Downword – turn your blog into Markdown


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As another step toward moving my blog off WordPress, I’ve built a tool to download it as Markdown files.

The tool is pretty rough and ready at this point, but it is ready — it can download a blog to a bunch of MD files.

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Pride flag wallpapers

I made a set of phone wallpapers with an assortment of Pride flags and hormone molecules

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Knuckle Tats

I made this a while back for a Fedi shitpost, and it’s still fun.

https://roosenmaallen.com/tats

Let me know if you do something fun with it!

New Toy: Towne Crier


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Following up on a fedi post, I made a website shell to display random article summaries/links.

https://gitlab.com/eroosenmaallen/towne-crier

Articles are input as text files, the a build script compiles them into JSON and puts them into the site; the repo includes a gitlab-ci script to publish the output to GitLab Pages.

I hope it might be useful to somebody.

CheerLights 2024


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After some configuration sadness, the fedi is back up and running, now at @CheerLights@mastodon.art.

In a Fedi post, mention the bot or the hashtag along with a colour (blue!), and connected RGB lights all over the world will change together.

Remember, even when things seem bad, we are all connected.

2024, the Great Bot Migration


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With the announced shutdown of botsin.space, I have moved my stable of friendly bots over to https://mas.to.

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Statistically Probable Ancient Wisdom


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I’m pleased to announce the launch of my latest Mastodon , Sun Tzu’s The Art of eBooks . It’s a chain bot trained on (you guessed it) The Art of War.

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Mutual Aid Options in Canada


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“We support us”

This is the punk ethos running through so many of the communities I’m a part of or associated with. We take care of each other, and in a capitalist hellworld that means moving money around.

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