Disused, disintegrating factories and schools, near-empty night-time train platforms, odd stones in the hills, distortions seen through glass. All those agoraphobically-vast interior spaces and claustrophobically-forested exterior spaces–the shared art that I find most compelling and comforting here is an almost-overlapping set with childhood bad dreams.
Now remembering the time I caused myself year-long lower back pain by standing up from a sofa the wrong way.
Managed to somehow punch the inside (?) front wall (??) of my washing machine while (quite sedately) lifting clothes into it. Possibly as hard as I’ve punched anything in my life.
The kind of day you can hear the weight of things; cars panting quietly, crackling over the thin snow-on-ice crust.
I’ve never had any interest in Instagram, but so much of what I follow on Mastodon turns out to be superb, starkly moody photography by superb (starkly moody?) photographers.
Mediaeval gigafactories (of the high gothic style) (defunct).
Doors to nowhere.
The forest makes its own light.
Figures of uncertain intent, obscured by mist.
Let the ridiculous seasonal nerdery begin! Using Advent of Code to teach myself Rust (in neovim … on an iPad… using ShellFish by @palmin 😅). I’m a long way from idiomatic usage, all my code still looks like Swift.
Bonus: got to write a function named ‘get_most_calorific_elf’!
Living that rockstar life
Stable-Diffusion-generated weird fiction writing prompt: sinister, high mountain forests.
Using Stable Diffusion to generate weird-fiction writing prompts can produce some incredibly scenic ruins…
Can rain get inside and move around in the walls?
Looks like daylight is just too opaque to make it through the windows today, only functional outdoors. I think the mice under the floor are using the rain to disguise a fairly major re-org.
Just had the, until now, uniquely birdsite experience of having to infer a fairly major real world event through vague but escalating contextless posts about it. Twitter Migration fully complete.
Another introduction for the Twitter Migration firehose:
I’m a software developer working on iOS Swift in Big Corporate IT (TM) by day, dabbling in Rust by night, hoping to (one day!) complete my hobby app.
I’m currently way behind my NaNoWriMo target but still moving forward. I’m delighted to see that is a non-empty ‘WeirdFiction’ hashtag on Mastodon and that the incredible @mjohnharrison is a tooter*!
*Apologies if that turns out to be an incredibly offensive term.