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- 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
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
ohh I had no idea ‘these violent delights have violent ends’ was from Romeo and Juliet
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There's more coffee waiting for me but...the snuggles! I cannot move!
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Do any fedi friends have access to a theological library?
I'm trying to find someone to help me get a photocopy of a page or two from this book:
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2719878W/Proverbs_of_Ancient_Sumer
It allegedly contains a photo of a cuneiform tablet which records history's oldest joke.
As a clown, I need a copy. :)
I'm also interested in having a copy of the book, though it seems to be looooooong out of print.
Any help, including boosts, appreciated!
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I've been working on this for three months and it's finally done. 78 pages on the history of leather, sluts, and families at US Prides, from 1965 to 1995. Includes background on Pride as a polyvocal celebration and leather as a queer subculture; multifarious sexual and gender expression at Pride; the Lesbian Sex Wars; reaction from the right; and the interplay of radical and normalizing forces within LGBTQ activism.
https://aphyr.com/posts/358-a-history-of-leather-at-pride-1965-1995
Minneapolis hackerspace/Cyberia update
Build day at the hackerspace went well, thanks to all who came out! We got so much done!
We
-removed a leaky sink and capped the pipes
-sanded much glue off the walls
-scraped paint and glue off the walls
-patched a 2×5 foot hole in the plaster on the ceiling
-plastered over glue and small holes in walls
-demolished a ramshackle plywood structure upstairs
-replaced the locks
-fixed an antique door latch
-ate snacks!
-swept up and tidied up
I had a great time working with all of you, and I'm so happy everyone stayed safe. Great job everyone! 💙
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committing gender piracy by utilizing the part of the gender spectrum I’m not officially licensed for
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Due to minor technical difficulties, the Emperor Norton Coffee Hour will be starting one hour later tonight.
Please join #CircusInPlace starting at 8pm UTC-5:
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Indigenous-led resistance to 21 fossil fuel projects in the U.S. and Canada over the past decade has stopped or delayed an amount of greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least one-quarter of annual U.S. and Canadian emissions
https://www.ienearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Indigenous-Resistance-Against-Carbon-2021.pdf
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#OTD 30 years ago, 17 September 1991, the open source #Linux kernel was released. #linux30 #linux2021 #computing #tech #history
BTW, #Xenia is the better mascot.
Xenia info: https://xenia-linux-site.glitch.me/
Image source (birdsite): https://twitter.com/Flying_Hyena/status/1385990310141075458
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You also have the rare opportunity to legally name something Boaty McBoatSpace.
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cyberia.club recently acquired physical space. it must be named something cool.
cyberia space name recommendations?
I’m looking for something:
- vessel-y
- rusty
- original
- easy to say
- maybe russian or a spaceship, or a submarine
- preferably something organic, communal, or something
we have considered many names, but none quite fit right.
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I've just learned that the word for baseball in Dutch is honkbal and I am DELIGHTED at this.
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friends! I made my own alternative #inktober prompt list last year and it was so fun so I've gone and done it again - I've tried to make it fairly neutral/have no theme ☺️
Anybody is welcome to join me! You can use any medium, do as many as you like, you can even combine the prompts if you want to!
If you join in and choose to post, you can tag me and #rnadtober (you don't have to do this - I just like to see them 💜)
Feel free to repost these anywhere!
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Feeling some kinda way about people saying "fuck Texas" in response to recent events... like you realize the victims of all this bullshit our state government does live here too, right?
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did the sustainable thing of putting my own thermos in the coffee machine (which usually just works). Instead it dropped not one, but two paper cups on top and filled that....
TTRPG talk, gaming story
Update: the setting author gave our GM a shout out and he's very excited about this whole thing. Cigeus is a great GM.
https://twitter.com/stratometaship/status/1437608963575463937
Could you let me know if you'd like transcription of the quoted tweet? It's basically the GM describing in a little more detail our last session.
TTRPG talk, gaming story
So, our Ultraviolet Grasslands adventuring group has a wandering farmer character who's been with us since the beginning of the game.
We're in final boss mode now, and he's still with us. As a part of his journeys, he learned one spell: explosive legume growth. He's never used it.
He spends most of his time looking at beans and running various racketeering schemes involving beans. Plus, he's not a bad hunter.
Anyways, the party is in an elevator, headed to our quest destination, but we got stuck part way up. A final boss emerged, and did a ton of psychic damage after some plot talk.
The next round, our healer did not heal the PC, but brought to life a whole sack of dried pea rations. We then shoved them through the holes in the grating of the elevator, and the legume farmer cast his only spell.
This shoved our elevator all the way up to the top floor (where we needed to go for our quest) and we sprinted the magical item into place.
If we fought this dude, we totally woulda died. Instead, we got our asses saved by a legume farmer.
Ultraviolet Grasslands is so cool.
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On the one hand: fingers
But, on the other hand: more fingers
- 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
