No Stupid Questions

Memes

Resentment in others.

I’m living on an old farm with lots of junk.

So naturally I am building an 8 foot tall wind-driven kinetic sculpture of a Wendigo.

I bought a welder and a cutoff saw. All the materials are retrieved from the trash gully that every respectable high desert property must have.

It’s a form of cope and even ritual magic for me. Embody the spirit of hoarding and greed so it is vulnerable and can be imprisoned, that sort of vibe.

It will take all winter to finish it. The rebar armature is flexible and bobs in the wind. I will add sun bleached oak branches to give it flesh.

I had a shop that made flaming nipple tassels, though I just closed down until the future is more certain. I also create sideshow and fire performances. My most recent one involves a drill and my skull.

And finally, a lot of D&D content, such as an entire world setting inspired by the tarot deck

Small mutant corn plants in little containers.

I have a podcast that I create with a couple of friends. We take an ordinary object—such as a ceiling fan, or a paper clip, or a toilet brush—and we create a movie plot based on that object. The show is called Almost Plausible, and can be found wherever you listen to podcasts.

Cortisol

As a welder, I create a ton of shit. Today, I created a new handle for a lathe, cut off the old one, and bolted on my part so the lathe functions (mostly).

Philosophical ramblings to justify my existence, which according to capitalism has no value because I don’t have the ability to work.

Resin dice, novels, 3D prints, paintings, video games, wooden furniture, RPG scenarios. I have way too many hobbies and maybe two hours per week to work on them, so in reality I create very little. But making something physical is incredibly helpful for keeping the worst of my depression at bay.

Disappointment

I'm working on an audiobook of a novel I wrote. I have another recording session today with voice actors who play my characters!

I create web applications! 🎉 (AKA I’m a typical Lemmy user.)

Duct tape and cardboard solutions to questions like "How do I get these two pieces of photography equipment to work together?"

Free RPG content, which I'd be happy to share with you:

spittingimage.itch.io

programs, music and baby

Legos

My body is a machine that turns caffeine into uptime.

jack shit

I created an email service called https://port87.com

It’s got fancy features that help you stay organized and spam free.

I also create loads of open source software, which I use for it:

https://sveltematerialui.com - A UI library for the Svelte framework.

https://nymph.io - An object relational mapper for Node.js and the browser.

https://github.com/sciactive/nephele - A WebDAV server with encryption, deduplication, and S3 support.

I have a big sprawling scifi universe I draw pictures of. There is a lot of lore in my head for it that I really am going to write down and present now that there are so many visuals.

I create stupid jokes and sarcastic comments on Lemmy.

But mostly just a lot of CO²

And a lot of um... excretions, liquids and soilds, ya know...

I wanted to do worldbuilding and write a story but my depression kinda derailed that 😓

Chaos and discord.

maybe systems. my work tends to be getting one or more systems to do something a business wants.

I had a professor whose ice breaker question was some version of, "what book do you want to write/planning to write?" Everyone seems to have one.

Might not be as relevant today after blogs perhaps cleared that out of peoples' systems.

As for me, I cycle through mostly craft-based hobbies. Embroidery, leather work, candle making, 3D printing. I can make candles much faster than I can burn them, so that's self-limiting. 3D printing is great to have the materials and skills for, and I'm slowly learning to design in Blender. But at the moment I only use it when I suddenly need to have a thing-a-ma-widget and remember: "hey! I've got a 3D printer. Of course I can make a valve stem cover!"

I'll probably be back to leather crafts as we head into the fall and winter.

I create useless applications for daily use. Now im working on an organizer that reads my work ins and outs to control my work hours and eventually cash in free days due to excess working hours.

I am a senior data architect and infrastructure programmer. I build the tools and design the data persistence that folks at my company use to build solutions for clients.

I like to create software tools for people smarter than me to create bigger and better things.

This month I'm building Bluetooth headphones for a teen I work with, he needs them to function but his parents won't spend money on them and he keeps breaking the cheap sets he has.

I'm working with a school metal shop to make steel frames for them and I've made the cups 3d printable and easy to replace. Of he does manage to break these, it will take no skill to repair them.

Carbon dioxide. A metric [emphasis]-ton of dust. Other waste.

Sometimes I write small Perl programs or Bash scripts, but that's rare, and it's mostly for my own benefit or amusement; even more rarely do I share them.

Sometimes despair. Sometimes happiness. Hopefully a sense of being informed and/or entertained if not also a (weak?) sense of camaraderie by means of weird little text interactions with people online.

Tools that are used to create human misery on a mass scale.

Seeing machines, mostly

A hopeful path towards peace for people who struggle with stress at their job.