Halla Rempt

Maintaining foss digital painting app Krita, a woman and according to my wife, a stillroom maid. I paint, sculpt and like languages. Also RPG: valdyas.org/galsin/.

Note: I very selectively follow back because my timeline is already overfull. I am also bit cautious about who I let follow me, sorry for that.

Halla Rempthalla@kde.social
2026-02-06

@eniko Last time I did that was in the late eighties. A long night of coding together with the woman who is now my wife, on something that made music. We ended up going to the alll-night in the Breestraat, Leyden,, getting snacks and half-liltres of Amstel beer. playing the music game we made, and then falling asleep and missing college the next day.

Amstel beer, btw, is not nice.

Halla Rempthalla@kde.social
2026-02-05

@heatherrosejones Huh... I read something like this when I was 12, in a Dutch translation my parents kept on the top, or interesting, shelf of their book cases.

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2026-02-05

New Lesbian Historic Motif Project post. Examining the 17th c L'Escole des Filles not simply as pornography but as a satire on moral conduct manuals.

mail.alpennia.com/blog/sex-sat

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Sylvia Rittersylvia_ritter
2026-02-05

Meet ✨️ Questing Quokka ✨️ the pen and paper roleplaying game master (& friends)! :blobcat: Inspired by the release name 25.10! Created with and within 93 days.

After 93 days, "Questing Quokka" is done (inspired by Ubuntu release name 25.10). 
Created with Krita & Blender.

Quokkas are cute & live mostly in southwest Australia.
While thinking about "questing" the idea of a quokka playing pen & paper RPGs evolved.

Let me introduce these adventurers; a thief with a leather messenger bag, quest map, who happens to play the lute; a wizard wearing a hat, cape, holding a wand, specialized in magic spices/potions as shown on the magician's belt; a brave dwarf wearing a fur coat (fake!), holding a powerful hammer while being unable to resist to eat a delicious leaf from the wizard's wand; the game master in the middle wearing a red hooded cape, a necklace, equipped with mystic books, lying on one of these books, a sugar glider hugging a glowing dice. 

Flying over Australia on a magical carpet. The quokkas are wearing sandals/boots, standing mid-air above small tree stumps. It is a slightly challenging journey. BG - Forests, castles, stars, and the blood moon. 

They enjoy a cup of tea. The light for their character sheets, dice, and tools appears from the tree stumps illuminated surface/lanterns with intricate patterns in pastel colors. The map on the table with a pinned mini version of their carpet shows their current location. A golden chalice with golden eucalyptus (a delicacy!), the treasure they are desperately looking for.
Ready to start their first adventure. 

https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Questing-Quokka-1295346802
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2026-02-04

Het oorspronkelijk Nederlandse techbedrijf Zivver kwam afgelopen najaar in opspraak nadat Follow the Money onthulde dat zijn nieuwe eigenaar, het Amerikaanse Kiteworks, wordt gerund door voormalige meesterspionnen van het Israëlische leger. Dit ligt gevoelig omdat Zivver zich toelegt op de beveiliging van vertrouwelijke communicatie van tientallen landelijke en regionale overheden en ziekenhuizen.
Nu laat de Immigratie- en Naturalisatiedienst (IND) weten afscheid te nemen van Zivver. 👋
ftm.nl/artikelen/ind-stopt-met

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Micro SF/F by O. WestinMicroSFF@mastodon.art
2026-02-04

"I was told you're a monster," the hero said.

"So they say," said the monster.

"But you're beautiful!"

"Thank you."

"Have you always been a monster?"

"Heh. I was a young maiden. But I did something forbidden."

"And became a monster?"

"Got named a monster."

"What did you do?"

"I hit back."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Halla Rempthalla@kde.social
2026-02-04

@fazalmajid @mitch so cool...

Halla Rempthalla@kde.social
2026-02-04

@fazalmajid @mitch I think my vague memories came from a manga, but I'm just not sure.

