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@janbeta Thanks for getting back into this. I didn’t get to experience it live, but watching the VOD was really therapeutic. Always love your stories along with the games.

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Rider by Dunhuang Chen

Source: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/dK613X

#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #ttrpg #character #characterart #art #digitalart #dndart #artsky

The image features a woman standing confidently in front of a large, domed building with a crescent moon finial, reminiscent of Middle Eastern architecture. She is dressed in a detailed, historical-style outfit that combines elements of military and cultural attire. Her attire includes a brown jacket with silver embellishments and epaulets, white pants with gold accents, and tall black boots. She holds a sword with an ornate hilt, suggesting a role of significance or combat readiness. The background shows a serene, reflective surface, enhancing the grandeur of the scene.

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thinking about that girl who cried because she couldn't hug every cat... i feel that hard

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For most of the thirty plus years I've lived on our north coast hillside we have enjoyed daily spectacular sunsets. I tooted them often when I first discovered Mastodon.
Summer and I had a regular date at the end of every day to oooh and awww at those sunsets together.
It appears the sunsets have deserted us. Fog banks have moved in. Today Summer asked me what happened? Did we do something wrong?
I told her that it isn't our fault. I'm sure that someone somewhere is basking in the glow of our sunset.
We can be happy for them and thankful to have each other and so many sunset memories.
The fog can be calm and quiet. Peaceful.
Tonight we give you a sunset from two years ago because tonight's fog didn't photograph well. I guess you have to feel it in person.
If our sunsets came your way, enjoy.

Clouds layered orange and dark lines in the sky at sunset. The orange is reflected on the river.

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A few days on the #LostCoast and in #HumboldtNation

#ThickTrunkTuesday

Looking towards Cape Mendocino, the furthest west point in California

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I have a few pieces of writing from a few essay prompts for applications (scholarships, research program, internship). I have shared this one in a few other places but I think I feel safest here to simply be Indigenous and share things. I have not shared it with my mom (I'm nervous) but I would love to work with her to help her write her story one day.

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There's an impressive, and seemingly temporary sculpture in Market street.

#Photography #SanFrancisco

The view down Market Street in San Francisco. The center of the image is dominated by a gigantic statue of a nude woman standing with her arms to her sides, facing away from the camera. The statue is flanked by high rise buildings, the sky is blue, and pedestrians walk around and past the scene, some looking at the statue or taking photos. A small street market and red hands in pedestrian stoplights are to the right.

@gc It’s cool. I like the Galaxian review.

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I've started working on a new website/blog over at https://retrokitty.net/ where I'm writing reviews (and, eventually, other articles) about #retrogaming and #emulation, focusing on emulated console games. :3

It's early days and there isn't too much there YET but I'm adding more content regularly. ^^

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I reviewed the most cursed 3D printer I’ve ever seen. It prints upside down. It fits in a backpack. And somehow… it works really well. https://youtu.be/lOFh70ooCRs

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In other news: I’m in the process of putting my #Twitch retro streaming setup back together. Still needs some cleaning up but the hardware is already up and running. Expect at least a test stream next week. I took a long break for mental health reasons so I’m a bit nervous about it. 🫣

My streaming setup with a C64 running the Mr. Heli title screen. There’s two screens connected, the left one shows the OBS streaming screen from my PC and the right one shows the video output from the C64. A Tac-2 joystick is visible in the lower right corner. There’s a lot of cables and debris all around that needs tidied up.

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Software (RGB control, esp.) can trash tables causing RAM failures. Some manuf. hide information in the unused EEPROM areas so only "official" RAM will be accepted. The Bus Pirate can be a fix for both these problems, check out our progress: https://forum.buspirate.com/t/ddr4-and-ddr5-parameter-table-reader/748/52?u=ian

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This is the way.

A high school freshman track athlete took second place behind a trans athlete, and a Republican leader used the situation to push hateful propaganda. The girl responds:

"I don't feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points... No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby."

May 14, 2025
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons | chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, | ran the fastest 1,600-meter race | have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school's standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that | achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don't feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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🌧️🌧️ #rain #weather #gif

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In 1989 we participated in a "copy party" in Eskilstuna Sweden and our demo group Horizon won the demo competition. Triad came on second place.

This photo contains members of Horizon and Triad present at that party.

I'm the guy in middle of the lowest row with the McGyver look.

Bonus: here's the demo: https://youtu.be/I72jFMtacp4?si=vwfQ7x-bl5JExsIU

For you @bjoreman 😁

From the back we have:
CRT, Dragon, Bob
Mastermind, Psyko, Shark, 3D, Sony, Exilon, Jerry
Zagor, Boogaloo, Bagder, Kjer, Rush.

Photo taken at the Eskilstuna party 1989 with Kjer's camera

From => https://kjell.haxx.se/horizon/pics.cgi?modify=3&loc=%233

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Finding results for sites made by humans is a real need and why Kagi supports the Small Web: https://kagi.com/smallweb/

You can also filter your search through the "Small Web" lens to surface only results from these sources:

#Kagi #SmallWeb #Search #NoAds

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What do you think of my 🐸 Soon to be sensing CO2 when I get back to Dublin #OHS2025

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The most exciting clock of 2025 has arrived: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL2cZjO5IUY

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Lovely (if rocky!) walk up Bishop Peak in SLO this morning. #MountainMonday #SanLuisObispo

Lush forest greenery between trees. A trail cuts through to the horizon showing somehow mountains at sunrise.

A descending grassy hill is replaced by urbanization on one side and more grassland on the other. Mountains and fog linger.

Trail with rocks hugs a cliff as it wraps around a turn. Small yellow flowers on the sides. A large prominent mountain dominates the valley beyond, grassy at the bottom, forest at the top.

A trail lined with boulders and brown grass passes under some large old oak branches with green leaves.

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Love seeing all the tech-y people on Mastodon but do feel a little out of my depth, every time I log on someone's posting about quarking the gibblets of their custom-built gaming Flurgatron 3000 and trying to get it to run at 764 bloops per fnurk

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