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hacker art practitioner. occasional livecoding, open source hardware, fabulous aksesuar, comedy food art, applied mysticism. creator of Synthercise, the chiptune dance fitness pyramid scheme

please go ahead and ask me for an incredibly amateur tarot reading, i would like to practise

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zool @zool@icosahedron.website · May 14, 2026

Replying to @jeffc@mastodon.online

@jeffc@mastodon.online @HailsandAles@metalhead.club once had a colleague who used GPU waste heat to help homebrew beer. Circular economy

zool @zool@icosahedron.website · May 14, 2026

Replying to @PetraPhoenix@beige.party

@PetraPhoenix@beige.party may not be the answer if you're looking for a maker rather than high street, but i bought a couple of "3D Knit" seamless cotton sweaters with big sleeves from Uniqlo during a recent flareup of skin hypersensitivity, living in them since

zool @zool@icosahedron.website · May 12, 2026

Replying to @anarodrigues@front-end.social

@anarodrigues@front-end.social potent essay. I've been pondering what kind of collective structures, communications, care need to be in place that could prevent that kind of retaliation. Is it possible for a sizeable workplace culture to have built-in resistance to the ways that control hierarchies are too easily abused? Is it even possible to advance that argument from a place of marginalisation and doubt?

zool @zool@icosahedron.website · May 12, 2026

Replying to @europlus@social.europlus.zone

@europlus@social.europlus.zone @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social fwiw i think i had a Tourette's egg crack about 15 minutes ago

zool @zool@icosahedron.website · May 04, 2026

Replying to @sgillies@mastodon.social

@sgillies@mastodon.social "a man goes to the gym in that hat, they know he's not afraid of anything"

zool @zool@icosahedron.website · May 03, 2026

Replying to @robinince@mastodon.social

@robinince@mastodon.social i think it very much depends who you are, who you're aligned with. From experience, if you're already marginalised or vulnerable in other ways, it probably won't help. And a positive example of understanding and support offered to a straight white man won't have universal application... Ideally we all should be able to be honest; is there any other way to live? But workplace implementations of inclusion and support are necessarily going to include some more than others :/

zool @zool@icosahedron.website · May 02, 2026

Replying to @sgillies@mastodon.social

@sgillies@mastodon.social you're reminding me that the rhubarb in our scrap of recovered soil actually came up this year, maybe the weeds protected it from the snails I pulled a few stalks but now i'm worried about the ethics of stewing them, you know, if they're possibly sentient

zool @zool@icosahedron.website · May 02, 2026

Replying to @thelovebug@mastodon.me.uk

@thelovebug @awfulwoman waiting until the end to send this to a less-tech friend who's recently become reliant on LLM use. I've been trying to soften my views, don't want to self-shame about constrained use, as Luddite as i fundamentally feel

zool @zool@icosahedron.website · May 02, 2026

Replying to @awfulwoman@indieweb.social

@awfulwoman "Trust me, I'm very good at this" <3

zool @zool@icosahedron.website · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @joenash@hachyderm.io

@joenash@hachyderm.io !

zool @zool@icosahedron.website · Apr 26, 2026

Replying to @TodePond@mas.to

@TodePond@mas.to thank you!

zool @zool@icosahedron.website · Apr 26, 2026

Replying to @zool@icosahedron.website

@TodePond@mas.to nm ignore me, i'm half asleep https://codeberg.org/munshkr/flok #flok

zool @zool@icosahedron.website · Apr 26, 2026

Replying to @TodePond@mas.to

@TodePond@mas.to if one were casually interested in the flok protocol but finding it bloody impossible to search for, where would one look?

zool @zool@icosahedron.website · Apr 21, 2026

Replying to @jtruk@mastodon.social

@jtruk@mastodon.social but you could teach it to swear. Smart Smeg

zool @zool@icosahedron.website · Apr 21, 2026

Replying to @jtruk@mastodon.social

@jtruk@mastodon.social but it would bring you such regular joy, looking at the Smeg

zool @zool@icosahedron.website · Apr 18, 2026

Replying to @mativity@aus.social

@mativity @yogthos @PabloveSky this; long ago i did a mandatory year's study of Anglo-Saxon poetry starting at "The Seafarer", but got lost at 1200 here - use it or lose it

zool @zool@icosahedron.website · Apr 11, 2026

Replying to @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

@0xabad1dea i went there for a project seminar last year and was astonished at the early morning silence, the town centre empty of traffic, you can hear every flap of a bird's wing. And the canal-house prettiness. Leiden's a gem of a place, isn't it, the people there don't seem to appreciate that they're living in a paradise

zool @zool@icosahedron.website · Apr 10, 2026

The Morningside Charity Shop Crawl looks like a serious production!

It runs 10-4 and I'll be in the library from lunchtime, part of a group of volunteers, doing my best Punk Anna Wintour impression for the "you'll have had your tea" crowd, it will probably be fine

@Edinburghstreetstitchers@mastodon.scot #Edinburgh

zool @zool@icosahedron.website · Apr 09, 2026

Replying to @palvaro@discuss.systems

@palvaro for me it just reads "Unavailable Due to the UK Online Safety Act" which is a message in itself :/

zool @zool@icosahedron.website · Apr 08, 2026

Replying to @joshbal4@m.fa.gl

@joshbal4@m.fa.gl afaik no, i was always plain zool on irc :)

zool @zool@icosahedron.website · Apr 06, 2026

Replying to @sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social

@sarahdalgulls you could quietly remind them that Microsoft's terms clearly state that CoPilot is "for entertainment purposes only" If only we worked for entertainment purposes only

zool @zool@icosahedron.website · Apr 02, 2026

Replying to @millerdl@mathstodon.xyz

@millerdl@mathstodon.xyz this seems like an unmissable opportunity, tell them you would be delightful to be the part!

zool @zool@icosahedron.website · Apr 01, 2026

Wondering whether you have to be EU based or passably Dutch speaking to apply for this residency at @waag@waag.social "de verwevenheid van ecologie en technologie te verkennen", sounds good to me

Wondering what i'd put together for it - a slightly realised design fiction, decoy duck / avatar sort of thing? Or figure out what i wouldn't expect, then that

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