paloma kop ⁂

experimental multimedia artist, creative technologist, space(time) wanderer. currently based in new haven, CT.

➤ https://palomakop.tv

artist website: https://palomakop.tv
now: https://palomakop.tv/now
pronouns: they/them

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2026-04-11 15:03:16 UTC

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yes, i will make a better explanation in the webpage/zine! but for fun, i also wanted to invite people to patch software bugs or mend cloth instead, if that is a better fit for their practice :)

2026-04-11 14:40:53 UTC

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also, related question, what's the best way to start a "group" on activitypub these days?

2026-04-11 14:38:16 UTC

i want to make a zine about "week of patching" in addition to a webpage. i want to encourage people to share their patches via the fediverse, who may not yet know what it is. is there a good guide/resource for getting started on mastodon or similar that i could share as a QR code or something? i have seen some things like that a while ago but i thought maybe there are some better and/or more up to date ones that have been created now? also server recommendations?

2026-04-04 15:09:56 UTC

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cool, it sounds like this idea is interesting to peeps... let's make it a thing! july 6-12 ... mark your calendar! (sorry if that week doesn't work for someone, but i hope you can join!) i will make a webpage about it at some point also.
@npub139w…88f5 @npub1fsu…6lgc @npub1pxp…ewd7 @npub1l83…3zmk @npub12tp…gdw7 [@kookie](https://toot.cat/@kookie ) @npub13tt…ch79 @npub1f6r…smhg @npub17p7…k9g2 [@c_reider](https://sonomu.club/@c_reider ) @npub1m9z…y7t2 @npub1l2s…vp8m @npub1ss8…mla6
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2026-04-03 14:17:29 UTC

would anyone be interested in doing a "week of patching"? meaning, each day, you make a patch (create a signal chain with modular audio and/or visual software or hardware) and record something with it. then at the end, edit a composition of all pieces in series. i'm thinking some week in the summer, and also trying to decide if "week of patching" is a good enough name, open to ideas!

2026-03-30 16:50:54 UTC

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i think there are ppl on the webring that don't have a merv account tho?

2026-03-29 21:53:33 UTC

i have kind of been ignoring this for a while because there is a lot going on but there are about 1000 reasons i don't want to keep hosting my code on github anymore. codeberg seems nice but i kind of want to just make my own forgejo instance. it's mostly personal projects anyway and i've had approximately 2 outside contributions so i'm not that worried about the friction of other ppl PRing to them. that said, does anyone with experience doing this have any advice?
i don't know if i can actually *delete* my github account for Reasons but it would be nice to at least move my "fun" projects off there. i should do it soon... aaa

2026-02-27 23:24:41 UTC

i made this transparent PNG of a drawing of a log that says "logs" on it thinking i could use it for a website thing (perhaps for a log page?). but i couldn't find anywhere to put it (i don't have a log page!)
i hereby release it into the public domain! if you want to use it, you can do so without any restrictions or attribution.
https://cloud.perfectsky.institute/s/qA2Ga5nepxyL7Fw

2026-02-24 18:50:27 UTC

in between stints of shoveling snow (driveway is half done now), i finished putting together a blog post with writing and photos/videos about the show with @npub14ff…dns0 this past weekend!
https://palomakop.tv/blog/2026-02-24_live-a-v-show-at-ely/

2026-02-10 19:10:21 UTC

i figured out how to get my latest newsletter post (as of build time) to show up on my website! (thanks to the @npub1hhf…qrnt API.) so the body content of the most recent email will always be here:
https://palomakop.tv/newsletter/latest/
i don't really have it featured the most prominently, or share the full archive on my site, because it's more of a personal thing than a public blog or whatever. but maybe i should include them in my rss feed or something? because i myself prefer RSS to email newsletters, maybe i should cater better to people who are like me...

2026-02-08 22:11:14 UTC

i'm helping organize this show in #newhaven with fellow fedizen @npub14ff…dns0 ! and some other people who i don't think are on here, but all in the "experimental electronic" umbrella. oh, and i'm doing visuals. should be a fun time!
https://palomakop.tv/events/2026-02-21_imaginary-prisons-ruby/
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2026-01-18 21:04:53 UTC

hmm, ok, i finally finished my 2025 year in review blog post. it's bit scary to share. it feels very personal, but it hasn't been the kind of year where i can just write up a list of only the good stuff and feel honest about it. anyway, i do feel better having written it, and a lot did happen this year. so here!
https://palomakop.tv/blog/2026-01-18_2025-year-in-review/

2026-01-06 00:00:24 UTC

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i feel ok using are.na for now because, after i finished inputting my stuff, i ran a script to download everything including the file assets so i have everything backed up locally. if i want to make my own version of an interface, it shouldn't be too hard to migrate the things i've collected into a new system. in the meantime, i can see what i like and find useful about the current platform while making notes about things i wish were different. but i'm also glad that the whole thing doesn't have to wait until i have the time to do that...

