nash

making music, games, zines, occasional drawings, miscellania

(they/them)

website: https://nashhigh.com
itch.io: https://nashhigh.itch.io/
music masto: https://sonomu.club/@nashhigh
bandcamp: https://nashhigh.bandcamp.com

Public Key

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NIP-05 Address

nash_at_labyrinth.social@momostr.pink

Profile Code

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relay.damus.io

nos.lol

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2026-02-28 14:15:08 UTC

The Fediverse is made possible through contributions from partners like Nancy Comics, The International Monster Movie Society, The European Union, and Birds. And through support from our member instances and posters like you.

2026-02-24 03:01:23 UTC

the problem with putting a robot character in a story in order to explore questions like, "are they alive?", is that they will always end up alive in the story. not because that's the answer to the underlying question, but because the reader is already breathing life into all of the characters. none of the characters are actually alive, but they all become alive as the story is read

2026-02-18 03:32:30 UTC

i'm at it again
https://s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/labsoc-files/media_attachments/files/116/089/515/350/878/064/original/8216f385c72fe4e9.png

2026-02-09 02:07:56 UTC

SCULLY: Mulder, you can't possibly believe a shrimp fried this rice
MULDER: That's what it says on the menu, Scully

2026-02-04 00:06:17 UTC

thinking about deplatforming as an essential tech literacy skill

2026-01-31 22:02:35 UTC

luncheon (food type eeveelution)

2026-01-26 01:28:59 UTC

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haha, I don't think I saw that one!

2026-01-25 21:59:27 UTC

truly wild that that Most Boosted Posts of 2025 list has no Cask of Amontillado posts

2026-01-24 23:57:59 UTC

tea printer with GOHK color cartridges (Green, Oolong, Herbal, Black)

2026-01-23 00:41:14 UTC

a lot of fedi platforms are designed to be alternatives to existing mainstream platforms, which is fine. but what I wanna see is more experimental fedi platforms!! I wanna see ones that play with all sorts of new ideas about how we can socialize online!
there's so much possibility once you start thinking beyond the basic text/image/video post feed format. we could come up with some seriously funky stuff, & it would be FUN

2026-01-18 00:12:35 UTC

buying 5 SAD lamps & arranging them in a pentagram on the floor

2026-01-16 21:27:22 UTC

3D movie where there's two different screens & you have to focus one eye on each of them

2026-01-05 13:35:36 UTC

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outside:
- possum with a mustache
- garden sprites who disagree with my planting, relocate the seeds I throw out
- bedraggled corvid who brings my cats news from the neighborhood in exchange for pilfered shinies
- whispy three-eyed dragonlike creature who curls up around the chimney during the day to sleep

2026-01-05 04:18:35 UTC

critters that would live in/around my house if I were a Ghibli character:
- blobby guy under the stove who slorps up the crumbs I drop while cooking
- dust sprites (cousins to soot sprites ofc)
- little yeast spirits who bubble out of the sourdough starter
- fluffy hamster sized guy who's all hair & snout, comes out of the floor vent in search of the food my bird throws on the floor
- trio of tiny goblin folk who operate the HVAC system in order to catch dust sprites in the filter (& eat them)

2025-12-25 14:27:24 UTC

damn, dating is rough. just got ghosted 3 times last night

2025-12-16 22:28:53 UTC

my tech opinion is that 15 years ago consumer-grade computers & software could already do 99% of what regular folks would ever really need from a computer, & tech companies realized this & have spent every moment since coming up with new ways to sell us the same stuff we already had

2025-12-15 20:38:25 UTC

brigadon (mastodon fork that only federates one day every 100 years)

2025-12-06 15:24:59 UTC

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omg I forgot about font ligatures! I was thinking of making a javascript generator for them, but an actual font would be way cooler 👀
would that be pretty hard to do? I've only ever messed with individual glyphs in fonts

2025-12-06 15:07:42 UTC

I finally put my 'Triangle Runes' numeral system up on my website last night!
This is a numbering system that uses the three points of a triangle to represent values from 0 to 999 in a single glyph/rune. It's inspired by Cistercian numerals, but deliberately reduced to 1,000 values per glyph, to make it easier to string glyphs together & represent even larger numbers.
https://nashhigh.com/misc/triangle-runes

2025-12-06 03:02:41 UTC

⚠️ PRINTER ERROR ⚠️
CODE: 5037
DESCRIPTION: Cat Detected
INSTRUCTION: A cat has been detected on top of the printer. Please remove cat and press START to resume printing.

