Dr Zoyander Street

@zoy.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy

Neuroqueer disabled artist-researcher working with games and interactive media. PhD Sociology.

🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://merveilles.town/@zoy, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

@zoy.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy Oct 11, 2026, 4:38 PM

#drawtober2026 Day 11: Wicked Apothecary

L1: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds
L2: Stoneware bottle, China, Liao dynasty (907-1125) from the V&A Collections
L3: Image created in Pixel Space Background Generator (Deep-Fold)
L4: Purple gradient
L5: Brushed turmeric

#drawtober

Against a dark blue space background is shown an egg-shaped purple bottle with cyan and gold highlights and a glitch pixel art texture, offset as though misprinted.

@zoy.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy Oct 11, 2026, 2:28 PM

@coopcloud Thanks!

@zoy.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy Oct 10, 2026, 10:06 PM

#drawtober2026 Day 10: Shadow Prince

L1: W.E.B. DuBois (1920) DARKWATER
L2: Antoine Jacquard, watch cases. Paris 1610-1615
L3: f(x,y) = ((~(~(9 + y))) ^ (((8 * y) + (-y)) | ((y % x) ^ (23 / x)))) % 13
L4: Photo outside Natural History Museum c. 2012
L5: Great Artist
L6: Yellow gradient

#drawtober

A faceless figure lays on neon green grass outside a large Victorian building with ornate windows rendered in dark red and purple. Intense shadows are cast by an unseen structure. An illustration of a rat and other ornaments climb the right side of the frame. Red, green, and blue pixel noise intersects the image across the horizontal center and vertically on either side, with single-pixel lines crossing diagonally from the top right. In the centre, the text 'I peer back through the shadow of my years, seeing not too clearly, but through the thickening veil of wish and after-thought'

@zoy.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy Oct 10, 2026, 5:49 PM

Thanks! The scratches are localised and shallow so I'm hoping to just sand and paint. It looks like there's already primer where it's been scratched, it's not gone down to the metal (which I think is aluminium)

@zoy.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy Oct 10, 2026, 1:21 PM

Handy #disabled people with wheelchairs: I've scratched up the lovely purple frame on my steed. I have the Pantone code from the manufacturer, but I don't know what to look for in touch up paint. What kind of paint should I be ordering for a wheelchair frame?

@zoy.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 8:11 PM

#drawtober2026 Day 9: Shadow Prince

L1: bitartbot f(x,y) = ((((x / y) % (x & y)) - (-(-y))) - (((22 / y) * (y - x)) ^ (~(~y))))
% 10
L2: Gustave Doré illustration in Milton’s Paradise Lost c. 1880
L3: Ink print of bubble wrap
L4: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds

#drawtober

A winged, anthropomorphic creature sits on a bank of yellowed grass, staring at something below the frame with an intense gaze. It appears that the sky is deep red, and the creature rendered in glitching bands of purple, cyan, green, and blue. Splotches of white erase the colours to reveal the original black and white woodblock detailing of wing and grass to the left.

@zoy.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy Oct 8, 2026, 6:56 PM

#drawtober2026 Day 8: Shadow Prince

L1: W. E. B. DuBois (1920) DARKWATER
L2: bitartbot f(x,y) = (((~(-x)) * (~(11 - y))) / (~((-x) ^ (~y)))) % 4
L3: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds
L4: Vector from photograph of ROAR Garage Gallery October 2025
L5: HSL(349, 100, 14)

#drawtober

A bright pale blue light shines in a red darkness, emanating from a large doorway where someone in a parka stands alone before a painting. Indistinct text reads 'I have been in the world, but not of it. I have seen the human drama from a veiled corner, where all the outer tragedy and comedy have reproduced themselves in microcosm within. From this inner torment of souls the human scene without has interpreted itself to me in unusual and even illuminating ways'

@zoy.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy Oct 8, 2026, 12:59 PM

Desperate Livin’: Coding and Content (Practical Skills) Workshop

Free, sign up essential
Monday 23 November 2026, 6–8 pm UK time
Hybrid in London and online

I’m running a workshop with Studio Voltaire for trans folks on hand-making personal online archives […]

[Original post on merveilles.town]

Green and purple glitch background including stretched extract of CSS from the Desperate Livin website. Foreground text "TRANS DIGITAL ARCHIVING" in a font that resembles broken vsync

@zoy.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy Oct 7, 2026, 5:55 PM

#drawtober2026 Day 7: Dark Prince

L1: “Effects of an eccentric lathe chuck.” from Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics, vol 2 1880
L2: Great Artist
L3: Brass rubbing of 1504 inscription https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1054177/
L4: Granville Island winter solstice 2018

