Wolves by Coyote & Crow Games - Kickstarter
A Semi-Cooperative Game for 3-6 Players About Community Survival From Indigenous Creatorswww.kickstarter.com
Today's #3Dprinting fail. It was good when I went to bed, but it looks like at a certain layer, it started having extrusion issues. Unfortunate, too, because that means a narrow bridge that was held up only by supports was weak and not cohesive, so when I started tearing out the supports, it frayed and broke.
It's so consistent at that height and above, I wonder if there's a mechanical issue interfering with the filament feed...
Fuck, this song hits hard as a new parent. Jason Isbell is a masterful songwriter.
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Save the World (Official Lyric Video)
'Weathervanes,' the new album from Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, will be available everywhere on June 9th, 2023. Pre-order here: https://orcd.co/weathervanesYouTube
Tepache fermentation number 3 has begun!
This time, I'm using a lid with an airlock, and I've put a plastic bag with water in it inside the jar to keep the fruit submerged. I'm hoping those two steps help prevent the mold I got in batch 2.
I also added a single dried chile de árbol for a bit of heat.
Fingers crossed for a tasty drink in a couple days!
Steam Deck arrived! And now that it's here... I don't quite know what I want to do with it. 😅
Maybe that will be a question for after I've made more headway on Tears of the Kingdom.
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Do any #DigitalArchive type folks have strategies for mirroring content from a MediaWiki? The online RPG Kingdom of Loathing has a near-comprehensive fan-run wiki, and I dread the day when it goes under. I'd love to make a mirror for backup purposes.
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I also realized that I had left some peels above the water line, which certainly didn't do me any favors, mold-wise. 😖
Beginner's mistake!
I'm certain someone has done this, but I really want to make a #zine / blog post series sharing knowledge about how to do a bunch of little #DIY projects. Change an outlet. Bake a loaf of bread. Make beer, or a shrub. Change your car's oil.
Never anything huge, and not a dedicated Guide to Self Reliance or anything, just a bunch of little accessible projects that can help a person feel more knowledgeable and capable, and to take that knowledge and skill back to their own community.
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A couple months ago, I stopped using my #3Dprinter (an Ender 3 Pro) because filament had started leaking from behind the nozzle, leading to a huge mass of misplaced filament (and, of course, a failed print).
I pulled the hotend sock off, heated the printer, and tried to brush off the filament and its residue, but I haven't yet replaced the nozzle or the hotend sock. My printer has just been out-of-commission because my mind is stuck on "How do I finish this job properly?"
Does anyone have advice for thoroughly cleaning a hotend after a leak like this? Or replacing a nozzle? I'm sure I could look it up, but I'm hoping to hack my brain here with a bit of social interaction: maybe if people tell me directly how to get the printer back in working order, I'll follow through and do it.
Oh heck, Steam Decks are 20% off for the Steam Summer Sale, and I just got paid (with a bit of a bonus).
It might be time to grab one.
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Help me out, homebrewers!
Before our local homebrew supply store closed, I bought ingredients for my first batch of homebrewed beer. I have a 4 lb. mylar sack of liquid rye malt extract, 1 oz. of Equinox pellet hops, and an envelope of saison-style yeast.
Unfortunately, I've misplaced any recipe I might have intended to follow with these ingredients, and since I've never brewed before, I don't feel comfortable improvising. This is where you can help: can you point me to a recipe that I could make with these, or even just tell me what type(s) of beer would be well suited to this lineup?
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I hate that we couldn't just have a nice thing. The Fediverse couldn't just be its own separate world, because extractive capitalism can not, will not, knows not how to stop. Now my days are spent thinking about watching homegrown social networking get consumed like Google ate email, about what fuckery they'll encourage to make self-hosted services illegal, until the web has well and truly been walled off and turned into the property of the biggest players.
I'm just so angry.
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I learned about the First Lady about a month ago, and when I did, I knew it was the cocktail I wanted to make for the solstice.
I got home tonight at about 9:00, whipped it up, and took one sip before I realized it was loaded with macha, and I actually wanted to sleep tonight. 🤣
I have signed the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact on behalf of Motley.