2026-01-04 23:04:23 UTC

i did a thing, and now it is documented on my website!
https://palomakop.tv/notes/arena-cards/
i still want to write a year in review for 2025 also. i was hoping to finish that also before going back to work, but alas. also, oof, what a difficult year to review... for a lot of reasons.
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2025-12-12 00:00:30 UTC

not to brag, but we have 96 ounces of chili crisp.
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2025-12-06 15:21:56 UTC

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this is very neat! also i like your webpage about it! hell yeah. would be cool to make a font that outputs these numerals using a series of ligatures.

2025-11-30 01:58:10 UTC

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wow, that's really cool.

2025-11-11 04:06:06 UTC

i found this somewhat perplexing item at a thrift store today. it is a stylized carved wooden hand, with some kind of handle and loop/peg suspended above, seems like it was made for some purpose that eludes me. anyway it's in my house now so feel free to guess/suggest potential uses for it or possible intentions of the maker(s)
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2025-11-02 23:14:10 UTC

anyone remember about a month ago when i asked for help identifying font support for a bunch of weird unicode characters? well, i kind of just finished the project that was for, and instead of using existing unicode characters i ended up actually MAKING MY OWN FONT for the first time!!
i wrote all about it on my website here: https://palomakop.tv/notes/runicon-cypher/
side note: i also finished making the new section of my website, which is called "notes." i needed a place to keep pages that don't get "lost in the scroll" like a blog post does. it's kind of like a wiki i guess, but i made all of the pages look like little notecards with folded corners and it's cute: https://palomakop.tv/notes/
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2025-11-01 21:17:41 UTC

back to monochrome.

2025-09-26 02:46:45 UTC

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vibe established

2025-09-25 02:50:47 UTC

we watched the first episode of alien: earth. i found it highly disappointing. no interesting characters. they kind of failed to really develop any characters at all really. aesthetics were decent in parts but mostly only because they were copying the old styles.

2025-09-22 20:59:55 UTC

i am working on a project utilizing unicode characters from a wide array of character sets. if you have a sec, pls reply with a screenshot of what you see below, and optionally lmk what OS you're on! please boost ↺ so i can see a variety of platforms and what (if any) font support ppl have for these ☻☮︎
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2025-09-12 13:11:35 UTC

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ohh nice :))) thank you!

2025-09-12 12:46:57 UTC

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i saw it on the website a while back, i think there was a search although i can't find it anymore... don't remember my site's number haha

2025-09-12 12:29:04 UTC

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man, i am in this and really wanna read it but i can't really drop $40 including shipping atm... i wish there was an epub or something but it seems like its print-only, i get it, the whole idea is that is a physical book, but... :(

2025-08-24 15:47:33 UTC

got my tools gathered to bring to the makerspace for today's repair cafe

2025-08-21 00:30:11 UTC

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i will!! 🦾

2025-08-21 00:28:14 UTC

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oh! nice. i have tried... i try almost every time i walk into my kitchen haha. but i do slow lower downs, i think you might have been the one who told me that!

2025-08-21 00:24:40 UTC

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yeah, it's a horizontal bar attached to a cable, i've been trying to use it in the same position as a pull up bar... not sure how it all works but i'm also doing other things, and i already feel like i've got way more muscle in my upper arms

2025-08-21 00:20:02 UTC

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i still cannot do a pull up but i'm working up my weight on a bar at the gym that you pull down from above. i guess once i get up to my own weight then i'll start hovering?

2025-08-10 01:50:28 UTC

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thanks! i want to make one with a full length handle next

2025-08-10 01:03:18 UTC

i made my first broom!
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2025-08-06 02:38:36 UTC

visited this brutalist hotel that now resides in an ikea parking lot in new haven. apparently they renovated it in adherence to the original style and it's supposed to be carbon zero
featuring ceiling tiles made of I Can't Believe It's Not Asbestos™
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2025-08-03 22:56:18 UTC

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well, i can think of many reasons, but it would be hard to really make those points to someone not experienced in *maintaining* code. i mean, i almost think the best way to convince someone would be to let them try it out for a week, maybe get something working, then it breaks and no one knows why... no one knows what any of the code does... the LLM keeps making confident-sounding assertions about why it's not working and outputting plausible-looking code, but it still doesn't fix the problem(s).

