Enthusiastic about #community, #nature, #Brompton #bikes, #sewing, #knitting, #AnalogTools, kindness, #puns, #tea, personal websites, lichen, bags, space, #Zentangles, hobbits, #ukulele, #UrbanSketching, #watercolors, #books, laughing, ham radio, #monsterdon #MECFS #AuDHD #MCAS GenX, happily married to @gregtitus for 31 yrs, mom of two adult kids (one hard-of-hearing, one autistic trans). In/from Oregon, USA. Wears heart on sleeve. Trans rights are human rights. #nobots
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Last Notes npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Pardon me but FUUUUUCK YEEEAAAHHHHHH npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Election season is always a lot of fun with an anxiety disorder npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 I FINALLY finished my socks! :) I got sick after I'd finished the first one and most of the second, so the second ended up languishing a bit. But I had brunch today with a couple friends and I managed to get 'em done! They're made with scrap yarn and as you can see I made a real effort to ensure they didn't exactly match. Mission accomplished. They're quite comfy. Why worsted isn't a more common weight for socks, I don't know. (Yeah yeah, kinda thick for regular shoes, but this is why you gotta bust out those and wear shoes that let your feet move </soapbox>). #knitting #sockKnitting @nprofile…xm8a https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/117/543/671/797/930/984/original/c2b3092589281e0d.jpeg npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Asleep at midnight, awake at 8 am! WOOT! 🎉 I have a houseplant that’s a small tree, and for years I’ve wished it could live next to my side of the bed, but that corner is too dark. I discovered there are unobtrusive plant lights on tall stands that you can just park next to your giant houseplant friend. Mine has buttons where if you push “8 hours”, it stays on for the 8 hour cycle then automatically turns itself on at that same time the next day. Anyway, this light MASSIVELY helps me with my new be-a-lark campaign. I also get to spend all this time next to my cozy little tree, which is utterly brilliant for my mood. Highly recommend both! ☀️🌳 npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Listening to a (British) reviewer describe a book she doesn’t like that includes the excellent burn, “It is a book that should be respected for its ambition.” (House of Leaves in case you’re wondering) #bookstodon #books #horror npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 The class I'm in is lovely but their after-class "community" is on....Facebook. As someone with ADHD and happily involved in a lot of hobbies, I find myself in this scenario at least 3-4x/year: Someone: When this event is over we should all stay connected! Everyone: YAY LET'S Class facilitator: We have a Facebook group, here's the address... Everyone: YAY COOL Me: I deleted my Facebook account a couple years ago, are there any alternatives? I could suggest some if you need ideas? Everyone: <very awkward silence> Facilitator: <changes topic> Anyone else run into this scenario? Have you had any success getting people to switch? #AskFedi npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Managed to catch this photo, someone in a full body skeleton costume and a black cloak and scythe, striding boldly down the sidewalk. I was very amused when they crossed the street and ignored the "sidewalk closed" sign and just kept going. https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/117/487/006/967/369/044/original/69e72c1a94bac5ad.jpeg npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Hey fellow #XTEink owners, I notice that my unit is saying it's fully charged (light turns green) when it's only at 94%. That's weird, right? Maybe it isn't, I don't know much about batteries. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Getting weirder npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 ...but I've begun muting male photographers whose work hits my feed, when it's all just...babes. I'm _exhausted_. When I think about how many years (half a century!!) I have had to look at images of women as seen from the straight male gaze, I want to scream. I'm so tired. It's not all photos of women. I really like looking at images of women from queer photographers. Or woman photographers. I think it's just the viewpoint that I'm exhausted by. Because, swear to the gods, it's like, highest on the list of the last things in the world I give one single shit about right now, after living in this society for the last 52 years, is what yet another straight man thinks is oh so transcendent about the body of some random naked woman he doesn't know personally, that he just felt ARTISTICALLY COMPELLED to capture her long hair and side boob in black and white. Like, oh my god, you need to get the fork out of my feed. Right now. Go. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Periodic reminder that you’re allowed to curate your #Fedi access to only see things that feel nourishing to your soul. You’re allowed to get your news info and hot takes from other places than here. Sharing #doom is normalized on pretty much every other social media so it may feel like you just have to let it hit you here, but you can take steps. Filters generally work well. My doom filter is called The Horrors and has a looooong list of words. Just added “yandex” and “death cult”. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 TIL we have a Far Side bot on mastodon: @nprofile…ekqa npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 I've seen a couple rumors that #Instax square film is slowly being discontinued due to #Polaroid suing them because the square format looks too much like theirs. The camera and film are still being sold, so I'm a bit confused about this. Anyone know anything about it? My own Polaroid adventures this year haven't gone well. The shots are super expensive, and only two or three out of ten come out remotely well, making those several dollars a piece. I'm ready to call it. It was a fun experiment and I still have a bit more film to use up, but I'm done after that. I'd like to try Instax. Debating between the square and the wide. I'm curious if anyone uses either of these and has thoughts. https://danfinnen.com/2026/03/01/where-did-all-the-instax-square-cameras-go/ #photography #InstantCameras npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Finn in the garden earlier