Author: fyrfli

she/her/they/them ... gen-x member of the global majority ... unapologetically black; "forever-teen-but-not-in-a-creepy-way" h/t evel trying this blogging thing again.

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big crash is this week’s theme, i guess

i hurt ... really bad... like my back and hips are the worst time around and my shoulders aren't too far behind ... and i am not entirely sure why this crash is so much worse than it has been for weeks... if i had to guess it's...

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the extent of my neurodivergence is apparently getting more visible

CW: this post mentions food and eating (more…)...

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automated fedi posting in da house!

i did it! i got a feed bot up and running! and i think i figured out why the earlier attempts failed. while i worked on this bit of code today: if mktime(items.entries[0].published_parsed) > check: print('new blog entry......

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did i tell y’all about the skunk?

this damned husky killed a skunk in the backyard, damnit! last wednesday night (or more like early thursday morning), hubster went to get the baby husky inside. we've mostly got her trained to come running when we knock on the...

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about me and my ‘style’

this one has been perculating for a while ... this musing on what my personal style is and how it developed and what it really is in practice. i feel like if i had to put a name to it, i might call it ... "effortless goth" ......

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putting in another dark theme … yay

i got bit! ... by the actions bug. since i got this one so right, i wanted to do it again .. just to see if i really got it right... so i took on the quotes site. the quotes site is just the full collection of all the quotes that...

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i cut my hair last night

it's been just under 10 years since i cut my locs off and everyday i miss them. i tried to re-grow them here in missouri soon after we got here but that didn't take. mostly it was because of the loctician herself but it was also...

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yay! automatic site deploy in da house!

well ... it's been a bug in my ass for a day at least and now i got it working... automatic build and deploy of this site, even when i am writing posts from somewhere else. so one of the things that i have been struggling with,...

back to pelican because reasons

it's less than a week, and i already changed my mind again. hugo is all nice and good but ... i still have some really bad pelican muscle-memory ... which meant that writing a post (and publishing it) was far more work than i had...

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a day of tech for me

as much as i had wanted to nap today, i ended up sitting on my laptop all day ... no naps for me ... which is typical for me ... i get on my laptop and start messing around with stuff and totally lose track of time and space ......