Halla Rempthalla@kde.social
2026-02-04

The only think @kde 's Kate needs to be the perfect distraction-free writing tool is margins -- I want to squash the lines from left and right so I have column in the middle that's easy to read.

Screenshot of Kate, the KDE editor. It shows justa  menubar, a focus rect and my text. The text is as wide as the full-screen window, which makes for hard-to-read lines.

The text itself starts here: https://valdyas.org/fading/couldnt-you-have-let-me-read-at-least-one-more-chapter-before-killing-me/ch1-of-couldnt-you-have-let-me-read-at-least-one-more-chapter-before-killing-me/
Halla Rempthalla@kde.social
2026-02-04

@fazalmajid @mitch I think I also heard of people being offered the alternative of going into rural areas to be local doctors, but either my google-fu is too rotten, or google is, so I cannot find a reference.

But it boils down to, you can either have a working kleptocracy, or a working military, but not both at the same time.

Halla Rempthalla@kde.social
2026-02-04

@Alice The traditional Dutch cooking school metric is "tot ene vin gemakkelijk loslaat" -- or, until one fin can be pulled off easily. This advice was repeated in the cookery books for _every_ fish.

This does not, however, lead to the tastiest possible result.

Halla Rempthalla@kde.social
2026-02-04

@fazalmajid @mitch I'm still impressed! This indicates some serious commitment to education.

Halla Rempthalla@kde.social
2026-02-04

@mitch This is even more shocking: "After studying at Meirinkan, he graduated from the Imperial Military Academy in 1878 and from the Army War College in 1885 as a first class student. " -- he was allowed to be a student until he was nearly thirty? Instead of being shoved through an as short as possible, as dear as possbile education. Such times....

Halla Rempthalla@kde.social
2026-02-04

@demoographics Just having to ask your wife to remove the lid from the jam jar a year or two into HRT is kinda indicative of how strength develops.

And I don't know many trans women without a jam jar story.

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Stephan OkhuijsenSteeph@mastodon.green
2026-02-04

RE: mastodon.social/@Datagraver/11

En die regeerreflex van de VVD gaat voorlopig dus niet veranderen.

Halla Rempthalla@kde.social
2026-02-02

Oh, en het werden uiteindelijk nogal wat maaltijden: hoofdmaaltijd, lunch, nog een keer hoofdmaaltijd, maar met brood en daarna lunch van restjes op geroosterd brood.

Iedere keer anders, iedere keer lekker.

Halla Rempthalla@kde.social
2026-02-02

@ariadne Um... I don't care about that, but _who_ gets to decide that? As far as I'm concerned, everyone who declares themselves an arbiter of food authenticity is beyond the pale.

I don't care about lima beans and I don't care about chili....

Biut.

Lima beans don't belong? Don't just state that -- at least explain why those beans don't work, and how they don't work, in that recipe.

Halla Rempthalla@kde.social
2026-02-02

@dave well, #krita is c++ and has lots of fun things to do :). Check out the contributors manual on docs.krita.org!

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2026-02-01

So, I've made tofu using a number of coagulants -- epsom salts in water, vinegar, lemon juice (I haven't tried nigari or gypsum). They all can affect the taste and texture of the resulting #Tofu. Read on to learn more!

Which Tofu Coagulant is BEST?

By Mary's Test Kitchen
January 7, 2024

"What Tofu Coagulant should you use for homemade tofu? I put traditional tofu coagulants (gypsum, nigari) to the test against grocery store ingredients (lemon juice, two vinegars, and epsom salts) to see which coagulant makes the best tofu at home! Will they change taste or texture? Read on!"

marystestkitchen.com/which-tof

#SolarPunkSunday #MakingTofu #TofuCoagulants #Soybeans #Soy #Vegan #MakeYourOwnTofu

Halla Rempthalla@kde.social
2026-02-01

@Eetschrijver @Greetschrijver Hm... Trouwens. Wat is de deal met armagnac. Mijn favo bas-armagnac met het lakzegel ging opeens van de reguliere 50% eenmaal gedistilleerd naar 45, en alle andere armagnac is nu goedkope cognac.

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