2021-03-19T01:27:18-00:00 finally got new work machine set up enough to use, so i set up my beloved keyboard again. how i have missed its ergodoxical light touch 2021-03-19T10:12:01-00:00 the only truly comforting human made sound at night is train or boat horns.ah, yes. someone has it together.thank you for from place to place going. 2021-03-19T10:12:27-00:00 well,the only one from outside the house I guess. 2021-03-20T17:51:23-00:00 does anyone have any recommendations for sites like aldaily.com that are as ready to embrace seriousness as their remit, but not as sympathetic to reactionary thinking? 2021-03-20T18:18:53-00:00 wick editor is stepping up to the plate to try to reproduce the beginner-friendliness that made the flash internet magical: https://maya.land/responses/2021/03/20/wick-editor-is-stepping-up-to-the-plate.html 2021-03-20T18:29:46-00:00 somebody was telling me, "you know what, that dress is so great, if I were you, I'd buy like three in different colors", to which I got to respond "I own seven (they're all black)" 2021-03-20T21:29:36-00:00 if i were a creative person trying to Build A Brand online i think i'd probably have to put my high-effort contest out on twitter and ig but i think there's something to also using mastodon for chatty nonsense just because it's so much less psychically damaging IME 2021-03-20T21:32:37-00:00 ah shit sorry s/contest/content/ 2021-03-21T07:27:54-00:00 imagemagick is ....dang. 2021-03-21T07:31:11-00:00 I figured out that if you look at cut-and-fold zines in terms of two page spreads (which makes sense because there's no gutter so you can have content flow across the centerfold) you get chunks the same aspect ratio as full sheets of paper so they can be done large and scaled down 2021-03-21T07:32:21-00:00 this is more meaningful for 11 by 17 inch paper and the micromini one page zine fold that lets you have 7 spreads + cover at those same aspect ratios as the normal letter size paper 2021-03-21T07:34:32-00:00 that layout is sort of annoying,though--youre gonna have a bad time trying to do it in something like word or Google docs. enter imagemagick! with enough finagling, I figured out a command that lets me even out imperfect scan sizes with blank padding, resize everything appropriately, do the necessary concatenation and rotation,and convert to PDF. 2021-03-21T07:35:17-00:00 I'm going to see if I can get a couple ready for whenever the library reopens and I can print on that size paper :) 2021-03-21T17:39:52-00:00 what we've missed about communes: https://maya.land/responses/2021/03/21/what-weve-missed-about-communes.html 2021-03-21T23:28:40-00:00 lol i put effort into making a script that pulls mastodon content into a twtxt file... before realizing twtxt only wants 140 chars 2021-03-21T23:29:23-00:00 what is this, 2016 2021-03-21T23:30:10-00:00 i was planning to start following people on there and everything but now... I Don't Think So, Buddy 2021-03-21T23:33:12-00:00 HAHA JUST KIDDING, IT'S CONFIGURABLE, I LOVE YOU INTERNET 2021-03-21T16:39:30-07:00 okay so my timezones are all messed up but I think that's okay?? it would be kind of weird if it were caching tz between posts 2021-03-21T16:43:06-07:00 kind of confused about what's showing up and what's not... oof 2021-03-22T00:27:31-00:00 my dog is the cutest and best. she runs in order to get under the blanket by my leg. never has there been such a dog and never shall there be again 2021-03-22T00:34:35-00:00 looking at the plus size section of shein.com and imagining backstories for the catalog images 2021-03-22T01:35:55-00:00 i think the scorn i feel for sincerely held beliefs in future space colonization is exactly how aggro atheists feel about belief in an afterlife 2021-03-21T17:45:54-07:00 lol ok my script's problem is time zones.... of course it is. feedparser y u gotta be this way 2021-03-22T06:18:53-00:00 NY and WA governors compared on COVID: https://maya.land/responses/2021/03/21/ny-and-wa-governors-compared-on-covid.html 2021-03-22T07:14:20-00:00 potentially cursed idea: using special lawyer will presentation envelopes for my normal correspondence 2021-03-22T21:23:42-00:00 days since I lost my mind internally over inaccurate use of the term "performative": 0 2021-03-24T15:48:04-00:00 i wish people espousing mutual aid wouldn't lean so hard on the "it's not like CHARITY" thing. my family took charity. we needed it and it helped and it didn't degrade us. 2021-03-25T06:31:30-00:00 hatred of fans of the office is overplayed and yet I am still sure purchasing this bespeaks spiritual deadness https://www.etsy.com/listing/669419278/the-office-music-box-tv-show-theme 2021-03-25T16:53:11-00:00 .... now I really want to try making a matched pair of these as slightly creepy portraiture https://www.chairish.com/product/2860498/contemporary-lovers-eye-painting-by-susannah-carson 2021-03-25T22:54:03-00:00 https://open.spotify.com/track/2b3d2QFmss9NE6RiuyL8LO?si=2a5f4c79cd1d4e66 2021-03-26T02:58:04-00:00 fuck fuck fuck i am so mad about weezer's grapes of wrath 2021-03-26T02:58:40-00:00 the strings' ostinato BANGS, friends 2021-03-26T02:59:04-00:00 i do not need gen x dad energy!! i do not NEED it and YET 2021-03-26T21:51:25-00:00 remember how i told you my friend was getting vampire teeth for genuinely dentally necessary reasons? yeah well she got them and they look DOPE 2021-03-26T22:00:52-00:00 the story of hank the cowdog and his author: https://maya.land/responses/2021/03/26/the-story-of-hank-the-cowdog-and-his.html 2021-03-27T07:12:43-00:00 no maya no do not purchase an embossing folder 2021-03-27T16:13:47-00:00 it seems like all the houses are too big. if you have a house that is too big, the obvious thing is to have people move in with you until it is not too big. what are other ways to make it less wasteful? let a musician give piano lessons there, giving groups a place to meet....? 2021-03-27T20:55:06-00:00 not only would I pay Amazon extra for them to only use curbside-recyclable paper mailers either on a per-order or yearly basis, if they made it giftable I would hit everybody with that for Christmas 2021-03-27T20:55:44-00:00 I get that the economics here must not work out because there's no way they wouldn't have taken that PR win by now, but lord almighty 2021-03-27T21:39:52-00:00 anti-professionalism by stanley fish: https://maya.land/responses/2021/03/27/anti-professionalism-by-stanley-fish.html 2021-03-27T22:35:06-00:00 this is a great reason why we should do more pain in the ass fees for externalities like "fees on plastic that can't go in curbside recycling" because there are already paper padded mailers that are good enough for them to use *sometimes*, and if suddenly paper were The Option, I bet they'd figure out even better ones 2021-03-28T04:42:22-00:00 UPDATE: I HAVE LEARNED THE TERM "PIGOUVIAN TAX" AND WILL BE INSUFFERABLE IN ALL POLICY DISCUSSIONS HENCEFORTH 2021-03-28T05:33:23-00:00 does anyone know what desk pen stand *does* fit the dp-1000an if the obvious one doesn't???? 2021-03-28T06:18:52-00:00 four musicians, one cello, ravel's bolero: https://maya.land/responses/2021/03/27/four-musicians-one-cello-ravels-bolero.html 2021-03-28T07:13:01-00:00 does anyone know anything about android smartwatches? my vague research suggests now is not a good time to buy (because new releases are forecast to be much better) 2021-03-28T17:10:48-00:00 you know, foxtrot is pretty amazing for not calcifying like all the other newspaper strips seem to do as the artists age 2021-03-28T17:29:30-00:00 gen z is super lucky because when I was in high school I was really striving for kawaii/pastel fashion aesthetics but there was so much less available. i salute them and encourage them to take that saved effort and put it into going that much harder 2021-03-28T23:39:38-00:00 PSA: sticker backing paper is typically not recyclable (it almost always has a silicone liner) 2021-03-29T02:39:54-00:00 cute line of stuffed animals, looks new?: https://maya.land/responses/2021/03/28/cute-line-of-stuffed-animals-looks-new.html 2021-03-29T03:03:08-00:00 i know everything descends into corporate exploitation or whatever but i'm gonna say this is.... good? https://pool.jortage.com/occultinstitute/media_attachments/files/105/970/620/565/438/348/original/c63cb75046a3d2ee.png 2021-03-29T03:52:16-00:00 make a zine PDF out of images: https://maya.land/monologues/2021/03/28/zine-script.html 2021-03-29T03:03:08-00:00 i know everything descends into corporate exploitation or whatever but i'm gonna say this is.... good? 2021-03-29T04:36:51-00:00 every time a harvard-educated person misuses the phrase "beg the question" it strengthens my resolve to bring down the "meritocracy" 2021-03-29T05:18:53-00:00 what chinook jargon orthographies should a learner concern herself with?: https://maya.land/responses/2021/03/28/what-chinook-jargon-orthographies-should-a-learner-concern.html 2021-03-29T22:29:48-00:00 white collar WFH life tip: https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/customForestBreath.php decreases my desire to scream in meetings 2021-03-29T22:41:24-00:00 IT ISN'T WROKING WELL ENOUGH 2021-03-30T04:18:54-00:00 most card games that say they're good for two people aren't, but this one is: https://maya.land/responses/2021/03/29/most-card-games-that-say-theyre-good-for.html 2021-03-30T18:57:02-00:00 4x6 photo prints mail decently as postcards but right now i'm scribbling with a white acrylic paint pen to tone down the photo paper branding. there has to be a better way 2021-03-30T18:58:12-00:00 gonna try and shitpost more to be irritated less 2021-03-31T06:24:11-00:00 how do you distinguish goals from habits 2021-03-31T06:26:15-00:00 goals have historically stressed me TF out so I've always framed what I wanted in terms of habits (be the kind of person who paints, studies a language, etc.) and I'm wondering if it works against, idk, mustering some kind of hustle in some way that'd work well for me 2021-03-31T23:43:30-00:00 Georg Faustus wasn't named "Faust" as a normal surname but as an assumed Latin surname meaning "fortunate" 2021-04-01T06:47:13-00:00 what the fuck is up with google tasks and google reminders not having merged yet 2021-04-01T23:28:01-00:00 it's too bad that the really fun applications of location information are completely incompatible with privacy 2021-04-01T23:30:15-00:00 a local social network where your device's location information is smoothed such that you can't move your "location" at more than 60mph 2021-04-01T23:35:36-00:00 content can only be broadcast to the ~10,000 users whose locations are nearest to yours 2021-04-02T00:05:09-00:00 i don't know why this is cracking me up. ah yes, italian, french, and english. all the languages. https://www.fabrianoboutique.com/prodotti/corrispondenza/ti-amo.html 2021-04-02T19:18:55-00:00 should home cooks use modified wheat dextrin in fried breading?: https://maya.land/responses/2021/04/02/should-home-cooks-use-modified-wheat-dextrin-in.html 2021-04-03T00:02:38-00:00 ahem: what https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/covidiotsthegame/covidiots-the-board-game 2021-04-03T01:28:41-00:00 squarespace are the medicis 2021-04-03T16:00:56-00:00 the british walking sickness: https://maya.land/responses/2021/04/03/the-british-walking-sickness.html 2021-04-03T17:39:55-00:00 gorgeous suite of utilities for developing for the command line (MIT licensed): https://maya.land/responses/2021/04/03/gorgeous-suite-of-utilities-for-developing-for-the.html 2021-04-03T22:39:57-00:00 jacob hall's links: https://maya.land/responses/2021/04/03/jacob-halls-links.html 2021-04-04T01:36:41-00:00 does anyone know what the etiquette is about sending the same postcard design out a whole bunch of times for postcrossing? 2021-04-04T04:19:41-00:00 I wish there were USA-only postcrossing. 1.20 for a postcard adds up super quick in a way .36 doesn't .... 2021-04-04T05:01:37-00:00 briefly discussed with boyfriend how one would code up one's own equivalent and it turns out no programming project gets to be fun after you start trying to account for people being jerks 2021-04-04T09:49:30-07:00 @ fully agreed, it's very gross, and it's making light of stuff that people still don't take seriously enough.... (#) 2021-04-04T09:49:59-07:00 @ (#) also does the clock break anything for you? I know it's wrong but I didn't think it mattered a ton to fix 2021-04-04T17:53:36-00:00 friday night i learned that if you are trying to handle grayscale pngs in image magick you need to convert them through bmp before they'll work in a pdf 2021-04-04T17:59:07-00:00 "but maya why didn't you just set the color profile and colorspace" ha HA you are like a little baby, who thinks that commands do what they say 2021-04-04T18:18:58-00:00 using homoglyphs to make bilingual (bi-orthographic?) crosswords: https://maya.land/responses/2021/04/04/using-homoglyphs-to-make-bilingual-bi-orthographic-crosswords.html 2021-04-04T20:51:28-00:00 observation that is a lot less catty than it sounds at first I promise: if you go on YT for DIY content, a really good signal is seeing someone in the thumbnail who is not Naturally Hot (some unprized facial features, not skinny, etc.) but still Aesthetically Put-Together (some effortful hair, fashion, background, or makeup). 2021-04-04T18:00:08-07:00 @ ah... yeah... sorry, time zones are the worst #ky3n6la 2021-04-05T02:10:35-00:00 what do we think about anonymous political physical pamphlets these days 2021-04-05T21:13:11-00:00 it turns out if you want to simulate a risography look in procreate, the trick is to have your art layers in black/transparent set to multiply, and use a fill ink color layer set to screen as a clipping mask above each. i am sharing this because i had to learn it from a tiktok 2021-04-05T21:14:21-00:00 ah sorry to be clear this is necessary only if you want to simulate the look and also have art easily usable for actual printing 2021-04-05T19:23:53-07:00 @ oh my god no i ... cannot probably handle adding that by hand 2021-04-05T19:24:25-07:00 @ it is cool to read through other peoples though so im maybe a free rider 2021-04-06T03:21:12-00:00 i don't even want to watch soviet lord of the rings i just want to see screencaps without context 2021-04-05T21:10:02-07:00 @ (#) it looks trippy as hell 2021-04-06T19:48:18-00:00 aaAAaaAAaaAA 2021-04-07T00:40:00-00:00 social media's painful relationship with memory: https://maya.land/responses/2021/04/06/social-medias-painful-relationship-with-memory.html 2021-04-07T00:40:09-00:00 the tiger lillies released a covid-19 album last year: https://maya.land/responses/2021/04/06/the-tiger-lillies-released-a-covid-19-album-last.html 2021-04-07T20:32:00-00:00 mental health day 2021-04-08T19:06:29-00:00 "state of washington, douglas commonwealth"? are you fucking kidding me https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/washington-dc-statehood-vote-house-representatives/ 2021-04-08T19:07:18-00:00 *douglass 2021-04-08T21:32:27-00:00 a word peeve i have with myself is instinctively reaching for "alternately" when I mean "alternatively" 2021-04-08T21:45:54-00:00 holy shit i just stumbled across ukraine's eurovision band and it it so good 2021-04-08T21:46:27-00:00 "one part timeless tradition, one part hyped-up fashion" is an *excellent* formula 2021-04-09T18:36:38-00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVCXhEElJtQ 2021-04-10T00:43:25-00:00 is there a *fun* dataset I can get from a GDPR export to practice playing with sqlite? everybody always shows exercise tracker data that I don't have 2021-04-10T07:05:44-00:00 anyone know how to get the equivalent of lowered "fill" in procreate for layer modes where that has a different effect than opacity? 2021-04-10T07:07:54-00:00 i'm working on a fun effect using hard mix but right now to get something approximating healthy anti-aliasing, i have to size up all the layers to 200%, apply the layer mode, then resize back down 2021-04-10T18:00:56-00:00 tilde.town's bulletin board software is open source and great: https://maya.land/responses/2021/04/10/tilde.towns-bulletin-board-software-is-open-source-and.html 2021-04-10T18:03:21-00:00 did we all know that there are investment products designed to streamline the process of investing money in tobacco, alcohol, and gambling? "Vice" funds is a pretty cutesy way to talk about profiting from lives destroyed. https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/act-stock-quote/ 2021-04-10T18:14:16-00:00 I'm not real confident that the social responsibility indexes manage to do the opposite but boy am I confident that this shit makes the world worse 2021-04-11T19:00:58-00:00 the (us) state birds are garbage: https://maya.land/responses/2021/04/11/the-us-state-birds-are-garbage.html 2021-04-12T16:34:13-00:00 not sure how happy I am about this being a truly accurate depiction of me at the end of Lent https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMemV7nQx/ 2021-04-12T18:08:28-00:00 some of the language around pronouns parallels the whole "gay people are bad because how will the species survive," as if the Correct Thinking were that "he" and "she" and all usefully distinguishable pronouns must be abolished altogether for everyone 2021-04-12T18:09:05-00:00 bruh i promise you're still gonna be able to sort out your referents 2021-04-12T19:13:32-00:00 you know, if you don't get a big superiority rush from avoiding it, pop music is really really enjoyable 2021-04-13T15:36:40-00:00 considering getting postcards printed of the cool drawing I was saving for my someday cult 2021-04-13T21:40:00-00:00 content moderation and human nature: https://maya.land/responses/2021/04/13/content-moderation-and-human-nature.html 2021-04-14T05:18:14-00:00 does anyone else have a gut reaction against "I resonate with [that idea]" in place of "[that idea] resonates with me"? 2021-04-14T17:42:34-00:00 work morale at critical levels. trying to live up to my pull of the Sun for this week 2021-04-14T22:58:44-00:00 are there things that are fun to track just to see how often you did them, not to nag yourself? 2021-04-15T03:23:37-00:00 my parents are getting into tiktok. i think you should know that 2021-04-15T21:31:54-00:00 dose 1 thank God thank God thank HIV research 2021-04-16T23:51:50-00:00 why do you have to rent a physical PO box to get mail without telling people where you live? shouldn't they do virtual PO boxes by now that *only* forward mail? 2021-04-17T00:40:37-00:00 i know there are 3rd party services that do this but like... i don't care about having a physical address to give people, I want people to be able to address an envelope with some kind of human friendly UUID and have it mapped to me by USPS computers 2021-04-17T01:05:53-00:00 the closest thing they have is *this* shit which both requires a PO box and is ridiculously expensive https://store.usps.com/store/productpfsl/pfsLocal-P_PFSLocal 2021-04-17T01:06:46-00:00 I would be happy to have a fee associated with this UUID. I will pay you ANOTHER 55 cents every time someone sends a letter to it on top of THEIR postage, USPS 2021-04-17T01:07:23-00:00 you could specify it'd only work for a certain amount of time so you could purge tables and shit! please postal service i am begging you 2021-04-17T01:07:50-00:00 take my paypal and free me from ambient security concerns 2021-04-17T17:52:58-00:00 canada's closing ceremony outfit is actually sick as hell and I will not stand for these attacks https://www.cnn.com/style/article/team-canada-usa-olympic-uniforms/index.html 2021-04-17T19:25:12-00:00 babby's first rails tests 2021-04-17T19:26:10-00:00 mostly I think it's going well except that I've not got the hang of googling for things yet 2021-04-17T19:27:56-00:00 I definitely get why this goes well with tdd, a thing that has always seemed super tedious to me before (even in a ruby codebase) 2021-04-17T19:30:20-00:00 starting by defining simple simple behavior, you can then implement it with some kind of magic wand built in blackbox functionality and still be confident you know how it behaves. there are downsides to that tradeoff but I'm finally grokking the upsides 2021-04-18T20:01:01-00:00 wearing a hat so large I can only see my phone,perfectly adapting to the experience of being "outside" 2021-04-18T23:50:41-00:00 is there an equivalent of "you are not immune to propaganda" for gen x thinking they don't buy into corporate stuff 2021-04-20T21:03:23-00:00 agghhhhhhhhhhhhhh 2021-04-21T22:39:59-00:00 my jeans plea to gen z: https://maya.land/responses/2021/04/21/my-jeans-plea-to-gen-z.html 2021-04-22T05:13:21-00:00 kate dunn's zines are a tumblresque delight: https://maya.land/monologues/2021/04/21/kate-dunns-zines.html 2021-04-22T20:43:19-00:00 update: federated notes, likes, and zines: https://maya.land/updates/2021/04/22/update.html 2021-04-22T20:55:04-00:00 i have such bitter thoughts about americans' attitudes toward immigration 2021-04-22T22:37:06-00:00 even lefty people thinking that immigration is good only as long as immigrants maintain less power in their community than they do. yeah, maybe they're so *graciously* going to say they're okay with brown people coming here to do back-breaking work for pittances, but as soon as it's californians moving to other states, programmers from other countries getting $$$ jobs here -- they can say abolish borders but there's an awful lot of policing of boundaries that look an awful lot like borders to me 2021-04-23T01:02:58-00:00 bellowing along to bonnie raitt and my very well-bred boyfriend politely not commenting on the hickishness of it all 2021-04-23T19:01:07-00:00 they carved houses into rock in langenstein: https://maya.land/responses/2021/04/23/they-carved-houses-into-rock-in-langenstein.html 2021-04-23T19:01:17-00:00 houses carved into the stone in langenstein: https://maya.land/responses/2021/04/23/houses-carved-into-the-stone-in-langenstein.html 2021-04-23T22:31:01-00:00 the more you learn about US prison conditions the more horrified you should be and the million book project is doing really cool (and really welcomed!) work. check them out: https://millionbookproject.org/ 2021-04-24T19:19:02-00:00 this package tracking site can grab details of Chinese shipping companies too: https://maya.land/responses/2021/04/24/this-package-tracking-site-can-grab-details-of.html 2021-04-26T05:40:21-00:00 what do you do when you want to discuss something niche and ask questions but you're not socially embedded in a scene enough to have opportunities 2021-04-26T05:44:20-00:00 I know if I wanted to talk about software or whatever I could just start sounding off and people would chat back but it isn't as easy when what you're curious about is the perception of digital typesetting in zine circles or preserving an adequately green taste to the mint in a mojito syrup or matching various false golds and brasses in home decor 2021-04-26T05:45:04-00:00 it's fully infuriating to realize that facebook genuinely has this solved 2021-04-26T18:14:23-00:00 those things that try to get you to be braver by evaluating "what's the worst thing that could happen" are just bewilderingly counter productive. are most people just bad at catastrophizing or 2021-04-27T19:01:04-00:00 I switched my daily news consumption to start with KUOW's morning news podcast and it's good: https://maya.land/responses/2021/04/27/i-switched-my-daily-news-consumption-to-start.html 2021-04-27T23:56:12-00:00 are there cool labor history projects people like? youtube or podcasts or whatever? especially if *not* Let's Contextualize Our Politics With History content, more like how people fanboy about Rome 2021-04-29T16:14:09-00:00 actually i think i have to retire "digital priesthood" as a term for the rarefied nature of technical skills because it's unfair to priesthood. priests are available to the community without fee. 2021-04-29T19:01:01-00:00 best grandson makes machine to pair up telegram messaging with a grandmother-friendly physical interface: https://maya.land/responses/2021/04/29/best-grandson-makes-machine-to-pair-up-telegram.html 2021-04-29T23:30:18-00:00 we are a lot more aggressive when identifying sanctimony as manifested by people we dislike than by people we like. this is true even when we say we agree with the sentiment behind the supposedly sanctimonious expression. 2021-05-01T06:37:02-00:00 hana berggren made a wholesome zine about mashrums: https://maya.land/monologues/2021/04/30/hana-berggren-mashrums.html 2021-05-03T04:00:42-00:00 it is truly ridiculous that in the service of Protecting The Consumer, you can't install a font on your iPad..... without downloading a third party app that tracks the fuck out of you. good job tim apple 2021-05-03T04:10:45-00:00 is there a good software solution to arrange images and text in a custom font on a page layout for print such that I have access to features like "wrap the text around the non-transparent pixels of the image, not just the bounding box" and is it, like, Adobe firstborn-child expensive 2021-05-03T19:21:14-00:00 https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-databases-on-github-pages/ this is ???? so cool 2021-05-03T21:48:25-00:00 https://multiverse.plus/emilioemman/1619984314104 mood 2021-05-03T22:17:18-00:00 I tried responding on there https://multiverse.plus/maya/dream-jobs 2021-05-03T22:41:37-00:00 it is the second WA billionaire divorce and a second time i will tell you: their wealth belonged to *both* of them and every piece of coverage calling it *his* has echo effects in how people see the situations of far more vulnerable women 2021-05-03T22:52:05-00:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_property_in_the_United_States I'm just gonna keep screaming it into the void 2021-05-04T15:49:44-00:00 alexa answers better when I do a fake deep voice :I 2021-05-04T17:55:01-00:00 have now read gideon the ninth for the third time and I will be furious if I don't get a movie out of this 2021-05-04T19:03:36-00:00 I think they'd have to drop the sworn silence though, and putting in the gideon flavor without twisting the plot might be tricky 2021-05-04T21:14:06-00:00 i am strongly opposed to mined precious stones and even somewhat opposed to lab diamonds that contribute to the whole bloody Diamond Mystique -- and even *I* want to punch the hacker news commenters being like "women are just suckers for marketing" 2021-05-04T21:16:37-00:00 "I personally fully agree, but unfortunately not everyone thinks as logically as you or I." I :) am :) going :) to :) run away :) from society 2021-05-04T23:01:05-00:00 those pavé eternity rings were created because they needed to sell smaller diamonds from the Soviet Union: https://maya.land/responses/2021/05/04/those-pav%C3%A9-eternity-rings-were-created-because-they.html 2021-05-04T23:08:48-00:00 i ordered a stamp of my lil' crest there :) I hope I got a useful size... and I hope the ink really is as blue as they claim 2021-05-04T23:57:48-00:00 and i have only now realized it won't happen because it requires expensive FX yet wouldn't fly in China 2021-05-05T03:15:24-00:00 anybody have strong opinions on vegetarian meatball brands? precooked ideal cause I lazy 2021-05-05T07:40:28-07:00 @darch I do hear! I don't check as often as I post, but I do check!! 2021-05-05T07:41:37-07:00 @jlj @ and like I said -- it's a timezone conversion thing, not clock drift, I already know about it, and I decided not to bother fixing it since at least in the default client, it's not like it breaks anything. 2021-05-05T07:44:33-07:00 RT @: 'Postmodernism is what you have when the modernization process is complete and nature is gone for good. It is a more fully human world than the older one, but one in which 'culture' has become a veritable 'second nature.' - Fredric Jameson' 2021-05-07T03:55:58-00:00 ordered https://www.theperfumedcourt.com/Products/In-The-Library-Sampler-Pack----Set-of-6-samples__PaperSampler.aspx because santal 33 smells really good but I'll be damned before I pay that much for a perfume that's that popular 2021-05-07T03:57:21-00:00 also https://www.theperfumedcourt.com/Products/Sandalwood----Perfect-Sandalwood-scents----8-samples__SANDALWOODSAMPLER.aspx .....I figure between the two the right thing will jump out at me. 2021-05-07T03:58:51-00:00 it reminds me of this dead love https://g.co/kgs/22TC9z 2021-05-07T06:11:06-00:00 screenshot garden (https://maya.land/screenshot-garden/) 2021-05-07T06:17:30-00:00 trying to decide if i care enough to take off the color layer that makes things hard to read 2021-05-07T21:36:54-00:00 what is the sport played at a global level that requires similar muscle strengths to wielding a longsword 2021-05-07T21:39:04-00:00 fanart of the locked tomb trilogy has some real yaoi-anatomy-problems vibes and I want to figure out what photo references are Best 2021-05-07T21:40:27-00:00 tennis gets you some of that "swing hard" but everything involved is light AF 2021-05-08T05:19:05-00:00 I would read a whole book about the history of this virtual pet game: https://maya.land/responses/2021/05/07/i-would-read-a-whole-book-about-the.html 2021-05-09T01:48:51-00:00 gideon the ninth, cavalier of the ninth house! there's a good reason her grip on the sword is wrong, honey, you just haven't thought of it yet 2021-05-09T01:54:08-00:00 should have bought this stamp (self inking!) ages ago. resisting the temptation to use it as an 'ex libris' mark 2021-05-09T02:47:28-00:00 piss off, philipp philippovich https://cr.middlebury.edu/public/russian/Bulgakov/public_html/serdce.html 2021-05-11T20:31:51-00:00 who is supposed to vend "official" merch for a book series? the author, or the publisher? does this *have* a traditional answer, given the relative rarity of book merch? 2021-05-12T18:50:21-00:00 does anyone else have twitter refuse to show them publicly-scoped content when they're not logged in? it shows up in a private browsing window... obviously I have a lot of my own speculation already about this but if anyone has actual facts/knowledge that'd be interesting 2021-05-13T07:46:07-00:00 I just read Docile by K. M. Szpara. I don't think it needs a full review on my website, so here goes: bits of this felt a bit too perfectly therapized, and sins too neatly swept over. Maybe it could have used a few more edit passes to tighten up the plot/cast. That said, it was a good read, even for me as someone who reads 0 m/m stuff. More speculative fiction stuff should commit to exploring one idea thoroughly. Definitely read CWs for the book first! 2021-05-13T07:46:47-00:00 Also OverDrive is probably still a pain in the ass to get books onto kindle or whatever, but it worked great to just read in the browser. 2021-05-13T07:50:33-00:00 also a lot of reviews have criticized it heavily for not engaging with America's history of chattel slavery. That seems like a really good critique -- it's not that a story like it couldn't have been told, but that there's something really sketchy about setting something like this in a supposed Baltimore and yet not grappling with slavery and race. 2021-05-13T08:04:18-00:00 what is the appropriate skull density for home decor 2021-05-13T08:17:23-00:00 I just thought of the following four words and I need to know if anyone finds them as funny as I do: "Computer Modern wedding invitations" 2021-05-13T19:19:47-00:00 pro tip: if you're starting to cry during a meeting, just turn your camera off. if you keep talking without interruption no one will question you 2021-05-13T19:23:13-00:00 these are so gooodddddddddd https://www.skull.supply/product/gloss-skull-burgundy 2021-05-13T21:26:46-00:00 genuinely think that mmm.page is what the internet was *for*. if they end up figuring out how people can export what they make with it for self-hosting it'll be flawless. look at this https://mmm.page/charlieb.garden 2021-05-13T22:29:39-00:00 i wanted to get a smartwatch so i could make a face for it that just had the moon phase and no time. i got a smartwatch but haven't had time to make my own watch face. it turns out it has been so long since i was in the habit of reading analog clocks that the premade one i found might as well have no time indication 2021-05-14T00:04:03-00:00 day 2 of having a mullet is still great in case any of you are wondering 2021-05-14T01:00:33-00:00 https://mmm.page/maya.bonechurch hahah yessss 2021-05-14T18:34:23-00:00 today's long read about something you don't think you care about but then your brain will get a bit melty over https://www.stereogum.com/2015589/andrew-wk-steev-mike/columns/sounding-board/ 2021-05-14T20:34:25-00:00 more communities/projects should use the postal service because $0.55 is a nice sized kinda microtransaction to filter out low-effort trolls but still be pretty accessible to most people (as long as you don't need to mail something every day or so) 2021-05-15T23:50:29-00:00 kofola is really good and you cannot get syrup to make it in america. chinotto is really good and you cannot get syrup to make it in america. why is the world trying to keep delicious european sodas from me 2021-05-16T20:08:37-00:00 every painting of judith with the head of holofernes is an idealized aspect of #girlboss and i will not be taking questions 2021-05-17T00:32:47-00:00 apparently still necessary reminder: kneejerk distaste for popular things constitutes letting the vagaries of fashion dictate your taste *exactly as much as* does sheepling towards popular things. if you haven't figured this out and you're old enough to rent a car that's a little sad. 2021-05-17T15:40:34-00:00 i really recommend learning some non-latin scripts. excellent brain juice to start sounding out cyrillic every time it crosses your path. 2021-05-17T18:11:25-00:00 it is frankly stupid how much difference remembering to take my medication makes to my experience of the exact same set of material circumstances. amazing how much more clarity modern woman can have on the boundaries of the immutable self. 2021-05-17T18:34:41-00:00 so far the bone shard daughter is not living up to my gideon the ninth expectations. 