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Damon L. Wakes

@DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org

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Author of Ten Little Astronauts, Face of Glass and literally hundreds of works of flash fiction: I've been writing a story a day for the whole of July every year since 2012. I also make videogames.

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Joined November 07, 2022

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Jul 08, 2026

Replying to @FoxesInLove@social.neonpaws.digital

@FoxesInLove@social.neonpaws.digital I love the big red exclamation marks in this. It's a small detail, but it really looks unhinged.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Jul 06, 2026

Replying to @Printdevil@dice.camp

@Printdevil@dice.camp @HauntedOwlbear@eldritch.cafe I wanted to get in on the Jeromeposting too. Here he is writing his fanfics. The lion's not sure what to make of it.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 30, 2026

Replying to @devnull@mamot.fr

@devnull@mamot.fr @meshtastic@mastodon.social I'm using it in GrapheneOS having got hold of it via F-Droid. 🤷 I agree ePub documentation would be nice, but I don't see how bundling it with the app makes it "harder" to get hold of anywhere else: it's readily available online, and if you really wanted to you could make and distribute an ePub yourself.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 29, 2026

I'm doing #Monsterdon once again, this time watching... *squints* ..."Zarkorr! The Invader" from 1996. As always, mute the hashtag if you don't want to see the toots.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 27, 2026

Replying to @fmors@fosstodon.org

@fmors@fosstodon.org If you were to request a refund you definitely wouldn't be the only one. Also, there'll be people out there who paid for several months in advance and can't back out now even though they might want to, so on balance I imagine Mullvad will be getting more money people would rather not give them (at least in the short term) than they'll be losing from people taking a refund they're fully entitled to.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 27, 2026

Replying to @chrisoliver@indieweb.social

@chrisoliver@indieweb.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr Did they seriously put "PLAY HAS NO LIMITS" right under the announcement that you can no longer play your purchased movies due to the limits of a licensing arrangement?

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 25, 2026

Replying to @isaackuo@spacey.space

@isaackuo@spacey.space @SnoopJ@hachyderm.io @regehr@mastodon.social @aburka@hachyderm.io @dan@discuss.systems @dev@discuss.systems *gasp* Spoilers!

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 22, 2026

Replying to @CactuarJoe@retro.pizza

@CactuarJoe@retro.pizza I think this narrowly beats Invasion in terms of badness.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 22, 2026

Replying to @CactuarJoe@retro.pizza

@CactuarJoe@retro.pizza I think this narrowly beats Invasion in terms of badness.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 22, 2026

Replying to @CactuarJoe@retro.pizza

@CactuarJoe@retro.pizza I think this narrowly beats Invasion in terms of badness.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 22, 2026

Replying to @CactuarJoe@retro.pizza

@CactuarJoe@retro.pizza I think this narrowly beats Invasion in terms of badness.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 22, 2026

Replying to @CactuarJoe@retro.pizza

@CactuarJoe@retro.pizza I think this narrowly beats Invasion in terms of badness.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 22, 2026

Replying to @ottaross@mastodon.social

@ottaross@mastodon.social @Lazarou@mastodon.social @CactuarJoe@retro.pizza "Bang" is right.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 22, 2026

Replying to @ottaross@mastodon.social

@ottaross@mastodon.social @Lazarou@mastodon.social @CactuarJoe@retro.pizza "Bang" is right.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 22, 2026

Replying to @ottaross@mastodon.social

@ottaross@mastodon.social @Lazarou@mastodon.social @CactuarJoe@retro.pizza "Bang" is right.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 22, 2026

I'm doing #Monsterdon for the next couple of hours! If you don't want to see toots about a terrible Christopher Lee movie, mute that hashtag now.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 15, 2026

Replying to @CactuarJoe@retro.pizza

@CactuarJoe@retro.pizza Once again I can't bring myself to call it "not that bad," but it was still marginally better than Invasion.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 15, 2026

I'm doing #Monsterdon once again! Mute the hashtag if you don't want to hear it, or watch In the Year 2889 (1967) with me if you feel like joining in.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 12, 2026

Replying to @lunareclipse@snug.moe

@lunareclipse@snug.moe @ifixcoinops@retro.social Oh, geez, is THAT why it sucks?

