starless @starless@pixie.town
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- 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
@jakimfett I don't know, but it's easy to export. The wav is about 120 Mb.
@jakimfett audacity project file, so it could kinda go anywhere
I have a 15-minute long ambient audio recording of a storm rolling in with me practicing some harp over it and some occasional airplanes.
I'm sure the file export for this thing is huge. Any suggestions for how to share it?
@forestjohnson aww, thanks! I set up a new travel palette and this was my first run using it. :)
Painted a little window scene. 3"x2" on Stonehenge heavy paper. #mastoart
Uspol, very bad vibes
@thegibson@hackers.town
I don't think so, personally. I think an open-source manufacture of abortificants is maybe more important. And birth control for men.
Remember, most forms hormonal-acting birth control act as depressants and lower the libidos of folks taking them. Plus, lack thereof is likely to impact mens' sex lives. Lack of abortificants, ostensibly, might not.
Look for how the power is moving, IMO. Maybe watch for adoption surrender fees/increased penalties for seeking reproductive care elsewhere, tracking of abortificants, restrictions around plan b/emergency contraception, and possible tightening of 'proof' for cases of rape/paternal obligations.
Things (aside from medical assistance/rights) that might help are legislation around free/tax-funded childcare for all, more navigable/accessible adoption systems, and consequential systems for fatherhood obligations, especially in the case of forced motherhood.
IMO, it all comes down to some asshats wanting a herd of pregnant, exhausted women. Anything at all that helps soften that blow would be great.
See some resources here, maybe consider donating/buying a dose or two:
https://jewishcurrents.org/how-to-give-yourself-an-abortion
Have some little watercolor doodles. I've been mostly exploring clouds lately.
Any tips on painting dramatic clouds with watercolor?
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PSA: To everyone who is #NewHere, and those who are not.
When you use hashtags it can help those using a #ScreenReader to use #CamelCase. Screen-readers can then find and pronounce the constituent words, rather than trying to pronounce the whole thing.
It's not essential, but it's one way we can make the Fediverse more welcoming.
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Yesterday I went to a really neat art workshop about drawing trees. Learnt some new techniques for masking with watercolours, and had a fun time playing around with mixed media. This one is a mix of watercolour, oil pastel, tissue paper and acrylic pen.
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https://vincent.callebaut.org/category/projects/ This architect is doing some of the wildest solarpunk shit I've seen in my life! I don't know what to think about this?! Everything seems completely impossible :D Lots of cool designs though! Especially I've been wishing for an airship comeback, for many reasons, but vertical ones?! wild
@lyncia cricket works okay for me, many people like mint
@joepie91 echoing previous. 1 I would call relationship anarchy, 2 I might call a comet, though those are usually more romantic than platonic.
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I'm seeing a lot of proclamations that there should be no exceptions to describing your images or that there's no reason to interact with any that aren't described.
I know these mean well, but they are themselves ableist.
Disabled people know that access needs can clash. I benefit from described images, but I know some people struggle to write them because of their own disabilities.
And that's okay! The culture of image descriptions is great here but it should never be absolutist.
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I challenged someone on their hardline stance on this once, and it blew up into a tiny fedi drama, with the nice outcome of more social solutions.
That's around the time people started to CW undescribed images.
My instance developed an emoji 
to indicate you'd like a media description added.
There's a group you can tag, @imagecaptionspls, that people follow who are willing to add descriptions.
And there's @PleaseCaption to remind you if you forget.
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Please describe:
* your jokes/memes - it's no good saying "this is just silly, you're not missing anything"; let us be the judge of that! Also, being disabled isn't about being dull and worthy all the time.
* your artwork - I'm so sad when I see cool art I can't boost (and sometimes can't even discern :) )
* your gifs and videos - description isn't just for still images!
* your audio clips - yep, these can be described too!
@polliwoog I love the ocean waves in the hair. Welcome! :)
@cyberia honestly, I'd say most brands these days are vegan/cruelty free. Unless you're having special issues, you might be better off finding a product you like and then double checking rather than the other way around.
In terms of cf drugstore brands, nyx is popular. If you want smaller brands, beauty bakerie has an excellent vegan matte black lipstick.
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Tonight the Emperor Norton Coffee Hour returns to the #CircusInPlace video chat!
For the new kids, it's an hour where us clowns get to have a coffee with internet friends before diving into an entire night of circus skills training.
Join us starting at 7PM UTC-5, and hang around all night as I practice juggling, handstands, and other gravity defying nonsense.
https://meet.jit.si/circushomegym
As always, I'm incredibly grateful for the company.
@pixouls this sounds like a microhell. Maybe, like, a 1x1 square of hell next to the parking lot.
- 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
