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Images, fantasy creatures, eye contact, nudity 

today, wizard duel (dwarf vs goblin with familiar and walking throne), imho looking at Wayne Reynolds art had a positive influence. And, finished up a furry pinup from earlier this month, added more of that kobold “cozy fantasy” character I’ve drawn before.

Out of nowhere, my nephew just asked, “Do you think Pavlov thought about feeding his dog every time he heard a bell ring?” and now I’m going to be haunted by this question.

affordable computers for low income folks in US 

PCs For People* is having a sale on all their stock this weekend. desktops starting at $75, laptops starting at $100 (all refurbs). also some accessories and wifi hotspots. for some items you'll need to show proof of low income status (medicaid award letter or similar). make a note of the coupon codes so you can enter them at checkout: pcsrefurbished.com/sales/sales

*a non-profit with the mission of getting refurbished computers into the hands of people who otherwise couldn't afford them

Something interesting I learned from Lunar Magic: the pipes in Super Mario World don't normally have any associated colour data. Every "screen" of 16 tiles, it just automatically changes the pipe colour to create variety.

If you enjoy someone's post on #Mastodon go ahead and click the star. If someone tells you that's meaningless because there's no #algorithm, ignore them. Sure, boost the post too if you want others to also see the post, but don't think telling someone you like what they posted is somehow unimportant. In real life I don't tell someone, "good job," or "well said," or "I love that," for the sake of some algorithm, I do it because I'm human and they are too. It's fundamental to being truly social.

To get the fuck out of Twitter before it fully starts turning into $8chan next week, I've been spending the last few days finishing the new completely redesigned website so it finally has fully up to date information

Papathanassiou's Descent - a little Commodore 64 tune I wrote a while back, an obvious homage to Vangelis' Spiral. A friend told me today that it's in the High Voltage Sid Collection, and that made me smile. #C64 #SID

youtube.com/watch?v=CtQprUZ8TB

How fast do tree lights wear out, anyhow? 

Yesterday, the three strands of tree lights all lit up.

This morning, two lit up in full and one lit up four bulbs.

Now, none of them will light.

The fuses test out fine. I tested 50 bulbs (a single circuit on the strand) even though the set claims to work even if one's burned out. I.... don't know what to make of this, other than possibly the internal wires broke under the incredible stress of being brought out for a second year of service?

I guess the tree waits until Friday...

(Hey, it's that time of the month again, I am sorry x.x)

I recently fled long-term domestic abuse and I am slowly getting help but working has been a long-term struggle (I have meds, work is a bit easier!). I have been working a bit better, and I sold some belongings I don't want to help things out, but I still need £200 by the 24th Nov meet a bunch of bills.

➡️Commissions: dzuk.zone/commissions

➡️Donations: ko-fi.com/dzuk_

I'm also open to general icon commissions! (I do not have a page about that yet)

When they did an x-ray of Henry Gillard Glindoni's painting of Elizabethan occultist/alchemist John Dee, they discovered that Dee was standing in a circle of human skulls...
#art #history #occult #alchemy

EDIT: More info here: omnia.ie/index.php?navigation_

Further update: TOS seems to have appeared

NSFW is banned

Considering the content most artist posts I hope this will be the fatal blow

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Hell nah that Hive thing is sus

Appears out of nowhere right as people leave for Mastodon, millions of downloads in days, app only, no accessibility, and no TOS

I've seen people say it's financed by the CCP/right wing millionaires (help me find a source for that claim, searching is hell because of the name)

Clear astroturfing

I'm not touching that app, it's untrustworthy and weird to me, I'd rather support fedi instead, it has far more potential

Hell, even Tumblr will join it in 2023

HEY HEY FRENZ on mastodon.social! You may want to MOVE to a new instance, very soon.

Why? :sealion:

Mastodon is a bunch of islands that can talk to each other. The smaller and more spread out we are, the easier things are to moderate. Horizontal scaling FTW!

All of you who fled that one site 🐤 ended up at mastodon.social for likely a few reasons. It was obvious, it was big, and it's where you saw a bunch of folks going.

But it has a long history of being poorly moderated, which means a LOT of instances are silencing or blocking it. Which means you're on the big island that SEEMS like it's "where everyone is", but in fact, it's a giant island unto itself (momentarily trending toward turning into a post-bird-site echo chamber), and huge swaths of the Fediverse don't talk to it, or even see it.

If you want the quality of interaction (and moderation!) Mastodon is known for, move thy funky buns to a smaller instance of cool folks you enjoy. :blobcatrainbow:

#feditips #fediverse

Tonight we part as friends
and tomorrow when we rise
the communities we depend on
will have been shitposting all night

This strange and friendly space
gives me hope for the future
not just for banning racists
but also for being so mature :blob_aww:

Thanks for choosing communities
over soapboxes and brand entities
where leftists can find unity
on the #fediverse with you & me
:blobheart:

Hey I don't think I posted anything about it here so... I bought a comic book store?!?! More precisely I bought 1/3 of Outsider Comics in Seattle like a bunch of us are running it as a workers coop. In 10 days we are having a grand reopening party to celebrate this cozy queer little haven so if you're in Seattle please stop by! <3

My Desert Bus silent auction is up and will be up until 10AM pacific! desertbus.org/prize/74

2016: "The Fediverse explodes in popularity"
2017: "Thinkpeice: Why Only Thousands use the Fediverse"
2018: "The Fediverse explodes in popularity"
2019: "Thinkpeice: Why Only Tens of Thousands use the Fediverse"
2020: "The Fediverse explodes in popularity"
2021: "Thinkpeice: Why ONLy Hundreds of Thousands use the Fediverse"
2022: "The Fediverse explodes in popularity"
2023: "Thinkpeice: Why even try when ONLY 1% of Humanity Uses the Fediv

I don't know if anyone else gets anxious about phone calls but a little tip I've learned is: if there is a phone call that I don't want to make, before I start dialing the number, I carefully hold the phone in my hand & toss it gently into a lake. I hope this advice helps others.

LaTeX is versatile, but I can't imagine doing anything clever with it in a spontaneous fashion; it's complicated enough when one goes in with a plan. By contrast, InDesign has reliable easy-to-reach busybox factor going for it. I can drag around multi-column layouts and watch them rebalance in realtime. With LaTeX I gotta recompile and wade through 6d20 warning messages just to see if adding italics blew up the whole layout.

What I'm saying is that I love them both for different reasons.

Fantasy creatures, eye contact 

One today- cozy fantasy kobold, hill dwarf druid, and a (3e!) gnome tunnel fighter!

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