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eshep

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General love of all things linux and the choice it provides. I prefer to hang my hat in gentoo with e16 but do like to keep up with other stuff.

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Okinawa, Japan

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If someone is asking for help with using this place, could you let them know about my account, and also let them know about my website? I'm totally unofficial so people only find out about me by worth of mouth 🙂

I have a website full of easy-to-understand guides for using Mastodon and the wider Fediverse at:

➡️ fedi.tips

The section at the top of the site marked "Quick Start" is especially designed for new people who want to find out the basics.

Thanks! 🙏

#FediTips

Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.tips

#feditips

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Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱

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You do superb work. Keep it up, and bloody well done!

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Fedi.Tips

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@bytebro

Thank you, that is very kind 🙏

I hope the work is useful!

@Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱

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DaNk_MaNE#176

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This is one of the easiest and most user friendly apps on the web. Its clean and dosent flood you with unwanted feeds and engagement bait aimed to outrage. If you can use Facebook or X, Mastodon is a breeze.

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Linuxiac

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A long-standing Linux behavior is under threat as GNOME and Mozilla review a proposal to disable middle-mouse paste.
linuxiac.com/gnome-and-mozilla…

#gnome #mozilla #linux #unix #opensource

GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux

^{Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)}

#Linux #opensource #GNOME #mozilla #Unix

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Nishant Neeraj Agnihotri

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I think lots of people are about to disable mozilla. All thanks to their AI integeration.

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Samuel Santaella

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I'm actually used to middle-click enabling a cursor that lets you scroll, and was wondering how that is enabled. I'm on Kubuntu right now.

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#bothsides

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Hackaday (unofficial)

2025-12-02 22:00:14

LoRa Repeater Lasts 5 Years on PVC Pipe and D Cells

#radiohacks #alkalinecell #cat #lora #pvc #rugged #hackaday
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LoRa Repeater Lasts 5 Years On PVC Pipe And D Cells
Sometimes it makes sense to go with plain old batteries and off-the-shelf PVC pipe. That’s the thinking behind [Bertrand Selva]’s clever LoRaTube project. LoRa is a fantastic solution f…
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DelegateVoid
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Nothing you say or do could ever convince me to move to #windows

And #windows users feel exactly the
same about #linux

The difference: common sense

#Windows #Linux

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9to5Linux

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AV Linux 25 Multimedia Production Distro Brings Enlightenment to MX Linux 25 9to5linux.com/av-linux-25-mult…

#Linux #OpenSource

Screenshot of AV Linux 25 with the Enlightenment desktop environment showing the Terminology terminal emulator with an output of the fastfetch and uname -a commands.

AV Linux 25 Multimedia Production Distro Brings Enlightenment to MX Linux 25 - 9to5Linux

AV Linux 25 distribution designed for music and video production is now available for download based on MX Linux 25.

^{Marcus Nestor (9to5Linux)}

#Linux #opensource

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Yann Büchau

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#Zigbee #HomeAutomation without #HomeAssistant, instead all defined in #nix / #NixOS, this is neat! 😲

quackhack-mcblindy.github.io/b…

Declarative Home Automation with Nix

Learn how to define your smart home devices and avoid vendor lock-in

^{quackhack-mcblindy.github.io}

#ZigBee #nix #nixos #homeassistant #homeautomation

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eshep

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This is great stuff, really awesome!

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Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒

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The (new) Steam Machine is a semi-custom desktop PC.
Marketed to a massive mainstream audience.
And it ships with Linux.
And it's now part of an entire Linux gaming ecosystem.
This is a big, big deal.
(Laptop in 2027?)

The image features a black VR headset with two controllers, a handheld gaming device, and a compact gaming console with USB ports. All items are arranged on a neutral background.

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Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒

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That is a Steam Machine faceplate WITH AN E-INK DISPLAY!?

Compact black mini PC with an e-ink front display showing system stats (CPU/GPU temps, fan RPM, graphs) and a glowing RGB strip above front USB ports.

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Lyndon Lapierre

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@killyourfm

@Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒

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Wattana

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this is peak aesthetic

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Cassander

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The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. So, wake up, Mister Freeman. Wake up and smell the e-ink.

