Lewin

omg how did you get the sign

Feels like this place is kinda self-selected for good vibes

^___^

(Yes I agree mods here are NOT excellent but all of YOU are)

I do think it's a little sad that the Weird Car Twitter culture didn't quite make the transition over to Bluesky

Maybe it's The Horrors (TM), maybe it's thay #weirdcarbs just isn't catchy enough.

I dunno. Still, the vibes here are immaculate compared to anywhere else. I'm glad we're here.

dear fucking god shapes how are you this good

5 jobs I have had:

casting engineer
digital marketing lead
mechanical engineer
embedded engineer (electronics is fun!)
journalist

Now looking for a new career because writing doesn't pay these days...

If someone doesn't fix the US dollar I am *not going to be happy* in the next quarter 🙃

oh dear what happened

No idea what that is but I'll look into it. Tbh willing to try anything at this point.

I've been on CPAP for six months with great AHI numbers and compliance and I still feel terrible most of the time, sadly.

Been longing for that change but it hasn't come yet!

spending ever greater sums of money on more medical treatments that never seem to work in a last ditch attempt to turn my life around

I think the worst thing is that it's really harming my ability to do things.

I can barely work these days, let alone get on with any of my own projects. It's kind of keeping me from getting anywhere in life, I miss being productive like in my 20s.

unclear if my lack of achievement is due to something inherently damaged about me or merely a failure to properly manage sleep apnea

George C Scott as General Buck Turgidson, hand on his head, face pulling itself in amazing directions

we're all so lucky that the funniest a guy has ever looked was recorded on film

a chair by a window with greenery outside

a chair by a window with greenery outside

want an album cover shot in remarkably low resolution? i gotchu, fam

cute Converse All Stars with pink glitter finish

oh wait, I did take a better photo!

these are the cutest shoes I will ever own.

oh that's fun! i wonder what the output would look all said and done

a mirror selfie with the charmera

Against that back drop, a silly little digital camera that takes charmingly bad photos?

I love it. Best $50 I spent in ages.

I could do it with any sort of camera, really. I love my Polaroid for that reason, for example.

It's just a bit hard to bank roll in the era when we're all going broke because a rotisserie chicken is $40 now.

cherry pits photographed on a wooden table

The thing I love about this camera is that it's just a fun excuse to take pictures. Because of that, I end up taking WAY more silly little pictures that come with lots of fun little memories and stories.

I just don't do that with a smartphone!

a hand on a wooden table, with pink nail polish.

Bright daylight is key for grabbing anything with color.

my friend Tom at a pub. and me.

Tom has a beer!

Friends!

The Charmera does not have dynamic range. It just doesn't.

A group of real and bootleg Pokemon plushies. Clockwise, we have Snorlax, Wonkychu, someone?, Strongmander, and Jagglypaff.

Home with the family!

The trick to good Charmera shots is LOTS of light and a steady hand.

The War Machine has been bested by our heroes.

This combat took a full four hours until we could wipe all the combatants and claim the War Machine as our own.

Our DM invested heavily to buy all this gear and it was so fun to finally get to play with all of it!

A vehicular combat scene in D&D 5e. The flame ring on the Infernal War Machine represents the area of effect of the Darkness spell, cast by Aelar to blind the driver and fighters on board.

Vehicular combat in D&D 5e is... janky. And yet... this was the greatest combat I've *ever* played.

I was able to cast Darkness on the War Machine, which blinded the driver and the enemies upon it. The cool thing is that Darkness moves with the object you cast it on, which my DM did not expect!

Aelar, standing beside his flaming steed, Stephanie.

Try to imagine a 5ft. wood elf on a flaming, flying steed and you get how glorious it really is.

His name is Aelar, and her name is Stephanie. They are quite a pair in the air.

D&D characters do battle with a giant War Machine vehicle

We wound up in combat with an infernal war machine. My Paladin got a flying horse! (A Nightmare)

a glooby pink squishy toy for fidgeting, resting on a smartphone

a globby bear squoosh toy. for fidgeting purposes.

a stack of blue & gold D&D dice

An excellent dice stack from our bard.