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- 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.
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Joined Jul 2020
@dragon a coffee cup or hard-soled shoe can also be a good substitute, but maybe not if you're hammering a nail into a harder material.
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When you're talking about Linux, it's okay to say that it's "open source".
It's okay to say that it's "free software".
It's okay to call it "GNU/Linux", "Linux", or to mess up its name.
It's okay to refer to it as "the one with the friendly penguin".
Part of RMS' legacy has been an incessant obsession with terminology and pedantry, overshadowing far more important shared objectives which are fundamentally emancipatory in nature.
Pedantry is not activism; it is alienating, not emancipatory.
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nyc friends! i am part of the crew organizing an algorave tomorrow night (saturday april 15) at wonderville. we have a killer line up livecoding music and visuals that are broadcast over a pirate TV station onto and as many CRTs as the venue's breaker can handle. its going to be a night of glitchy crunchy analog visuals and its going to be bonkers, come through if youre in town!
@ct_bergstrom thanks for the signal boost on this. I forwarded the article to a professor friend, and she's based a weekly discussion on Maggie's post for her curriculum on censorship this semester.
@thufie would you perchance like to indulge in some https://kidpix.app ?
@Packbat I checked it out and it was awesome, but I took a break after the head word section. It felt very approachable and friendly, though!
@bright_helpings hey, idk if you and yours have plans Friday evening, but you're welcome to stop by the computer club if y'all would like.
I'm assuming you've got other plans or folks, but if not, the space is in the Nokomis neighborhood and is a couple blocks off the light rail line. There's usually drinks and snacks and nerds being silly.
Best of luck with the family and all of that, as well. :)
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Yo anyone with a new Australian passport, look at it with a UV torch. Every page has SO much detail. At least five different UV inks used in different ways including photo-quality monochrome printing that’s otherwise invisible, different on every page. This shit is wild @Iridaceae and I are peering at it like it’s a picture book.
@nelchee these are beautiful!
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Swamped with client work after falling sick for a while, so art making has been sporadic.
But I want to share a few tiny color studies I did the other day of Claude Monet's "Houses of Parliament" series.
Each is about 9x9cm, painted with water-soluble pastels in a sketchbook.
I did all the colorful ones, maybe I should do the foggy muted ones next...
#art #MastoArt #artist #CreativeToots #neocolor #sketchbook #MasterStudy
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Watching my post (which never mentioned Steve Jobs) spread and mutate into straight disinformation, entirely via Google News search alerts for my name, has been *fascinating*.
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I know someone posted a variety pack of patterns for hand sewn juggling balls a while back - I’ve got a bunch of kimono scraps and a lot of free time, and I do like patterns that are
Yknow
Good
When we’re using up the Fancy Scraps.
But mastodons search engine is what it is, so can I consult the collective instead?
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when you're looking for your genderqueer friend in a forest, and climb one of the trees to see further, that's a nonbinary search tree
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Update: the announcement is closed. Thanks all!
Hey Fediverse, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is doing a large batch hire of data scientists to fill positions across the agency! If you want to work with some of the largest sets of healthcare data in the country, please apply! The position is GS-13 and remote-friendly. Announcement closes 4/14 or at 250 applications.
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/718410300
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CHANI is hiring:
Customer Experience Specialist
Executive Assistant to the President
Social & Content Marketing Manager
No one is paid less than $80k before benefits #LivingWagesForAll;
Fully covered health, dental and vision insurance;
401k with a 5% match;
7 weeks of full office closure each year;
Unlimited vacation plus a vacation stipend; (more in description)
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I love this argument. In a recent interview, Adam Rutherford -- author of the new book "Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics" -- argues that part of of the reason our popular notions of genetic inheritance of traits is so simplistic and wrong is because Gregor Mendel was such a good scientist! #eugenics #inheritance #science #genetics
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if youre in nyc on april 15 come through to the show i am coorganizing at wonderville as part of livecode nyc!
the lineup is killer, and we are setting up a temporary pirate tv station to broadcast visuals onto as many CRTs as we can get our hands on! its a crunchy glitchy stuttery analog heaven 😍
poster by voyde w/music by me in 8fl/renoise 🎵
@magicalgrrrl awww hey.
Do you have an idea of what part of Minnesota you'd like to move to?
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We're looking for help to build a wireless, solar-powered chat network across the Philly area! Are you interested in learning about off-grid solar power? Do you have a sunny place on your roof, in your yard, or near an upstairs window where you can leave a small radio transceiver? This workshop may be for you!
Each participant will receive a free kit with all the parts needed to build a solar-powered LoRa radio node. You'll assemble the kit, mount it in a weatherproof enclosure (provided by you), and use the Meshtastic app to start sending encrypted text messages.
Registration opens Monday, April 3rd at 8:30 p.m. You can sign up on our site:
https://iffybooks.net/event/solar-chat-network
Supplies for this workshop are provided by a grant from the Engaged Humanities Studio at Swarthmore College. Many thanks to @pixouls for helping plan the event!
@reese when I lived in a tiny ex-urb, in the spring time, the city has a pothole hotline. They printed the number in the paper, and they'd send someone to fill it within a week or so if you called during 'pothole season'.
An article like that sounds cool! I wonder how much money potholes cost in damages to transit systems, and I'd love to hear how long the average pothole goes unfilled. I wonder if there is a standard based on size?
Idk if it's useful, but here's a couple resources:
It looks like the city of Minneapolis has a page here: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/report-an-issue/pothole/
Here's an article with a nice illustration for how they form: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Schematic-diagram-of-pothole-formation_fig1_331938195
This one is also nice, I like how the expanded ice clearly compacts the ground under the road, really showing what the road collapses into.
https://www.ezstreetasphalt.com/blog/where-potholes-come-from/
- 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
