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The hearing prosthetic project continues!

Ran into some delays in getting the miniaturized board ready before a conference, so I'm building out a very big hearing rig!

I'm almost done with the skeleton: a large, wide fabric covered plastic headband and a pair of felt ears with some heavy gauge gardening wire attached. I've glued the ears to the band and am in the process of sewing them down.

It's very important to me that the ears feel like one solid object, so I want to create as stable of a base as possible.

The tympan model d sound processor will fit in one ear, and a spare battery and amplifier will fit in the other. A transducer speaker will be attached to the headband, resulting in bone conductive hearing via cat ears! (though these are big enough they could pass for bat ears)

@June@kitty.town
I tend to listen to an audiobook when my brain is not at its most Capitalism, for lack of a better way to put it. A show in the background sounds pretty good, but I found that I just couldn't follow it as well. I felt like I needed to be looking at it, which didn't really help me as much. Audiobooks are better for me.

Printing and filing sounds like a great choice. I also like to focus on things with pretty simple, reliable steps, rather than things I need to really figure out or strategize around. Folding laundry or making something I've already made before are usually pretty good options.

Following recipes or pre-selected tutorials can be okay, but only if they're pretty straightforward. Following a process with good illustrations can feel somewhat grounding for me.

You might also want to go on a short walk outside, maybe with a little quest to pull your attention on something other than yourself. A quest like 'find a leaf that is both red and yellow' or something can be nice.

As is, I try not to sink more energy into feeling bad about being a little ephemeral that day. I'm probably ephemeral because I'm tired, so resting up is an important part.

I'm sorry today is That Kind of a brain day for ya. 🖤

@socketwench <\3

I had airag for the first time today.

It tastes a bit like a combination between champagne and a fancy cheese. It's not very sweet, pretty sour, and much smoother in texture than I was expecting. The aroma is basically champagne, at least of the kind I had.

It's a milky, pale liquid that's mildly effervescent and often has little drops of oil floating on the surface. It has about 2% abv. It's a little funny, but not too bad, especially if you have it with some crackers or similar, the way you'd pair a cheese or yogurt with grain.

Because it's a bit like champagne meets a cheese, I do wonder if we'll see some kind of westernization of the stuff sometime in the next decade. It reminds me a bit of khombucha in that way.

Anyways, would recommend, have it with some friends, it's pretty cool.

This year, I dressed up as a magical girl demon. I tried to find a magic wand at a Halloween shop, but to no avail. I made a homemade one instead.

@chemelia@eldritch.cafe in Midwest Millennial, I often use "oof"or" big oof" and "ope! My bad", but it's not a perfect translation.

@synthgal it's a vm setup and not a dedicated web host, but if they have a friendly sysadmin, capsul.org is leftist and sw-friendly.

It might be a bit more work than what OP was looking for, though.

Some friends are talking about horror movies. The general consensus is that OSHA and other accident prevention videos are the best spooky movie theme for an upcoming marathon.

What dorks. 💙