Mardukian

Mardukian

@mardukian.com

Writer, Artist, puppet maker, Blender Enthusiast, Web Developer, iOS Developer, Husband, Queen of Whimsy, Demiurge to @lukeacl.com’s Space Emperor • Poly 👬👬👬👬👬 • Pisces • FNQ 🇦🇺 • ♓️ / Soft He/ Hard They 🏳️‍🌈• DP by me

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The Grambles are officially ready for adoption! Each is a one-of-a-kind handmade hand-and-rod puppet, looking for a home and new adventures. If you love puppets, or just want a weird little guy to hang out with on your bookshelf or mantel then these are the guys for you!

waywardstitchfolk.comAdoption Centre | Wayward StitchfolkMeet The Grambles, four unique handmade puppets looking for homes.
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The time has come, I’d like to introduce you to The Grambles. This is my first set of puppets I’ve created with the intent to rehome them and they’re finally ready for release into the wide world. These folk will be ready for adoption very soon.

I work in web development and have seen an increase in emails from clients asking me for things they don’t understand because ChatGPT has told them they need to do it. Its costing me time and money to explain what these concepts are and whether they’re necessary or a good idea to clients.

Fiete Stegers@fstegers.bsky.social

Seems like ChatGPT encourages people to contact journalists to solve their personal tech problems: „Last night, someone emailed me (…) asking for an “independent investigation” into why their Verizon cell phone service wasn’t working on their iPhone.“ #aislog www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

There’s this moment in projects where you look at what you’ve created and you’re like, wtf am I doing, is this a waste of time, and it’s really hard but that’s when you need to lean in and trust the process. This is my trust the process moment, this will be cool eventually.

It’s Aus art day, a day designed to raise money for the arts sector in Australia. You know who is in the art sector, me 😬 and you know how you could support my arts 👀, you could buy a puppet 👉👈 🥹😘

Mardukian@mardukian.com

The Grambles are officially ready for adoption! Each is a one-of-a-kind handmade hand-and-rod puppet, looking for a home and new adventures. If you love puppets, or just want a weird little guy to hang out with on your bookshelf or mantel then these are the guys for you!

Client to the shopify AI: I dont want the products to be there so delete that Shopify AI: Cool deleting all product templates Client: I want the products to go there instead Shopify AI: looks like you dont have a template to show products. Giving clients direct access to this stuff is a nightmare

I mentioned animatronic electronics in passing to my dad, assuming he wouldn’t be interested and I have inadvertently found one of his niche interests. He now calls and asks me for updates and checks how I’m doing everything and makes suggestions. Its a fun bonding activity 🥰

I bought a bunch of caps while I was on holiday because I thought they were cute and now I’ve returned home I realise they all look like I’m trying to conceal my identity in a Bourne Identity style movie.

These are the shorts I sewed, also this is my submission for jocktober, use your imagination but you should know I had to wear a very tiny jock so that underwear didn’t show under these shorts

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You guys need to know I finished sewing my first piece of clothing and they are the sluttiest comfortable short shorts I’ve ever worn They’re not pretty but I do love them

You guys need to know I finished sewing my first piece of clothing and they are the sluttiest comfortable short shorts I’ve ever worn They’re not pretty but I do love them

There have always been people who did little to nothing in businesses and AI is just another tool for them to look productive. I just had a meeting with a guy who had a bunch of AI slop, but when I asked him about any of the goals, the conversion metrics, the business, anything, he came up blank.

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As a small business owner running a firm that designs and builds brands and websites I wish I could explain to people how much time I have to spend UNPAID explaining to people why the thing they’ve pumped out with AI won’t work. I spend HOURS every week explaining this stuff to people, and people

As a small business owner running a firm that designs and builds brands and websites I wish I could explain to people how much time I have to spend UNPAID explaining to people why the thing they’ve pumped out with AI won’t work. I spend HOURS every week explaining this stuff to people, and people

are receptive, and they understand once I’ve explained it, but that doesn’t get me back those hours of my life, and I still can’t bill for them. People are like I don’t want to talk about AI all the time, and I get it, its exhausting, but for some of us this affects us EVERY SINGLE DAY.

We have a working mechanism!!!! Okay so stage two is to build a body and head for this guy

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Ooooh she’s cooking again. And by that I mean this prototype was a great proof of concept and did not achieve what I wanted but v2 is on the way

Ooooh she’s cooking again. And by that I mean this prototype was a great proof of concept and did not achieve what I wanted but v2 is on the way

Unpopular opinion: anyone who says inflation is high, national spending is too high we need unemployment to go up should lose their job. Head of the rba, gone, PM subscribes to this financial orthodoxy, cool he’s gone too. If they say “a sacrifice must be made” then they should do it.

In Grade 7 we had a teacher twice a week every week and before she let anyone out for lunch she made every one do a solo from Swing Low Sweet Chariot, and it was mortifying and I hated it BUT it was resilience building. You couldn’t just say the words, you needed to do a performance, it was wild.

Prototyping is going very well 😬

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Y’all I’m cooking up something EXTREMELY cool. This one might not be quick but I’m having so much fun

@lukeacl.com hypes up the dog after her grooming the way most gay guys hype up their best girl friends “Do you know how good you look” “You don’t even know how good you are” “The worlds not ready for your gorgeousness”

Met an old veteran today and when I dropped that I was queer (something I do within minutes of meeting anyone) he tried on some casual transphobia “I don’t mind queers but it’s teaching kids in school that they’re all T slurs, that’s my problem” And I corrected him politely and factually and I

Genuinely think he left the interaction with a different point of view. I told him, your community of veterans is suffering from an epidemic of suicides, so is the queer community, and a lot of ours is because they grow up feeling different and wrong and like there’s no way out, that’s what

The education is about, teaching kids that being queer shouldn’t be a death sentence, that’s it’s something that can be celebrated. He apologised, said he didn’t know and thanked me for the chat. This is why I drop my queerness into every conversation, because these conversations need to happens

Y’all I’m cooking up something EXTREMELY cool. This one might not be quick but I’m having so much fun

Prototype complete! What is it? Why that’s a Feral Hex Vole, witches hunt them because they’re constantly popping up and screwing up spells. I’ve had this on my list of something i wanted to create for ages, I’ll do a much bigger proper version because this guy is only smol (selfie for scale).

Just so you know guys I started the prototype of a thing I’ve wanted to create for ages and it’s going so well. I took this picture so I could remember how janky it started. I’ve covered it and figure out both what I want to do and how to do it and it’s all coming together friends. Let her cook

Y’all I don’t know who needs to hear this but if I ask for your email in a professional setting, you can’t be responding with the email address you set up in primary school spiderman694eva@hotmail.com Set up an email with your name, or even better buy a domain and set up email hosting.

I’ve had a streak of artistic failures over the last month so this weekend I took a second and went back to basics, I just created a little guy, that’s all, why, it was something I knew I could do and after creating him it helped remind me I’m not the worst artist to ever art.