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charliemac

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hoping some or all of these boot with coreboot or libreboot

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David Attenborough looks into the ocean's depths to discuss the coelacanth, a primeval fish hidden for 400 million years

Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth

^VideoNeat

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Chewie

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Chewie
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Hey, #IPv6 nerds - in a couple of weeks' time, it's the #UKIPv6Council Annual Meeting in #London: ipv6.org.uk/2025/10/24/annual-…

Tickets are free. I went last year, and it was really interesting, so I will be going again this year.

The agenda this year looks good, and it's being hosted in the #BT Tower, so we should get a good view too!

Edit: Bah, no OG on their webpage, so I've attached a picture from their Eventbrite page instead.

Eventbrite banner for the event, showing a long shot of the BT Tower

Annual Meeting 2025 – UK IPv6 Council

^{www.ipv6.org.uk}

#London #ipv6 #bt #ukipv6council

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Tio

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Tio
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The Internet is a shithole

What drained me of power over the past years is this constant fight of debullshitting the Internet experience for me and others.

You always have to use an AdBlocker, VPNs to circumvent all sort of censorship - and for that matter change the location often else you still get blocked; find proper news sources then find their RSS, add to an RSS reader, try to read locally if these websites allow you to....else go visit their bullshit websites.

Youtube is still by far the biggest, or the only in most cases, video platform. Now even with an adblocker the youtube experience sucks - they autoplay videos, insert shorts into your face, make you click things you don't want, and now insert AI generated video description for videos.. So you have to use an app for youtube that removes these piles of poop. But these apps are constantly blocked and won't work all of the time...

I don't even want to think about search which has become a pile of nonsense. Full of fake AI websites and now when pretty much all search engines introduced AI summaries...makes searching a painful exper

What drained me of power over the past years is this constant fight of debullshitting the Internet experience for me and others.

Even Reddit, which can still feel like a "community" of people posting stuff from time to time, is a garbage. Full of fake posts and bots, and no way you can use RSS to follow subreddits. Login to see some content....endless scroll....all a bazaar.

I have to fight with "free" Wordpress plugins that insert ads into your dashboard, I have to block AI Summaries in searches, I have to keep Freetube up to date and often when videos do not work there, open in Youtube. I have to read my news in a semi-broken RSS reader since some cannot fetch all of the news, I have to install a custom OS on my phone then block ads there too, but now some banking apps do not work....a constant loop of poop, to protect yourself and your sanity, because everyone is there to fucking slice you open for a view, a click, a like...

Always always a fight against this destruction of the internet even tho all I fucking want is to read some reliable science news, watch some educational videos from time to time, and post some content or search for content. What the actual fuck....

I know why this is: TRADE. Same reason why the offline world is a shithole full of destruction, garbage, less nature, all about consuming and shops. This is what happens when humans have a primary goal of trading. Same online, these platforms are about trading, your attention, data, currency in return for a service. So it is a normal "enshitification" of the online too.

At least I have Friendica, Peertube, Nextcloud, Linux (TROMjaro) and the like, that allow me to still use the Internet in a sane way.

But man...such a shithole the Internet has become. I can't even imagine how "normal" people use it without adblockers, with relying on youtube, facebook, tiktok and such platforms....must be hell in the brain for these people.

I used to LOVE the Internet back in the days. It was like a park where you met interesting things and people. Now is like a metrostation full of ads and merchants, where everyone is in a rush to go somewhere else.

#enshitification #enshitiffication #internet #fedi #youtube #facebook #tiktok #reddit #alternatives #friendica #peertube

#Friendica #internet #alternatives #PeerTube #Reddit #tiktok #Facebook #YouTube #fedi #enshitification #enshitiffication

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Roma

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Exactly my feeling these days with the modern internet. I was updating my adblocker recently and had to disable it for a moment and then I forgot to re-enable it back and oh my fucking god.. I had to witness what the modern internet looks like without constanly blocking the shit flow of pop-ups, ads, banners and ai chat windows, fucking hell. I totally agree, I dunno how people use it these days without blocking anything, total disaster. I would be pissed off after a minute of using that shit.

There's this "joke" website to mock on the "modern internet experience" that for long time I giggled about: how-i-experience-web-today.com… but we went even waaay beyond that already I think 😵‍💫

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Tio

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I noticed people who watch youtube and have ads playing. I was shocked by the fact that they simply have accepted that. I would throw my phone into the bin if that was the case. Ads after ads after ads.

how-i-experience-web-today.com this website is really on point I swear!!

