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Russell Collins

@robotclaw.info
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He is an instructional designer, accessibility advocate, creator of The Tears of a Machine RPG, singer, and intermittent composer. Profile picture by Jennifer Rodgers. Again.

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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 06/09/2026
Unfortunately, once they have a taste for parsley they are unlikely to move over to one of their other food sources. We’ve had to invest in a lot of extra parsley plants over the years in our efforts to keep the butterfly garden going. They are notoriously difficult to keep alive.
Black Swallowtail butterfly in a mesh enclosure.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 19/08/2026
Probably still Inside Job because Regan Ridley is who I wanted to grow up to be when I was a kid. “I’m not a mad scientist; I’m just disappointed.”
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 12/08/2026
There are worse ways to go.
A stamped Imperial Aquila over the Inquisitorial Seal with the text “Heresy. Ordo Hereticus Requests Termination.”
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 15/07/2026
Yes! It did take me five years to finish the game, but I’m a slow writer. I did a lot of testing through developer conventions and always had plenty of sign-ups. (It was @megueyb.bsky.social who advised me to not pigeonhole the game and audience.)
An armored robot standing in the surf helps another to its feet. A sword is lodged in the beach and gulls perch on its cross bar. Illustration by Jennifer Rodgers.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 30/06/2026
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 27/05/2026
Taco Tuesday on a Wednesday. (With parsley instead of cilantro.)
Pot roast beef tacos and corn salad.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 03/04/2026
If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using with no explanation
A line of a dozen white plaster store dress mannequins with orange price tags on their chests. They are all feminine and headless. Beside them is a line of similar child-sized models, with heads. This picture was taken through a window into a J C Penney department store that was closing down.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 16/03/2026
I still like mine. The Tears of a Machine SC
A demonic giant robot crashes through a city street. Illustration by Jennifer Rodgers
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 25/01/2026
Everything sucks, so here’s 30 seconds of my cat being cute that you can use to accompany some slow, deep breaths.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 12/09/2025
I? What? Really?
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 30/08/2025
Post a meme you made:
A bowl of black licorice candy with the text “Hello Darkness.”
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 17/07/2025
There was a trend in religious art of depicting infant Jesus as a tiny full-grown man. It was how artists could depict his superhuman wisdom. Not sure that’s what they were going for here, but there’s precedent.
Icon painting of Christ and Mary in Eastern Orthodox Church Both have spiritual crowns of gold hovering above their heads. Christ is sized as an infant but proportioned as an adult with receding hairline. His fingers are slender and offer a blessing while holding a small scroll. Flames radiate from his head in a halo.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 02/07/2025
Been a while since I posted a cat pic. Here’s Guillermo, demonstrating why it was appropriate for us to name the boys after characters from What We Do in the Shadows.
A large black cat, sprawled on his back on a table top. His cheeks and upper lip are pulled back, exposing the tips of his canine teeth and narrowing his eyes.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 29/04/2025
Cats
Two black cats, Guillermo and Lazslo, lounging together.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 12/03/2025
In general, I disagree with Jean Paul’s efforts to be Batman during Bruce’s absence. The occasional panel however, does speak to me.
From the Knightfall storyline,
1993. Jean Paul Valley, filling in as Batman while Bruce recovers from the injury sustained in his fight with Bane, flexes his fist in a clawed glove and says “There’s no place for kid gloves now. Evil has lost its patience. Obeying codes and rules the other side has trashed is stupid.”
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 07/03/2025
I don’t remember this post. I think it’s the accidental result of grabbing the phone to turn off the alarm while also confirming to the G-man that I’m getting up, and breakfast is on the way.
Guillermo, a large black cat, sleepily stretches on a blanket.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 06/03/2025
Using an image, share an episode of an animated TV show you’ve watched at least ten times. (I’ve lost count but it’s probably close enough.)
From Inside Job, Reagan Ridley holds a globe before spiking it into the conference table and shouting “Suck my dick!” as an irritated Glenn Dolphman looks on.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 15/02/2025
Okay. Back on the horse. Going to put Contract Work on the SPARKS indie game program at #Dreamation.