2025-07-26 23:36:06 UTC

i spent a slightly unhealthy amount of time installing python on this extra kobo i don't use anymore and setting up a little "dashboard" display for my kitchen.
it should change to a black background and a different drawing when the sun goes down. will see if it worked in about an hour...
i used this thing: https://inkboard-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/platforms/kobo/index.html
except some of the hardware paths and stuff had to be updated because i have a different model. eventually i figured it all out :D
also i had to spin up a home assistant instance for some of the data. i already have a computer that i leave running so i just put it on there. i want to grab more data but will have to do some more custom stuff and i already spent too much time on this for now!
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/114/922/130/566/623/773/original/0070da5410cf7489.jpeg

2025-06-23 00:00:23 UTC

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oh :o

2025-06-22 03:47:08 UTC

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using what? what is "it"?

2025-06-13 17:23:42 UTC

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that makes sense! it's followers-only, so should not show up in the instance feed ... also, it's a toggle on my journal that defaults to "off," so basically just saves me the trouble to post the link automatically if i feel it's something worth sharing here.

2025-06-13 14:20:36 UTC

for cross posting a personal journal to fedi ("POSSE"), what is your preferred way to experience the posts on the fedi side?
(pls boost for reach)

2025-05-24 14:44:08 UTC

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no that is a butterfly my friend.

2025-05-24 14:41:48 UTC

time to make an e-zine

2025-05-23 21:38:10 UTC

no one else home, make annoying music
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2025-05-23 04:11:50 UTC

pocket (which i don't use) and glitch (which i used lightly for a recent friend project) both dying on the same day is giving me deja vu to when google reader died. it seems like they both died because they operated on dying models of the modern web — in the case of glitch, unsustainable freemium compute services, and in the case of pocket, letting people manually spend time reading and curating articles instead of trusting algorithms to "recommend" them interesting things (kind of same reason google killed google reader). my takeaway is, these occurrences are annoying but totally predictable. i learned from the google reader thing, and now i self-host linkwarden and miniflux. in the case of glitch, i went for the easy route, and now i have to figure out where to move. just a reminder to myself that, instead of hopping from free services to free services until each one gets acquired and shut down, sometimes it makes more sense to try to invest a bit more effort to create or run something on a different model

2025-05-19 18:14:01 UTC

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i really like it, i have been using it for years. i like sitting cross legged and was "misusing" normal office chairs to do so until my back completely rebelled against me during covid and i was forced to figure something out

2025-05-18 20:28:06 UTC

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most of my random stuff is on my shelves off to the right (with a curtain to hide it on video meetings). but i do have a few trinkets and fidgets in some little trays on my desk itself. and modular synths.
i am also pretty psyched cause i just got a Whole Nother Table for my office (not pictured). it's like my whole universe just expanded here
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2025-05-16 05:02:46 UTC

i love custom emojos and that we have them but often i see ones that i have no idea what they are
like some images just don't work at that size
i kinda like it tho
everyone should be able to make emojos of questionable legibility if they want to

2025-05-15 17:08:13 UTC

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wow, i should start doing that

2025-05-15 17:01:20 UTC

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it sounded cool but i also received an email with no recollection of signing up
it definitely looks like something i would have considered signing up for and might have but just forgot... tho the fact that neither of us remembers makes it more sus 👀

2025-05-06 15:22:48 UTC

people of the fediverse! i am currently looking for a new job and/or freelance gigs. i'm currently living in new haven, CT, but i'm also in NYC often.
things i do:
- build websites and web apps
- make videos and graphics
- IT/computermancy
- teaching
feel free to get in touch here or email me at [email protected]
my website is https://palomakop.tv
please boost 🔁✨
#getFediHired
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2025-05-02 16:19:30 UTC

just passed one of those LED highway signs which i can only assume was hacked
it was alternating between the text:
GAY FURRY PRIDE
and:
uwu

2025-04-30 12:35:55 UTC

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collage a day?

2025-04-15 16:06:25 UTC

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well that makes me feel like i'm too professional 😅 but thanks, you are probably right, i've kept it pretty simple nav-wise.

