Monica
@keystricken.bsky.social
she/her, President of the Too Many Projects club, has a lot of thoughts about robots. ardentfigments.com
If you see this, post your bird art.
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
If you see this, post your bird art.
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"we have Sully at home"
In Japan, tourism to Portland, Oregon, is promoted by a grinning blue monster named Odnarodude. He’s at a Portland artisan event in Jiyugaoka De Aone this weekend.
November 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
"we have Sully at home"
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I had an idle thought tonight — didn’t I write some silly notes about pumpkins last year? — and holy shit, look what I found. I have no memory of cleaning them up like this.
November 1, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I had an idle thought tonight — didn’t I write some silly notes about pumpkins last year? — and holy shit, look what I found. I have no memory of cleaning them up like this.
I had an idle thought tonight — didn’t I write some silly notes about pumpkins last year? — and holy shit, look what I found. I have no memory of cleaning them up like this.
November 1, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I had an idle thought tonight — didn’t I write some silly notes about pumpkins last year? — and holy shit, look what I found. I have no memory of cleaning them up like this.
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"How do you expect to win back men...?"
We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.
We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.
October 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"How do you expect to win back men...?"
We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.
We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.
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this is basically portland's version of a haka
Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.
October 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
this is basically portland's version of a haka
I don’t write a lot on this app at the moment, but I have to share this thread regardless. It’s perfect. Don’t confuse being quiet and polite with being good. Be a *huge asshole* to people trying to kidnap your neighbors and justify their deaths!
it kills me knowing what’s needed is for people to double down on bucking any demands for “civility” because they understand these demands are training people to surveil & snitch on their neighbors and an exploit to intensify authoritarian control over our thoughts.
September 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I don’t write a lot on this app at the moment, but I have to share this thread regardless. It’s perfect. Don’t confuse being quiet and polite with being good. Be a *huge asshole* to people trying to kidnap your neighbors and justify their deaths!
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Please help us correct misinformation!
Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans".
We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community.
Find out more @ translifeline.org
Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans".
We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community.
Find out more @ translifeline.org
Home - Trans Lifeline
Radicalcommunity care Trans Lifeline provides trans peer support for our community that’s been divested from police since day one. We’re run by and for
translifeline.org
April 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Please help us correct misinformation!
Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans".
We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community.
Find out more @ translifeline.org
Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans".
We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community.
Find out more @ translifeline.org
This is how I found out about the ruling. No scientifically illiterate court could ever make me deny that trans women are my sisters or that trans and non-binary identities are just as valid as my own. I’m with you always, and I’m so sorry this is yet another thing the world has thrown at you.
if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
April 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This is how I found out about the ruling. No scientifically illiterate court could ever make me deny that trans women are my sisters or that trans and non-binary identities are just as valid as my own. I’m with you always, and I’m so sorry this is yet another thing the world has thrown at you.
Some useful talking points:
- hormone therapy, breast reconstruction (after cancer), and puberty blockers (early-onset) are all essential health benefits;
- this proposed rule is completely ungrounded in medical science; its only purpose is to exclude a marginalized population from accessing care.
- hormone therapy, breast reconstruction (after cancer), and puberty blockers (early-onset) are all essential health benefits;
- this proposed rule is completely ungrounded in medical science; its only purpose is to exclude a marginalized population from accessing care.
The HHS rule banning trans care from many ACA plans is open for public comment now. Only 3 comments so far.
Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million)
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million)
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
March 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Some useful talking points:
- hormone therapy, breast reconstruction (after cancer), and puberty blockers (early-onset) are all essential health benefits;
- this proposed rule is completely ungrounded in medical science; its only purpose is to exclude a marginalized population from accessing care.
- hormone therapy, breast reconstruction (after cancer), and puberty blockers (early-onset) are all essential health benefits;
- this proposed rule is completely ungrounded in medical science; its only purpose is to exclude a marginalized population from accessing care.