#drawtober

Black and red composition of images including bare trees, figures stood on a hill assembling a ritual structure, church inscriptions and engineering diagrams. The colours become inverted across most of the image, and in one block the hue has shifted to a more cold palette

@zoy.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy Oct 7, 2026, 12:21 PM

Okay I have Loops for Android now. Are there any nice Loops instances? Looks like we have the option of choosing something other than the flagship, but I can't find a list or directory anywhere. My dream would be disabled trans folks and/or artists and makers on local, and federated somewhat […]

@zoy.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy Oct 6, 2026, 3:13 PM

#drawtober2026 Day 6: Dark Prince

L1: Aubrey Beardsley Catullus illustration, 1896
L2: Extract from Catullus translation on Wikipedia
L3: f(x,y) = ((((~y) % (y & y)) % ((x * y) % (x / y))) * (((24 | y) | (y / y)) % ((2 + y) & (~x)))) % 10
L4: Great Artist
L5: HighEye (ash-k)

#drawtober

Line drawing of a bare-chested figure in a low-slung dark toga outlined in black, who seems to gaze mournfully out of the frame while waving goodbye, on a background of blood red, lilac, pale grey, and cyan. Glitches radiate behind, and from an indistinct text extract can be seen the words "death", "silent ash", "taken you" and "from me".

@zoy.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy Oct 5, 2026, 4:39 PM

#drawtober2026 day 5: Witch’s garden

L1: Kew Gardens herbarium preserved specimen K000914559
L2: Ink print from bubble wrap
L3: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds

#drawtober

A blue and green glitch art image overlaid with ink splotches and a preserved sample of witch grass. Text overlaid from the sample record says "Panicum capillare L., Witch grass, North Arboretum in an abandoned... Palm House (zone 183)"

@zoy.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy Oct 4, 2026, 9:28 PM

#drawtober2026 Day 4: Witch’s Garden
L1: Anna Tsing (2015) The Mushroom at the End of the World
L2: Fungi Collected in Shropshire and Other… (1860–1902)
L3: f(x,y) = (((-(-y)) % ((x / 16) | (x * y))) % (((x & y) - (y + y)) | ((x / 12) + (-y)))) % 13
L4: Image created in Great Artist
#drawtober

Two mushrooms lie at the bottom of this image, against a background of pastel pixel glitches. Text is overlaid in lilac, transforming into green when colliding with the mushrooms. "...we are not quite ourselves any more—or at least the selves we were, but rather ourselves in encounter with another. Encounters are, by their nature, indeterminate; we are unpredictably transformed."

@zoy.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy Oct 3, 2026, 9:44 PM

#drawtober2026 Day 3: Witch’s Garden

L1: Vector drawing of False Feywood plant in Greenhearth Necromancer
L2: Glitch art created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds
L3: Output from High-Eye (ash-k.itch.io)
L4: Turmeric painting done in my kitchen
#drawtober

Red vector drawing of a sunflower-like plant with a large mouth and sharp teeth, with glitching text characters banding across the yellow background and subtle green shapes radiating outwards.

@trevorwlson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 29, 2026, 10:14 PMReposted by @zoy.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy

⏳ There isn’t much time left before my daughter Raseel is born, and as a father, I’m struggling to provide what my wife and baby need before the birth. 💔

Every day that passes increases my fear. All I want is the chance to welcome my daughter with dignity […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

@zoy.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy Oct 2, 2026, 7:16 PM

#Drawtober2026 Day 2
L1: Text from The Crucible, Arthur Miller
L2: Gardening Illustrated, 1879. https://archive.org/details/gardeningillustr2319unse/page/24/mode/2up
L3: Ink print of bubble wrap
L4: bitartbot f(x,y) = (-(((24 ^ y) | (-x)) - ((-x) ^ (y ^ y)))) % 12
L5: Image created in Great Artist

@zoy.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy Oct 1, 2026, 10:12 PM

#ff8000

@zoy.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy Oct 1, 2026, 9:17 PM

@coopcloud I've put it in my calendar! What URL will I need?

@zoy.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy Oct 1, 2026, 5:31 PM

Layer 1: Text “why am I being hurt?”
Layer 2: 1854 botanical print of a great nettle https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O72712/
Layer 3: Turmeric print of bubble wrap
Layer 4: Glitch art created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds
Created in Inkscape

#drawtober #drawtober2026 Day 1

Purple and green image combining glitch art and traditional printing, with text overlay "why am I being hurt?"

@zoy.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy Sep 29, 2026, 11:10 PM

No doctor has had the nerve to try to tell me that long COVID isn't real, but as a medically complex patient, absolutely every specialism, clinic, and support service I encounter acts as though it didn't exist. I wonder if the same dynamic occurs with more localised environmental hazards - […]

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