2021-05-17T20:09:37-00:00 does anyone have any cool examples of scroll-linked animations for webcomics? I've been thinking a lot about how it's a shame webtoons limit themselves to static images 2021-05-17T20:18:45-00:00 I've played around before with how CSS layout could be used to make a comic-like vibe for a webpage while maintaining clean HTML https://maya.land/test-pianoroll/ add the alt-text as I have, and it ends up even being text-browser friendly! 2021-05-17T20:38:20-00:00 mmm.page just has me thinking about how much *easier* it could be to make cool things. i don't have the sauce to make the right visual interface, but nice premade classes and scripts to hook into scrollmagic.io or something in a way that'd fallback nicely without JS...... 2021-05-17T21:00:47-00:00 oh SHIT here we GO https://overgrowncomic.com/01.html 2021-05-17T21:53:55-00:00 part of what I was proudest of about maya.land/test-pianoroll is how it squishes responsively, too, which mmm.page doesn't shoot for -- but if you're willing to discard that, that click-and-drag editing is *delicious* 2021-05-17T22:35:02-00:00 truly shocked the name "Karen" is not on this page anywhere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellum 2021-05-18T01:46:27-00:00 This Priority Mail crop top with the Priority Mail® logo on the front and Fred Segal and USPS® logos on the back celebrates the Postal Service's rich history of more than 245 years and pays homage to vintage USPS® logos, designs and stamp artwork. 2021-05-18T01:54:48-00:00 god grant me the confidence of a man dropping into a Disqus comment thread with " uses Linux based OS which is hackable." 2021-05-19T01:08:22-00:00 iiiii love rock and roll 2021-05-20T02:25:35-00:00 honestly abolishing inheritance for, like, non-dependents seems pretty reasonable. if you're not willing to unclench your fingers from your lucre to pass it on to your spawn while you both yet live, you clearly don't care *that* much whether they end up with it. 2021-05-20T02:36:44-00:00 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/capernosity#English where does it COME FROM????????????????? 2021-05-20T19:05:25-00:00 they should let you specify your own fake engine sound for electric vehicles so then someone can vroom vroom a big truck with magical girl twinkle noises 2021-05-20T19:07:17-00:00 *steps on gas pedal of porsche* *accelerating banjo* 2021-05-21T17:14:50-00:00 what are your desired attributes in a lightweight cult/secret society 2021-05-21T18:23:49-00:00 if you watch one video on youtube about the freemasons they start recommending stuff about aliens :| 2021-05-21T22:55:51-00:00 disney fandom would be a lot less cringey if IP law didn't limit all expression into sending money through disney-approved means back into disney pockets. 2021-05-21T22:58:25-00:00 questionable content but it's some furry's anthro barista AU lady and the tramp fan comic. 2021-05-22T16:53:20-00:00 "American Values: Oregon will continue to violate more and more American values and American freedoms because normal rural Americans are outnumbered in Oregon." https://www.greateridaho.org/ the semiotics here are fuckin wildddddddd 2021-05-22T16:55:08-00:00 to be clear I think these people are cranks and that is especially demonstrated by the fact they really believe people are out here moving to Idaho *as political refugees* 2021-05-23T05:23:53-00:00 so when your children quarrel and nothing seems to quell them just tell them that you'll take them to the edison museum 2021-05-23T06:47:51-00:00 my apartment is too hot for flowers but they look lovely briefly 2021-05-24T06:18:18-00:00 hmu, as they say https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Maya%20Kathleen 2021-05-24T19:01:00-00:00 ew https://www.netmeister.org/blog/email.html 2021-05-24T19:55:21-00:00 in addition to making up a guy and getting mad at him, people on the internet seem to put a weird amount of energy into fighting about situations that don't happen. "terrible thing is happening!" (it isn't) "that thing wouldn't be terrible!!" 2021-05-24T20:13:48-00:00 especially pernicious when one side is taking the side of "common sense" and another is taking the side of "moral principle" 2021-05-24T20:15:40-00:00 i would definitely count "both sides agree on how to handle Specific Case A, which happened once, but are slippery sloping in opposite directions around what this implies for other (only theoretically potential) problems" in this bucket 2021-05-24T22:33:45-00:00 know thyself: https://maya.land/responses/2021/05/24/know-thyself.html 2021-05-24T22:33:52-00:00 global population decline: https://maya.land/responses/2021/05/24/global-population.html 2021-05-25T01:42:24-00:00 "ménage à taika" have we done that one yet 2021-05-25T17:58:32-00:00 kneaded erasers may be injecting a bunch of plasticizers into my bloodstream but .... worth 2021-05-25T19:52:52-00:00 is there an emoji that captures "forced smile" 2021-05-25T23:43:10-00:00 not enough of this energy in the culture https://same.energy/search?q=old+lady 2021-05-26T18:42:51-00:00 olivia rodrigo captures my feeling of being a teenager in exactly the way people always *said* taylor swift would (but didn't) 2021-05-26T18:43:37-00:00 downside: revisiting the feeling of being a teenager 2021-05-26T18:51:31-00:00 how much do you have to listen to girl in red to participate in the memes 2021-06-01T21:40:08-00:00 emotionally overwhelmed by stopping myself from coming out with "the thing you just wrote was so lazily ignorant it is hurtful to me" in an entirely technical context 2021-06-02T00:21:34-00:00 what is the good middle ground between comfortable stagnation and trying to grow by holding a hobby to professional standards 2021-06-02T00:24:21-00:00 I want to get better at illustration / the skills associated with visual art, partially because seeing myself improve is part of what makes it satisfying as a hobby -- but it's not my career, I don't think I want to make it my career, and it's stressful to deal with advice meant for people who are trying to do that 2021-06-02T00:25:34-00:00 but then on the other side of things "just do what u like, art can be anything uwu" doesn't help me effectively use the limited time I do want to spend on getting better. 2021-06-02T00:27:20-00:00 I want, like, the intensity and structure of a high school art class and somehow that's leading me to find PDFs of lithographs to copy, the cutting edge drawing course of the eighteen hundreds 2021-06-02T02:18:50-00:00 the atlantic: just how bad is america’s drinking problem?: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/01/americas-drinking-problem.html 2021-06-02T02:18:57-00:00 on: internet study culture: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/01/on-internet-study-culture.html 2021-06-02T02:21:49-00:00 space exploration is more like antarctica than the frontier: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/01/space-the-frontier-and-antarctica.html 2021-06-02T02:24:46-00:00 check your sunscreen for cancer juice: https://maya.land/responses/2021/05/26/sunscreen-cancer-juice.html 2021-06-02T07:27:25-00:00 one of these fucking things is not like the fucking others https://www.npr.org/2021/06/01/1002114243/the-pope-is-toughening-church-laws-on-sex-abuse-fraud-and-the-ordination-of-wome 2021-06-02T19:49:52-00:00 are there any third party "discover weekly" analogues for bandcamp? or based on last.fm data or whatnot 2021-06-03T17:57:47-00:00 no i will nOT stop misusing the latin "pace" to mean "according to your Bad Take" 2021-06-03T18:01:57-00:00 frustrating that people still hold the american university system in such Sacred Regard while not expecting it to push back against its expensive-ass vocational training role in society 2021-06-03T19:58:40-00:00 this tweet brought to you by my instinctive rage at a professor criticizing a "popular X" YTer as an "influencer" 2021-06-03T20:03:29-00:00 if you want to criticize commodification of your discipline maybe look harder at how you make a salary because no one can get a middle-class job without taking your intro courses!!!!!!!! 2021-06-04T00:06:51-00:00 it turns out chipotle sucks (no, for other reasons): https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/03/it-turns-out-chipotle-sucks.html 2021-06-04T00:09:52-00:00 literally the first thing I've ever read about palestinian refugee return: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/03/palestinian-refugee-return.html 2021-06-04T00:09:58-00:00 on noah smith on depression: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/03/on-noah-smith-on-depression.html 2021-06-04T17:20:12-00:00 every time someone complains about falling birthrates in post-industrial societies without explaining why they aren't okay with raising immigration (it is never a Nice Reason) or arguing for more social support for parents and especially mothers, i close my eyes and put a hex upon their genes 2021-06-04T18:00:47-00:00 hot take: "fast fashion" is a reputational cover, where poorer people can get new clothes cheaply but disguise their need by giving the appearance that they are imitating rich people surfing trends. you can track this by seeing normal people wear those garments for a long time without replacement. 2021-06-04T18:04:47-00:00 the real competitor is the clearance rack at Target. I know this because I moved straight from that rack to H&M when my hometown got one 2021-06-05T07:00:28-00:00 this clicker game will make you think and also maybe cry?: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/04/this-clicker-game-will-make-you-think-and.html 2021-06-05T08:18:50-00:00 discord is overwhelming. you know that meta newsletter that sends out links that were in many newsletters? I want something that will use my account to see what I can see across a lot of miscellaneous servers and then filter to links (with reacji ranking?) 2021-06-06T06:31:45-00:00 i'm just warning you now nobody knows how to use a computer 2021-06-08T20:24:54-00:00 wikijousting: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/08/wikijousting.html 2021-06-08T20:25:00-00:00 if you cut a perfectly human-shaped hole in an unlocked door...: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/08/human-shaped-hole.html 2021-06-08T20:27:57-00:00 archaic names for diseases: https://maya.land/responses%20health/2021/06/08/archaic-names-for-diseases.html 2021-06-08T20:28:03-00:00 coffee deserves cardamom, not mushrooms: https://maya.land/responses%20coffee%20cardamom%20spices/2021/06/08/coffee-additives.html 2021-06-08T21:42:31-00:00 A piece in the Atlantic (the one about "four Americas") claims without citation that "In the summer of 2020, the protesters in the American streets were disproportionately Millennials with advanced degrees making more than $100,000 a year." but Pew found "Protesters also don’t differ considerably from the adult population in terms of income or educational attainment." https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/06/24/recent-protest-attendees-are-more-racially-and-ethnically-diverse-younger-than-americans-overall/ 2021-06-08T21:48:49-00:00 archaic names for diseases: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/08/archaic-names-for-diseases.html 2021-06-08T21:48:55-00:00 coffee deserves cardamom, not mushrooms: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/08/coffee-additives.html 2021-06-09T16:51:31-00:00 anybody going to be getting the playdate? i was enchanted by the idea but then got a teeny handheld emulator to satisfy myself in its absence 2021-06-09T17:40:14-00:00 it's sort of a bummer that even this issue can't be analyzed from the angle of "wait *is* home equity how people should be building wealth / growing assets for retirement? why are we privileging that above other investments / housing models and is it actually good for society?" https://twitter.com/APhilosophae/status/1402434266970140676 2021-06-09T18:23:48-00:00 i wonder if i should be xposting my instagram stuff over here. or the reverse? ig probably has a trash API, huh 2021-06-09T21:33:51-00:00 fast food and crow cholesterol: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/09/crow-cholesterol.html 2021-06-09T21:36:49-00:00 overgrown: a hypercomic you gotta scroll through: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/09/overgrown.html 2021-06-10T19:20:36-00:00 heads up that the bunny gardening couch co-op kickstarter reached the "release for Nintendo Switch" tier and has ~48 hours left: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/patrickgauthier/bunhouse-be-a-bun-grow-some-plants-play-with-friends 2021-06-11T01:02:34-00:00 I wonder if you could cover wood cabinets in vinyl and *then paint them* so someone who wants whatever ugly wood stain you're covering could peel it off easily later, but you would get normal paint texture/look and no exposed vinyl edges that would peel 2021-06-11T16:42:36-00:00 the good luck hen will give you luck today 2021-06-11T17:55:25-00:00 i enjoy that mcdonalds has decided they need to advertise to me in spanish 2021-06-12T00:09:49-00:00 j. kenji lópez-alt is seattle’s now and you can't have him back: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/11/j-kenji-lopez-alt-seattle.html 2021-06-12T06:20:44-00:00 it is astounding that "mutton busting" exists, is what it is, and also is not even a sex thing 2021-06-13T05:03:15-00:00 new computer has an emoji button 👻 2021-06-13T00:16:50-07:00 @ 😬 seems to be real popular with peopletwt timeline i think 🙃 may win for me even though i use it for.... everything 2021-06-13T08:01:29-00:00 my sick dog care responsibilities now include mixing water into canned food so she'll hydrate a little more and this is depressing enough that i have decided this is called making her Soup 2021-06-14T00:05:43-00:00 anybody who follows me use scrivener? I I have a question on the level of "I know I could achieve this by doing X, but it seems like there is probably an intended mechanism" 2021-06-14T00:06:45-00:00 I'm thinking about how you could write a very very detailed outline a la Lazette Gifford http://fmwriters.com/Visionback/Issue%2015/phase.htm , and I'm not sure if editing from the synopsis view is the best way to set that up while you're in the outlining part 2021-06-16T05:00:19-00:00 there is a starbucks in the louvre 2021-06-20T04:21:46-00:00 I got to pick up a baby crow. fledgling--it couldnt move because it was on a grate bigger than its legs. picked it up and moved it a few feet. crow extended family was not pleased 2021-06-20T04:24:18-00:00 your crow PSA is that despite looking somewhat dead, such a juvenile is not ill, just nearly too stupid to live. intervention is best minimized (e.g. even though I would have liked to get it further away from traffic and reach of predators) 2021-06-20T07:43:02-00:00 actually telescope science sounds more appealing than astronomy 2021-06-22T17:07:55-00:00 figuring out how to celebrate midsummer, which in proper syncretic fashion i've chosen to fall on st john's eve 2021-06-22T17:37:38-00:00 if we manage to move out to the boonies i will be able to have a proper fire someday but im wondering if the best thing is going up to the condo roof where there is one of those gas fires 2021-06-22T17:42:25-00:00 i am less concerned with enacting superstitions to prevent house from burning down and more wishing there were something about regional forest fires 2021-06-22T21:04:10-00:00 extra good work vibes https://open.spotify.com/track/3IfuyvTWeiTo0sXnC6K4Mo?si=46846b31160e4e4e 2021-06-23T23:39:51-00:00 actually some of us had heard of shein, thanks: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/23/shein.html 2021-06-24T18:10:16-00:00 happy midsummer :) i am trying to figure out what kind of thing i want to make, and i suspect it's gonna involve risking getting butter on my nice new pasta maker 2021-06-26T18:06:54-00:00 a blackberry basket made of blackberry vines: stuff and gratitude: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/26/bramble-basket.html 2021-06-26T18:20:54-00:00 the whole "hottest X in the last Y, but if you think about it, it's the coldest X in the next Y" needs to be taken out behind a shed and beaten with a printed out copy of the wikipedia page "Monotonic function" 2021-06-26T18:57:43-00:00 *other people* are un-self-aware and cringe. *i* am capable of subtlety and irony while remaining coolly indifferent to the opinions of the masses 2021-06-26T19:50:04-00:00 i wish there were more taxes that funded art. it makes me feel anxious and guilty to be placed in the role of Ethical Or Unethical Consumer re: classical music 2021-06-26T19:51:47-00:00 and that's even as someone with a lot of money now!! when i was young and we were poor, navigating the charity options was not fun *either* 2021-06-26T20:22:58-00:00 does anyone know about anything good written about what people mean by "mark making" in the context of non-abstract art 2021-06-26T20:23:31-00:00 i'm not stupid, like, I get it in context, but it seems like something people are referring to like it was something they Learned About 2021-06-27T00:24:29-00:00 which one of you plays cities skylines and which one of you watches videos of basket weaving 2021-06-27T00:27:02-00:00 there is a local park with a no skateboarding sign and i thought it was pointlessly hostile. then ~8 skateboarders came there and i realized just how loud it is on laid bricks 2021-06-27T00:28:49-00:00 i like watching the skateboarders on the tennis courts they repurposed though. it's really cute when there's some eleven year old who's intensely proud he can hang 2021-06-28T20:20:06-00:00 i am a big fan of water quality 2021-06-28T20:27:53-00:00 nuclear explosions for the national economy: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/28/nuclear-explosions-for-the-national-economy.html 2021-06-29T07:45:53-00:00 maggie andersen's diagram: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/28/maggie-andersen-diagram.html 2021-06-29T23:36:56-00:00 inter: a very sleek open source sans-serif font: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/29/open-source-font-inter.html 2021-06-29T23:39:57-00:00 even amazon is getting in on fanfic-style publishing: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/26/kindle-vella-serial-fiction.html 2021-06-29T23:42:53-00:00 josh lee might have the funniest about me section: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/28/the-only-funny-about-me.html 2021-06-30T06:36:58-00:00 how to make an image into a 88x31 banner with CSS: https://maya.land/monologues/2021/06/29/88-31-banner.html 2021-06-30T19:14:23-00:00 people doing Thought Online are typically working with clear logical statements, universal quantifications. people doing engineering are typically working with heuristics or observations with known imprecision. this leads to stupid discourse where former go 'lol you obviously can't do X (correctly every time)' and the latter go 'lol I obviously can do X (well enough for some specific purpose)' and everybody looks down their noses at each other as ignorant. 2021-06-30T19:23:44-00:00 https://www.sealaskaheritage.org/node/1311 A Tlingit artist's really cool art's postage stamp goes on presale starting now, and it's got gold sparkles on it. 2021-06-30T20:26:48-00:00 i just ordered 1260 stamps, AMA 2021-07-01T00:19:46-00:00 hannibal (nbc) : crime procedurals :: john wick : action movies 2021-07-01T01:01:10-00:00 has anyone made a ballad out of "smooth" 2021-07-01T06:08:16-00:00 the new mastodon thing should be rat avatars https://algorat.club/ratmaker/index.html 2021-07-01T06:14:05-00:00 no matter what you think you remember about abu ghraib, if you weren't an adult who really went through the materials at the time, it was worse than that 2021-07-01T16:41:48-00:00 this is mine 2021-07-02T03:12:33-00:00 have a trash panda :) 2021-07-07T17:32:37-00:00 the thing about that west coast east coast "nice but not kind" nonsense is that if you are going to bullshit at that level you could have so much more fun with it 2021-07-07T17:33:16-00:00 the culture of the east coast is a culture of daddy issues, independently of any individual's experiences 2021-07-07T17:34:05-00:00 the culture of the west coast reflects never really having gotten over middle school, with an emphasis on the experience of the popular basically proportionate to latitude 2021-07-07T17:36:41-00:00 as befits a gold rush region, the bay area is defined by grift, criticism of grift, and desperately trying to prove to others and yourself that you are not just a grifter 2021-07-08T17:46:43-00:00 sometimes i just want to draw cute girls and then i get depressed about beauty standards 2021-07-08T17:47:12-00:00 i gotta find a blog for ref images of older women wearing a ton of fun makeup 2021-07-08T19:12:59-00:00 Snapchat / Instagram stories but in addition to being able to see posts from that day, you can see posts from days in the past when the moon was in the same phase/house 2021-07-08T21:42:55-00:00 kicks condor's hypertexting and the syntopicon: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/08/kicks-condor-hypertexting-syntopicon.html 2021-07-10T00:40:16-00:00 some of you are bunnies that have convinced yourselves you're cats 2021-07-10T21:11:02-00:00 so far my big learning from https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Real-History-of-Secret-Societies-Audiobook/1629977632 is that every western dude who ever did anything interesting was a freemason and thus pretty much anything can sound like a Mason Conspiracy 2021-07-10T21:26:15-00:00 every western revolution ever was *technically* freemasons conspiring but not typically *as* freemasons 2021-07-10T21:28:06-00:00 anyway if there is *anything* you find even *marginally* aesthetically interesting about secret societies and you are horror-tolerant i strongly recommend Ares on netflix. don't read about it first, just watch 2021-07-11T17:39:37-00:00 admit it, you thought diamonds were expensive because of DeBeers: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/11/admit-it-you-thought-diamonds-were-expensive-because.html 2021-07-11T20:05:06-00:00 have a bunny 2021-07-11T23:46:08-00:00 i got a mullet on may 12 and the june/july issue of vogue features a whole thing about mullets 2021-07-11T23:46:36-00:00 yes,, i am unironically asserting a causal relatonship and no i will not be reviewing the dates of release of the issue 2021-07-12T22:49:38-00:00 is there any kind of piece (pref. with some authority, i'll take a thorough argument) people like these days on why not to add obvious/redundant code comments? invoking Uncle Bob is just... ugh 2021-07-14T03:12:56-00:00 a covid confession: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/08/covid-confession.html 2021-07-15T06:25:49-00:00 the $12mm da vinci sketch *is* a *really* cute bear, though 2021-07-16T17:49:43-00:00 i like anime made for girls and also anime made for men where they leaned so hard on the cute girl aspect they took out all the main dude MCs 2021-07-16T17:51:52-00:00 I also like josei when it isn't depressing 2021-07-16T18:04:33-00:00 got the steam deck reservation :) dockable/portable has just worked really nicely for my household so it'll be really cool to be able to do stuff that isn't out for the switch 2021-07-16T18:06:21-00:00 steam deck needs this tho: https://www.etsy.com/market/cute_switch_case 2021-07-16T18:07:09-00:00 will i be using holo gold vinyl to add shiny detailing to steam deck if no such thing is available commercially? obviously 2021-07-16T18:26:44-00:00 please vote for the salute because while melting face is most spiritually Correct (well, plus xray) ironic salutes are one of my favorite modes of communication https://worldemojiawards.com/2021/most-anticipated-emoji 2021-07-18T06:36:58-00:00 update: heloise: https://maya.land/updates/2021/07/17/update-heloise.html 2021-07-19T03:55:06-00:00 i was talking about nfts with the bf because I was trying to figure out if there's interesting stuff to be done there once they move away from proof of work.... but..... somehow it looks like they've reinvented gaia online but uglier and no forums 2021-07-19T03:56:02-00:00 "you made a dollmaker, you created a randomized option, you randomized 8000 times, and you made *how* much money off the whole thing" \--elouai.com on NFTs, probably 2021-07-20T04:15:58-00:00 has anyone ever used purple led grow lights for a combination of functional and aesthetic effect? (genuinely not about weed) 2021-07-20T17:40:00-00:00 fundamental attribution error is the cognitive bias you don't think enough about: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/19/fundamental-attribution-error-cognitive-bias.html 2021-07-20T19:28:08-00:00 does anyone have recs for fiction in a solarpunky setting that isn't depressing? especially small scale dramas: mystery, romance, slice of life-y 2021-07-20T22:43:04-00:00 the self-hostable community software that powers dev.to: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/20/forem-self-hostable-dev-to.html 2021-07-21T00:00:41-00:00 i feel like i don't get nearly enough conversational mileage from having graduated from the same university as Anastasia from fifty shades of gray 2021-07-21T00:02:01-00:00 this ought to be a punchline i get to pull out more often is what i'm saying 2021-07-21T06:41:50-00:00 am I especially thick or are there just no good ways to vertically center content on each page with CSS for print 2021-07-21T06:42:19-00:00 everything i'm finding uses a bunch of gross wrapper classes :( 2021-07-21T07:15:06-00:00 what if hope isn't in space *or* off in the forest. what if hope being embodied by some Other Place is a necessarily colonial mindset. what if hope has to exist with what you can do where you are in order to even be hope. 2021-07-21T22:31:00-00:00 nyanseong is a cool personal site with an even cooler zines page: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/21/nyanseong-zines.html 2021-07-22T04:44:42-00:00 if we had, like, good data exports and mandatory adversarial interoperability and stuff, tho, would i get to cackle while slurping out my data that they wish i wouldn't 2021-07-22T05:21:22-00:00 too powerful.... i have concentrated the good posts.... too much............. (discord messages -> filtering to links -> templating into html with image previews and all) 2021-07-22T16:42:26-00:00 shep (<10min) 2021-07-23T17:49:39-00:00 i'm slightly reneging on my anti-discord stance in order to get into patreon discords. the cozy web is real https://maggieappleton.com/cozy-web 2021-07-23T18:01:43-00:00 just heard the phrase "carbon border tax" and my brain did the thing where a german shepherd goes from being chill to rotating its head like a military turret 2021-07-23T20:48:30-00:00 we're supposed to be terrified of adtech omniscience but i, a non-driving person, get too much advertising for car insurance for that. i am instead terrified at inept adtech systems hoovering in my data and letting it leak to the world 2021-07-24T00:06:50-00:00 i figured out a way to use the browser canvas to render the first frame of an animated gif statically instead of having to generate a separate image on the backend but then it won't have the right behavior by default if people have js disabled 🤔 2021-07-26T17:24:26-00:00 why do I seem to have so many more problems with foot skin than other people or do people just not talk about the endless cycle of blisters and calluses and gross bits of dead skin, and we're all going through it alone 2021-07-27T19:04:02-00:00 slapheart is a new lil' web directory: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/27/slapheart-web-directory.html 2021-07-27T21:31:09-00:00 i want "pixel acanthus" to be a thing in the way that the memphis school was/is a thing 2021-07-27T21:58:04-00:00 the background for this japan-inspired typeface exploded my font brain: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/27/gt-maru-typeface.html 2021-07-27T22:01:05-00:00 thinking about the metaverse courtesy of ryan broderick's garbage day: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/27/thinking-metaverse-ryan-broderick-garbage-day.html 2021-07-28T03:10:13-00:00 i have given up on a cool thing my website had because CORS has just fuckin' defeated me 2021-07-28T03:51:23-00:00 is it really parasocial or are you treating its audience like dora the explorer's 2021-07-28T16:47:57-00:00 amazing how i keep coming across people who will openly express that they think backend devs are more fungible to frontend work than vice versa when these people have to use the same backend-developer-developed trashfire internal web frontends i do 2021-07-28T18:50:56-00:00 if you click on the preview for the silver theme on https://cinny.in/ you can see my chicken illustration :3 2021-07-28T19:07:50-00:00 i choose to believe this makes me a matrix celebrity 2021-07-28T21:56:29-00:00 do people still care about hotlinking images 2021-07-28T21:57:28-00:00 no one's operating under bandwidth constraints that make this meaningful, right? 