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  <title>The Packbats' Weblog</title>
  <subtitle>packbat</subtitle>
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    <name>packbat</name>
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  <updated>2020-07-21T22:16:54Z</updated>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:244784:311340</id>
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    <title>Comments on a few tools.</title>
    <published>2020-07-21T22:16:54Z</published>
    <updated>2020-07-21T22:16:54Z</updated>
    <category term="links"/>
    <category term="reviews"/>
    <category term="link time: substantial"/>
    <category term="read time: several minutes"/>
    <category term="packmantis"/>
    <dw:music>City Girl - "Mist Beneath Your Apartment"</dw:music>
    <dw:mood>artistic</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Someone on the fediverse shared a link to &lt;a href="https://github.com/everestpipkin/tools-list"&gt;everest pipkin's massive "Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup"&lt;/a&gt;, and I decided to go down the list and talk about the ones we've touched.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Firstly, the ones we've actually tried to make something - or even succeeded at making something - with:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Secondly, the ones we've looked at but never tried to create in:&lt;/p&gt;
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:244784:310328</id>
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    <title>Life update</title>
    <published>2020-07-16T02:11:39Z</published>
    <updated>2020-07-16T02:11:39Z</updated>
    <category term="journalling"/>
    <category term="packmantis"/>
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    <dw:music>Autumn Gard - "Hold on Close"</dw:music>
    <dw:mood>sore</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Been feeling fairly cruddy for the past few days - trying to just accept it and not let our usual "everything is fine" coping mechanisms kick in.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;(Interestingly, that same coping mechanism managed to outright cloak whatever self-perception made us able to see our system members as existing - makes me wonder if a big component of us figuring out we were plural &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; year and not earlier is just better mental health.)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Still alternating Fitness Boxing and ... just, random aerobics in the back yard for exercise. Mosquitoes are becoming a thing here, which is frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;...we've been avoiding going back to our Civil War and Reconstruction Era lectures we were listening to because Reconstruction is just ... far, far more a story of black liberation being crushed by white supremacy than we were wholly prepared for. We've mostly been just thinking about things - PICO-8 programming ideas, mostly.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Hope y'all are coping.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;- 🦗&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;(p.s. &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgbPQMEWgkc"&gt;music is from this YouTube video&lt;/a&gt; - I don't think the producer is well known.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=packbat&amp;ditemid=310328" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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