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  Excuse me, waiter. Supper time is in four hours' time, so you're late serving it. #calicocat #tortie #catsofmastodon

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  Last thought. It feels like the market for the "privacy browser" had ramped up, the more so- called AI is shoved down people's throats. I have at least two installed, but can't decide which route to take. Which **mobile** "privacy browser" do you use? (I've excluded Brave for personal opinion reasons). If it's a different one to the 4 option limit I have for polls, please reply with which one and why. Thanks, FJ #browsers #privacy #mobile #pleaserepost

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  "Approximately one third of the forest will have been destroyed," Veman whispered. "And, from the age of the scent," Azachet growled, "whoeverrr, or whatever caused this destruction...did so in just three days." (Glàfyr, Episode 7 is up for Patreon Early Access) #fiction #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #serial https://www.patreon.com/fjbrodie/posts/07-not-out-of-173005838

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  Just a few photos from our walk the other day. This area is about 20 minutes drive from home. 30 if tourists are on the road. The weather was perfect for photos, even on my mediocre phone camera. #Scotland #Highlands #photos #nature #nofilter #noAI

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  RE: https://gamepad.club/@FibroJedi/117481657773601419 I've now edited my ALTs from @altbot - mostly for the removal of repetition and "fixing" American spellings so they're British. No offence, Americans (or the bajillion other people who probably write "center" not "centre"). #photos #landscapes #loch #lochs #bluesky

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  RE: https://gamepad.club/@FibroJedi/117479867520173101 I've added the "featured image" of this chapter too. I don't know why #Patreon links don't give the preview when that information is public and not gated. But it is what it is. #Writing #Writer #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy

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  Just had a good #LOTRO session with NJ before she went to her friend's for dinner and cake. I was sat a distance from the monitor, mostly on camera angle duty. We got lost a few times in Swanfleet, but we're making good progress. #MMO #MMORPG #LOTR

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  Cross-post (manual): I intend to update my FibroJedi #Patreon page within a week or so. Life's felt really messy and I've had like almost no social energy for ages. I'm on a new, additional, medication. No improvement so far. Upping the dose shortly...yay. ___ Not Cross-posted: I'm glad Masto has a decent character limit. And I'm glad I can, long-form, brain dump here. Thank you for your encouragement ___ #Fibromyalgia #ChronicPain

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  We've had a power cut does to the high wind gusts today. It also must have messed up our nearby transmission mast, as we've also not had mobile signal for 6hrs. We had to cook food on a tiny gas cannister and do toast over the fire. I'm not going to post again until power is restored though. I should save my phone battery. If you're getting anything from this week's named storm, #StaySafe out there.

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  Trying to use a focus timer to keep me off my phone when I should be doing other things. I'm shattered now, but did focus on one thing for 2 hours, even on my PC. I really struggle with attention span, so any incentive is worth trying.

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  Sorry to anyone on Dark Mode. Myself included. I may submit a request to #CatsStudy. But, on the plus side, I've been purposefully /not/ using my phone, too help me focus on other things. It means I miss things online, but putting that time into focused family time and writing with minimal digital noise is worth it. #focus #screentime #android

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  I know that I'm still not around very much, but you Gamepad friends come to mind very often. I hope you're all getting through, and I hope I can do a proper catchup soon. #staysafe #bekind

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  Well, I didn't get long in #FFXIV, but I'm on the L15 "Envoy" questline. So I'm learning some crafts in Limsa, and will pick up a couple in Gridania when I move onto there. And I'm starting to like my new Miqo'te. Just need to earn coin to get (from NPCs) or make better outfit items. It's weird not having Marketboard access, but at least I don't get choice overwhelm. G'night // #StaySafe // #BeKind

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  Another year. Level 43 now, but like some games, levelling up doesn't always mean making progress. But /unlike/ games, I don't get stronger with each new level and my gear certainly doesn't get better. But I played a cooperative table game with just wifey and NJ tonight, and ate loads of chocolate. So that's good.

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  Well, I've drafted 470 words of an experimental "small world" story. It takes place in my not-small world, but the plot covers a small area, and is largely based around one establishment in one of the smallest woods on my world map. I've also adopted a lighter writing style for it. I'll have to see how it fares during editing a few weeks down the line. 🤔 #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #fantasy

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  Had a couple of hours with wifey watching series one of Good Omens (for the second time). We needed to refresh our minds on what went before this year's ending movie. NJ went to sleep by midnight (she still has a couple of weeks left of the summer break) so we could watch the last couple of episodes. Snatches of shared escapism matter. Recently, various friends and contacts have had relationship breakdowns. Prioritising communication and time together matters.