2021-07-28T23:17:44-00:00 i wonder who the last person before me was to be assembling SVGs using XSL 2021-07-29T19:27:57-00:00 why does ig not let me upload to story in fake mobile web :angery: 2021-07-29T22:57:27-00:00 mastodon gets an early preview before i make an update post with my blogroll changes (animation warning) https://maya.land/blogroll.opml 2021-07-29T23:48:36-00:00 what's that? is that an SSG turning JSON into XML (OPML) with XSL converting to inlined SVGs in HTML?? the military has NOTHING on my alphabet soup 2021-07-30T01:25:06-00:00 did we all know they were using giant styrofoam blocks instead of filler dirt, or...: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/29/geofoam-giant-styrofoam-blocks.html 2021-07-30T01:28:05-00:00 cool map visualizing distance to cities: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/26/map-distance-to-city.html 2021-07-30T07:01:01-00:00 what is this and why can't i decide if i love or hate it http://thisisourwork.net/binder/#About 2021-07-30T07:02:23-00:00 there isn't a cute way to repair jeans that wear through in the thighs or shirts that tear at the armpit and i remain quietly jealous of cutesy elbow and knee patches 2021-07-30T18:01:30-00:00 heat warnings in the nw are like... should you feel bad for any given individual given that it's tiny in magnitude compared to other regions? maybe not. plenty of us have the needed amenities and are whiny. but in the bigger picture, there are a ton of vulnerable people who die... so maybe don't "lol this is nothing" it 2021-07-30T18:02:55-00:00 "nativism" for the non-indigenous is always a crock but i will admit some irritation at this attitude from the bajillion transplants we have from other regions and countries 2021-07-30T18:04:42-00:00 haha oh really? was it hotter in texas? people here don't know what hot means? THE ELDERLY ARE DYING, BUDDY, YOU CAN EAT MY ENTIRE ASS 2021-07-30T18:48:26-00:00 why is there so little ecoterrorism now? not to sound plaintive, it just doesn't make sense to me 2021-07-30T18:58:06-00:00 my super-hot take on gawker coming back: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/30/gawker.html 2021-07-30T22:40:33-00:00 liking seether is so embarrassing 2021-07-31T02:41:17-00:00 this piece about pigeons is factual and touching: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/30/pigeons-factual-touching.html 2021-07-31T07:28:25-00:00 interesting amount of engagement! answers seem to be "because it was always a bad idea" (I don't have an opinion on this really, haven't done the research as to what the impact was before), "because it was punished" (plausible), and "lol post 9/11 are you kidding" (this was said more nicely but does seem like I should have put two and two together and does totally answer my q even standing alone) 2021-07-31T07:30:48-00:00 i made a matrix bot that shoves voice messages through a speech to text api and it makes me feel like a *god of computer* 2021-07-31T17:27:16-00:00 heaven's gate's website is still up today 2021-07-31T19:42:52-00:00 i don't really like websub for normal web content stuff. i'm sure there could be some cool distributed application that uses it but polling lightweight feeds really is enough for everything i see it used for 2021-08-01T02:21:29-00:00 i promise you i am adequately ashamed, but, like, those electric scooters are pretty fun 2021-08-02T18:26:35-00:00 David Brooks continues to be my nemesis https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/blame-the-bobos-creative-class/619492/ 2021-08-03T18:15:27-00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TytGOeiW0aE god love tom lehrer 2021-08-03T19:26:58-00:00 how long before someone scrapes assets from a picrew to release a series of NFTs that makes >$1MM 2021-08-04T01:27:14-00:00 i resent that my work has a yearly rhythm of ebb and flow that is defined by a tech conference rather than a harvest season 2021-08-04T04:00:47-00:00 stop everything, they brought back confetti text from ms word 97: https://maya.land/responses/2021/08/03/stop-everything-they-brought-back-confetti-text-from.html 2021-08-04T16:37:54-00:00 gonna be a numetal day :ACNH_Aggravation: 2021-08-04T23:47:14-00:00 if you're watching a movie that isn't interesting/good, try turning on subtitles in a language you've learned a bit of. almost made endgame watchable 2021-08-06T01:59:34-00:00 my matrix bot that transcribes speech in audio messages: https://maya.land/monologues/2021/08/05/matrix-bot-transcribe-speech-audio-messages.html 2021-08-06T06:37:02-00:00 booooooooooo cloudfront blocked my scraping >:( 2021-08-06T06:37:48-00:00 it's precisely the kind of thing they should block of course 2021-08-06T18:56:21-00:00 me responding to work tickets 2021-08-06T19:48:09-00:00 update: it took three attempts, but i got through endgame. what a shitshow. so many choices for worst / most condescending moment. 2021-08-06T20:10:32-00:00 file under: maya continues to experiment with the eldritch power of css halftoning 2021-08-07T03:15:05-00:00 will anything about the falcon and the winter soldier be spoiled if i watch loki first 2021-08-07T03:16:06-00:00 don't come for me for wanting to believe some portion of MCU content might be good again, you don't know how much fanfiction i'd read 2021-08-07T05:59:50-00:00 way ahead of you, software settings 2021-08-07T23:36:31-00:00 it's my birthday! I'm 28! I have honey cake and a couple of new art supplies and my brother is visiting me :) :) :) 2021-08-08T17:32:36-00:00 do you ever think about how broken it is that super rich people don't just retire before they become super rich 2021-08-08T17:33:03-00:00 like let's set aside for a second how many of them inherit already-super-rich fortunes 2021-08-08T17:34:09-00:00 when we think about manufactured desire, it's nuts to me that someone who has all their needs met could forgo volunteerism, art, study, and the simple joys of applied leisure for.... make number go up 2021-08-09T04:18:49-00:00 an artist's site featuring contemporary tarot decks: https://maya.land/responses/2021/08/08/an-artists-site-featuring-contemporary-tarot-decks.html 2021-08-09T17:29:42-00:00 In case anyone is wondering, while Wikipedia has articles for a good number of cool historical women, their discoverability (through links and lists) is trash. I am finding a ton just through searching in Wikipedia interesting names on https://people.ucalgary.ca/~mamaes/17thwomen.html 2021-08-09T17:33:30-00:00 like excuse me how was I not taught about her in SCHOOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Frith 2021-08-09T23:35:08-00:00 PACIFIC NORTHWEST NEWS BULLETIN: new carnivorous flower just dropped https://www.npr.org/2021/08/09/1026091196/this-sweet-white-flower-is-actually-a-sneaky-carnivore-scientists-discovered 2021-08-11T16:40:25-00:00 lughnasadh / lammas sanctifies the beginning of a new phase of the work. the harvest is a culmination but itself intense labor. how do we capture the spirit of the season if we're disconnected from the agriculture that feeds us? 2021-08-11T16:43:35-00:00 dr. eleanor janega has a great post reminding us that august leisure is an entirely contemporary decadence https://going-medieval.com/2021/08/06/on-leisure-in-august/ 2021-08-12T02:38:30-00:00 is it correct or jarring and pretentious to pronounce a name in its regional accent? If I'm not going to drop all my Rs in the rest of my words, should "Melbourne" still be "Melbun" out of deference to its inhabitants? 2021-08-12T03:06:33-00:00 look i'm a good kid i switched from chrome to firefox but MANNNNNN the print options suck ass 2021-08-12T17:52:01-00:00 it's really really fascinating how people on both sides of incremental vs. revolutionary theories of change use the same rhetorical appeal to "this is too important to approach the other way!" 2021-08-12T18:12:07-00:00 this is *not* the same way that the opponents of the change characterize the two sides' proponents. pro-change incrementalists tend to say "we can't wait for feasibility of revolution to make things better", not "revolutions end up with monsters in charge." pro-change revolutionists tend to say "your incremental improvements aren't going to improve things without attacking the root", not "regulations lead to government capture" or whatever. 2021-08-12T23:50:29-00:00 i was about to be *FURIOUS* about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtipQ3EsGWo and then i saw monica's producing. GOOD FOR HER. 2021-08-13T05:17:08-00:00 we don't deserve the us product safety commission https://www.instagram.com/p/CSf3ZL1s4ft/ 2021-08-13T16:42:40-00:00 had a fun chill conversation with a couple other arty friends about how furry artists make bank. "you know, you have to get involved, it's not just networking" 2021-08-13T18:00:27-00:00 Thing that I find surprising: a bunch of Amazon buildings in Seattle used public-space zoning bonuses to be able to build bigger. https://www.seattle.gov/Documents/Departments/SDCI/Resources/POPSList.pdf Why surprising? Because they have permitted free speech activities in their most central locations, pretty much right up to the doors: https://library.municode.com/wa/seattle/codes/municipal_code?nodeId=TIT23LAUSCO_SUBTITLE_IIILAUSRE_CH23.58AINPR_SUBCHAPTER_VPREXRENOFLAR_23.58A.040BOFLAROPSPAM 2021-08-13T19:07:53-00:00 what would gig work platforms look like if the workers were organized and they designed them? 2021-08-13T19:08:51-00:00 I think it's not true that there's no place for *actually* flexible, *actually* contingent work. Especially if we moved healthcare to the government where it belongs. 2021-08-13T19:09:40-00:00 why yes this is related to my "scheduling software for part time jobs should be specced out by union lawyers" bugaboo 2021-08-14T04:18:46-00:00 beverly katz is in gossip girl! (well not really but kind of) 2021-08-15T15:44:23-00:00 do you live in WA? feel like writing a senator? https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/congress-fires-warning-shot-at-nasa-after-spacex-moon-lander-award/ 2021-08-16T00:07:51-00:00 one nice thing about writing your political representatives is you can free yourself of a school mindset of "I should make this as good and persuasive and well-argued as possible" because it's going to be read by aides who are, at the most, going to turn it into a tally mark in a list of categories-pro-con that may then influence the representative (not as much as all the dirty money, but they don't have good constituent polling) 2021-08-16T00:08:34-00:00 old people on the right have this shit down and I know you are all better at quickly drafting emails than them 2021-08-16T22:08:38-00:00 i.... broke a fork in half 2021-08-16T23:41:58-00:00 lrt: not to me tho to be clear, just in general 2021-08-17T07:07:51-00:00 update: a year of maya.land and The Independent Web or whatever: https://maya.land/updates/2021/08/16/update-year-blogroll.html 2021-08-17T17:00:55-00:00 wonderful south african backyard bird webcam: https://maya.land/responses/2021/08/17/wonderful-south-african-backyard-bird-webcam.html 2021-08-18T01:23:52-00:00 :boost_requested: does anybody follow anyone on spacehey who's blogging? I don't have an account but it seems like there must be fun public blogs, and they have RSS https://spacehey.com/ 2021-08-18T01:49:11-00:00 a supposedly fun writing analysis tool I'll never run again: https://maya.land/responses/2021/08/17/supposedly-fun-writing-analysis-style.html 2021-08-18T18:10:13-00:00 Amazing the tonal gap between written "e.g., the blah blah" and spoken "so like when the blah blah" 2021-08-18T18:12:03-00:00 a decent amount of the time i use image descriptions on here to get a clue about the higher-order meta y'all are on 2021-08-19T16:21:09-00:00 i was a Giant Fan of nbc hannibal but not actually involved in fan content beyond, like, reblogging tumblr gifsets And Now I See That Was Correct All Along 2021-08-19T17:58:15-00:00 most of the time when people use "tribe" in its metaphorical sense they should be using "herd". I am specifically thinking of growing up with goats. they are miserable on their own to the point of suffering health effects and are excellent at each casually pretending the decision of the group (e.g., to move to the lower pasture) happened to be their own personal inclination. 2021-08-19T19:28:58-00:00 also, despite the fact that it's metaphorically deployed as a derogative 99 times out of 100, herding behaviors in reality are often adaptive and prosocially efficient and have nothing to do with herd animals being stupid. 2021-08-20T03:04:22-00:00 my generational marker is A Fever You Can't Sweat Out 2021-08-20T20:20:35-00:00 :goose_star: https://www.kickscondor.com/one-year-of-maya.land/ 2021-08-21T04:00:56-00:00 ngmi.works: art, mostly black and white, mostly pixel: https://maya.land/responses/2021/08/20/ngmi.works-art-mostly-black-and-white-mostly-pixel.html 2021-08-21T07:06:11-00:00 half of the time when non-academic material is presenting the word "algorithm" to you, they should be using the word "policy". the other half of the time they should be saying "tool". 2021-08-21T17:27:54-00:00 I'm really suspicious of people lamenting what new technology has done to us who don't seem to recognize the positive things people have done with it too. But at the same time the whole Bay Area optimism is... so not my bag. 2021-08-21T17:29:13-00:00 I don't mean on the strict sense of "are you really sure what you do on this wifi is worth the environmental and human cost of extracting the rare earth elements necessary to provide it", I mean in the sense that people worry about the social impact (within postindustrial society) of XYZ tech thing the kids are doing nowadays 2021-08-21T17:41:34-00:00 like if you're engaging with e.g. what "the internet" has done to "attention spans" favoring short-form content but you're not even briefly acknowledging how bitches are out here writing fanfiction hundreds of thousands of words long, maybe you're not taking a wide enough lens on your topic 2021-08-21T17:42:54-00:00 totally niche vs. twitter MAUs? sure, absolutely. but there are a lot of niches. it's easier to say "the screens have made us weak and stupid, look at the popular things that are bad" than to try and make a consequentialist argument that actually encompasses *all* of the internet, because the latter is .... probably pretty impossible 2021-08-21T17:45:36-00:00 if you have a piece bemoaning our Big Web Corporate Overlords without directing attention at the people and small groups doing cool stuff on the web, I'm not interested. and if you have a techshiny optimism piece about the future of VR that doesn't reckon with the divide in good and bad shit there is now (and that there will be more of in the future), I'm not interested. thus despite being super fascinated by the web i find a lot of writing about it not worthwhile 2021-08-21T17:46:28-00:00 probably nothing most anybody does on the wifi is worth the rare earth elements. 2021-08-21T17:48:40-00:00 VR is a super arbitrary example I guess. genuinely excited to see the "metaverse" that weird furries build the infra for, and not excited to see any other "metaverse" 2021-08-21T17:49:39-00:00 but i'm not gonna do the thing I accuse others of so here is my positive take!!! http://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/ has crit of Big Games but also a ton of cool ref to indie games and tools 2021-08-21T17:54:03-00:00 https://www.robinrendle.com/essays/ robin's essays have criticism and complaints but clearly come from a place of wanting things to be better and liking the things that are already good 2021-08-21T23:21:28-00:00 does anyone old enough to have been around for The Era Of The Blog Kingdoms remember what the difference was supposed to be between "via" and "h/t" 2021-08-22T07:13:48-00:00 the mona lisa done up in 1 pixel / each individual RGB color https://allrgb.com/mona-lisa-yiy 2021-08-22T19:51:18-00:00 thing i wish existed: if you find a scholarly book from the e.g. 80s, a way to quickly discover if it's still read/assigned/thought well of, if its claims have been substantially overturned by later work, and what later work might supplant it 2021-08-22T19:53:05-00:00 like if barbara hanawalt was willing to analyze thousands of medieval english coroner's records in order to put together a picture of people's lives and the rhythm of the year, that *seems* like it'd hold up well, but I don't want to read the book if I'm just going to be absorbing conclusions shown false by later, idk, statistical analysis of tax something somethings 2021-08-22T23:43:11-00:00 vampirewebsite.net: a website for real vampires: https://maya.land/responses/2021/08/22/vampirewebsite-real-website-real-vampires.html 2021-08-22T23:49:14-00:00 the tech-facilitated gig economy sucks, and it's all more gendered than you might think: https://maya.land/responses/2021/08/22/tech-gig-economy-sucks-gendered.html 2021-08-23T00:39:54-00:00 BitMidi is a modern MIDI site: https://maya.land/responses/2021/08/22/bitmidi-is-a-modern-midi-site.html 2021-08-23T02:43:33-00:00 i want you all to know i am NOT making the midi player i'm adding to my website autoplay but i COULD and i WANT to 2021-08-23T03:45:39-00:00 i don't care if having to include a MIDI-to-WAV program in the JS of my website makes it heavier. maybe you all should have thought of that before you took the equivalent functionality out of the browsers >:( 2021-08-24T16:16:54-00:00 aghahghgahghhahhgahghhahg i haaaaaaaaaaaate my job 2021-08-24T17:21:26-00:00 ok folks the pumpkin spice latte is at sbux and i believe in following the seasonal markers endemic to my location and culture and tragedy of tragedies, this is it. so! how does Early Halloween Season (pre equinox) differ from Late Halloween Season (post equinox, before 10/31) or Bonus Halloween Season (november) 2021-08-24T18:47:04-00:00 "but November isn't in Halloween season" Halloween is about the dead, the dead are allocated all of November, q.e.d. Halloween season 2021-08-24T18:50:27-00:00 feeling my way out here, I'm gonna guess that late Halloween season is most appropriate for horror, and November for the ancestors and Shakespeare and all that.... but what of Early Halloween 2021-08-25T20:53:11-00:00 Miz Paint 2021-08-26T03:25:16-00:00 we should all go easier on teenagers (including our memories of our teenage selves) because being "cool" is all about Not Caring and being a teenager is all about caring Way Too Much and Trying Really Hard so of *course* whatevertok is going to be incredibly cringey just like superwholock or whatever in the past, it's a bunch of fifteen year olds being really wound up about stuff 2021-08-26T06:13:19-00:00 you can't just slap a bunch of bell towers and colonnades wherever (in your memory palace): https://maya.land/responses/2021/08/25/bell-towers-colonnades-memory-palace-daniel-lavery.html 2021-08-26T18:13:06-00:00 i wonder if you could hack together something xanadu-ish on top of git and shove the necessary metadata into the commit messages 2021-08-26T21:31:12-00:00 this cube cured my mortality: https://maya.land/responses/2021/08/26/this-cube-cured-my-mortality.html 2021-08-27T02:15:21-00:00 just downloaded beaker browser and ???? holy ??? shit ????? this is the coolest tech ??? and yet no one seems to be using it????????????????? 2021-08-27T03:27:47-00:00 oh my god beaker browser will just render markdown as html by default this is. ....... magic?? 2021-08-27T03:41:33-00:00 how is the hypercore protocol stuff this good already and yet i have heard of no outcry over, idk, illegal content 2021-08-27T18:47:04-00:00 you know how older people who get a lot of fillers often end up having a super prominent space-between-upper-lip-and-nose? what is that supposed to be correcting? 2021-08-27T18:47:49-00:00 I don't think it's lip injections because young women who get them don't have it, and I also see men with fillers and thin lips get it 2021-08-28T07:42:09-00:00 tonight's tech twiddling has been really successful! I found a Russian midi page from 2003 so maya.land/goblin/ and maya.land/russian/ now have their own gramophone tunes. still gotta figure out how to make the img into a button tho. also got further than anticipated in my experiment with....uh...how would you put it.... keyhash macpaint generative nonsense. 2021-08-31T06:02:50-00:00 well, if you go compare https://maya.land/assets/stardown.gif and https://maya.land/assets/stardown.svg you can see what I spent my evening doing 2021-08-31T06:49:33-00:00 you may not like it, but this is what peak web design looks like: https://maya.land/responses/2021/08/30/you-may-not-like-it-but-this-is.html 2021-08-31T17:27:16-00:00 going to get dog on 9/11!!!!!!!! 2021-08-31T17:28:55-00:00 since heloise passed the chunk of my brain that was constantly worrying about her comfort has just been turning over like an engine that won't start. "dog? .....dog?" at first i thought it was just sort of residual stress/trauma but then i remembered how similar even being away from her for three months one time had been. working thesis is that i just need dog. 2021-08-31T20:43:05-00:00 emma goldman actually never said that thing about dancing and revolution: https://maya.land/responses/2021/08/31/emma-goldman-dance-revolution.html 2021-08-31T20:45:55-00:00 joy of joys, PFAs are apparently also in the air...: https://maya.land/responses/2021/08/31/pfas-forever-chemicals-air.html 2021-09-01T00:14:42-00:00 i went and read that piece "the new puritans" in the atlantic for you so you can know without reading it was not valuable / worth the time 2021-09-01T00:14:59-00:00 dog dog dog dog dog 2021-09-01T00:17:47-00:00 i wonder where i should sit for wfh once she's here. maybe on the bed? 2021-09-01T00:42:53-00:00 i want a webring of .land sites 2021-09-01T02:25:22-00:00 it's the last day of august and i'm getting halloween decor ads AND THEY SAY TARGETED ADVERTISING DOESN'T WORK 2021-09-01T06:08:35-00:00 the oxford selector https://codepen.io/ShadowShahriar/pen/LYyvVjo 2021-09-01T07:07:56-00:00 I have this theory that there is a particular level of social interaction people don't have enough of in our society anymore and one of the reasons it is important and that it is dying is that it involves people who aren't fond of each other having to be polite 2021-09-01T07:09:45-00:00 it is scary easy for me to only interact with A) people from my job, B) people I care about deeply, and C) people whose interaction with me involves self selection in incredibly niche ways 2021-09-01T07:11:04-00:00 I just have this suspicion that you can't have a society without a certain disposition in your citizens cultivated through teeth grinding smiling at Meryl who doesn't know how to shut up about her hedge care issues 2021-09-01T07:12:05-00:00 points at butterfly is this a virtue ethics 2021-09-01T17:25:23-00:00 at some point I am going to run across someone else using the anatomical heart emoji as their site's favicon and i'm going to feel very irrationally sad 2021-09-01T18:11:36-00:00 one downside of being able to block/mute blowhards really easily is that i lose the opportunity they afford to reflect on how i should myself not speak so confidently even when i "feel sure" 2021-09-01T22:16:55-00:00 Volunteer opportunities regarding resettling Afghan refugees in the Seattle area: https://www.tfaforms.com/4922177 2021-09-01T22:19:26-00:00 I wonder whether the English language tutoring they're talking about would need Dari or Pashto or something 2021-09-02T07:01:03-00:00 femicom: femme aesthetic electronics museum: https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/01/femicom-femme-aesthetic-electronics-museum.html 2021-09-02T16:37:31-00:00 "When Rashid emailed Spring to object that zeta is a common mathematical term, the company's legal team replied: "We completely understand your concerns about our keyword block. As you are aware, Zeta is a letter of the Greek Alphabet. The Greek alphabet is currently protected legally by the Affinity Client Services. Due to this ownership and the takedowns we have received, we must police our platform for content using 'Zeta.'"" https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/01/data_scientists_riemann_zeta_function/ 2021-09-02T22:10:11-00:00 the guy who did final fantasy is making an rpg by photographing crafted sets to make them 3d: https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/02/final-fantasy-rpg-photogrammetry-crafted-sets.html 2021-09-02T22:19:07-00:00 open transclude: quote yourself, use an iframe: https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/02/open-transclude-quote-yourself-iframe.html 2021-09-03T16:10:11-00:00 tooning out the news: boomer vtubing? (gen x? w/e) 2021-09-05T00:03:24-00:00 oh look, I'm irritated by this Again 2021-09-05T02:19:21-00:00 sending cards in the mail is good and fun 2021-09-06T02:40:02-00:00 some great halloweeny songs on a great personal website: https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/05/some-great-halloweeny-songs-on-a-great-personal.html 2021-09-06T02:46:20-00:00 i'm not going to pretend this is news to anyone but boy is it *affirming* of one's biased stereotypes.... https://www.gq.com/story/the-libertarian-utopia-thats-just-a-bunch-of-white-guys-on-a-tiny-island 2021-09-06T03:48:03-00:00 like i get that it's correct but also *thinking* about doing enough food prep to eat these food groups in this quantity... is..... ughh https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet-commission/ 2021-09-06T03:52:03-00:00 this is how they will end up figuring out a way to sell me climate pledge soylent 2021-09-06T17:17:37-00:00 cute gyaru halloween lil' oekaki?? i ... love.... what are people doing today that has this energy? https://pixel-diary.tumblr.com/post/65159755538 2021-09-06T19:40:06-00:00 cool series of posts on premodern agriculture: https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/06/cool-series-of-posts-on-premodern-agriculture.html 2021-09-06T21:39:46-00:00 if u don't have any work to do it's a lot easier to do laundry 2021-09-07T01:02:27-00:00 do you ever get weird little hybrid fragments hanging around in your mind that you can't explain? "eyyyy sexy lady" from gangnam style but it's "hey peptobismol" 2021-09-09T04:38:55-00:00 they have $4 baby foot at target. i'm testing it out for you, the people 2021-09-09T05:44:16-00:00 update: this seems.... stronger than real baby foot. i am slightly concerned for my toots 2021-09-09T05:44:25-00:00 but this is the cost of science 2021-09-09T05:47:41-00:00 no spoilers but i'm working on something...that i like 2021-09-09T05:51:46-00:00 spot the irony (hint: highlight the top) https://archive.is/e5tQx 2021-09-09T19:11:00-00:00 Friendly reminder that when discussing environmental impact you often run into apples-to-oranges comparisons. The strength and light weight of plastic containers may reduce carbon emissions in transport, but their lifecycle involves health-impacting chemical pollution. Even when carbon emission lifecycles can be estimated, that isn't a number you can line up for comparison against, e.g., the cancers of folks in the countries where that plastic ends up burned. Resist simplifying these issues. 2021-09-10T02:21:19-00:00 stuff like https://indieweb.org/permalink might be getting in the way of people grokking what's cool about the indieweb. "oh, wow, I can take on the responsibility of pain-in-the-ass organization and redirects to maintain something for the convenience of others?" said....who? not the vibe of the fun/experimentation that the indieweb enables. 2021-09-10T02:22:59-00:00 I guess it's fine to pitch the "permalink means PERMA" ideology or w/e but it's weird that this is front-page linked 2021-09-10T02:27:06-00:00 file this toot under the same crotchety category as "you don't own a domain, you rent it, and if you don't understand why the distinction matters you have too much money to get to have opinions" 2021-09-10T17:34:58-00:00 yes a lot of people snarking about "corporate art style" is just misunderstandings of How Capitalism, but I gotta admit I don't trust illustrators with those small-headed figures in their personal portfolios in the year of our lord twenty twenty one 2021-09-10T20:13:14-00:00 a history of deviantart and similar: https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/06/history-deviantart.html 2021-09-10T20:22:08-00:00 heat related mortality in over-65s has 1.5xed in past two decades: https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/07/heat-related-mortality.html 2021-09-11T03:01:08-00:00 a tarot kickstarter that seems to have spared no expense in print quality: https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/10/a-tarot-kickstarter-that-seems-to-have-spared.html 2021-09-12T16:46:46-00:00 hecuba is here!!! she is very quiet and confused but well behaved. she likes attention but we're still learning what makes her nervous. she hasn't yet calmed down enough to eat, but since she's drinking water and we have the exact kibble she'd had at home, we're just gonna let her set her own pace on that 2021-09-12T16:48:21-00:00 emoji should have stayed blobs, and you should have been able to opt between yellow and dark blue for display 2021-09-12T16:49:14-00:00 we have heard exactly one little woof out of her 2021-09-12T16:50:19-00:00 does anyone have an example of emoji design they like that doesn't rely on contrast between skin tone and dark lineart? i'm sure some exists 2021-09-12T16:50:49-00:00 ordered skeleton kigurumi "to match the dog's halloween costume" 2021-09-12T16:51:36-00:00 update: just after writing, a second little woof 2021-09-12T16:51:51-00:00 high quality journalism here on elephant dot com 2021-09-12T16:52:54-00:00 hecuba 2021-09-12T22:39:18-00:00 i can't move the cute dog has her head on my leg help 2021-09-13T17:00:48-00:00 if i wanted to create a system to detect leaked documents i would omit unique patterns of commas. people suck at using commas 2021-09-13T18:06:37-00:00 you know how you can write "(sp?)" in text? i want a hand signal i can use to communicate when speaking aloud that i don't have confidence in my pronunciation of a word and if wrong would like to be corrected. 2021-09-13T18:27:46-00:00 this sucks especially with names where not everyone has recorded the pronunciation somewhere I can access, and pronunciations differ according to regional origins on a continent I've never been to. so then the options are act real casual about however i'm mangling someone's name (not ok) or interrupt a discussion for the quick question that others that person even when asked in good faith (not ok). 2021-09-13T18:28:35-00:00 or, what, avoid saying those names like "the manager of the so-and-so team" is Voldemort? ruuuuuude 2021-09-14T21:37:16-00:00 tech is bad because it'd rather use evopsych to blame teenage girls than admit social media might be hurting them: https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/14/tech-evopsych-teenage-girls-social-media.html 2021-09-15T02:54:34-00:00 ur bitch could never 2021-09-15T05:40:09-00:00 papercraft low-poly-esque mask patterns for sale: https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/14/papercraft-low-poly-esque-mask-patterns-for-sale.html 2021-09-15T06:45:04-00:00 dog is as soft as rabbit. how is that possible 2021-09-15T15:43:37-00:00 seattle now's episode about the workers protesting the state vaccine mandate is like.... enrage 2021-09-15T18:00:15-00:00 i don't think evopsych people acknowledge enough how few others a human would have interacted with over all of human history 2021-09-15T18:09:31-00:00 "complicated social dynamic involving interconnected civilization with more than a billion people" "you know this could be explained by the context of a human living their entire life together with only the 40 or so people in their extended family" 2021-09-15T18:09:59-00:00 i guess "human history" is the wrong word here since definitionally most of it is prehistory 2021-09-15T18:39:26-00:00 it's fascinating how anxious a certain kind of person gets when they are exposed to anything approximating the sentiment in "whitey on the moon". 2021-09-15T19:29:26-00:00 if i were my boyfriend i would break up with me if i keep talking so much about how soft dog is but she is SO SOFT 2021-09-16T02:25:14-00:00 horrisonous, horrisonant: https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/15/horrisonous-horrisonant.html 2021-09-16T05:29:08-00:00 realizing i don't want a conlang, i just want a cipher script for latin 2021-09-16T18:13:14-00:00 an imagemagick script that can produce fractalesque kaleidoscope-like image deformations: https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/16/imagemagick-script-fractalesque-kaleidoscope-image-deformation.html 2021-09-16T18:19:43-00:00 realizing i don't want a cipher script for latin, i want someone to come up with a semi-plausible mapping of characters from the voynich manuscript 2021-09-16T18:22:25-00:00 realizing i want to learn latin scribal abbreviations 2021-09-16T21:16:58-00:00 ordering an english-latin parallel text new testament. i wonder what is the most entertainingly inappropriate scrapbook paper i could use to cover it 2021-09-16T21:22:10-00:00 we're gonna go for gold holo vinyl i happen to have for the spine, obviously 2021-09-16T21:57:06-00:00 "elizabeth bathory was innocent" is probably the most fun weird take i've gotten on board for 2021-09-16T22:08:44-00:00 the sandwich tribunal guy did a cool piece on frybread https://www.sandwichtribunal.com/2021/09/fry-bread-is/ 2021-09-16T23:52:47-00:00 https://genius.com/Zeal-and-ardor-bow-lyrics is this ironic invocation of "bow down to the american way" or not 2021-09-17T22:27:56-00:00 an attempt to create a squabble between some chunk of the altweb and indieweb folks.... was made: https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/17/altweb-indieweb-squabble.html 2021-09-17T22:52:26-00:00 i want leprous to tour here again :( 2021-09-17T23:25:16-00:00 women who know how to do contour makeup are gonna save us from surveillance dystopia?: https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/17/contour-makeup-surveillance-dystopia.html 2021-09-17T23:31:13-00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/09/cozy-mysteries-popularity-crime-without-gore/620085/?utm_source=feed <\--this is a really bad piece, don't feel obligated to read it because you like mystery fiction 2021-09-18T00:02:48-00:00 combichrist covering the dead kennedys: w o w 2021-09-18T01:15:06-00:00 why is all the music like this i find from 2007 https://open.spotify.com/album/5dmRBJYe97VV2HsuKx6IlQ?si=373JlVmWQ82dBOSuUD2vbQ&dl_branch=1 2021-09-19T01:56:41-00:00 cool map visualizing distance to cities: https://maya.land/_pages/2021-07-26-map-distance-to-city.html 2021-09-19T01:56:49-00:00 bryan lee o'malley's seconds: ok: https://maya.land/_pages/2021-03-11-bryan-lee-o-malleys-seconds.html 2021-09-19T01:56:54-00:00 the tragedy of gemini: https://maya.land/_pages/2021-01-11-the-tragedy-of-gemini.html 2021-09-19T01:56:59-00:00 update: pictures, pages, and pixelly games: https://maya.land/_pages/2020-12-13-update-pictures-pages.html 2021-09-19T01:57:05-00:00 heat related mortality in over-65s has 1.5xed in past two decades: https://maya.land/_pages/2021-09-07-heat-related-mortality.html 2021-09-19T01:57:11-00:00 update: yarn, russian, commentpara.de: https://maya.land/_pages/2020-11-09-update-yarn-russian.html 2021-09-19T01:57:24-00:00 my matrix bot that transcribes speech in audio messages: https://maya.land/_pages/2021-07-05-matrix-bot-transcribe-speech-audio-messages.html 2021-09-19T01:57:29-00:00 nuclear explosions for the national economy: https://maya.land/_pages/2021-06-28-nuclear-explosions-for-the-national-economy.html 2021-09-19T01:57:39-00:00 actually some of us had heard of shein, thanks: https://maya.land/_pages/2021-06-23-shein.html 2021-09-19T01:57:49-00:00 update: a year of maya.land and The Independent Web or whatever: https://maya.land/_pages/2021-08-16-update-year-blogroll.html 2021-09-19T01:57:58-00:00 holly black's the cruel prince: eh: https://maya.land/_pages/2020-10-16-holly-black-the-cruel-prince.html 2021-09-19T19:12:28-00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09n0CcQKqDY <\-- this is such a lovely video about mabon/michaelitag/michaelmas/erntedank/the whole-ass autumn equinox 2021-09-19T19:18:32-00:00 a lovely video about celebrating the autumn equinox: https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/19/a-lovely-video-about-celebrating-the-autumn-equinox.html 2021-09-20T05:33:18-00:00 seattle needs a help line "why are there fighter jets in the sky today" 2021-09-21T01:33:10-00:00 wouldn't it be cool if the government put money into creating resources in the public domain? open source software, textbooks, actually funded public radio... 