Always tooting for th'antihero @Momentrabbit@awoo.space

@Phorm @electricplatypus@dragon.style It's very popular! Er, in a way. *hugs*

@Phorm Which is in no way adequate to say thank you and express intense appreciation of your 'open bottle policy'. XD

Visits will doubtless occur: it's djinnevitable. 💜

@Phorm *chuckles, amidst hugs* Oh, I *am* adapted, djear djinna: after half a decade of being out of my mind in psychotic denial, I've embraced it. I accept it's the background radiation static all my thoughts rise out of: I could be in amazing relationships with constant people everywhere all the time and I'd *still* struggle with loneliness. It was compiled in during the build process, inextricable.

Like the poster says, 'pain is inevitable: suffering may be optional'.

Technically a subtoot, but it's really subtooting myself.

You can adapt to feelings of loneliness. Even rejection and abandonment and loneliness. A cast of OCs who're crazy about you help, although that way lies a particular rabbit hole that can close up behind you if you dig too deep. OTOH, all perception happens inside your head anyhow, so who's to say a feeling of belonging and family and friendship that's entirely fictional is different from one forged in the Meatworld?

@indi @zebratron2084 *ahem* I believe the current vernacular noise is "HRRRNGH!", and sweatdrop emojis. o.O

oh yes, today is definitely a 'Crank the Muse' day. *yawn*

@Phorm Oh... oh *wow*. Thank you, this is good news indeed. n.n

The rose engine, a specific subset of the family of ornamental lathes, is essentially a spirograph for metal. Here, a machinist carves a repeating offset pattern into a brass slug the size of a dime.

https://youtu.be/tXjrq4DWtIA

The superset of full ornamental lathes are essentially /three-dimensional/ spirographs. Here's an artisan using one as part of making an egg full of eyes (footnote 1).

https://youtu.be/AFJ0mE2R2S0

(1) I know my audience. n.n

@Elizafox >>headdesk<< ow ow ow

@catgoat If you listen very carefully, you can hear the faint >boom< as the arms of his moral compass spin faster than the speed of sound. ::faceplant::

@Leucrotta Open offices are the very worst idea since strapping lightbulbs to machinists' hands and filming them work in the dark.

@anthracite I need this in SO many facets of my life that it isn't even remotely believable.

@Phorm Pull a card for me? Curious if it's on the same wavelength as the last one that tried.

@Phorm Goodness, no - blink on! Just, y'know... pick and choose your targets. Why zap Birbhell when you could zonk a bunny into a djinnae who's a light brown hare?

...er, as a random example.

#briarpatch

@Phorm Oh hecks yes. But it's ok, let them have their fun between the escalating, inevitable outrages. Enjoy the now. XD

@ElectricKeet "Rollback!"

"We don't have time to redraw this plot to fit the work, you can just move it as needed."

Funny how you don't have time with a CVS and actual modern CAD software, yet I have time to reverse-engineer the plotter file and add the missing lines with Notepad and a 20-year old visualizer from CERN.

Whoda thunk LOGO would actually be work-related training? Shoutout to me grade-school computer prof Keith Burns, visionary. Gone too soon. *pours out a WD40*

TFW shuffle deals a pile of Alan Parsons Project into my listening stream, and I'm struck by a sudden flash of the blindingly obvious: "You guys couldn't end a romance amicably if your *lives* depended on it." o.o

@mawr @Aradia@mastodon.social And Knuckles! (and Steven?)

@Phorm It's a non-mature technology. ;)