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May your next 6 months be happier than your last 6 months. May they be softer on your heart kinder to your mind. And full of little moments that remind you you're becoming everything you're meant to be.

Drawing of a tired puppy with the caption; "this too shall pass but like holy f"

Mood

cat asleep on his back in bed

that's about how I feel too buddy

Moving has me asking many fun questions, such as: "How did I end up with so many fucking tchotchkes?" And "Where did all these goddamn rubber ducks come from??"

A wooden crate with sun and star cutouts and a rack for hanging clothes above it with a yellow ribbon tied in a bow in the middle. In the crate is bee themed burp cloths, a frida baby FlakeFixer, mamãe e bebê massage oil, infant ear defenders, and suction cup bath toys. Hanging from the rack is eight neutral toned onesies/bodysuits and one collared black and white striped onesie (similar to the one referees might wear)

Gotta start prepping to be the favorite uncle early (and yes that IS a baby referee onesie with ear protection, thank you for noticing!)

reminder if you're going to a protest this weekend: don't post pictures of yourself at the event, change your phone settings to code only (no finger print or face unlock), and bring water for yourself.

wearing a mask is great to protect your health and your identity, while also protecting others.

Anyway ignore the three spools on their way to my house, if they're for robot stuff it totally doesn't count, right?

The issue with owning a printer is there's so much pretty filament out there and I only have so much space in my dining room...

UK friends, especially those in Scotland: watch robots fight in person!

My ref buddy!

You could always come to Jersey...🤔

Watch NHRL is the world's most competitive and accessible combat robotics league. Builders design and construct remote-controlled machines and fight them head-to-head in one of our six arenas. We host a series of tournaments throughout the year, attended in-person and streamed online to tens of thousands of fans. Anyone can bring a robot: Registration for each tournament is free and open to the public.

Tomorrow is the big day! The last NHRL event before our 3-month summer break.

The action starts at 9 am ET here. Or, come by at 7 pm for our big Prime Time broadcast!

https://www.nhrl.io/watch

Such a sweet read! Absolutely love seeing y'all on the fight schedule because I know I'll get to see some epic driving.

The ballad of Bean Supreme: Refried Designed by an 11-year-old, engineered by a music major.

Blogs two days in a row! That's enough for another year or so, probably.

In this post, I tell the story of the third-best day of my life.

Abducting people at work sites - meaning they have jobs.
Capturing them at court dates - meaning they're following the law.
Blocking them from accessible higher education - meaning they're striving for more.
And peddling lies about jobless, lawless, driftless.

No cops at Pride includes the cop in your head who tells you to police other queer people. Learn the difference between being uncomfortable and being harmed. Deal with your discomfort on your own time. Pride is for the community, not just you.

Every year I gotta deal with Hide the Pride people messing with my displays so please do this so you too can help tired librarians keep their sanity and protect LGBTQ services and programming at your libraries!

mouse with a prism refracting all the colors of the rainbow onto him

HAPPY PRIDE MOUSE

Providing myself enrichment by watching the May NHRL Qualifying Rounds and quietly reffing along. June 7th better get here soon, y'all.

Memes I've made while fighting with my printer late at night

It is in fact robot related, I'm currently building my first robot and as someone who has zero prior tech experience, I am SO glad I started with a plastic wedgebot and not the beater beetle I was looking at. I'm making full use of the GSCRL discord, there's lots of great resources in there.

You can get rid of the unwanted AI summary in your google results simply by adding the word "fucking" to your search terms

I've just been walking around my apartment quietly muttering "I'm not dumb I'm just learning something new, I'm not stupid I am just not knowledgeable about a topic and that's okay"
You can't learn if you don't try!

One day, I will be able to get into something new without feeling dumb. Today is not that day, but rest assured, when it comes? It'll be iconic. Anyway, morale snack had, time to dive back in.

Oh tell me about it! Yesterday's check is going towards the electrical components for the plant im printing right now. Excited to see y'all back in Jersey!

Sounds like you should ref Saturday and compete Sunday. GSCRL misses you!

That's the plan! Saturday NHRL and Sunday GSCRL. We're gonna have a whole little convoy going on.

Thanks man, was great to see you!