Periodic reminder that you’re allowed to curate your #Fedi access to only see things that feel nourishing to your soul. You’re allowed to get your news info and hot takes from other places than here. Sharing #doom is normalized on pretty much every other social media so it may feel like you just have to let it hit you here, but you can take steps.

Filters generally work well. My doom filter is called The Horrors and has a looooong list of words. Just added “yandex” and “death cult”.

Sleepy Cal.

#CatsOfMastodon

#AmateurRadio #ARRL

Hey former ARRL members, looks like ARRL is sending a survey to former members for insight to why they're no longer members.

I plan to fill out this survey and let them know that the current president and board don't have my trust to be good stewards of the main national organization for our hobby, stifling dissenting opinions within the organization, and their rejection of calls to support diversity within the hobby.

(Edit: Zero judgement of current members or many folks in local/section volunteer roles. I just didn't think my annual membership was worth it given the problems at the top.)

I love it when people get into #Halloween (this car was at the farmer's market today).

#skeleton

TIL we have a Far Side bot on mastodon:

@farside_bot

I found a tartan rock on the beach today!

I passed here today and remembered that I was going to post this photo from last week. Today those particular trees are a bit more bare. Still beautiful, of course.

Blog post ☕️

https://hollie.eilloh.net/posts/battle-or-skedaddle-palette-fun-new-instax-and-mysterious-figure-i-baked-two-breads

I blocked collaborative object #3, the zigzag scarf.

Thas a lot of pins

It looks really good, better and bigger than i expected

I promise to go to Scrap and try to acquire legit blocking supplies

Cc @hollie

The Instax wide film is so much easier to handle than Polaroid! Everything I’ve shot so far today has come out much better. They’re about 66 cents per photo. Not cheap but so much better than Polaroid, and reasonable for how I will use them (i.e. not replacing every photo I take with analog, but supplementing journals and little art projects).

I took a photo of the sky with the sun in the left corner, just to experiment with how easily I could blow out the exposure, and the sky came out pretty well! The little black dot is the sun. The little brown dog is Hazel, being held by her mom, my super sweet neighbor.

#Instax #Photography #InstaxWide

How do I get speedier at casting and just being faster on the move, in the game? Other players are SO much faster than me. It's fine when I'm alone (I'm a druid) but today I joined a group and I was just the absolute turtle. Slow to cast, slow to target etc.

I'm in my 50's so I'm tempted to say it's slower reflexes, but when I played the game 15 years ago I was not much faster. 😬 Some of this might just be that I visually process the game world slower, and that's fine, I don't feel bad about that. My own enjoyment is the priority. But I do feel like I could improve if I had tips.

What are basic, obvious-to-you things that you do to make things faster? I'm using keybindings but I still butterfinger my keys a lot. Movement keys are mapped to arrows on the keyboard, but that does mean that my right hand is there instead of on the mouse? (Did this because I play on a laptop a lot) Is using the mouse a lot faster?

#WoW #WorldOfWarcraft

Had to add “firing squad” to my “the horrors” filter.

That filter is getting long.

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD:
https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet

I usually use a waterproof drawing ink, but the little bottle of fountain pen ink I've been using for this inktober is not at all waterproof, which I think is fun, even when the drawings get muddy

#inktober #inktober2026 #crow

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! To get into the spirit, post your best password.

Selkie stories are quietly the most brutal romances in folklore. A seal-woman comes ashore, sheds her skin, a fisherman hides it, and she has no choice but to stay. She marries him. Has his children. Seems content for years.

Then one day she finds the skin. And every version agrees: she walks back into the sea and doesn't look back.

Nobody telling those stories calls it a love story. It's about what happens when the only reason someone stays is that you hid the door.

#folklore #romantasy

proud of all of you who are doing brave things right now, very quiet ones as well as loud ones

Blog post ☕️
I’m doing better! I had covid.

So, CW for folks: This is a long post about how my first bout of covid a few years ago went pretty poorly, and how this latest one went pretty well.

If your nervous system is in a difficult state and covid is a high-anxiety issue for you, reading about the first experience might be uncomfortable. Feel free to avoid. :)

https://hollie.eilloh.net/posts/im-doing-better-i-had-covid

Holy shit.

When Sam said, "There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for." he was talking about potatoes.