2025-11-23 21:51:42 UTC

happy sunday from the flower pot gremlin
https://s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/labsoc-files/media_attachments/files/115/601/215/325/103/918/original/17a83bff9c2edd4b.jpg

2025-11-18 20:53:53 UTC

don't like it when the boss gets a full heal during the stage transition? that's why you need a union

2025-11-03 01:25:42 UTC

I love it when squirrels eat a pumpkin. could you imagine finding a tasty treat that was like twice the size of you? the bliss of that??

2025-10-31 02:42:56 UTC

inflation adjusted Monopoly where everything costs 6x as much but passing Go still only gives you $200

2025-10-23 02:33:25 UTC

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The Ones Who Don't Post On Omelas Anymore But Still Keep Their Accounts To Find Deals On Omelas Marketplace

2025-10-23 00:15:44 UTC

The Ones Who Delete Their Accounts On Omelas

2025-10-19 21:28:08 UTC

• Main Character Syndrome
• Secondary Character Syndrome
• Core Antagonist Syndrome
• Hastily-Introduced Character Whose Only Purpose Is To Get Killed By The Monster Syndrome
• Red Herring Syndrome
• Purportedly Wise Character Who Is Actually Just A Mouthpiece For The Author's Political Opinions Syndrome
• Best Friend Character Who Will Never Find Love Syndrome
• Weirdly Well-Developed Tertiary Character With A Full Plot Arc That Never Intersects The Main Storyline Syndrome

2025-10-19 18:01:02 UTC

I guess this is a conspiracy theory -- although it's honestly just an extension of what already happens, so I feel like it's not even farfetched -- but my theory on AI hype is that the big money is not investing to try and create the perfect chat bot or image generator. they're not spending trillions on data centers so we can generate emails & code & videos. the real goal is aggregating all the data they're collecting on us & using it to manipulate people at scale

2025-10-07 22:26:57 UTC

I still think if u plug a second mouse into your computer, a second cursor should appear. it seems so obvious, & yet no one wants to do it

2025-10-07 19:27:11 UTC

sat at the bar of this cafe & noticed one of their bean grinders has a very dusty usb port on the back. i'm so curious

2025-10-07 01:25:53 UTC

I hear there's a lot of new folks on the fedi lately, so lemme just post a reminder that my corporate zine consultation services are available for hire.
fortune 500 & big tech companies might be especially interested in my "Complete Zine Overhaul" package, starting at $50,000 USD. a comprehensive assessment & implementation of zines into your company's mission, workflows, and organizational culture. don't miss it!

2025-09-20 22:40:19 UTC

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Odd Little World is, in my opinion, one of my life's grander achievements -- squeezing a whole tabletop civilization game into a 16-page minizine.
It's very silly, has no combat (unless you choose to imagine combat), & instead focuses on exploring, trading, and solving problems.
If you download it & play it, I would love to hear about it!
https://nashhigh.itch.io/odd-little-world

2025-09-20 22:36:03 UTC

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Cosmic Brownimancy is a guide for "snack-brownie divination", basically using little debbie cosmic brownies (or similar brownies with colored sprinkles) as a sort of tarot-like system!
If you download it & try it out, I would love to hear about the results!
https://nashhigh.itch.io/cosmic-brownimancy

2025-09-20 22:33:24 UTC

I have decided to make all the digital version of my zines on itch.io pay-what-you-want. Just feels more like the direction I'm going with my digital stuff.
The only two that previously had set prices were Cosmic Brownimancy & Odd Little World, so both of those are free/PWYW now!
https://nashhigh.itch.io/

2025-09-20 18:24:24 UTC

[emerging from an alleyway, surrounded by shadowy ruffians brandishing various crude & menacing weapons]: looks like you've just read your last free article, punk

2025-09-10 16:46:56 UTC

but they were all of them deceived, for another Simple Trick was discovered. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, this Dark Lord found in secret an Unbelievable Hack to transform all others

2025-09-05 23:29:47 UTC

It's Free Zine Week! Some folks on itch.io have put together an enormous bundle of free zines, and my first issue of Thin Slice is in there!
Altogether there are 128 zines and they're all printable!
https://itch.io/b/3247/free-zine-week-2025
#zines #zine

2025-09-05 14:15:49 UTC

happy Dolly Parton day (in MM/DD format regions) to to those who celebrate

2025-09-03 02:29:15 UTC

not my black quartz sphinx, not my vow

2025-07-21 19:14:58 UTC

you wouldn't
JUXT
a
POSITION

2025-07-19 21:51:05 UTC

was not expecting the stakes to suddenly get this high on a quiet stretch of neighborhood sidewalk
https://s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/labsoc-files/media_attachments/files/114/882/103/116/432/604/original/30c062fea4a86e5a.jpg

