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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

A bit of end of day fun with some Gothic masonry from the refectory pulpit at Tupholme Abbey, Lancashire, UK. #Blender – just because it's #foss doesn't mean you can't donate 😉👍

Alt text: A dark, atmospheric rendering of Early English Gothic stone ruins at night. Tall pointed arches rise above a cobbled courtyard, partially obscured by golden mist. Shafts of pale light stream through the ruined windows, illuminating weathered masonry and a narrow stone staircase, while an old-fashioned lamppost stands in shadow to the left.
Modelled after the ruins of Tupholme Abbey, Lancashire, UK

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The unexpected pleasures of wireframe #blender

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They have marvelous remedies in certain parts of the subcontinent: Liquorice root, bamboo sap – and a strong short of whisky. Ginger root and citrus peel— And a strong shot of whisky? Yes, of course. In fact you could throw out the ginger root and citrus peel and you'd still be well on your way

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#DeviantArt #Phishing attack. Quite good, really, I must say. I'm still not going to pay them anything 😄😄😄 "Stay Safe!" indeed.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I did this very simple recipe yesterday. Very tasty! Would Recommend Ingredients 1 cup full-fat plain Greek yogurt 1/2 cup tahini 1/4 cup freshly-squeezed lemon juice 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt Directions whisk together the yogurt sauce ingredients until combined gimmesomeoven.com/greek-meatballs

A white plate holding, layered, a tortilla, a circle of sliced meat and dollop of yoghurt and tahini sauce, the latter spread into a circle with the back of a spoon.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So. I Google 'The bartender rips off your arm' to find the full Star Trek/Lower Decks quote: "The bartender rips your arm off and kills you with it! It is not an honorable death since, technically, you have died by your own hand." Google cannot be too careful, so its first reply is instructions;

the bar tender rips off your arm

A severed arm is a life-threatening medical emergency that requires calling for emergency services immediately.

Emergency Steps

Call 999 right away to get an ambulance.

Press hard on the bleeding wound with a clean cloth or bandage.

Keep pressure on the wound until help arrives.

Wrap the detached arm in a clean, damp cloth and put it inside a sealed plastic bag.

Place the bag on ice, but do not let the arm freeze or touch ice directly.

Is this a joke, part of a story, or a real emergency?

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#GENX – WE know where the pencil goes. I was wondering what sort of image encapsulated GenX. There are many, many ideas: drinking from a garden hose (I never did that), heading home when the streetlights came on (I never had that), being a latchkey kid (I wasn't one), but a pencil in a mix tape?😀👍

Alt text: Stylised close-up of a yellow pencil inserted through a cassette-tape reel, beside the handwritten title, “GEN X — We Know Where the Pencil Goes.”

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I don't know that I have ever seen this before. Just enough of one colour eggs to fill up a row before having to swap to another color of eggs to do the rest of the box! Damnit, I should have put a banana in for scale – to attract similarly boring people, you understand 😄😄😄😄

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I found this image of a 14th-15th century hinge in the 'dictionary of French architecture from the 11th to the 16th century Vol 8' — Viollet-le-Duc, and thought it would be cool to reproduce in #Blender Fascinating book and we can now get it translated on the page fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Vi...

This illustration shows an antique iron paumelle (lift-off hinge) from the late 14th or early 15th century, featuring ornate openwork plates terminating in stylized animal heads and a central barrel entwined with a snake.

Design features include pierced, decorative strap leaves (the fiches) secured with rivet nails. Terminal ends shaped like roaring animal profiles (resembling lions or panthers).A central pintle and barrel wrapped in a sculptural snake relief.

"... when the opening frames were of fairly great height (six to seven feet), the hinges were long and equipped with two spaced eyes, to prevent the warping of the wood. Figure 42 depicts one of these hinges, which appears to belong to the end of the 14th century or the beginning of the 15th. The pin is free between the eyes, as seen, and is adorned with a round iron tail coiled in a spiral around it. This tail is free as well. To unhang the frame, it is sufficient to remove this pin from above...".

This image comes from Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle (The Dictionary of French Architecture from 11th to 16th Century) (1856) by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

Front-facing CGI render, created in Blender, of an ornate 14th- to 15th-century iron butt hinge mounted on a blue canvas surface. Its symmetrical, rough-textured leaves feature decorative openwork, curved edges and rows of round-headed rivets. A central hinge pin has pointed finials and a raised spiral detail.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Current and circa 1947 They've changed the house numbers😄

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I found this door elevation and outline on Pinterest and thought it needed creating in 3D. After some searching, the address is on Via Ercola Ciofano, Sulmona, #Italy, and still standing. #Blender

Architectural drawing with Russian annotations showing the front elevation and cross-section of a tall, round-arched stone doorway. Dimensions, masonry joints, wooden double doors, an iron ring handle, moulding profiles and scale bars are marked in feet and inches.

