WokStation

Maker, coder, printer, crip with cats, oracle!

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2026-10-22 19:10:36 UTC

I had a #covid jab today. Yes, it's still a thing. Yes, they restricted the criteria. But if you can, or can afford to get it private, do so, it'll still save lives.

2026-10-15 14:37:10 UTC

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Hot glue...? :D
(you could, if you have access to a printer, design one for yourself and print a mould, then use silicone or hot glue to fill it and you have one of your own specs)

2026-09-12 20:09:52 UTC

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this door has been there since 1570. It's still there... https://www.suffolklive.com/news/history/black-shuck-blythburgh-church-suffolk-5767807

2026-09-12 19:55:46 UTC

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it's everywhere. I'm near an old fishing town named after an ancient king of a small patch of east anglia. It's in the Domesday Book from the 11th century, and there's buildings on the high street from the 1500s. It's just the High Street. That's it's name, BTW.
There's these odd little passages carved into the cliffs called "Scores" that predate anything back to the dark ages, they're steep, straight staircases that were used to bring in the catch. We did PE (phys ed) up and down them at school.
History out the wazoo round here.

2026-09-12 18:42:50 UTC

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there's loads of examples of this round where I live. A few of the buildings are older than the USA!

2026-08-27 19:50:37 UTC

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"Out of the Inner Circle: A hackers guide to computer security" by Bill Landreth, taught me a few tricks, a blackhat-cynical way of looking at things non-computer.
Also taught me that just having a book with an interesting title is enough to get you in trouble.
#makersHour

2026-08-19 12:56:10 UTC

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also have you tried different models?

2026-08-19 12:42:14 UTC

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if the timing belt for z comes loose, you looe vertical accuracy, thus lose adhesion. If it's the x or y it's horizontal accuracy, causing layers to be placed badly.
Both can cause that issue.

2026-08-19 12:19:39 UTC

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timing belt needs tightening?

2026-08-01 14:24:28 UTC

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They sent me an email about this yesterday.
It literally said "dear $customer" and then asked me to click a link on the email to read a message!
So i phoned to complain; yes it was from them and yes I should click the link, too which I said "you say you'll always address me by name and never click on a link in an email without it"
"Not my department, I can't tell you what the message says. Also if you complain it'll reopen the complaint and be added"
"It's a new complaint"
"Our policy says..."
"Don't care about your policy"
"Please hold" *minutes* "Ok let's fill in your new complaint"

2026-07-13 21:41:08 UTC

Karma karma mecha mecha karma chameleon! We hide and play, we hide and pla-ay! (It's in there..!)
#mecchaChameleon #makerworld #HideAndSeekChallenge
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2026-07-08 19:29:36 UTC

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stick a bouncy castle compressor in the door, tape around it and nail it down. No poles required.

2026-06-25 19:26:05 UTC

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I'm a wok
I'm really late
Not made much
Just ideate.
#makersHour

2026-06-19 14:26:59 UTC

Bank changed my phone number to one that's not mine!
Logged into my bank last night and it said it wanted to send me a code. Fine.
Asked me which number to send it to and offered two. One mine, one not. So i log in and remove that number.
Phoned them today and while talking, other half noticed that number was mine, nearly twenty years ago.
Bank confirmed nobody had enacted any changes in my account in the last three years.
Somehow the bank randomly added a phone number I've not held in decades onto my account security settings.
I've also asked if they're going to report themselves to the ico, because somebody else probably owns that number now.

2026-06-18 19:41:53 UTC

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yes. #makersHour
I tend to blunder onwards, even code gets written on the fly rather than to spec. Only circuit creation is an exception which i meticulously and obsessively design and redesign and design again, with squared maths paper.
Although technically anything printed is designed and planned first.

2026-06-18 19:26:02 UTC

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solder, hot electrics, and melting pla!#makersHour

2026-06-16 14:13:57 UTC

Hey uk government, I'm going to buy vpn for my whole household. I'm am adult. I'm not telling you about anyone else. It's my vpn, they'll just all be using it. #socialmediaban #OnlineSafetyAct
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/15/uk-under-16s-social-media-ban-how-will-it-work

2026-01-07 16:43:40 UTC

Puddle of fur. #cats #CatsOfMastodon
https://media.universeodon.com/media_attachments/files/115/854/814/005/275/338/original/511147c69543bf27.jpg

2025-09-01 21:14:00 UTC

#cats #CatsOfMastodon Val is... I don't even know what Val is. Broken, maybe?
https://media.universeodon.com/media_attachments/files/115/131/089/961/753/315/original/b2ac82a49b5d7beb.jpg

