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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 7h

Those two Yor Forger pics has marginally improved my mood. Thank you Nick and Hutarikiri.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 17h

I really need a girlfriend, because I could really do with anything even remotely resembling love right about now.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 17h

Yes, I know VPNs exist, but unfortunately all that I know of (that aren't Mullvad) cost money, and I'm not exactly interested in adding that as a constant to my cost of living. I'm getting off this thread now, it's almost half past 7. 🧵 6/6

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 17h

Unfortunately, she lives in Texas, the same state that pushed Bluesky to globally lock account access behind age verification. I'm not 100% on whether mu.social is also affected since it is based in Europe, if it is, then these might be my final few posts on Bluesky. 🧵 5/6

mu.social

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 17h

To sum it all up, My mom has broken my heart much like how my borderline psychotic father did last year, and I am NOT going to accept any apologies. The guest I mentioned earlier is a relative of mine, and let's just say I'm going to become a permanent guest at her place when she leaves. 🧵 4/5?

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 17h

With the continued nagging by my "loving" mother, I SNAPPED. I was pushed to the point of yelling and throwing objects in my immediate reach because I was not allowed to SLEEP, something I NEED to do in order to SURVIVE! All because I still had dirty dishes and guests were coming over. FML 🧵 3/4?

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 17h

I had really tried my best to not escalate the situation because it was already past 6 in the morning and I'd like to go to sleep, but mom had other plans. Not only did she double down that I get back to washing dishes, she TRIPLED DOWN by closing the door with her staying in my room. 🧵 2/3?

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 17h

So, I just got a ridiculously rude awakening from my own mother about dish washing, she pestered me about how I hadn't cleaned some dishes and I had to explain to her that I needed to wait for the dishes on the rack to dry before putting them away, thus creating more room for more dishes. 🧵 1/2?

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

I've decided to close the invite to my Discord server (Astral's Snowstorm) as things aren't looking to great for Discord at the moment. The TL;DR of the situation can be best summed up with two words that have become incredibly relevant this year: AGE VERIFICATION

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

This reminds me of a very bizarre time when on Google Maps, the 'Mayr Field' in Freedom Park (Leesburg, Virginia) was misnamed as 'Hyrule Field'. It's no longer a listed location on Google Maps for obvious reasons, but I still have two images from the time to show that this was in fact very real.

Google Maps view of """""Hyrule Field""""" in 101 Colonel Grenata Circle,, Leesburg, Virginia 20175

Angelo ARGOLO
a week ago

(Translated by Google) I don't know how to explain... I saw a boy with ears and elf clothes and far away I saw a castle
inside there was a princess... Who was talking about a guy called "Ganondorf"

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

I would give context, but I won't... for now. 🙂

A still of the title card from Michael Rosen's 'The Car Trip' (HD version) humorously stretched and cropped to only show Michael and the letter 'p'

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

Believe me, out of all the things on my mind at the time, DDoS attacks wasn't particularly high. Especially with all of this going on...

Sorry, due to AI crawler spam, access to page history and other special functionalities have been temporarily disabled for guests. See also: CrawlerProtection and BlockAI; it's pretty bad :(

You can create a new account or log in. Sorry for the trouble.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

tcrf is alive, turns out they're getting DDoSed

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

I can't help but wonder if this was done manually or automatically.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

Technically not "my" art style, as it is a style parody of Mine Yoshizaki's works from the 2000s. Still, glad you enjoy it.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

Miku's birthday is a constant in life, either that or me being a bit late to it. 🙃 #Vocaloid #VocaloidArt #MikuArt #MikuFanart #MikuBirthday

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026

It's September, and you know what that means? No, it doesn't mean fish, it means I'm officially Internet Archive-pilled. archive.org/details/@nmc... There won't be anything on there until I get finished with an upcoming art piece that I hope to have finished by the end of the day (Central time)

archive.org

NMc-AstralSnowstorm

archive.org Member

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026

Roy's our boy, So powerful he breaks the game.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026

Sonic 3 & Knuckles & Dr. Robotnik & Dr. Robotnik & Dr. Robotnik & Dr. Robotnik is such a banger game, dude.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026

ISTG this better not be OS runtime issues again.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026

Also, WOW that took forever to actually post.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026

Welp, tcrf just died. Add that to this week's death toll.

