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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

I am very much *in* on the y2k plastic shell business, likely because I didn't get to have any the first go 'round.

Photo of translucent plastic shelled AYN Thor (purple), DSLite (lime), Jelly Star (green)

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

The kind of jigsaw @slightlyoff and I prefer are ones like this. New case & USB-C charging port for one of my DS Lites!

Nintendo DS Lite in Neon Green transparent case with DSPico launcher.

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

I've got this ESP32-based project in mind (maybe actually a few) and I've been looking for a little starter kit just to get my head around how ESPs do their thing, and lo: esphome.io/starter-kit

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ESPHome Starter Kit

The ESPHome Starter Kit is the easiest path to building your own smart home devices, with no soldering or coding experience needed.

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Sometimes, you do get to the end of your todo list!

Screenshot from Todoist showing my MFA section as 100% complete

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

how is it that even on mastodon - a platform with the worst discoverability (kinda by design), no real cross-instance search etc. - random men who don't follow me still manage to find something I said and still decide to say something useless at me?

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

I watched a video recently about how to spot gen ai in creative writing and then the same week I was exposed to this opening line of a song and, well, I can't stop thinking about, because it's the perfect example. "The daylight hits me like a bruise". Daylight can hit you. Hits cause bruises […]

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

I still need to take some better photos, but here's the paintings from "On What We Dwell": fberriman.com/art/on-what-we-dwell

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On What We Dwell - fberriman.com

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

A phone photo of a painting on a phone of a photo, taken in the place the photo came from. Or something.

An oil painting on a broken smartphone of the place the overall photo is set in

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

I'm doing an art on 16th July in SF. I haven't made the flyer yet, but... fberriman.com/art/on-what-we-dwell It's actually the last thing I'm doing for my MFA before I'm all done in August!

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On What We Dwell - fberriman.com

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Caved and bought an x4, and then saw this today. Nice to see an OSS project get picked up so quickly and supported by a hardware vendor. I hope they get their bags. www.reddit.com/r/xteinkereader/comm… (cc @andy)

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

You guys seen this thing YesPress.io? It's a total scam? They're just generating pages for people who didn't ask/permit (e.g. Alex's below), and if you look for someone who isn't on there it messages like the other people are already on there and gives […] [Original post on status.fberriman.com]

Image showing language X "hasn't published their page yet."

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

Bird rescue. So mad about impending freedom.

Photo of a "varied tit", in my hand, in South Korea

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

TiL you are opted-in by default to Copilot training on your data in GH. The toggle to turn that off is here: github.com/settings/copilot/features

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

Lazy web: If you have a very cludgy, large @11ty website/blog, what would you do if you wanted to add an editing UI to write posts for it? My current options are: 😭 or 💀

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

me, earlier, enjoying a slice of strawberry birthday cake: yeah, so, when I was little, I had a wild strawberry allergy. lucky I grew out of it! teehee. me, now: why throat & mouth itchy?

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

I just bought one of those press things for making metal pin buttons and I feel so powerful all of a sudden.

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026

If you've got anyone in your life struggling to see what's happening here, here's a nice little activity sheet they can use with the crayon they must currently have jammed up their nose.

A "spot the difference" activity sheet, one side with an ICE goon, the other with gestapo, terrorising a family

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

Get your wife what she really wants this Christmas. 💪 ♥️ @slightlyoff

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

Almost finished 2025's daily log. Switching to the new wallet size leuchtturm1917 for 2026, which is the same height as the B6+, same inner layout, but narrower. Has a hard cover (less good, imho) but it is basically the same size as the more expensive […] [Original post on status.fberriman.com]

size-by-side comparison of leuchtturm1917 B6+ weekly diary and leuchtturm1917 wallet weekly diary

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

I know I brought this upon myself, but I think my tumble dryer just crashed.

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2025

I only have one responsibility left for 2025: a flower arrangement demo on Friday. Almost free to bed rot with a book.

Flyer for ikebana International meeting this friday

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025

I watch a lot of movies, and rarely do I fall asleep, but I tried to watch "Shelby Oaks" TWICE and have found myself absolutely put. This film is ambien. I have this problem with my letterboxd that I never know how much of a film I have to have seen to count as a "watched".

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025

Different art exhibit this weekend. If you are in Golden Gate Park, there's an Ikenobo ikebana exhibition on both days at the county fair building. Assuming I don't drop my vase (again), I should have an arrangement for you to spot.

Flyer for ikebana exhibition on Saturday and Sunday

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2025

Did I learn to silversmith just so I can make custom arthritis split rings for playing video games without hurting myself? Yes.

Photo of my little finger from top showing 3 silver rings

Photo of same finger underneath, showing two rings are splinted together to reduce joint motion

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2025

Studio Gallery in pac heights in sf is opening their annual tiny show tomorrow. I've got a couple bits in it. I'll be at the Sunday 9th November opening reception 2 - 3pm, if you must have my presence in order to look at the tiny (and a few huge) pieces […] [Original post on status.fberriman.com]

flyer for tiny show at studio gallery nov 7 to dec 22

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025

me, others, paintings, friday, bernal.

flyer for an art show at baukunst in bernal heights, friday evening

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2025

I'm Kimie Shimizu in her monster form, from Silent Hill F for tonight.

Photo of me dressed in monster flower costume

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025

I did myself a little kindness and deleted all the RSS feeds I had for tech and gadget topics (that were once interesting but now only want to sell me shit) sites, and now have a very manageable once-or-twice a week set of feeds that are almost entirely individual blogs of people I have met IRL […]

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

Look at this ridiculous little friend Dana gave me from Yukai Engineering. He blows on your hot tea!

Battery operated silicon cat that blows air and sits in the lip of a cup or bowl. A nekojita FuFu by Yukai Engineering

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

I've been collecting photos of all the billboards and ad spaces here in SF, that are currently 99% AI features. What should I do with them? I feel like there's probably an average of the bubble ads image, maybe? The visual variety in them is v v low.

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025

Wow, that's a fugly new design for a logo that didn't need to be changed. It's giving tampon.

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

i'm working on an essay right now and i keep thinking about how teachers are pissed off that their students are submitting AI essays and that's sad and stupid but - why are your students so chill about cheating? Bad students have always cheated, because they're bad students. But if your good […]

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

Surprised that "customizable, all-in-one internet digest" clue I jokingly filled in as RSS FEED on the NYT crossword today is actually correct. People actually know that? 🙏🙏🙏

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

I'm currently building up a lot of karma by being the new "volunteer" website person for the local ikebana international chapter. I expect a sainthood will be on it's way shortly.

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

So, is the UK's rail network now just a deposit scheme? Pay exorbitant ticket price, but reliably claim it back when train is inevitably very late or cancelled? Seems like a silly way to run a business, but what do I know.

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2025

Had an idea for silly make. Can you rent programmable robot arms?

The "I should buy a boat" cat meme image but with new text "I should buy a robot arm"

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2025

finally found an opportunity to quote @undermanager in an assignment essay.

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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2025

Are folks only just *now* noticing that substack is another nazi bar? I thought that was already well documented. Guys, please. RSS. I don't even care if you're just spinning up wordpress blogs.

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