This week's environmental #shapechallenge - always looking for a less obvious way to use the shape, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't but at least my new apple pencil tips work I guess!
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Peejmaybe
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mastodon 4.7.3Quirky, craft and art driven, beardy, breadmaking, petrolheaded, videogamey, music-y, bakey, sculpty, doodly dude, knits and crochets amigurumi and is a total bookworm. KPOP Widower with a mild appreciation for the heavier stuff. Nearly always follow ya back! Love drawing stuff for people so if you want a sketch or a doodle, just ask! LGBTQIA+ friendly. All opinions are my own and yep I rant about work from time to time!
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My version of "Grande robe du soir" for this week's #portraitchallenge #StudioTeaBreak kindly reposted by @schnagi@mastoart.social
#ScribesAndMakers - 24 Mar. Do you have a sewing kit in your home?
Of course I do, in a Dutch biscuit tin, I thought this was the law?
Somewhere out there I like to imagine there's someone in Holland who has a ton of biscuits stashed in a sewing basket.
A little retrospective on the game I've been obsessing over for the last few weeks: https://open.substack.com/pub/peejmaybe/p/we-have-invented-a-new-language?r=1rtod6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org reminds me of a Land Rover parked round the corner from where I live that has “South Pole polar bear expedition” written on it :)
Excitedly rushed to the door when I heard the postie thinking it was my new laptop stickers. Nope, just a bowel cancer screening kit. Great. #beingoldsucks
Ugh I hate when there’s no transition between cooler weather and the feeling of being thrown head first into a blast furnace
Couple of boomers we know who are climate change deniers and vociferous advocates of continuing to use Fossil Fuels "Because all that green rubbish is just that, rubbish" are now buying an electric car because of the price of fuel. So if there's one good thing that comes of the current situation it's that boomers suddenly fall in love with electric vehicles when it looks like oil's going to punch 'em in the wallet.
So many cool people on here- cool in the right way, not the twatty way
Tonight’s dinner is air fried sweet potatoes with caramelised onions and lentils, with sneaky little steamed bao buns as a side!
Woke up to the fact that The Fifth Element is 29 years old, and celebrates its 30th anniversary next year. 30....years....HOW HOW HOW
Finished “Dance Dance Dance” by Haruki Murakami which is more than he did…. What a shockingly shite ending!
I think it's finally beginning to dawn on work that AI is fucktastically expensive, and just not worth that investment for anyone other than folk who are entirely delusional about the benefits
Dim realisation this morning as I was giving a presentation for new starters at our place that I've been working in IT since 1986.
Forty.
Years.
I swear, in those four decades I've heard just about every lie it's possible for someone to concoct on the basis that they did something they shouldn't have, got fucked by it, and tried to wriggle out of it by calling in IT.
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@tautology@infosec.exchange @attie@hachyderm.io @joannaholman@aus.social I've driven all 9 before (and yep there are 9, not including ones that have sadly been left to grow over like the tiny Marborough White Horse. There's even a Red Horse not too far from Banbury called The Red Horse of Tysoe. I am a total nerd for these hill figures and am lucky enough to live about 30 mins away by car from the Uffington one
If there's been one constant in my career in IT, it's that people think absolutely nothing of dropping some steaming festering pile of absolute shite on you before a long weekend, brushing off their hands as they do so, so they can enjoy their weekend knowing they've just offloaded said steaming festering pile of absolute shite on someone else.
Been pressganged into going to IKEA this morning. Just kill me now…
As I went down a "Voice of the Beehive" listening journey yesterday I thought it'd only be fair to pay it forward - this album, by Northern Irish band The Adventures - was glued into my personal stereo as a daydreaming yoof. Wonderfully over-produced anthemic pop with soaring vocals and great memorable songs.
Kiddo had to quit being a young leader for Brownies because of the now compulsory DBS checks, which are handled by a US firm known for harvesting and scraping personal data and photos. Welcome to 2026.
Yay more mandatory infosec training and a new special section on AI that is quite the work of dramatic fiction.
