Dominique Cyprès

Dominique Cyprès

@hamster.dance

Sometime music-maker, usonian software worker, gay & gray-ace raccoon on the internet, parent of two rambunctious children. Est. 1991, he/they Likes/replies sometimes 🔞 Also on Mastodon: @lunasspecto@todon.nl Profile picture: @gatoiberico.bsky.social

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Pedantic little thing I did recently that is nonetheless very satisfying to me: I set up Wavelet on my phone with AutoEQ to correct 3 sets of in-ear monitors toward a target that sounds good to me. Now they all sound pretty similar and basically Correct when used with my phone

Frequency sweeps revealed that in my ears IEMs EQ'ed toward this target have a huge spike in loudness around 4kHz (lower-treble / "presence") I can tweak. Here is the EQ I now have on what were already my favorite IEMs; now music sounds subjectively… fuller on them, without a loss of detail

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Replying to @anxitasy.bsky.social

Day 1: "Apple" Idk why I thought Hamlit raccoon, but here you go lmao #inktober #furry

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Morty trying to socialize at a pool party, but he doesn't know how to swim... He brought a cool old boombox tho! Hopefully he'll make some friends. #furry #furryart

Asked why Ghibli made the more violent and ambivalent Princess Mononoke after building a brand around gentle fantasy stories, Miyazaki Hayao said that kids need movies that reflect the problems they see in the world, or Ghibli would lose the credibility to make bright, encouraging children's movies

On the train from the airport are some other DenFur attendees. Overheard them say: "You were all Discord icons, and now you're people. Live action."

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Hey folks! 👋🦌 One of our charities, Queer Scouts is hosting their second Queer Scouts Camp in central Massachusetts! It's a weekend of queer community, creativity, and connection in the great outdoors! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

Unexpectedly—but for good, happy reasons—spending a few days at home without my partners or the kids and I have not done this for ten years and am super unused to it

I have "Siren Song" by Erasure stuck in my head again. Favorite song off Chorus try to feel the splendor of it all embrace the honesty of nightfall try to feel the anguish of it all and wrap yourself up in every facet of emotion

The Law of Attraction isn't real. But if you can't name and visualize what you want in life you risk being unable to recognize it when it's right in front of you

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#DenFur You heard the man! We could always use more but let's get like...75 more people. It would be funny. And besides, the price goes up by $10 if you don't prereg and no one wants to pay more if they don't have to. https://denfur.org/register/

Medieval Christian art represents the Four Evangelists as a winged man (Matthew), a winged lion (Mark), a winged ox (Luke), and a winged… eagle (John). That always threw me off as a child, like I'm pretty sure that one just has wings normally?

Facebook showed me a little AI animation of my (2023 human face selfie) profile pic, which was weird because 1) If I wanted that wouldn't I have just taken a video of my face? 2) My mouth was closed in the photo so it guessed what my teeth look like and it was breathtakingly wrong

3D-printed head base arrived today but I'm not up to sharing pics right now. It's still exciting though! I don't yet have an ETA on the fabrics I'm using but tomorrow I should have just about everything else

I'm sure it could have been done better / more cleanly but as a soldering novice I'm glad I finally replaced the SRAM battery in this Japanese Pokémon Silver cartridge with a battery holder and it works

That same summer I heard "Dragostea din tei" by O-Zone playing everywhere we went in the province of Québec. And then mistyping something in an iTunes search for that led me down a chain of recommendations to Boards of Canada 🤷‍♂️

Throwback to June 2023 when I snuck into a municipal government office building in Brno, CZ, just to use a paternoster elevator for the only time in my life