Computer-generated reconstruction of a tall, round-arched doorway set into a weathered ochre plaster wall. Dark wooden double doors, slightly parted at the centre, are surrounded by a pale moulded stone frame. Strong sunlight casts a large diagonal shadow across the wall and cobbled ground.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This is Cerrie Burnell. She's an actor and TV presenter. Try telling her she doesn't know what she's missing out on. She and I both know exactly what we're missing out on – we grew up surrounded by 'normal' people who had that little extra something. The difference is, hers was an easy diagnosis.

A woman with blonde hair is seen in a ¾ standing pose. Her right arm tapers to a blunt curve below the elbow.
She is wearing a green cardigan with the right sleeve rolled up to just above the elbow.
Beneath the cardigan and is wearing a green top patterned with white flowers.
She is wearing black trousers and a pair of flat shorts shoes (as opposed to trainers).

Claire "Cerrie" Burnell (born 30 August 1979) is an English actress, singer, playwright, children's author, and former television presenter for the BBC children's channel CBeebies. She was born with a right arm that ends just below the elbow.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Dammmmnnn! Not only do I have a Discworld book I don't remember ever buying, but it has rules to Cripple Mr Onion compiled by Andrew C. Millard and printed out in 1996 –I think it was on a Wednesday.

A picture of the cover of Terry Pratchett's 'the last hero' with a sheaf of paper sticking out of the top showing the rules for cripple Mr onion.
In the background are a heap of cardboard boxes, as befits a storage room.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The pleasure at seeing my 'talk like a Terry Pratchett Igor'* request to #chatgpt be fulfilled by the phrase: "The Moon Iſ a Harſh Miſtreſſ"* *that "ſ" is a 'long s' character, that looks to us like an 'f', resulting in comments by Stan Freberg about "the purfuit of happineff".

"The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" displayed in Hoyer Script.

"Hoyer Script™ is a fresh redesign of Hans Hoyer’s Schoenschrift, a slender vintage italic with a calligraphic touch. This font should be used like my blackletter fonts. It means that the s-key is occupied by the long s, and the round s lies on the #-key. By typing N, o, and period plus activating Ordinals feature you will get an old-style number sign.

Designers: Ralph M. Unger"

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

#Kiwi proper boot polish you can tell by the smell I dunno. Best boot polish ever, it's been going on my boots and shoes for the best part of 6 decades (thanks for covering the early years, dad) and now I have to pay 'Armando Legg' to get the stuff, because they don't sell it in the UK anymore. 🤬

A right boot with a nitrile-gloved thumb rubbing on boot polish. Next to the boot on a tiled floor is an open tin of Kiwi black boot polish.
Unseen are the polishers curses, rising sulphurously into the air, directed at the manufacturer for no longer selling in his country.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Next. What do I do next...? Hungry. Eat Fruit Pig-dog! Wait, what? Shouldn't that have been Eat Fruit, Jerry/Fritz/Tojo/generic, not too derogatory term for whichever opponents the British Tommy was fighting this week in the comics of the 70s? Surely, Nazis wouldn't insist on vitamin C???

Illustration of the 'commando – war stories in pictures' publication, number 401 entitled 'terror team'.
2 British soldiers in World war 2 uniform and Tim hat stand ready as a third, wearing a green woollen hat, kicks in a red, tongue and groove door with a black lock-set and doorknob, set in a rough, redbrick wall. The bricks are two or three times the volume of regular house bricks. There are masonry gaps, but no obvious masonry.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

On the left, a real Belle Époque flat in Antwerp. On the right, the #blender reproduction. The fireplace is in the main file, awaiting the doors – both the mullioned and the side door with the etched glass panel – to drop into place one day.

A bright, elegant dining room in a period home, viewed from one end of the room toward a sunlit sitting room beyond.
On the left is a large pale stone fireplace with carved geometric decoration around the opening. Above it is a dark green-black inset panel, etched or painted with an elaborate urn-and-flower design. The mantel holds candles, books, small framed artwork, and a brass-toned decorative sphere. A wicker peacock chair sits in front of the fireplace, with books resting on its seat.
The walls, ceiling, doors, and mouldings are painted white, giving the room a very airy, high-ceilinged feel. Tall white-framed glazed double doors stand open ahead, their panes divided into decorative rectangular and arched shapes.
On the right, a long rectangular dining table with a pale blue-green top fills the foreground. It has mismatched wooden chairs around it and a large white textured pot containing a leafy green plant at its centre. Near the nearer corner are a tray, a gold-coloured cylinder, and a glossy black decorative object.
Beyond the open glass doors, daylight pours into a softer, mostly white sitting room, where a pale sofa and a striped chair can just be seen