Turned out ok I think but those bao buns were crap…
My wife was mocking me because she said I couldn’t write a bodice ripper to save my life, so I laid out a story about the romance between a doge palace castrati and a Venetian lady in waiting set in 17th century Venice and she made this face -____-
Wozniak was always my favourite.
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@pixelcats@apobangpo.space kiddo says Byeomgyu (spelling is probably wrong) is cuter than any of the kids :)
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@ygathgoch@cloudisland.nz I think they're still going but v much a 90s thing over here in the UK. John Peel (RIP) used to play their stuff a lot which is how I got to know 'em
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@ygathgoch@cloudisland.nz Hailing from such an awesome place, have you heard of Even As We Speak? Probably my 2nd fave NZ band of all time. I was head over heels in love with Mary Wyer in the 90s
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@ygathgoch@cloudisland.nz I had this album and the 12" single of "Broken Land" on vinyl (probably still in the loft!) but bought cassette versions for portability back in the day. "Washington Deceased" is a banger, think that's from their third album (the one after "Sea of Love") - "Trading Secrets with the Moon" (useless music trivia is my thing)
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@londondreamtime @JdeBP Yep same here. I think Art of Noise's biggest solo hit was "Moments in Love" but they seem to have done really well teaming up with other folk (like Tom Jones for example on "Kiss")
The Kpop Demon Hunters McDonalds ad is a hoot, real shame it's only available in the US. At least they know their market though and didn't just do them as kids meals
Wow, this is exactly what I've been looking for - a modern-day Oids homage. Yes please for a fiver! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3140290/Evoids/
Musings on York Uni taster day...
1) Some parents need to let their damned kids go! Yeah I'm talking about you folk who 'gatecrashed' the student free lunch and the student course sessions despite being told not to! You can't go to Uni with them, you zeebs, let them get on with their lives!
2) Yorkshire people are as friendly as you've heard. A teenage boy apologised for nearly running me over at a crossing on his bike, and I mean PROPERLY apologised. We don't get that darn sarf
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@pixelcats@apobangpo.space Oh poo, I fell for a late April Fool's gag apparently. Now I'm just going to have to make my own!!!
Now my brain is trying to remember all 9 of the Wiltshire hill figures and carvings Including Uffington there's Hackpen Hill, Pusey, Cherhill, Marlborough, Westbury (though the concrete monstrosity there now covers a much older more stylised horse like the Uffington one), The Bulford Kiwi (yeah I know it's not a horse but still!), Fovant Down, Alton Barnes, Broad Town and a relatively new one (1999) at Devizes.
Everything they say about Manchester people is true. I nearly got hit by a cyclist (entirely my fault) and all he said was “C’mon mate!” - then cycled off. No swearing, no threats of physical violence, spitting, etc that I’ve seen in similar situations in my locale. I wanted to apologise profusely for making him break hard but he was gone in a flash. Gentleman, my sincere apologies, I was tired and didn’t look!
Derpy robot doodling while I wait for the gals to get ready
Wow, never thought I’d see the day Co-op would catch the KPop buzz. Just saw #aespa Shin noodles in there (and Buldak but it’s definitely not the right weather for those!!)
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Boo hiss, april fool gag still hanging around (like the smell of this thing if you had an oven big enough to bake it I guess)
Oh dear. Our place is once again making rumblings about returning to the office for a minimum of 2 days a week. Thankfully our managers are turning a deaf ear to this request, which has absolutely no business worth, no value, no basis for the request other than "We don't trust you to be working from home"
Whoah, very windy outside!
Googling insect species always dishes up some exotic thing that the actual bug you’re looking for just vaguely resembles. Which is how we misidentified a common window gnat as a long legged assassin bug!
Oh dear, DLC dropped for Roadcraft, that'll be me lost to that game for the next (looks at watch)...er....forever I guess. At least it'll wean me off Valheim which has rapidly turned from "Oooh, ahh" to "Ugh, Argh" in terms of grinding and frustration.
Exhausted after a horrible hot night where the neighbour from Hell and his horrible clan resumed their “let’s make everyone else’s summer as miserable as possible” annual campaign of being noise terrorists and burning things in their back garden. Cunts.