/06/2026
I've been experimenting with a nasal cackle lately and I have to say, laughing is so much more fun when you lean into it.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
if you hit a smurf always check its pouch for young
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 15/06/2026
Flash forward and I have some Rust time under my belt, all of these examples make sense now!
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 15/06/2026
Last time through was all online and I couldn't tell if I was missing anything.
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 15/06/2026
Oh, I have a physical copy of Game Programming Patterns. Maybe I should finish my re-read before I pick up Ghost Boss.
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Ben @localtoast.ca · 15/06/2026
This, I'm going to see if I can stay on the creative track. Maybe I'll pick up Ghost Boss again
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