The connection has timed out

The server at tcrf.net is taking too long to respond.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026

So it turns out, I might've been wrong, twice. What I've discovered seems to suggest that although my internet was working fine (for the most part), it was actually my computer's operating system's runtime that was the problem.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026

On second thought, I suspect my internet might be kinda crap, as there's other pages that seem to struggle with loading from time to time.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026

TIL Gentoo #linux is named after a real world breed of penguin.

Gentoo penguin on the Tabarin Peninsula, Antarctica

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026

I have no idea how we've ended up at the point in which the Internet Archive has become borderline impossible to use without it just completely collapsing in on itself.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

#pikmin OG's will remember something similar to this happening in 2023.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026

All of this has me feeling quite conflicted as of now. I had been contemplating joining the Internet Archive in September as this year has had a *substantial* lost media problem, but with all of these technical issues raining down upon it, I'm starting to feel I should reconsider my decisions.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026

That's the second time Internet Archive just collapsed in the span of a few days. 🙃

Temporarily Offline

Internet Archive services are temporarily offline.

Please check our official accounts, including (The social media platform that shall not be named), Bluesky, or Mastodon for the latest information.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026

Well then, Internet Archive has folded in on itself like a cheap chair once again and only when I was considering writing this post has it mostly recovered.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026

Probably should've called the game Donkey Kong 69.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026

So here's something stupid that I just recently figured out how to do, I replaced the thumbnail of _paint.net project files. If you are curious on how I managed to do that, I have (currently incomplete) documentation on how the format works over on GitHub. github.com/TheAstralSno...

github.com

.pdn

A repository focused on collecting as much knowledge as possible on as many image file formats as possible. - TheAstralSnowstorm/Image-File-Format-Knowledgebase

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

Strangest occurrence I've had in a long while.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

Has the exact same energy as this random screenshot I found years ago online.

98% remaining
Your battery is low (98%). If you need to continue using your computer, either plug in your computer, or shut it down and then charge the battery.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026

Today's photos: Clouds and crepuscular rays

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026

This just in for a quick little update, I noticed that GNU GRUB can be displayed in the GPU's state of confusion with a garbled color palette.

GNU GRUB version 2.14

*Try or Install Ubuntu Unity
Ubuntu Unity (safe graphics)
Boot from next volume
UEFI Firmware Settings

Use the 🔼 and 🔽 keys to select which entry is highlighted. Press enter to boot the selected OS, 'e' to edit the commands before booting or 'c' for a command-line.

This screen normally displays with black, gray/grey, and white. However, here those were replaced with light red, indigo, and beige respectively.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026

Three years ago a bird laid some eggs and some billionaire decided to pronounce them as 'echs' That was my joke that at least someone may potentially find funny.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026

It's surprising to see a Windows 11 era version of an app still being able to run on Windows as far back as Windows 2000 RTM. Though, I suppose if it isn't broken, it's not worth fixing. And if that really is the case, then kudos to Igor Pavlov for creating a codebase that stood the test of time.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 22/07/2026

Accidentally stumbled into some bizarre Easter egg in the Microsoft Store if it is running on an older version.

Microsoft Store

We're sorry
This website needs a newer browser to work properly.
You're accessing the Microsoft Store on the web, the place to find apps and games for your PC.

Your browser is out of date
Update your browser to view apps, games, and more.

Update now
Open Store app

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 22/07/2026

Last night was undoubtedly a long one for me as I had spent all of it from 2 AM all the way to when I went to bed at 4:30-ish AM just diagnosing why on earth opening OBS Studio would consistently cause my graphics driver to just spontaneously crash.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 22/07/2026

So I decided to disable Compatibility Support Module on my main PC so I can assure I am using EFI boot, but I wasn't expecting THIS. For some reason, doing this made my GPU output some absurd stuff while it shouldn't be receiving an image signal.

Red Screen, default for this configuration.

Pinstripes with a magenta rectangle in the middle, seen during the BIOS startup screen with this configuration.

Pastel pinstripes with a magenta rectangle in the middle, seen during the BIOS startup screen with this configuration.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 22/07/2026

Just migrated from Bluesky's main server over to Eurosky, so... Hello everybody... Again.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 10/07/2026

Anyways, I caught a moth. They're such oddly elegant creatures.

A more face-first angle shot of the moth

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