2021-09-21T23:20:00-00:00 i got all excited but the elvira book event is virtual https://www.ubookstore.com/Yours-Cruelly-Elvira 2021-09-22T00:26:31-00:00 a found poem about climate change: https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/21/found-poem-climate-change.html 2021-09-22T03:40:50-00:00 sorry folks its gonna be all el-bi-ra content from here clear until halloween https://youtu.be/952EWqxC9yM?t=69 2021-09-22T06:55:54-00:00 my prude little child self was shocked and appalled by elvira: mistress of the dark, but it was definitely good for me 2021-09-22T16:45:39-00:00 "I personally deserve attacks and insults because I am a sinner, but the church does not deserve them." a vibe 2021-09-22T18:46:39-00:00 this picture of a fox might be illegal: https://maya.land/monologues/2021/09/21/illegal-fox-picture.html 2021-09-23T05:24:53-00:00 i will never get over true blood's wiccan character's "blessed be" where "be" is given the pronunciation of a diphthong. is it authentic? is it inauthentic? i have no idea 2021-09-23T06:53:45-00:00 we figured out from the skyline where in seattle the ventrue dude in the vampire the masquerade bloodlines 2 trailer had his shiny corporate office 2021-09-23T06:54:04-00:00 i don't know if this is worth documenting with all the screenshots but i do feel semi-proud 2021-09-23T06:57:37-00:00 probably no one will care because that game is.... never going to come out :( :( :( :( 2021-09-23T18:02:32-00:00 I don't buy that The Kids are missing fundamental file directory skills: https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/23/kids-missing-fundamental-file-directory-skills.html 2021-09-23T19:06:56-00:00 tongue-in-cheek trend-piece style take: we're gonna see a bifurcation between women who were partnered during the panda and those who weren't in whether they go back to wearing bras 2021-09-23T20:16:31-00:00 the music video for followers by AREA21: https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/23/music-video-followers-area21.html 2021-09-24T16:52:22-00:00 i don't want to make a whole post over it but this is REAL INTERESTING. https://dadadrummer.substack.com/p/tears-in-rain 2021-09-24T16:54:06-00:00 i have always suspected there was something fishy about how "streaming leads to a winner-take-all environment" when that's the exact *opposite* of what it's done to my listening habits. if I were spending $/track, I wouldn't have branched out as much as I have into metal, balkan brass, synthwave, whatever MONETOCHKA is.... 2021-09-24T17:10:18-00:00 pagination is for cowards. make your markup lighter if you care so much. 2021-09-24T18:50:55-00:00 you know how ghost and volbeat are kind of.... pop metal? is there a name for that genre? https://everynoise.com/ is pretending it doesn't see how poppy they are 2021-09-24T20:34:09-00:00 hugely anticipating the azealia / grimes track 2021-09-25T18:51:52-00:00 update: in youtube comments it looks like people like (derogatorily?) comparing ghost to ABBA. this... does not capture what I like about it. 2021-09-27T05:01:01-00:00 happy michaelmas, happy mabon: i have returned from celebrating with my parents. 2021-09-27T05:02:24-00:00 my mom is doing a retreat thing with nuns. she's praying the hours, which is way more everything than where I'm at, but made me think about how https://maya.land/reenchanted-time/ needs to not just consider rhythms of the solar year and the moon and the week, but also the day 2021-09-27T05:03:50-00:00 prayer/meditation at intervals to intentionally take yourself out of the cotidian flow of time: powerful stuff 2021-09-27T05:05:12-00:00 we had a marionberry pie to celebrate the last of the berries the devil hadn't blasted, and I wanted to bring duck fat in place of a michaelmas goose, but the store was out, which is... reasonable I guess. not exactly a staple 2021-09-27T05:58:32-00:00 an HTML webcomic site template suitable for static hosting: https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/26/an-html-webcomic-site-template-suitable-for-static.html 2021-09-27T06:11:53-00:00 skatebird is really good but also i'm really bad at it. sorry little guacamaya 2021-09-27T18:50:17-00:00 i didn't realize when they talked about "deer hunting season" they meant, like, two weeks out of the year https://www.eregulations.com/washington/hunting/deer-general-seasons/ 2021-09-27T18:51:22-00:00 apparently?? it's legal to hunt crows? but specifically only from 9/1 through the end of the year. not a fun holiday season for them https://www.eregulations.com/washington/hunting/game-bird/resident-game-bird-seasons 2021-09-28T22:58:34-00:00 how many people still hear this song in their heads whenever they read WYSIWYG?: https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/28/wysiwyg-song.html 2021-09-29T04:52:34-00:00 this weekend my bf witnessed my mom and i reciting "iterum pluit--semper pluit! nos numquam solem videmus!" and he didn't immediately run for the hills so that seems good 2021-09-29T04:53:14-00:00 apparently it's supposed to be nos solem numquam videmus? idk sounds fake 2021-09-29T18:56:39-00:00 "bot" as an insult is fascinating 2021-09-29T20:43:34-00:00 why did claire's in the mall smell exactly like this toasting piece of my dad's rosemary whole wheat bread 2021-09-30T07:01:40-00:00 where does one ask questions like "how do i get music from my nextcloud instance to scrobble to last.fm" 2021-09-30T21:06:06-00:00 🎵 i don't want to live 🎵 in capitalism anymore 🎵 https://boingboing.net/2021/09/30/woman-charged-for-crying-during-surgery.html 2021-10-01T16:24:54-00:00 i hate it that people are talking so much about "veneers" as an insult. like it's not enough to not have bad dental hygiene, it's not even enough to not have "bad teeth", you also have to have actually grown up in an area with fluoride in a family with $$$ for dentist so that your teeth are Authentically Bougie 2021-10-01T22:25:17-00:00 more experiments with CSS dithering. I need a better image to show that it's not monotone dithering 2021-10-02T01:13:19-00:00 no actually standing around alone sober at a beer festival is great and not provoking any feelings of alienation at all thanks for asking 2021-10-02T06:57:42-00:00 oh just WAIT till y'all see how this one works 2021-10-02T18:04:16-00:00 why have i done this 2021-10-02T18:32:28-00:00 do the blue noise overlay from https://maya.land/monologues/2021/02/15/css-dither.html and then instead of the monochrome threshold, throw in https://pastebin.com/SgR2T8Bf inline and use `filter: url(#gen)` in your css 2021-10-02T18:34:11-00:00 this isn't actually multicolor dithering in CSS because i don't know how multicolor dithering works but you gotta admit it's somethin' 2021-10-02T18:42:09-00:00 if you want to play around with it i made a paste of the javascript dealio i was using to try settings. https://pastebin.com/Xka3jApr then in the console you do stuff like window.addColor("blue", "#0025f5", "-40.5"); window.addColor("pink", "#ebafae", "-45.5"); and play with an order of statements and offsets until it looks cool, refreshing to get new sample images 2021-10-02T18:43:20-00:00 then you grab the generated svg out of the html inspector 2021-10-02T18:44:39-00:00 if you're doing something simple, you can use white as a background and just layer a couple of colors -- but for more ambitious combinations you probably will want to use a neutral midtone as the background and then add darks and lights over top 2021-10-02T18:53:42-00:00 awwwww it doesn't even work on chrome. i don't typically care when things don't work on safari because safari exists to hurt me but i want things to work on ff and chrome both :( 2021-10-04T05:50:49-00:00 fedex has again stopped trying to pretend they want to get me my package 2021-10-04T05:51:22-00:00 this is what you get for going with the non-union shop, blick 2021-10-04T05:52:39-00:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caput_mortuum_(pigment) just, you know, for your reference 2021-10-04T19:25:42-00:00 i know we get real snippy about john oliver not coming out and saying "all this has been wrought by capitalism, it is capitalism that prevents even the smallest of improvements I suggest to you" but i gotta say it is still nice to have an accessible nontechnical explainer on PFAS I can refer folks in my life to now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W74aeuqsiU 2021-10-04T23:03:15-00:00 work has reached https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVPKZhdBzp0 levels 2021-10-04T23:29:53-00:00 🎼 there is no way to QUELL 🎵 my 🎵 deSIRE 2021-10-05T00:22:23-00:00 us people: if you've got a little cash and like the idea of supporting local journalism BUT don't think highly of your local paper, check out your local NPR station. 2021-10-05T00:34:11-00:00 writing sample of diamine's shimmering seas ink to show the level of glitter. blur intentional where present to show the sparkle 2021-10-05T00:51:21-00:00 if you like thinking about fountain pens and inks, I have https://maya.land/pens/ and this toot was made to embed in https://maya.land/pens/inks/ 2021-10-05T05:47:34-00:00 based on a gorgeous photo by https://www.instagram.com/christinagrim/ 2021-10-05T16:38:36-00:00 this video on The Bell Curve is over two and a half hours long and I'd still recommend it: https://maya.land/responses/2021/10/05/this-video-on-the-bell-curve-is-over.html 2021-10-06T06:03:38-00:00 didn't ink for inktober today, but i did order stamps for my little personal-wheel-of-the-year calendar marker guys, so that'll be cool 2021-10-06T06:04:31-00:00 stamps use ink, this is partial credit 2021-10-06T17:32:34-00:00 jay hulme writing about his poem jesus at the gay bar: https://maya.land/responses/2021/10/06/jay-hulme-poem-jesus-at-the-gay-bar.html 2021-10-06T17:38:39-00:00 in The Daily today: "Mark Zuckerberg used to pump his fist and say 'company over country' at the end of every meeting" ????????? 2021-10-06T17:39:41-00:00 bf asked if i was going to put something in the middle and I felt quite hostile to that but now I'm realizing it might be both cute and functional to diagram in the moon phase 2021-10-06T17:41:15-00:00 like.........it's not like i'm wedded to the idea of patriotism as a moral duty but, uh, if you were going to move your allegiances to a *worse* target, one thing you *might* do would be 2021-10-06T17:43:36-00:00 i've always scoffed at this kind of thing but I just thought about "rebar sickle" and now I desperately want to make one https://lawlessforge.com/ 2021-10-06T20:56:38-00:00 https://scythesupply.com/outfits.html my mom had a scythe and used it to clear some land on the farm. archetype of strength right there 2021-10-07T00:09:13-00:00 the particular brainworm that is "i wonder how the second-order entropy of toki pona texts would compare to the voynich" http://www.voynich.nu/a2_char.html#entropy 2021-10-07T03:52:40-00:00 what might an anti-meme be?: https://maya.land/responses/2021/10/06/qntm-anti-meme.html 2021-10-07T03:52:46-00:00 the goat is an enemy of the vine: https://maya.land/responses/2021/10/05/the-goat-is-an-enemy-of-the-vine.html 2021-10-08T17:18:38-00:00 this tiny custom search engine has given us a flavorful portal into neocities: https://maya.land/responses/2021/10/08/this-tiny-custom-search-engine-has-given-us.html 2021-10-09T02:18:11-00:00 i did inktober 8 but i don't like it so i'm not posting it 2021-10-09T02:32:35-00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JodnDkWDie4 👀 2021-10-09T20:58:37-00:00 laurent gerdil's carvings of opinel's carvable knives: https://maya.land/responses/2021/10/09/laurent-gerdils-carvings-of-opinels-carvable-knives.html 2021-10-10T14:57:17-00:00 mamas don't let your babies grow up to find emotional succor in platitudes from internet strangers 2021-10-10T19:17:25-00:00 how do i pat myself on the head for not buying stuff like this EVEN THOUGH I COULD AFFORD IT https://www.irregularchoice.com/products/woodland-wander-a-womens-boots without self-congratulation i am in danger of weakness 2021-10-11T03:20:39-00:00 update: neocities, the moon, a gramophone, and altsearch: https://maya.land/updates/2021/10/10/update-neocities-moon-gramophone-altsearch.html 2021-10-11T19:09:56-00:00 oh my god i want to set this on fire https://perell.com/essay/why-youre-christian/ 2021-10-11T19:12:59-00:00 "people have always thought B because they believed A and A->B. not A. therefore??? not B???" is a formula I can only describe as dumbass 2021-10-11T22:21:44-00:00 damn maybe i *should* plan to go live in the woods 2021-10-11T22:22:34-00:00 has anyone written the piece arguing against calling spiritual practices "work"? i want to read it 2021-10-12T17:34:04-00:00 today in endless screaming: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/opinion/instagram-facebook-mental-health-study.html The problem, Dr. Brain, is that FB keeps all the data private that we'd need to evaluate this more thoroughly... so... it's not "overlooking an inconvenient fact" to get upset about the little we can see! 2021-10-12T20:22:37-00:00 jonathan wojcik examines the wibbly forms of bruegel's fallen angels: https://maya.land/responses/2021/10/11/jonathan-wojcik-pieter-bruegel-fallen-angels.html 2021-10-13T00:58:23-00:00 so i have a page about latin on my website and it needed a little somethin' 2021-10-13T01:17:55-00:00 nyaugustus caesar 2021-10-13T05:48:08-00:00 this piece is good so far but sweet JESUS he is aggressive in his misuse of "begging the question" https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/the-problem-with-productivity-and-the-good-work-of-love 2021-10-13T16:41:05-00:00 is there an ethical way to support local activists against this stuff? i get that foreign philanthropy can be a distorting force, but inaction feels like tacit support here https://www.newwaysministry.org/2021/10/13/catholics-establishing-ex-gay-clinics-to-stop-muslim-takeover-says-archbishop/ 2021-10-13T22:52:35-00:00 paddy maloney, founder of the chieftains, has died: https://maya.land/responses/2021/10/13/the-chieftains-paddy-maloney-has-died.html 2021-10-14T05:07:45-00:00 two things are really working for me this inktober: the desire to make it so everything will go sequentially on maya.land/inktober without gaps, and completely giving up on nice scans / photos of things. office lens + b&w filter is Good Enough 2021-10-14T18:58:43-00:00 zoe kravitz maybe? i do not know the youths 2021-10-15T03:11:24-00:00 so white I unironically enjoy mushy peas 2021-10-15T18:34:28-00:00 thank goat it's friday 2021-10-15T21:37:05-00:00 a remote that needed a 70 dollar official replacement was replaced with a 6 dollar version. *the 6 dollar knockoff is better.* tactile buttons, not specific areas of a flat surface to replace. lighter weight. 2021-10-15T21:52:23-00:00 a lot of the time when people armchair quarterback engineering choices, they're willingly ignoring a lot of constraints, but come on........ 2021-10-15T21:54:19-00:00 s/to replace/to depress/ 2021-10-17T01:58:05-00:00 there is a youtuber kid i will put on muted in a background tab because i want him to succeed. good luck kid!!!!! 2021-10-17T05:11:55-00:00 I have a theory about an attribute of social media and I want to bounce it off ppl to see if it seems like A Thing to y'all 2021-10-17T05:12:50-00:00 people have talked about context collapse before, where your internet presentation isn't able to be segmented into what you'd show church people, employers, peers, family, etc., and it's all just one context 2021-10-17T05:14:46-00:00 but of course we know that in practical terms, people don't *use* social media as if the context were absolutely everyone in their lives seeing it. that's why it's always awkward when a Bad Tweet goes viral and it's clear the tweeter was using Twitter to chat within their social network, with a thicker context, where more subtle ironies and such might be expressed.... but actually they were posting publicly also 2021-10-17T05:17:27-00:00 my theory is that there's something particularly psychologically stressful about having to deal with Schrodinger's Audience: when you put something out there, you have to adopt a tone of humility appropriate to only a few people, maybe your close contacts seeing it... but you also have to communicate as though you might be talking to Absolutely Everyone. and you don't really control which. 2021-10-17T05:19:20-00:00 tiktok seems really prone to this since 100% of discovery there is algorithmically mediated, but I remember getting the sense of this in tumblr days. you could tell sometimes there'd be something cringey about a response where a person was writing as if they expected to go viral, to have thousands of reactions back them up, but... they were just some kid, you know? and yet, they *might have.* 2021-10-17T06:47:51-00:00 I guess the key here is that most of the time, functionally, it *is* only that small circle seeing it... there's just... a slight chance otherwise 2021-10-17T06:51:05-00:00 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2142694884/the-chemical-wedding-by-john-crowley <\- I have this and I love it and ... how can I buy more copies of really nice new translations of old texts like this? they don't even have to be as nice, physical object-wise.... i'm sick of only dealing with centuries-old translations because they're public domain 2021-10-17T06:51:43-00:00 https://www.grimoire.org/grimoire/cyranides/ please tell me there's an english translation of this that doesn't suck ass 2021-10-17T08:00:17-00:00 this seems *different* somehow than the long-feared "but what if my boss sees my weekend partying". that's someone outside the intended audience seeing it. instead it's about... not even clearly intending an audience to communicate to, I guess, because of how stochastic it all feels 2021-10-18T07:02:52-00:00 a fun thing, and by fun I mean kind of cursed, is that once something reaches the canon of public health advice, it's never possible to measure its effect using simple latitudinal surveys ever again. why? 2021-10-18T07:04:04-00:00 well, let's say I hack into all the CDC websites and tell everyone that gummy vitamins are very dangerous during pregnancy, very dangerous, and must be avoided. I get someone to go on Oprah about it. the advice is Out There. 2021-10-18T07:04:50-00:00 now, before that point, we'd expect gummy vitamins to have basically 0 association with health during pregnancy. after my hack, though, the association will appear, clear as day, in all the relevant data. 2021-10-18T07:06:21-00:00 that's because as long as *most* health advice isn't absolute garbage, people who follow it in *aggregate* are going to have better *outcomes* in aggregate than those who don't. so now in our example, avoiding gummy vitamins is statistically tied up with all the health advice that *isn't* meaningless. 2021-10-18T07:07:23-00:00 there's also a complication with blah blah education blah blah class blah blah trust in authorities blah blah people who were more likely to have good material circumstance... but you would still have this same problem even without that complication, which is *wild*. 2021-10-18T07:09:21-00:00 I read about this because someone was trying to analyze how big a deal alcohol use during pregnancy really is, and it turns out it's really really really hard to disentangle from all the other stuff people aren't supposed to be doing while pregnant. 2021-10-19T03:50:35-00:00 any time someone uses the phrase "virtue signaling" for anything directed at any target I lose a little respect for them 2021-10-19T03:52:11-00:00 "yes hello i have never read even a single sociology" 2021-10-19T03:52:54-00:00 "falsifiability? sounds like a village in switzerland" 2021-10-19T18:23:34-00:00 https://hollywoodagegap.com/ dumb q but... this isn't real *life*, is it? like... i don't know a bunch of twenty-somethings dating forty-somethings. does data on that even exist 2021-10-19T18:24:14-00:00 margaret atwood once made my mom feel bad so i am choosing to schadenfreude on the backlash 2021-10-19T18:24:31-00:00 tiny? inconsequential? petty? yes but also i do not know this person 2021-10-20T06:44:05-00:00 "pray, read, read, read, reread, work, and you shall discover" seems about right 2021-10-20T07:14:14-00:00 hecuba supra faustum scandit. 2021-10-20T20:53:29-00:00 who is the producer for SKYND and have they done other projects that seem less ethically questionable 2021-10-21T05:36:08-00:00 the trump social website is Innovative and technically sound and I'm definitely not looking forward to some data nightmare coming out of it because it's been put together in a super high quality way with attention to detail so I'm sure their security is also top notch 2021-10-21T06:02:16-00:00 Too few social marketers recognize that if you're not getting down to the stomach lining, you're not doing real social marketing. https://bonsa.net/blog-details.html 2021-10-21T06:28:38-00:00 why would you bother setting up a fake analytics company? like, why? or was this, like, some epik employee's teenage nephew saying "oh I can run matomo for you guys no problem". is there some greasy kid in sammamish somewhere trying to figure out how to flex his ill-gotten gains without explaining to his peers that Behind the Great Success of Bonsa He Playing Role 2021-10-21T06:34:12-00:00 UPDATE: I can report I have finished the speedrun to being blocked by truthsocial.com 2021-10-21T06:34:55-00:00 we have a static ip and the real site still loads on phones, soooooooo 2021-10-21T06:36:52-00:00 note that I do not know .. uh... why 2021-10-21T06:38:11-00:00 yeah lots of you are posting that you've blocked them, but how many of you have they blocked, huh? huh?? (shh don't tell me, I want my moment of pretending this gives me cred) 2021-10-21T05:50:46-00:00 Business growing service! Sounds nice. Like gardening. 2021-10-21T05:51:40-00:00 And these exparts' attention to dotail, you gotta sea it to believe it 2021-10-21T05:53:18-00:00 Ah, really puts my mind at ease seeing their experience with Thousand of Comapnies 2021-10-21T05:55:49-00:00 Evanaa babe the pandemic has been hard for all of us but you gotta get it together 2021-10-21T05:56:46-00:00 I *only* trust my analytics with the tier of provider who knows that 2005 + 15 = 2021 2021-10-21T05:58:46-00:00 Evanaa, no!! 2021-10-21T05:59:48-00:00 What's this? A blog link, you say? 2021-10-21T06:03:36-00:00 We love to see coworkers supporting each other with helpful feedback! 2021-10-21T06:05:38-00:00 Wow, time to give these guys a call! At one of these numbers! From their contact info! That they have listed as phone numbers! 2021-10-21T06:12:11-00:00 you know what, I'll look up that address -- wait, what's this? 2021-10-21T06:15:09-00:00 Evanaa, I take it all back. Whatever they're paying you, it isn't enough. 2021-10-21T06:24:24-00:00 let's do a WHOIS lookup (on the first google result, as is only appropriate) so if they're using dreamhost there's no point looking for other stuff at that IP, but... interesting that this is... brand new? 2021-10-21T06:37:36-00:00 i believe in *us*, evanaa. i believe we can make this crazy thing work 2021-10-21T19:41:37-00:00 "the most attractive X I've ever seen" would have been the most attractive X out of, like, max 300, including people of all ages/sexes. we should talk more about how weird it is that we are constantly exposing ourselves to beautiful freaks now, *no matter what your standard of beauty is* 2021-10-22T03:16:47-00:00 twitter threads and chesterton's fence: https://maya.land/responses/2021/10/21/twitter-threads-chestertons-fence.html 2021-10-22T22:03:28-00:00 this is really good. i think it's really good partially because confirmation bias but also the examples are :chefkiss: https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/moral-panic-journalism 2021-10-23T15:18:26-00:00 https://www.fastcompany.com/90687984/the-dark-truth-behind-what-makes-a-good-neighborhood the policy criticisms are Correct, but like... "But 60% of this corresponds to the mortgage interest deduction, which benefits only the 7 million or so households with more than $100,000 in income. The bigger the house, the more they get. A further $32 billion per year goes to covering the exclusion of capital gains taxes on inherited homes. [..] All but a few rounding errors land in the pockets of the 9.9%—every year." Really? You excluded the 0.1%? No, you didn't. 2021-10-23T15:19:11-00:00 the 9.9% are responsible for the political will behind all the shitty stuff he talks about, but Iiiiiii still bet you the 0.1% is getting more out of it 2021-10-24T00:04:03-00:00 every time I have to send emails to Very Important People about the quotidian failures of our systems, I am reminded of my two predecessors who explicitly left because of ops 2021-10-24T00:06:36-00:00 I think i want insincere "thank you for your service" replies from them 2021-10-24T01:20:01-00:00 she is too cute for me to even be embarrassed about this 2021-10-24T04:51:20-00:00 my brother's response: 'lol you palette swapped your dog' 2021-10-24T08:14:58-00:00 mgmt's "when you die" works really well because it kind of sounds like "in the house, in a heartbeat" from 28 days later, but, you know, bouncy 2021-10-24T08:17:49-00:00 so there is a verse in the bible (bear with me here) "for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also" but from the vulgate latin it is *impossible* not to read as "for where your thesaurus is, there will your heart be also" 2021-10-24T20:18:40-00:00 wesley's notebook is a beautiful personal site: https://maya.land/responses/2021/10/24/wesleys-notebook-is-a-beautiful-personal-site.html 2021-10-24T21:25:35-00:00 keyword blocklist aggressively. stop thinking "well someone *might* have something interesting to say about X". once you get to the point where social media discourse on a topic feels like a mosquito whine, just cut it all out. private discussions with friends or blogs you like or whatever will cover it if it's important. 2021-10-24T23:33:58-00:00 in those cron scripts, tiddlywiki \--save "[tag[]]" "[addsuffix[.md]]" rm -f /output/Draft* is how I get particular sets of files to work with -- where "tiddlywiki" is the node app command 2021-10-25T18:21:08-00:00 https://songwhip.com/amberian-dawn/looking-for-you this song merits a 90s boyband style group dance performed by women with no makeup, bleached eyebrows, facial piercings, and bondage pants 2021-10-25T18:33:38-00:00 let's all spend a moment thinking about whatever systems in which we cannot avoid complicity for whatever reason and how we therefore must use whatever opportunities we have to say that Actually The Ships All Need Painting Right Now https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-tip-off-from-a-nazi-that-saved-my-grandparents 2021-10-25T18:44:56-00:00 has anyone written something good about the difference between "let's work in good faith towards reform from within" and "let's strategically sabotage from within" because there are definitely situations where the former seems deeply head-ass yet the latter might get good results...but I have not read enough about the latter to feel confident talking about it. 2021-10-25T18:49:09-00:00 conspiratorial speculation: the powerful love telling the average folks to Engage Through Discourse to change Official Policy re: the things they disagree with because then they can identify you *and* control the narrative, whereas they don't have nearly the power to stop ppl on the ground from Just Doing Shit 2021-10-25T18:50:20-00:00 so even if there have been really successful tactics of foot dragging and sabotage, the powers what be don't want you to learn about them (even outside how they also hate e.g. labor history being taught) 2021-10-26T08:57:10-00:00 for the record Hannah Gadsby is funny 2021-10-26T21:46:14-00:00 i wish i wrote about tech stuff less but mostly i wish non-techie people wrote about it *better* 2021-10-26T23:39:01-00:00 i think sometimes media folks see tech stuff they don't understand and assume it's bullshit, where what they really need to be scrutinizing are the business aspects they assume are normal because Capitalism Is Fundamentally Fine, Right? 2021-10-27T02:16:41-00:00 a brief defense of vibes: https://maya.land/responses/2021/10/26/defense-of-vibes.html 2021-10-27T16:01:58-00:00 no idea if it's gonna go anywhere but it's nice that ppl are thinking about it https://quietcleanseattle.org/ 2021-10-27T16:03:17-00:00 on nextdoor people are rabid about whether you should be blowing all the sidewalk leaves into the street (read: bike lane) 2021-10-27T16:17:30-00:00 labor organizing in wattpad comments 2021-10-27T18:01:41-00:00 rituals of divination help get one in a witchy mood. do druids instead Touch Grass 2021-10-28T01:05:30-00:00 the wattpad commentariat know that without a specified pay period, the acceptability of a wage cannot be determined 2021-10-28T01:07:18-00:00 "your text may contain issues" oh word counter application, you have no idea 2021-10-28T16:19:01-00:00 i'm gonna scream i'm gonna scream i'm gonna scream 2021-10-28T19:25:33-00:00 https://songwhip.com/brian-david-gilbert/lay-all-your-love-on-me being able to put this on repeat has genuinely fixed my day 2021-10-28T19:45:36-00:00 https://about.facebook.com/meta/ it's facebook, it's just facebook, never let them tell you otherwise, don't start changing your use of "meta" to accommodate their attempt to squat an important term 2021-10-28T19:48:12-00:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaprogramming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_element https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics 2021-10-29T06:09:38-00:00 how are the nft fursonas this bad 2021-10-29T18:22:49-00:00 when we got to the point where people are trying to make themselves look good by jeering at other people trying to make themselves look good, we should have figured out a way to at least filter this content 2021-10-30T04:43:54-00:00 omg marijn put my coat of arms up on their website i have never been so honored https://marijn.uk/heraldry/ 2021-10-31T20:50:41-00:00 you know how brands will name themselves like "BLAHBLAH NYC" ? they should do that everywhere. "blahblah Seattle". "blahblah St. Paul". "blahblah San Luis Obispo" 2021-11-01T03:02:46-00:00 http://goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2016/02/osr-style-challenges-rulings-not-rules.html <\-- dear god this kind of thing stresses me, a player, out. yeah puzzles are fun, yeah weird situations that need out-of-the-box thinking are fun, but it is fun for me to build cool tools and keep them in a box and use them, not roleplay like everything's a fucking british school one word essay 2021-11-01T05:50:48-00:00 just watched the wicker man for the first time! i was going to say I'd want to watch a version where women have agency except I guess that's kind of 2021-11-01T21:33:51-00:00 I know we're all about not undercharging for skill and talent, but if you don't feel like you meet some quality threshold to sell your art, look at this etsy store that's done an est. $4k in sales: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DUglyArt 2021-11-02T18:23:11-00:00 I was looking up art in a Tim Burtony style of Black characters, and first, uh, 😬, and second, even more 😬 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/09/29/tim-burton/ 2021-11-02T18:25:42-00:00 anybody have any artists they like who do a good job stylizing Black hair and features within that 2005y jhonen vasquez tim burton anime-chibi-inflected-gorey-revival vibe? 2021-11-03T01:10:53-00:00 if you were going to recommend someone start using RSS, what would you recommend for them? I really like miniflux but not everyone should be on that hosting lifestyle. fraidycat? 