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  The #Finch app said I should "doodle a quick self-portrait" today. I don't like looking at my face, and I suck at drawing human faces. So I did... Depictions instead. #depression #indecision #Fibromyalgia #ChronicPain #doodle #sketch

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  If you have any contacts who use #Instagram - do tell them they have to opt out of they don't want ***everyone on Instagram*** to be able to use AI to make images from their uploaded photos... I know these are "public photos", but people share them because they want them shared as-is, not to have them warped or altered. https://www.wired.com/story/meta-now-lets-anyone-use-your-instagram-photos-in-ai-images-unless-you-opt-out/

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  I kinda wish you could refine "followed hashtags" on #Mastodon. Like, I want to have a feed of #FFXIV but excluding NSFW ones. I have the content/picture filter on, but I swear sometimes I'm scrolling past more blanked out screenshots and gross content warning titles to find clean posts. I ought to be grateful people use the content warnings. But I'd prefer to create a "clean feed" to be honest. Any tools/platforms or tricks out there to achieve that?

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  It might have been added to #Finch recently, or I may have only just noticed it. But you can switch your birbhouse light on and off. This is also true in the daytime. And, of course, if you actually have lights. 🐦‍⬛ #FinchApp #SelfCare #Android

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  Hey folks, This week's attempts to pull my sleep time back have flopped. The two days I managed around 2am, and woke up earlier, I also had really high pain and low energy. So I got no more done, nor did I feel any better from the earlier days. I haven't given up, and 2 days isn't a trend. But there's no point going to bed in tons of pain either. So I'm about to continue this #pencilsketch which is getting closer to being finished. #handdrawn #drawnby...

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  I'm still really prone to headaches, having managed two PC sessions all week. One of those was just writing in a dark mode text editor, and I still got the headache. But I've managed some writing. I've also been trying to find a good #android photo editor/tweaker that does not have AI integrated. I'm mostly using Image Toolbox, though I struggle to edit brightness/contrast. Other Free(mium), No AI, no cloud upload recommendations? #apps #noAI https://f-dr...

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  Hey folks, Things are still messy. But wifey and I are trying to make them less so with a bit of planning, and more caffeine and food at the start of the day to try and lower my oversleeping. I'm currently in the process of typing up some #writing and then posting to Patreon and Ko-Fi. Whether I have any energy left to play a game or not, I don't know. I've not been able to progress any of my own projects consistently for months. I'm fed up of my mental and ph...

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  Proofreading my #writing on my phone in the lounge does have a feline advantage over using my PC in my garden office.🐈‍⬛ #cats #blackcat

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  On a functional question... Can anyone who uses @Vivaldi on an #Android device tell me how I can close *and reopen* tab groups? I feel I'm being dense. Firefox forks save "tab groups" as "Collections" of bookmarks, which is a close enough for now. But I don't want to close a Vivaldi tab group and lose the tabs either. #Vivaldi #vivaldiAndroid #VivaldiBrowser

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  @mootpoint@convo.casa I'm just about to catch up on the situation. We're in Scotland, so hoping some areas are more sane.

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  Tonight's progress, before having the daylight lamp colour started to hurt my head. 🖍️ the ground is still very rough and scrawly, but has a few colour layers 🖍️ body has a bit more depth of colour 🖍️ first layers of green added on the tails 🖍️ black rings added to its back. Haven't decided on the inner colour yet 🖍️ stones sort of added 🖍️ basic inference of shadows #drawing #wip #fantasy #ColouredPencils #handdrawn

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  I am finding it difficult with my health at the moment, in that it's feeling tangibly restricting. I've been up 13hrs and I'll be heading to bed shortly. I'm not getting much done, I miss escaping my thoughts by gaming and I kind of feel "purposeless", if that's a real word. I'm overdue a catch-up with wifey but I'm in a real "what's the point?" phase, at the moment. Not self-destructing. But...

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  @NetscapeNavigator@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net not all people with faith are "religious fanatics". If you're an atheist, you don't need to be labeled an "atheistic fanatic". Even Vivaldi said freedom of religion is for everyone (including the right not to have one).

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  @britt@mstdn.games does using fidgets help the RA because you're using those joints, or make it worse through repetition?