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hiya! #introduction?

i’m taking.. consults watch …the pandemic off from facilitating productions in the arts, and your more in-person aspects of activism and advocacy in community. meanwhile, a lot of my attention has been on decolonial thought & practice; issues in community organising; urban nurture of ecology; multilingual stenography theory; dance and music from xentonal/-rhythmic/-timbral and social perspectives; mechanics of bicycles in terms of adaptive cycling; and assessment of wheelchair design. i conduct a lot of wobbly darning and weaving now, too. & hang on—what’s that! a somewhat begrudging interest in computing?

in recent years, i’ve been considering a variety of ways to build a cosy venue on the internet for a small bunch of people. i’m personally rapt with the gemini protocol (despite being yet to get serving anything in gemspace), but reckon the go may be a pubnix-socmed blend that maintains some connection webward. cue intermittant wild duckpaddling to learn What Does a Sysadmin and How Can a Novice?

so hello fediverse! i’m mainly doing gentle stress tests of possible platforms, examining administrative minutiae, and scouting ahead for the hazards, to try and ensure a proactive, comfortable, and adaptable environment from the very beginning, especially for multiply marginalised people.

sorry my posts’ll skew naive and techy and meta for a while as a result. and heads up, i often can’t type or press buttons accurately, so online i am much less conversational than i’d like. but nonetheless lovely to meet you!

DJ Sweetdog establishes an ambience!

Would you like the air conditioner on or------?
ON

top flite material coming thick & fast throughout certain flinders street station platforms' announcement patter this new year's. much quicker than i cld transcribe, squeezed in among the practical advice, loads like:

"...type one in the chat if you get this"

"happy new year! i hope everyone gets rich"

"i'm seeing a lot of ppl walkng dwn to spread out all along the platform & it's making me very happy, thank you"

finetuning the signal chain to the shimmering jumbo gilt flakedown of Gordi's 'Head Rush' given audiophilia is futile, bayybieeee

DJ Sweetdog picks the tunes (or: Chrissie radio tuning)!

ABC Classic (mildly festive biz)? Nuh.
Do you want the radio on? Yeah.
Triple R (slightly these-days uncharacteristic longer-form chattering about stuff right up the media scrum's alley)? No.
Radio on? Yes.
3MBS (lowish key yet slightly harmonically obstreperous orchestral)? Yep.

3MBS Yep affirmed on subsequent check-ins until such a time as three tenors launched into and revelled right through a splendidly silly 'Feliz Navidad' ---
3MBS? No!
Radio on? No.
Radio off? Duh.

There you go. This press conference has been brought to a close.

brokering a deal with myself;
if i bring the o.s. up to date
on this server,
i'll allow the softest launch of
general-purp snailhuddle socials
and post some silly thoughts there

reg.bom.gov.au, teach your children