2021-11-03T19:08:38-00:00 3D molded cardboard at home!: https://maya.land/responses/2021/11/03/3d-printing-molded-cardboard.html 2021-11-04T05:10:38-00:00 there is a distinct dialect of german endemic to texas: https://maya.land/responses/2021/11/03/texas-german-dialect.html 2021-11-04T23:27:47-00:00 someone was asking about people's favorite notebooks and i updated https://maya.land/paper to be able to send it to them and then i lost the toot =_= 2021-11-04T23:59:21-00:00 about that.......... 2021-11-05T01:35:32-00:00 difficulty of gift giving is truly unfair in its asymmetry. my friends are creatures of non materialism and taste yet can literally source an excellent gift for ME from roadkill 2021-11-05T06:36:07-00:00 this photo is, like, mega staged but LOOK WHAT FINALLY CAME 2021-11-05T06:36:50-00:00 i took off all the keycaps and cleaned the keyboard for the first time and HOO BOY i am a scrumbling flaking goblin 2021-11-06T18:37:10-00:00 "Get ready for "the big dark" as many Seattleites know it: the city is set to lose an hour and 10 minutes of daylight this Sunday as Daylight Saving Time (DST) comes to an end." "lose" ?????? where do you people think it GOES 2021-11-06T18:38:54-00:00 this toot brought to you by maya's deep and unending rage at the attempts of technocrats to control the sun 2021-11-06T18:41:18-00:00 this just in: it isn't any easier to wake up earlier because you make people call it a different number 2021-11-06T18:43:17-00:00 https://utswmed.org/medblog/daylight-saving-time-sleep-health/ "Permanent daylight savings time; however, is not recommended by the scientific community. Studies have shown that residing on the most western border of time zones, which is similar to being on daylight savings time, is associated with increased risks for cancer." 2021-11-06T18:44:16-00:00 there is a very real risk that if my goddamn senator goes through with her conspiring with rubio of all people, we will end up on permanent DST 2021-11-06T18:45:40-00:00 if my state ends up on permanent DST there is a very real risk that I will be fed up enough to start my own timekeeping system based on solar noon 2021-11-06T19:54:15-00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNPMYRlvySY too many jokes about boomers being lead poisoned, not enough about whatever the fuck this is 2021-11-07T02:01:01-00:00 I didn't buy a lot of things about the "true crime has bad politics" arguments but something that has Made Me Think is hearing true crime fans who talk about why they like the genre who are explicitly identifying with the victim and who feel like they are learning how to not suffer the same fate. This to me seems like a really wild lens to take 2021-11-07T02:30:19-00:00 when people say "oh, true crime isn't pro-police, it's all about how the police fuck up" I gave some weight to that, *thinking* that they'd ALSO be thinking from a standpoint of "how can we as a community ensure each other's safety in other ways, and how did that fail here" NOT "dog eat dog, buy a home security system and carry pepper spray" 2021-11-07T02:41:56-00:00 at least the rise-and-grind-ers recognize they have some agency in setting their alarms 2021-11-07T05:46:39-00:00 we just watched the love witch. i came away from it craving plastic surgery and extremely dated fonts. i can probably justify springing for one of these 2021-11-07T16:13:28-00:00 https://open.spotify.com/album/3wqKk3gyYqL3ZHLrQGXXJT?si=isM2vjocSCmdn7RUY4w9lA 2021-11-07T16:16:54-00:00 is there a search term for the guitar style you can hear on a few of these that sounds joni-mitchell-ish? fingerpicked something something 2021-11-07T16:46:14-00:00 someday someone's gonna do sociological research around the aspect ratios of web pages' preview images (landscape: twitter, discord; portrait, especially skinny: pinterest) 2021-11-07T17:11:05-00:00 a font which must exist and for which I would pay money but which I can't find: All proper half-uncial forms (bonus for both uncial and half-uncial), but styled like https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/andreas-stotzner/hibernica/ BUT with a font in the family with familiar Roman forms done up to match 2021-11-07T17:53:09-00:00 lol imagine using this as a terminal font https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/everson/teamhair/teamhair/ 2021-11-07T21:22:40-00:00 if you have an image of a repeating pattern, but the image isn't aligned on the tile...: https://maya.land/responses/2021/11/07/repeating-pattern-image-tile.html 2021-11-07T23:30:32-00:00 i have finally managed to recognize a session tune as being other than the name given for it. So proud 2021-11-07T23:36:37-00:00 i read something where a latin-learning blogger got hoity toity about how mary beard talks about latin. MARY BEARD. can you *imagine* having the gall 2021-11-07T23:54:45-00:00 oh jesus even the beeswax candlemakers now https://www.etsy.com/listing/1100920371/lets-go-brandon-middle-finger-beeswax 2021-11-08T00:22:00-00:00 i have just realized that an unfortunate implication of my evopsych joke about the manliness of fisherman's sweaters is that all those dating profile pics featuring fish are really quite tactical 2021-11-10T06:28:54-00:00 freeways is a dangerous game 2021-11-10T17:51:53-00:00 https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-europe-became-so-rich this is really interesting and I do buy that there's a there there, but i can't trust it if it's not explicitly laying its thesis out against the economic impact of, *looks at notes* "all of the enslaving and the stealing from the other people" 2021-11-10T17:53:23-00:00 like you could make this as a case and lay out that the effect in country X was visible predating country X's going a-colonizing, you could lay out the dates, but if you don't then how do I know you're not just trying to paint pretty pictures over top of blood money 2021-11-10T18:38:43-00:00 sunflower seed butter and chemical leaveners will turn a baked good green: https://maya.land/responses/2021/11/10/wondersmith-sunflower-seed-butter-leaveners-green.html 2021-11-10T20:38:41-00:00 space travel still doesn't return on its staggering opportunity cost: https://maya.land/responses/2021/11/10/space-travel-opportunity-cost-unpopular.html 2021-11-11T21:08:33-00:00 lying on the couch in pain (toothache) wishing my dog weren't too busy to snuggle with me 2021-11-12T06:15:50-00:00 anki is kind of magic. twenty minutes or so a day can go a very long way 2021-11-12T20:12:02-00:00 if we get all het up about "managed installs of a browser being able to specify particular URLs to block view source on, explicitly at the request of educators" I kinda feel we've lost the plot on protecting people from tech overreach 2021-11-14T20:07:56-00:00 what are people doing with the // in CWs 2021-11-14T20:11:07-00:00 it's really weird seeing people make up magical squiggles when they don't understand they're working from what had been hebrew text (or at least letters). like content-aware fill on a book page 2021-11-14T20:12:24-00:00 is it possible this was meant to be some kind of automatic writing? certainly other bits of it look like it was half-assed runes. but altogether.... Weird Look 2021-11-14T20:14:34-00:00 which do i hate more: using two different spellings of "alchemy" because you don't bother to copy-edit, or using two different spellings of "alchemy" because of some bullshit distinction you've made up 2021-11-14T20:17:11-00:00 for however much shit Vaguely Neopagans get for ahistorical woo, let's all take a moment to close our eyes and remember how much worse it is when people decide to center their magical "tradition" on "secrets" from Annnnncient Eeeeeeegypt 2021-11-14T20:18:54-00:00 the choice of pen says "I know this is supposed to be calligraphy" but the forms say "and I don't know why" 2021-11-14T20:21:23-00:00 I am, of course, weakly pro-woo exactly so long as it doesn't get to say its blessings over my meals 2021-11-14T20:25:19-00:00 may i offer you a cough drop? 2021-11-14T21:08:17-00:00 we have now reached the Magical Diagram part of this text, which I will not screenshot but instead try to construct for you by analogy. imagine a person, a Type Of Guy if you will, who looks at the tree of life diagram and thinks, yes, this is like a pentagram, but more powerful because it is more complicated. Imagine you set this Guy loose with the same calligraphy pen plus a micron, a compass, and a ruler 2021-11-14T21:17:02-00:00 capitalizing all your nouns and noun phrases like some kind of hypergerman doesn't actually make your text more solemn 2021-11-14T21:19:14-00:00 oh lord they're breaking out the Verily 2021-11-14T21:22:35-00:00 okay, some of this isn't so bad 2021-11-14T22:03:52-00:00 i'm like sixty pages in and i'm giving up. i love the idea of secret societies of ritual magic but in my heart of hearts the magic I respect is the kind where you rub butter on everything (https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ali/ali145.htm or https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ali/ali135.htm or https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ali/ali132.htm) 2021-11-14T22:06:11-00:00 touch an animal of a specific color (https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ali/ali141.htm) or just find any pig and rub your baby on it (https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ali/ali149.htm) 2021-11-14T22:09:19-00:00 as someone who misses work for toothaches i can vouch that this is all of this is fully reasonable https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ali/ali136.htm 2021-11-14T22:12:10-00:00 https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ali/ali151.htm I'm pretty sure this has a more coherent explanation for its mechanism of efficacy than the prescription medication I take has, so 2021-11-14T22:16:54-00:00 "so what did you do this weekend maya" "just reading, mostly" 2021-11-14T22:17:45-00:00 cosmo's new dating tip: butter https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ali/ali134.htm 2021-11-14T22:48:52-00:00 (via https://ritualdust.com/about/reading/) 2021-11-15T00:32:04-00:00 which is worse: that an RBG paper doll exists as a salable product, or that they gave her a neotenized made-up face https://www.nordstrom.com/s/of-unusual-kind-rbg-mailable-paper-doll/5766146 2021-11-15T00:42:12-00:00 bahahahaha look it's Unauthorized Megan Rapinoe, "Ella" https://www.nordstrom.com/s/of-unusual-kind-ella-mailable-paper-doll/6520122 2021-11-15T05:50:29-00:00 who is she https://www.nordstrom.com/s/kurt-geiger-london-quilted-leather-crossbody-wine-glass-holder-with-portable-wine-glass/6550163 2021-11-15T06:01:09-00:00 i propose a special tax on people who pay $260 for a fitted sheet https://www.nordstrom.com/s/matouk-lowell-600-thread-count-fitted-sheet/5322262 2021-11-15T06:04:36-00:00 i have so many deeply felt and strongly held beliefs that only occur to me as I am going through all these dumb-ass things claiming their opposites 2021-11-15T18:13:28-00:00 kill me please 2021-11-15T18:33:46-00:00 history of art? aesthetics, an entire fucking discipline within philosophy? who needs to do any *reading* when we can bullshit confidently -- surely my tech-business-jargon metaphors are equivalent to the value of a PhD 2021-11-15T18:45:15-00:00 https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2b7ikx/would_anyone_be_interested_in_a_subreddit_for/cj2s0yz/?context=3 i too was once young and believed it was worth discussing with these fucks 2021-11-15T19:09:08-00:00 materialism is bad but I can see five pumpkins and four animal skulls from where i'm sitting right now and it does make me happy 🤷 2021-11-15T00:26:24-00:00 2021-11-15T00:27:26-00:00 when we made fun of goop-style witch-capitalism, this was *not* a pivot I'd expected them to make 2021-11-15T00:28:17-00:00 promise me that the hanged man used soy alternatives to petroleum products, nordstrom 2021-11-15T00:26:24-00:00 2021-11-15T00:26:24-00:00 2021-11-15T00:26:24-00:00 2021-11-15T00:26:24-00:00 2021-11-15T00:26:24-00:00 2021-11-15T00:26:24-00:00 2021-11-15T00:26:24-00:00 2021-11-15T00:26:24-00:00 2021-11-15T00:26:24-00:00 2021-11-15T00:26:24-00:00 2021-11-15T00:26:24-00:00 2021-11-15T00:26:24-00:00 2021-11-15T00:26:24-00:00 2021-11-16T01:37:24-00:00 the joy of `vi sdlfkj` 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version of friendship, perhaps we could say: "A group of friends who enjoy each others' company ought to build something together."" brb off to kms https://nayafia.substack.com/p/27-friend-groups 2021-11-20T00:23:10-00:00 '“Let's buy a bar together” or “Let's buy land and move to the country and raise our kids together” are common refrains among urban-dwelling 20somethings, but very few people actually do it. I wish these interests were taken more seriously, and that we encouraged each other to act upon them, rather than thinking of them fondly as the whims of young people before reality hits.' I mean, kind of? But also, not starting an actual commune isn't, like, a failure of your friend group? 2021-11-20T00:26:29-00:00 https://twitter.com/kevinakwok/status/1440863466005303299 jesus fucking christ PLEASE do not let markets poison your mind like this 2021-11-20T02:50:48-00:00 who are the people who have sold out this norwegian dark-folk show at $450 a pop? they walk among us 2021-11-20T03:04:10-00:00 i and my friends family and loved ones are letting each other down by not doing this, what the fuck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQkaqaHXGVw 2021-11-20T04:53:35-00:00 i like a lot of european folk music and i like the cute videos with the traditional clothing and all and i do not like the people Getting Real Weird in the youtube comments 2021-11-20T05:18:46-00:00 a blogger deciphers a code in the adventure time comic: https://maya.land/responses/2021/11/19/a-blogger-deciphers-a-code-in-the-adventure.html 2021-11-22T00:08:26-00:00 https://open.spotify.com/track/1dci3ik1zUnjrr39XMnsJU yeaaaaa 2021-11-22T00:33:46-00:00 how does this dilute to this???? that swatch is a LIE 2021-11-22T00:35:13-00:00 acryla gouache: for when the horrifying expense of normal gouache Just Isn't Enough 2021-11-23T17:08:46-00:00 private chats aren't private if one of your interlocutors has legal issues: https://maya.land/responses/2021/11/23/private-chats-legal-issues.html 2021-11-23T23:57:24-00:00 watching the post-internet generations try to reinvent ethics but without using the words "good" or "evil" 2021-11-24T17:20:51-00:00 how do you get off the lists after some charity has sold your name around 2021-11-24T18:57:28-00:00 apparently REI was HQed for decades in the building that is now.... The Rhino Room. a lot of confused ghosts in that club 2021-11-24T18:58:11-00:00 i don't mind giving more money but i do not need more address labels and envelopes I have to tear plastic apart from to recycle 2021-11-26T21:36:16-00:00 yea though i walk through the shadow of the valley of unhealthy choices i shall fear no toxic behavior 2021-11-29T18:16:49-00:00 painting of the day: fauns fleeing before an automobile: https://maya.land/responses/2021/11/29/painting-fauns-fleeing-before-an-automobile-benes-knupfer.html 2021-11-29T23:50:01-00:00 blue oyster cult is good again?? like... they look a bajillion years old in their new music video but the sound is *good* and not even nostalgia-driven 2021-11-30T15:30:50-00:00 fanzine culture is of course cool but i want more zine fan culture 2021-11-30T17:36:39-00:00 it's nuts that there isn't more of a sharing vibe when they're like, the easiest thing to mail? even a 6"x9" envelope for a half letter zine can go out with letter stamp rates 2021-11-30T17:37:22-00:00 this is probably a "be the change you want to see in the world" thing. I send zines I make/buy to my friends sometimes but I should offer... on here I guess? 2021-12-01T03:36:40-00:00 i like everyone in this bar 2021-12-01T23:59:22-00:00 i have 20% overlap with eugen's top spotify artists. what does it mean 2021-12-02T08:44:06-00:00 look up irish "lilting" and imagine it going on a loop in my head while i'm waiting for this shit to deploy so i can close the tickets and go to slee e ee p 2021-12-02T08:51:47-00:00 only okay with gen z killing leggings because my leggings are starting to give me keratosis pilaris 2021-12-03T05:08:07-00:00 i want somewhere local to stock fiddler's green 2021-12-03T20:11:17-00:00 "For every day that proof-of-stake is delayed, Ethereum is effectively operating two to three coal power plants." https://kcimc.medium.com/ethereum-emissions-c750556e7364 2021-12-03T20:51:13-00:00 are there any hag vtubers 2021-12-03T20:56:26-00:00 fat lumpy old lady vtuber with extra knuckle in her fingers, perceptibly unshaven legs, shawl, and a bendily animated animal skull mask like https://www.etsy.com/shop/MementomoriArs?section_id=26921638 WHEN 2021-12-03T22:22:47-00:00 body type of archibald snatcher https://www.laika.com/our-films/boxtrolls/gallery 2021-12-04T19:08:18-00:00 nice gouache is so much nicer than even moderately expensive gouache 2021-12-04T19:09:02-00:00 there are things rich people go for that are identical in substance to their cheaper analogues but lord above, holbein gouache is not one of them 2021-12-04T19:10:49-00:00 the goat painting didn't use any of the holbein gouache because they only had the red and yellow i wanted in stock. I now have a couple of tubes of utrecht artists' gouache and blick designers' gouache, the utrecht is nearly as expensive as the holbein and behaves like the pennies-on-the-dollar blick 2021-12-05T19:32:02-00:00 wreaths acquired! they smell wonderful. 2021-12-06T01:15:06-00:00 I don't think you can really have a quiet private household celebration of krampusnacht, that doesn't seem like how it works 2021-12-06T03:35:21-00:00 i just adjusted a font's slant for the first time ever and... I think this is one of the first bits of computer wizardry I've pulled off that would actually have impressed child maya 2021-12-06T03:39:31-00:00 gouache update: i ordered nice gouache 2021-12-06T03:40:19-00:00 child maya thought that fonts were, like, 40% of what was important about computers. 2021-12-06T17:28:21-00:00 how much money would it cost to have someone really really really thoroughly get the dead skin off your feet 2021-12-06T17:49:04-00:00 look I try not to talk about China because it has a way of knocking 10 points off everyone online's IQ when it comes up, but I don't think we should be putting in one bucket "stop monetizing the children" (https://www.protocol.com/china/china-edtech-crackdown-education-inequality) and "no gays, ghosts, Brad Pitt, or Babe: Pig In The City" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_censorship_in_China#List_of_banned,_partially_banned,_or_unreleased_films) 2021-12-06T23:56:13-00:00 economics is based now https://www.noemamag.com/long-live-participatory-socialism/ 2021-12-07T00:36:04-00:00 the internet police may come to get me because I am too old to try to use the word based 2021-12-07T05:45:23-00:00 has anyone here taken any courses on domestika? good experience? 2021-12-07T17:50:19-00:00 i've been really frustrated with my inability to move my work away from "render it more like the picture" so i went and bought a bundle of stuff from domestika, let me know if you end up wanting reviews 2021-12-07T20:27:06-00:00 in isolation, i prefer a greenish old-gold to warm bright one, but if you're pairing with an ultramarine, you just can't beat that cheesy punch of a gamboge-like metallic gold with the richness of the blue 2021-12-07T21:05:29-00:00 this is deeply creepy and yet morally necessary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0cHSrT7fLg 2021-12-08T04:11:52-00:00 considering programming a crud app so bf's magtag can turn on some lights when It Is Time For The Dog To Go Out and record whether she got walkies and such 2021-12-10T23:57:35-00:00 My Refine and Play Tarot deck just arrived, have a look: 2021-12-11T00:44:45-00:00 my refine and play tarot deck arrived: https://maya.land/responses/2021/12/10/refine-and-play-tarot.html 2021-12-12T00:46:18-00:00 sometimes we get a little arcane about the importance of personal web stuff, data exports, portable identity, whatever... like if you're a normal person your eyes have already glazed over reading this. but consider: it is bananas that I can't automatically search on youtube for all the illustrators I follow on instagram 2021-12-12T00:47:35-00:00 rel="me" could fix this alone if linktree supported it and instagram didn't get in the way of crawling 2021-12-12T00:57:27-00:00 i want to do this! the illustrators want me to do this! one of the megacorps involved even wants me to do this! 2021-12-12T07:08:19-00:00 fuck. fuck! just when i think he's drifted off into terra incognita, he's back at it with a mind-rendingly specific piece of humor for me and my transient obsessions https://www.thechatner.com/p/what-we-know-for-sure-about-the-druids 2021-12-12T18:54:09-00:00 was thinking about public radio vs. podcasts -- public radio is something you can get to anyone with a crank powered radio. you don't have to have internet or even an electrical outlet. there are no intermediaries who could track you or complicate an app interface or insert extra ads... 2021-12-12T18:54:52-00:00 public radio is up there with libraries in terms of "if they didn't exist and you suggested it you'd be laughed out of town as a commie screwball" 2021-12-12T18:55:26-00:00 I like podcasts and I think they're good, but wow do we take for granted all the costs and limitations of the systems in which we're immersed 2021-12-12T18:57:48-00:00 anyway, public radio seems to consciously explore podcasts as another side of their coin -- broadcasting some made-for-podcasts as programming, making sausage of its proper programming as podcasts... to me it seems to work well, though I can't vouch for the economics. what are other equivalent pairings of convenience-tech and open-access tech? 2021-12-12T19:08:43-00:00 horrible pest poisons openly sold on internet: https://maya.land/responses/2021/12/12/horrible-pest-poisons-internet.html 2021-12-12T19:11:58-00:00 https://www.bookstoprisoners.net/send-books/ <\-- "occult/magic belief systems" and "books on how to draw" are two of the very few categories of books that an overwhelmed books-to-prisons nonprofit can't get enough of. and yet think about how much material people are coming up with and freely distributing all the time in these categories on the internet! 2021-12-12T19:23:46-00:00 The relation between the "free-via-HTTP" and "here is a paper codex" feels like it ought to be more flexible than we've yet managed. 2021-12-12T23:29:52-00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2021/12/hopeful-images-2021/620967/#img04 y e s 2021-12-12T23:30:56-00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2021/12/hopeful-images-2021/620967/#img14 also yes 2021-12-13T18:54:21-00:00 you work at the nyt motherfucker, stop saying "beg the question" when you mean "raise", persnicketiness is the whole point of you 2021-12-13T23:34:24-00:00 back off, i'ww take you on! headstwong~ I'ww take on anyone~ 2021-12-14T18:58:25-00:00 i would really like a response to this that just lists out the numbers we know about the impacts of these choices. one thing that's frustrating is that there are issues where there are *no* good numbers, like the mentioned pregnancy + alc thing. but I don't *think* that's where we are with covid anymore https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/where-i-live-no-one-cares-about-covid/620958/ 2021-12-15T06:17:00-00:00 are you fucking kidding me https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day-update-on-cve-2021-45046/ 2021-12-18T07:08:10-00:00 https://going-medieval.com/2017/12/20/on-the-medieval-secret-to-a-balling-christmas-for-once/ I took all twelve days off and probably should have also taken the sixth off? idk counting is hard 2021-12-18T07:52:12-00:00 secure scuttlebutt brought to a particular usecase for Maori communities (if I'm reading right?) https://ahau.io/ IMO deserves at least as much attention as the time we spend rightfully clowning on NFTs 2021-12-18T17:32:38-00:00 does any halfway ethical cocoa sourcer make chocolate oranges? I'm only finding terry's, brach's, and that florida oranges one that does the trader joe's ones too... it would be nice if it were also nicer chocolate (tony's chocolonely pseudo ferrero rocher has ruined me for other stuff) but that's optional 2021-12-18T18:36:36-00:00 https://typographica.org/typeface-reviews/bradley-djr/ while a lot of the time I really appreciate history and allusion that a typeface can carry, this is fun and freeing to use because it isn't loudly any one particular thing. Pull it towards Disney Fantasyland, it works. Pull it toward the gothic, it works. Pull it toward a linocut look, it works. 2021-12-18T18:43:00-00:00 This piece emphasizes that it's "Nazi-free", which blessedly is less of a cultural reading one has to intentionally avoid in US contexts (Blackletter in the US is far far far more heavily used for all kinds of kitsch than by the neonazis here) but this typeface's fantastical take on blackletter is still just incredibly usable 2021-12-18T18:49:07-00:00 the best comparison I can think of is what Daniel Reeve did to give the Lord of the Rings calligraphy its own flavor outside of standard uncials and half uncials https://www.danielreeve.co.nz/Fonts/ 2021-12-18T19:35:02-00:00 continuing "maya browses fonts", a lot of these make me feel like... like it isn't like i'm inspired to use it in my own project, but i really want to buy the zine or whatever that *does* use it https://p22.com/family-Phantasmagoria 2021-12-18T19:42:38-00:00 normal and functional society 2021-12-18T20:38:45-00:00 make charts just by typing in your data with this font: https://maya.land/responses/2021/12/18/charts-typing-data-font.html 2021-12-19T01:09:07-00:00 i'm in love (with trader joe's 100% ginger drink mix) 2021-12-19T04:44:04-00:00 paged back in for MORE LOG4J LOG4J: THE FUN NEVER STOPS 2021-12-19T18:19:54-00:00 i love them they're too cute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N01AdKkQ2lE :dogcited: 2021-12-19T18:45:00-00:00 how do people keep track of movies they want to watch especially of stuff that's too small to be reliably on streaming services? I've made nice little private lists before but then I forget to refer to them when actually making Watching Choices 2021-12-20T16:55:35-00:00 apparently when the British monarch dies the new monarch goes around to nations in the Commonwealth getting pledges of alliance and fealty and whatever and while I can't bring myself to hope for an old person's death when they're not, like, Kissinger, after the queen passes I am just *slavering* to see that trip go wrong for Charles 2021-12-20T16:58:04-00:00 I don't have super strong feelings about symbolic monarchies as a category but hoo boy am I ready to see Windsor eat some shit. if you have a hereditary post as a national mascot and you can't even follow the mascot rules, people should get to throw metaphorical eggs at you all day long 2021-12-20T19:18:04-00:00 I am quite pleased that someone thought https://maya.land should be listed on https://biglist.terraaeon.com as "[gen]" rather than "[tech]". I do try. 2021-12-20T20:44:46-00:00 listen to the 333 covers of 'last christmas' released since last christmas: https://maya.land/responses/2021/12/20/333-covers-last-christmas.html 2021-12-20T21:59:25-00:00 https://houseofmysticum.wordpress.com/2021/12/18/card-game/ <\-- riding off millennia of a certain kind of dream-like sense implying the presence of symbols with meaning, but intentionally using symbols that can't signify 2021-12-21T01:28:48-00:00 3x speed ain't bad: maya digs way too deep into a blog post from hacker news: https://maya.land/responses/2021/12/20/3x-speed-transmissionism-confused-writing.html 2021-12-21T03:50:19-00:00 I really like the idea of Nextdoor so I went through the settings to see if it would be possible to calm it down somehow. The open user hostility is a little refreshing: switch to chronological view and it informs you matter-of-factly that that preference will be switched back in sixty days.... 2021-12-21T14:36:39-00:00 happy solstice!!! 2021-12-21T15:05:47-00:00 i'm not supposed to bring wood over the mountains to my parents' so i think i will petition that we go to grocery store to get a lil wood for outdoor yule fire. i really like their gas fireplace but a yule log out of fiberglass is prolly suboptimal 2021-12-21T15:58:50-00:00 in this 1410s illuminated book of hours, december is for hunting wild boar: https://maya.land/responses/2021/12/21/in-this-1410s-illuminated-book-of-hours-december.html 2021-12-22T02:36:12-00:00 feel like shit just want her back http://swallowmygraphicdesign.com/project/macostalgia 2021-12-22T04:36:26-00:00 can one commission the design of a card game? not a ccg or w/e, like actually "here are the kinds of games i like to play (features I like and don't like), here is a tarot deck, i would like someone who is thoughtful about game design to take a whack at something" 2021-12-22T05:48:42-00:00 we overheard a guide in the vatican museum (!) giving that idiotic spiel about how Mary's mantle is painted blue because "blue was a very expensive pigment so it showed off the Church's wealth". how do so many people just repeat this like they can't tell the difference between azurite and ultramarine?? 2021-12-22T05:48:55-00:00 basic pigment literacy, folks, I don't ask for much 2021-12-22T05:59:22-00:00 follow up question: what would the ballpark cost be for a card game design? it seems like you could spend anywhere from one afternoon to years playtesting and iterating so i have no idea what sounds normal 2021-12-22T06:02:13-00:00 the counter intuitive thing about the winter solstice is that it actually gets worse from here, weather wise (and of course food supply-wise). if you hadn't put together how the whole thing works, hadn't been given knowledge passed down from people come before, you wouldn't know hope comes with the lengthening of days. it's solace for the worst bit yet to come 2021-12-22T18:42:11-00:00 oh SHIT https://github.com/DanilaFe/matrix-highlight 2021-12-22T22:07:25-00:00 I am so excited to see where hypothesis-but-matrix could go. I love hypothesis but it seems like a really great thing to have decentralized 2021-12-23T16:55:11-00:00 I wonder if you could make a nice little rotary dial to speed up, slow down, and skip back. It's terribly amusing to see people objecting like "some material requires time to consider!" as if a speaker can have perfect control over when I need to spend that time consideration. or, you know, you could just give me written material and I'd already have perfect control over exactly this.. https://digest.bps.org.uk/2021/12/21/watching-a-lecture-twice-at-double-speed-can-benefit-learning-better-than-watching-it-once-at-normal-speed/ 2021-12-23T21:04:43-00:00 "Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak." On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will." on Umberto Eco on fascism. 