What a fucking shitshow the internet has become....but I am not surprised at all, I was sure it will become like this. If the incentive is to trade, then profit, data collection, restricted content and more ads are a normal practice...

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Mindaugas

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as a regular user, my experience is better. I don't "fight" that much, but use alternatives. And install alternatives for others.

Some examples how I do it differently:
- Adblocker (never used) -> Brave browser
- RSS reader -> Inoreader (paid service)
- Censorship -> I have not experienced it somehow
- Wordpress -> Drupal (a truly open source, clean without ads, non commercial experience, but has no templates YET, so it was very time and knowledge intensive to build websites with, but things are changing, and they are creating a 'template marketplace', it means commercializing 💰 a little bit, more info inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=WNEyg3U… (starts from 14:25), but it is reducing time needed to build a website. You may find some interesting things in this talk. What they are showing in this talk, is all new for me as well, despite me using Drupal since forever. They are completely reimagining how Drupal worked, or copying wordpress (and

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Mindaugas

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P.S.
"Censorship -> I have not experienced it somehow"
Remembered few exceptions. Once I opened facebook (usually I never use it) and wrote a post about dangers of AI and it immediately disappeared, so I thought facebook was censoring it (and there are endless news stories about big tech censoring alternatives: facebook deleting info about linux or pixelfed, or x censoring info about signal or mastodon etc.). So yea, I had some little experience with big tech and immediately they censored.

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Tio

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I used Drupal in the past. Yes could be a good alternative to WP. As for Brave as far as I know they insert trackers and are also adding other AI-like features and bloat. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(w…

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klu9

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@mindaugas

Re Youtube, I use #Freetube to avoid ads, autoplay, algoradicalization etc

Downside, it often breaks & you have to wait until the devs find a solution to Youtube's sabotage

ohai.social/@klu9/115245207831…

klu9 (@klu9@ohai.social)

Watch party fans: avoid disruption from ads in streaming films by using FIREFOX + UBLOCK ORIGIN for practically everything (YouTube, Tubi, Prime, Plex, Fawesome, Mometu etc) FREETUBE for YouTube on Linux, Mac or Windows https://freetubeapp.

^{klu9 (ohai.social)}

#freetube @Mindaugas

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Kellen

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I read a lot about 21st century science but a lot happened in the 20th century in science (oh wow how much happened) and Jacques Fresco left a list of books about things I can't find in popular books and in scientific articles so I decided to use AI to my advantage I downloaded for example the book (i find in this list: frescofoundation.org/library) Engineers Dreams of Ley Willy or Flatow, Ira - They All Laughed (Excellent book on the story and the important details about the greatest inventions in history) form annas-archive.org I converted it to a TXT file (about 800kb) I uploaded it to the artificial intelligence service I use (Lumo) and asked it to summarize each chapter for me and then instead of reading a 150-page book (which scares away 99% of people), you read an web like article that summarizes the book for you and if one chapter is very interesting to you, you can request an extension on that chapter from Lump or go to a PDF file and read the 8-page chapter for example. I want t... show more

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Tio

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I wont tryst an LLM to make a summary of a book honestly... Yes these LLMs can find you some good materials, but is up to you to read/watch them, dont let these LLMs summarize for you content...I would hate if my books were red like that by people to be honest, since they are made the way they are to construct a point...a summary by an AI is, in my view, a bad idea.

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Rokosun

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Yeah this whole situation is very relatable, I always try to find new ways to block ads and get rid of these BS as much as possible. But now I feel like soon I'll also have to fight my own devices and OS just to install the apps I want to, now that Google is planning to drop support for 3rd party app stores like f-droid - this shit is honestly insane and I'm sure will kill many adblockers and 3rd party YouTube apps which block ads, along with a bunch of good FOSS projects.....

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Tio

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Yah true...forgot about that incoming shitsunami

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MegatronicThronBanks

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I use Brave (sue me), but also Youtube Enhancer, which gives back a lot of control, uBlock Origin, and a nifty Youtube extension called 'Remove Youtube Suggestions'. Apart from the odd lockup, I never see anything except the videos I choose any more.
It's making me think I should pay for an account, but $11 is too much. $3 maybe.

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This's prolly the most awesomest polar design I've ever seen!