A person seen from their neck to midriff, wearing a suit jacket and dress shirt. With one latex-gloved hand they straighten their necktie. With the other, they draw an automatic pistol from inside the jacket. The image is colored in hues of magenta.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 14/02/2025
If I am ever driven by mania to declare “I will become the Joker,” I mean this Joker, specifically.
A toy for a young child. A soft plastic figure of the Joker with rounded features, short limbs, to and a large head. He is painted with a bright purple suit, green tie, green hair, and white skin. A broad, red smile is painted on his face but it is misaligned, painted on his chin below the small mouth of the pudgy face.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 14/02/2025
Sometimes I see strange things on my morning run.
Looking over a rusty railing into a broad river on a cloudy day. The water reflects the gray sky. A black plastic box, about 1 meter long, floats along the still surface of the water. Beyond it, the far shore and suspension bridge across the river fade into fog.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 02/02/2025
Damn. It.
Made In Canada label on a box of Greenies cat treats.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 21/01/2025
Oh, hey, I know what game to bring to Dreamation.
Cover to the RPG Eat the Reich by Howitt and Kirby. A vampire glares through the eye-slit in a steel coffin.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 13/01/2025
The Emperor Sits Upon His Golden Throne.
Guillermo, a large black cat loafing on a cardboard cat scratcher shaped like a couch. The sunbeams reflect over everything around him.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 06/01/2025
I’m in the state of mind where all I really want to post is cats. Unfortunately they are black cats so it’s more like posting shadows. #AreYouAwareOfThePowerOfShadows
Two black cats sit on a deep windowsill and watch the snow gather on the roof
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 02/01/2025
“What energy you takin’ into 2025?” Well, Facebook influencer whose post I didn’t ask to see, for New Years I gifted several copies of Buckshot Roulette. So there you go.
The “Dealer,” a round, grinning mask with dozens of sharpened teeth, loads cartridges into a shotgun. From the Buckshot Roulette video game by Mike Klubnika.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 04/12/2024
I have to imagine this is all playing into the “Intruder Alert” meme.
A screen capture of two phone notifications. The first is sent from Duolingo and says “Looks like you forgot your Spanish lessons again. You know what happens now!” The second is sent from ADT security and reads “Intruder alert (back door.) Proceed with caution.”
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 13/11/2024
After 4 months, we decided we aren’t good at not having cats. We adopted a bonded pair and are currently getting them situated in our home. Here are Guillermo and Laszlo:
Two black cats, side-by-side, looking out a window.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 05/11/2024
See also: Jesse Faden from CONTROL. There’s something extra special about wearing a futurist business suit and using psychic powers to fly around the building and fling desks at monsters. Like you’re the CEO of the Jedi.
Jesse Faden, the player character from CONTROL. She wears a navy blue suit jacket with unusual notched lapels over a gray dress shirt that has a “crossover” collar.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 05/11/2024
Going through notes for my John Wick wannabe game (Wickabee?) for #Metatopia and remembering that I would like more badass women in suits in my media.
From John Wick 2: Ruby Rose as the assassin Ares who wears a dark purple suit jacket with black shirt and necktie.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 01/11/2024
We had a good Halloween turnout last night. Been a while since we gave out so much of the candy, though we didn’t need to break out the backup bag. Between the trick-or-treaters, the neighborhood cats came up asking for food, so we had a bowl out for them too.
Two cats looking up from a dish beside a Jack-o-lantern.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 30/10/2024
Repost with a picture of yourself where you’re vaguely menacing. CW: spiders
Halloween costume. A man in suit and top hat. A mask on his face smiles broadly, blood dripping from its eyes and nose. Spiders cluster around the edges of the mask and one perches on his shoulder.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 22/10/2024
If the mask hadn’t fallen apart, I feel I could have gotten more wear out of my Conquerer Worm costume this Halloween. 🎃 🪱
Conquerer Worm: a maggot in a suit with a red tie who definitely does not deserve your vote. Conquerer Worm: a maggot in a suit with a red tie who has a strong and unpleasant message to go with his unpleasant bearing. Conquerer Worm: a maggot in a suit with a red tie who is “not a crook!”
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 22/10/2024
This is how I find out that my Unknown Armies books are out of order on the shelf. But I think I will leave them that way. They might prefer it.
