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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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  @Taweret@timeloop.cafe I hope you know that's a compliment.😉

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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?

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  Happy #StarWarsDay one and all. I don't know if my pain will allow gaming tonight, so here's my #Finch birb instead. #MayThe4thBeWithYou #MayTheFourthBeWithYou

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  As the UK begins to lurch in the destructive patterns displayed elsewhere in the world, wifey and I voiced a desire to emigrate. We have another couple of years to decide which planet to live on. In other news, NJ got me this mini #Lego Mandalorian kit for the #StarWarsDay just gone, so I built it just now.

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  Hey, So my pain levels are ridiculous at the moment, and I'm finding life in general very difficult. So I've not had much PC time, nor felt up to social media. But here's my current #drawing #WIP. It's not a "thing". I just wanted to invent a random #fantasy creature. The eye might be wrong, though. It's only lightly drawn in pencil, so can be fixed later if needed. #ColouredPencils #handdrawn

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  I don't get into politics on social media usually. How you vote is your choice. But if you're in a minority, of almost any kind, in the UK, I am concerned for your well-being. Who runs your local area will directly determine key aspects of your life, especially welfare and healthcare. If today's England results were a government election...look I'm only in a minority due to health. Many are in one for their very identity as and origin. Please stay safe.

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  If I've missed posts or replies the last few days, it's a combination of low social capacity, low energy, not much PC time and...forgetting to sync #OpenVibe which merges my Mastodon & Bluesky feeds. 🤦‍♂️ Now I've fixed that, it's meds & sleep time. G'night / #StaySafe / #BeKind

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  @darth I should try and watch this. Because any (Windows) game I've wanted to play on Linux works. I don't play the cutting edge or currently popular things to notice, maybe.

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  I'm finally starting to get my voice back, albeit if I hit a limit of talking I start coughing. But swallowing is getting uncomfortable due to the reoccurrence of an old issue - an inflamed uvular (the dangly bit in the back of the mouth). Last time this happened, I struggled to breath because it got so big. So we're calling the docs tomorrow to see if we can treat it early. I'm still fighting bugs like, all the time. And I'm fed up of it all.

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  Today I'm going to start on a free #FFXIV account, partly to save money because gaming's not been possible for the majority of the year so far. But part of it is to get back to just running quests and story that I know I can manage even in high pain. And to avoid the started grind-a-thon questlines I picked up. I can't put Ali through everything again, so I'm recreating one of my test characters from last year. This will last as long as I can ignore missing pla...

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  After dealing with house jobs, being around while NJ and her friend were here, reading and getting NJ to sleep, I was too tired to leave the house again. So, I decided to use remote raid passes in #PokemonGo to get Tapu Lele. Two Island Guardians down, two to go. I like raids here: I still get the moves sorted for a recommended team, and there's a manageably small amount of skill required in a good sized group. I can't afford to do remotes often, so I try to pick those that a...

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  I haven't managed to do drawing for a while. I'm still not through the illnesses. And, while I'm in a much better state now, everything is taking me ages, or my pain kicks off. I'm just about doing what must be done, but have little energy for what I'd like to do. Which is why the Tapu Lele thing earlier was important for me. Micro-escapism. Well, I'd best feed the cats and set the coffee machine for the morning. G'night // #StaySafe //...

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  Some other shots from my walk. Only one has a Pokémon in it. Now the days are longer, I can walk a bit further. And now some days are actually warm, I can #StopAndStare and take close-up #photos. #Scotland #highlands

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  Today has been really sunny and warm. Which meant I overdid everything and now I'm in leads of pain. But here's one of my photos from my walk, about 10 mins from my door. #photo #sun #trees #nofilter #Scotland #highlands