Babs [she/her]

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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • Resin printers mean extra post-processing (gotta wash the excess resin off in alcohol, trim the supports, then cure in a UV box. Then chemical disposal is complicated) but you get higher detail.

    But! Fdm printers are getting much better at this too! A well tuned printer (tuning your printer is a whole-ass hobby, be warned) with a 0.2mm nozzle (or a Bambu* basically right out of the box) will work just fine for most cases.

    *Look these things have proprietary firmware and that sucks, but it’s as close as we have ever gotten to “my printer is an appliance that just makes what I want with no fuss.” Don’t bother with their expensive filament, it’s no better than the cheap stuff and you can completely ignore their microchip system. An A1 mini is barely more expensive than an Ender 3 (which used to be the go-to cheap ass printer) and is the smoothest and fastest printer I have ever owned by a good deal.










  • WWP are good comrades with good principles, but the organization isn’t quite there imo. I tried joining as a candidate, found out that their candidate classes were only on a day I was unavailable, and they were like “okay, that’s no problem!” Which seems like pretty poor standards to me. Also they kept asking me if I could be a delegate on international trips, on very short notice, despite being a new candidate and not having a passport.

    PSL seems to have standards for their members and are trying to form organizational infrastructure in the form Liberation Centers. Definitely strike me as a more serious party.