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i made a giant crochet firefly sculpture! it also lights up!
March 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
i made a giant crochet firefly sculpture! it also lights up!
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[Colin Meloy voice] 🎶 I figured I had paid my debt to society/by contracting dysentery at the Multnomah County Library 🎶
BREAKING: 40 Cases of Dysentery Reported in Multnomah County, Oregon Health Officials on Alert.
March 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
[Colin Meloy voice] 🎶 I figured I had paid my debt to society/by contracting dysentery at the Multnomah County Library 🎶
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I’m thrilled to announce that my new book ‘Making Paper Automata’ is now available for pre order. www.robives.com/books/mpa/
#maker #automata #paperengineering #papercraft
#maker #automata #paperengineering #papercraft
February 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I’m thrilled to announce that my new book ‘Making Paper Automata’ is now available for pre order. www.robives.com/books/mpa/
#maker #automata #paperengineering #papercraft
#maker #automata #paperengineering #papercraft
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New axidraw plots for the new year
January 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
New axidraw plots for the new year
We could have had embattled waves instead of square waves, wavy waves instead of sin waves. WAVY WAVES. Look upon the rich inheritance we lost! They have played us for absolute fools.
December 28, 2024 at 6:13 PM
We could have had embattled waves instead of square waves, wavy waves instead of sin waves. WAVY WAVES. Look upon the rich inheritance we lost! They have played us for absolute fools.
Everything @dadrummond.bsky.social makes is so wondrous. I especially treasure the occasional glimpses of his process, which help me remember that his cast metal trilobites don’t just gleam into existence without hours of patient work.
For those wondering, this is a physical 3D print, not a render, off my home printer. Here’s a picture that tells the tale a bit better, as the trilobite trundles away from his birth-pile of 3D printing support structures 🛠️
November 24, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Everything @dadrummond.bsky.social makes is so wondrous. I especially treasure the occasional glimpses of his process, which help me remember that his cast metal trilobites don’t just gleam into existence without hours of patient work.
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For those wondering, this is a physical 3D print, not a render, off my home printer. Here’s a picture that tells the tale a bit better, as the trilobite trundles away from his birth-pile of 3D printing support structures 🛠️
November 24, 2024 at 2:06 PM
For those wondering, this is a physical 3D print, not a render, off my home printer. Here’s a picture that tells the tale a bit better, as the trilobite trundles away from his birth-pile of 3D printing support structures 🛠️
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One of my first sterling silver trilobites. May spend the rest of my life trying to recapture this patina.
November 21, 2024 at 3:19 AM
One of my first sterling silver trilobites. May spend the rest of my life trying to recapture this patina.
Happy Daylight Savings! Check out this amazing video about the Geochron World Clock, the “greatest clock ever made”. Bonus: at 17:40 you get a great rant about abolishing time zones, and I feel that’s especially topical for today. m.youtube.com/watch?v=z2EU...
The greatest clock (and map) ever made
YouTube video by Attoparsec
m.youtube.com
November 3, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Happy Daylight Savings! Check out this amazing video about the Geochron World Clock, the “greatest clock ever made”. Bonus: at 17:40 you get a great rant about abolishing time zones, and I feel that’s especially topical for today. m.youtube.com/watch?v=z2EU...
I know lots of us use Patreon to kick a few dollars to people we admire and want to support. But every new dollar you pledge from your iPhone will look like $0.70 cents to the cool person on the other side. You gotta open up the laptop to make pledges from now on; I’m sorry but it’s important.
Uh hey kindly Patreon folks, please pledge from either an android device or from your computer. Pledging on Apple mobile devices incurs an enormous fee starting in November.
November 2, 2024 at 4:38 PM
I know lots of us use Patreon to kick a few dollars to people we admire and want to support. But every new dollar you pledge from your iPhone will look like $0.70 cents to the cool person on the other side. You gotta open up the laptop to make pledges from now on; I’m sorry but it’s important.