Hackaday (unofficial)

2025-10-19 00:00:16

A Toolchanging Inverse SCARA 3D Printer

#3dprinterhacks #3dprinter #multiextruder #polarcoordinates #scara #hackaday
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A Toolchanging Inverse SCARA 3D Printer
There are some times when a picture, or better yet a video, really is worth a thousand words, and [heinz]’s dual-disk polar 3D printer is one of those projects. Perhaps the best way to describe it …
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These are the sort of skills I like to teach all my new electronics maintainers; learn how to use the tools you have. If you learn the skills you need to do things when you don't have the ""proper tools"" at hand, you'll be much better prepared to apply them when you do have those tools. It's also a great feeling when you realise that you don't need the expensive tool you thought you needed, or all the extra gadgets that you didn't really need either.

Hackaday (unofficial)

2025-10-13 21:00:11

SMD Soldering with Big Iron

#toolhacks #smdsoldering #solderingiron #hackaday
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SMD Soldering With Big Iron
You have some fine pitch soldering to do, but all you have on hand is a big soldering iron. What do you do? There are a few possible answers, but [Mr SolderFix] likes to pull a strand from a large …
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Hackaday (unofficial)

2025-10-14 00:00:13

Etching Atomically Fine Needle Points

#3dprinterhacks #chemistryhacks #electrochemical #etching #microneedle #reprapmicron #hackaday
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Etching Atomically Fine Needle Points
[Vik Olliver] has been extending the lower resolution limits of 3D printers with the RepRapMicron project, which aims to print structures with a feature size of ten micrometers. A molten plastic ex…
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masukomi

3 months ago • •

masukomi
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Dear #3DPrinting people who are familiar with #CAD

Upload your "stupid" models.

There is nothing special about this "dumb" tray. It's just a five sided box with filleted edges, but it's been downloaded 79 times on Printables.

Lots of folks have 3D printers but don't know how to model things in CAD.

79 folks either got something useful they didn't know how to make themselves, or had time saved by not having to model it themselves.

Your "stupid" models are worth uploading.

a 3d printed valet tray with a watch, a pocket-knife, and two pens in it. It's printed in bright orange filament, and sits on a granite countertop.

#3dprinting #cad

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@masukomi
Exactly! The "but I only made it for me, for a very niche use" excuse I always tell myself is bullshit. There are so many ""stupid"" parts out there that someone's built, which, if no use to you as a thing itself, can maybe be used to help build the cool thing you do want, or just help spark an idea for a better thing.

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Linuxiac

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Switching to Linux is less about technical hurdles and more about adjusting your mindset. Here's why.
linuxiac.com/the-only-thing-st…

#linux #mindset

The Only Thing Stopping You from Switching to Linux Is Your Mindset

^{Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)}

#Linux #mindset

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3D Printing #3Dprinting

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3D Printing #3Dprinting
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»EPFL Develops New 3D Printing Method for Dense Metal and Ceramic Objects - 3DPrinting.com« 3dprinting.com/news/epfl-devel… #3Dprinting #3Dprint #3DPrinter #3DP #3Dable.IT #3Dimensional.IT

EPFL Develops New 3D Printing Method for Dense Metal and Ceramic Objects - 3D Printing

Researchers at EPFL have developed a 3D printing technique that creates metal and ceramic objects with improved density and strength.

^{3DPrinting.com}

#3dprinting #3dprint #3dprinter #3dp #3dable #3dimensional

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It's only #doomscrolling if it involves exploding zombies, the BFG-9000, and an inexplicable abundance of medical supplies. Otherwise it's just sparkling despair.

#Doom #shitpost

#doomscrolling #doom #shitpost

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I'd like to hear opinions on FOSS Browser for #android. I've had it installed for quite some time, but rarely open it anymore since site redirection (#nitter/#redlib/#invidious) is almost pointless now. Is it something I should prolly have another go at, or just stick with #Firefox as I've been doing? Maybe there's something else I should try?

#android #firefox #Nitter #Invidious #redlib

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I found over the years that bladder control is a very important aspect of being an actor. What's an unexpected skill that your character might have because of their profession?

#writing #acting #WritingCommunity #ttrpg #AmWriting

Brigitte Helm on the set of the movie Metropolis. A woman in a robot costume, but with the helmet off so she can have a break and sip some fluids.

#amWriting #writing #ttrpg #WritingCommunity #acting

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