2025-07-18 01:16:26 UTC

Technically these features have been available in the beta for a while now, but I officially rolled out v1.1 of the #ZineArranger to itch.io last night!
I think this includes a few fixes & adjustments that were not in the beta version, but otherwise it's mostly similar in functionality.
https://nashhigh.itch.io/zinearranger

2025-06-19 19:38:14 UTC

office D&D universe laptop mimic

2025-06-15 21:44:55 UTC

Hot Girl Summer but like as a deity in the same pantheon as Old Man Winter

2025-06-14 03:29:01 UTC

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oh... nevermind--I don't think this netbook can do XP. I could try Win7, but I don't really wanna deal with their 'genuine windows' stuff, cause I'm sure I don't have the Exact Right Version to match the license on the netbook itself >:|
capitalism sucks.
I wonder if I could get the windows VSTs to work if I'm running the Windows version of Reaper in Wine...? feels unlikely, but that would be nice

2025-06-14 01:57:04 UTC

gonna put a dual boot linux mint xfce / windows XP on this lil netbook & try to use it as my live audio effects unit
I did a test run on the Xubuntu install that's on there now & it seemed able to handle at least 4 effects with ~5-11ms latency. I think I heard it hiccup once, but it was only saying about 10% CPU usage, so I bet I could add on a bit more
the XP I wanna try cause I have like a GB of windows-compiled VST plugins that would be fun to use & won't work on linux

2025-05-22 15:07:21 UTC

how many days can someone leave a container ship in your yard before it becomes your container ship

2025-05-19 22:23:48 UTC

i still think they need to make a dating app where you have to battle the other people somehow

2025-05-16 15:10:53 UTC

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we are hearing reports that consumers are buying albums & listening to them dozens, even hundreds of times, without paying a streaming platform or publisher any additional money or even viewing advertisements. this is going to kill the entire institution of music in our culture

2025-05-16 15:03:17 UTC

is it ethical to own a book

2025-05-03 13:58:21 UTC

I like songs that make me do some self-reflection. That make me take pause and consider things like, "Do I consider my night-light a friend?" and "Could I beat a triangle in a fight?"

2025-04-09 15:46:34 UTC

waxing poetic, waning poetic

2025-03-30 04:13:16 UTC

fediverse mermaid who lures their victims in by posting slightly incorrect things about linux

2025-03-27 13:40:35 UTC

I like soup because it's a metaphor for my brain. the stuff is all in there, it's just as nutritious as other brains, but if you're looking for something specific, good luck to ya

2025-03-23 16:34:24 UTC

I heard if you go to one of the Fedi Chick's chat servers it's just thousands and thousands of Nicole's in there, all talking about their med studies & Polish heritage. and at first it's just bewildering and weird, but you can't get yourself to leave. & soon you find yourself hoping to get into the medical field one day. and you start feeling like you really fit in with all these Nicoles. and next thing you know you're making an account on some unheard of server, sending people unsolicited DM's

2025-03-18 01:47:21 UTC

possum creation myth that the world is a mother possum upon whose back we cling, as the world itself clings to the back of its mother the sky, which clings to the back of its mother, the stars, and so on

2025-03-15 18:33:29 UTC

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Fediverse Chick Peas

2025-03-15 18:29:47 UTC

Fediverse Chicken

2025-03-15 15:06:58 UTC

what's a good way to just sync certain folders? like if I keep a backup of my USB drive on my computer, to be able to hook it up & tell it to sync any changes? (and visa versa with i.e. having a certain USB drive for backing up my computer's music library or something)
I'm on linux mint. It looks like they have a built-in backup utility, but that seems kind of oriented around backing up the entire home folder. I want something more granular

2025-03-14 12:37:18 UTC

when the cat runs up to you meowing like there's an emergency & jumps up into your lap, gets two pets, then runs off again

2025-02-21 13:45:22 UTC

Do YOU have trackers on your computer? Know the signs:
- Opinions about which pulse width sounds best
- Saying things like "Pattern Length" and "Lines Per Beat" instead of "Time Signature"
- Insistence on only using 4 or 8 tracks
- Strange longing to make music every time you open a spreadsheet document
- Confused about why any song would ever need to be larger than 100KB

2025-02-16 23:07:04 UTC

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saw several mentions of "ork-pop" & was a little disappointed when I finally traced it back to learn that it refers to orchestral pop, not pop music made by & for orcs :(

