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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
@futzle happy to volunteer my voice :)
@futzle could you be more specific about c shanty? The programmer in me is weirdly thrilled.
Selfie, eye contact, non veggie food
@diffrentcolours@tech.lgbt i have not seen anyone so delighted while eating a corn dog in years. Beautiful.
I'm.. Pretty sure that's daylight? Smugness? Hmm. Anyways, good feels, A+.
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i know several people who would happily patronize this "absolute silence bar" in Ghostwire Tokyo called HUSH which stays open no later than 9pm
@thufie how much caffeine? 🤔
@paulference@mspsocial.net go for it!
Girlfriend and I saw the most precious thing at como zoo today.
The man in the image told me he's a regular, and we watched Kemala carry bedding across the exhibit to come lay down next to him against the glass. The woman told me that she went to the library and checked out three different books, and that this one seems to be Kemala's favorite.
The man's sketchbook was filled with drawings of primates. Apparently, Kemala used to be interested in seeing them, but by now has seen them so much that she's pretty chill about them.
Every so often she'd look at him and move around. For a little while, she pressed some food against the glass and ate it by scraping her teeth across the slice of fruit on the window. It was very silly.
When the woman came up and sat down, Kemala saw the woman's bag and pointed to it, then pointed to the book inside. She was super interested in it.
It was really really sweet. The folks in the image were a-ok with me snapping a pic.
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A mechanism for #LongCovid
I am beyond excited to finally be able to share what I’ve been working on for the past year.
At the beginning of March 22, I discovered a potential mechanism for #LongCovid. It was a unifying mechanism that could explain every single symptom that patients were reporting, something I never thought possible for a disease that has over 200. Yet, this mechanism actually did.
Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1150105/full
@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?
- 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
