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aegir

@aegir@toot.wales

I live in Carmarthenshire with my husband, I make things, draw things, play with tools and techniques and enjoy my garden.

I design software for schools, doing research, systems design, illustration, ui and graphic design.

I believe things can and should be better. The economy, internet, politics, are made by humans and in our power to change, they aren’t laws of nature.

Politically left, morally Quaker-flavoured animist humanist

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aegir, to random
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Was off yesterday, today is ALL THE MEETINGS

aegir,
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@James They actually did 😭

aegir, to random
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Got all excited for a moment that there was some blossom on the cherry tree, but it’s a dove!

Just one dove, there’s normally two sitting together. I’ll be fretting about that now.

A dove preening its feathers while sat in a bare cherry tree. The feathers are ruffled and show a complex pattern like a cumulus cloud. The photo is in mostly tones of grey with subtle blues on the dove’s feathers and very slight tan tones on other feathers and the branches of the tree.
A dove just after preening and shaking itself, while sat in a bare cherry tree. Its feathers are ruffled and puffed up. The photo is in mostly tones of grey with subtle blues on the dove’s feathers and very slight tan tones on other feathers and the branches of the tree.

vlrny, to random
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I am in a new chiro/massage waiting room and there is that background warm-minty smell of the muscle rub.

It is hitting me right in the brainstem, calming me, telling me I am among my people, all is well.

aegir,
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@vlrny Until you described it I’d forgotten that smell. Happy memories of warmth and having my back fixed.

aegir, to random
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Birbies dust bathing on the path. I keep meaning to sweep all that up, but now, maybe I’ll leave it. A video might have been better because in some shots you’d think “dead bird” but they were very much alive. Camera controls though, by the time I’d figured it out they’d have gone.

A sparrow rubbing its belly into the dust
A sparrow scooting along rubbing its beak and side of head along the path
A sparrow flapping around in the dust

llamasoft_ox, to random
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Unexpected Mario

aegir,
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@llamasoft_ox They do good pizza! Their delivery is hit and miss though, took two hours last time.

aegir, to random
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Last boost not entirely as approval, but I’m sure they’ll help some people. It’s not even a mastodon thing, I once thought it would be handy to have ‘standard disclaimers’ on Twitter posts years ago “yes, I know about this obvious thing” etc. but obvs didn’t do that.

Just that, uhhh. Text in images? Alt text? Big aggressive shouty text? It’s all a bit… superior. It fails the vibe* check, you know?

  • ooh get me, with the kids
gedeonm, to random
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Immediately tosses all my existing subpar teapots out the window… 😢

Video showing various teapots being pour tested, some splashing a lot, others with the smoother stream and a longer distance

aegir,
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@gedeonm I would very much like a fascinating teapot!

aegir, to random
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I was early for the thing and had the choice of an overheated waiting room or a very rain-soaked bench outside in the sunshine.

Damp bum but worth it.

aegir, to random
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A beautiful mix of weather!

joelanman, to random
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person who invented touch control hobs:
"hey lets make hobs worse"

aegir,
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@joelanman Let’s put something on this thing for heating pans that can’t cope having a hot pan anywhere near it. And can’t cope with being wiped clean, or any water or food or having as much as a wisp of steam near it without beeping like mad and turning everything off!

… and breathe 😂

aegir, to random
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Wait what’s EC
Oh, eye contact.
We’re back at ‘obfuscate the content warnings’ again are we

aegir,
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@brad I’m often more curious when someone puts an unexpected content warning on stuff, but it’s annoying when they can’t be arsed to write it out and just acronym it. I thought that was partly why people put ‘lewd’ instead of ‘nsfw’. I can’t stand acronyms.

bastianallgeier, to random
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We use Paddle to sell @getkirby and while they are great in general, they've replaced humans with an AI bot for support requests.

This is what our clients must go through if they contact Paddle instead of us. (real redacted protocol) We can only apologize. It's embarrassing to get those protocols. It also causes additional work for us to read through this.

We told Paddle about it without success so far. Please, don't do this. Don't throw a chat bot at customers if this is the result.

aegir,
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@bastianallgeier That’s terrible wording, it feels like they don’t care and have shoved this up with “ah it’ll be fine”.

aegir, to random
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Went out to take a photo of the daffodils and the sparrows were hanging out in the pear tree, so I took some photos of them too.

Three sparrows lined up vertically in a bare pear tree, their feathers brightly lit
Fresh green and yellow daffodils in the bright spring sunshine
A daffodil backlit by bright sunshine so the background looks dark

aegir, to random
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Really wet and windy this morning, bringing lots of sand and grit with it too. Probably a bonanza for this little one.

aegir, to random
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Carrying a bunch of stuff out to the workshop earlier I knocked over this daffodil, so I brought it in. It’s sat in a vase all by itself now.

ramiro, to random
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I just got this ad and I’m considering it

aegir,
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@ramiro Misjudge taking a sip and you’d knock teeth out! 😱

James, to random
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When I'm in a funk, I like to bake. So I made my regular butter crescent rolls. I've got this recipe and process down... It's barely a half hour of work from start to finish (including cleanup, not including proofing).

This time I crammed them all onto two quarter sheet pans and popped them in my countertop oven, so they didn't bake as evenly as I'd have liked.

But! I did use one of my new seed heating mats under the bowl while proofing the dough, and that worked a treat!

aegir,
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@James They look fantastic? Do you have the recipe/process in a shareable format? 🥹

catnip, to random
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Random musing about language and labels.

What if we discover there are more ND folk than NT folk. Will we have to switch the labels? 🙃

I am likely ND, but not officially diagnosed yet.

aegir,
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@catnip I have wondered about this. What if there is no typical? I hope it would mean we become more accommodating to everyone’s differences.

aegir, to random
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One of the local jackdaws. They always have this “I am so done with your shit” look about them

aegir, to random
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Made another attempt at the carob bar experiment. This time I used cacao butter as the base and it worked so much better. It can’t be tempered like real chocolate but it’s got quite a good snap to it. I think next time I’ll put orange oil in it.

aegir,
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@James I’m not sure, it would be worth a go! The carob powder is not as fine as chocolate though and I think that might have been the issue, it might need conching. 🤔

aegir, to random
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Made a carob bar. It tastes nice, but the recipe said ‘sugar or maple syrup’, and I now know caster sugar isn’t right. It doesn’t have anything to dissolve into so stays gritty. Will try again tomorrow.

I used to hate carob. It was always the ‘healthy alternative’ to chocolate rather than being a thing in itself and that ruined it.

aegir,
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@number137 It’s worth trying. You used to be able to get bars of it that had no cacao. It has a fruitier taste than chocolate, like chocolate and dried fruit together.

The bar I made uses coconut oil as a fat,it has enough of that!

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