2025-02-16 23:02:28 UTC

reading the wikipedia page for Chamber Pop & it kinda seems like nobody knows for sure what it is exactly

2025-02-11 21:16:00 UTC

my cat is not making biscuits she is operating heavy machinery

2025-02-09 17:54:33 UTC

inline ifs are sweet, I'm never doing block ifs again

2025-01-29 21:59:08 UTC

I had the notion a couple months ago that I wanted to try writing little melodies for each moon in 2025, and maybe take my ocarina out to a park or someplace & play them during the new moon, and again during the full moon.
I figure I'll share them, in case anyone would like to join in!
(Although y'all know I do tend to get busy and not keep up with things well, so there's no guarantee I'll make it through all the moons.)
https://s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/labsoc-files/media_attachments/files/113/913/783/036/703/893/original/274f5f1b035608c6.png

2025-01-25 23:15:34 UTC

becoming the "Spooky Mulder" of my workplace

2025-01-24 14:04:48 UTC

the old world is boiling down into a zesty broth. a new world is chopped and ready for the pot. now is the time of soup

2025-01-23 13:31:24 UTC

we don't have to wait for the old world to finish dying to start building the new one

2025-01-22 13:36:53 UTC

posts should have a B-side

2025-01-20 23:28:07 UTC

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soup!! that looks delicious

2025-01-18 03:34:50 UTC

MULDER: Think about it, Scully. Why would a plum thief leave a note confessing to their crime?
SCULLY: A retroactive feeling of remorse? Or even to gloat. Pathological criminals often want you to know what they've done--
MULDER: Maybe they want you to *think* they've done it.
SCULLY: So what are you saying? That the plums weren't stolen? Then where are they, Mulder?
MULDER: I don't know. But I think whatever's going on here is a lot bigger than a simple plum burglar.

2025-01-12 04:47:05 UTC

I posted my community-living worksheet zine on itch, for anyone who might like to try it out!
It's free & you're welcome to print off multiple copies to give to friends/folks you think might be also be interested in cohousing/communal living.
https://nashhigh.itch.io/wanna-start-a-community

2024-12-31 22:05:25 UTC

this is gonna be the newest year ever

2024-12-29 22:08:16 UTC

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i think it's only half true, to be fair. I was searching "cutie phonetic alphabet" (with quotes) to see if it would pull up the page on my website I made for this (it doesn't, but it gets a lot of the posts on mastodon)

2024-12-26 02:49:37 UTC

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ahh, we have infected the dataset
https://s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/labsoc-files/media_attachments/files/113/716/832/256/420/796/original/077ecf121af67dce.png

2024-12-24 15:59:18 UTC

I saw three plums for breakfast saved
For Christmas Day, for Chrstmas Day
I saw three plums for breakfast saved
For Christmas Day in the morning
And who shall eat these plums so sweet
On Christmas Eve, on Christmas Eve?
And who shall eat thse plums so sweet
On Christmas Eve without warning?

2024-12-20 23:26:28 UTC

just witnessed this absolutely messed up beautiful nature moment with these ribbons of bright pink sunset clouds across the sky & a neon indigo color at the bottom that I've never even seen in the sky before.
and then sillouetted against that there were just these groups of crows flying in out of the distance, crossing the trees back behind my house, and heading off north somewhere. just group after group of crows. every time I thought it was done, another would just emerge from way off

2024-12-18 03:54:59 UTC

they don't make gadgets anymore. every new tech thing is like a little white plastic egg that needs an email address and credit card number to turn on & has a built in microphone even though it has no need for one whatsoever

2024-12-14 02:53:34 UTC

he's called the Minotaur because he's from Minos and he drives a Ford Taurus

2024-12-13 14:34:46 UTC

Minnesota suggests the existence of a far larger Meggasota

2024-12-03 21:58:55 UTC

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This guide to Winter Wonderland fauna & flora seems handy, and you've always had a knack for archery. And cocoa mix? Obviously.
+📖Field Guide
+☕Cocoa Mix (12)
+🏹Candy-Cane Crossbow
+💘Candy-Cane Bolts (8)
Now there's only one thing standing between you & Winter Wonderland: THAT GUY (LV1).
There's always one of 'em. Standing at gates, telling folks they're not up to snuff to go through. You'll have to either impress him, fight him, or try to slip past...

