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)
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.
Please boost:
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:
more times communism worked
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."
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
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/mental-disorder-cdc-covid-eligibility/2021/10/27/2a45eea0-32ae-11ec-9241-aad8e48f01ff_story.html
• https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/people-with-medical-conditions.html ("Mental health conditions" section)
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.
https://victoriacorva.xyz/books/books-and-bone-by-Victoria-Corva/
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.
https://victoriacorva.xyz/books/non-player-character-by-victoria-corva/
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.
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