today. #DogsOfMastodon #corgi https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/117/393/362/475/212/810/original/99a6561f10caaac8.jpeg npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Last night I was looking at thru-hiker gear sites, for folks who hike long distances and want ultralight gear. (I'm not currently able to do this, but I'm a fan of others online who can and make videos about it). Something called the Women's Torrid Jacket was very highly rated. I'm a plus sized person, and I didn't expect a website aimed at people who walk 35 miles in a single day over mountains, to have anything that would fit me. It seemed reasonable to assume that they'd assume I would never need their stuff. To my total shock and delight, I found this jacket to be made by a company that not only goes up to a 3X, but has accurate photos of bodies in EVERY SIZE THEY HAVE. They also can make you a CUSTOM jacket! I LOVE THEM. I don't have $200 to spend on an ultralight jacket (that I don't need) right now, but if I did, I would buy one just to support them. 💜 https://enlightenedequipment.com/womens-torrid-jacket/ npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Blog post ☕️ Thoughts about continuing to blog, Bad Barista names, Space Hamsters, Torment Nexus 2000 https://hollie.eilloh.net/posts/thoughts-about-continuing-to-blog-bad-barista-names-space-hamsters-torment-nexus-2000 https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/117/341/728/171/605/507/original/ea201b5ae2f94875.jpeg npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 VPN knowledge I just learned: I realized today that Google could still see my real location, even though I should be in Sweden. I was surprised - I thought this was the point in having a VPN, that sites couldn't see where you were coming from? I discovered there is location sharing settings in both my MacBook's settings as well as specific settings for my browser (Firefox). Once both were turned off, my real location disappeared. FYI this wasn't obvious at all - most sites still registered me as being in Sweden. Even my Google search results were from there - however at the bottom of my search results page, was a location designation listing both Sweden AND my real location in Oregon, USA. I wouldn't have realized Google was able to see this, and go fix that, if I hadn't noticed that small print. #VPN #Firefox npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 My New Scientist app is rocking my world with the coziest headline this morning https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/117/332/733/561/085/947/original/92ef128e9241f4da.jpeg npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 SO MANY GREAT WEB TOOLS https://allthedamn.tools/ npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Yay! Outliers Books got their new website up and running! Fantastic queer bookstore in Eugene, Oregon! Also has yummy pizza and a fun thrift store right next door, so you can make a whole afternoon of it if you want. https://www.outliersbooks.com/ #Books #EugeneOregon #Oregon npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 I bet hairstylists the world over love the way Hollywood makes tv shows and movies where a woman on the run who needs a disguise, just ducks into a drugstore and pulls a box off the shelf and an hour later (often in a gas station bathroom) has effortlessly turned her dark hair platinum blonde. Not orange. Not green. No splotches. No burned scalp. Just miles of gorgeous platinum hair. Which she then uses tiny scissors to cut off into an even bob. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 My fellow #FountainPen folks may not know about the Jimothy nib offered by Kirk Speer and Pen Realm... (although I'm having trouble finding it on the website..?) www.instagram.com/p/Db800BvxHDJ/ #Seattle #stationary #Jimothy https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/117/101/325/921/310/292/original/5a1423c36e98926f.png npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Blog ☕️ Decluttering tomorow, river tonight. https://hollie.eilloh.net/posts/decluttering-tomorrow-river-tonight #Blaugust #Blaugust2026 https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/117/092/241/729/190/348/original/c2bab0f1bbcc1e9e.jpeg https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/117/092/241/728/568/257/original/50b6742ae8565c28.jpeg https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/117/092/241/730/035/904/original/ebd946507a4bf210.jpeg npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 @nprofile…k95v @nprofile…d235 We're in a little Oregon town a few hours away, with Greg's parents, both kids, and their partners. It's so nice! It's rare we get everyone together like this. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 I’m on a trip I could not have taken a year ago Fork yeah 🎉🎉🎉 https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/117/028/395/400/989/500/original/eb26c45b9cc0b365.jpeg npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 I love birthdays! 🎉 Okay, so, 52 years old today, and it’s GOOD! Not just seeing the lovely morning of 52, which a couple of my close friends didn’t. But this is the first year in a long while that I can report a betterment of both health and psyche! The betterment of health is very modest, but I now have enough data to say it’s real, which is AMAZING. The betterment of psyche is profound. It’s taken a lot of work, and I still deal with anxiety (hello, the world), but it’s qualitatively different. My nervous system and I used to be enemies. We are now cautious friends. It’s really nice to be able to report a good thing about a long, long health struggle. https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/117/015/901/680/124/892/original/57b73903c79bf57a.jpg npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Both our (senior) doggos have daily meds they take, and so they both need to come in twice a year to get a check-up. I just took this photo of them. This image is so much their personalities. Zoe: I MIGHT GET A BISCUIT SOON!! Finn: Okay I need you to listen. I have quietly ascertained the location of four techs and two exits. I think if we create a diversion in the north corridor we have a chance of making it out of here alive. I know you’ve been married to this guy for awhile but look, I need you to focus and face the truth. We might have to leave him behind. #DogsOfMastodon #Dogs https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/117/009/821/832/614/128/original/48e58498b77f7f8a.jpeg npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Goodbye everyone. I went to the river and joined this gang of dinosaurs. They were just a little too persuasive. Anyway we’re plotting some ancient, feathery chaos. Can’t talk about it now but you’ll know it when you see it. Beak seeing ya. #birds #birbs #ducks https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/117/006/516/035/144/999/original/98c086b80546b9d5.jpeg npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 This is a real question - why does the web suck so badly right now? I have to rotate between Safari, Firefox, and Vivaldi, on a daily basis, just to get links to OPEN. I'm serious. Today's example: Greg sent the family chat a link to a Wayfair bedframe for a kid who moved out. I couldn't load Wayfair on Firefox or Safari without this page (screenshot), which even when pressed and held correctly, would tell me to try again. Finally, Vivaldi opened it fine. Third browser's a charm. I burned up a solid ten minutes of my life trying to open a link. My VPN was not running. Why does this happen? Is there anything I can do to fix it? Or does the internet just suck now? https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/976/626/238/890/337/original/76bf2c89b1c48217.png npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 @nprofile…xsl3 These are so beautiful. I can't even. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 @nprofile…dyu0 I'd actually watch this npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 They played the Containers game again tonight, but once again I sat out. It's really funny to me how at the start of these uber complicated games, they'll be like, "Awww, come on! Join us!" And I'm like, "Naaahhhh, thanks, I'm good, I'll just sit here and paint." And then a half hour in they're trying to remember the incredibly complicated rules and everyone takes forever to do their turn, and they have to remember what phase they're in, endless details, endless debating, on and on. And I'm sitting there trying not point out that the conversation they're having right at that moment is the reason I'm not in the game. Then they all get done and they're like, "Wow, great game! That was so fun! Let's do it again!" And they _completely_ mean it. It's not polite bullshit. They will literally play it again. Enthusiastically. This has been going on for five years. When I want to suffer for fun, I just go get tattooed. 😂 #BoardGames #GameNight https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/944/804/808/765/841/original/760d25eeca76f9bc.jpeg npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 @nprofile…dyu0 I didn't keep abreast of this development so I'll be fine. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Jupiter: <filled with rage> I have to make a Linked In account for this communications class Me: Seriously? Jupiter: I hate this. I'm supposed to select my industry? They don't list College Student as an industry Me: Do they have one for Sarcastic Retorts Jupiter: Wait! It's only worth ten points! Can I just write EAT SHIT in this text box? Me: 🤔 Jupiter: <types madly> Okay. I really don't want to do this. I'm taking the L. I'd rather lose the points. Jupes wrote on the assignment (and gave me permission to share): Hello! I'm not comfortable creating an account on Linkedin. I prefer to keep my social media presence small and largely private. Creating a whole new account on a website I have never used before, filled with my personal information, simply to fulfill a class requirement, is something I am deeply uncomfortable with. I will not be creating an account, nor connecting with classmates, and I accept the impact this will have on my grade for this assignment. Thank you! npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 @nprofile…va7h Thanks, I'll tell Dad! :) Okay so yeah let's assume I'd like my site to be as light as possible for folks in situations where lighter=accessible. I'm curious, do we know what a good size would be? As in, is it as simple as, say, making all photos 500 px at their widest part, or do I have to dig into the byte size of each one? npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Question about #PersonalWebsites and #Indieweb design, maybe should tag #webdev too.... I want to eventually make many small galleries on my static site. I just made this one as a start: satellite.eilloh.net/ships I'm trying to keep the code very simple, since I'm doing all this by hand. This page I made seems to work well for me, but I'm curious whether it's bad form to not use thumbnails? I'd rather not, if I don't have to, as that's more to do and more to clutter up my files. Is it okay to just use CSS to make the huge photos small? Does the answer to this question change depending on the number of photos I want to cram into one page? npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Everyone is always saying how the Fediverse is a great place to share your weird niche interests, so..... Hi all, I love going barefoot and years ago I got really into barefoot shoes and how to develop strong feet. Here's a page with some of my favorite shoe reviews, and a list of manufacturers. This page will be updated regularly as I discover new companies and have new thoughts about the shoes I try. https://satellite.eilloh.net/barefootshoes #shoes #barefoot #barefootshoes npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 @nprofile…va7h Oh the magnets! :) Inside the unit is a magnet meant to let you attach it to a couple different things: one is a metal ring they give you, with an adhesive back. You can adhere that ring somewhere, then "click" the ereader onto it for holding. The other is the back of an iPhone, some models have a round magnet for charging and the ereader can snap onto the back of those. You can read without any of that! :) The buttons are great and control the whole experience. I got the 4! The 3 is newer, but reviews suggest the 4 is slightly larger and better overall. HOWEVER - I just looked at the website and they seem to say that only the 3 lets you install new firmware? Which you really want to do. So I'd probably check Reddit before you buy! I'd want to see what folks were saying about it. I also made a page about setting mine up: hollie.eilloh.net/xteink npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Update on the tiny ereader: I'm still loving my #XTEink and use it often, and Jupiter loves and uses