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so, my current de-stressing activity is learning English round hand from period copy-books. the lines in copy-books that aren't just practice letter-forms are horrifically boring, extremely cringe moral mottoes, and I'm running out of stuff to practice writing

current texts include the long-term nuclear waste warning message, old copypasta like "then who was phone", city names, scientific names, this alphabetic poem from an 1806 manual

any ideas for one-liners or very short texts? or, I guess, anything you want put in fancy script, albeit by a beginner

#calligraphy

In very large, amateur English round hand on graph paper: "Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down / Never gonna run around and desert you—Rick Astley"
Names of various major Linux distributions written (amateurishly) on graph paper in English round hand script, that stylized cursive that, for example, the "Canadian Club" whiskey wordmark is written in.

The family of English Round Hands

In my previous post, I briefly wrote about what I called the English Round Hand’s “sub-styles”. Today I want to take the time to explain what I meant and show you what those styles are.
Sybille van Zuylen (Penna Volans)
#calligraphy

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Is autistic self-identification valid?

I just completed a quantitative research paper comparing autism traits in medically diagnosed autistic people with the same traits in self-identifying autistic people and I can definitively say with more stats behind it than I care to ever think about again, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE!

#autistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergence #autism

autisticculturepodcast.com/p/i…


IS AUTISTIC SELF-IDENTIFICATION VALID?

Read now (7 mins) | A Glimpse into the Subversive Subplot of my Master's in Psychology Dissertation
Dr. Angela Kingdon (Autistic Culture | Late Diagnosis Club)
#autistic #autism #neurodivergence #neurodiversity
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Derek Lane

My best relationships in all aspects from work to friendship to romantic have always been during a time when I wasn't trying to impress people. Granted, my unwillingness to impress people did not come from some amazing life hack or conpidence boost, sometimes I just had enough energy to maintain, so their was neither reason, nor resources I could use to try. All that to say, if you're about to do something you hope will impress someone, just... don't.

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#ArtFelt will be on the air tonight! It all starts at 8PM Eastern on Mixcloud – mixcloud.com/live/artfeltlive – or ACB Media 4 – acbmedia.org/4

Hello, everyone! I recently returned from our trip to visit friends, Derek and Robin, where we traveled in both South and North Carolina! There is so much to tell, including the sharing of recordings made along the way. Of course, music and live performing will be strewn throughout the telling of the trip and whatever else comes along. See you there!


ACB Media 4

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#artfelt

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I wanted to see if I could make a promo with AI that would be good enough to pass inspection by yours truely, and the short answer. I couldn't. I used chat gpt, index tts for the speech, mainly because its the new toy, but used eleven labs for the music, also because that part is another new toy. I still had to generate multiple beds before I was ok with the result, and nothing mixed well without more plugins than should be permitted by law.

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Andre Louis

Also I'd love to boost this but I won't boost audio without a description, in the same way I don't boost images without description. If we want parity, we need to be the ones that push for it the hardest. If sighted people should be held accountable for adding alt-text to images, so should we for audio, so that our deaf followers, and people that just want a summary of what we're posting, also benefit.
These are just my opinions and may not reflect those of anyone else... Or something.

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Our ol’ buddy @jmd2000 had a birthday this week, so his old wooden barn is temporarily closed. Therefore, @Derek and Robin are doing another “Just Because Show” on HKC Radio tonight at 8pm eastern. Join them for a long-awaited music addition that’s been months in the making! You won’t wanna miss it!

HKCRadio.com

The Home of Kickass Creatives | HKC Radio

www.hkcradio.com
@Derek Lane @John Dowling, Jr.

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Hi there.

I'm a big ol' Docker idiot.

I need to add a private key to a docker environment, specifically referencing this projects:
github.com/mattmelling/asl-zel…

I guess I need Docker Basics 101, since I don't really have much experience with it.

I have built the thing based on it's included docker file. Now I need to add this private key before launching it with docker run.

The README expects one knows how to actually use docker, which I suppose is fair. So, do I run a minimal something so I can shell into it and create files before running the complete environment, or what?


