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
Police brutality, Brooklyn center (Minneapolis suburb), death, news, protests, details
There were protests at the site yesterday and some looting in the area and around town last night. Unicorn riot has been there giving coverage. Protests last night were dispersed with tear gas, one person was badly injured with a baton round.
Dante was detained allegedly because of an outstanding warrant, but the merits of said warrant are unknown, as is whether or not he knew about it, etc. He'd been initially stopped because his vehicle was similar to one that'd been reported as stolen. There was no self-defense situation for the officers involved as he was killed while trying to leave. His body lay in the street for hours after his death, despite his mother's requests that it be moved. There were a number of live video streams, but I'm not sure where the footage is.
His family is very upset and condemned some of the looting yesterday. There's a ton of misinformation floating around on social media that local kids are running into. Unicorn Riot seems like the best place for coverage.
Dante Wright should be alive today and now he isn't. Say his name. This has to change.
Police brutality, Brooklyn center (Minneapolis suburb), death, news
Maybe some late news, but cops killed someone yesterday afternoon. Again. Headline should read "police shoot and scare young man, cause car crash, 1 death".
It sounds like Daunte Wright, who was just 20, got scared after the police didn't want him to leave after a 'random traffic stop'. Brooklyn Center police shot and injured him when he fled.
Daunte proceeded to drive away, presumably to get medical attention, but crashed into another vehicle soon after. Five people were injured, including his passenger. He died soon after.
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I just launched a new art project in the form of a Mastodon bot that will slowly tell a story over the course of three weeks by posting a drawing every day. You can follow it at @dailystory
The bot post the first image on Monday April 12 and post a new image everyday at 6 pm UTC (as long as nothing breaks).
I hope you all enjoy it.
Tarot
Occult vibes, painting
I started a little illustrating project today ~
On the left is the visconti tarot deck, on the right is the Smith Waite tarot deck and in the middle is a WIP on yupo translucent atc paper.
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Of course, OF COURSE the fucking operator of that famous excavator trying to free the ever given is both a sub-contractor and still hasn't been paid for all of his fucking OT work yet.
https://jalopnik.com/guy-who-worked-21-hour-days-to-dig-out-the-ever-given-h-1846641635
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I'd like to see more realistic catgirls in anime.
As in, instead of being all saccharine cute and aiming to please - just act like cats.
And when I say cats, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
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HIV news (vaccine development), European Pharmaceutical Review source
"A novel vaccine approach for the prevention of HIV has shown promise in Phase I trials, reported IAVI and Scripps Research. According to the organisations, the vaccine successfully stimulated the production of the rare immune cells needed to generate antibodies against HIV in 97 percent of participants."
"In the Phase I IAVI G001trial, 48 healthy adult volunteers were enrolled to receive either a placebo or two doses of the vaccine compound, eOD-GT8 60mer, along with an adjuvant developed by the GlaxoSmithKline.
One of the lead investigators on the trial, Dr Julie McElrath, senior vice president and director of Fred Hutch’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, said the trial was “a landmark study in the HIV vaccine field,” adding that they had demonstrated “success in the first step of a pathway to induce broad neutralising antibodies against HIV-1.”"
There's more details in the article, but like...
Holy shit, y'all.
HIV has been an ongoing quiet pandemic, under-treated due to assholes associating it with the LGBTQ+ community and moral failings, for as long as I've been alive.
This is such good news I'm crying.
So, the paint took a little longer than the #2MinuteSketch, but I made a little picture this morning. Total work time of about fifteen minutes, with the linework at under two. @Curator
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One more time, with feeling:
I'll be speaking tomorrow at hackers.town's Virtual Hackerspace meeting
Saturday, April 3rd, 2021 at 6 PM EDT / 10 PM UTC. meet.jit.si/vhs
If you've been interested in finding out more about what we're doing with #theTubes swing on by!
Meeting will be livestreamed on video.hackers.town and stream.aardwolf.social.
Hands-on workshop to connect new peers to the tubes immediately following the presentation!
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New tarot inspired open-source typeface dropped: https://velvetyne.fr/fonts/basteleur/
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The 2021 Gender Census worldwide report is now published:
https://gendercensus.com/results/2021-worldwide/
Here's a summary/TL;DR:
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Gender is better for _everyone_ without transphobia and bioessentialism
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They're not thigh highs, they're special programming compression socks, designed to push blood out of your lower extremities towards your brain in order to help you write haskell and rust better.
mh, food, meat, alch, relationship, kink/cbt/lewd joke
I spent today reading in a mild fuge until the early afternoon, then went and split wood with a crush, and then shared steak and merlot with them. Honestly, a pretty good Sunday. The steak could have been better, but I gave them the best cut and they seemed pretty happy with it.
Three hours with an ax, a sledgehammer, a Sawzall, and a chainsaw did me some real good. Plus, there's now a woodpile about the size of a loveseat, and my crush might've learned how to coil cables so they don't tangle.
I would like the world to know that "Wanna come over and split some wood?" is an excellent pickup line to use on Starlesses, but I will probably take you more literally than you were hoping.
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enbies just want one thing and it's fucking disgusting
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doing some kind of séance for a server upgrade
- 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
