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• Post #3490597

  Anyone in #rotherham #sheffield #doncaster or nearby with an interest in #DIYscience or #experimental #filmmaking should check out my microscope, which I'm selling to pay for a mobility aid. It comes with a bespoke smartphone holder, so you can easily record and even livestream the teeny tiny wildlife you find in your local environment. It also comes with a guide on how to find microscopic critters and how to treat them well while they are under your attentive care! Local pick-up will save...

• Post #1616983

  A past version of myself from 2 decades ago travelled forward in time to ask me an important question: If Mark is a PC and Jez is a Mac, does that make Superhans Linux?

• Post #1049499

  What generally happens to trans artists who try to offer a grassroots alternative to mainstream wizard school IP? My project was relatively well-supported through grants, and even I’m seriously unwell due to burnout and broke after trying to make something cool happen for us. I can’t be the only one

• Post #1049496

  I’m really enjoying the “World of Playing Cards” website at the moment, which has a large collaborative archive of cards with articles about different types, regions, time periods, etc. https://www.wopc.co.uk/

• Post #1049495

  Sharpening my Inkscape skills by tracing some playing card designs. This one taught me how to use a few of the path effects, cloning, and mesh gradients

• Post #1049494

  It's been six months now of declining health. I was chronically ill due to #multiplesclerosis before, but external circumstances have piled on and on and left me in a much worse state. It started with the loss of half of my disability benefits forcing me to push past my limits to make money, then getting COVID, then having to push even further to do a trip to London to perform a show for only 4 people, and then my semi-estranged father died. Along the way I learned something very dist...

• Post #1049493

  Okay the #minutecryptic for 7th April might be my favourite ever, it's so witty and fun

• Post #1049491

  I traced the Earth card from Dulora de la Haye's 1897 Tarot hiéroglyphique égyptien. I took some artistic license and had a lot of fun, and learned a lot of #Inkscape skills in the process. It's so relaxing and absorbing, although the nightmares about devils have been an interesting side effect.

• Post #799403

  Some progress on #burnoutrecovery after my partner spent three weeks taking care of me. She's really refilled my emotional tank and helped me to regain some of my self-esteem. I'm feeling proud of who I am in at least some ways. She also helped with day to day tasks a lot, which allowed me to get better quality rest and freed up some energy for cooking healthy meals. It's difficult to adjust now that she's gone back to Canada. I'm struggling with things l...

• Post #381496

  Instead of defending the use of LLMs for polishing up your writing, we could be advocating for unpolished writing. Blog posts with spelling errors and awkwardly repeated words. Emails that sound a bit less warm and professional because you forgot the preamble of "Apologies for the late reply, hope you're well! Thanks for the thing last week". If there's no budget for a human editor, why should the text meet a "professional" (middle class, for...