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FallenRedNinja

@FallenRedNinja@mastodon.nz

🖤 Tiny pocket pals | Will fight you if you deserve it | TERFS can fuck right off | Dark coffee, bright heart 🖤
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🥷🏽🦝

Pronouns: They / Them / Him

Successfully built & opened a theatre.
Back to freelance technician life
& mentoring

Toots will contain big feelings about #Theatre, #LiveEvents, #Music, #NZPol, #Books, #Cats & #Dogs, #Plants, being #Queer, & sporadic #Sports

Looking for friends, to learn things, and toots that make me say “daaaaaang”

Also dad jokes

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FallenRedNinja, to random
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Trying to explain to a production company that I, a blatantly genderqueer person, absolutely will not be attending a thank you event at a cafe run by TERFs

The last response was
I understand your concern but you could also be the more mature one and celebrate our successes

SIR
THEY LITERALLY SAID THAT PEOPLE LIKE ME SHOULD OFF OURSELVES NOT THAT LONG AGO

I. Fucking hell

FallenRedNinja,
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I used to work in their lil venue, did a bunch of the mahi getting it set up and begging equipment so it could be a rad queer friendly performing space

Then they publicly went off the deep end
When I pointed out I was trans* they said I should rethink my life

So I did. And I left.
And haven’t been back in like six years to a place that I used to be at three to ten times a week. Where the main queer munch in this city is. And where I used to feel at home.

FallenRedNinja,
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I’ve gotta get back to my luke warm mess of a day

But pals
If a queer person tells you a place is unsafe, don’t tell them to shut up and put up with

FallenRedNinja, to random
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Saw a friend from Rotorua today who looked at me and said “you didn’t get your day off. Or today off”

Which. True facts.

Work is busy.
And we’re in a lurgy surge, both covid and general seasonal fuckery, so I’m losing about 15% of my crew to sickness on any given day

Which across 73 shifts in 8 days is 11 folks to replace at short notice. When we are in both a skills shortage and a crunchy time.

Which is why I worked yesterday
And today
And tomorrow
And the day after that

geekmomprojects, (edited ) to random
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I've decorated three denim jackets with LEDs to bring as an installation for the CETI institute in the #portlandwinterlightfestival . The CETI installations will be displayed in an abandoned GAP storefront, so this project feels particularly appropriate. Just got the basic animation working for the rain cloud jacket, and hope to find time to enhance it.

FallenRedNinja,
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@geekmomprojects @noondlyt I adore this cloud jacket!

markwyner, to london
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Live stage performance of Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away,” what?! Never wanted to see a play, but this may be my first if they come to The States. UK folks, they’re coming your way!

Source:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzjsjwqsR23/

Clips from a colorful live theater performance of Spirited Away with large creatures and many dancers.

FallenRedNinja,
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@markwyner I’ve been hanging out for this to make it to the touring circuits! Hopefully a jaunt to the UK means it’ll be on the 2025 arts festival options 🤞

atomicpoet, to random

Mac fans: “Gaming on the Mac is awesome, and almost as good as gaming on Windows!”

5 years later

Mac fans: “God damn it! Apple just made a drastic change to Macs, and now compatibility is broken with all old games!”

FallenRedNinja,
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@atomicpoet it’s true and I’m still mad about it

FallenRedNinja, to random
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Ahhh excited to see that Japan managed their moon landing in the wee hours of our morning!

Hopefully the lil guy’s solar panels will kick in over the next couple of days, before it gets completely cooked, and they can work through the next parts of the mission.

But even if not - it’s a great step in the right direction for JAXA’s planned mars missions.

🚀 🌙

FallenRedNinja, to random
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Having a sort through a few boxes of books that have been staying with a friend for a while.

Have been a little dismayed at some of the books they lost along the way - mostly because my entire comic collection is gone, which included 2 complete Sandman sets, and a bunch of my weird indie comics.

But I’m delighted at some of the things that have survived. Like this copy of Oliver Twist I got for my sixth birthday.

Which reminds me of Mum going “oh. They don’t know you read big books huh”

FallenRedNinja,
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There’s a brace of books I keep entirely for nostalgia.

Some, like this, are gifts that were just for me & often I felt seen by the choices folks made.

Some are books I chose as a kid, or thrifted as a teen. Which range from books about rocks & herbology, to Owen Marshall’s short stories, to a psychology textbook I bought in high school coz it was interesting.

& some are my own copies of books I had out from the library regularly. Think Discworld, Stephen King, Douglas Adams, Octavia Butler

FallenRedNinja,
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I realise it’s a choice when I move every couple of years but out of everything in my life, books have been the only constant.

No matter where I go, when I go, who I go with. There can always be books.

Postgrad studies? Books
Crippling social anxiety? Books
Alone in a new city? Books
Family exploding? Books
Awful breakup? Books
Overwhelmed by feelings? Books
Need to cook? Books
New confusing job? Books
Need to calm the brain hamsters? Books
Always. Books.

FallenRedNinja,
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Ohh I’ve reached the box of cookbooks!

A bunch of these are going straight into the give away box coz I haven’t touched them in forever.
A few will stay for nostalgia, a few because they’re genuinely good for ideas when I have a full kitchen, a couple coz basics are important.

But uhhh
I’m staring at this beast, which must be from my Nana’s collection, and I’m torn between sending it into the world or trying to cook every dang recipe for…. Science….

