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smolZINE - Issue 22

2022-03-15

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Some nice new faces in geminispace in the gems and a community submitted Stinky Pinky puzzle! Some busy physical world stuff has prevented me from getting anything substantial written for Emanations but I hope to have an article by myself or ideally a community submission for next issue.

Hidden (and not so hidden) Gems

An Absurd Way of Computing

Linux, Pinephones, Thinkpads, retro tech and more. This capsule has all the things that attract us computer nerds.

An Absurd Way of Computing

AJUL

Julia's capsule and gemlog are of a personal nature that is fitting of the charming nature of gemini as a whole. An excellent addition to your gemlog subscriptions.

AJUL

Squids World

This fledgling capsule is just getting started but promises plenty of interesting topics to come. For now there is some excellent ASCII art to tide you over while the capsule grows.

Squids World

Sashanoraa's Gemini Site

Sashanoraa likes to talk about software, tech ethics, gender, anti-capitalism among other things. Their capsule mainly houses links to software projects they've made.

Sashanoraa's Gemini Site

JeanG3nie's Capsule

Home to a couple gemini browser software projects and a couple non-gemini software projects as well as gemlog.

JeanG3nie's Capsule

Recreation

Chess Puzzle

by carriunix

♜ . . ♞ . . . ♚
♟ ♟ . . ♖ . ♟ ♟
. . ♝ ♟ . . . .
. . . ♗ . ♙ ♘ .
. . ♟ ♙ . . . .
. . ♙ . . . . .
♙ . . . . . . ♙
. . . . . . ♔ .

White (♙) mate in 4.

Solution

Stinky Pinky

by kelbot (puzzle words for this issue submitted by thefringthing)

To play Stinky Pinky you will need to read the two descriptions below. They each describe a word and the two words rhyme. Example: 1. Smelly, 2. Finger; Answer: Stinky Pinky. Get it? You can email your answer to the address found at the bottom of each smolZINE to confirm if you are correct. The first to answer wins...uhhh I haven't figured that out yet so my congrats will have to do for now.

1. A Stringed Instrument

2. A Freshwater Fish

Community Contributions & Discussion

Please consider taking part in making this zine better and more diverse by contributing your thoughts and finds. If you are interested in contributing a short article or capsule picks email me at: smolzine (at) cyberbot.space.

If you have any feedback or just want to discuss anything related to gemini or smolZINE hit me up at the above email or ping me on the fediverse at kelbot@retro.social and/or use the #smolZINE tag.

Thanks

Thank you to the following geminauts for their contributions to this issue of smolZINE.