2021-12-24T06:32:55-00:00 people need to quit it with the received wisdom of the 1700s' crapping on the middle ages because A. the overcorrection to miasma theory literally screwed us over in early COVID and B. looking at illustrated manuscripts, shitposter recognizes shitposter 2021-12-24T06:37:58-00:00 genuinely most of the things people think were bad in the middle ages weren't half as bad as they think, except for diseases, which were much worse 2021-12-24T06:38:15-00:00 fantasy novels featuring cholera when 2021-12-25T06:29:58-00:00 but if I stay up a hour and a half later maybe my dog will be able to explain to me why she likes to pee on the bath mat more than outside 2021-12-28T17:19:30-00:00 on the third day of christmas my true love gave to me a cup of coffee in bed bless that man 2021-12-28T18:00:28-00:00 an *excellent* christmas gift https://www.blackletter-press.com/product-page/w-b-yeats-on-magic-the-occult-2nd-impress 2021-12-28T18:17:47-00:00 I am not a fan, I think, of Aleister Crowley's massive influence on occultism, so I've been reading up on the Golden Dawn stuff that predates him. Yeats isn't a figure to idolize either, of course, but a poet's occultism is where I need to start 2021-12-28T18:47:29-00:00 occult stuff starting out with descriptions of degrees of initiation, initiation rites, etc. always makes me wonder how much of the value people saw in the content occluded, and how much was a system designer trying to figure out a system of rules that would guarantee an interesting society 2021-12-28T18:57:51-00:00 if it didn't have to do with people trying to make money and could be done only with SSB-ish key-signing protocols, the DAO stuff would seem similar 2021-12-28T19:42:16-00:00 i want a gender neutral "my good man" / "my good fellow" 2021-12-28T19:51:34-00:00 also in the market for a gender ambiguous "ma'am"/"sir", not as in its southern US etiquette use, but as in "sir, this is an arby's" 2021-12-28T20:31:02-00:00 "oh XYZ concern only applies if you're using icloud" online defenders need to step the fuck off because apple seems pretty determined to make it extremely annoying for me to try to use the macbook I paid for with earned dollars without also agreeing to icloud bullshit 2021-12-30T20:45:33-00:00 if you are a guilty over-buyer of books, "fantasy paperbacks, occult/magic belief systems, financial investment, books on how to draw, and books written in Spanish" are all desperately needed by the nonprofits that try to get books to prisoners. 2021-12-30T21:06:03-00:00 what is the funniest (non-gun) thing you could put in this? so far i have thought of: a wheel of parmesan https://www.etsy.com/listing/1069088918/ceiling-safe-gun-storage-hidden 2021-12-31T21:10:22-00:00 basically going through and following everyone on social.yesterweb.org . So happy to see y'all!!!! 2021-12-31T21:57:58-00:00 a plea for the culture to tone down the "all right it's January back to productive participation in capitalism and atomized self improvement" 2021-12-31T22:03:38-00:00 even if you don't share the cultural context for which this one period in time was always a big traditional rest in the yearly rhythm (stemming from agricultural reasons) there's no reason to shove the antithesis of that in front of everyone's nose 2021-12-31T22:04:31-00:00 am I thinking of the unnecessarily public displays of self flagellation around diet culture ? why yes and also many other thing 2021-12-31T22:06:54-00:00 a society with fucked up attitudes toward leisure cannot comprehend that the cessation of feasting is not supposed to provoke periods of repentance. it's as if we all think guilt were a crude correction feedback to not meeting whatever fucked up standard Cromwell was on about 2021-12-31T22:28:33-00:00 my bf's family got me a book of little amigurumi birds. I excitedly ordered supplies, managing to get everything biodegradable (natural fiber) or inert in a non plastic way (glass beads for eyes, craft wire). what little magical thing can be stuffed inside them for luck 2021-12-31T22:34:58-00:00 having a wren near means you won't die by drowning? the right direction though unfortunately overspecific 2021-12-31T22:36:15-00:00 resolutions and such don't seem right. not a daruma 2021-12-31T22:38:50-00:00 I have papier d'armenie on which I can write something. the name of a recipient as for a gift? a wish? a hated thing, to send to fly away? 2022-01-01T00:36:31-00:00 home again and happy to report it still feels like yuletide festivity here 2022-01-01T02:44:08-00:00 i think if i were going to try to explain what i like about the alt-internet projects I like to a person who doesn't care about the technical stuff, it'd start with an idea of "link culture" 2022-01-01T02:53:01-00:00 "hey look at this" as the relevant primitive from which the rest emerges, not "you spent 4.55 seconds watching this video before scrolling away" 2022-01-02T19:03:49-00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/02/attention-span-focus-screens-apps-smartphones-social-media i don't... like it... but... 2022-01-02T19:19:15-00:00 david jonathan ross runs a font of the month club: https://maya.land/responses/2022/01/02/david-jonathan-ross-runs-a-font-of-the.html 2022-01-02T20:38:14-00:00 I don't know if you can really legislate against this. I mean, it'd be hard to come up with laws that'd do the right thing, but maybe possible, but I don't think you could really get enough support for them for them to be legitimately imposed 2022-01-02T20:39:31-00:00 I don't even mean because of all the lobbying evil and whatnot -- people *like* Cheetos. Nudge-type incentives feel patronizing, but a ban on Cheetos, even if totally warranted, would kind of be the same. 2022-01-02T20:43:14-00:00 w/r/t attention I'm most interested in the practices that help tend my inflamed switchy brain, like keeping a running infodump handwritten or in a text file for whatever I'm doing, in the same kind of painful detail as one writes out intermediate steps in math problems 2022-01-02T20:44:16-00:00 I *know* I'm fighting against the air I breathe, but I refuse to go off and disconnect from My People and sniff down my nose like some awful digital Franzen type 2022-01-02T21:31:20-00:00 if i vow not to renew two different domains that each don't expire for half a year, that's basically the same as getting fully rid of one domain so I can...get....a new one..... 2022-01-02T21:33:07-00:00 the CSS was mutilated but the spirit of gnomely.fans will live on https://web.archive.org/web/20210118231441/https://gnomely.fans/ 2022-01-02T22:42:36-00:00 where is the queer neofolk group using these fonts https://twitter.com/AIGAeyeondesign/status/1417852278200020992 2022-01-02T22:44:06-00:00 if we are doing 1890s throwback via 1970s throwback i *know* there must be gay pagans using these fonts somewhere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Faeries 2022-01-03T00:26:30-00:00 Old Roman Cursive: and you thought reading *our* cursive was bad http://guindo.pntic.mec.es/jmag0042/LATIN_PALEOGRAPHY.pdf 2022-01-03T18:51:37-00:00 https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-valley-of-the-cheese-of-the-dead god i wish that were me 2022-01-04T00:45:38-00:00 when you read "normalize X" replace it in your head with "everyone should X or at least feel weird for not X" and see how often it's clarifying 2022-01-04T07:35:11-00:00 https://twitter.com/htmlenergy/status/1475568263996362759 "No [...] images [...] or CSS necessary" just say you feel uncomfortable with art/design and go 2022-01-04T07:35:42-00:00 yeah you know what the problem is with the internet, the place that made your uncle believe in adrenochrome? CSS 2022-01-04T07:37:26-00:00 you know how the internet has had effects that are bad? what if we just did our own thing and made it so awful no one wanted to look at it. neatly sidestep those effects, checkmate EFF you can go home now 2022-01-04T07:37:59-00:00 "\- Centralized or decentralized? Who cares! 💾" material context is for chumps, limber up your angle bracket fingers 2022-01-04T07:42:43-00:00 they couldn't be bothered to set up https but the site has javascript analytics.......... anyway i want to rescind my "so awful no one wanted to look at it" because of course this *does* have CSS and such 2022-01-04T17:40:06-00:00 https://showcase.onlyrecipe.app/ <\-- https://maya.land/recipe-blogs/ 2022-01-04T19:11:56-00:00 something particularly cynical about reaching the age at which you can see fillers in people's faces 2022-01-04T19:14:29-00:00 https://www.instagram.com/p/CNNgFiHjNmI/ i like the sentiment but if anyone ever asked me in a conversation "what are 2 emotions you are having in this moment" i would avoid all conversations with that person for the rest of time 2022-01-04T19:15:08-00:00 at least with "how are you" it's acceptable for me to give a BS answer if I'm Not Up To It?? aghghgh 2022-01-04T19:15:36-00:00 bf and i sometimes ask each other "whatcha thinking" and sometimes my answer is just emotive sound effects and That's Valid 2022-01-04T20:41:08-00:00 how is there so much chocolate in the house....... how......... 2022-01-04T20:58:52-00:00 i have gone gentle into exactly nothing in my lifetime and i'm not about to start now 2022-01-04T20:59:40-00:00 https://tapas.io/series/PHTR6G/info <\--- this is so cute!! 2022-01-04T21:21:55-00:00 it's not that i'm not down for this to exist, but, uh, sofia zakia? https://sofiazakia.com/collections/spooky-shop/products/scp-notebook 2022-01-04T21:32:44-00:00 .....me gusta https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2022/01/03/1069942305/sheep-goats-encourage-vaccination-germany 2022-01-05T18:54:21-00:00 the more i learn about this stuff the more i'm curious about how I could switch to browser versions for everything I use my phone for. mine's android, but still: https://sreegs.tumblr.com/post/671649355334336512/alright-lets-talk-about-apple-and-tumblrs 2022-01-05T22:04:25-00:00 it's been a long time since i biked to get around but god DAMN, the catharsis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYfDUCsBPvU 2022-01-06T00:18:02-00:00 big Fuck Off to yeats for this one, of course https://poets.org/poem/prayer-my-daughter 2022-01-06T00:20:01-00:00 "an old bellows full of angry wind" brb new display name 2022-01-06T00:20:23-00:00 today is the last day of christmas and tomorrow i have to go back to work and i so, so don't want to 2022-01-06T00:32:47-00:00 can you feel the weight of the clipboard?: https://maya.land/responses/2022/01/05/weight-clipboard.html 2022-01-08T18:23:34-00:00 why is it so hard to find archive boxes for a5 size????? 2022-01-08T19:22:48-00:00 DAE find it way more depressing for it to be dark in the morning than in the evening? 2022-01-08T21:51:14-00:00 https://www.newsweek.com/h-1b-visa-row-foreign-workers-make-more-half-silicon-valleys-tech-industry-784272 https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/more-than-half-of-seattles-software-developers-were-born-outside-u-s/ i definitely "love" how the left online continues to pretend that the archetypal tech bro is a white Brandon from a middle-class family 2022-01-08T21:51:56-00:00 this has been *more* true of techies who are visible online, of course, because part of being brought up as a Brandon is being taught how important it is for other people to hear your opinions 2022-01-08T23:42:04-00:00 you'd expect him to be right, so it's a small relief that he is https://staltz.com/some-people-want-to-run-their-own-servers.html 2022-01-09T18:38:11-00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atc6-JCVIOs look i just want to live in the greenhouse train station from syberia is that so wrong 2022-01-09T18:56:06-00:00 today I am indulging in a little chocolate and a little hope https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-happiest-number-ive-heard-in 2022-01-09T19:13:52-00:00 Evil Wordle: "fever". I won after 6 guesses ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://swag.github.io/evil-wordle/ 2022-01-09T19:19:17-00:00 "If I’m no good at pretending to be a man and no good at being young, I might just as well start pretending that I am an old woman. I am not sure that anybody has invented old women yet; but it might be worth trying." https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/10/17/ursula-k-le-guin-gender/ 2022-01-09T19:20:35-00:00 as I age I want to look more and more Distinctive™️ no matter how ridiculous I get because the idea of invisibility-relative-to-a-man-of-the-same-age is enraging 2022-01-10T08:11:28-00:00 please stop buying moleskines....... if you want something Italian, fabriano is nice..... if you really like the moleskines, piccadilly does the same thing but better... if you want a recognizable name for a gift or something, leuchtturm is well known now... 2022-01-10T19:22:22-00:00 omg dying "But even if everything else goes right, there is one thing no group of online free market weirdos have ever been able to agree on. Once the topic is even mentioned within a group of libertarian men, it will cause so much infighting and drama that it inevitably destroys the community and implodes whatever shared goal they were trying to accomplish. And that topic is, of course, age of consent laws." https://www.garbageday.email/p/libertarian-kryptonite 2022-01-11T00:18:05-00:00 i love fiddly paper things and I will defend my love... but sometimes one is grateful for cryptography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3lGlmRPMKw 2022-01-11T03:15:47-00:00 okay i feel hella dumb. you can switch the order in which search suggestions vs. url history suggestions appear in the firefox url bar dropdown. this is gonna save me so much stupid time 2022-01-11T03:18:47-00:00 transhumanism? you mean how a decent part of my brain lives in various sqlite databases within firefox application data? 2022-01-11T04:25:22-00:00 hi hi yesterweb: if you want to be able to include replies and reactions from mastodon onto your neocities page (like https://maya.land/responses/2021/11/29/painting-fauns-fleeing-before-an-automobile-benes-knupfer.html) check out https://webmentions.neocities.org/ and https://brid.gy/ 2022-01-11T19:30:53-00:00 There aren't many accessible metaphors in [[metacognition]], so I like this one: [[Neurath's boat]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurath%27s_boat 2022-01-11T21:00:20-00:00 spotify is recommending me the red army choir? I am... slightly confused 2022-01-11T21:03:02-00:00 https://open.spotify.com/track/1yie2kPx8k87GgBxwg8Mwx?si=cb68ed6d65e848a2 2022-01-12T17:34:19-00:00 you know how that "worst person you know made a great point" pic makes it easy to acknowledge something without endorsing the person? i need a "with you on the substance but your facts are real wrong" pic 2022-01-13T00:43:21-00:00 booster headache sucks ass 2022-01-13T05:18:45-00:00 bless steve inskeep -- his voice is so much more familiar than his face that my brain can't read the video of him as anything but lip syncing 2022-01-13T05:33:16-00:00 https://www.reddit.com/r/latin/comments/rz885a/mimetica_im%C4%81g%C5%8D_longam_viam_transi%C4%AB/ <\-- i cannot tell you how gleeful i feel that a latin trans meme exists 2022-01-13T16:14:32-00:00 it's not "for" me but the very existence of stuff in this niche makes me feel better about the world, the internet, etc. 2022-01-13T16:37:58-00:00 https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/shorts-murmurs-the-moleskine-artist free yourself, henry 2022-01-13T17:24:21-00:00 really good but also made me want to vomit https://commonreader.wustl.edu/c/how-plastic-liberated-and-entombed-us/ 2022-01-13T20:12:03-00:00 half-ironic theory: the accuracy of our societal view of survival and the development of technology has been significantly damaged by how those things are presented in videogames 2022-01-13T20:44:30-00:00 I remember reading about how a generation is growing up with a fucked up view of ecology because in Minecraft you can always just replace the fungible cubes you took away and everything is fine 2022-01-13T20:45:01-00:00 in RimWorld you harvest cotton and get.... cloth. the medievalists in the chat are weeping 2022-01-13T20:45:59-00:00 the simplifications all make sense for gameplay but also, like, no Virginia there are some pretty fundamental issues with the idea of space colonization 2022-01-13T20:50:12-00:00 because it is fun to take your little individual avatar and go do things that look like survival, people adopt a subconscious belief that an individual can go off into the woods and survive in something approximating what they consider reasonable comfort 2022-01-14T21:57:52-00:00 o cha zu ke 2022-01-14T22:07:46-00:00 well, i obviously need to preorder the hardcover nona the ninth, but do i also need to preorder the ebook 2022-01-15T07:45:03-00:00 i recognize that rimworld wants me to think of a rocksfall as a dramatic story rather than a failure but they sort of fucked that up when they introduced cute lil pets 2022-01-15T17:45:59-00:00 every time i look at https://charm.sh/ it gets cuter. 2022-01-15T17:47:05-00:00 https://carbonswitch.co/how-bad-is-my-gas-stove-part-two i need a whole indoor air quality page on my website, huhh 2022-01-15T18:43:19-00:00 three just dance songs and i am gross ss s ss. i wish there were an ambient temperature at which my body wouldn't sweat 2022-01-15T19:11:10-00:00 i want to muse publicly about things that I think a cryptographically secured ledger could be interesting for but I need some sort of shorthand to indicate that I mean something like secure scuttlebutt and not something like bitcoin without having to write that out every time 2022-01-15T21:50:43-00:00 https://minimator.app i bet you could approximate a lot of *very* cool vector work with just this 2022-01-15T22:24:15-00:00 Sweardle day 8 2/4 🟨🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://sweardle.com/ 2022-01-15T22:27:47-00:00 this is amazing because on the one hand, how on earth do you avoid talking about your husband?? but on the other hand it shows the power of boundaries to let something lovely grow https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/01/can-you-be-friends-with-your-husbands-ex/621253/ 2022-01-15T22:38:51-00:00 james g on programming being like cooking: https://maya.land/responses/2022/01/15/james-g-on-programming-being-like-cooking.html 2022-01-15T23:46:23-00:00 a rule i wish people followed: you can only replace "sorry for the delay" with "thanks for your patience" if you have actually addressed the issue / fixed the problem / whatever at the time of writing. 2022-01-16T00:08:54-00:00 I posted about it a long time ago but I keep thinking about this: [[folk]] and [[punk]] [[DIY]] spirit living on in the space [[html]] occupies today... https://tilde.town/~zach/folk-html.html 2022-01-16T00:40:47-00:00 would i buy it? no. but it is also the best wicker item i have ever seen https://www.chairish.com/product/2702994/mid-century-modern-wicker-frog-basket 2022-01-16T01:32:00-00:00 "After Crosscut reported in 2020 that nearly half of helmet law citations in Seattle went to homeless cyclists, the King County Board of Health, which oversees the helmet requirement, began discussing the possibility of repealing the law; the board is set to make a decision on the helmet law year." https://publicola.com/2022/01/14/seattle-police-will-no-longer-enforce-bike-helmet-law-and-other-minor-traffic-violations/ yesssssssssssssss 2022-01-16T06:58:37-00:00 i wish there were lower-packaging versions of some of the stuff i would want to be staples for me. 2022-01-16T07:00:39-00:00 a frozen meal with a box *and* plastic *and* a tray that goes to landfill... like.... long after i'm dead that stuff will be around 2022-01-16T17:51:35-00:00 why is the bob's burgers movie in theaters only i like bob's burgers but it's really tough to justify a nonzero covid risk for it 2022-01-16T20:06:36-00:00 https://inlandnobody.substack.com/p/why-galesburg-has-no-money <\-- not new to anyone who has read anything vaguely urbanist, but if you like numbers in your thinking about this, pretty good 2022-01-17T00:10:34-00:00 in order to make this happen the command %s/^\\(\s\\+[a-z].*\\);\s*\n/\1 !important;\r/ was run, may god have mercy on my soul 2022-01-17T00:13:00-00:00 colorpicking from an illuminated manuscript for [[user styles]] for the [[agora]]: totally normal and I'm sure we've all done it 2022-01-17T00:26:12-00:00 if you're wondering "but maya why does this not feature transitional typefaces from the 15th century between gothic and roman" that makes two of us https://github.com/anrt-type/GoticoAntiqua 2022-01-17T00:50:46-00:00 hehehe much better 2022-01-17T01:01:31-00:00 can https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylus_(browser_extension) be trusted? I would like to evangelize for user styles more but boyyyy is it not worth it for anyone halfway normal when I had to make a folder at a magic path and set a config flag in the browser.... 2022-01-17T01:27:14-00:00 i tried the [[leftvalues]] quiz cuz y'all were doing it but it put me in the middle of almost everything because my instinctive answer was "that's really complicated and non-obvious, so probably 'unsure'" 2022-01-17T01:28:07-00:00 except for production v. nature, where it foolishly *didn't* put me all the way to the nature side because it included nonsense malthusianism 2022-01-17T01:41:38-00:00 bf got jurassic park videogame so I am singing "ee ba WEEEE" along with the theme. his tolerance is saintly 2022-01-17T07:01:23-00:00 http://blog.davidstea.com/en/new-and-improved-tea-sachet-update/ "we wanted our sachets to be environmentally friendly! they're oxo-biodegradable ❤️" huh I haven't heard that term, what does it-- https://www.greendotbioplastics.com/biodegradable-vs-compostable-vs-oxo-degradable-plastics-a-straightforward-explanation/ "[[Oxo-degradable]] [[plastics]] quickly fragment into smaller and smaller pieces, called [[microplastics]], but don’t break down at the molecular or polymer level like biodegradable and compostable plastics." COOL. 2022-01-17T23:35:05-00:00 ah, there it is -- the sunday night queasiness, 24 hours delayed 2022-01-19T01:14:42-00:00 how... is rebel wilson.... 41. dear god being rich is good for your skin 2022-01-20T20:27:47-00:00 which makes you cringe more: silicon valley or people saying silicone valley 2022-01-21T01:58:25-00:00 we have identified worse than not-returning-shopping-cart behavior leaving a car battery in a parking garage 2022-01-21T17:47:14-00:00 i want the first VR thing i do to be https://sokpop.itch.io/sok-worlds and yes it doesn't support VR 2022-01-22T06:21:59-00:00 :blobcatfingerguns: 2022-01-22T06:22:14-00:00 :blobcatfingerguns: 2022-01-22T06:22:27-00:00 what is this :blobcatfingerguns: 2022-01-22T06:22:39-00:00 this is eugen's fault somehow 2022-01-22T16:59:05-00:00 i'm really excited to plant potatoes once i have real dirt. i had a teeny purple potato that sprouted so i put it in a little pot on the windowsill and i never realized how simple it was for it to grow >1 tuber all neatly and disconnected. i thought somehow it had to do with some magical characteristic of proper seed potatoes 2022-01-22T19:16:37-00:00 stop saying [[cargo cult]] when what you really mean is [[ant mill]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill 2022-01-22T19:28:44-00:00 i cannot find the thing i'd read recently about totally contemporary "cargo cult" celebrations where the people they interviewed seemed to view it as a cultural thing around the historical event of contact similarly to battle observances https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Victory_days 2022-01-22T21:13:00-00:00 one thing i like about this replacement is that it is both more cutting (the past is not full of idiots and neither is the elsewhere) and more illustrative (the ants are relying on social signaling that is normally a damn fine heuristic; so too "cargo cult programmers" often are) 2022-01-22T21:38:58-00:00 when i was in middle school i read this blog called "it's raining noodles" and she had her twitter embedded on the side. twitter was Very New at that time and i find it delightful that my vague memory of its UI is only minorly different from https://status.cafe/ 2022-01-22T21:54:25-00:00 I am sad she shut down her site because IIRC she came out about dating another woman at, like, precisely the time at which Young Confused Maya needed to see that 2022-01-23T02:24:12-00:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_sauce 2022-01-23T18:10:24-00:00 orange site a tire fire this morning for affirmative action discussion. i'm just so tired 2022-01-23T18:18:25-00:00 i would like to be able to automatically color code all commentary on this topic with "this opinion/argument is derived from a priori reasoning around abstract principles", "this opinion/argument is derived from a posteriori reasoning around only non-minority people's experiences", "this opinion/argument is derived from a posteriori reasoning around people's experiences including the relevant minority" 2022-01-23T18:28:45-00:00 actually i would like to be able to set 80% of these web pages on fire tx 2022-01-24T05:09:52-00:00 tacitae per amica silentia lunae silently in the quiet friendship of the moon 2022-01-24T05:29:26-00:00 one occult volume gifted at christmas down, one to go 2022-01-24T16:38:39-00:00 the people you choose to defend say soooo much about you. "oh come on this is disproportionate we *all* do X" ........no we don't 2022-01-24T18:26:44-00:00 sokworlds needs this tech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k043OByAG-4 2022-01-24T18:26:54-00:00 90% joking, but 2022-01-25T01:08:18-00:00 i enjoy that the best crypto explainer i can now send people was made by the guy who watched the fifty shades movies so i didn't have to 2022-01-25T01:09:55-00:00 for the record i sometimes listen to the soundtrack from whichever one had the danny elfman soundtrack because i like the idea of urban seattle being Cool and Romantic even in the absence of any reality underpinning that 2022-01-25T01:20:08-00:00 I take it back, the international district is very possibly romantic but in a non fifty shades compatible way 2022-01-25T17:15:37-00:00 i wonder if nutso weddings get that way because we've lost the pattern of an ordinary slightly-formal dinner party 2022-01-25T17:17:05-00:00 that older culture hanging around still patterns women with a desire for something fancier than "beer and board games night" and then they feel like they've got to get it all out in one socially approved go 2022-01-25T17:44:31-00:00 https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypxpx/google-is-forcing-me-to-dump-a-perfectly-good-phone yes and I hate it. i don't want to go into the apple system but i don't think i have it in me to live the rooted life 2022-01-25T18:29:48-00:00 brian cox talks a lot of shit for someone doing so many food ads 2022-01-26T16:14:50-00:00 i feel irritated that orange site only decided to pay attention to the yesterweb once the "the free-speech Nazis have now taken everyone away" guy did some half-ass quote aggregation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30078971 but it's not like they're the greatest attention to have, either 2022-01-26T16:36:14-00:00 depresso https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/01/carbon-tax-rebate-policy/621363/?utm_source=feed 2022-01-26T18:23:36-00:00 every time i review code and go to click approve i involuntarily mentally recite "may the lord accept the sacrifice at your hands" 2022-01-26T20:02:23-00:00 if your criticisms are addressed in the FAQ don't write a blog post raising them like they're novel 2022-01-26T20:06:17-00:00 this holds *especially* true if there are other, better criticisms sitting right there 2022-01-26T20:56:25-00:00 what is the word for, like, relatively rich but not controlling capital 2022-01-27T18:23:33-00:00 idc what anyone says Ghost is fun as hell 2022-01-27T18:23:45-00:00 more 5/4 pls 2022-01-27T22:09:28-00:00 i like algorithmic music discovery and i'll die on that hill /shrug 2022-01-28T07:10:38-00:00 if anybody else loved Michael Harriot at the root but was slow to realize that publication had imploded, good news, he is still doing his thing https://thegrio.com/2022/01/27/joe-rogan-is-gone-yall/ 2022-01-28T22:21:12-00:00 https://masoniverse.com/ the most interesting part about this is that it doesn't just break down but sends shrapnel into associated concepts once you start thinking about why you aren't actually allowed to sell your own membership in something for which membership is meaningful 2022-01-28T23:12:28-00:00 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meatness 2022-01-28T23:15:43-00:00 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/piecake#English oh i'm fuckin ONTO something now 2022-01-28T23:17:02-00:00 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Giocondan#English did we *need* this 2022-01-29T05:56:47-00:00 https://blog.emojipedia.org/first-look-new-emojis-in-ios-15-4/ i compulsively ironically salute so I am v. hype for these [[emoji]] 2022-01-31T23:38:58-00:00 why are they advertising maternity coats to me i do not like this 2022-02-01T06:14:02-00:00 is there a way to do the simplex method to solve a linear optimization problem, but, like, in the browser 2022-02-01T07:31:53-00:00 [[linear programming]] in the browser! https://online-optimizer.appspot.com/ 2022-02-01T07:32:13-00:00 am I using this to try and reverse engineer frozen mac and cheese? yes. 2022-02-01T20:02:42-00:00 100 gecs coming to capitol hill block party but i no longer trust that it'd be safe to go :( 2022-02-02T18:00:18-00:00 making friends as an adult isn't the hard part, making *plans* as an adult is the hard problem 2022-02-02T23:53:50-00:00 https://bottomfeeder.substack.com/p/there-are-too-many-video-games don't read this, it's going to make you mad 2022-02-03T00:10:40-00:00 like... it's *almost* aware but then avoids it really really hard 2022-02-03T16:23:12-00:00 "it's a ledger not a database" give yourself your own swirly i don't have time today 2022-02-03T20:09:07-00:00 forget automated driving, day-fines with $0 minimum and automate the traffic cops out of a job 2022-02-04T06:35:18-00:00 no one who actually values families and communities should want housing to be an investment 2022-02-04T17:16:58-00:00 ah, investments, the thing that people are supposed to regard in a detached and calculating manner ah, living near grandparents, the 2022-02-04T17:27:22-00:00 this toot sponsored by my own cognitive dissonance around not feeling bad for people whose property taxes go up when they're sitting on a huge asset, but also thinking it's bad for the market to pressure people to cut ties with each other 2022-02-04T17:54:43-00:00 huh. i give propublica some money and you should too if you have some sitting around, because, you know, public good, but i didn't realize they were committed to that to the point of open sourcing their design work: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-propublicas-article-layout-framework nice going! 2022-02-05T04:33:17-00:00 the most xkcd.com/763 thing i've ever heard: "How to Find Septiles in a Chart It is not terribly easy to find septiles in a chart, but I have developed an easy hack for it. I don’t have a fancy astrological software to do it for me; I use Astrodienst, which has no option for septiles. So ...." 2022-02-05T04:33:35-00:00 "I take a screen shot of the chart I am casting, crop it square, and put it into a Keynote (or PowerPoint) page where I superimpose a seven-point star, which I size and center on the chart. Starting with Sun, I look where the arms are pointing. When an arm is pointing on a body or angle, I do its math. Then I draw the septiles on the chart. Then I use Keynote’s Inspector to rotate the star to point to Moon, etc." 2022-02-06T01:18:33-00:00 it's super cute but is it ENOUGH?? https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2022/01/29/the-keyboards-i.html 2022-02-06T05:36:33-00:00 i support this man and let me tell you why 2022-02-06T05:37:53-00:00 his name is lutz kirchhof and in 2000 he released an album called "Lute Music for Witches and Alchemists". in 2000. i believe in my heart he did this out of a genuine sense it was the best title and not with any SEO-type logic. 2022-02-06T05:39:48-00:00 nevertheless a number of dorks like me, disproportionate to the general lute fanbase, were willing to type "alchemist" into spotify search and scroll through the results have come across this album. reader, it slaps. it opens on "The Fairy Round (Galliard)" and continues strong through the whole album. 