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I'm a writer and an engineer. My day job involves convincing the demons in the computer to cause the least damage possible. My real work is making all this suffering have meaning by at least learning something from it. In other words, I'm a wizard.
Dabbling calligrapher and bookbinder. Possibly inventing a minor form of signatory magic. Infected profoundly with roll-your-own disease.
I pay rent to live on the stolen land of the Wolastqey nation, owning shockingly little myself.
Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerare.
But also: Sic semper tyranus.
My profile picture sucks a bit. It is a barn owl in a monastic habit with a blue cloak and a fancy pin.
Header: a spread from a journal of mine based on my playthrough of _The Game For Scribes_
I've been in a more balanced mood and I am now watching docs on the Amish in the US filmed post-covid.
I think it's fantastic people can find the peace they need in the world and I find it interesting how often that involves "let's not do all this high tech production maximization mentality. Let's live intentionally."
Really impressed with the Lumibricks Alpine Observatory set! It is loosely inspired by the Sphinx observatory in the Swiss Alps, and as an astronomer I had to buy it.
This was my first set from a non- #lego brand. The pieces felt great in terms of build quality and clutch power. The lights add a very nice touch, and the wire management was cleverly done using custom pieces with grooves.
It was a really fun build, packed with details and easter eggs.
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I've been watching some of those "life in prison"-type documentaries throughout the day because some times a good mood just needs to be balanced out with a hard look at human misery.
The comment sections on these things are atrocious, especially whenever the subject of the documentary is a US institution.
I have to be honest, I'm less worried about employing or living with the guy with the twenty year old felony conviction for his third strike holding a dimebag than I am with the people who are saying "the thought of how shitty my life would be in prison is the only thing keeping me from committing crimes".
I hope that's a rhetorical position, but that (along with the matching "fear of hell" version of the platitude) is some concerning thought processing if it's honest.
If you've done the work on yourself you generally shouldn't be wanting to wrong people. Carceral thought shouldn't come into it.
II just had breakfast (at half-past three in the afternoon), and my god do I ever feel better.
It's like the brain needs loose calories to function or something.
I need a jolt of positivity this morning, so here's a minor magic for you:
Soupmaking and coffee and tea extraction are both fundamentally potion-making.
Regards my last boost: there's something truly miserable about being fundamentally pro space exploration and even pro extra-terran diaspora, but looking around at what we're actually doing and knowing in your heart of hearts that we aren't ready for any of that, technology skills notwithstanding.
Once again for the kids at the back: bring the humanities back to engineering programs so that the new kids understand that there are such things as non-technical problems and that you cannot technology your way out of societal issues.
So apparently there's a new startup called Reflect Orbital, and it's founder, a SpaceX intern apparently, feels like there's a need for on-demand sunlight around the world, and he intends to satisfy that need with, I kid you not, a constellation of orbital mirrors. This is SO unnecessary and if anyone approves this at the FCC, it'll be an incredible indictment of humanity. #space #astronomy
Reflect Orbital https://www.reflectorbital.com/
It's not often good to stew on your problems, but I always recommend making stew about it.
You will never regret a slow-cooked meal.
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