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 09, 2026

Replying to @tychotithonus@infosec.exchange

@tychotithonus@infosec.exchange @inthehands@hachyderm.io There once was a man from Peru whose limericks stopped at line two But he carried on so the humour was gone and also it didn't rhyme or scan properly either.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 08, 2026

Replying to @CactuarJoe@retro.pizza

@CactuarJoe@retro.pizza "I vant to suuuuck!!!"

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · May 22, 2026

Replying to @FlockOfCats@famichiki.jp

@FlockOfCats@famichiki.jp I really want to see a FF7-style game use this in some dramatic opening sequence. (Black screen.) "Nature is the best physician." (Fade to...) "But nature is being destroyed in the cities." (Cut to a bunch of steampunk cops burning down a local park or something.)

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · May 14, 2026

Replying to @adavid@aus.social

@adavid@aus.social @maxleibman@beige.party I've never actually tried it myself. The SAS Survival Handbook says it "can be eaten raw - but can be made more digestible by long boiling, which will reduce it to a gelatinous mass."

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · May 14, 2026

Replying to @maxleibman@beige.party

@maxleibman@beige.party I don't think this is a fair comparison. As I understand it, properly prepared pine bark is actually edible.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · May 10, 2026

Replying to @violet@corteximplant.com

@violet@corteximplant.com @kaye@cathode.church "Doktor, turn off my Communism inhibitors!"

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · May 10, 2026

Replying to @david@fouroclockfarms.club

@david@fouroclockfarms.club @kawunngg@chaos.social @futurebird@sauropods.win @btrinen@social.seattle.wa.us It was that or "pooh-pooh."

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · May 10, 2026

Replying to @david@fouroclockfarms.club

@david@fouroclockfarms.club @kawunngg@chaos.social @futurebird@sauropods.win @btrinen@social.seattle.wa.us Let's not be too quick to dump on a potential green alternative to the Haber process. It's free* fertiliser, after all. *ignoring whatever it takes to power the mad science ray

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · May 10, 2026

Replying to @btrinen@social.seattle.wa.us

@btrinen@social.seattle.wa.us @futurebird@sauropods.win I thought about the food angle for being large, but it's one week: you shouldn't starve in that time anyway, and I figure you could probably get in on some "Largest [Whatever]" food-based Guinness World Records in that time.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · May 07, 2026

Replying to @cadellin@mastodon.gamedev.place

@cadellin@mastodon.gamedev.place @purplelotus13@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr The "X can't win here!" phrasing strikes me as something that existing laws should probably prevent. It's patently untrue, and I would have thought the candidate(s) being lied about could take some sort of legal action.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · May 07, 2026

Replying to @colon_three@icosahedron.website

@colon_three@icosahedron.website Erection ded 😥

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · May 04, 2026

Replying to @Mimesatwork@wandering.shop

@Mimesatwork Ensittification.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · May 03, 2026

Replying to @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

@0xabad1dea What is "the Devil knows the Bible better than you do" actually intended to mean? I feel as though there are a few different things someone could take from that, but I'm struggling to figure out which makes most sense in this context.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · May 02, 2026

Replying to @gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place

@gkrnours @rysiek It was definitely a window when the roadrunner went through it, but then I tried to follow, slammed into the thing, and my flattened form rolled upwards like a window blind.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · May 02, 2026

Check out these screenshots from the beautiful things submitted to the Premium Crayon and Kazoo Jam, then head over here to rate the entries themselves: https://itch.io/jam/premium-crayon-and-kazoo-jam
#CrayonAndKazooJam #GameJam #gamedev #ScreenshotSaturday #crayon #kazoo

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · May 02, 2026

Replying to @mwl@io.mwl.io

@mwl@io.mwl.io I love their quivery little whiskers.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · May 02, 2026

