Well, after much #futzing around I have #unborked all the #bork on my self hosted #WriteFreely instance, fixed the Federation and certificates problems, and even figured out a way to get it to sling static images (Pixelfed seems overkill). Now to do all that writing.
*Write all the things!*
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Crap.
Aaaand that went rapidly nowhere as I went looking for a bracket to finish the extractor, got sidetracked into cleaning up my garden / plastic recycle work area, played with a large Fresnel lens on an overcast day and still managed to set fire to a piece of wood, then got the pieces for the retic controller and test-fitted that together, and now it's late afternoon and time to think about what to make us for dinner...
Third spruce tree on the left
PTEC3D