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mastodon 4.7.2The world's averagest climber.
I make stuff out of wood, metal, fabric, flour, polygons, code and wires.
Part human, part bicycle.
King of a small but mighty whippet army.
Learning by doing with Linux.
I use, and write free scripts for, Blender, DaVinciResolve, Krita, Inkscape and others.
PfP: Hydrothermal Vent Polychaete Worm by Nicolas Gayet from Paulo Bonifacio lab, that I animated.
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Joined August 26, 2018
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If you're a sewist in Australia it's getting harder to find decent fabric supplies in-store, now that Lincraft is going online-only. But give Spotlight a miss (and Anaconda and Harris Scarfe)
"It was reported in the news today that Lincraft has gone into administration and all stores will be closed. A lot of you are probably thinking of switching to Spotlight.
I would encourage you to know first that Spotlight Group was founded by two Israeli billionaires. One of the directors of the company is also the President of the Zionist Foundation of Australia. Spotlight channels money to Israel via its corporate charities division, The Spotlight Foundation.
...Spotlight Group also includes the companies Anaconda, Harris Scarfe, and Mountain Designs.
There was a boycott way back in 2023 but it was before most people were fully aware of the situation and may not have picked up much steam."
#sewing #BDS #BoycottIsrael
If you're a Wacom user on a Mac, do NOT upgrade to Golden Gate. All you get is some AI crap, more liquid ass nonsense and having to use a freakin mouse like it's the stone age because your tablet stops working.
I don't have admin rights on this machine, so I'm going to have to beg IT to install it, but does anyone use Open Tablet Driver on Mac? Is it worth the paperwork I'd have to do to get it installed?
#MacOS #Wacom #OpenTabletDriver
This hits right in the middle of the Venn diagram of aus dot social tooters, I reckon.
https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/4421229071/victorian-train-tracker
Fun police are gonna getcha
Poster by a very talented person and featuring a very cool DJ, both of whomst may or may not be daughters of mine.
Pacco folx, help turn Pascoe Vale green!
Angelica Panopoulos
Pascoe Vale
Launch Party
Music from 6pm: Free Entry
Supa Lucia
Savoyager
Stelly
Saturday 22nd Of August 4-8 Pm
Schoolhouse Studios
28 Victoria St Coburg
Is Brent Crude a drag king name? If it isn't it should be.
こんにちは!
I'm making a pattern for a bouldering chalkbag in Inkscape, and I was laying out the pages so that they would tile for my printer by hand, and thought to myself "this is going to take *minutes*, I bet that in only a few dozen hours I can write a script to do this automatically". So I wrote my first Inkscape extension.
It overlaps pages with optional registration marks. The extension, and the chalkbag pattern are up on my codeberg.
https://codeberg.org/stib/stibs_inkscape_extensions
#IMadeAThing #Inkscape #Bouldering #Climbing #Sewing #Python
Today we went to not only the best contemporary art gallery I've been to in Tokyo, but possibly also the strangest. Without any prior knowledge and just because it was close to where we were, we thought we'd give the Ueshima Museum in Shibuya a go.
It didn't start well. To enter you have to get a QR code emailed via a website which involves the usual Japanese rigmarole of providing waaaaay too much personal information (you should absolutely lie about everything but your email address if you're concerned about data security). So after standing in the heat fiddling with our phones and auto translated websites and clunky UX I was rather grumpy and expecting it to be a waste of time.
Once we finally got the QR code to work and made it into the air conditioned lobby is when it started getting word. There was no one at the front desk, which is highly unusual for Japan, where the norm is it takes one person to sell you the ticket, another to process the payment, one to check the ticket and someone else to stand there just wearing white gloves and being polite.
But there was no one. Just a series of locked galleries we had to scan into with the QR code. It seemed like we were the only people in the building for our entire visit apart from an old woman who was either mopping the floor or doing performance art.
Just us and … wait, that's a Warhol, there's a couple of Banksys, some Tracy Emins, Olafur Eliasson, Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama, James Turrell, Chiharu Shiota, Ryoji Ikeda, and so it went.
5 floors of big name international and Japanese contemporary artists and we were completely alone in the galleries the whole time.
Absolutely wild experience. A must-see if you like contemporary art and particularly if you hate crowds.
#Art #Japan #Tokyo
Picture is not related, just some HVAC bonsai that I saw on the way.
https://ueshima-museum.com/
Pretty sure someone here wants this Pantone keyboard and mouse set for ... reasons. Get on down to the Hobart City Mission superstore in Moonah before it's gone.
#keyboard #lutruwita #OpShop
Kick!
Finally got to B-Pump in Tokyo. It's bigger than anything in Australia, but I gotta say, the bouldering gyms in Melbourne beat it in lots of ways. Spoogy holds, OK but not brilliant setting, and the facilities were pretty poor. My gym in Melbourne has a sauna, weights gym, and three types of water on tap, at B-Pump there aren't even showers and you have to buy water from a vending machine.
#Climbing. #bouldering
Of course you can buy merch for this specific metro line.
RE: https://tech.lgbt/@Hyperiontrails/116906642678314138
I thought i'd double check before sharing, and it checks out, its real. More info here: https://www.ausalert.gov.au/alerts-explained/national-test
RE: @GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
Just don't tell Rio Tinto where it is.
