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Eliot Lash
@eliot-l.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
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I make #Videogames, live concert visuals, and procedural/interactive art. He/him.🌹🏳️‍🌈✡️

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My friend Ramy is raising funds to help grow food for his community in #gaza using UV lamps. Please help him this #givingtuesday and beyond.

https://chuffed.org/project/grow-food-gaza-uv-tech

I've known Ramy since 2017. You can learn more about him and his […]

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Photo of Ramy, a Palestinian man in his twenties with black hair. He is in a tent because the IDF destroyed his family's home. An edible plant under a UV grow lamp, in bright light. An edible plant under a UV grow lamp, in the dark with purple UV light.
December 3, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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And of course it runs #doom! Crispy Doom and GZDoom to be exact. And it even runs SDL Sopwith! Thanks to @fraggle for the foundational work on these.
Doom E1M1 on the RGB30 SDL Sopwith splash screen on the RGB30
October 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Got myself a used #powkiddy #rgb30 #RK3566 #retrohandheld as a VERY belated birthday gift for myself! People seem to largely get this type of device for retro emulation but I am just as excited for #portmaster and #pico8 in a handheld form factor!

#starcontrol2 […]

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UFO 50 splash screen displayed on the RGB30, a mint green gaming handheld vaguely resembling a PS vita or something like that Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters splash screen on the RGB30 Celeste Pico-8 on the RGB30
October 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Been a long time since I posted for #caturday!

#cats #catsofmastodon #catsoffedi
A black and white tuxedo cat (Ponzu) is splayed out in a green dining room chair, underneath a wooden table. A black cat (Athena) is forming a heart shape with her body, sitting in my lap.
September 14, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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I made a gay little paint program that runs in the browser to cap off #pridemonth! https://eliot-l.itch.io/rainbow-paint

#p5js #creativecoding #javascript #badgamejam
Screenshot of rainbow paint showing a squiggly line and dots in a gradient of colors
July 1, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Finished my #cutman build, this is my first #nanoblock build!
This is a lot smaller than #lego, I should have included a penny for scale in the photo but he's about 2" wide and 3" tall.

#megaman
Cutman and "Bunby Heli" enemies made from nanoblock. Cutman in "detached cutter" state, throwing his cutter which is hovering on a transparent stand.
April 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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#functionalprogramming #programmerhumor
"Stop doing X" meme format. STOP DOING FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING. FOR LOOPS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN NAMES. YEARS OF HOFS yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for going higher than CALLBACKS. Wanted to go higher anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called AbstractWidgetLocalizerManagerFactoryBe... "Yes please FOLD over this collection. Please give me a CURRIED function" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged. LOOK at what Functional Programmers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the boilerplate & compilers we built for them. (These are REAL Functions, done by REAL Functional Programmers ): (Series of type screenshots of a lens, a Profunctor, and some type of Maybe Monad, captioned by a series of increasingly long strings of red question marks.) "Hello I would like a Monad m please" They have played us for absolute fools.
March 15, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Interesting tool to estimate the gender breakdown of your slice of the #fediverse:
https://mastodon-gender-distribution.up.railway.app/

via https://social.coop/@dajb/114026709176396108
Screenshot of table data output: People you follow: 6% nonbinary, 59% men, 34% women. Followers: 7% nonbinary, 67% men, 26% women Timeline: 9% nonbinary, 60% men, 32% women. Others are "no gender/unknown".
February 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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For the #globalgamejam2025 We made a #fumblecore bubble popping game inspired by #qwop with a custom-built #arduino bubble wrap controller!
https://globalgamejam.org/games/2025/pwop-9

You can also play it with a keyboard, downloadable or in your browser […]

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A laptop running PWOP has the keyboard covered with a hand-drawn PWOP sign. It's connected to a phone-sized box with 18 translucent plastic bubbles on top reminiscent of bubble wrap. Hands holding a phone-sized box with 18 translucent plastic bubbles on top, reminiscent of bubble wrap. Screenshot of PWOP showing two disembodied, low-poly cyan hands trying to grasp some white bubbles on top of a magenta rectangle. Arduino Leonardo microcontroller board wired to a bread board with 6 mini switches for testing our custom controller firmware.
January 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Beebe and Clegg's #railroad car "The Gold Coast" is on display at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. They have an online exhibit about them here: https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/cCmepqV9DPQOi

So happy to learn about these out and proud […]

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Exterior of "The Gold Coast" rail car, a dark green car, inside the railroad museum. Another angle on the exterior of "The Gold Coast" rail car, a dark green car, inside the railroad museum. View through the window into the lounge area of the rail far. It's adorned with a plush couch, curtains, and flowers on a table. A plaque reads "Observation-Lounge. Outfitted with a week's provisions, a chef and porter, Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg traveled thousands of miles during the late 1940s aboard their private car The Gold Coast. Plaque showing old photos of the gold coast car and the life magazine cover of Lucius Beebe. Plaque reads: GEORGIA NORTHERN RAILWAY PRIVATE CAR NO. 100 The private car was the late nineteenth century's status symbol and a vehicle for the display of wealth, power, and prestige. "The Gold Coast" is styled after the elegant and opulent cars of that time. The 100, like most private cars, changed ownership several times. It first appeared in official records in 1905 as a business car for the Central of Georgia Railway, and later saw service on three other southern railroads. Writers Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg purchased the car in 1948 and christened it "The Gold Coast." With the help of a Hollywood interior decorator, they transformed the car to its present appear- ance. Aboard "The Gold Coast," based in the Virginia & Truckee's Carson City yards, Beebe and Clegg wrote several books and entertained friends. In 1954 they presented the car to the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society. Built: Central of Georgia Railway(?), ca. 1895 d Length: 82' Weight: 156,000 lbs. Presented by Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Pacific Coast Chapter
January 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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I think more people should know the story of Lucius Beebe. He and his boyfriend Charles Clegg owned several luxurious private railway cars starting in the 50's. He was a journalist and noted fashionista who once appeared on the cover of Life magazine […]