2022-02-06T05:43:28-00:00 this album is everything that classical guitar aims to be and isn't. it merits the attention. yet when the spotify people noticed this did they shine a greater light on, perhaps, another of lutz's albums? no they released a playlist with a copycat name that they've now renamed to "medieval vibes" but you can see it still comes up (WITH OTHER COPYCATS) for the "alchemists" search (note I didn't search "lute", they are TRYING to ride on my man lutz's good work) 2022-02-06T05:45:44-00:00 anyway, the call to action here is to accept no substitutes, support the original lutenist to witches/alchemists https://www.amazon.com/Lute-Music-Witches-Alchemists-Kirchhof/dp/B0013AUULK https://music.apple.com/us/album/lute-music-for-witches-and-alchemists/213762208 https://tidal.com/browse/album/642940 https://open.spotify.com/album/3PdQWrrT44V9EoZjhccESU 2022-02-06T05:47:08-00:00 "Do you like the warm, colourful sound of the lute, the deeply expressed emotions in the music of one of the oldest musical instruments in the world and the atmosphere of relaxed contemplation? Have a look at some pages and find out about Lutz Kirchhof and his Instrument !" https://lutz-kirchhof.de/english/ worth a visit for the aesthetic alone 2022-02-06T05:49:16-00:00 cf. https://www.amazon.com/Rubedo-Alchemistic-Transformation-Lutz-Kirchhof/dp/B00J8ZFPT4 2022-02-06T08:12:12-00:00 writing software ~ to help pick paint colors ~ instead of just ~ practicing picking paint colors 2022-02-06T08:13:28-00:00 extra points for the fact this involves parsing a neverbeforeseen file format for some reason 2022-02-06T08:59:05-00:00 why is it 1am and why did i do this 2022-02-06T08:59:55-00:00 in my defense i wanted to avoid buying more gouache and i think that's probably.... a good thing to avoid but maybe also good to avoid dicking around with html until 1 in the morning 2022-02-06T18:18:11-00:00 i like that stickers are such a cute and usable and accessible way to have artists'/illustrators' work in your life! but also the backings are 99.9% of the time not recyclable or biodegradable, and the stickers themselves are often vinyl which, ditto. but also given that the food i eat in a day *also* involves at least a comparable amount of plastic packaging maybe i'm optimizing on pointless minutiae?? 2022-02-08T05:01:29-00:00 whose idea was this ligature, new york times 2022-02-08T05:42:48-00:00 ಠಿ_ಠ 2022-02-08T06:30:16-00:00 finally!! a bitch who cites sources!!! http://crossroadswitch.com/?q=content/article/astrological-houses-for-geomancy 2022-02-08T06:30:53-00:00 s/b/w/ if it reads as more respectful 2022-02-08T17:37:22-00:00 instagram etsy ads continue to be a billion times better than on-site etsy recommendations which have started shoving porn figurines in my face??? 2022-02-08T17:41:32-00:00 this is so frustrating because i would much much rather be able to take my data directly from instagram and shove it into etsy and not have etsy do its whole advertising samba where it pays facebook and *charges* it to the relevant stores 2022-02-08T17:49:07-00:00 or just even the social graph would be enough to get you 80% of the way there because of how many illustrators/zinesters/crafters I follow...... sdlfkjsldf 2022-02-08T22:43:30-00:00 i feel so crotchety about "X is basically the same as Y but worse". it's not!! the context is not the same! the intent is not the same! the business model is not the same! stop acting like the makers of X meant to make Y but fucked it up and actually engage with a splinter of systems thinking for once in -- 2022-02-09T00:45:16-00:00 i wonder just how much software could have RSS feeds hacked onto it. forums could have RSS feeds that tell you about threads.... then threads could have RSS feeds to tell you about updates.... 2022-02-09T06:01:13-00:00 ˙ow long did this user style take me to put together: longer than i'd like to admit 2022-02-09T16:45:13-00:00 when people's pinned posts make clear they're a good mute candidate: the system for peaceful coexistence is working 2022-02-09T18:10:56-00:00 I *want* to embed yt videos into my website and I always check for nice fallback on e.g. lynx but if someone objects to their IP going to google yet can't be bothered to block those requests clientside i wish I could block *them* from my website instead of adding a layer of hassle for everyone else 2022-02-10T18:39:28-00:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act <\-- wow this is a very bad thing I didn't hear about at the time 2022-02-10T19:28:59-00:00 my job satisfaction could be charted as a perfect anticorrelation of the play rate this has https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5jarVWOsB2HSkUjVBAEf2D?si=b86fb15ba3ef4af2 2022-02-10T20:06:20-00:00 people talk a lot about steve bannon but no one told me he has an inspirational-style sign behind him when he films his podcast with a "quote" attributed to "Stephen K Bannon" in the Instagram-shitty-brush-lettering font 2022-02-11T02:01:09-00:00 applying a userstyle to wikipedia: is this .... too much power? 2022-02-11T04:48:02-00:00 watching the olympics: i hate seeing them faaaaalllllll with the commentators talking up the tension. if the commentary weren't there you could just think "haha gj going for it" 2022-02-12T05:23:42-00:00 https://www.woodcraft.com/products/acrylic-pen-blank-thin-blue-line ok society pack it up go home 2022-02-12T08:14:08-00:00 I started out feeling pretty hostile to the framing of this piece (a lot of men also suffer from their own emotional illiteracy, it's not just a pain for others) but it went to a good and hopeful place I didn't expect https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a27259689/toxic-masculinity-male-friendships-emotional-labor-men-rely-on-women/ 2022-02-13T23:21:34-00:00 wait the propaganda chunk of the football game now involves *two* Patriotic Songs?? 2022-02-14T06:16:09-00:00 i have just read the unironically deployed phrase "people of marginalized gender experience" and i am tired 2022-02-14T16:40:30-00:00 https://buttondown.email/ayjay/archive/typographical-excellence-and-portable-soup/ newsletters feel like blogs in a nice way 2022-02-14T20:19:45-00:00 sometimes i feel bad for my coworkers for the number of times in a day they hear me say the phrase "cool beans" 2022-02-14T20:22:24-00:00 "It's 2022 and women and people deserve better than that" 2022-02-15T02:29:31-00:00 how much would it cost to run something like poolside.fm and then, like, not Pivot To Crypto 2022-02-15T07:10:21-00:00 another data point for the wikipedia gender stuff: "gorget" is a term for a medieval piece of clothing that european women wore for centuries. it later became the name of a piece of armor covering the same area (throatish). guess which gets the article coverage 2022-02-15T21:48:19-00:00 hotlinking corporate CDN resources is.... praxis 2022-02-15T22:44:48-00:00 https://yesterweb.org/zine/issue-02/06/ so cute <3 2022-02-16T00:16:07-00:00 everywhere eurasian collared doves go, they gradually head northwest. 2022-02-16T03:29:22-00:00 https://www.mountangelabbey.org/<\-- did a web designer join the priesthood because this is abnormally sharp 2022-02-17T06:06:45-00:00 stop trying to cop your fashion inspiration from other people's cultures. take that effort and instead put it into bringing this shit back 2022-02-17T06:07:07-00:00 (photo from https://revivalclothing.com/product/flemish-hood/ ) 2022-02-17T06:10:24-00:00 they call the thing underneath a wimple but i definitely *thought* a wimple had to be, like, draped 2022-02-17T06:15:02-00:00 i don't believe it's possible to wear this and not be a party animal (https://historicenterprises.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=99_108&products_id=1266) 2022-02-17T18:22:46-00:00 i grew up poor, food aid all that, but i have never tasted government cheese. does the government cheese not make it to the west coast? 2022-02-17T19:21:51-00:00 damn it's hard to communicate culturally neutrally, she says after realizing "like lucy and the football" has come out of her mouth in a meeting where she is the only north american 2022-02-17T19:22:55-00:00 this is not *worse* than all the ambient baseball metaphors, of course. we need more cricket references 2022-02-17T20:38:29-00:00 orange site iamverysmart commenters: they're worse than that, even: https://maya.land/responses/2022/02/15/orange-site-commenters-worse.html 2022-02-17T21:20:32-00:00 orange site iamverysmart commenters: they're worse than that, even: https://maya.land/responses/2022/02/17/orange-site-commenters-worse.html 2022-02-17T21:20:39-00:00 learn about the bread lab (and the approachable loaf!): https://maya.land/responses/2022/02/17/the-bread-lab-the-approachable-loaf.html 2022-02-18T02:44:55-00:00 lol being made to wait >an hour past appointment start time for a video call in order to get a refill of medication I've been taking since I was 17: $252 2022-02-18T17:26:31-00:00 today i feel buoyed by small-scale heroism https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/02/12/rhodes-scholar-barista-fight-unionize-starbucks/ 2022-02-18T18:10:06-00:00 this close to being like "lololol check out my static site generator" and it's just XSL 2022-02-18T18:43:00-00:00 https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkpqzb/ok-wtf-are-wordcels-and-shape-rotators i try for altruistic thinking but it is hard not to hope everyone unironically involved in this discourse gets an itchy skin disease 2022-02-18T18:47:11-00:00 "There is clearly some low-hanging fruit of social understanding here that was previously left untouched." sweetie, no (see also: absolute shit invocation of history) https://roonscape.substack.com/p/a-song-of-shapes-and-words 2022-02-18T20:26:32-00:00 gatorade bread is... what you'd think it is: https://maya.land/responses/2022/02/18/gatorade-bread.html 2022-02-18T20:26:38-00:00 no, the facebook feed algorithm is still bad: https://maya.land/responses/2022/02/18/facebook-feed-algorithm-is-still-bad.html 2022-02-19T05:06:53-00:00 the adjective form of "venus" is "venereal" and yes, that's why 2022-02-21T00:50:09-00:00 i wonder what it says about my personality that i accidentally switched to the mentions tab on the notifications page, didn't notice, fully believed i was getting 0% of normal reaction to what i was posting, and kept cheerfully bellowing into the void 2022-02-21T06:41:49-00:00 the chinese kids they trotted out were one of the best parts of these olympics. that montage with all the little babbies falling down on snowboards and stuff: I would watch half an hour of that 2022-02-21T21:48:39-00:00 cool FOSS is it packaged for Grunch tho 2022-02-22T00:44:32-00:00 inspirational instagram posts have existed at least since the 1930s https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-the-wages-of-sin/ 2022-02-22T01:56:11-00:00 "At TRUH Social, we do not use non-chronological feeds to artificially suppress users’ content, unlike some other social media platforms." you cannot make this shit up https://help.truthsocial.com/about/whats-a-chronological-feed/ 2022-02-22T02:00:52-00:00 ooh what are those blanks *click* 2022-02-22T02:02:24-00:00 Amazing. They're launching linking to 404ed terms of service. *Amazing*. 2022-02-22T02:04:02-00:00 and to hide that, they *made the links white*. what kind of wile e. coyote shit is this 2022-02-23T06:10:36-00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXU_Q_i3-So <\-- is there like.. a bandcamp anthology of sovietwave stuff with *this* vibe? 2022-02-23T06:18:18-00:00 holy shit never mind i'm just going to loop this forever. this is what "cool" ..... means https://youtu.be/H6wl-EyhXl0 2022-02-23T06:39:03-00:00 https://alliance87.bandcamp.com/ it was 1987 samizdat. there is a 2020 remix that makes generic-sounding sausage out of the whole thing but must be lauded for its visual centering of Oleg, the coolest motherfucker in the group of cool motherfuckers 2022-02-23T16:12:16-00:00 there need to be guides for "uh just a heads up..." "...if you're getting into folk metal, here's how to recognize the nazis." "...if you're getting into thinkers from the 1800s, make sure you've thought through your opinions on nietzsche and his influence." "...if you're calling something the most pressing problem of our day, here's some comparisons you should explicitly make in your head first." 2022-02-23T17:31:21-00:00 this toot brought to you by "are you actually sure you're comfy with that master-slave morality criticism of christianity and Where It Goes" 2022-02-23T18:16:34-00:00 website visitors are still the visitors: https://maya.land/responses/2022/02/23/website-visitors-are-still-the-visitors.html 2022-02-23T18:42:04-00:00 there should be a rule that a public-facing security camera needs to be accompanied by a big sign with an image of eyes on it 2022-02-23T19:34:27-00:00 I don't even mind *every* use of security cameras, but covert use is Bad For Us All 2022-02-23T21:17:00-00:00 https://www.npr.org/2022/02/22/1082334172/kenya-security-council-russia this seems really interesting. I'd love to read more opinions about this from people from other nations with borders drawn by colonizers 2022-02-24T04:04:00-00:00 "There is no purgatory for war criminals. They go straight to hell." 2022-02-24T04:43:18-00:00 Let's All Learn About The Strategic International Targets Within Fifty Miles Of Where We Live 2022-02-24T04:43:58-00:00 a lot of easy blocks going around the ole TL tonight 2022-02-24T07:32:36-00:00 why did i put this much effort into hacker news 2022-02-24T20:00:34-00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88kJd9PwVwY 2022-02-28T17:56:39-00:00 they've traced down the invention of the granny square: https://maya.land/responses/2022/02/28/invention-of-granny-square.html 2022-03-01T18:44:31-00:00 digital conditions don't mandate scale: https://maya.land/responses/2022/03/01/digital-conditions-scale.html 2022-03-02T05:42:14-00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jW8YynwsDc why am i watching this woodworking hot take 2022-03-02T19:00:39-00:00 well if anyone is sad about bandcamp join https://resonate.is/ and we can democratically keep them from doing a blockchain or whatever 2022-03-03T06:33:05-00:00 wtf i totally missed fat tuesday and now it's just fuckin' lent \-- me but also probably some mountain shepherd hundreds of years ago that timed her village visit poorly 2022-03-03T07:09:16-00:00 "washed black" motherfucker that is grayyyyy 2022-03-03T21:20:36-00:00 forbidden maps: https://maya.land/monologues/2022/03/03/forbidden-maps.html 2022-03-03T22:56:09-00:00 very weird that gender neutral siri voice was recorded by "a member of the LGBTQ+ community". weirder the more I think about it honestly 2022-03-04T06:09:51-00:00 patterned plywood, but cake https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kek-lapis-sarawak 2022-03-04T06:45:52-00:00 on the one hand, people have been complaining about the increasing frenetic pace of modern life for centuries. on the other hand, precisely one of those centuries produced a medium defined by "it can only be six seconds long" 2022-03-04T06:46:52-00:00 sometimes I say things and im kinda hoping someone will come give a counterexample but I am genuinely not emotionally ready to learn about 1700s Vines 2022-03-04T17:14:45-00:00 my employer says they're expediting work visas for ukrainian nationals, which is obviously a good thing for them to do but man, fuckkkkkkk the system that requires it 2022-03-04T19:11:45-00:00 trying to look into a dress for a friend's wedding.... kinda depressing when even the $$$ clothes have non-biodegradable fabric, shit labor practices, or both. 2022-03-04T19:15:45-00:00 every time you think you've found an exception, it isn't available over a size 8 2022-03-04T20:04:00-00:00 omg the box drawing characters are such a LOOK. looking up tools to automate those shadows... https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono 2022-03-04T20:20:19-00:00 i participated in one of those public comment things on a local development thing (they're taking a grocery store and making it a grocery store with housing above) and holy shit a *thirty page summary* of "early design guidance" this is why everything's so expensive 2022-03-04T20:23:30-00:00 people really care (and have passed laws??) about making shit look like it's an amalgamation of smaller buildings, which is wild to me because it 100% creates that gross new-condo look. let your blocks be blocks 2022-03-04T20:31:18-00:00 "The Board stated that the material palette and façade articulation should be used to create the perception of different buildings and authentically break down the mass. The façade treatment, materiality, and character of the upper levels should carry down to the streetscape to create distinct frontage segments. (DC2, DC2-B-1, DC2-4, DC4-1-a)" respectfully, fuck off 2022-03-04T20:34:07-00:00 "The window composition should be variable, break down the scale of the façade, and add depth and visual interest. (DC2-B-1, DC2-3-a, DC4, DC4-1-a)" fuck offffffff 2022-03-04T20:36:28-00:00 I mean honestly do i prefer a smaller scale building and road width than that? most of the time sure. but the stuff they're bringing up is just fully aesthetic whinging that *makes things uglier* 2022-03-04T20:48:38-00:00 genuinely people are out here being like "oh if we put different siding materials for every forty feet of this strip mall and set them differently back, THAT'LL fix the fact that it's a church of parking" https://www.onyxcreative.com/revitalizing-strip-centers 2022-03-04T20:56:06-00:00 if maya got to write the PITA aesthetic zoning, there would be zero "create the perception of different buildings" requirements but you'd have to submit a master's thesis to justify not having, like, casings for all your windows (WITH cornice/cap tyvm) 2022-03-04T22:10:07-00:00 new rule: if you're talking about "preserving neighborhood character", you also have to mention how exclusive your neighborhood is based on expense and how many people in your region are homeless and explicitly lay that out as part of the "character" you're trying to "preserve" 2022-03-04T22:14:54-00:00 "our neighborhood character keeps out anyone earning the wages of a teacher in our school district and isn't that worth holding onto uwu" 2022-03-04T22:20:26-00:00 this toot sponsored by "John Schram, a co-chair of the neighborhood council in Spokane’s Comstock neighborhood. “That’s just not my vision of what I want for me. My concern is that I move into a neighborhood because of the way that it was designed when I got there, and when somebody else comes in and wants to change that I’m going to be concerned.”He added: “I have nothing against duplexes and triplexes, just not next to my house.”" https://archive.is/TEUeH 2022-03-04T22:26:53-00:00 janelle monae pls film ur next music video here https://www.insider.com/turkey-abandoned-disney-castles-villas-2019-1 2022-03-05T19:46:57-00:00 is my next cloud instance gonna fall over logging downloads if I inappropriately lean on its Share Public Link functionality? 2022-03-06T01:38:53-00:00 your notetaking system could never 2022-03-06T01:46:26-00:00 pls don't judge this screenshot by the blur, i promise it looks all `image-rendering: crisp-edges` 2022-03-06T03:28:25-00:00 the invocation of "small minds discuss people" is such an amazingly *efficient* signal that you haven't done the reading 2022-03-06T03:34:00-00:00 i saw this and just.... hoo boy https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1047925106423603200/photo/1 2022-03-06T21:05:18-00:00 incorrect -est and -eth old-timey verb conjugation hurts me but you just *can't* "correct" someone on it, you just *can't* 2022-03-06T21:05:53-00:00 "if you just think of it like German, it all makes sense" like, *I* would kick this person in the shins 2022-03-06T21:06:50-00:00 Kickest thou the pedant? Nay, she kicketh me. 2022-03-06T21:09:06-00:00 less patience for people who know perfectly well when to use "my" vs. "mine" messing up "thy" and "thine" and acting like it's all soooooo confusing omg can you even believe it lol 2022-03-07T05:30:55-00:00 everytime i see "Filtered" instead of a toot I salute 2022-03-07T18:29:25-00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/03/restaurants-failed-covid-ventilation/623336/ could you wall mount air purifiers so they're obvious enough for diners to notice / factor into their decision-making? A lot of places in Seattle don't really have table/floor room but have a high enough wall/floor ratio that that could get you good coverage. 2022-03-08T07:22:32-00:00 LRT: sometimes heroes misspell on signs too :) 2022-03-08T16:36:19-00:00 happy international women's day! "In [the creator's] pamphlets, columns and speeches, she argued that true equality — for women, African Americans, immigrants and child laborers — would only come through socialism. It was in this context that she proposed the first National Woman’s Day in 1909. According to Rutgers University historian Temma Kaplan, events were held across New York, where thousands gathered to hear speeches and poems, sing socialist anthems and push for the right to vote." 2022-03-08T17:21:31-00:00 fewer owns, more anthems 2022-03-08T18:21:45-00:00 when I don't restrict myself to intellectual spaces within a decently narrow band of [[trust]], it's exhausting to engage. I'm realizing that's not because of virtuous ideological challenge, but because I'm tensed up waiting for The Awful Thing, Probably Gendered I know is coming. I've seen that as my failing, but it does come so often... long-dead writers feel less threatening, so it's easy enough to handle the canon. maybe I'll stick to the dead. 2022-03-08T23:02:40-00:00 calling it "content" is like how "meat" used to just mean food 2022-03-09T06:52:47-00:00 sneaking in under the wire for international women's day: https://maya.land/monologues/2022/03/08/international-womens-day.html 2022-03-09T16:55:52-00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwn8YD8sobo The pacing was killing me but reading the transcript was really really good, I learned a lot 2022-03-09T18:17:28-00:00 pt 2 is also def worth reading but this part in particular you gotta watch :O :O :O https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94ccFuk7HN8&t=3970s 2022-03-10T18:31:46-00:00 pls remember to alt text i know it's a pain and forgetting sometimes is one thing but i am about to start clout sniping from The Instance That Doesn't 2022-03-12T17:50:01-00:00 putting out a feeble call yet again for something like aldaily.com that doesn't feel the need to aggregate so many reactionary Wow Jesse Singal and Bari Weiss are Brave Truth-tellers bits of nonsense 2022-03-13T03:38:34-00:00 update: mac and cheese and user styles: https://maya.land/updates/2022/03/12/update-mac-and-cheese.html 2022-03-13T07:03:58-00:00 considering the rest of these colors as fixed, what colors/tones should replace the grays? 2022-03-13T17:30:49-00:00 lol I regret nothing 2022-03-13T17:31:57-00:00 https://soundcloud.com/dj-mavis-beacon/deejay-mavis-beacon-teaches 2022-03-13T17:43:50-00:00 i need this font 2022-03-13T19:33:41-00:00 it's possible to get the impression that GDPR is silly overreach, but it seems like the CLOUD act that's causal https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/google-analytics/ 2022-03-13T19:35:19-00:00 people are euphemistically saying "transfer data across the Atlantic" but the cloud act is why American businesses can't even handle it by running data centers in the EU 2022-03-13T19:48:32-00:00 requiring data to be local at rest and restricting transfers always seemed to me to be a sensible middle ground, but if the US govt. says businesses have to reach into systems abroad to bring back info our justice system takes a shine to, that's.... fucked 2022-03-13T22:14:25-00:00 I have finished putting together a Tiddlywiki template on Glitch! "Remix" to fork and get your own. There's some useful info in the README and some in a note I included called "maya's tips". https://glitch.com/edit/#!/soapy-chalk-maiasaura 2022-03-15T06:34:52-00:00 men are out here just fully talking out of their asses https://twitter.com/SegalMin/status/1503152785826664458 2022-03-15T06:39:14-00:00 https://www.gawker.com/culture/every-single-woman-in-2002s-the-ring-is-queer fuck i'm dying 2022-03-15T07:10:34-00:00 that painting of the cossacks writing a letter is based on a hoax, but still matters: https://maya.land/responses/2022/03/14/cossacks-painting-history.html 2022-03-15T16:40:56-00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/14/slobbing-out-and-giving-up-why-are-so-many-people-going-goblin-mode why are people quoting cat marnell on this https://www.instagram.com/p/CaRCaCfsWHR/ this does not make a goblin authority 2022-03-15T16:43:08-00:00 https://www.todayintabs.com/p/goblin-mode?s=r goblin is not whateverphobic. not because of enlightened virtue, but because that would require too much awareness of the existence of others to have opinions about the relevant abstractions. 2022-03-15T16:44:56-00:00 i do believe that pete davidson is what it looks like when a goblin is somehow made adjacent to wealth and fame, tho 2022-03-15T21:13:54-00:00 https://twitter.com/senatecloakroom/status/1503797632745025542 fuckers 2022-03-16T17:38:00-00:00 is there some kind of ranking of TLDs for stability / privacy / freedom (by which I mean, like, not the Islamic law restrictions some ccTLDs have) 2022-03-16T22:59:42-00:00 i just had shecodes.io advertise to me and i, uh 2022-03-16T22:59:58-00:00 oh jesus the founder is a dude 2022-03-17T05:16:54-00:00 you can't scrobble from the nextcloud music player...... but if you use jamstash.com with the web scrobbler extension.... it works 2022-03-17T05:17:19-00:00 no i am not willing to Lose Data 2022-03-17T05:32:16-00:00 my st patricks day anthem this year https://soundcloud.com/uperkatt/house-of-pain-vs-dropkick-murphys-johnny-jump-around-105bpm-mastermp3 2022-03-17T06:04:34-00:00 This is definitely how I want a financial system to work 2022-03-17T15:19:16-00:00 finally switched default search engine to DDG because the household's ad blocking is so aggressive even google search is barely accessible 2022-03-17T18:14:30-00:00 so far the DDG experience is not great. it is faster, *but*...... 2022-03-19T17:56:15-00:00 i would like to see less "this is what cool gen z girls are wearing" and more "this is what cool fat gen z girls are wearing" because boy IME trends did not hit us all equally 2022-03-20T18:49:12-00:00 amazon advertising has made the whole retail site so much less useful... they used to have recommendations that weren't always great but could simulate browsing in a section of roughly related items... now all of the "other items" are "sponsored" and just different third party sellers selling differently branded identical items... ultimately this has been good to cut down my impulse buying but how tf do these decisions get made 2022-03-20T18:56:31-00:00 https://twitter.com/JennyENicholson/status/1505518083313594371 y u p 2022-03-20T19:23:49-00:00 https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/better-way-to-divide-the-pie lol this is what bf and i did to figure out rent 2022-03-20T19:28:13-00:00 last night's accomplishment 2022-03-20T19:49:18-00:00 ran across something implying asking how to pronounce someone's name is a microaggression how widely is this believed 2022-03-20T20:15:31-00:00 inscryption is so cool 2022-03-21T17:34:36-00:00 seek opinions from big fans: the haunted mansion: https://maya.land/responses/2022/03/21/haunted-mansion-media-reviews.html 2022-03-21T18:30:59-00:00 they don't have cases and skins for the steam deck yet but I have paint :D 2022-03-21T20:12:25-00:00 the thing about LEED certified buildings is that they hold in heat by holding in air. so, say, if your neighbor seems to have broken open a spray paint can.... 2022-03-22T18:04:26-00:00 "[To view the Google messages privacy policy, it] is necessary to: (i) click on the three dots in search bar to open the Settings menu, (ii) scroll down to see an ”About, terms and privacy” link [...], (iii) click on this to open a new menu that shows a “Privacy Policy” link, (iv) click on this link which opens a Google Chrome window. [...] It is not possible to proceed to view the Messages app privacy policy without first agreeing to the additional Google Chrome terms and conditions." 2022-03-22T19:05:35-00:00 i don't want to watch the new harry potter movie for a variety of reasons, but i would watch a cut of only mikkelsen's parts 2022-03-22T23:48:55-00:00 amazon.... just because i buy gardein.... doesn't mean i want tofurky 2022-03-23T23:10:16-00:00 sometimes i read blogs and i'm like "fuck i could be so popular if i were willing to pastiche this bay-area-brain stuff" 2022-03-23T23:29:17-00:00 i know i do not have the temperament to survive being a professional creative because of how bummed i get when i can tell someone found something via me but they don't acknowledge it. the skin, it is thin 2022-03-23T23:33:19-00:00 having read A Book, Literally Any Book i would have an unfair advantage 2022-03-24T07:25:16-00:00 you know what hasnt had one traditional meaning over the millennia? marriage. you know what fuckin has? noon. 2022-03-24T07:26:34-00:00 where is that energy for "government doublespeak!!" when they're trying to redefine traditional noon, that's what I wanna know 2022-03-24T07:27:45-00:00 "well, sweetie, noon used to mean the point at which the sun was highest in the sky. then big oil came along, and 2022-03-24T07:28:34-00:00 "come and take it" engraved on a sundial 2022-03-24T07:29:00-00:00 a molon labe astrolabe, if you will (though you shouldn't) 2022-03-24T18:58:07-00:00 school vouchers are Problematic for many reasons of course but i like the basic math rundown here: https://pastebin.com/Avxu4Zw0 2022-03-24T19:02:14-00:00 listening to a spanish witchy podcast at 0.8x for easier comprehension, and at that speed the "yasss girl witch please" sounded genuinely demonic 2022-03-26T00:43:57-00:00 taking a break at the retreat house to avoid getting overwhelmed and crying in front of all the nice ladies 2022-03-26T00:44:36-00:00 I am going to buy the heck out of the gift shop's monastery jam 2022-03-26T00:47:23-00:00 there is gorgeous stained glass in an unassuming entryway -- I've never gotten to look at its like up close 2022-03-28T21:05:31-00:00 society has progressed past the need for daylight savings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_hour 2022-03-28T21:06:55-00:00 i would be so much happier if i worked 3/4 of daylight hours year round 2022-03-29T01:10:11-00:00 has anyone made, like, https://hex.xyz/Skelter/ with a variable axis for just how stretched out? 2022-03-29T17:20:32-00:00 today's *sighs in zoning* : https://getpocket.com/explore/item/behind-the-accidentally-resilient-design-of-athens-apartments 2022-03-29T18:22:36-00:00 wildly jealous of this kind of athens apartment building (https://maya.land/responses/2022/03/29/athens-apartment-polykatoikia.html) 2022-03-30T06:44:36-00:00 what if frog was one of us 2022-03-30T16:22:13-00:00 i don't love that we are at the "Where is it going in your body?” phase of microplastics knowledge https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/microplastics-detected-in-human-blood-180979826/ 2022-03-31T03:16:57-00:00 everything should look like this 2022-03-31T17:44:21-00:00 I think.... I broke mastodon with the update?? D: 2022-04-11T05:24:53-00:00 well folks there's a lot going on in mayalife these days including what can best be described as a hostile internal takeover within my employer (???) that's dissolving my team (??????), so, uh, even now that my instance is fixed i may continue being a little absent 2022-04-11T06:43:45-00:00 thinking about her 2022-04-11T16:30:24-00:00 the deep sorrow of inability to shitpost 2022-04-11T16:54:07-00:00 oh #{employer} if you only knew the shitposts you are being spared 2022-04-11T22:10:00-00:00 SEC-filing-worthy shitposts 2022-04-14T04:44:37-00:00 how do we feel about podcasts as transformative use?: https://maya.land/responses/2022/04/13/podcasts-transformative-use.html 2022-04-14T04:52:38-00:00 you want to see this 1-bit animation: https://maya.land/responses/2022/04/13/1-bit-music-video.html 2022-04-15T19:57:14-00:00 it is wild to me how confidently people speak about things they don't know about yes, lefty people too 2022-04-18T06:52:47-00:00 wow this *definitely* seems like the best thing the government could be doing https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/25/louisiana-bucket-brigade-arrests-formosa-plastics-protest 2022-04-18T18:57:29-00:00 "why do people act like shein is the only unethical fast fashion company. F21, H&M, Urban, Zara, the list is endless like they all exploit ppl overseas lol. but for some reason shein, one of the cheapest and most size inclusive, is the brand ppl get most shamed for buying from" you could spend like 2 seconds googling and find out that Actually, They're Worse https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/exclusive-chinese-retailer-shein-lacks-disclosures-made-false-statements-about-2021-08-06/ but that wouldn't get you internet points, would it 2022-04-18T19:01:35-00:00 i have such big feelings about fast fashion because of having grown up having to clothe myself with that, goodwill, and the target clearance rack, and the *wild* misperceptions richer people have about it are infuriating.... but also there's a weird amount of "if there's no ethical consumption under late capitalism then really *you're* the bad person for recognizing facts that upset me to think about" online 2022-04-18T19:08:53-00:00 poor people have shit options! and the least shit ones for them are often more shit for other *poorer* people somewhere else! a problem can require a systemic solution *and* preclude perfect "I have done nothing wrong in my life, ever" for people in the post-industrial world. if even people trying to be Enlightened about shit can't hold both things in their heads at the same time, that's it, we're done for, things are only gonna get worse 2022-04-19T00:57:28-00:00 ikea.... sells.... gaming chairs?? https://www.ikea.com/us/en/cat/gaming-chairs-47067/ 2022-04-19T16:06:34-00:00 we have reached the point in the fiveish year cycle where I have forgotten enough of dengeki daisy that I can reread it 2022-04-19T18:30:16-00:00 mangapark doesn't have date of release filters like mangafox back in the day.... I want to see if there's anything like dengeki daisy or shiawase kissa sanchoume from the past couple years. 