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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

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i don't think we talk enough about how CS has unreasonably cute units.

nibbles! flops! these are real units!!

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Idea make your legal middle name the eicar test string so any file trying to digitize records about you gets flagged as a virus.

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americans love Disney World because it's a walkable city

Fermentation, horse dairy 

I had airag for the first time today.

It tastes a bit like a combination between champagne and a fancy cheese. It's not very sweet, pretty sour, and much smoother in texture than I was expecting. The aroma is basically champagne, at least of the kind I had.

It's a milky, pale liquid that's mildly effervescent and often has little drops of oil floating on the surface. It has about 2% abv. It's a little funny, but not too bad, especially if you have it with some crackers or similar, the way you'd pair a cheese or yogurt with grain.

Because it's a bit like champagne meets a cheese, I do wonder if we'll see some kind of westernization of the stuff sometime in the next decade. It reminds me a bit of khombucha in that way.

Anyways, would recommend, have it with some friends, it's pretty cool.

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Halloween 

This year, I dressed up as a magical girl demon. I tried to find a magic wand at a Halloween shop, but to no avail. I made a homemade one instead.

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A screen reader for Linux (GUI) is being developed in Rust. If anyone knows Rust and would like to help, or to just view the great work taking shape here, see:

yggdrasil-sr.github.io/

#a11y #accessibility #blind #screenreader #coding #rust

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more times communism worked 

https://going-medieval.com/2021/10/28/on-looking-in-the-past-for-a-better-future%ef%bf%bc/

Leftist medieval historian describes two times that free peasants formed self-sufficient communes with no class hierarchy, one of which lasted longer than the United States has existed. Both only failed when the landlord class decided it wasn't right for there to be land with no lords and invaded with armies, and even then one of the collectives held out for a very, very long time.
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Question from somebody on discord who doesn't have mastodon since y'all know hosting stuff

"Idk if this is the right channel for it, but do yous happen to know any good website hosting services for sites containing pornographic art and weird leftist zines? Ive been wantin to put my stuff on its own site but its hard to find places that are willing to host that. Im esp interested in co-op/nonheirarchical ones."

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My feed is honestly very US/EU oriented and i was wondering if there are any South-East Asian tech folk, activists that i can follow, especially in the Philippines.

#AskFedi

#SEA

#PH

Some friends are talking about horror movies. The general consensus is that OSHA and other accident prevention videos are the best spooky movie theme for an upcoming marathon.

What dorks. 💙

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mh, COVID-19 booster shot eligibility (+) 

the CDC added mental health conditions to the list of underlying medical conditions they consider to increase risk of severe COVID-19, which is the same list that most areas in the US are using to determine booster eligibility

washingtonpost.com/local/menta
cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/ ("Mental health conditions" section)

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Finally for Ace Week, if I'm allowed to self-promo a bit, I'm an asexual author who has published two books with asexual protagonists and ace romance.

Trying to write the kind of books I've always wanted to read!

BOOKS & BONE is a haunted but oddly sweet story of librarians and necromancy.

victoriacorva.xyz/books/books-

NON-PLAYER CHARACTER is a cosy queer portal fantasy where a group of TTRPG nerds in their 30s must navigate the world of their game.

victoriacorva.xyz/books/non-pl

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The average male human weighs 198lb

The average vampire bat weighs 0.03kg

The average vampire must there for turn into about 3000 bats when escaping awkward social situations 🧛🏻‍♀️ 🦇 🦇 🦇

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Why is it called induction when you of in the duction of out recur the duction

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