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Let’s test the mettle of this place by posting this 42 page sexy violent pokemon comic I drew when I came back from Japan about Giovanni and Lt. Surge being handsy with each other. (Content warning for a Nidoking getting ripped in half)
June 8, 2023 at 7:42 PM
Let’s test the mettle of this place by posting this 42 page sexy violent pokemon comic I drew when I came back from Japan about Giovanni and Lt. Surge being handsy with each other. (Content warning for a Nidoking getting ripped in half)
I’m so glad @oddjayy.bsky.social is back on Bluesky! And his inventions have clearly leveled up in the time I’ve missed — so make sure he’s on your radar too!
October 29, 2024 at 10:50 PM
I’m so glad @oddjayy.bsky.social is back on Bluesky! And his inventions have clearly leveled up in the time I’ve missed — so make sure he’s on your radar too!
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Feel the weight of him
October 24, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Feel the weight of him
I just hit the Follow button so hard I nearly punched a hole in my phone.
🪡🧵Portfolio post🦖🐟
I'm a natural history artist who specialises in designing and hand-making realistic plushies of animals!
I focus on under-represented species, using palaeoartistic techniques to reconstruct extinct creatures.
My work can be found on my website: www.palaeoplushies.com
I'm a natural history artist who specialises in designing and hand-making realistic plushies of animals!
I focus on under-represented species, using palaeoartistic techniques to reconstruct extinct creatures.
My work can be found on my website: www.palaeoplushies.com
October 23, 2024 at 12:38 AM
I just hit the Follow button so hard I nearly punched a hole in my phone.
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intro post: I post a lot of explanations of computer things, here's an example!
this one's an intro to Git's internals
this one's an intro to Git's internals
![HEAD
HEAD is a tiny file that just contains the name of your current branch
.git/HEAD
ref: refs/heads/main
HEAD can also be a commit ID, that’s called “detached HEAD state”
branches
a branch is stored as a tiny file that just contains 1 commit ID. It’s stored in a folder called refs/heads.
7622629 - (actually 40 characters)
tags are in refs/tags, the stash is in refs/stash
commit
a commit is a small file containing its parent(s), message, tree, and author
.git/objects/7622629
tree c4e6559
parent 037ab87
author Julia <x@y.com> 1697682215
committer Julia <x@y.com> 1697682215
commit message goes here
these are compressed, the best way to see objects is with git cat-file -p HASH
trees
trees are small files with directory listings. The files in it are called “blobs”
.git/objects/c4e6559
100644 blob e351d93 404.html
100644 blob cab4165 hello.py
040000 tree 9de29f7 lib
the permissions here LOOK like unix permissions, but they’re actually super restricted, only 644 and 755 are allowed
blobs
blobs are the files that contain your actual code
.git/objects/cab4165
print("hello world!!!!")
reflog
the reflog stores the history of every branch, tag, and HEAD
.git/logs/refs/heads/main
2028ee0 c1f9a4c
Julia Evans <x@y.com>
1683751582
commit: no ligatures in code
each line of the reflog has: - before/after commit IDs - user + - timestamp - log message
remote-tracking branches
remote-tracking branches store the most recently seen commit ID for a remote branch
.git/refs/remotes/origin/main
a9bbcae
when git status says “you’re up to date with origin/main”, it’s just looking at this
.git/config
.git/config is a config file for the repository. it’s where you configure your remotes
.git/config
[remote "origin"]
url = git@github.com: jvns/int-exposed
fetch = +refs/heads/*: refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "main"]
remote = origin
merge refs/heads/main](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nzrozayxq764zbgl4qtp5ald/bafkreifj5csfxieqnqca7dbh34niluf56vsfwcy42jj7ukz7cayo67zxi4@jpeg)
October 21, 2024 at 1:03 PM
intro post: I post a lot of explanations of computer things, here's an example!
this one's an intro to Git's internals
this one's an intro to Git's internals