That's the itinerary for the rest of the morning sorted.
RE: @stib@aus.social
Oh, lookit that, the gummint got something right for a change.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/29/victoria-free-public-transport-april-petrol-prices
#ausPol #Victoria
Can we have a minute to ponder how cursed the Tasmanian footy team's mascot is?
Pretty sure this came from one of those weird early Miyazaki films that used to frighten my kids.
#lutruwita #AFL
My new quest is to normalize calling Uber "you-ber" and I look forward to the many challenges of this etc, etc
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@timhollo This is why prepping = eugenics. If someone thinks we can all just go live off grid, they are obviously OK with throwing under the bus anyone who has chronic conditions that require ongoing medication or interventions.
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@tallandtrue@aus.social Why I'm glad 20 year old me was too poor to afford to get a tattoo.
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@sturmsucht@mastodon.social @berniethewordsmith@neopaquita.es After looking around for a distro that played nicely with Davinci Resolve (they suggest Rocky, but I did Not Like) I ended up using Garuda, which is a similar gamer focused distro, but Arch-based. It provided easy installation and tweaks to get everything working without too much fuss. Apart from the lurid colour scheme (think 17 year old boy's idea of cool desktop theme) it was a rock-solid desktop for $dayjob. My later installs have all been Arch from scratch but it was a good way to get into the distro.
#GarudaLinux #Arch
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@decryption@aus.social The North Melbourne *mens* team is doing shit, the *real* North Melbourne team haven't lost a game for what two whole seasons now? 27 games, including 2 premierships!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-18/north-melbourne-setting-aflw-standards/105905842
This explains a lot. All my favourite shop tools are a slightly more saturated tone of that green, I suppose it's connected.
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@luciedigitalni@aus.social They used to have these desktop lens-grinding machines that would make the prescription lenses while you waited, it took twenty minutes or so, and the one in Sydney apparently had a little injection molding machine that could recycle plastic that you brought in to make new frames. But something happened and now it takes like a week. I get my glasses there because I lose glasses on the regular, so it's really not worth getting anything more expensive. And I like not having to choose what style to get.
My partner has multifocals from them, she hasn't complained, but YMMV.
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@sylvia_ritter@mastodon.social
There's a word for that: taxation.
@sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@Qube66 @streetartutopia What part of fuck off troll didn't you understand? Fuck off troll.
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@jbayes@sfba.social
Puts out card table, writes sign: a bar of regular old soap does exactly the same thing as shampoo, only less expensive, change my mind
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@nachtet
Alt text is great for when people post images of text in a language I don't speak, because I can select it and auto translate it. I hate it when there is an interesting looking diagram or funny cartoon in another language and there's no alt.
@alttexthalloffame @Deus @ChanceyFleet
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@catsalad@infosec.exchange
This is for JavaScript's little known variant of === (exactly equal to), the exactly-greater-than comparison. Used in Boolean logic it returns true-ish if the left side is truthier than the right.
@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange
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@aby@aus.social Option 1, unless the wallet also contains: police ID, an LNP membership card, or a Bunnings receipt for a leaf blower. In that case the cash and the card go to the next homeless person I see, and the rest goes in the bin.
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@scy@chaos.social
Half an hour later my phone battery is dead because I've been going through all the old X11 screen savers on it. I remember now why I never bother installing it on any of my Linux machines. They're all so deliciously bad. Like, almost so bad they are good, but instead so bad they are just really bad.
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@scy@chaos.social
I absolutely don't need a screen saver on my phone, but hell yeah I'm installing it, just so I can agree to the privacy policy
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@chris@mastodon.chrispelli.fun @i0null@infosec.exchange
go to about:config
search for browser.download.useDownloadDir
set it to false
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@troublewithwords@wandering.shop
For me, add to the list: this is the thing that I have studied and practised for years, that many people haven't ever heard of. Here's an explanation of an aspect of it / photo of a specimen of it / debunking of a popular myth about it.
@SeaFury@fosstodon.org
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@jorge
Once again I am begging software projects to give us just *one line* describing what it is your software actually does when making a release announcement.
Honestly I need to make a #TellUsWhatYourSoftwareActuallyDoes bot. As it is the autocomplete on my phone pretty much types the post for me.
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@dalias@hachyderm.io
There indeed is technology that can do it. SawStop is a system for table saws that can sense when the operator's skin touches the blade, and stops and retracts the blade almost instantly. Not sure if they could implement it for lathes or metal presses though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SawStop
@muetdhiver@piaille.fr @mothninja@beige.party
Foggy doggy. On the usual midnight run.
#DogsOfMastodon
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@NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net
Which is going to come first: spat with Porline, sexual assault allegations, disgruntled creditors from failed business, or section 44?
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@davidho@mastodon.world
The biggest single source of PM2.5 air pollution in our cities at the moment is wood burning heaters. I'm particularly aware of this because it's coming up to winter and there's someone a few doors down who thinks that making a whole suburb sick is a fair price for heating one room.
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/environment/factsheets/Pages/wood-smoke.aspx
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@mvu
My cat's name is cat, short for cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519, it's perfectly fine to type that into a terminal and post the result for everyone to see.
@yellowdog
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@mattgemmell@mastodon.scot
Resolve has very powerful grading tools for motion pictures, it makes so much sense to use it for stills.