GitHub - mattmelling/asl-zello-bridge

Contribute to mattmelling/asl-zello-bridge development by creating an account on GitHub.
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James Scholes

Mount the local keyfile as a volume inside the container by adding something like this to the `docker run` command:

-v local\path\to\private.key:/container/path/to/private.key:ro

Then tell the project where to find the in-container keyfile as the GitHub page indicates.

(Note: I'm assuming you're on Windows with the backslashes there, but change to forward slashes in the host path if not.)

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Ich teste momentan ja :gnome: #Gnome unter #Fedora auf meinem Arbeitsgerät, während ich eigentlich seit Jahren privat und vorher beruflich #KDE #Plasma gewohnt bin.

Weiß noch nicht ob ich dabie bleibe. Ich muss mich ehct bei sehr vielen DIngen umgewöhnen und einiges umbiegen bzw. nach meinen Bedürfnissen konfigurieren. Aber eigentlich will ich den Desktop ja nicht zu stark verbiegen...
An anderen Stellen vermisse ich Features.

Nein, ist natürlich nicht alles blöd: Gnome ist wirklich schick und fühlt sich wie aus einem Guss an, außerdem gibt es auch wirklich tolle #GnomeCircle Apps.

Gibt es tolle Exklusiv-Features oder Workflows, die ich mir mal anschauen sollte? 👀

#gnome #KDE #fedora #GNOMECircle #plasma
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Madeleine Morris

I'm making a sofrito. Just with an onion and two tomatoes, finely chopped, and some salt.

The trick is to let the onions cook slowly. In Spanish, this is called ‘pochar’ - to poach in oil. It gives the onions a complexity of flavour, and then once they’re translucent, in go the finely chopped vine tomatoes (I peeled these, because they’re delicious but the skin is a little tough) again, simmering slowly, to bring out that magical change that happens to slow cooked tomatoes. #cooking

a steel pot with chopped onions and tomatoes slow cooking
#cooking
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Madeleine Morris

One of the things I love most about a lot of Spanish #cooking is that, often, there aren’t a lot of ingredients. The object is to let the few that are there shine. Which is why we’re so picky about ingredients down here. Good olive oil, good tomatoes, good onions, good clams and a nice manzanilla to steam the clams in with some garlic.

The complexity of flavour tends, I think, to come from the method of cooking, rather than seasonings.

#cooking

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I've officially finished the email<=>XMPP gateway grant 🎉. Lot of stuff done. The gateway is working but there are still things to do, notably finishing the e2ee encryption which is complex.

I'll most probably blog about it (and the previous A/V one) next week.

nlnet.nl/project/EmailXMPPgate…

#XMPP #Libervia #nlnet #ngi0 #email #gateway

NLnet; Email XMPP gateway

nlnet.nl
#xmpp #email #libervia #nlnet #ngi0 #gateway

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Mastodon feels like the future the 1980s promised us. "Oh look, a post from my friend at hacker.space, and what a funny comment from some guy on gaysex.cloud, perhaps I should follow them, they seem witty."

It feels like you could turn a corner and wind up in a tearoom filled with furries discussing existentialism. Across the street are anarchists arguing loudly with socialists about how best to stick it to the capitalists.

Just down the way is a photographer who only takes pictures of bees.

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Well done to whoever is putting fake signs taking the piss out of the local council!

The city full of tongue-in-cheek road signs:
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crl5y2…

#News #Newstodon #NewsTooter #Essex #Sign #Signage


Chelmsford tongue-in-cheek signs must end, says Essex Highways

A council says the prank signs could "mislead residents and cause confusion".
Elliot Deady (BBC News)
#News #Newstodon #sign #newstooter #essex #signage

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After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.

By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
propublica.org/article/seattle…

#News #Seattle #Washington #Homeless #Housing #Hotel


Seattle Paid for Shelter Beds That It Left Vacant Despite a Massive Need for Housing

Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.
ProPublica
#News #seattle #homeless #housing #washington #hotel
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