History shows us that large technology corporations like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook will only ever see open ecosystems as sources of value to enclose and exploit. I have less than zero interest in helping one of the chief architects of the modern Web's consolidation continue their efforts.
The Web is best when it's diverse, diffuse, and homegrown. Motley will not federate with any Meta instance, because Facebook is not welcome in my community.
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I miss the smaller, weirder, more personal Web.
Last year, I semi-quit Twitter, and the Reddit blackout means for a couple days, I've semi-quit that as well. It's somewhat nice, not being plugged into big corporate social media so much, but it also shines light on just how much of the modern internet is corporate social media.
I don't want to forgo the internet (or social media) entirely, I just want it to be a lot more personal and homespun.
There are wasps making nests behind my shutters.
This is my new least favorite part of home ownership. 😩
on dumpsters and heirlooms
we stored boxes of stolen confidential documents
Hey #hamradio friends, I got my Technician license a year ago and have exactly diddly-squat with it since then. I have a little Baofeng handheld to play with.
What are some fun things I could do, now that I'm licensed? Bonus points for small, easy things; I'm a new dad and don't have a ton of time or money to spend on hobbies at the moment.
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Highlights from the RAeS Future Combat Air & Space Capabilities Summit - Royal Aeronautical Society
What is the future of combat air and space capabilities? TIM ROBINSON FRAeS and STEPHEN BRIDGEWATER report from two days of high-level debate and discussion at the RAeS FCAS23 Summit.Royal Aeronautical Society
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Our last #Netrunner set, Parhelion, was the first set where flavor text I'd written ended up on cards.
I'm excited to have contributed many more flavor text ideas for the next set, The Automata Initiative, as well as what might be the final name of a card I expect to see a lot of play.
The "Oh shit, I'm actually helping make Netrunner" feeling never really goes away.
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it is not a coincidence that the Nazis had a whole thing about "degenerate" art
I wonder if there could be something dangerous about privileging one specific worldview as not only preferable, but natural and inevitable
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Yes! Some art can be considered objectively popular or objectively adherent to a certain style, but personal taste itself is subjective.
Fascists naturally want to claim inherent superiority, it's the basis of their entire existence; an ideology of deliberate cruelty in service to narcissism. It's why they invent pseudo-scientific justifications like IQ scores or skull shapes or "objectively superior" art.
Talent & skill do exist, but they're not objective measures of artistic qualities. Rather, they measure the ability of the artist to translate their intent into the desired result.
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It is fascinating to me how strong people's reactions to subjectivity can be.
A subjective judgment can still be deeply meaningful, closely held, or something you're unwilling to waver on! You can still believe with all your heart that Groucho Marx was the pinnacle of comedy and acknowledge that belief is not incontrovertible.
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there is an essay collection on my shelf called Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life, and there's something about the idea of "being numerous" that feels so intrinsically subjective, intrinsically antifascist
recognizing your moral standpoint as subjective is not to rob it of its deep and burning significance
maybe we kill the fascists in our heads by refusing to believe that something must be objectively true to be valuable
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Researcher Meredith Whittaker says AI's biggest risk isn't 'consciousness'-it's the corporations that control them
The former Googler and current Signal president on why she thinks Geoffrey Hinton’s alarmism is a distraction from more pressing threats.www.fastcompany.com
"being direct isn't the same thing as being aggressive"
sure, but being sarcastic and disparaging ain't the same as being direct, bucko
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Margaret Killjoy 🏴 on Twitter
if they mean what they say, here's a thread of ideas about how to stand up for yourself or your trans loved ones (or just be a decent human) during this time of escalating legislative and extralegal threats and violence against LGBT peopleTwitter
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LGBT Allies Are Working Together to Jam Missouri’s Anti-Trans “Tip Line”
The form was created in response to dubious whistleblower claims about a children's hospital.Chris Walker (Truthout)
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The Florida legislature seems set to pass a bill making sex crimes against children punishable by death.
Given recent trends in US anti-trans legislation… holy fuck, this is bad bad bad.
Death penalty for child rapists bill gets bipartisan support in Florida Legislature
The legislation would challenge existing U.S. Supreme Court precedent.Romy Ellenbogen (Tampa Bay Times)
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I pasted it as a bare URL so that nobody can accuse me of contributing to phishing or malware danger. 😜
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