Attention residents of Hastings and environs!
There's a show of artwork by @JenJen at 1200 Postcards in Queens Rd from 16 - 31 May. Opening night is tomorrow at 7pm.
Chris Limb
Writer SFF. #ActuallyAutistic. They/them. Hastings.
Urban fantasy music biz novel Comeback: http://comeba.co.uk
@JenJen Hmm didn't work as you suspected. Never mind will wait until you have worked out what the issue is.
@JenJen Thanks, will do it now!
@JenJen Going to swap - they took payment yesterday - does that mean I have to wait until the end of this month?
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I'm so worn out by this payment processing saga that I have to just... paint legs
(If it turns out alright I'll post it on my studio with the original for sale for my members as usual)
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There are so many spaces in this house that make no sense but the garage is the most baffling. They've since taken the photo off the listing but you can see from the floor plan that the garage has many doors, leading to nothing.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3104-Kimberlee-Ln-Highland-Village-TX-75077/182239232_zpid/
@luke I sometimes get similar sleep injuries. Accidentally punching the headboard?
This video is not about manhole covers
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Forgot to mention while I was deep in deadline hell, that I finished two By Man & Angels pages for my studio members!
Page 5:
https://www.jenniegyllblad.co.uk/wp/2025/02/28/by-man-angels-issue-5-page-5/
Page 6:
https://www.jenniegyllblad.co.uk/wp/2025/02/28/by-man-angels-issue-5-page-6/
Thank you for the support!
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Well shit I had to add that shirt to my throne (https://throne.com/jeninator) after seeing @neil model it
No, of course I don't NEED another t-shirt, but like, look at it:
Instead of using insta, new photos will now be posted to my account on Gram Social.
https://gram.social/catmachine
NB if adding me there be careful NOT to add this Mastodon account which may come up when searching for catmachine.
On Gram Social my profile picture is different (I'm wearing glasses for one).
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Fixing stuff for a living makes you really good at being wrong. Forty times a day you'll be all "Bet it's one of the outputs on this chip. Nope, well let's check the inputs, what're they connected to... okay so it's further up the line," and you get practice at dropping wrong ideas fast before you follow them down a silly rabbithole, you get to be okay with going "Well, it'll be this, unless I was wrong two steps ago and then it'll be that."
I worked with a guy once who was REALLY bad at being wrong. Like, he'd spend literally hours hilariously misaligning a single pair of flippers rather than consider that he might've used the wrong coil stop. He bloody soldered his crimp connections as well!
Being wrong is a skill and with a lot of practice you can get good at it. When you've let enough silly nonsense run through your head and dribble out your ears then it's as easy as inhaling to get a wonderful perfect beautiful boy of an idea, and in the next exhale you can toss that same idea in the trash with all your other nonsense where it belongs.
I won't toot my own horn about many thing but damn it I'm GOOD at being wrong. It's taken me YEARS to get this good at fucking up.
...whereas when I fall over people look worried and start veering around me as if it's somehow catching.
Usual disclaimer: I Know Language Evolves
To "home in" on something means to focus on it, getting closer.
To "hone" something means to sharpen it like a knife.
"Hone in" isn't really a thing.
*hard stare at editors of recent critically acclaimed novel*
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You know what they say, if you trip over and people laugh, you're still young. If people rush up to you concerned - you're old! If they put you in the recovery position and call paramedics.......
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The German word 'Feuer' looks a bit like French 'feu' and both mean "fire". That's a coincidence, because they're not etymologically related in any way.
Feuer, like English 'fire', comes from West Germanic *fuir, while 'feu' stems from the unrelated Latin word 'focus', "hearth", which only later came to mean 'fire'.
'Focus' was borrowed into English and many other languages as 'focus', its meaning "focus (of a lens; of an ellipse)" created by Johannes Kepler.
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