The same long, elegant room is now empty of furniture and seen at night. The pale walls, tall doorways and decorative mouldings are still there, but most of the room has fallen into warm brown shadow.
At the far end, the glazed double doors are closed. Their white-painted frames form a neat geometric pattern of small rectangular panes and tall rounded central motifs. Light from the room beyond shines through the glass, a subdued amber glow that catches the patterned divisions and hints at pale shapes on the other side without clearly revealing them.
To the left, an open doorway leads into a brighter adjoining space, throwing a vertical strip of pale light across the doorway’s raised wall panels. A glazed panel beside it reflects a faint version of that light.
The empty floor is dark and unobstructed, making the room feel wider, quieter and more expectant than in daylight. It has the atmosphere of a house after everyone has gone to bed: familiar architecture, but transformed by darkness and the light leaking in from elsewhere.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Spotted this 1881 'Amateur Work, Illustrated' Summer Fire Screen Templates on my FB feed, from The Time Travellers Rabbit Hole page. It needed creating as a CGI asset. Just for the craic.

Fan screen for grate.
Imagine a folding fan, as used by overheated ladies to, if you read the advertising*, communicate with sweaty gentlemen at dances, and, if need be, cool themselves down after bopping around whatever the equivalent of a handbag was at the time. One of those, anyway. Scale it up to two or three feet across,Stick a lump of carved wood in front and behind it. crop the thing in front of a fireplace to hide the hole. Bob's your uncle.

*apparently the language of fans was invented to boost sales – a leaflet with made up gestures was given away with every purchase, it seems.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This is what achieving 'adult' gets you: "Thank you for purchasing on Amazon Based on your recent purchase, we think you may also be interested in dishwasher tablets." 'Meh' is the word, because Bluesky raised an eyebrow when I expressed myself more... fully.

A notification reading:

Thank you for purchasing on Amazon

Based on your recent purchase, we think you may also be interested in dishwasher tablets.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Blender 5.1 four-poster bed styled after a 19th-century Portuguese Baroque design. Retopology was a COW 😄

CGI.

A brightly lit ornate, dark hardwood four-poster bed, styled after 19th-century Portuguese Baroque design, featuring intricate carvings and distinct spiral-twisted posts, stands against a plain wall. Its shadow falls cleverly intersecting the skirting board.
A crazed whittler, carver and wood turner has obviously been at work.
The floor is tiled in a 19th-century Gothic Revival Fleur-de-lis pattern.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

So. If you're not into fantasy, don't start at book 1, but there are various charts to 'help' choose reading order – here's a couple:

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I've just heard a delightful young person speak of "a fake pseudonym" in their tech video. Now. I know what they mean, YOU know what they mean, and I'm not intending to be mean: my brain is tinkering with pseudonym vs orthonym (false/true) and whether a second pseudonym would be the real fake.

A card displaying the words
Pseudonym
Fake pseudonym
{Orthonym alethonym}
Pseudopseudonym
Spurious pseudonym
Pseudoallonym

All over a faint, stretched "PROCRASTINATION"which reaches from top to bottom and side to side.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

"I pour myself a cup of ambition" 😉

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Inkscape and Blender. Belle Époque tiles modelled after the Navarin restaurant in Blankenberge, Belgium. With added algae 😄

Close-up of algae-covered Belle Époque floor tiles

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

KIWI It's PROPER boot polish. And they stopped supplying regular shops in the UK. 😣 I found some freakin' expensive Kiwi polish on Amazon, but it's Right. It smells right, it covers properly, it spit shines – is you're that way inclined 😁

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

There's something strange about this image. Where's the door for the open unit on the right? It doesn't open inwards, the bed is too close. And the wall looks like it's going to end up in the blue door. And what's happening in these two images? The project looks real, but these look AI generated

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I may have to begin creating vehicles, because there's something pleasant about highlights and light-scatter off polished surfaces. Unless, of course, I go back to ceramics 😄

High contrast image, background Greg Zaal
A white porcelain toilet bowl sits on an Amsterdam bridge, canal visible behind

A plain white coffee cup, incised with the word coffee in an ornate script, rests on A plain White saucer.
Light shines so brightly from the top of the cup that the air above glows, and projects the word coffee onto the table top in front of the cup.

Behind and daily visible through the glow is something that looks like a ritual space. With two lights on top of tall candlestick-style lamps.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Where did I put my...? ah there it is!

A blue Lavatory pan, possibly broken around the waste pipe, rests on a side table underneath a net-curtained window

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Anybody else feel that they're experiencing life from behind glass? It can't be just me. (And I'm a rubbish mime)😄✌️

View through a white-framed window from inside a small room, with patterned wallpaper on the left wall, an abstract black panel with swirling gold, blue, and purple shapes outside, two terracotta pots on the sill, and a blurred, hilly landscape under a hazy blue sky beyond.