2025-04-15 15:44:19 UTC

fedi, please help me decide something. i need to make a portfolio of web dev projects for job reasons, i'm a bit torn between whether i should add a section for that to my existing personal website, or make a new separate website that's more "professional".
if you haven't seen it this is my personal website: https://palomakop.tv -- it's more geared towards art and stuff and also maybe a bit quirky for some design tastes, but it's also very "me" so could go either way.
boost OK :goose_honk:

2025-04-01 22:35:28 UTC

i posted on my blog about the shows i played in march! shout out to fedi friends @npub14ff…dns0 and @npub1nyf…u6g0 and @npub1l83…3zmk who shared in the reveling.
also, if you scroll almost to the bottom you can see a ✨flowchart✨ describing the process i've been working with for live visuals.
https://palomakop.tv/blog/2025-04-01_march-shows-in-nyc/

2025-03-06 15:44:30 UTC

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you can already edit the server url and hashtags in the one that's already there, or is there something else you want to be able to change?

2025-03-06 15:31:49 UTC

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oh yeah!

2025-03-06 14:30:13 UTC

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i lost the link but somebody made something neat where if you posted a link with theStudio hashtag, it got added to a webpage where you could actually play them all as a playlist. it was fun but could be a little jarring as the genres were extremely eclectic

2025-03-03 14:30:24 UTC

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:ashinobu_dab:

2025-02-21 23:35:47 UTC

website/general update log:
i updated my /now page with links to my HTML journal workshop at the low tech electronics faire in philly (new website for that just dropped and it's very nice, also @npub1w9z…8ple is doing a keynote there!) and links to what i've been working on at recurse center. https://palomakop.tv/now/
also, i assembled these images for the art space that's hosting my HTML workshop in brooklyn to post on their account. i've been pretty heavily just trying to like, encourage people that it's important to make websites, whether they do it through my courses or not.
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2025-02-19 00:44:20 UTC

today was day 2 of my recurse center batch. i attended in person but headed back homeward after the pair programming workshop and did some more stuff on my laptop on the train.
i made a log page to write about what i get up to at RC: https://palomakop.tv/recurse
and i also made a new section of my site called The Lab where i will put projects in progress and experiments. it is a separate repo & build from my main site since it might have breaky code. not much there yet but it's at https://lab.palomakop.tv !

2025-02-12 17:38:32 UTC

i had a dream i started a podcast and an online radio station to host it. the theme was guided mediations and facts about owls.

2025-02-11 23:33:11 UTC

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idk but found this cool one while searching https://www.1001fonts.com/whitelake-font.html

2025-02-09 20:27:27 UTC

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:moar:

2025-02-09 20:20:39 UTC

carefully considering my options
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2025-02-04 14:46:47 UTC

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what is an "FEP"?

2025-02-03 22:58:00 UTC

i have a stripe account, which i use to manage subscribers and payments for my Zine Club. but i have all of the email notifications turned off on my account. (ALL OF THEM, i'm very deliberate about this across all platforms.)
so today i get an email from stripe, telling me that Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, has been added to the agenda for some kind of dumb conference that Stripe is running.
not only that, but they say that he's going to have a "fireside chat" with the CEO of Stripe to talk about about "leadership in the face of AI."
they are literally bypassing my user preferences to tell me that they are sucking up to a bootlicker. WTF?? it's almost enough to make me try to switch platforms, except that this would be very difficult, as most of the alternative platforms for this type of subscription (patreon, etc) are built on top of stripe anyway.
now i just feel alienated and like a hostage and also somewhat baffled that they thought sending out this announcement in the face of the current political situation was a good idea.

2025-01-30 19:32:12 UTC

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i am starting to do some calisthenics to supplement my yoga practice. it is very helpful because i can work specifically on building the muscles that help me do a low chaturanga (basically the same as a pushup) a lot faster than if i was just doing yoga by itself. i have a pull up bar but i need to find a piece of wood to attach it to my door in my new apartment because it doesn't have a "normal" doorframe (old house...)

2025-01-29 02:16:24 UTC

i am excited to teach a weekend intensive workshop in HTML/CSS in brooklyn in march! check it out if you or someone you know is in the area who might be interested. this will be similar to the online version i did last year, but all squished into two days and in person :)
https://withfriends.co/event/22719582/weekend_website_workshop_htmlcss_2_day_intensive_with_paloma_kop
🔁 :tealheart:

2025-01-15 16:52:53 UTC

is matt mullenweg the gargron of wordpress?

2025-01-12 17:14:27 UTC

now that i have landline internet and a baseline amount of sanity in my new apartment, i finally managed to make my 2024 year in review post.
https://palomakop.tv/blog/2025-01-12_2024-year-in-review/

2024-12-25 17:50:57 UTC

i got a new lens for my sony a6000. 35mm/f1.8. so far, it's looking pretty nice!! these images are unedited (except the license plate lol)
i mostly shoot with wide angle lenses so this is a bit of a change for me.
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2024-12-19 15:14:43 UTC

@npub1ent…95d6 @[email protected] um, i think i'm missing some context here...

