starless @starless@pixie.town
- Pronouns
- She/They
- hangs out with people on
- https://cyberia.club
- Gender/orientation
- Demi-femme/Novi gender, demisexual/panromantic/polyamorous
- Hackerspace
- https://layerze.ro
i like kind machines. pro-people-not-dying. anti-nazi. anti-colonizer. pagan, but lazy about it.
I am #HardOfHearing, #nonbinary, polyamourous, into ttrpgs and #tech. Hobbyist #leatherworker, hobbyist scifi author, community builder, and artist.
I like to build #whimsical things that help people to #dream better and form meaningful connections. If you wanna hang out with friendly computer weirdos in Minneapolis, lemme know.
Profile image description: a watercolor painting of a person with pale skin and brown and blue hair laughing. They have a side cut and an audio processor is visible behind their ear. The art style is loose and the eyes are squinched into little crescents.
Joined Jul 2020
food mention (-)
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These are the kinds of CyberMonday deals I'm interested in.
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It's Cyber Monday!
A/S/L? What are you wearing?
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One Last Call To Makers Of Collage!
I've successfully whittled down many, many boxes of old magazine clippings and booklets over the last year or so. In large part thanks to artsy types on here who took many of them off my hands.
Is there anyone left out there who'd still like a box shipped to them, gratis?
DM me & we'll set it up. (Yes, if you're outside the U.S., we can still try it. I can check postal rates & then get back to you if they're not fatally high.)
Boosts welcome.
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The Straights, minor lewd word, mild trans ignorance
My straight friends are pretty good, except they didn't know what 'bussy' meant. I guess they heard it on twitch?
They're trying to use it properly now, but it's, uh, imperfect.
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one of them is that you can never go wrong by making the player characters dress up and go to a fancy party
Food, recipe, vegetarian, alc, sous vide
2 T butter
2 T brown sugar
About a shot of French brandy
6 cardamom seeds, three pods lightly crushed
2 t the best vanilla extract ya got
2 pears, kinda under ripe
Slice the pears and remove seeds (I used my mandoline because it's easier than a knife)
Put all ingredients into sous vide bags (zip locks with air squeezed out is fine)
Immerse fruit in 150°\80c water for 1 hour 20 minutes
Save the liquids and serve over anything, it's great.
Put the pears on a salad or something, I don't know. Have them with ice cream? Brag to your friends or family?
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if you are not american indigenous this thanksgiving day and some indigenous person is observing the day differently than what you think we should, stop. open their cashapp before you open your mouth.
you're not owed an explanation or education by any of us, especially not today or tomorrow.
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I just heard an old friend might be joining us for #CircusInPlace tonight! I'm excited, despite them knowing too many stories from my early performing days. :)
Hang out with with old friends and new in the video chat tonight starting at 8pm UTC-6, with clown shenanigans running into the wee hours:
Bad vibes, hearing
@balrogboogie you're good, though. Your post isn't wrong, it was just hard for me to read. My condition is wildly rare, no need to pull yourself back. Just a leaning experience is totally good. I'd honestly rather you kept it so there's some context for folks.
It's the kind of thing you might cw, but even then the cw would be so strange... Just maybe rephrase next time to, like "if you don't have a bass guitarist, do you really have a band?" or something, idk.
I think you just accidentally got boosted into disability masto context, and it's super reasonable for you to have not imagined phrasing like that could be upsetting. Frankly, it shouldn't be upsetting at all. But modern audiology refuses to process frequencies below 150 Hz (bass guitar ranges), and that just makes this painful for me because technologically, it makes music sound like crap.
Anyways, hi, nice to meet you, I'm Starless. 😅 👋
I promise I'm not always sad about sound. Sometimes I paint things and sometimes I build stuff. It's nice to meet you! 💙
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@balrogboogie ugh. I can attest, without bass, most music sounds much worse. I miss it a lot. I'm sure you weren't meaning to be accidentally ableist, but oof, this was painful to read. 😅
I can talk more about my quest for having music sound right, but I don't want to bore you with some sob story about hearing tech out of left field. If you're noticing that bass sounds are disappearing from your life, you might want to get checked for otosclerosis.
Regardless, you're not wrong. I can't hear bass guitars properly anymore and it's like there's a piece of my soul that's missing. Maybe not the way you wanted to be proved right, but.... 🙃
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Habe es ins #inkscape übertragen. Jetzt habe ich hier auf einem Blatt 4 Vorlagen zum Malen per Hand.
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whats wrong with this picture
And, as if to rub it in, because this is of course a group for blind people, the image came with a description. “[Image shows Seeing the ***Ability North West in red letters... The blue *** replaces the Dis to show Ability]
So there can be no doubt about the intent of the logo. (And it’s just a terrible logo anyway, you know if it is if you have to explain the semiotics of it.)
But the hilarious thing, the way I really know this is a “tell me your organization for blind people is run by sighted people without telling me…” situation, is that this is not only a garbage idea but no one thought to take screenreaders into account. You know, that thing that the target audience is disproportionately going to use for this group.
Because with a screenreader, the name of the group is Seeing the Asterisk Asterisk Asterisk Ability.”
Not only does this make it weird and tiring to try to follow (imagine hearing that without seeing it!), it calls so much more attention to the asterisks! Wanting to draw attention away from the “dis-” and towards the “ability” is a terrible goal but if that is your goal, this is actually really counterproductive!
That makes me laugh a lot.
So let this be a lesson to you: don’t shy away from terms like “disability,” don’t do terrible graphic design, and don’t forget about screenreaders especially if blind people are your audience. And if you do all these things at once, the results are literally going to be laughable.
@feonixrift@hackers.town yeah, do they want to hire out or to make them themselves? How complex are the models and how many do they want made?
Garfield, lewd
@Anarkat@hackers.town @thegibson@hackers.town I am no coward and I believe in accessibility.
Image depiction:
Image is a digital drawing featuring a fit and large-breasted figure with an orange body and black stripes wearing a gray bikini. The breasts and cleavage are featured prominently, taking up a decent portion of the image. The figure's face is that of Garfield the cat from the Jim Davis comic strip. The background is a reddish orange color. There is text on the image that reads "You are not immune to propaganda".
@riotmuffin@kolektiva.social I had pretty good luck at cub? They might be full now, though.
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@wmd@chaos.social I dunno if those are standardized, but I enjoyed it so... Maybe!
@June@kitty.town 🖤
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Had smooj for the first time, it's awesome. Carbonated boozy smoothie. https://drinksmooj.com/
- Pronouns
- She/They
- hangs out with people on
- https://cyberia.club
- Gender/orientation
- Demi-femme/Novi gender, demisexual/panromantic/polyamorous
- Hackerspace
- https://layerze.ro
i like kind machines. pro-people-not-dying. anti-nazi. anti-colonizer. pagan, but lazy about it.
I am #HardOfHearing, #nonbinary, polyamourous, into ttrpgs and #tech. Hobbyist #leatherworker, hobbyist scifi author, community builder, and artist.
I like to build #whimsical things that help people to #dream better and form meaningful connections. If you wanna hang out with friendly computer weirdos in Minneapolis, lemme know.
Profile image description: a watercolor painting of a person with pale skin and brown and blue hair laughing. They have a side cut and an audio processor is visible behind their ear. The art style is loose and the eyes are squinched into little crescents.
Joined Jul 2020