A photo of the first two page spreads showing an odd line work drawing of some sort of garden nymph cooking a feast. The title repeats on the right leaf. This book is a first edition, published in 1974. The year my mum turned five.

Rjdlandscapes, to guitar
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Some dodgy playing on the new telecaster, had to figure out how to record video, and audio via Ableton, then edit it all in resolve.. All that took a while.

Always end up playing like a robot when I am recording myself :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyDe1p0TNLM

FallenRedNinja,
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@Rjdlandscapes @aligorith as long as I’m not the one pushing the record button, it’s almost okay. As soon as my brain is thinking about the fact we’re recording, it’s a trash fire every dang time

The only problem is that my frowny bassist face is somehow now my default face for everything except the timps 🤣

FallenRedNinja, to random
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Sometimes a good way to deal with your feelings is to tackle a thankless chore with loud music

So I present to you:
40 metres worth of warehouse cracks that have been weeded and mostly water blasted in the early evening shade
2 hours worth of mostly punk music
The 75 litre bin of weeds that I pulled, lightly compacted

Not pictured:
The front of the building which also got a frustrated weeding
The discovery that the parcel box has rusted away on one edge 😩
The cold soda I’m just about to chug

A long stretch of white warehouse wall Devoid of plant life util you get to the far left, where the weed bucket and a traffic cone sit

FallenRedNinja,
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@curiousjay truly

I resent our LL for making it our problem when the lease clearly states he’s in charge of the outside bits, but there’s something great about singing rage against the machine whilst you rage against the weeds (and the machine)

FallenRedNinja,
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@dave @curiousjay A great choice! And an amazing image 🖤

I went with killing in the name of because what punk kid can resist “fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me!”

atomicpoet, to random
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I played a lot of great games last year, and I thought I’d share a few of my favourites in one big thread.

Few of these are new releases, but all of them are titles that I very much recommend.

FallenRedNinja,
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@atomicpoet @atomicpoet I think this was my most played computer game, other than maybe binding of Isaac, for like three years straight

Soooo gooooooood

jpm, to random
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Brb going drain fishing

FallenRedNinja,
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@jpm No comment 🤣

Sincerely
Someone else who is starting to peel after forgetting to put more sunblock on despite reminding the group to

TheJen, to random
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Does anyone else count bullets in action films to see if the continuity people did their jobs?

FallenRedNinja,
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@TheJen @falcennial lol sometimes, yes. Especially for pistols and shotguns

Thankfully my bestie also does it haha

FallenRedNinja, to random
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Tiny pocket pals

What’s your go to for post it note equivalents?

I’m looking for page markers and post it tabs primarily, but will need arrow flags again at a later date.

They need to be resilient, able to be stuck and restuck a few times, non-smudging.

The markers and tabs need to be available in at least 5 colours, ideally 7.
The arrows ideally in five, but honestly two would get me there generally.

And available to ship to NZ, or onshore ideally

Rasta, to Engineering
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Funny things impress me:

YouTube algorithms just figured out I was an Engineer, and took my attention away from my work, to fascinate me with a Fixed Fire Suppression demonstration video.

We were once using Halon, but environmental concerns stopped that. This is the same principle, with a different gas agent.

StatX fire suppression system, manual or automatic use, on ships.
https://www.statx.com/ if you watch too much, you'll go blind 😂

FallenRedNinja,
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@Rasta I’d be interested to see whether it alleviates the issues of particulate that go with traditional foam and CO2 systems - we have such a time finding good options for theatres coz our equipment is basically hundreds of tiny specialised computers scattered around everywhere 😂

skinnylatte, to random
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One time, in a former life as a food writer I interviewed a Nordic three Michelin star chef. I asked him whether how the food he ate growing up might have inspired his cooking. Almost all Asian and French and Italian chefs say ‘my mother’. He said, ‘we had horrible food at home and I was determined to break the cycle’

FallenRedNinja,
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@skinnylatte @lisamelton This was literally why both my brother and I started training as chefs 😂

fast_code_r_us, to random

Product idea taking shape...my 'night clock' project uses an ambient light + proximity sensor (APDS-9930) to set the brightness of the LED matrix. At night it goes totally black until you bring your hand near it and then it will show you the time without lighting up the room. Low cost components (<$3 total including PCB). Do you sleep in a dark room and avoid light pollution? Interested?

FallenRedNinja,
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@fast_code_r_us @jpm that’s a really cool concept, and also super useful for a theatre to have an actually dark clock - I wonder if we could modify the code to take and display time stamps

FallenRedNinja, to random
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I think the worst part of drafting a “go fuck yourself” email about a business matter is that you can not simply say go fuck yourself.

Thus an email that should have been about 10 words is heading towards a short essay about the ways in which they are wrong, and should contemplate their bad choices, and suggesting that we work together in a different way (which is to say far away from each other) in future

FallenRedNinja, to random
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Reissued an invoice with a very polite email saying “hey, I think my invoice got lost amongst the handover mess but I’d like some money please”

And have received one back that basically says
Umm. Too late. Why should we pay you?

So my polite but frustrated reply:
Handovers and periods of change are difficult, but my hours were recorded at the time for (event names) in June so they should have been oncharged. If you didn’t, we can talk about it.

FallenRedNinja,
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@jonoabroad yeah, and ever changing network configs.

I’m not a network engineer, it’s not my happy place, but I learned a few months ago that the level of shit we do regularly for gigs would make me qualified to be a senior network engineer 😬

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