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Cover of Life Magazine from January 16, 1939 with a photo of Lucius Beebe. Title: "Lucius Beebe sets a style." He has on a dapper outfit including a top hat, blazer, tie, and waistcoat with chain. His hands are gloved and he is holding a cigar.
January 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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I created a #discord #diceroller script for #yagpdb for the #cosmererpg plot die, feel free to use it or add it to your own sever.
https://gist.github.com/fadookie/e4d072edd5ecb85bd6d63478cca5ea17

#stormlightrpg #stormlightarchive #ttrpg #dice #cosmere #brandonsanderson
Picture of a physical 3D plot die from the Cosmere RPG showing "opportunity", "complication 4", and blank faces. Screenshot of discord showing a few example rolls of the plot die command.
January 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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2 days ago, Ramy successfully repaired a fried motherboard on his Laptop. A charger he bought had reverse polarity and fried a MOSFET and transistor. He replaced them and it works again. 5/
Detail on the repaired motherboard, showing a green PCB and various surface-mount components. Repaired motherboard, showing a green PCB and various surface-mount components. Dell laptop with exposed motherboard showing successful boot. Schematic of the damaged area of the motherboard.
January 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Ramy made a home-made lab bench power supply. He sent me some photos of it powering some equipment including an #olpc XO-1 Laptop which he managed to install Windows on. (This was when we first started talking in 2018 as he was looking for help with the OS installation.)

4/
OLPC XO-1 laptop running off Ramy's home-made power supply. Ramy's home-made power supply connected to two multimeters. Ramy's home-made power supply connected to some type of gauge.
January 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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I will add some descriptions of some of Ramy's projects where evidence of them survives.

Here is a Windows keychain Ramy made out of copper-clad PCB. He printed an image and made a special ironing machine to iron it onto a copper sheet. He made his own etching […]

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Retro Microsoft Windows logo keychain made out of copper-clad PCB. The logo is copper-colored over a metallic silvery background. PCB material showing cutout of windows logo. PCB material showing windows logo in rectangular block of material, not yet trimmed to shape.
January 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Ramy Awny Sultan is a self-taught electronics engineer from #gaza. His brother was killed, and 7 months ago the IDF destroyed his home and workshop and he lost all evidence of his projects. He refuses to help Hamas and wants to escape Gaza. He is not asking for […]

[Original post on social.coop]
Photo of Ramy on his eBike. The eBike has since been destroyed. Photo of Ramy's DIY electronics lab. There is a desk and chair and many shelves filled with electronics equipment. The lab has since been destroyed. Rubble; what remains of Ramy's home which was completely destroyed. Another angle on the Rubble; what remains of Ramy's home which was completely destroyed.
January 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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#steamreplay #steam #videogames #indiegames #kentuckyroutezero #riven #CitizenSleeper #ufo50 #marvelmidnightsuns
Eliot's Steam Replay 2024. 59 games played. 90 achievements. 320 sessions. 41 new games. Most played games by % of playtime: Kentucky Route Zero 18% Riven (2024) 14% Citizen Sleeper 11% UFO 50 9% Marvel's Midnight Suns 9%
December 19, 2024 at 5:40 AM
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#caturday with an extra #dog visitor too.

#cats #catsofmastodon #catsoffedi #dogsofmastodon #DogsOfFedi
A black cat (Athena) and Tuxedo cat (Ponzu) sit on a maroon futon bed next to a black and tan terrier mix dog (Lincoln).
December 14, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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Just finished the audiobook for Play Nice by Jason Schreier, a history of #blizzardentertainment. I was a fan of Blizzard as a kid but kind of stopped playing their games around the #starcraft 2 beta. It was interesting to get the inside story about their […]

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Cover for Jason Schreier's Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future Of Blizzard Entertainment. Text on top says "New york times bestselling author of press reset and blood, sweat, and pixels." The words "play nice" are in the blizzard logo font and an axe is sticking out of a cracked "E".
December 6, 2024 at 6:56 AM
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[no alt, test]

This is a test of @alt_text
December 5, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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It's now after Thanksgiving so I accept #christmas costumes and decorations. We don't have a Hanukkah costume for Lincoln!

#Mondog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #DogsOfFedi
Lincoln, a 25 lb black and tan terrier mix, laying on a grey couch, with only his snoot and hand poking out from under a giant Santa hat.
December 2, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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"change my mind" table guy meme with sign: "If chocolate comes froma cocoa and cocoa comes froma trees and trees are plants so chocolate is basically salad. Change my mind."
November 27, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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No DuckDuckGo this is not what I meant. 🤦
Good old namespace collisions. (Searching for "ghost ActivityPub yields much better results.)

#ghost #federation #activitypub
DuckDuckGo search for "ghost federation". All the first page results are for "Federation of the Americas" from "Call of Duty: Ghosts".
November 26, 2024 at 11:52 PM
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[Food(+)]

There's something delightfully uncanny about seeing an unfamiliar version of a familiar product. Our friend who lives in #thailand brought us some #pringles with a Thai twist. I tried the spicy grilled squid flavor, it was tasty!

#food #snacks
Three cans of Pringles chips in three flavors: Garlic Prawn, Grilled Squid, and Tangy Prawn. The cans are bilingual in English and Thai.
November 26, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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#iplayed #powergrid Benelux expansion with some friends tonight. We powered up the Netherlands and Belgium!

#boardgames
A rather full 4-player setup for Power Grid showing The Netherlands and Belgium with many colored house pieces in them and some power plant cards.
November 25, 2024 at 6:47 PM