Hazel Quantock

shader artist, games dev > 25yrs

AuDHD | trans🏳️‍⚧️ | pan | poly | furry | switch | ancom | union girl

Hazel Quantockniq@pony.social
2025-12-22

The hotel nearest the places I want to go is also half the price of all the others in the area... this feels like a trap.

Hazel Quantockniq@pony.social
2025-12-21

I have the kind of ADHD where I will switch tabs and find a shader I started writing 12 hours ago then totally forgot about, and despite the lack of any notes instantly remember exactly what my idea was.

The default ShaderToy shader, with the beginnings of a definition for a voronoi pattern function.
Hazel Quantockniq@pony.social
2025-12-20

can someone come round and slap me until the anxiety goes away?

or lets me slap them, either would work.

Hazel Quantockniq@pony.social
2025-12-20

@estrogenandspite People really need to stop posting relatable posts about being a system I don't have time for more self discovery right now.

(No but seriously the whole system thing is fascinating I love hearing about it, thank you for sharing, I'm just a little shaken by how much I relate)

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Used Theremin

Like new. Never been touched

Hazel Quantockniq@pony.social
2025-12-19

There's evidence open plan offices are counter productive. Evidence working from home is really good and saves costs. Evidence a 4 day week is effective. Evidence sustained overtime more than a couple of weeks actually reduces productivity...

I think CEOs might be idiots
We should fire them

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Zelda 🎀TheZeldaZone
2025-12-18

"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"

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2025-12-18

Doing important research

The program screen of the baffling Austin Powers personal assistant, DOS clone, and dating profiler(?!?) Oh Behave! Hot Calc has chosen the "No. 1 Swinger" desktop background.The Shagulator calculator program. Hot has typed 8008135 into it for obvious reasons.
Hazel Quantockniq@pony.social
2025-12-17
Hazel Quantockniq@pony.social
2025-12-17

Creating an artist-facing parameter with a range of 0.1 to 10 and a default of 1, having to fight the urge to make it logarithmic. I'd have to explain it and everyone would get confused "but trust me it's better this way".

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2025-12-16

It still amuses me that the only Burger King in Cambridge is inside the hospital. There used to be two in the city centre and they both closed down ages ago.

A sign for the hospital food court, including M&S, Costa, Starbucks, Barclay's and Burger KingA photo of the burger king kiosk, with a queue of customers
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DJM (freelance for hire)cybeardjm@masto.ai
2025-12-16

"Al slop [...] was just vomited into existence."

About AI in writing/publishing...

#AI #AISlop

Via nocryptographer

I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation.

A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written.

Al slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence.

Someone who generates their story with Al will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same.

There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that.

I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it.

If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real.
Hazel Quantockniq@pony.social
2025-12-15

re-dyed my hair :verified_pink:

Selfie of Niq with damp pink hair. She's looking at the camera with the kind of look that causes me gay panic, even though I am her!?...A different angle, showing she's also dyed her side shave. Fuck me, she's hot 🥵
Hazel Quantockniq@pony.social
2025-12-15

@luna oh you're gonna enjoy the Dick Van Dyke episode - he plays a photographer

Hazel Quantockniq@pony.social
2025-12-15

I bought some Lego sets off a colleague

These angry lights are adorable

Lego City Rally Car 60113Close-up of the front lights, 4 of which have a design saying "light" with angry eyes, to resemble the covers that are put over rally cars' lights when not needed.
Hazel Quantockniq@pony.social
2025-12-13

I'm watching Hackers again

Hazel Quantockniq@pony.social
2025-12-13
Hazel Quantockniq@pony.social
2025-12-12
Hazel Quantockniq@pony.social
2025-12-11

I watched Hackers for the first time yesterday

letterboxd.com/tekf/film/hacke

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