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gcvsa

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[UTC -5:00] GenX, FilAm NPO/NGO SJW she/her @gcvrsa http://paypal.me/gcvsa

#bass #guitar #ttrpg #danmemo #palia
#fountainpen #filofax #pedalboard

#FreePalestine #FreeUkraine #FreeTibet
#antifascist #anticommunist #antizionist #nobridge

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gcvsa, to random
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My favorite part about arriving is that I can order liquids in glass jars like without worrying about them freezing and shattering in transit or on my doorstep after delivery.

Probably my next ink:

https://youtu.be/BCAA84JlRMo?si=ZOLF5ARqg5QM6-pu

mondoweiss, to Palestine
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On April 15, Chicago police aggressively prevented marchers during the worldwide A15 day of action. Organizers say the repression was a message from the city ahead of the upcoming Democratic National Convention in August.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/police-brutality-and-mass-arrests-of-palestine-protesters-in-chicago-may-be-precursor-to-the-dnc/


@palestine @israel

gcvsa,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel Chicago Police being authoritarian? Well, that's certainly never happened before!

pixiecata, to random
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Sometimes senior parents think things happen by magic when they say "Can you do this for me? I don't know, use your computer." Or they let device batteries run down to 14% because they're not really paying attention. So I just check and check and check.

gcvsa,
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@pixiecata My mother called me today, because she couldn't get a document to print. So, of course, she tried to print it five times in a row, still nothing. I had her open the print queue, and there's five documents waiting to be printed, and "printer offline". I asked her if she was on the right WiFi network. She insisted that was the first thing she checked (this is a recurring problem). I checked her WiFi settings using remote access software. She was on the wrong network, again.

gcvsa, to random
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Julian Assange is a gigantic gaping asshole. But, his persecution is obviously politically motivated and should be abandoned. I don't care about him, specifically. I care about what allowing the government to continue pursuing politically motivated prosecution does to our society, to our value system.

enobacon, to random
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you're supposed to reply to join the conversation, or not reply and don't engage to be polite, or quote if you just want to remark on it but that's not a thing and also rude

https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/112248204160172591

gcvsa,
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@enobacon This problem is exactly what QTs are designed to cure.

timelordiroh, to random
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When I went on my vacation for the eclipse, I inked up a bunch of so that I wouldn't have to travel with ink bottles. Turns out that for a long weekend, it was WAY TOO MUCH INK. My Vac700s look barely used, my Light of Hope wasn't touched at all, and my Nebulous Plume (which accidentally went out with me) is the only one that really shows it got used (converter is about half empty now).

gcvsa,
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@timelordiroh All my pens are TWSBI ECO piston fillers. It takes me months to drain my primary daily writer to the point of needing a refill, and I don't even fill it all the way, to help with ink flow.

gcvsa, to fountainpens
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Coming April 26th, TWSBI ECO Caffè with Bronze

I know I said I didn't need any more , but…bellissima!

enobacon, to random
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Your decarbonization effort will be like taking how many cars off the road?

gcvsa,
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@enobacon Any tax that would significantly increase the costs of gasoline, diesel, LPG, NG, or heating oil is going to be a non-starter in the US, because the US is utterly dependent on infrastructure and land use policies that assume the profligate consumption of fossil fuels to substitute for better design.

People can't just pick up and move, rebuild houses, rearrange their whole lives to use less carbon quickly, so any tax is going to be viewed as punitive and unfair.

gcvsa,
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@enobacon Transportation and HVAC are the two leading sectors for fossil fuel consumption, and both of them are driven by sprawl, which is driven by land policy.

We need land policy that incentivizes people to live, work, learn, shop, and play in higher density settlements, which result in more efficient buildings and obviate the use of transportation fuels. Only then will we be able to successfully implement carbon taxes at the necessary scale.

gcvsa,
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@enobacon What I mean to say is that public policies which incentivize land uses that allow us to live with comfort and convenience within smaller radii will naturally lead to reduced transportation dependency and reduced energy consumption. It's a win-win for everyone but the landlords, the oil barons, and the automotive industry, all of whom leech off of the rest of us.

If you start with simply making cars more expensive to operate and homes more expensive to heat and cool, buy-in is tough.

gcvsa,
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@bluGill The entire point of my statements was lost on you, please stay out of my mentions until you learn better reading comprehension.

gcvsa,
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@enobacon On those points, you are of course speaking to a fellow member of the choir. I am poor, and I live in a small town in Vermont with hardly any public transit or bicycle infrastructure, where most people claim to be environmentally-conscious, but sprawl all over the landscape in their leaky 200 year old homes, driving hither and yon.

