I finally got out on my motorbike for the first time in a while, possibly months. Thankfully the battery wasn't dead(!). I did realise before setting off that I still had to put the new jubilee clip on the exhaust that I'd sourced quite a while back, but that didn't take many minutes. Then it needed petrol. Then I rode over to Ham (~20 minutes each way) and sat by the Thames for a bit.

I took a pic, but by the time I finally got out of the house, got the clip fixed, got the petrol and found my way to the car park near Eel Pie Island, it was really rather dark. Have a very brightened-up picture.

There were some birds on the river, possibly geese, who gave me the side-eye for a while.

Oh yes, General Mayhem. I took a whole bunch of screenshots of this one when I first watched Lego 2!

Mayhem seems to have a bunch of fan art around the place.

Oh, oh, gotta add the OG white armour. These guys used to occupy my thoughts a *lot* when I was young. I mean, A LOT.

Some of those thoughts were regarding the question of whether they were robots or not. Others were more to do with whether the armour even came off or if it was permanent. (After all, we never saw them without it.)

And… not only when I was young. Nope.

Okay, Xeniataur's going in the folder. As is this other very nicely edited photo from ages ago (Kartfox, 2015). (This one's not the specific character(s), but the body shape/species/idea. I really want to make a good taur suit someday. I have Ideas™.)

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2024-02-05 03:15:13

"It's ok I'll send you a tarball"

I think I've figured out what this plastic tub with its little wheels reminds me of!

(Each time I use kdenlive I seem to figure it out just a little tiny bit more. …Only a tiny bit though.)

[Alt text: clear plastic tub with tiny plastic wheels rolls into view. Then with a "ding" it changes to a screenshot of a Minecraft minecart with a player sitting in it. (The player skin is Spider-Man, so it's me, of course…)]

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I still like this photo @Makenshi Fox AD 🔞 took of me many years ago.

Security lifehack: changing my lock screen to a picture I really like so I'm more likely to lock the machine manually (rather than just leaving it to time out) because then I get to see the picture more. ^.^

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Others photographed better than I did! 🙂

Looking at the ConFuzzled 2023 photos. I found myself! But I am so awkward and not fitting in with the furries…

Glad I have a best friend who'll find me and do this to me while I'm trying to take a selfie. Pity I only get to see them (and my other friends) once a year at ConFuzzled, though.

What web site do I go to to order a social life? 😕

I did an image search for "butch identity" recently, and now I think that's probably a lot like what SecUnits could look like. (Since I'm male I of course at first imagined Murderbot looking… well, like me, but I did often think maybe it should be less so. I think the point when Amena called it "third mom" was when my brain did a kind of inflection-point thing and I could imagine Murderbot being a lot less purely-masculine and probably with quite a bit of feminine mixed in. Perhaps quite a *lot*.)

Example: how'd it be if our SecUnit friend looked a little more like this:

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Eeeeee, I saw Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem this evening and it's *so good*! The turtles are much more convincing as actual teenagers in this version and they're adorable little guys (except Donnie "I have found my people" Tello who's more like adorkable) (or maybe all of them are adorkable at times). They're all lovely and need to be hugged a lot and protected. :]

(Somehow they're even better when they shed their masks and switch to normal teenager garb — though how that hoodie fits over that shell I don't know.)

Splinter's more relatable too, and I liked the way the whole thing with the other mutants worked in this one, good characters there. Hardly anyone's bad just for the sake of being bad.

(Yes, I'm still a fan of the 2012 series, not that I've watched it in a while, but this one's also great. The turtles are good beans, sweet and silly.)

Incidentally, I do want to make a bird fursuit sometime. I've had one of these in mind for a long long time as an interestingly-marked species.

Humans are so flippin' dumb.

Mx Amber Alex (she/it)

2023-12-12 20:18:56

that's what's extra infuriating: everyone's so obsessed with violently enforcing their "COVID is over" narrative, mask mandates and conventions are being torn down even where they were common before COVID!

Just a few months ago, friends told me about people refusing to wear respirators in an asbestos-contaminated building. Asbestos!

I caught a bus from the bus stop just outside Wimbledon Bridge House. Every time I go to that bus stop I'm reminded of the old days of Domark and Eidos and so on, and also there was Ian Jackson, and all that '80s stuff.

I wonder if people living in Silicon Valley get that kinda of feeling all the time, as there are just so many tech company HQs there.

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@Bridle Timeout There is! Although now that you mention it, I could put more there to speed up the spread. And while doing that I found one of the grass blocks had been stolen (presumably by a random enderperson) so I've added some trapdoors to hopefully stop that. ;]

Woo.

I've never actually used the Atlas measurement network other than a quick experimental poke at it many years ago, so I probably won't actually use these credits, but anyway, nice to know. :]

(The main reason it's not near 100% uptime is because the probe failed at one point and I had to replace its USB flash stick to get it working again. It was dead for a few months before I had a compelling reason to go to the datacentre and fix it! Then I moved it to home so I'll be able to fix it more easily if it breaks again.)

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Got my automatic wool farm sorted out and moved to its forever home, instead of being right in the middle of the base! It now has a sheep for every colour, too, not just the four I needed for the flag-coloured walls. :>

So, my laptop might need its keyboard replacing; the W and O keys both seem to be going wonky - smetimes not registering, ther times registering *after* I hit the next key, transposing them. I know why the W is giong: Minecraft. Not sure why the O is, though.

So, I look at the handy-dandy service manual.

oh.

(Grr. I wonder if there's a way to fix it from the front…)

Inside the rotunda:

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A few more outside views of the ace rotunda.

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I've been building away on @nano :nanoBlobOwO:'s Minecraft server, and wanted to share a few pictures. But then I found my "ace rotunda" is kinda difficult to get interesting pictures of because there aren't really any good angles, oh well!

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