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nomiworks @nomiworks.bsky.social · 3d

Hello! I am doing a Gov Shutdown Icon Sale.

My job is no longer paying me for the foreseeable future, and I am looking for help making ends meet. I have a few YCH designs I will make for 2️⃣0️⃣💲

fall latte ☕moon festival 🥮ratto 🐀and 'generic' kemono icons all with unlimited slots 💖

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Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · 1d

Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow:

bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...

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Alex Glow (merlin) @alexglow.bsky.social · 2d

WOW. Hot dogs and human centipedes... incredible and vivid metaphors.

Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Alex Glow (merlin) @alexglow.bsky.social · 2d

Also: Open Hardware Summit '26 is in Berlin! 2026.oshwa.org

// #OHSummit

Open Hardware Summit 2026

2026.oshwa.org

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Alex Glow (merlin) @alexglow.bsky.social · 2d

I usually go blob out after doing a livestream (especially like this one – 40 minutes of high-speed rambling 😆), but I haven't been able to stop watching!

Support #OpenHardware by clicking the piggy bank at top-right: oshwa.org‬

Give $10 and get a "Move Slow and Fix Stuff" sloth poster! ✨

https://oshwa.org‬

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Alex Glow (merlin) @alexglow.bsky.social · 2d

Evan AND MELVIN (kitty superstar) on now! bsky.app/profile/eka....

Evan Kahn @eka.hn · 2d

Going to be talking about this at the @oshwassociation.bsky.social livestream at 8:20pm EST

Evan Kahn @eka.hn · Aug 31

For the past few weeks instead of reading the news i have been making a handheld game console. It has a 1.7" display and a 400Mhz CPU. The front is a trackpad. It does not go online. It does one thing (plays Go), and hopefully does that better than anything else that fits in a coin pocket.

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Alex Glow (merlin) @alexglow.bsky.social · 2d

Aaaaa, @virgilvox.bsky.social is after me and he's tearing it up! His open-source, privacy-focused in-browser zine maker ( zeenster.com ) has a built-in punk radio player?! And he's working on exporting to #IPFS? Tooooo good 😱✨

Zine Maker

Create printable zines in your browser. Free, open-source, and privacy‑respecting.

zeenster.com

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Alex Glow (merlin) @alexglow.bsky.social · 2d

I'm on in ~2.5 hours (2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern)!

Excited to check out some other talks, hang out with #OpenHardware nerds in the chat, and dig into details on the new #ArchimedesBot – plus Halloween!

Also publishing Archie's v3 tutorial on @hacksterio.bsky.social & will add that here afterwards~

OSH Park @oshpark.bsky.social · 2d

Live now!
Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) is doing a Show and Tell 12 hour Membership Drive with creators from all over joining us to show off their work! @oshwassociation.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn0e...

Show and Tell 12 hour Membership Drive

YouTube video by The Open Source Hardware Association

www.youtube.com

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Moheeb Zara @virgilvox.bsky.social · Sep 8

Since I didn’t add any analytics tracking on purpose for privacy reasons to zeenster.com I have no actual idea how many people are visiting it / using it. But based on the ingress logs I can tell probably around 500-1000 daily visits since I published which is pretty cool.

Please share your zines!

Zine Maker

Create printable zines in your browser. Free, open-source, and privacy‑respecting.

zeenster.com

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بلبل يوسف @chipperdoodles.bsky.social · 6d

www.crowdsupply.com/chipperdoodl...

wow! we're up to 19 backers with ~20 days left! you're all dears <3

Anwaar (أنوار)

A platform for personalized portable PCB tokens

www.crowdsupply.com

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 4d

Also! If you are a grotty spaceship enjoyer, you can see even more spaceships by me in NOT ENOUGH SCOUNDRELS by @chrisair.itch.io !

chrisair.itch.io/not-enough-s...

Pics from the itch page, please check it out for awesome space adventures!

#ttrpg

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Alex Glow (merlin) @alexglow.bsky.social · 5d

Finally, here's that page with upcoming events (and an overview of the various livestreams I do – #HacksterCafe, #DayGlowShow, #HackOClock, and #SpaceSongSunday): www.notion.so/alexglow/Liv...

...Now featuring this amazing #MakerFaire Bay Area moment with Valkirma :D

Alex gives a silly grin, stabilizing Archimedes (a blue 3D-printed robot owl with bike inner-tube feathers and accents) while leaning in for a pic with Valkirma, who wears her stunning costume-assemblage. It's a dazzling black-blue-and-neon-green avian outfit, with ruffled collar and variegated wing feathers, surmounted by a crown of crow beaks.