We're slowly improving, added a new arterial painted bike lane, got part of a shed roof over one bike parking rack, and hopefully more soon.

gcvsa,
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@enobacon I've been car-free for over 2.5 years, a year-round primary transport cyclist in Northern New Sngland Winters.

Our biggest transit benefit is we have an Amtrak station, direct to NYC, and a new station is being built, though it is still only one train a day in each direction. A new evening only microtransit bus service is starting downtown this month. We have a thriving and growing community of cyclists with cargo bikes.

gcvsa,
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@enobacon Also, our local library has a ebike lending program, and I've just agreed to be a volunteer to help check bikes in and out, this season.

I'm looking forward to spreading the good word of ebike.

danyork, to random
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Today’s mission is simple: figure out where the sun will be in the sky starting around 3:00pm-ish so that we can plan where best to watch tomorrow’s big event! (Without actually leaving our neighborhood 🙂)

gcvsa,
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@danyork Should be in the area of 225°-228° azimuth for VT, and about 44°-45° altitude at 1500 EDT (UTC -4).

I checked from Burlington and Brattleboro, your location may slightly differ.

enobacon, to cycling
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This dirty mudflap brought to you by .

Went for a quick errand in some light rain, my rubber boots were dry in a few minutes and zero cherry petals stuck to my pants or drivetrain.

gcvsa,
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@enobacon I have cleaned my bike since I got it in mid-2022. Two solid Northern New England Winters later…

I did by a garden hose last year, and I ordered some chain lube, recently. I will try to get to rinsing her down and lubing her chain…soonish.

gcvsa, to random
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LRT: We won't exclude any girl.

ChrisPirillo, to random
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i looked up the .webp file definition and discovered: "what the fuck is this format and why does it only exist to piss me off because i constantly have to convert the damn thing to something compatible with anything?"

gcvsa,
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@wagesj45 @ChrisPirillo I'm pretty sure it was developed by Google with the intent of lowering bandwidth costs, but it's a super huge pain in the ass for everyone else.

ambergrey, (edited ) to guitar
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Do you have fret preferences on a guitar? Let me know your thoughts, if you’d like! :blobcatcoffee: also feel free to add a different preference in the comments if it’s not listed here.

gcvsa,
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@ambergrey SS6105. Stainless steel sounds so much better than nickel-silver, and lasts so much longer. All fretted instruments should be using stainless steel frets, or something even harder and more durable. I never, ever want to buy another instrument with nickel-silver frets.

https://warmoth.com/guitar-neck-fret-options

gcvsa,
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@ambergrey Yes, absolutely. Stainless frets are noticeably brighter than nickel-silver.

Here's a good demo, from Warmoth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLstfUO9OZ8

gcvsa,
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@ambergrey Similarly, I used Acetal picks for over 25 years, and I never thought that pick material would make that much of a difference to my sound, until I tried Ultem picks. I immediately switched and will never look back. Take an Acetal pick, or any other regular plastic pick, and an Ultem pick, and drop them both on a hard surface. The difference in sound is amazing, and directly translates to the sound on the instrument.

gcvsa, to random
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I know I really need to clean my bicycle, re-set the brake cables, check my tire pressure, and re-lube my chain, but I just cannot bring myself to muster the energy for it.

I really wish I could afford a shop stand. Working on heavy ebikes without one really sucks.

gcvsa,
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@enobacon My landlord might get upset if I installed something like that in my living room. I park my bicycles in the living room, because it's the first room inside the house, and there's no storage shed outside. Since I live alone, I have no real need for the living room, so I use it for storage and my laser printers.

unseenjapan, to Japan
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At Ramen Break Beats, chef Yanase Takuro, who doubles as a DJ (hence the store name), serves bowls at around the 2000 yen (USD $13.50) mark. That’s more than double the average cost of a bowl of ramen – and double the so-called “1000 yen wall”.

https://unseen-japan.com/ramen-break-beats-tokyo-meguro/

gcvsa,
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@unseenjapan In America, $13.50 for a good bowl of ramen is cheap. A bowl at Ivan Ramen in NYC is $19 USD.

gcvsa, to random
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I would be more interested in the new Kaweco Piston AL Sport if it had chrome trim, but...

I don't like the Sport so much that I'd spend that much money on one. 186,25 EUR ($203.76 USD) is a lot of money for a Sport, and I don't think it even has a 14K nib, just gold-plated steel.

Also, I don't like the fact that the finial has to be unscrewed to get to the piston. That's a piece that's bound to get lost.

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