Media thread - 19 April 2025, 19:57

A photo of a half rack of beef ribs and a bowl of hot chips sitting on a, well, wooden board.

A photo of the strawberry and cherry sundae, it's in a tall glass and has one of those crunchy hollow chocolate stick things sticking out the top. The glass has hundreds and thousands artistically attached to the rim.

My actual birthday is tomorrow which is Easter and everything is closed, so we went out to Meat & Wine Co. tonight for a birthday dinner and got the beef ribs and it was goooooood. Then I followed it up with a strawberry and cherry sundae which cleared the mouth-grease up very nicely!

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Posted on 19 April 2025, 19:57

A photo of my birthday presents. At the top is the box of an Arturia "MiniLab 3" MIDI keyboard, it's a small 25 key keyboard with a number of dials and sliders and buttons above the keys themselves. Under the keyboard box are four books, Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, the Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, and The Killing Moon also by N.K. Jemisin.

And the actual birthday goodies! I'm really looking forward to playing around with the keyboard, the company that makes it has a big synth plugin that integrates specifically with all the dials and sliders on the keyboard itself so you can control all the various parameters of the synth without needing to take your hands off the keyboard itself.

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Posted on 20 April 2025, 10:18

A wide-angle photo taken looking down a long table of a bunch of people sitting and talking at a pub. There are empty plates scattered over the table, and a big window on the left looking out into some greenery.

A photo of the box of Lhykhis, a Warhammer 40,000 miniature. She's wearing sleek black armour and is partially crouched in mid-jump with a bunch of what looks like lightning underneath her in a partial globe shape like she's just finished teleporting from somewhere else. She has one hand out behind her, the other holding a big sword, two additional mechanical arms coming out from her back and pointing forwards above her shoulders, and ANOTHER two coming out underneath her real arms, and the whole effect very much brings to mind a spider.

I had a (belated) birthday lunch at our local pub today! Great to see friends, the food was delicious as always, and @littleal@mastodon.au bought me a present, the new Warp Spider Phoenix Lord miniature for Warhammer 40,000!

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Posted on 10 May 2025, 16:19