Mice and shrews and Simon Cowels, ironically enough.

I volunteer as admin. But only if it’s a do-nothing kind of admin.

Actually chapo.chat is the name of the scientist, the website is chapo.chat’s monster.

I’m also not a sentient beaver.

beanis.org is available

If it becomes hex.horse I’ll photoshop a hexagonal horse. This is my pledge to the community.

Yeah, I guess I really am a superb owl.

Brickwork ahead? I sure hope it does

It’s in the link, go look there!

It’s unihemispheric sleep.

Here’s a primer on the zizians, which you can read if you’d like your eyebrows to get stuck one tick higher for the rest of the day.

The tl;dr is that they’re a cult orbiting around an offshoot of the SF Bay area “rationalist” scene. The SF Bay is a brutally alienating grifter hellscape. The rationalist scene is a disorganized counterculture highly concerned with morality*. This naturally attracts confused young adults who are in weird places in their life; that’s just what a moral counterculture does. Ziz targeted particularly vulnerable people from this pool, particularly trans people, with a cluster of techniques out of the usual cult playbook, notably including a novel type of sleep deprivation.

* Whether these ideas are right or wrong are irrelevant, but if you want my take: a stopped clock is right twice a day, but a clock that’s spinning around really really fast is right way more often.

100s of Beavers

I can’t quite articulate how/why

It’s because she’s posing vaguely and staring off into the middle distance.

I don’t think big tech wants a new batch of technologies out of the public sector; some other companies will figure out how to bring those to market, and the current big tech companies will become the next RCA, ITT, Kodak, and if they’re lucky, IBM.

That still works!?

If the anyone at USAID is looking to spend $98 million to fail to overthrow a government, hit me up.

this isn’t even my final form

Unfortunately it’s unseasonably cold, so I will not be able to take my crabs to the streets. But know that they’re with you in spirit, in terrariums.

That’s just one of the emotes we have on hexbear, we just type :kelly: and he shows up - someone else already clipped it out. Probably in Gimp for desktop.

My self-hosting setup is like this. But one of the things I originally got into self-hosting for was to get an RSS aggregator for, and I never found one with non-containerized setup instructions, so I ended up not having one.