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Welcome to penworks.net, home of Pen Lister, Internet Gardener. This site is an archive of work, play, thinking and creative technical effort → more about me and what's included

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Getting started with Mastodon

There's plenty of blogposts about getting started with Mastodon, but that doesn't mean there shouldn't be another. This one is aimed particularly at UK users, people who might be academics, special interest folks or alternative…More

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Baby Saatchi

(Updated 2018 for archive.) Baby Saatchi was a project about content, and centred around the idea of ‘Rogue, Sasstacular’. It embodied numerous sources interlinking scraped… More

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Possible futures of microblogging

It's going to be very interesting what happens to microblogging now, with the apparent… More

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Importing feeds into Obsidian with Simple RSS

This post is about how to import RSS into Obsidian using the Simple… More

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Getting started with Mastodon

There's plenty of blogposts about getting started with Mastodon, but that doesn't mean there shouldn't be another. This one is aimed particularly at UK users, people who might be academics, special interest folks or alternative…More

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The back stories of Gen AI

I became fascinated by generative art a long time ago. I mean years and years. It may have begun when I saw Simon Schofield 's exhibition at I think somewhere…More

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Opting out of Meta Facebook AI training data

This post is a quick guide to how to object to Meta Facebook including your content for AI training model data. TLDR: if you just want the main form Ive linked it below, but its interesting to see where this is buried…More

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You can read a bit more about me on my resume page, download a CV, or check my ORCID. You can also find me on the Fediverse: for digital media @penworks@lor.sh, and academic @DrPen@mastodon.social