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Alex von Kitchen
@Dangerous_beans@aus.social
Generic weird nerd, queer and trans, and blade witch. I share various bladesmithing and other projects, but this is mostly pet photos and shitposts. Very sober
Sense of humor removed to make space for more facts about 1980s Toyotas
Member of the aus.social moderation team, but no official stuff on this account
774 Followers
280 Following
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Joined November 27, 2022
Pronouns:
She/her
Location:
Hobart-ish
Age:
Four discourse cycles
Favourite dinosaur:
Micropachycephalosaurus
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Come out of there so I can give you your pill #BlackCats
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"No, see the computer god will be so SMART that it will convince you to let it out. It'll manipulate you into doing what it wants. You won't be able to resist the super smart computer god"
- A bunch of creepy men who think they're really smart
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Knives and sharp things
Rough grinding the knife blades I heat treated last night, and also the cutter for a grooving plane I'm working on (because I need more projects 🙄)
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Doing a shitpost tour of the fediverse as a wandergeselle with the @PostersGuildAU@aus.social
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@kingmoth@mastodon.social @alice@lgbtqia.space No, there is a specific problem with men's behaviour towards women they don't find attractive. They treat us worse than they treat unattractive men
Trying to pretend this isn't the case is to deny the misogyny at work here
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If you're in Australia, Trans Justice is running a survey about access to and experiences with gender confirming health care, to provide data in support of their work pushing for better access. Seems designed to include DIY experiences, and those who want access but have yet to get any care. Open to all trans and gender diverse people in Australia
https://transjustice.org.au/survey/
#Trans #Australia #TransgenderHealthcare
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They're not immediately fighting, so I guess this is progress
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More news about Rockstar anti-union activities
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/rockstar-had-a-mole-in-the-union-worker-discord-server-for-over-two-and-a-half-years-gta-6-company-reveals-during-legal-battle
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I wonder about the demographics of the "LLMs are good accessibility tools" crowd. I've mostly seen that from white dudes, and it feels like the whole supporting white supremacy in exchange for scraps thing that we've seen a lot throughout history
It provides "AI" fans an argument that is hard to rebut and serves as a good distraction from all the other bullshit here. Of course using disabled people to score rhetorical points is not a good look
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Suspicious noises of enthusiastic rabbit destruction
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Say what you will about this whole "AI" faff but at least it's all rich white men, and we don't have to listen to a black woman about anything
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Sadly Jones is not named after Jones from Alien
Although maybe I just start telling people that for fun
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I am being told it's important to share
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I will be doing a run of hand forged prep knives, would anyone be interested in buying one? I'll include some photos of previous ones in the next post
Starting at aud$400. Hand forged 26c3 blades (high purity carbon steel, like Japanese white #2 but with slightly more carbon. Takes a very nice fine edge). Includes a handmade wooded sheath
Handle can be customised to what you want
#Handmade #Bladesmithing
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I don't understand why this is the good box
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I think forging the nails has really helped my general blacksmithing. It's really good practice
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Massive megacorporation is making an adaption of a cyberpunk book without realizing the irony, again
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Well I messed up the bottom, but put the case together anyway. I'll do a different technique for the base
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@xssfox@cloudisland.nz no, it's 360 because you're giving me feedback and I'm making that your problem
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@coolandnormal@aus.social "In 1942 joined the Special Operations Executive. Parachuted into Estonia, he was captured by and later defected to the Germans. He was trained by the Sicherheitsdienst (the SS intelligence agency) as an agent for a mission to Britain."
Nah, I'm not taking sex advice from a dude who joined the Nazis
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@miona@toot.lgbt they did a moon sample mission a few years back. Which seems like more of an engineering challenge
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I've finished that chest. Overall it's not great, but it's the first chest over made, first lot of hand forged nails, first time using hand forged nails, and first time forging strap hinges. So I consider the fact that it works a reasonable result
Especially considering that I don't have the right tools for furniture making
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The news: "AARGH IT"S A NUCLEAR CAPABLE MISSILE!!!"
They built nukes for 150mm shells, nuclear capable just means it has space for an extra large bag of lollies. You can fit a small nuke in my forge
It's just a missile, like the other ones various countries have
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social pushing for some updates to aus.social code of conduct
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@xssfox@cloudisland.nz the Von Kitchen group released a statement saying: "ha ha ha we ate all the chocolate"
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