@alienmelon@mastodon.social I thought you might like to know that the Crayon and Kazoo Jam entries are now in, and available for anyone to judge. Even taking into account the $10,000 worth of crayon and kazoo assets available to participants, I feel as though the overall quality of submissions has been exceptionally high. https://itch.io/jam/premium-crayon-and-kazoo-jam

mastodon.social

Nathalie Lawhead (alienmelon) (@alienmelon@mastodon.social) - Mastodon

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · May 02, 2026

Replying to @adriendittrick@mastodon.gamedev.place

@adriendittrick@mastodon.gamedev.place London time for me. (Not actually in London, but I find it's easier to check the time in a specific city than to figure out if you need to adjust a general time zone for daylight saving etc.)

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · May 02, 2026

Replying to @KayOhtie@blimps.xyz

@KayOhtie @AmyZenunim I thought the cake decorating analogy was bizarre too. It's 100% possible for those to be separate jobs. Nobody insists that mural painters first get really good at bricklaying.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · May 02, 2026

Replying to @adriendittrick@mastodon.gamedev.place

@adriendittrick@mastodon.gamedev.place I'd get in on this if the timing worked out.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · May 01, 2026

Replying to @yngmar@social.tchncs.de

@yngmar@social.tchncs.de

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · May 01, 2026

all caps

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · May 01, 2026

The judging period for the Premium Crayon and Kazoo Jam has just started! There are two categories: "Overall," and "Use of Crayon and Kazoo Assets." Judging is open to everyone, so please do have a go at the things that have been submitted and give them a score!
https://itch.io/jam/premium-crayon-and-kazoo-jam/entries
#CrayonAndKazooJam #GameJam #gamedev #crayon #kazoo

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @gray17@mastodon.social

@gray17@mastodon.social Speaking as someone who liked seeing the people getting gored by feral unicorns, this feels like an accurate appraisal of the movie.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @inthehands@hachyderm.io

@inthehands I really am astounded just how clueless some of these people seem to be about their users. It's the same with Firefox eagerly aping Google for an audience of people who are exclusively using Firefox because it isn't Chrome. I'd say it's like the Kentucky Derby accepting Pritt Sticks as a sponsor, but I genuinely think that might land better.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 29, 2026

For a long time now I've been thinking about writing a fantasy book in which scrappy witches/wizards create their own spells and magical artefacts in a world where most people simply buy them from various Dark Lords (at great cost - and not just financially). The trouble is I'm very aware that actual literal Palantir exists as a company and that makes even the most heavy-handed analogy feel pointless here.
#writing #fantasy

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @aparrish@friend.camp

@aparrish@friend.camp Those fish are off the hook!

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 27, 2026

Replying to @soulcutter@ruby.social

@soulcutter@ruby.social @davidcelis@xoxo.zone "Prices aren't changing - you're just moving onto a Pay As You Go plan that somehow also has a minimum monthly fee."

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 27, 2026

Replying to @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org

I turned on verbose Bluetooth logs in Graphene and you'll never guess what the problem was... Literally. Because I couldn't tell you. The ESP32 board is suddenly connecting to my phone just like it connects to everything else! My best guess is that turning Bluetooth off and on again to make the new log setting take effect also cleared up the original issue. It's possible I screwed something up with an earlier unsuccessful attempt to pair. #ESP32 #GrapheneOS #Bluetooth #programming

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 27, 2026

Replying to @henryk@chaos.social

@henryk@chaos.social @mhoye@cosocial.ca It's not opening on my device, but the "This isn't a story about one bad agent or one bad API. It's about an entire industry ..." quoted above already had my slop sense tingling.

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Damon L. Wakes @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 27, 2026

Replying to @brnrd@bsd.network

@brnrd @inthehands 123m is the figure for 10 years, 0.142m was for a single year. It's a little confusing that they provided those numbers without putting them in more directly comparable terms. Still a huge underestimate, though.

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