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Alex Glow (merlin) @alexglow.bsky.social · 5d

Last week also featured a #HackOClock, wherein I spent 3.5 hours giving Archimedes a speech module and backlights behind his eye-moonstones. All survived Maker Faire weekend! 🤩✨ www.youtube.com/live/ewK7fsp...

More on Archie: alexglow.notion.site/Archimedes-O...

#Robotics #WearableTech #Maker

Archimedes Upgrades // Hack O'Clock

YouTube video by Alex Glow

www.youtube.com

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Alex Glow (merlin) @alexglow.bsky.social · 5d

Independent Tuesday livestreams (10:30am PDT) will now alternate weeks with my @hacksterio.bsky.social #HacksterCafe interviews :) Here's the first one: www.youtube.com/live/JluJCiS...

Includes a few demos – Archimedes upgrades for #MakerFaire, @raspberrypi.com 500+, Mind-Altering Gadgets, & more!

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mcc @dryad.technology · 6d

Anyway uh if you have an iPad fyi, free graphics apps if you act quick D:

wetdry.world/@michi/11530...

Michi (@[email protected])

The Affinity Creative Suite for iPad (Photo 2, Designer 2, Publisher 2) is currently free, you should probably get them in case it's a mistake and they change it later, they're normally $18.49 each. J...

wetdry.world

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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H (エイチ) @therealhanamaru.bsky.social · 10d

Gotta participate in this year's -tober challenge

SLEEPTOBER 2025 COMING IN CINEMA NEAR YOU

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ca-dmv-bot @ca-dmv-bot.bsky.social · 10d

Customer: WORLD OF WARCRAFT CHARACTER. THE EARTH WARDER. CREATOR AND DESTRUCTOR OF THE EARTH
DMV: DEATH WING

Verdict: ACCEPTED

California license plate with text "DETHWNG".

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South Bay Queer Solidarity @sbqsolidarity.bsky.social · 12d

A huge win for trans people in California: the state legislature passed five bills protecting our rights!

Now it's time to call on Governor Gavin Newsom to sign them. Contact him before October 12th: transfamilysos.org/action-neede...

#TransRights #TransYouth #TransCalifornia

Action Needed: Urge Governor Newsom to Sign Five Critical Trans Rights Bills

TransFamily Support Services is proud to co-sponsor five critical trans rights bills that have officially passed the California Legislature. This is a major victory—one made possible through a powerfu...

transfamilysos.org

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WIRED @wired.com · 10d

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

wrd.cm

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Erin Wraithburn 👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 12d

"In some places, French postal workers now pick up prescriptions, return library books, and deliver flowers. Last year, only twenty eight per cent of La Poste’s revenue came from sending mail."

Services can evolve in positive ways to meet new and growing needs.

Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 13d

For those who wonder what a modern postal service could look like, one example is in France, where letter carriers provide check-ins on the elderly for very affordable rates, while completing their routes.

I encourage everyone to read the whole thing

#CanadaPost

www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail

Carriers for La Poste have a new job: checking in on the aged.

www.newyorker.com

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Alex Glow (merlin) @alexglow.bsky.social · 13d

New @raspberrypi.com 500+ out now! Also my first try at a tech video with binaural stereo audio – it came out SUPER quiet, so you gotta turn your headphones up 😅

Thanks to the Pi team for this wonderful surprise!

www.raspberrypi.com/news/the-ult...

// #RaspberryPi #HacksterIO #keyboard #cyberdeck

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Alex Glow (merlin) @alexglow.bsky.social · 13d

New @raspberrypi.com 500+ out now! Also my first try at a tech video with binaural stereo audio – it came out SUPER quiet, so you gotta turn your headphones up 😅

Thanks to the Pi team for this wonderful surprise!

www.raspberrypi.com/news/the-ult...

// #RaspberryPi #HacksterIO #keyboard #cyberdeck

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Alex Glow (merlin) @alexglow.bsky.social · 14d

Also, this Thursday (9/25) – 12 hours from now – Archimedes and I are presenting @hacksterio.bsky.social Impact Spotlights: four talks from community members about their #robotics projects!

Had to have my own #CompanionBot co-host with me 🦉🛠✨

Join us at 9am Pacific: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kVG...

Impact Spotlights: Robotics

YouTube video by Hackster.io, an Avnet community

www.youtube.com

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Alex Glow (merlin) @alexglow.bsky.social · 14d

At Bay Area #MakerFaire, I’m also speaking about my “Mind-Altering Gadgets” ^_^

Sunday, 9/28 @ 3pm on the Make: Live stage
▶️ Watch live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA-s...
🎟️ Use code SEEME for 35% off day/weekend tickets!

Also plotting re: #DayGlowShow with @ishotjr.bsky.social … stay tuned~

Maker Faire Bay Area 2025 Sunday - Presentations from the Make: Live Stage

YouTube video by Make:

www.youtube.com

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