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

Good morning, wonderful friends and strangers. A half decipod of luck for all your endeavours today: be as amazing as you wish, and find your comfort and support when your day is done. You are loved by more than you know. 💜

@JulieSqveakaroo A few of my most macho coworkers (including my ex-and-still-sorta-manager) pride themselves in being 'weird' and 'kinda different' and 'sorta crazy' in an aggressive kind of way, a 'we're edgy!' vibe... but are alarmingly normcore.

I think of showing them my sketchbooks. My old chatlogs. Introduce them to beings made of light and sound and concepts, of sexes and sensations that cannot exist in threespace meatworld.

They'd fire me in fear.

The thought keeps me warm inside. n.n

@JulieSqveakaroo Yeah. Surveilance cams don't help, either.

@mawr They keep me sane. There are weeks where the only progresa I make on them is glacial... a line of text, a few bolts tightened, ideas scribbled down. But it's all grist for the mill, and any progress is progress. It's not a race.

@mawr Current Distractions Of The Moment:
- Laser cut flat pack furniture design for one-off hackerspace assembly
- scratchbuilding semiautonomous dog-shaped robot pal
- creating false ephemera trail for said robot pal (receipts/shipping documents/packaging from companies that don't exist yet)
- 3d printer iterative evolution: carbonfibre/pla filament reinforcement, exploring new extruder designs for flexfilaments next. "Moment's Folly","Fates"
- making friends (mechatronics, Blender, silicones)

@JulieSqveakaroo You could add fruit and power pellets to the other pins and score your strikes by ghosts and pellets knocked down (the gullet of Ms. Pac). n.n

@JulieSqveakaroo Is four pin bowling a thing?

@dijt@mastodon.art @ryangorley That is cool to hear, and I look forward to seeing what develops!

@dijt@mastodon.art (er, because my eyes are old and the print copies of the sole tutorial are very good I'm sure but several revisions behind the current stable build and mostly out of print and very expensive, and between a day job and executive dysfunction issues teaching myself new software by trial and error takes a *lot* out of me these days. Younger/more neurotypical individuals may do better with what resources are around, of course. n.n)

@dijt@mastodon.art Much love and respect. Breaking the cycle of subscription is hard.

Now I just need somebody to write an accessible manual for Inscape that can compensate for 20 years of using other products.

@mawr Spaceplush
You're sqrrking now
Your spacesuit is all silverlamé
You've been released but your dreambedship calls
And I want to be booped
Don't you want to be booped?
Do you like mawrs and toys?
It's confusing these days.
But awoodust will cover you, cover you

THIS ✨CUTENESS✨ IS ✨CHEERING✨ ME

@Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town

Please don't go.

@green @JulieSqveakaroo *smiles* You are very welcome. I'll see if I can find some of the pics I took of Chester the mouse, our first - but I know I have two of Dresden, our last. Here she is as a baby, shortly after her rescue:
https://awoo.space/media/hGZFsE2l0wWkbSZYgT0

And here she is as an adult, my bold beautiful girl. *proud sniffle* https://awoo.space/media/BwQZ4kyCQlUHIvDcmq8

@JulieSqveakaroo I wasn't expecting to have a sudden crying jag myself! And I didn't even get to fit in the time Dresden did a base-jump from my shoulder to TheMate's bosom to the hallway carpet, or the time Chester ate her bodyweight in roast beef. *sniffle*

I'm sorry roo, I meant that all just to be light and happy and I just...

... I miss my mice today, I guess. Heh. They were good mice.

*such hugs*

Thank you for reminding me what good mice they were. I'm glad to remember them. :)

@JulieSqveakaroo If you give a mouse a cookie, you get a mouse. And you have a mouse! And it will need things, but you have a mouse! And it's charming, and playful, and lovely, and fastidious and sleek and she makes a 'bwooOOOP!' noise when it's looking for you and you never knew mice did that and she prefers grains and she sleeps on a slice of apple so cute

And she'll get old and slow down and one night.

she'll die and break your heart

But you had a mouse.

And she was worth it all.

@jamey Medicine increasingly sounds very much like the industrial model. You have literally described most places I've worked, in terms of the compartmentalization of skillsets, technologies, tools and terminologies.

Ironic maybe, but in technical fields we're increasingly *post*industrial: there is no documentation, there are no manuals. Just 30 minute videos to like and subscribe and forum narratives threaded across defunct sites.