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Hyacinth Jean Landry

@hyacinthjean.bsky.social

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55 yo transgender woman from New Hampshire. I run a virtual world GroovyVerse that is home to amazing, creative people. I am a former 2024 candidate for State Representative. I did well, and came close to winning. Kind of relieved... :)

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Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Sep 21

Dang. I was hoping she was on here. She left X and I am really interested in using the Mi'kmaq language model she wrote.

Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Aug 11

Really happy to be home :D Water ritual dance I am working on..

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Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Aug 10

I made a little self-contained marina that I can place all around the grid, so everyone can easily find a boat. They can shop for their favorite boat on a little vendor board. And did it all naked.. cuz it's not SL, and I can. lol

Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Aug 9

I really enjoyed your talk at the OSCC last December. I was hoping you'd jump ship and stay with us. I tend to think that Opensim is more what you had in your heart when you started all this. It's a pretty groovy place with no skyboxes or banlines. :)

Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Aug 9

Actually I think the Lindens are probably doing the best they can. I am in the SL Coast Guard and send in tickets about improving waterways for boaters and stuff. They usually are good about answering back, and in a lot of cases they are kind of painted into a corner.

Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Aug 9

This is what flying my helicopter around the mainland looks like. I am in the SL Coast Guard and learning to fly a Jayhawk and Pelican. :)

Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Apr 27

Sorry It rook so long to get back to you. OMNOMNOM is a good code. :)

Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Apr 10

I actually had a PDP 11/23 when I was a kid. My neighbor was an engineer at DEC, and gave it to me when he was cleaning his basement. It had two 5mb disk platters, and a sexier case with a smoked-glass (well, acrylic) door. It was my first computer, then I upgraded to a Commodore 64 :D

Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Apr 9

I am running a day cycle, which slowly morphs different skies over time. Sometimes I look up from what I am doing, and am blown away. Every moment is unique. 🙂 in #opensim and #secondlife

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Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Apr 8

And no. It is not a Robert Palmer video.

Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Apr 8

The new skin applier in progress. I am laying out the buttons. The 8 up top will be sets of normal maps, to provide muscle tone and other details. You will be able to change the old style bump and specular textures as well as create PBR materials.. And different nail colors and patterns.

Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Apr 6

I am making this area mostly PBR for the new viewer.

Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Apr 6

Beach paradise region I started working on last night. This would cost me over $8000/mo to do this in SL on this scale (36 regions) It will have surfing, dancing, horseback riding and am thinking a ski area and observatory in the mountains. :)

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Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Apr 5

Learning to make PBR materials. I am figureing out the metallic/roughness channels.

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Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Apr 4

Thank you! <3 I have actually been in #secondlife for 18 years, and overall, it's pretty blah. But I found this neighborhood that is a faint echo of the splendor of GroovyVerse, and decided move in and amplify the existing groovy vibe of the region. :D

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Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Apr 4

Our beautiful new place in #secondlife along Rte 12. We've had a ton of visitors and have been super busy. I bought a 1024m parcel, and fell in love with it, so I bought another across the street to keep our beautiful view. I made that a wooded lot, with a hillside campfire overlooking ocean.

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Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Mar 29

Great! I will send you a copy later tonight! <3

Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Mar 27

@missravenlarue.bsky.social Raven. I managed to upload my Goddess Shrine to SL tonight. Would you folks like a copy for Sacred Cauldron? It uses about 55 LI, including the statues.

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Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Mar 20

Ruthi Brandt @ruthibrandt.bsky.social · Mar 20

#TimelineCleanse - Check out this delightful, even joyful, little video about the affect of #beavers' damns on their environment ☺️
(w/a thank you to @katharinehayhoe.com for linking to it in her latest newsletter, which I totally recommend subscribing to - www.talkingclimate.ca)

#Wildlife

Beavers and Wildfire: a stop-motion story by Emily Fairfax

YouTube video by Emily Fairfax

www.youtube.com

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Cramd 🇨🇦 @cramd.bsky.social · Mar 19

This is a powerful message.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Mar 18

Ahead of Germany’s election, with anti-immigrant sentiment rising, they released viral videos showing life without immigrants.

History proves that when a country starts erasing certain people, it doesn’t end well.
🧵

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Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Mar 19

On the todo list.. Get it all working with SSH, and also provide a secondary PulseAudio stream. This will be a slick little viewer. It is not a viable replacement for the real viewer, but it will provide a way for new people to casually visit the world without committing to downloading a viewer.

Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Mar 19

A project I have been working on for #OpenSim This is our "web viewer" similar to the big innovation Secondlife unvieled recently. This was pretty easy and took the better part of a day. Not sure what the fuss is. It must be nice getting paid by the hour. lol

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Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Mar 11

That is beautiful! <3

Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Mar 7

A good example of science not seeing things right in front of us. The mycelium. As Pagans, or indigenous people, we used to be ridiculed for having a belief that the earth and nature, in it's entirety, is a living being. Now our interconnectedness is widely accepted.

Hyacinth Jean Landry @hyacinthjean.bsky.social · Mar 4

YEAH! Giddy up Sparkle Farts! We're goin to the powwow! lol