Unknown Armies, Third edition, 2016. Book Three: Reveal
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 18/10/2024
Event Horizon. It’s a haunted house movie IN SPACE! We got Sam Neil in his “In the Mouth of Madness” mode. We got a spaceship design like a techno-gothic cathedral. We got people turning themselves into cenobites. We got all the ways that space is trying to kill you. We got a portal to Hell!
Rotten Tomatoes entry card for Event Horizon. 35% Critic Rating. 61% “Popcornmeter.” A spaceship missing for seven years finally re-emerges and sends out a distress signal, but when a team is sent out to investigate, they discover that something sinister has taken over the craft.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 17/10/2024
Whence I post:
Photograph of a small pocket of space beside a file cabinet, beneath the desk top of a beige cubicle.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 09/10/2024
Search your camera roll for hell.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 01/10/2024
Post a meme made by you
An action figure of Galactus, firing a bolt of energy from his hand. He says “Anyway, I started blasting…” quoting Frank from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 01/10/2024
Feels about right. Saw this political cartoon on another post, but I’m copying the image to add alt-text.
Political cartoon. On one side a donkey holds a sign reading “Let’s do something and help each other.” On the other side is an elephant holding a sign that reads “Let’s blame someone and punish them.” Credited to P. Byrnes and caylecartoons.com
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 28/09/2024
Who’s gonna be the next mayor of NYC? Wrong answers only.
Blockbuster, the super-powered mobster who faced off against Nightwing and took control of Bludhaven
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 20/09/2024
What if someone was both a goth and a jock?
From Inside Job: Reagan shows a file photo of Brett in a football uniform with heavy black eye makeup and a dyed-black hair in a swooping cut.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 17/09/2024
Can't read 10 point print with just my contact lenses anymore, so it's time for another tweak to the prescription. It's a shame that cybernetics development is trapped behind venture capitalists and tech-bro money, because if I had the option...
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 11/09/2024
Favorite Cold War aircraft? Uhhh… I don’t know! I panicked!
James Bond straps into a rocket-powered jet pack.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 09/09/2024
LOGGING ON
Detail from a Renaissance painting. Jesus is scourged by the soldiers. His expression, painted in the style of the time expresses glowering disgust.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 07/09/2024
We’ve been calling her Cannoli. She had a litter right before we got her spayed, so now I’m trying to catch four more kittens before they go completely feral as well.
A gray and white cat. Her ears has been clipped to indicate that though she is feral, she has been spayed and vaccinated.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 02/09/2024
If you see this, quote post with a beach picture from your gallery. This illustration by Jennifer Rodgers is from my TTRPG about YA mecha pilots. I asked for the “opposite” of End of Evangelion.
An illustration of two giant robots on the beach. One has fallen into the surf. The other leans in to grab its hand and help it upright. In the foreground a giant sword is planted in the water. Seagulls gather on the hilt.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 29/08/2024
ACAB includes Officer Big Mac.
An old Officer Big Mac climbing gym at an outdoor park. The character’s head is a simulated jail cell inside a giant hamburger.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 27/08/2024
Worst outcome: My creations are now the ultimate power in the universe!
Davros, confirmed megalomaniac and creator of the fascistic Dalek robot race.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 27/08/2024
Best outcome: I'm not a mad scientist. I'm just disappointed.
Reagan Ridley from "Inside Job." Robotics scientist and budding megalomaniac.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 25/08/2024
You wanna see a dead body? These are some “exposed” corpses of Saints I saw on my trip to Italy. I think a preserved body waving at me from a glass casket every Sunday morning would have made a significant impact on my religiosity.
Corpus of a Saint in a glass casket built into an altar in Lucca. The exposed face and hand are mummified.Corpus of a Saint in a glass casket on an altar in Venice.Corpus of a bishop from Florence exposed in a glass casket. The face and hands are covered in silver.
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Russell Collins @robotclaw.info · 20/08/2024
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie. Did I already post this here?
Trent Reznor addresses the crowd: How are you tonight? Having a good time? Ready to party? Have fun? Well that was the last guys. Wrong fucking band. We’re here to have a bad time. (Synthesizer playing)
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