Rivaclaw🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

🐭DIGIMON DIGITAL MONSTERS

#art #fanart #digimon #renamon

Freddie Mercury: punk icon.

Someone on Cohost's been depositing clam emojis in my inbox

Looking to potentially get a VR Chat avatar of Akai sorted - anyone got any recommendations for artists, or if anyone would want to give her a shot? It wouldn't be for free, of course - heavens no - just no idea where to look for this kind of thing!

How to check if you are talking to a bot and not a real person 🤔 #collected #tech #humour #ai #bot #funny

So the first thing was my hyperfocused toots from yesterday about the building used in the intro of the show, the second was being informed that Noel Fielding’s new show has a scene where The Dark Knight’s helmet is on display, which made me SO excited and happy that it’s still around!!!

I really wish that I could own it, more than anything!!
(Toot marked as sensitive for potential spoilers in the images)

"Claims that the majority of the UK’s housing stock is not suitable for a heat pump appear to be [lies].

Research published in 2022 found that properties including Victorian terrace houses and 1960s flats could have a heat pump successfully installed.

A 2021 study found: “Homes can convert to electric heating at a cost far lower than the accepted wisdom” and “with no threat to comfort”. Additionally, greenhouse gas emissions would “fall very dramatically as a result”."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/31/can-heat-pumps-be-installed-in-older-properties

I got some Pride-themed art from ak4neh on Twitter! https://x.com/ak4neh

I was going to go with the pan flag on Bridle, but decided to use the bi flag instead as it's similar to Twilight's colors, hehe. :)

The cheque said “AMOUNT: two dollars and forty cents BEING FOR: classified ad”, rounded block letters in green ink amid the printed prompts. My mother never wrote cursive. “Thanks Mum“ I said, “I’ll pay you back from my paper round money on Saturday”

“No need” she said, “I’m going out; if you have the ad ready I’ll post it for you.”

I folded the cheque and the form I’d clipped from the newspaper. It had been tricky writing on the newsprint with a pen “HOME COMPUTER Amstrad CPC6128 with monitor, printer and external 5.25 inch drive. Original software plus over 30 games. $425. Ph 551806”.

After Mum left I went to my room and booted up my new PC, with its Extra Beige system unit and Different Beige monitor. I patted my 6128’s screen sitting on the floor under my desk. “Sorry old girl, no room to keep you but I’ll find you a nice home”.

Before I even got Kings Quest loaded the doorbell rang.

The visitor was a woman with amazing purple hair, and cat ears. “Hi, she said, I’m Kit, here about the Amstrad”

“But…it’s not even posted yet. And I only listed a phone number!”

“Never mind that”, she smiled, bouncing on her toes “do you still have it?”

I nodded, too flabbergasted to speak

“Four twenty five, right?” she said, thrusting an envelope at me, “here’s five hundred, keep the change. Now, what I want-“

“Wait, what are these things”. I’d opened the envelope to find five slippery rectangles of plastic bearing “100” in large letters, coloured variously green and yellow with a transparent region in the middle. “These aren’t-“

“Oh shazbot!” my visitor said, snatching the envelope back. “Bee Arr Bee”. Then she vanished, with an electric ZZZZAAPP sound.

ZZZAAAPP. She was back, holding out a sheaf of five grey paper rectangles, the recently introduced but rarely seen $100 notes, thick linen paper with subtle colours - easy to photocopy and colour in with textas, I’d seen on TV. I held the note up to the sky to see the metal thread and watermark. “Are these real?”

“Trust me,” she said, “they were hard to find but totally legit.”

“Okay, uh do you want to see the computer running?”. I felt like *I* was running to catch up with this interaction.

“No need” she grinned. “I’m giving it to you. Box it up and stash it in Mum’s roof. You’ll be glad to have it when you’re older.”

“Wh…what?”

“Do they speak english in what?” she muttered half to herself?

“what?”

“Exactly! Right on script”. She poked me in the chest. “You’ll be alright kid. Forget about the ‘strad for a couple of decades, OK?”

She ran hand through her brilliant purple hair, vibrating like she was having the best time ever. “Oh yeah, you’ll need these”. She tugged at her cat ears and i realized they were a headband. She handed me the band with its two ears. “One last thing“—a suddenly serious look—“*listen* *to* *your* *dreams*. You’ll know when it’s time. See ya!”

ZZZAAPPPP

I spent the $500 but I kept the ears.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Finished YCH!

#furry #furryart

I’d really love to get some more Dark Knight artwork! 🖤

The Dark Knight was my first crush and I still love them to this day. I want to be them RL. 🖤

The point of solar panels is not to ensure "solar profitability," but to make for a greener, better world. Its profitability is only justified insofar as it moves us towards that goal. If we want to switch to renewables, then sometimes we're going to have surplus, because of how renewables work. This is well known and discussed ad nauseam. If that makes power markets unstable, then the problem is with markets, not with there being too many solar panels.

If you're at #EMFCamp #EMF2024 or watching the stream online, I'm doing a talk about building a cable headend on Stage C in a little over an hour!
#AnalogCable

https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/203-being-elliot-carver

Livestream: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/emf2024/

Someone asked me to put "free beer in big text" on the #FurryHighCommission info screen at #emf2024, so I did

There is no more free beer, btw. This was Thursday's homebrew.

A happy start into the pride month!

Have the "stellar" Progress Pride flag I made last year from various NASA Astronomy Pictures of the Day!

And remember:
- "Queer" is not a slur (anymore - absolutely OK if you don't want it applied to yourself, though!).
- "LGB" is a dogwhistle put in place by those who wish to divide & conquer us.
- The "A" in LGBTQIA+ is for all queer As - like aromantic, asexual, agender..., not for allies.
- "Ally" is a verb, and others use it to describe what you do - not a badge you stick on yourself.
- Not everything that looks straight is straight, and might be hella queer!
- If you think queer people and relationships are "unsuitable for children", it means you sexualize them, not that they're inherently sexual.
- Your labels, your rules - their labels, their rules.
- It's "Pride" because shame is the weapon that is used against who we are and who we love.
- Queer people are people first.
- Be excellent to each other! #PrideMonth #Pride #Queer