Laurie 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him)

Producer - Writer - Trans Man - Improv - Actor - Autistic - East Midlands (UK)

Creative producer, playwright, workshop facilitator. Currently performing in Some Other Mirror, my original theatre/standup show about transitioning in the UK during lockdown (Produced by Chronic Insanity Theatre).

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This is my theatre profile. I use it to chat about theatre, and make industry friends/connections.

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2025-04-23 10:23:37

⭐How to speak up, while trans!⭐
This blog is a crash course in public speaking for trans people. How to speak loudly, clearly and SAFELY at a protest.
https://improvlaurie.co.uk/blg-speakup/
#trans #transgender #acting #theater #theatre #activism #protest #arts

2025-04-22 13:01:29

Anyone know of any trans/LGBTQIA+ podcasts that focus on performing arts, or interviews w artists? Looking to publicise my upcoming production of trans play The Prince, which is the second ever UK staging of it, and only the third staging internationally.
#theater #theatre #trans #queer #lgbtqia #podcast #arts #transgender #acting #actors #queerart #transfemme #podcasting #podcasts

2025-04-20 00:01:04

NEW BLOG: Trans People Need The Theatre, and The Theatre Needs Trans People.
being a trans person, directing a play about trans people at a time when your country's government just decided to screw over trans people is...a lot.
https://improvlaurie.co.uk/blg-loveletter/
#trans #lgbt #lgbtq #queer #transgender #UK #theatre #theater #blog #performingarts #lgbtqia

2025-04-07 23:48:11

Here's me singing part of a parody of Gethsemane from Jesus Christ Superstar, except I'm John McClaine, having thrown myself on a C(4)rucifix as part of a high concept Easter Play. For more high-concept low-concept entertainment, come to Club Wormhole !
#comedy #film #parody #sketch
https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/114/299/346/013/103/068/original/95de86cd1cb5d9c6.mp4

2025-04-04 13:34:23

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I am thinking my next course of action is to try the 30-day trial with Tab.Digital, as I have a free account with them, and have had one or two annoyances with them, but generally, the free plan has worked well out of the box. I just don't like how confusing their website is.

2025-04-04 13:30:01

Cancelling my #NextCloud subscription with Cloudamo. Too many red flags. When I bought the account, it was 5 full versions out of date. Then had to raise a ticket to resolve all the errors created by updating it. NCTalk was supposed to be included in my plan, but it wasn't, and I had to raise another support ticket to get the back-end installed. Tried NCTalk this morning, and backend STILL doesn't work!! That's enough strikes for me. I'm cancelling. Can anyone reccomend a user-friendly provider?

2025-04-03 08:09:07

FableMosh Demo: interactive theatre piece 'Descension' by Laura Krasteva has a web interface that lets you switch between different actors in real time, as they read the script. You can also adjust the volume of the soundtrack. The words take on a different meaning, with different actors reading the same text, and the soundscape can come in and out of focus as it interplays with the performer.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TbDwPbsl-PA
#arts #art #LiveArt #theatre #theatre #tech #hybrid #PerformanceArt #WebArt

2025-04-01 13:20:39

FableMosh is a new theatre streaming service, designed to deliver indie shows, and shows with multimedia, interactive elements (I know one of the shows lets you choose the cast, and change them halfway through, which is cool!) They have a mailing list if you want to stay updated on their releases.
https://www.fablemosh.com/
#tech #arts #LiveArt #hybrid #streaming #theatre #interactiveArt #multimedia #DigitalArt #film

2025-03-28 11:50:50

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Another annoying thing about trying to find a decent NextCloud provider is that unless you give them your bank details and make an account, you actually have no clue what the experience of being with that company will be like. Why is it so hard to cater to non-techy individuals who want a cloud service, but don't want the hassle of dealing with the back end?

2025-03-28 11:48:36

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For what its worth, CloudAmo have been responsive, but I feel like they advertise the plan as plug and play, when it's simply not that at all. And the interface is horrendous and confusing. Maybe I should switch to ANOTHER provider but that would be the third time I have switched, because providers are simply not clear to laypeople what they do and do not offer as a competitor to OneDrive. There will be no serious migration from OneDrive etc, unless this attitude to non-technical users improves.

2025-03-28 11:25:36

Trying to get my NextCloud Cloudamo account set up and for some reason, it was 5 versions behind, with tons of errors in the admin panel. Also I just tried to have a Nextcloud Talk conversation with one person, and it says I need something called a TURN server?? I don't understand why Cloudamo's plan says that Talk is supported when it clearly isn't, because you have to contact Support to set it all up for you. Am I just being dense or is this actually bad service?
#cloud #tech #foss

2025-03-28 01:33:28

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Hopefully soon I am moving my email from GoDaddy to NameCheap. GoDaddy's multiple sign-in portals that look the same as each other, and their Microsoft affiliation has been driving me up the wall for YEARS.

