Today’s (December 16) randomly chosen word is:

sticky

Split

The guys from the Connected podcast left Twitter en masse, because they couldn’t take the verbal attacks, bigotry and downright neo-nazism anymore. I can only hope they will become happier by no longer reading what a bunch of close-minded idiots think is free speech.
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Today’s prompt couldn’t be more apt for me. I might go beyond 280 characters. It is:

split

I was affected by the announcement that the follks at @relayFM have abandonned Twitter, because of recent developments and years of taking verbal abuse for granted b/c of FOMO and inertia.

It seemed to me that LiveJournal was the perfect journaling web app. Why did it fail? It didn’t fail, it was popular amongst Russians, was acquired and relocated by a Russian banker loyal to Putin, and then the Kremlin started persecuting critics of the regime. Read more here.

The question remains if I should explore ballpoint pen art, knowing my failure rate at pursuing such topics has been 100%. Well, actually, I was too passionate and burned out before I approached anything like mastering. I should pace myself.
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attic

There’s a place in many houses where stuff is stored, or, more accurately stated, stowed away until people move house (and sometimes not even then). Up and away out of people’s minds.
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Today’s prompt for my blogging challenge in the last month of 2022 is:

     attic
  /   🔔   \
/  🦇😜  \
- - - - - - -
H     H     H
H     H     H
- - - - - - -
H     H     H
H     H     H
XXXXXXX

I grew up in the era of the Apollo space program, and see it as how human explore space. Of course, robotic space exploration is much safer for humans and requires less onboard support. Therefore, robots have gone further into deep space than human ever would or could.
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Today I will challenge myself blogging about the prompt:

rocket

Very apt now Artemis 1 has completed its mission successfully.

I’ve ordered pastel-colored gel pens and ink markers for my online ballpoint pen art. The colors I have are too saturated to be useful for art-making. They’re fine for writing, I guess, though I seldom write analog—pen on paper.

That I’m doing it now, is because I’m so excited. I’ve seen some artists on YouTube using ballpoint pen, and they all color with alcohol-based color markers, since the good ballpoint pen ink is permanent. I’m not sure about the pastel-colored ballpoint pen inks, though, and if it is water-soluble, to what extent. Anyway, I can adjust my order of operations if those pastel-colored ballpoint pens do indeed smudge.

Art is all about adjusting, after all.

R.

I’ve ordered some new art supplies for my ballpoint pen arting. I’ll still be using lined notebooks, as to lower my anxiety for the blank page. After all, a blank page is perfect nothingness; any mark will ruin its eternal bliss.
🛒ing ON〰〰 4 🖼 📥

If one’s only interaction with publishing is liking, retweeting, snarky oneliner comments, and shameless selfpromotion, blogging is going to be quite the adjustment. Have considerate somewhat original opinions on niche subjects that isn’t oneself is totally new to that person
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Instead of a mastadon, they could’ve opted for another trumpeting being, the swan or goose. »hôngk«
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I suppose they call it a computer 🐁 mouse, not a computer 🐀 rat (or 🐹 hamster), for good reasons?

Who knows?

Regular

Today is a swanny kind of day—normal in any other sense. I tried to do something different than I’m used to, because I never could follow instructions anyway, and loathe going the same route every day. Not very smart, though, getting myself in awkward situations.
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Today’s prompt for my extended blogging challenge after micro∙blog’s Microblogvember is:

regular

Chimpanzee

On July 14, 1960 Jane Goodall began her 6 year study on the human-like behavior of chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. Since all species closely related to humans are extinct, the endangered chimpanzee is now evolutionary the closest to us.
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Today I’ll use the randomly generated word:

chimpanzee

Should be interesting 🐵

Caturday means day of tolerance and love. 🐱

Average

My art has it written all over it. It’s the mean value of a set of numbers, yet originally derived from the Arabic averie, which means the damage after a ship has been wrecked. Re my art, I just have to keep pushing, not give up. Eventually it will improve.
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Today, December 10, the prompt for my extension of micro∙blog’s November 2022 blogging challenge is:

average