starless @starless@pixie.town
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- https://cyberia.club
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- 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
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If it's a "volunteer" or "community service" thing, ask yourself:
🍍 Is it exploitation? Are private parties being enriched at the expense of the less powerful in exchange for "exposure," "experience" or vague promises that it will "help your career"?
🍍 Is this a way of giving necessary work that is uncompensated and unrecognized to women, while freeing men to advance their careers?
🍍 Is this an opportunity that is only accessible to those who are already well-off, because it is un-paid?
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call for artists - MN Dept of Transportation
https://smartgrowthamerica.org/program/arts-culture/mndot-air/
"In partnership with MnDOT’s Sustainability and Public Health Division (SPHD), the Fellow will experiment with artistic projects, tools, and strategies to reduce transportation carbon pollution, including reducing personal vehicle miles driven."
- $40,000 for the year-long residency.
- you'll present project concepts and requests for funding in the $10,000-$15,000 range towards project implementation.
Deadline 1 December!
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thinking about the humble four-eared catgirl
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Covid vax, conspiracy shitpost
5G upgrade just dropped. Got some better longevity, improved anti-virus security features. I wish it'd patch some existing sound fidelity issues, but the quality of life still isn't too bad.
I'll be resting up a bit today, letting the immune system apply the patch. Huzzah for boosters!
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I'm releasing an alpha version of my new self-hosting-oriented cloud service called Greenhouse today!
Right now the service is free for early-adopters. Help me make self-hosting "radically easier"!!
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Wasabi keeps breaking into my roommate's bedroom at all hours so she put up a sign. It's not going well #DailyCatPic #CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats #cats
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psa: diwali 🪔 tw: caste violence
friendly reminder that not all indians celebrate diwali. it is specifically celebrated savarna/upper caste hindus but is rooted in violence toward dalit, bahujan, and adivasi/indigenous peoples both in its traditions and scriptures and its societal impact on these communities for the last 1000+ years.
it’s also often a time of violence toward muslims and religious minorities (much like other savarna holidays).
so proceed with a little care, leave your assumptions, and bring the desire to unlearn/relearn when you are faced with a holiday like this from a place/region/culture you probably don’t know much about to begin with.
for more info, check out content from @dalitdiva and @other_collective on twitter or instagram. or ask me and we can talk about it resources.
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Tympan Nya prototype update
Figuring out component placements. How the hell will I get stuff to stay? Who knows!
Cat ear hearing aids get one step closer to reality.~
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You know how the Eiffel Tower won the Grand Prize at the 1889 World Fair? Well, it had to share the glory with a book.
Not any book: A book ENTIRELY WOVEN IN SILK.
You heard right. And nerds, get this: All pages of this book were produced on the Jacquard loom in 1889, using thousands (200k-500k) of punch cards. Only 50-60 copies were made. >
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Hey!
What's the best game development method/platform/etc. for creating 2D, 8-bit-ish games, as quickly as possible?
My go to is always Pico-8 or tic-80 or Love2D if I think they are asking from a "I want to learn how games work" perspective, but the question was asked of me today from a new perspective.
Basically, I have a competent computer user (and artist) who is not a developer and has no interest in becoming one, who wants to create a (very simple) computer game Fast.
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still thinking about how I asked lil guy to write an I'm sorry letter to someone and he closed it with 🥺
👉👈
He's 7. Internet culture is wildly powerful
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if youre in computer science and you dont hate computers i dont trust you
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ok the results of a longer trial for covid-19 vaccines in 5 to 12 year olds has come out
and i think i have a new top "adverse event that has to be reported for vaccines" https://twitter.com/jbenton/status/1453375910695026700
"ingestion of a penny" might even top my two favourites from the adult vaccine trials, "genital herpes" and "pregnancy"
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ps if i'm your only indigenous mexican friend and you see white people making dia de muertos altars with cutouts from coco like its a fucking party game its your duty to kick that shit over and eat the candy. i said its okay.
Tympan Nyaa Update
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)
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someone should write a book titled "aging gracefully into the apocalypse: a guide" because I'd read it
- 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