2024-12-02 21:41:53 UTC

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Your name is THOVOG (they/them), a humble half-yeti with a good head on your shoulders & heart in your chest.
Your stats:
💪 STR - 1
👟 AGI - 4
📚 INT - 3
♟️ CLV - 4
You arrive at the Candy Cane Gate, a noisy village on the edge of Winter Wonderland, & last stop for adventurers to stock up before their journey.
A sensible creature, you know you'll need 3 things: information, food, & self-protection. After perusing the vendor stalls, you come up with a few options:

2024-12-01 19:48:05 UTC

❄️🏔️Many venture into the Winter Wonderland. Few return. Still, you are not deterred!! You've left your village to seek the wonders of this fabled valley that lies just behind the mountains you've seen all your life.
📝First, let's build our character. I'll distribute 12 stat points based on this poll.
The results will also generate our character name:
0-24% | 25-49% | 50-74% | 75%+
STR: TH | N | ST | K
AGI: A | O | E | AE
INT: N | V | SH | L
CLV: E | OG | ARD | O

2024-11-22 00:04:45 UTC

the NATO Phonetic Alphabet & the LAPD Phonetic Alphabet are military & cop coded. that is why I am releasing a competing radiotelephony spelling system, the CUTIE Phonetic Alphabet
AVOCADO
BOBA
CATBOY
DOGGO
EGGNOG
FANGIRL
GOBLIN
HOTSAUCE
INTERNET
JAM
KISSES
LEMONADE
MAGPIE
NAPTIME
OMELETTE
PODCAST
QUINOA
ROBOT
STEAMPUNK
TUMMYACHE
UNDERWEAR
VINTAGE
WITCHY
XYLOPHONE
YARROW
ZIPPER
ZERO
ONESIE
BI
THROUPLE
QUAD SHOT
FIVER
SEXY
SEVENESCENCE
EIGHTOBER
NINETAILS

2024-11-14 21:25:57 UTC

Hamster Country, a music genre of course, but also:

2024-11-12 00:09:50 UTC

oh hey if you're making zines, a couple years ago I made a lil free browser tool that'll do zine layouts for PDF's, so you don't have to manually flip all the pages around
https://nashhigh.itch.io/zinearranger

2024-11-08 17:59:23 UTC

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you can only access either the Cellular Network or the WiFi at one time -- they each use different antennae accessories that plug into the phone's ethernet port

2024-11-08 17:57:02 UTC

designing a new smart phone with a CD ROM drive

2024-10-03 19:07:33 UTC

hovelcore

2024-09-27 20:52:05 UTC

one of my main ongoing complaints about life is that often there's just way too much to do. but then sometimes there's nothing to do. it just feels like the amount of to do is improperly balanced throughout the gameplay

2024-09-27 16:55:59 UTC

click the link in the email we just sent you to activate your charcoal

2024-09-19 22:51:30 UTC

they did Wheel of Fortune, where are the game shows for the other 77 tarot cards??

2024-09-19 01:15:31 UTC

the only camera I've got that can get a decent moon photo is this old Fujifilm Finepix. It's just a point-and-shoot guy, but it has 26x optical zoom?? and if you zoom basically all the way in it will actually auto-focus on the moon.
So anyway, here's last night's lunar eclipse, from my vantage
https://s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/labsoc-files/media_attachments/files/113/161/556/256/574/285/original/e013e85df8e72efb.jpeg

2024-09-12 13:30:44 UTC

Major Depression promoted to Lieutenant Colonel Depression

2024-08-30 02:45:26 UTC

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my stance on this one is still, "i'll believe it when I see it"

2024-08-30 02:18:23 UTC

lol why would I chase a lounge?? i'm supposed to be relaxing

2024-08-24 17:39:21 UTC

wish I was a big ol racoon curled up asleep in the elbow of a pine tree

2024-08-23 14:21:22 UTC

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which spreadsheet formula are you? (3/3)
INDEX - morning person, knows exactly when to leave to get there on time, "have you eaten?", has snacks, sunscreen, & an extra water bottle just in case
MATCH - cannot function with fewer than 2 monitors, knows everyone in town & what's happening this weekend, already looking up the thing you just mentioned
OFFSET - artist/musician, incomprehensible vibes in both art & casual conversation, hair like they've seen the face of god, made $8.47 last quarter

2024-08-23 14:18:03 UTC

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which spreadsheet formula are you? (2/3)
OR - no shortage of ideas, will not help you decide, easily distracted, un-erasably bisexual, loves plants & bugs, sleepy, animals love them
AND - violently cute, too much energy, loves NOT, "ooo let's get boba!", backpack shaped like cute animal, always giving you stickers
NOT - listens to music no one has heard of, brooding but sweet, undeniable & artistically "challenging" style (& humor), pretends to hate AND but secretly they're their best friend