ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

Imagine a temple. Why is it tiny? Explore its five silvery rooms. Consider its shrine to the nearest ghost. Did you meet the secret ones in the hidden places of the plane of metal, or perhaps a steward of an argent paradise?

New dice day! I grabbed a pink semi-sharp-edged set that I had been eyeing for a while, and enough black/white dice to make a complete DiChess set!

Fun thing about this purchase (2xblack set, 2xwhite set, and 6xwhite and black d4s) is that it comes with the extra promotion dice!

Somewhere out there is a young nerd at a crossroads:

1. https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html
A life of Scheme, LISP, drugs, insanity, and freedom.

2.
https://workbench.cadenhead.org/go/java24hours/
A life of corporate enslavement, scooping out their brains a little more every day for a steady paycheck.

CHOOSE INSANITY. CHOOSE SICP.
#scheme

#DailyDiscordia

Today is Prickle-Prickle, The Aftermath 27, YOLD 3188.
No holiday today.

#discordian
#discordia
#eris
#fnord

Yay, I can follow hashtags now! That certainly is a nice addition in Mastodon 4.0.

I guess one of the benefits of infosec twitter moving here is that Mastodon will get more secure quicker?

https://portswigger.net/research/stealing-passwords-from-infosec-mastodon-without-bypassing-csp

New day, new art
(Okay it's not new but shhhh)

#MastoArt
#OilPainting
#art

Random interests:
#gay #tea #wildflowers #books #fiction #npr #vegetarian #beards #homecooking #bicycling #ipad #photography #garden #plants #flowers #veggies #pickling #climate #weather #hiking #walking #sunrise #sunset #science #nasa #noaa #chocolate #puns #introvert #queer #chiles #gayfiction #earrings #colorado #creativity #games #gaymers #mindfulness #quiet #lgbtq #geek #astronomy #space #climatechange #parks #equity #picnics

Apologies to Percy B Shelley:

I met a traveller from a distant land
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in cyberspace. . . . Near them, in the cloud,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the tagline, these words appear:
My name is Elonmusk, King of Twitter;
Look on my Wealth, ye Mighty, and despair!
No-one beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and empty spaces stretch far away.”

A buddy pointed me to Vintage Story at https://www.vintagestory.at which is apparently a made-from-scratch game that largely looks like Minecraft but has their own engine, shaders, character models, etc. It originally was a total conversion Minecraft mod, but they decided to make their own game out of this.

Anyone got experience with this game? Apparently they already have over 700 mods. I'm tempted to try it out as it does look good from the trailers and let's plays.

The only thing I'm worried about is that I get motion sickness easily. I can get around that in Minecraft by having a higher FOV and turning off head bobbing. But I've read that this game can still induce motion sickness despite configuring around this, so that's still holding me back a bit.
#Games #Minecraft #VintageStory #MotionSickness

Haha ex-Twitter employees have created their own Mastodon instance 😅

"This server is intended for current and previous twitter employees and their friends/family. We filter signups to try keep the server focused for community reasons." - https://macaw.social/about/more

Welcome to the Fediverse! :)

#Mastodon

A rather lovely author's note.

Oh, hey, are we doing a fuck terfs? Fuck terfs.

Excuse me while I move servers over to my natural home: with other writers!

By way of #introduction - Hello peeps! I'm a writer, aspiring author, and improviser. I write both fiction and non-fiction.

My fiction is #speculativefiction. My first manuscript- The Book That Broke The World - is a middle-grade fantasy that was longlisted for the 2018 Hardie-Grant Egmont Ampersand Prize.

Currently working on a second book - an adult spec-fic called The Bones Beneath. Would love to connect. ❤️

It appears I am going to be made a Senior Member of the IEEE (the highest level one can achieve)... Cool!

#IEEE

picking a mastodon server to join is easy -- just think of it like you're allying with one of many families in a war-torn medieval land, each with their own histories, feuds, laws, blood rituals