theirs, too. This has really been worth the $69 for each of us. This photo is from my doc's office today, instead of painting (I've already sketched that office a dozen times, lol), I decided to read. This is _The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs_ by Tristan Gooley, one of my favorite books. I've never read it on the XTEink before, but it formatted great. The book (author's website): https://www.naturalnavigator.com/books-and-library/the-lost-art-of-reading-natures-signs/ #Bookstodon #Nature #TristanGooley https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/892/832/631/310/856/original/5efd91812754c24a.jpeg npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Throwing cereal around for the dogs is really helping with fireworks noise! I’m chucking handfuls of Cheerios into a pile of blankets, in which they then spend time foraging. The noises are BOOMING and every so often Finn startles a little, but mostly he’s doing okay! (Zoe, our labby lab, is hard of hearing, she does’t seem to be noticing). We’re also watching The Matrix on high volume. Lots of distractions. :) #dogs #fireworks npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Tonight they’re playing Container, which has tiny adorable metal ships!! They’re FANTASTIC!! The weight of them is just so pleasing, and you can stack little weighty metal containers on them. They almost sucked me in with promises of “we’ll let you have the purple boat” but I resisted, and after listening to the game play I’m glad I did, lol. But the pieces are totally <chef’s kiss> (I sat down to play around with the purple one, adding the gold containers. Ben said, “That’s very papal of you.” Yes I’m shipping Popes, tiny little Popes, I’ve stacked them like pancakes and will be shipping them around the world…my company is called Papasea Shipping Co.) #GameNight #BoardGames https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/865/233/653/588/785/original/9ac851105cc0216f.jpeg https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/865/233/793/092/893/original/05b97ed0135b366f.jpeg npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 I just finished this dress! :) (I love sewing pockets on dresses, POCKETS ARE POWER) It’s the Solstice Dress from Folkstead(.com). Wonderful pattern! This is my second one, the first was a very wearable toile. This pattern goes from XXS to 5X and isn’t a complicated sew, would be good for beginners. Edited to add: the bottom hem is the selvage! I love pretty selvages and it hurts me to cut them off “just because,” so I try to incorporate them wherever I can! #sewing #SewingClothes #MeMade #SolsticeDress https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/846/825/640/719/007/original/c20f9fb63750edca.jpeg npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 A man and woman were just riding past the house on bikes. Hard to tell age, but I’d guess maybe late thirties, early forties? The guy yells, “WATCH THIS,” and I look up and out the open window, wondering who this person is and what they’re going to do that’s so watchable. He does a tiny wheelie, but his timing is bad, he does it right when the woman is going past him so she has to look behind her to see it, and she misses it. I’m thinking how his timing needs work, when he suddenly tries to do another one, this one MUCH more dramatic, and he utterly crashes and flies off the bike and lands in the middle of the street. She stops and looks placidly behind her, then gets off her bike and walks over, and he, still laying on his back in the street, turns his head and looks up at her. She says something. He nods. Then he yells up at the sky, “TOO OLD!” (he gets up and is seemingly fine, and they continue on) npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Could you please tell me your hopefully positive #nonbinary comming out stories? I need to hear these right now. It’s fine to DM too. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 How our family spends an evening, everyone taking the RAADS-R (autism inventory!) and then comparing scores. We did this last night and it was kind of a blast, honestly. :) (https://) embrace-autism.com/raads-r/ And then if that's fun, you can take the CAT-Q to see how much you mask/camouflage. (https://) embrace-autism.com/cat-q/ That one in particular was extremely disconcerting. I couldn't stop the nervous laughter as I was taking it, and Jupes would want me to read off all the ones that creeped me out. I had to keep reminding myself, "they study this now, it's not weird that this website knows every secret thing that's going on in your head in every live social situation". Edited because Jupes read this and said: "You should add that I had a higher score than you on the RAADS-R, so I beat you at autism." This is true. But if we all take an ADHD inventory, I'm wiping the floor with both of them. 😄 @nprofile…h65c #AuDHD #Neurodivergence #Autism npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 I spilled oats all over the place while refilling the big jar that lives on the counter. Just my natural grace asserting itself. Anyway I’ve had dogs for the last thirty years so I can barely recall what one does in this case if there aren’t hoovering mammals nearby. You have to get a broom or somesuch? What a hassle. This is much easier. https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/806/730/899/414/222/original/2f22f67958aab02b.jpeg npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 How have I not named a dog Subwoofer yet npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 I've been trying Franz brand GF sandwich loaves every couple years since they've come out, and they've stunk. During out last trip to Costco a few days ago, they had Franz Brioche and Franz Sourdough, both gf! So I tried them. It'd been awhile since the last trial. I haven't opened the Sourdough yet, but the Brioche is GREAT. From Costco they come two loaves to a bag, each loaf wrapped and sealed so it can live in a cupboard for a few weeks without opening. You can also freeze these. The Brioche slices are BIG, about the size of two Trader Joe's gf sandwich bread slices put together, but much thicker. Delicious. Super worth it. I can finally live out my Soup & Bread 80% Of The Time dream. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Sewing friends, Costco is selling the Singer Heavy Duty machine for $179.99, which is a great price. This is a really nice general purpose machine for starting your sewing hobby! It'll make crafts, clothes, bags, quilts, it's a good little tank. - It can easily handle things like denim or canvas, two fabrics a lot of beginning sewists using for things like bags and totes - It has a strong motor and with regular maintenance will last a long time (I wish I'd kept mine!) - Specialty presser feet can be a hidden expense with sewing, sometimes they're hard to find in different brands (my Bernina's feet are hard to locate). But Singer's feet are generic and you can get variety packs for $20, very nice! #sewing #costco #crafting https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/789/647/258/612/213/original/e8ee206698dc9b75.jpeg npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Today in the ongoing saga of my friend Jaime and I trying to find goats, cows, or horses we can visit without actually having to own a farm (though that option has been discussed), she just sent me this. Also: HIS NAME IS BRUCE <dies> https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/733/150/995/961/453/original/8116dfc51b05eb5f.png npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 @nprofile…2wsh I've told a few friends about my crow feeding habit, and I've been surprised at the number of stories they tell me about crows leaving things in bird baths. Apparently one family in Seattle can't get their local crows to stop completely polluting the bath every chance they get, it's become a total drama. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 CPAP fact: You can have need of a CPAP without snoring! I had a good doc who was trying to diagnose my then-mysterious fatigue. When the usual tests showed nothing, they wanted me to do a sleep test. I protested. I didn't perceive myself to have a sleep problem, and my husband never heard me snore. Finally I gave in and went, and sure enough I had sleep apnea. It was just quiet. This wasn't the whole answer to my fatigue but it helped a great deal, and had that doc not pushed, I don't think I'd ever know this. Sleep tests are very easy now! No more nights at labs, covered in wires. You can take one at home with light monitoring. If you even suspect you could benefit, try it. They help a lot if you need them. #ChronicFatigue #Fibromyalgia #MECFS #ChronicIllness #CPAP npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 The #crows are still interacting. The day I taught them I had peanuts and was willing to share, was a situation where one of them was collecting sticks off our dead tree for their nest, so it associated me coming out the door with breaking sticks off the tree. Now, one stands in the tree, faces the house, squawks, and pulls a branch off and then drops it on the ground. I come out, send two peanuts sailing into the driveway with my pitching arm (the driveway is about how long my pitching arm can reach), and then I go back in the house and let them eat. What surprises me is that they only ask me a couple times a day. If I had a human I could summon for an instant slice of pizza, I’d be pressing that button more than once or twice a day. #birds #birbs npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 I love making postcards. #postcards #watercolor #watercolour #PenAndInk https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/598/716/219/490/060/original/498ef34d40891a1b.jpg npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 I'd like to make stickers from both my watercolors (scanning an image and then cleaning it up with digital editing tools, adding text), and also my kid's images (by their request!), which they have made on Procreate. And maybe my images made on Procreate. 🎨 💻 First, I have to learn how to use Procreate. I did a quick search on the web and YouTube, and there are apparently 7.3 gazillion different tutorials and classes for this! Kinda overwhelming. Do you have a favorite? (Or, alternately, is there a better app? I'm on Mac OS). (boosts welcome) #Procreate #AskFedi npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 @nprofile…5uqu I knew there was a link but I didn’t realize it was this high. Thanks for posting! npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Since it seems like all the directions for flashing #CrossPoint to your #XTEink include using Chrome to make flashing successful (other browsers don't seem to find the device), be aware that PC and Mac users of Chrome now have to deal with this: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3132803/chrome-silently-downloads-a-4gb-ai-model-heres-how-to-remove-it.html npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Blog post! ☕️ Putting my XTEink inside my Lochby Mini Field Journal makes it easy to take notes in my commonplace book https://hollie.eilloh.net/posts/putting-my-xteink-inside-my-lochby-mini-field-journal-makes-it-easy-to-take-notes-in-my-commonplace-book My XTEink X4 arrived yesterday, and I made a whole page about how I set it up, which you can check out here: hollie.eilloh.net/xteink I recently switched from a Traveler’s... https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/489/447/269/748/039/original/ba17c5343cb005b3.jpg https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/489/447/517/160/225/original/299d5dc786f721f4.jpg https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/489/447/841/014/669/original/edb4829aaa3f971d.jpg https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/489/448/322/276/592/original/56b85884a5a18147.jpg npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 I made a web page describing how I got my #Xteink up and running. I’m enjoying the size, reading on it is a joy. It’s so pocketable! :) https://hollie.eilloh.net/xteink #ereader #books #bookstodon @nprofile…9pr4 https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/483/118/363/115/137/original/5225a10264933a50.jpeg https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/483/118/371/839/424/original/e5dceb5ac90cb326.jpeg npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Okay, well, this is why we can’t have nice things. Time for a letter to Moleskine explaining why I won’t be buying from them again and why marketing AI art to artists and writers is bad, and a letter to Leuchtturm explaining why I’m no longer buying from Moleskine and how I’m fully prepared to stop buying from them if they ever do this. But also?? This is a legitimate collaboration with “Lord of the Rings”! I will have to investigate this too. WTF, people?? (FYI, because I’m an unapologetic blank paper hoarder I still have several blank Moleskines and several more in progress, so if you see me using them in my photos, that’s why) https://beige.party/@TheDodologist/116469902663898276 #Analog #AnalogTools #Notebooks #Moleskine #Journaling #LoTR npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 @nprofile…k95v @nprofile…va7h No, I was saying that one SHOULD buy the device through Amazon. I didn’t, I bought mine from the website not realizing the company was in China. So, first I had long wait time (Amazon would have been a few days), and then now a failure to be delivered even after it was “out for delivery” six days ago. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 @nprofile…va7h Yeah I’ve had Amazon packages fail to arrive but I’ve always had a mechanism for refund. With this, the company in China has just stopped responding to me. :( npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Stuck in #Xteink delivery bad dream. I don’t normally recommend Amazon, but for your Xteink, definitely order from Amazon, not from the company in China. You’ll have some level of consumer protection that way. It’s been 6 days since it was Out for Delivery. They never brought it, claimed I needed to confirm my address, I did that twice by phone and once in email, and they went silent. I’m out over a hundred bucks. #ereaders npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 My good friend sent me a liberal Substack post from someone they’re friends with. I wrote back: “I mean I like her writing, it’s a great sentiment, but Substack makes tons of money off of Nazis and transphobes and this has been in the media for years. Why are people who say they care about this stuff still using Substack? https://leavesubstack.com/ Be the obnoxious #Substack reminder you wish to see in the world. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 I'm listening to an #audiobook supposedly read by the author. I won't say who it is because I don't want to call them out because this is just speculation. There are several moments where names are pronounced wrong, names the author would definitely know how to pronounce correctly. I looked up whether this is a thing, do authors make #AI equivalents of their own voice? Turns out, yes, that exists now. I imagine it's accurate to say "read by the author" still? I did web searches to try and confirm/deny this and all I could find was an article about the author denouncing AI for gobbling up their books. This is all so weird. #Bookstodon npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 It's really starting to freak me out that the AI psychosis issue has gone from feeling like a very weird little news topic that I assumed was getting overblown, to feeling like folks in the midst of AI sickness are becoming actually identifiable through their posting/writing. Like I just think we all have enough to be anxious about without this too. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 @nprofile…kkfs I have severe ADHD and for years I would try to catch my accidental moments of rambling by attempting to sum up with a phrase like, "And this is the important part...". I actively work not to do that anymore. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Sorry to miss Monsterdon but Greg came home after a week away visiting family, and after a week of being the dogs’ only support human, the thought of interacting with actual humans was overwhelming. Also dear people on another social media platform, rhymes with instantgrahams, stop funny-shaming people who don’t have pets. It’s not a “red flag for someone to not have a pet”. I’d give my dogs a kidney (I mean, they’d have to split it obv) but jfc they are basically toddlers with very few boundaries and no hope of ever developing more. I. Am. So. Worn. Out. Emotional lives of animals are real. A person without pets might just a) Know their own needs really well b) Not be overly susceptible to peer pressure or trends Green flags, yo. Okay but also Jupiter came home today and boyfriend dropped delivered them. And boyfriend (BF), the thing I keep saying about him is that oh yes, he fits in to the family real well. Case in point: (1/2) npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 @nprofile…7760 I was curious that I hadn't heard anything about this so I went to YouTube and immediately found a video about Stephen West drama, started watching it......then realized it's two years old! So I guess he has a lot of drama going 'round. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 @nprofile…7760 I love the look of that pattern and almost bought it when it came out, but I like cloaks for warmth and the design seems to have that big open front where I can’t tell how well you can wrap yourself up in it? I’d love a review when you’ve worn it a bit! :) npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 USPS has a seasonal catalog called USA Philatelic, and I'm not sure how I got on their list (I've bought stamps online for years but am only now seeing this?) but it's WONDERFUL. :D The Battlefields of the American Revolution are done in watercolor, they're lovely (though not a topic I nerd out about). The horse for Lunar New Year is gorgeous! A quilt block from Harriet Powers, an origami crane, and a bunch of Field Notes collabs, sunflowers, it's a fun catalog. Hey @nprofile…quyk the #Postcrossing stamps are so beautiful! :) I'm gonna stock up on those. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Hey hey fellow ADHD folks and anyone else who regularly needs post its or other written reminders! YouTube just put this in front of me. It's a band you can write on with a ball point pen, wipe off using friction (water won't remove it), and it snaps to your wrist. It was originally designed for nurses in Japan who write notes on their wrists. But I can imagine about a thousand ways that a person who struggles with executive function could use something like this! The website for the company is wemo.earth, and you can buy the bands on Amazon if you need that convenience, or also at japantrendshop.com as an Amazon alternative (they ship worldwide). They're about $18 USD. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/013OleNZW8I #ADHD #AUDHD #Autism @nprofile…wafw @nprofile…h65c npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 @nprofile…wdzu @nprofile…gfsf Well but specifically CJ is asking (I'm assuming) if you need the serial number of a Kobo ereader as an ingredient in the plugin that Calibre uses to break the DRM, and I don't know for sure if you do, but my Calibre app DOES have, in the Kobo Utilities plugin, my Kobo's serial number. But it's a technical question as to whether that serial number is required for the DRM breakage the same way that you weren't able to break a kindle book without authorizing Calibre with your Kindle's serial number. Seems like a safe bet though? I'm sorry I don't know enough about the plugin to be sure. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Kobo(dot com) has eReaders that work great and so far they haven't gotten weird about what you can do with any old readers. My oldest one is going on 9 years old and has been passed down to my kid, who uses it daily. Additionally, you can still break the DRM of Kobo books easily in Calibre. You don't need Amazon for literally anything book-related at this point. Every eBook I own (around 4k at this point?) is FREE. They are mine. It's still possible to do this. (If an author only sells on Amazon, well, that's a choice they made.) Audiobooks? There's libro.fm, which lets you download unlocked files. All your current "locked" Audible books? You can easily break the locks on all of those too. My audiobooks are all free. #Books #ebooks #Bookstodon #Kobo #Calibre #DRM npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 People are complaining about Amazon's refusal to take care of old Kindles and then saying this is why they only read "real" books. The problem was never digital books, the problem is the corporate ecosystem, which sucks in a thousand different ways. Complain about that, not the existence of eBooks. I love "real" books, I literally make real books by hand, but I also love digital books. One can break the DRM and free those beloved weightless little tomes into your own hands, for you to keep forever and ever (provided you back them up of course). I read far more than I could otherwise by using a digital format for about 70% of my reading. Please stop shitting on eBooks, when Amazon the company is RIGHT THERE. #books #eBooks #Bookstodon npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 @nprofile…2wsh This is in Maine. :) npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Wooo! Okay finally breathing again! #Moonsterdon #ArtmisII #Artemis npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 For years I have been affectionately teased for my love of notebooks and stationary. Which is FINE, families gonna fam, I dish out all that I take, rest assured. But an hour ago Jupiter was like, “You know, I really want to start cooking, and have a notebook where I put recipes,” and I was on it like white on rice. Here, want to check out my blank notebook collection and pick one? They did. Want to use my corner cutter to round all the corners? They did. Want to use my rainbow of index cards and specialized hole punch to make colored notes for your sections? Want this cute food-themed washi tape? Want me to write up tonight’s soup recipe? YES! They were just standing at the kitchen table, putting their notebook together using all my stuff, and they’re like, “Mom! This is so cool! You’re so magical!” And I’m standing there with the gazillion-watt glow of my decades-long niche nerdy obsession saving the day, and being loudly recognized and appreciated about it. 😂 #notebooks #analog npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 We live in the downtown area of a small town, and today the streets are packed with cars, which tell me something is happening. My first thought was that the No Kings protest must be starting in our end of town, but then I thought, well, can’t be sure, we have lots of events and it’s not weird for parking to fill up for them. Then I watched an older couple walk past the house, moving slowly, slightly stooped, grey hair. And the guy is carrying a big handmade sign that says SMALL DICK ENERGY in thick block letters. So yeah, okay, I’m gonna go with No Kings. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 I’m on Costco’s website. Maintenance Cat’s soulful - yet ultimately accepting - expression suggests he knows you’d rather be feeding Actual Cat, but he left, and now you’re just stuck with Maintenance Cat until things improve. #Cats https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/293/078/138/293/963/original/ff4cc548e7162a3f.png npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Folks in the US & Canada, gasbuddy(dotcom) will give you current prices at your local gas stations so you can compare locations and go for the best deal. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Hey #REI fans, please check out the important work employees are doing (and a forthcoming boycott) at: https://www.ourrei.com/boycott #REI #boycott #outdoors #unions npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 “The perfect bumper sticker doesn’t ex-…” https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/256/751/408/815/443/original/29b5fd89402cac6c.jpg npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Idea for talking to your college-aged loved ones: I'm noticing (and remembering from experience) how exhausting it is to be constantly asked "what do you want to do after school". It really wears. Instead we just had a really cool discussion where I asked about what kinds of ways they could see spending their days. Less about job titles, and more about what are your ideas for how you want to spend your time? Are there any hobbies you're looking forward to diving into? What kinds of environments sound fun to spend time in, what sorts sound terrible, that sort of thing. It's been a really interesting conversation. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 "Autocorrect" is now "autoadjusting", consistently. By which I mean it's replacing perfectly good words with other words, which then make no sense, and convince me I'm losing my fine motor skills. I tend to look at my hands or out the window while I'm typing so I don't catch it, but now I'm trying to watch the text while I type and I see it happen. Fast little changes where it will take something like, "A little pen with a mouse and bear," and change it to, "A little pan with a mouse and bear," and I SEE IT change 'pen' to 'pan'. Like...why? Pen is a perfectly cromulent word. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Messing around with Pika today and just overjoyed at how easy it is to make web pages. Drag and drop photos, awww dang. I was going through my Photos app to find some watercolors for my art pages, and I kept finding pics of coffee. Then I wondered, how many photos of coffee do I have? You can see where this is going... https://hollie.eilloh.net/coffee #coffee npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Second shingles shot acquired! I'm now home. We stopped to get coffee on the way home and at this one place they always ask what you're doing, not how's your day or nice sunny weather we're having (which is lovely and worth commenting on), but very pointed questions like, "Where you coming from?" And if you say the store, they'll ask you what you got, and on and on. Basically an introvert's worst nightmare. But banger coffee, so. Greg replies, "A doctor's appointment," and I was all set to have them ask why and for me to say I was born with my dead twin enclosed in my ribcage and I just had her removed, her name is Ivy," you know, because I'm Hollie and also she's kinda of parasitic though lovely....." ...but they didn't ask anything else. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 My anxiety medication progress seems to have stalled and is maybe going backward. I'm still struggling a lot. If you have experienced long term, intractable anxiety disorder issues (GAD/panic), and a medication has helped you in any significant way and you're willing to share that experience, you're welcome to send me a comment or DM or even email at [email protected] . I have good familial, medical and psychological support, so I'm not asking for anyone to directly support me personally. Rather, I'm interested in hearing others experiences, maybe noting any novel or unfamiliar meds or strategies I haven't tried. If you're also autistic and/or ADHD, or considered "highly sensitive", that's a bonus. #AuDHD #Anxiety #HSP #ADHD @nprofile…h65c @nprofile…wafw npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 I cleaned all my Sailor fude pens today and just a note for other Sailor pen fans, the converter comes totally apart. So convenient! Completely unscrews and you can get to and clean (and dry!) every single piece. I've been using these for years and didn't realize until today (I user several other converter brands and this is the first one I've seen that has this feature). Also: those cheap sonic eyeglass cleaner tanks are gold for cleaning fountain pen bits. #FountainPens #PenAndInk https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/107/253/241/929/710/original/9dd94e6a78391e93.jpeg https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/107/255/209/048/973/original/9dc9db2b51deb84a.jpeg npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 About a year ago I started dumping dirty paint water (watercolors! not acrylics or oils) into my houseplants, and holy cats they absolutely love it. My rubber plant (closest to my desk and so a frequent recipient) was so spindly and sad before this, and now it's taller than I am and has been furiously making new leaves all winter. #watercolor #watercolour npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 A woman is walking by in the rain, holding an umbrella in one hand. Her other hand is holding a leash attached to possibly the tiniest dog I've ever seen, who is moving very quickly (I imagine because it needs twenty steps to equal one of its human's strides) and wearing a bright yellow rain jacket AND HAT. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 The resting from being online has been helping! I have been working on my website but that feels like working on a little art project, not "online" exactly. I'm careful with news, as much as is possible. My main practice is to put Heather Cox Richardson or Jamelle Bouie on headphones, and do gentle puttering while I listen. I've had a couple really good days. I built a personal scoring system to help me track progress and it's helping me see what works and what doesn't. Rest is good! npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 A person just walked by in sturdy shoes, a face mask, and a backpack with a protest sign sticking up out of the back. They walked with purpose and resolve (heading toward the nearby transit station to get downtown, I assume), and it was all I could do not to run out and thank them for protesting. Thanks again, a million times over, to everyone out there showing up, on behalf of those of us who can't do that right now. 💜 npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Hey hey #artist friendos, I like to note when I get great customer service (in this age of increasingly icky corporate interactions), and I just had a wonderful exchange with Jade from Toms Studio. She helped me with a problem I was having and offered great solutions. A couple years ago I switched from using Microns to their refillable Lumos pen, and love it. I just got their pocket fountain pen with the Architect nib, and it's WONDERFUL. https://tomsstudio.com/ #art #PenAndInk #FountainPens npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Warning for Reddit users: my main feed is filled with video from today's latest incident, despite not subscribing to any of the subs in which this content is posted. Also, folks who regularly express not understanding why people with burnt out nervous systems don't just "stop looking at the news," or "just take a break for a few days," be aware that this is _extremely_ hard to do successfully. Please keep using CWs. They don't help people avoid, they help us recover so we can keep fighting. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 @nprofile…7760 That's such a great idea for a site! :) npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Forgot to share this earlier when I took it. Cal the floofy biscuit maker, having a nap. #cats #CatsOfMastodon https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/115/897/894/336/179/078/original/efb44393f3397385.jpeg npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 I have napped. Now I must arise. Arising is so much harder than napping. npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 Do you have a favorite filling for onigiri? I used the more traditional meat and fish as I've been learning to make them (kid taught me over holiday break), but now that I'm more practiced, I'd like to transition to my regular recipe being a vegan one. I'm thinking teriyaki tofu? What else might be good? #food #vegan #VeganFood npub1ltwvd28um9593f44gc3ju5ec2qly5fp0qu2h95ge75uxk8mnxsqsn3g4aa Happy Hollieween 🎃 TIL this group exists, and I'm pretty happy it does: @nprofile…fk4y #HamRadio #AmateurRadio