2025-07-16 16:42:50 UTC

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Eventually, it'll touch a topic you do care about. "We're only amending the criteria to make sure content that shouldn't be available to children isn't available" is what they will say. How could anyone object to that?
The devil, as always, is in the details.
"Sexual content" can easily be expanded to include sexual health content. Content specific to gay people's sexual health?
(An aside, my phone wouldn't let me swipe the words sexual or gay until I added them as a custom word. It refuses to let me swipe the word sex, insisting it's sec). Is contraceptive advice adult content?
What about #abortion? You might say yes, but the age of consent is sixteen in the UK and those frisky little teens often start before that!
This legislation really £%>×es me off. #ukpolitics

2025-07-16 16:30:10 UTC

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Whether you watch #porn or not, if you agree with the concept of freely available sexual content, or not, this should worry you. People will be defrauded and blackmailed by sites that PRETEND to be #ageVerification grabbing their card details. Actual verification companies are going to be prime targets for hackers turbocharged by #llm #ai, and some will succeed in their attacks.
But if you're against porn why would you care? Good question, and i have horrible answers.
First consider our government introduced anti terror laws with the promise they'd be used only against the very worst of people who were trying to kill us, and then those same laws were used against rubbish bin misuse and protests.
Now think about what's happening in America and how politicians from #reform are already complaining about "#trans books". But you may not care that #transgender topics could become deemed "adult", so where's the harm to you? #ukpolitics

2025-07-16 16:01:28 UTC

Huh, silly government.
In other news, Opera has free vpn that places you in America, where those sites generally aren't doing age verification.
In other, other news, the #coOp got hacked, and six million people's personal data was stolen.
In other, other other news, the government had to hurriedly rehome hundreds of Afghans who helped UK forces after the government leaked their identities.
But we can all trust the age verification provider of a #porn website to securely and privately store our identities in close proximity to our intimate proclivities, right? RIGHT??
#censorship #ukpolitics https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceq7ye3q2zwo

2025-03-11 19:42:56 UTC

Printed this yesterday, assembled last night. Powered by the elastic band tesco use to secure spring onions.
https://media.universeodon.com/media_attachments/files/114/145/500/240/361/072/original/fd49d9719c70317b.jpg
https://media.universeodon.com/media_attachments/files/114/145/500/576/249/035/original/3142b04eceea4311.jpg

2025-02-15 17:16:38 UTC

Other half realised I'd bought them a gift yesterday. It was unexpected. After thirty years together, it was utterly unromantic. Or was it?
They recently became a driver. They recently got our first ever car. My present to them? Car cleaning kit; shampoo, wheel treatment, glass cleaner, sponges and cloths. Exactly what they needed.
So they loaded the Bambu store, said "pick some filament" and now 2kg of really pretty filament and 1kg of regular bright orange are winging their way to me.
Romance isn't only chocolate and roses, sex and snuggles. It's knowing each other. I know how lucky I am. #valentines #valentinesDay

2024-10-12 13:56:26 UTC

OH's office chair cylinder died, slowly deflating, then not so slowly. The chair is very old.
So I set about looking for a new one. Finally settled on one, checked out, realised I didn't have the needed password on that windows user, so switched and went back to my basket. Empty. Frustrated, I decided to do it later.
Later had brainwave. Replace the cylinder. So today we spent an hour removing the old cylinder with a hammer and ordered a new one for £20.
The lesson? Don't put roadblocks in front of customers trying to spend lots of money, they might realise they can do the same job for 10%.
(I was signed into the site but not the payment system)

2024-09-09 14:24:34 UTC

Next door have uplit the tree. Pretty, but it's going to cause some astrophotography problems. This photo was adjusted to bring out the sky
https://media.universeodon.com/media_attachments/files/113/108/041/540/775/497/original/b35c4f6b00e325f7.jpg

2024-08-27 19:53:47 UTC

sky.exe has encountered an error and must be closed.
https://media.universeodon.com/media_attachments/files/113/035/725/758/512/575/original/9d62c49bbfa44325.jpg

2024-08-22 11:19:22 UTC

My youngest got their #gcse results! Did really well, got an A in maths! English score isn't what the college want, but hopefully the maths will offset it.

2024-07-30 16:06:53 UTC

A #timelapse from last night, shot on the east coast of the UK pointing vaguely east. #astronomy #space #stars #skying #raspberrypi #science #photography #astrophotography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd7DEzf2ZF0