2024-12-14 00:16:39 UTC

today we made some weird video art with a bunch of students
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/113/648/291/695/417/532/original/c00dfa801bb7ae7c.jpeg

2024-12-02 17:16:12 UTC

i went to check how many Mystery Objects i need to make this month, and discovered that i've met my funding goal for the Zine Club project to be sustainable. wooop!
we broke the CSS thermometer, i need to do something about that :moomin_notice:
https://palomakop.tv/zine-club/#stats

2024-11-29 07:06:06 UTC

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see: https://merveilles.town/@palomakop/113548248317125740
it's the webpage aspect of the idea i describe in that toot. it's a writefreely instance that i will be posting to via the api.

2024-11-26 08:12:49 UTC

i am going to try to make a thing for my irl friends where you send a text and/or photo to a phone number and they get added to the top of a webpage with newest at the top. with maybe timestamps, no other context. the phone number would only be shared with people directly. could be a cozy space for some friends for whom mastodon is too overwhelming. i hope i can get it too work without too much trouble.

2024-11-23 00:57:05 UTC

the yurt in the season's first snow, wood fire smoke puffing out of the chimney. it will probably all be melted tomorrow
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/113/529/538/328/433/983/original/c93e75f980f68ce4.jpeg

2024-11-17 17:37:18 UTC

i did some digging around across my networks, and i'm now following 153 #rss feeds. mostly small individual blogs and website. it brings me so much pleasure when new updates show up from people's sites, and makes me want to post more on my own blog (especially now that that process has just become easier thanks to the new ssg)

2024-11-16 21:55:37 UTC

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it's hard to call it "saving space" when your eyes are bleeding

2024-11-16 19:28:07 UTC

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yes! embrace it!! the fonts look so good at that pixel height.

2024-11-15 02:44:08 UTC

feels good to embrace my old age and make the text bigger on all my devices

2024-11-11 19:12:20 UTC

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done :mac:

2024-11-11 16:09:32 UTC

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ah crap, i know why that happened. will fix shortly!

2024-11-01 23:01:21 UTC

sort of unhinged voting sticker from my local polling place. apparently it won a contest.
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/113/410/177/021/973/232/original/b01cbc73c31f2d4b.jpeg

2024-10-27 01:02:17 UTC

omg. i forgot my age AGAIN and had to check using an online time calculator tool. this is... not the first time. my birthday is very close to the end of the year so i'm very prone to off-by-one errors. turns out that i'm already 32, and i'm turning 33 this year. ok... that's fine 😅 i'm fine

2024-10-21 02:23:36 UTC

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no it was a woman working with us in grass valley, if memory serves she also had some kind of victorian pseudoscience contraption as well, not actually an orgone accumulator but in that vein

2024-10-21 02:14:44 UTC

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do you remember that person in california who would catch a bee and sting themself with it every day for health reasons?

2024-10-02 01:13:32 UTC

i'm not one to change my display name often, but i'm feeling seasonal.
here are some local gourds.
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/113/235/162/127/858/161/original/5966b5d3d1ebb546.jpeg
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/113/235/162/201/306/821/original/c881f0da8b89de77.jpeg
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/113/235/162/303/927/338/original/8481e5e51c08fcc2.jpeg

2024-09-11 04:26:41 UTC

ok, so the landline internet does not actually work at my new place, and for reasons i won't go into here i don't think it will be fixed. there are 2 bars of LTE at the window, but the signal varies inside. wondering if anyone has experience with trying out a cellular signal boosting antenna/repeater thingy and if so, how it worked for you? i'm considering putting an antenna somewhere outside and then putting the repeater inside. please boost (no pun intended)

2024-09-05 01:26:43 UTC

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this was cool to see because @npub1xse…lgk3 and i were in the area when this happened and we helped move all the stuff. full circle!

2024-09-01 01:27:51 UTC

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i've seen several little gray moles coming above ground, scuttling about the forest floor in the past few days

2024-08-20 14:29:05 UTC

i'll be an adjunct professor of animation at hamilton college for the fall semester :)

2022-04-03 21:09:10 UTC

#introduction
hello, i just moved to this server today so i think a new intro is in order...
my name is paloma, and i am a visual and sonic artist working in electronic media, exploring many different methods over time, including analog signals, digital & code based systems. i'm interested in complexity, chaos, patterns found in nature, feedback systems.
i hope to use this account to share things i'm working on and thoughts as i go, and i also love to see what others are up to!
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/108/070/134/050/254/854/original/51520193352b7599.mp4