2025-03-28 01:30:23

As soon as I feel like I'm getting somewhere with tech, something annoying happens. Signed into my Cloudamo NextCloud, and found it needed about 5 updates, and now the admin panel has a massive list of errors that I've just raised a support ticket for help with because I have no clue how to start solving any of them. And also, my GoDaddy email won't let me log into it anywhere except Outlook, and Outlook keeps showing an 'sign in error' that I can't get rid of :(

2025-03-28 00:41:25

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@nprofile…wxvy Fuck Oh Shit Shit

2025-03-26 22:15:44

This evening for club wormhole, we rehearsed a parody of Gethsemane, from Jesus Christ Superstar, but instead John McClaine from Die Hard vents his frustrations. I've been training my falsetto to hit those ridiculous high notes, and i think its going to be epic

2025-03-25 23:34:28

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@nprofile…s06g I tried a ton of distros a couple of years ago, and didn't really see how it could fit into my life. Now that I have moved over to FOSS software I'm like 'oh this makes much more sense to actually do properly now'.

2025-03-25 22:37:07

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I am working on a blog post explaining the life of this shit laptop and how it expresses a lot about the ways my use of technology has changed over time. I originally stopped using it when a windows update outpaced the RAM or the disk capacity (can't remember which).

2025-03-25 22:34:45

My nerd moment lately: having moved to Nextcloud and LibreOffice, I now have a much stronger usecase for using Linux in my day-to-day. I have installed Mint Xfce on a tiny shitty laptop (I'm talking 2gb RAM and 30gb SSD shitty) and I tweaked the settings using a guide, and I think it could really do the job for working on documents while out and about. I'm planning to just use it for editing documents via Nextcloud, and light web browsing.
#linux #foss #xfce

2025-03-25 00:16:42

#theatre #writing #shakespeare #comedy #humour
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2025-03-24 20:29:03

Re: the whole Trump administration accidentally adding the editor of The Atlantic to a groupchat about bombing Yemen, it reminded me of this John Finnemore sketch where the second 1917 Russian Revolution is organised over an email thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh_OJBAQaHo
#USPol #uspolitics #politics #comedy #radio #communism

2025-03-21 19:41:49

How to make big silly theatre props out of cardboard! A 3-part summary of everything I have learned about cheap and environmentally sustainable prop-making, from participating in Club Wormhole - an alt comedy cabaret in Nottingham
https://improvlaurie.co.uk/blg-whprops1/
#craft #upcycling #recycling #arts #handmade #DIY #eco #comedy #theatre #props #costume #blog #handmadeweb #smallweb

2025-03-17 10:54:15

Can anyone reccomend a book or documentary that explains how companies like Google and Microsoft make money from surveillance of users? I understand some of the basics, but would really like a deep understanding. Preferably something aimed at laypeople, rather than people with a tech professional background. Thanks!
#FOSS #FLOSS #BigData #Libre

2025-02-27 11:39:48

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I think I might join up with other companies using technology as a significant part of their thestre practice and potentially see if we could share a Nextcloud instance. The FF plan with Tab.Digital has a decent amount of storage, allows app integration like Talk, and up to 50 users. (I don't like that Tab.Digital's website makes it kind of hard to understand the difference between the plans though)

2025-02-27 11:36:19

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Maybe me or someone else would do it, but I would love to create a Degooglifying For Artists resource that aims to overcome the overwhelm/tech avoidance/worries about 'everything going wrong'/financial pressures that I see when I try to talk to artists about moving away from proprietary software.

2025-02-27 11:34:28

I feel like I talk a big game about 'Degooglifying' and moving away from proprietary services, but it's really fucking hard. In the arts, everything runs off Google because 1) its free 2) everyone is poor 3) the people who took arts subjects at school didn't get taught about tech in the level of detail that is required to understand how to Degooglify in 2025. I am an anomaly in that I took ComSci and Theatre A-Levels, but we need more solidarity uniting artists and compscis.
#foss #arts #theatre

2025-02-26 11:10:28

I am avoiding Google Maps, and noticed that @nprofile…y5ug didn't have my local LGBT Cafe or the LGBT sexual health clinic/needle exchange. Weirdly the only feature types for LGBT places are 'club, bar, pub, erotic shop, community center'. (I have now added these as an edit request, and asked to have it reviewed in case I ballsed up the formatting) but do we need more queers updating OSM? Am I just missing some really obvious stuff in my naïvety? #foss

2024-07-19 16:38:20

Todo for moving away from proprietary dependence for my media:
-- own website - I have made my own site with #11ty , hosting on #Netlify . not cancelled Wix subscription, in case something goes wrong but plan to.
-- media server - had a look at #plex today, and have heard its good? I would mainly use it to stream film to my friends' tvs
-- cloud hosting - Tried getting #nextcloud to autoupload my phone photos, but doesn't work, nothing seems to fix it. struggles to edit docs on phone.
#indieWeb