Exterior view of a small concrete structure with a large window, patterned wallpaper visible inside, a tall black abstract panel with swirling gold, blue, and purple shapes standing beside it, and two terracotta pots on the ground.
The day is sunny with a blue sky, although there is a haze with clouds on the horizon.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Yes! After all these years! A second instance 😄😄👍 I noticed it in The Canterville Ghost

Text printed with a worn type face, next to a pseudo woodcut of Oscar Wilde:

Words I Learned From
Oscar Wilde

Scapegrace (n.) archaic An impish wayward, naughty person, especially a child. A rascal.

1767: from scape (v.) + grace (n.): "one who escapes the grace of God." Possibly influenced by scapegoat. See scapegallows.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I'm stuck with this earworm now: Your Honour Pluto shervington

Your Honour, I was inside the closet
Minding I and I own business
Your Honour, it was a complete stranger
Causing these disturbances
Him claim say me touch him wife
Which is a wicked and awful lie
Me two hand dem was occupied
Me shirt in mi left hand, me pants in mi right
Me hand dem was occupied
Me shirt's in the left hand, the pants in mi right

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I found an old notebook. Odd. No idea who the picture is. 17/05/06 [a Wednesday] Buy MuckOff Change network password 18/05/06 Less happened than you might expect. ------ The ears Like my Dead fiancée's. The lobeless curve the smoothness of youth and the gorgeous subtlety of Oriental skin tone

A quick pencil sketch on lined notepaper of a person with short hair, glasses, perhaps lobeless ears, an earring and an uncompromising mouth line and chin.

I have no idea who they are.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Thanks for the inspiration 😆😆 (I went with WRITER because the O in author was more difficult to attach)

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Branding for The Lazy Writer

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Somebody just mentioned washing down an antidepressant with 54% navy rum is not a good look. Well, it's mostly for the picture😄 But also, if you don't like it, don't watch – even if it is, technically performative, today 😏

Black and white image of a half-filled shot glass resting on top of flat, cork-tipped bottle top, half inserted and slightly at an angle.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I received this in the post, yesterday. No name, no return address, not even a 'please' 😄 It's a ferrotype, also called a 'tintype'. It does kind of look like a negative, but it's a small piece of black lacquered steel with a 'you have to get the light right' image on it. Should I even bother?

Piece of white card, a cross of sellotape over an oblong of white paper. Around the top right corner of the oblong is a handwritten note.
The note reads:
Negative
Can you
Get
Anything
Off
This

A black oblong, about 42mm x 62mm. There's a faint image of a group of people on it.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

A shifting-hued view from Mow Cop, Cheshire/Staffs border. sound from pixabay.com/users/kaazoo...

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Chroicocephalus fur patatae frictae - the Chipstealer Bird Also known as the Black-headed gull (it's in its winter plumage, ok? If you look, there's a small black dot behind the eye).

A single gull passes almost overhead, wingtips angled backward. There is a translucence about the trailing edge of the wings.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

CCTV catches fly-tipping Essex dinosaur. There's video here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

A person carrying rubbish bags and dressed in a purple dinosaur costume crosses an empty, streetlight-lit road towards an overflowing wheelie bin.

A page of BBC news text reads:

Giant purple dinosaur caught fly- tipping on CCTV
A fly-tipper dressed as a giant purple T. rex has been caught on camera dumping rubbish in a street
The brightly coloured rogue raptor was spotted checking for traffic before crossing a road in Southend, Essex.
The prehistoric predator then looks around before slinging two black bin bags to the ground next to large black bin
Footage of the incident, first reported by Your Southend was captured on a resident's CCTV just before 21:30 GMT on Tuesday. The city council told the BBC it had not received any reports of fly-tipping in relation to the incident.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

A View From A Hill. NOT Fulnaker Abbey, if any M.R. James fans are wondering, but I *was* listening to the story on audio at the time – too good a chance to miss, really. #DepressionTakesAHike

A long-lens photograph shows a large medieval parish church with a tall, slender, stone spire rising above the surrounding winter landscape.
The church has a long rectangular nave with large, traceried Gothic windows set in pale sandstone walls, and a crenellated roofline. The square west tower supports the spire, which has several small, louvered openings partway up. Around the church are leafless trees and evergreens, with a few rooftops visible at the lower edge. Beyond the church lies open farmland with dark, freshly ploughed fields and scattered bare trees. In the distance, a modern housing estate with red-brick and rendered houses sits along the top of the frame. The scene is lit by low winter sun, giving a warm glow to the stonework while the background remains cooler and hazier.

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