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Lona Theartlav
@theartlav.bsky.social
I make, procrastination permitting. Hang out otherwise. (she/her 🏳️‍⚧️)

Mostly post and repost tech stuff and trans stuff, with a sprinkling of art here and there.

Where i keep my stuff: https://orbides.org
Sigh.
I'm emotionally exhausted.
The waiting, the instability, the myriad of things that could go wrong, it's all taking it's toll.
December 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far

i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Parasocial relationships suck.
Just hits you into the feeling of "i wish i had a friend like this", but there is no way from here to there.

Social media makes it worse. Cause technically you can talk with all these people, but nothing good ever comes out of that.
March 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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A trans gal getting fake tiddies is like an angel getting it's wings. 🤭
if you have received several thousand new followers from starter packs, it is your sacred responsibility to set the tone of the bluesky for this new generation with some devastatingly property value lowering posts
November 28, 2024 at 12:37 PM
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"AI art is democratizing creation" creation is already democratic pick up a pencil homie
June 1, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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It feels futile - BUT IT ISN'T!!!! Keep living, keep fighting, you matter!! And you can make a difference, even if it's small 🔥🔥🔥
November 8, 2024 at 2:50 PM
A bit older than 2014, but here is me from 2024 doing some time travel.
October 3, 2024 at 6:30 PM
So i spent the day trying to figure out while a certain new old stock wifi printer didn't work.
It kept printing the wrong colours.
I kept tweaking the setting.
Then the definitions.
Then the processing pipeline.
Then i went deeper and reverse engineered it's protocol and wrote my own driver.

1/2
September 3, 2024 at 12:52 AM
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July 13, 2024 at 7:28 AM
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💙
June 29, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Another day, another sunset.
June 2, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Another day, another view from above.
May 31, 2024 at 5:37 PM
I do enjoy having a proper full sized mirror.
(how did we even get there...)
May 30, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Another day, another sunset.
May 30, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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Very early cat photo - ca. 1850! art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/5044...
May 18, 2024 at 1:47 AM
Never thought i l'll ever come by this place.
April 19, 2024 at 4:12 AM
The eclipse.
25 years and 7 attempts later, it finally worked out. The weather in Dallas held.
It was so worth it.
April 8, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Adventures in north america, mini notes #5:

Whomever designed public bathrooms in this country, are they aware of the Fourth Amendment?

Or is it 14th?

...do you even have privacy rights in this country?
April 7, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Hello anxiety, my old friend. What made you show up after being gone for 5 months?

Funny how my stress responses seem to be delayed by something like a week.
And it's always something new.
April 7, 2024 at 6:16 PM
When i was younger i used to be able to tell the day of the week of any date within a few years.

The spiral of years clicks, the months have marks on them, the days have colours.

Add the click of the year to the mark of the month to the colour of the day, and you get a day of the week.

1/2
April 7, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Adventures in north america, mini notes #4:

Abolish cars.

That's it. That's the note.
April 5, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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reskeet to give a trans woman a little treat
April 4, 2024 at 12:21 AM
PSA: Don't clean your earpods while lying down. Getting ear wax into your eye stings like hell.
April 3, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Adventures in north america, mini notes #3:

Syphonic toilets are an atrocity.

They do give me an insight on the other side of the "do you wipe sitting or standing" discussion, however.
April 3, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Hmm. I wonder how many times i can charge my phone from this one powerbank.
Still running everything on my hoard of european energy.
April 3, 2024 at 1:59 AM