2022-04-19T18:30:24-00:00 man, it feels weird to talk about liking this stuff. not "heroic preteen destiny punch!" or "nya nya middle aged man's moe catgirl fantasy kyun" or "depressing-ass critically acclaimed sci fi parable" \-- "girly sparkle sparkle slow burn ensemble romcom" does not seem to get a lot of play in the US 2022-04-19T18:32:14-00:00 (obviously heroic preteen destiny punch had the best opening theme in the anime adaptation) 2022-04-21T04:20:40-00:00 I take it back, safari CSS is good now: https://maya.land/responses/2022/04/20/safari-css-good-now.html 2022-04-21T06:32:33-00:00 so.... I didn't read QQ Sweeper first and I kind of think that works... better?? big recommend if you've wanted a little bit of shoneny-flavored action in your shojo romcom https://myanimelist.net/manga/90334/Queens_Quality/ 2022-04-21T06:35:24-00:00 the pitch for this manga: cleaningtok, but make it jungian shadow work, but there are sick ass uniforms and weapons, but uwu childhood friend amnesia romance. 2022-04-22T22:44:57-00:00 https://www.imfineimfine.com/p/coaster a vibe 2022-04-23T06:10:50-00:00 okay so i have made this svg filter and wow so cute we love it BUT when i apply it to a gif the gif will play a bit, and then get stuck, and then if i *click outside the gif* it will play a little more, and this feels very https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/11533/why-did-moving-the-mouse-cursor-cause-windows-95-to-run-more-quickly ???????? 2022-04-23T06:11:50-00:00 you're gonna need to open the image in a new tab for it to not look potato, probably 2022-04-23T07:00:10-00:00 "To make things worse, if Safari fails to render your filter for some reason, it will not display the HTML target at all, an accessibility nightmare." https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/05/why-the-svg-filter-is-awesome/ ah, an independent discovery..... 2022-04-23T08:14:23-00:00 he he he he he heh e 2022-04-23T18:49:33-00:00 gonna scream. why does feImage not work from an external svg filter (url(path-to-svg.svg#filterid)) but work from an inlined svg's filter (url(#filterid)?? the rest of it? is the same??? i need the *noise* texture dsldkfjskdjfs am i gonna end up generating this stupid thing 2022-04-23T21:39:46-00:00 seeing the existence of a video about gay nuns. holding my breath that a story about queer religious women doesn't end up picking one of those categories to disparage ;-; 2022-04-24T19:29:06-00:00 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stefficao/long-term-relationship-aesthetic <\-- yes this is horrifying but also... strikes me as somehow indicative of how much we expect to be strangers to each other. expecting that someone's partner is someone to be Revealed, not identified (ah, Brandon from the depot) 2022-04-25T00:52:00-00:00 near-cyberpunk present/future: revolutionary literature having a cyan-magenta bent because radicals remove the yellow ink from printer cartridges to hobble the tracking dots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code 2022-04-26T17:01:41-00:00 welcome new people if you see a bunch of posts admonishing you to use this site in XYZ way, please don't feel scared off people are mostly talking indirectly to each other who have been here longer it's fine to figure stuff out over time 2022-04-26T19:21:08-00:00 less energy into bringing back scene/pop punk, more energy into bringing back aural vampire 2022-04-29T02:42:16-00:00 after working for bigco for so long i feel like laughing when i see someone using a UUID out of defensive paranoia in a situation when they really don't need one 2022-04-29T18:56:49-00:00 the "we should make it illegal for people to room together" thing is real https://cityofshawnee.civicweb.net/document/88149/Consider%20an%20ordinance%20to%20amend%20Shawnee%20Municipa.pdf?handle=A934A0F2BFA044A1B5980EDA9DB78ACB 2022-04-30T01:16:39-00:00 you have like four days to sign up for dracula emails: https://maya.land/responses/2022/04/29/like-four-days-dracula-email.html 2022-04-30T02:43:57-00:00 there is non-mastodon activitypub social media and it would be cool if there were more, but let's not kid ourselves about the numbers 2022-04-30T02:45:36-00:00 *bangs pots* don't ‼️ confuse ‼️ the newbies ‼️ 2022-04-30T02:49:34-00:00 mastodon isn't silent and dead if you understand from the get-go that you've got to follow like a MFer and prune people back later. some of the other alt social media are .... just silent and dead 2022-04-30T07:20:53-00:00 and just so i'm crystal clear here this is because i've just spent hours on something that I'm looking at like... huh... you are exactly like That Which I Have Judged 2022-04-30T07:21:19-00:00 the anna karenina principle doesn't hold here: *good* digital anime-influenced art can look very different, but all of the amateurish stuff that sucks sucks in the same way. 2022-04-30T17:01:01-00:00 it's walpurgisnacht and i haven't made plans. i need a template for real short notice festivaling 2022-04-30T18:44:02-00:00 lineart based art is just astoundingly unrewarding in terms of the ratio of time spent to painfully unfixable mistakes. gouache didn't do this to me 2022-04-30T20:09:08-00:00 bless your precision, ma'am https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P75cfRE65TA 2022-04-30T21:26:30-00:00 i have questions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbsO3bgyH84 2022-04-30T21:26:51-00:00 like... don't get me wrong... i'm not against it, but... i want to know its *story* 2022-04-30T21:34:42-00:00 one cool thing I've been learning about is the web novel -> webtoon pipeline. "web novel" is uh, basically think korean wattpad and you're pretty much there. (was anyone else obsessed with the idea of cell phone novels in 2007?) anyway if those are popular, they can do a webtoon version. this helps explain why the plots/settings can be realllll amateurish (in good and bad ways) even when the art looks super pro -- it came later. 2022-04-30T21:41:12-00:00 AMA my new hobby is spotting repeated curls in webtoon art 2022-04-30T21:41:54-00:00 it's a tough job but literally no one has to do it 2022-04-30T21:45:20-00:00 huh, maya, you seem interested in this, i bet you have a two thousand word draft about technological shortcuts used in comics and their effects, just sitting in markdown while you try to figure out how to pull it together into something worth sharing 2022-04-30T21:46:13-00:00 like fifty shades of grey getting a soundtrack composed by danny elfman 2022-05-01T03:32:03-00:00 https://developers.googleblog.com/2022/04/what-is-black-and-white-and-read-all.html blobs are *back*, motherfuckers 2022-05-01T05:27:45-00:00 i'm gonna be real with you i might not be finding this quite as hilarious as i am if i hadn't had two glasses of wine but listen to this danish shibboleth https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Da-r%C3%B8dgr%C3%B8d_med_fl%C3%B8de-2.oga 2022-05-01T05:34:39-00:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B8dgr%C3%B8d it's this, if you're wondering 2022-05-01T18:47:42-00:00 is this humor getting cheaper as time goes on? yes. do i still go for it? 100% https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOkApGXj_8o 2022-05-02T04:41:31-00:00 do not underestimate the "people click on the first thing on a list" effect. /alcohol has received 1.75x the hits of /notetaking on my site and contains like 0.3x the value 2022-05-02T06:13:53-00:00 the specific brain disease that is figuring out how to use recursive async javascript to scrape a web novel because the chapters are so fucking short it's annoying to reload the page 2022-05-02T07:32:36-00:00 did this project end up using a makefile? yes. i submit to you: brain disease 2022-05-02T07:34:13-00:00 countless people have done the same for the same kind of task, but how many did it to get nice clean HTML of The Remarried Empress? hmmmmmm 2022-05-03T06:12:40-00:00 read an emotionally manipulative piece of media and wow i feel very validated to normally avoid them! 2022-05-03T15:49:21-00:00 if you are going to cheaply yank at my feelings I would like you to yank them towards happy, THANKS 2022-05-04T02:36:22-00:00 where is the goddamn hbo series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdubegis 2022-05-04T15:08:29-00:00 "gum is typically made out of plastic" is my top fact that sounds like it comes from a credulous email forward but is actually real https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gum_base 2022-05-05T17:20:51-00:00 follow-up on Yes, Shein Is Worse Than Zara/H+M https://archive.ph/sfoxT 2022-05-05T19:25:31-00:00 man, I never played that much but i loooved the music and art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DEkF2uvPoc 2022-05-06T00:40:42-00:00 i get to feel wizened as "you need to actually page through the log, not just grep" strikes again 2022-05-06T19:19:40-00:00 pet peeve: "harm" is not a concept that can be appealed to objectively like it's some neutral thing we all agree on the definitions of. "harm" is only slightly more specific than "bad". 2022-05-07T18:58:39-00:00 dog breed doesn't influence behavior as much as people think: https://maya.land/responses/2022/05/07/dog-breed-behavior.html 2022-05-08T04:30:24-00:00 narrowly targeted but deadly for those who know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erHyg4va6KY 2022-05-08T17:52:42-00:00 this 1657 still life has raised so many questions for me: https://maya.land/responses/2022/05/08/1657-painting-cornelis-de-heem.html 2022-05-08T19:44:44-00:00 please click on the gramophone at the bottom of https://maya.land/konmari/ and appreciate what a glorious loser i am 2022-05-09T21:51:36-00:00 what shift key do you use (boost pls) [ ] left shift [ ] right shift [ ] both, you weirdo [ ] I am the real weirdo and have some other mapping 2022-05-09T22:30:36-00:00 scientists have *theories* about why crows take ant baths, but I like the idea it's just a niche hobby for the crows 2022-05-11T01:10:52-00:00 "Anna sent you 7 photo" Can SOMEONE please SPEAK to Anna to NOTIFY her that I am not INTERESTED in 7 photo!!! 2022-05-11T04:00:42-00:00 is there any non-military media about the Holy Roman Empire anyone would recommend 2022-05-11T04:01:10-00:00 i am fascinated by the OG electoral college https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince-elector 2022-05-11T18:02:41-00:00 US immigration is a kafkaesque nightmare: "high-skill" edition: https://maya.land/responses/2022/05/11/h1b-immigration.html 2022-05-11T18:34:46-00:00 offbrand mp3 players, in honor of the retirement of the ipod: https://maya.land/monologues/2022/05/11/offbrand-mp3-players-ipod-retirement.html 2022-05-11T23:32:16-00:00 maybe dumb q: do other SSGs have little plugins like https://rubygems.org/gems/jekyll-linkpreview ? i couldn't find equivalent for hugo 2022-05-12T01:39:07-00:00 "people who support X are bad because they're hypocritical" is a terrible argument. you are doing the work to shift the Overton window *for* them -- now the next X supporter who isn't a hypocrite looks thoughtful/reasonable 2022-05-12T01:40:54-00:00 also, hypocrisy is as big of a gotcha as it is because you don't have to engage with someone's moral arguments at all -- you can just find a contradiction and avoid having to sketch out your own position. 2022-05-12T03:20:18-00:00 young, dumb, and full of ennui 2022-05-12T03:27:51-00:00 this is too far for the non-mastodon social media, huh 2022-05-12T03:28:10-00:00 yeah, that's right, dropping mastodon exclusives 2022-05-12T04:45:24-00:00 i would die for the disqus commenters on the pirated manhwa sites 2022-05-12T17:32:47-00:00 if every network request were to pop up an animation of a note that says "Hello please send me XYZ resource" being folded into little envelope going from your computer, with all identifying information, to the remote server being queried -- maybe *then* people would start to get a sense of how what they perceive as wandering around a public space ends up creating such a paper trail 2022-05-12T18:00:42-00:00 I wish people would stop resorting to formulations like "own the data from what you do online" that sound simple but really aren't 2022-05-12T18:03:51-00:00 i am more than averagely tolerant of silly rich people items because i do want to live in a world where somebody gets to have a job painting the rothschild bird plates, but https://www.ft.com/content/b73731f5-7563-4ff3-9c78-a226643b4648 platinum-plated eraser guillotine now 2022-05-12T19:17:28-00:00 https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Handmade-Carved-pearl-human-skull-shaped_1600231280304.html I want a 16inch string of them. I want that. No one else seems to want it -- I cannot find anyone offering it. But... I want. 2022-05-13T05:28:11-00:00 if you've needed a survey piece on the realities of being fat to give somebody in your life, this one is way better than I expected it to be https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong/ 2022-05-13T08:51:11-00:00 oh damn that's because I totally missed the byline: it's Michael Hobbes! if you like this piece check out the podcast Maintenance Phase, it's a delight 2022-05-14T02:11:55-00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/style/bereal-app-social-media.html why are people acting like this is a chill version of social media i cannot *fathom* having to -- being *able* to -- reliably get to my phone in two minutes 2022-05-14T02:56:17-00:00 gotta tell you i'm used to an odd TLD causing problems but this one's new 2022-05-14T04:05:22-00:00 i'm really more of a cherry ms 2022-05-14T04:05:45-00:00 this one also a good candidate to be a #fediexclusive 2022-05-14T06:15:32-00:00 thinking of pronouncing the o in cryptocurrency as a schwa, just to see whom it annoys 2022-05-14T23:07:28-00:00 still struck by the brain worms involved in calling this "pozzed": https://tilde.town/wiki/conduct.html 2022-05-14T23:17:50-00:00 re:abortion: a glorious twitter interaction that you could not have on this, the chaos platform, because the guy getting rekt would never join: https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1522576394391277568 2022-05-15T01:08:47-00:00 you can't give me a makeup shade of 0, my skin's just Irish. what are you gonna do when some actual human biodiversity walks in? negative numbers? 2022-05-15T02:34:13-00:00 when i die i want a proper coffin shaped coffin. i also want one before that 2022-05-15T03:32:37-00:00 i like this energy 2022-05-15T19:40:01-00:00 astounded by the party of 3 i saw sit at a 2-top and one seat of an adjacent 4-top, and put jackets on the next seat over on the 4-top... who raised you like this 2022-05-16T03:40:02-00:00 tossing a whole project because i can't fake a masonry layout w/o JS 2022-05-16T03:45:11-00:00 http://listogram.glitch.me/ css columns wouldn't work because avoid-break: column is really treated more as a suggestion ... anyway you can see exactly where i gave up lol 2022-05-16T04:42:03-00:00 does anyone know what font this is? it's cracking me up and i want it 2022-05-16T22:28:24-00:00 i would have to go to southcenter.... but.... fuck https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/the-muppets-71033 2022-05-17T00:12:33-00:00 when people get pissy about what they think web performance should be and they use personal websites as examples, there are a lot of good reasons to roll your eyes at that, but... 2022-05-17T00:15:08-00:00 on some level I can't help but think, like -- yeah, it sucks when you handle something sparkly and sparkle comes off on your hands, but if your response is to start publishing takes about "therefore no one should make anything sparkly", just.... don't. you can be inconvenienced by things without their being Wrong 2022-05-17T17:26:52-00:00 some day i am going to sit down with you all and we are going to talk about why fiber cement panels aren't evil 2022-05-17T17:42:46-00:00 #fashion 2022-05-17T20:10:30-00:00 what would the goblin version of https://poolsuite.net/ look like (sans NFTs obviously) 2022-05-18T01:31:54-00:00 don't get into a definition argument don't get into a definition argument don't get into a definition argument 2022-05-18T17:12:48-00:00 saw a lament for the decline of blogs .... because nothing has come to replace the Greatness of the Atheist Blogosphere takes all kinds, I guess 2022-05-19T18:14:31-00:00 i just want to be a soundtracked-with-a-harpsichord bitch is that too much to ask 2022-05-19T18:19:00-00:00 this feels like it ought to be achievable with money 2022-05-20T17:06:29-00:00 that's not what performative means, vol. XXII 2022-05-20T17:44:49-00:00 i have a theory that when you meet someone who truncates something like "$6.99" in speech as "six dollars", you know that person has never been broke 2022-05-20T18:21:16-00:00 there is one correct answer here and that answer is "seven dollars", and I *might* also allow "six ninety nine" only if you live somewhere without any sales tax 2022-05-21T00:02:47-00:00 missing concepts in link culture?: https://maya.land/monologues/2022/05/20/missing-concepts-link-culture.html 2022-05-21T00:07:34-00:00 there seems to be a risk of people actually seeing my writing these days and it makes me go full hedgehog in the footnotes -- four defensive footnotes is *after* they were pared down 2022-05-21T22:30:05-00:00 the fun thing about DSA magic girl is that making a key for yourself ends up looking like this 2022-05-21T23:05:30-00:00 anybody have any advice about picking out a desk chair? the one I'm using makes my butt go numb if I don't have my feet propped up on something, and I'm starting to think that's not just a Quirky Bisexual Trait 2022-05-22T22:33:33-00:00 another update from "algorithmic recommendations are sick, actually": https://everynoise.com/engenremap-albanianisopolyphony.html 2022-05-23T02:09:18-00:00 this artist was donating some chunk of proceeds to ingersoll so I bought these at the fremont sunday market :) https://www.etsy.com/shop/faerieclayworks 2022-05-23T02:09:59-00:00 i dunno if it's any use to share this kind of thing on mastodon the way you're supposed to tag small creators on social media to help them out, but consider this an experiment 2022-05-23T02:13:07-00:00 i shelled out for a year of last.fm so i could change my username so Let's Be Friends https://www.last.fm/user/kixiqu 2022-05-23T17:11:40-00:00 me, extended to "going to the park" https://thenib.com/take-a-hike-nature/ 2022-05-23T17:57:48-00:00 "somewhere", "anywhere", "nowhere". one word each. "something", "anything", "nothing". "somehow", "anyhow", "nohow". same. "someone", "anyone", "no one"??? just toss in that diaeresis if you're that confused by the Os, jesus 2022-05-23T18:27:03-00:00 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/no%C3%B6ne#English it's me and you, Craig Smoryński 2022-05-23T18:30:17-00:00 you will take my Toot! button away when you pry it out of my cold dead hands 2022-05-24T06:52:41-00:00 figures that the closest i've seen seattle to having a venue *all* dance in a long long time was for Судно 2022-05-24T21:30:52-00:00 duck duck go puts maya.land on the first page of results for "mayaland" and google doesn't have it anywhere that i bothered paging through so, checkmate corpos 😎 2022-05-25T04:45:45-00:00 i am embarrassed by how much i like this https://open.spotify.com/track/5LXgUQ5VRmm7PsVBTnQyOn?si=38cfc495a343433d 2022-05-25T17:12:09-00:00 i truly believe this is a vitamin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLjprbeWMxQ 2022-05-26T02:12:54-00:00 gpoy 2022-05-26T19:55:50-00:00 all of the poolsuite dao stuff seems like such a concrete example of excellent designers using their powers for evil 2022-05-27T00:09:59-00:00 https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Aware-Womens-Lavender-Medium/dp/B097HQPJ6P <\-- an 100% organic cotton dress available up to 7x at 40usd? am i just scarred from looking around for non-polyester stuff or does that sound like it must be losing money? what is the play here?? 2022-05-27T19:49:49-00:00 missing friend's wedding because of covid. oh, oh, oh. 2022-05-27T22:17:02-00:00 https://cashedcobrazhousewriter.substack.com/p/the-end-of-the-universe-part-xv-fred I would like to apply to his dealer's waiting list 2022-05-28T01:29:46-00:00 nani tf is this lighting choice https://fashionfav.com/magazine-editorials/rafael-pavarotti-british-vogue-february-2022/ 2022-05-28T05:47:07-00:00 "In 1555, Pope Paul IV created the office of Cipher Secretary to the Pontiff. In the late 1580s, this position was held by members of the Argenti family, most notably Giovanni Batista and his nephew, Matteo." where is my Helsing-style manga adaptation 2022-05-28T18:13:38-00:00 PSA: if you use Spotify and you're asked to take a survey, please do it. they're trying to test the waters for NFTs and stuff so some of the questions are about how you feel about that kind of thing. I told them my truth which is that I am happy to buy tickets and merch and would Not be happy to have paid artist interactions etc. on the platform. 2022-05-29T01:54:33-00:00 no, *you* stayed up late reading about straddling checkerboard ciphers and fitting an EVA font out for one 2022-05-30T05:21:50-00:00 to be fair, the wages of anything is death if you wait long enough for the check in the mail 2022-05-30T07:09:41-00:00 suggestion: much contemporary media would be improved if -- in the place of the Greek Chorus, who provided background and reaction to the drama -- it were augmented with a commentary track of three to five post-menopausal women making bawdy jokes 2022-05-30T07:11:10-00:00 I will see your male gaze and raise it two divorcees snarking about Just What They'd Like Him To Do With That Hammer 2022-05-30T21:04:19-00:00 https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/uxz68j/what_is_the_weirdest_thing_you_had_to_do_at/ia1wqtb/ uh excuse you, an AMAZING opportunity to wassail with a family 2022-05-31T05:24:23-00:00 look at the size at which i did my college homework. TAs aren't paid enough 2022-05-31T19:57:45-00:00 i don't respect people who don't respect Baroque lute 2022-06-02T18:44:25-00:00 i was born in the year the web started to have images inline and would die without them 2022-06-02T18:59:41-00:00 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4TB24ZF5KUu9Qrz3Y21wfM my household will regret my having come to find this playlist 2022-06-03T05:12:31-00:00 throwing a bunch of mechanical keyboard information at my poor friend who did not need to see That Many Pictures 2022-06-03T06:18:22-00:00 I should do some one off layouts for my website for particular pages. it's a real satisfying weekend project to rig up some CSS to do something silly 2022-06-03T18:21:49-00:00 reject modernity, embrace tradition 2022-06-03T19:53:30-00:00 " Thank you very much%{display_name}!!" no thank YOU %{shopify_store} 2022-06-03T20:36:39-00:00 Going to summarize for people who already agree with the sentiment and are curious about examples, because it's heavier on the former: https://space10.com/designing-for-different-tech-realities/ (via ruk.ca) 2022-06-03T20:41:47-00:00 Restaurants (and laid-off restaurant employees? Unclear and the links aren't working for me, Thanks Web Design?) in Mexico City started selling food on Whatsapp and Facebook. 2022-06-03T20:42:16-00:00 Some people might have thought of things to do to identify buildings that need seismic retrofits? Hackathons are good because you're closer to the ground with the real people who need things from tech. 2022-06-03T20:42:31-00:00 Isla Urbana is providing filters for people in Mexico City to make rainwater usable. They're bulky (and not "aesthetically pleasing"?) so you wouldn't want them in places where you have better options, but they're worth it there. 2022-06-03T21:10:06-00:00 https://cube.dev/blog/dewitt-clause-or-can-you-benchmark-a-database <\-- wild to me that software is in a state where it's being sold in such a manner that they can say "if you use it and you don't think it's good, you can't tell anybody", like, legally 2022-06-03T23:46:28-00:00 it's friday! there are no rules! bees are fish! https://lawandcrime.com/animals/unanimous-three-judge-panel-rules-bees-are-fish-we-are-tasked-with-liberally-construing-the-california-endangered-species-act/ 2022-06-04T20:41:14-00:00 swedengate is fun because it's forcing some people to confront that they actually do have values, while others stretch themselves, octopus like, to claim that their own positions are solely derived from reason 2022-06-04T20:41:58-00:00 "having a cultural trait? me? an educated person in a post-industrial society? I couldn't possibly" 2022-06-04T20:44:52-00:00 I must remain perfectly capable of distorting my own feelings to match the perfect absolute relativism I've somehow convinced myself is necessary to be a savvy cosmopolitan! I must not acknowledge that I am not an atom severable from my own cultural context or I might DIE 2022-06-04T20:47:56-00:00 It can't be that you doing A upsets me because I believe in B because of my own origin! I must either neuter my deep-set feelings about fundamental aspects of human interaction or find a way to tell myself that B is just rationally more correct than A 2022-06-04T20:55:02-00:00 the Correct Take here is the Buzzfeed-level "haha we do be like that though [modern-family.gif]" and not the Tumblr-level "well actually this is deeply significant for reasons you just don't understand without my explaining it to you in a friendly but condescending manner implying that other ways of living are like the brainless 'extrovert' in the 'introvert vs. extrovert' memes, all without meaningful citation" 2022-06-04T22:06:59-00:00 I want to find a new hair colorist somewhere further out so I'm not paying for the convenience of being able to walk to her in this extremely expensive neighborhood -- but I'm realizing I don't know how people find this stuff 2022-06-04T22:16:36-00:00 wow looking into this is definitely..... making me just want to pay the convenience cost. ugh how do people live in cities like this without contacts 2022-06-05T18:58:31-00:00 broke my no polyester resolve and bought a tennis skirt and I love it ;-; it isn't even recycled polyester 2022-06-05T18:58:47-00:00 this is the summer of short pleated skirt 2022-06-06T04:33:38-00:00 on the one hand, wandering around today was a good reminder that the internet is greatly impoverished relative to the sensed social world. on the other hand, i saw this and i just knew it was put up by some motherfucker just as Online as me 2022-06-06T19:14:32-00:00 nurses can be deeply shitty people and all, we've seen the tiktoks, but i feel like we don't think enough about how increasing nursing staffing ratios just improves every friggin' outcome in a hospital. pretty wild that you just pour more of exactly one thing on a complicated situation and the situation gets better 2022-06-06T19:15:10-00:00 ordered the steelcase gesture because i got sick of trying to figure out options, thank you to everybody who helped with the "Maya's butt falls asleep on her chair" issue 2022-06-06T21:34:52-00:00 libraries here being used as an indicator species 2022-06-06T23:28:14-00:00 hurdy gurdy cover of moonlight shadow (1983) 2022-06-06T23:45:12-00:00 fuck this is so good it makes me want to try to translate it into simple English. I wonder if the author would mind. https://ravenmagazine.org/magazine/the-epistemic-seduction-of-markets/ 2022-06-07T06:06:29-00:00 i respect the hustle of whatever american designer first figured out that the credibility associated with wearing streetwear from japan is also assigned to any shirt with katakana on it 2022-06-07T06:12:40-00:00 "damn sick brand... uhh... クールなシャツ..." 2022-06-08T21:45:59-00:00 "was it really a DDoS or are you just bad at provisioning infra" is my nerd-bitch equivalent of "were you really shadowbanned or are your posts just bad" 2022-06-08T21:46:50-00:00 "SQLException" oh okay it's a party 2022-06-09T17:39:57-00:00 endorse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX0a3ftYFC8 2022-06-09T20:21:57-00:00 https://mobile.twitter.com/jeichlerlevine/status/1533909828707524608 this isn't incorrect except in that it doesn't immediately lead to the clause "and that is why we must destroy capitalism" 2022-06-10T04:12:22-00:00 http://gmpg.org/xfn/creator y'all i'm ready sometimes i think i should prioritize a project just to make it easy for people to make blogrolls like mine and it'd be so fun to have this built in. with https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Attribute_selectors#attrvalue_2 you could even have cool CSS display of the relationships... little hearts 2022-06-10T04:17:52-00:00 here's the part i'm not sure about: how do you traverse the network? if you assume everybody has their little blogroll on a sidebar on their main page (like the URL they'd have for http://microformats.org/wiki/h-card ) that's fine -- but there needs to be a discovery convention like RSS has https://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery 2022-06-10T04:26:55-00:00 the foaf people thought of this but that is not as cute as link rel="crush" http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/#sec-autodesc 2022-06-10T04:30:22-00:00 `Maya` people use JSON for a lot of things they used to use XML for, right? would i hate this if it were json 2022-06-10T05:21:33-00:00 someone should make (someone probably already has made) a tool where you can specify a subset-of-yaml-and-superset-of-json dialect to use and then use that spec for conversions, because mama wants comments in her JSON but is *not* about to start nesting indented hyphens 2022-06-10T05:27:21-00:00 there was an extremely stupid and passive-aggressive work email today, but the guy has passed the point of objectively wrong where it's annoying and reached the point or objectively wrong where you can't even really be annoyed 2022-06-10T05:36:59-00:00 progress pride flag is best pride flag but also washi tape-able? TIL https://progress.gay/products/progress-pride-washi-tape 2022-06-10T05:52:08-00:00 i need to start writing letters again so i can justify buying an embosser 2022-06-10T16:29:54-00:00 "i believe profoundly in a fucked up hand-made stolen-html-blocks hotlinked-images internet and scrubjay is a tool for helping people achieve the feeling of clobbering 25 geocities pages together into something new in an era of where view source is generally unreadable" (everest pipkin from https://twitter.com/everestpipkin/status/1520446957034029059) 2022-06-10T16:30:25-00:00 unauthorized transclusion 4 lyfe 2022-06-10T16:32:23-00:00 still mad forever that i can't properly do more along the lines of https://maya.land/birds-prototype/ 2022-06-10T16:58:05-00:00 https://palladiummag.com/2022/01/06/quit-your-job/ <\-- trying to sit with why this makes me so irritated because I'm pretty sure there are good reasons but also bad ones 2022-06-10T17:00:49-00:00 "To survive the century, we need a new religious operating system that is the opposite of the metaverse. Palladium is pivoting to build a new temple OS." okay nvm not worth parsing further 2022-06-10T17:44:11-00:00 thinking about lrt: if you write something out of irritation, then think "god what am I doing" before hitting post, closing the tab is a win, not a loss: you articulated something to yourself *and* exercised self-restraint 2022-06-10T17:46:54-00:00 procrastinated starting work today by making a bookmarklet to do something incredibly single-purpose with regex <3 2022-06-10T17:50:58-00:00 practicing wording your complaints in a way that's satisfyingly catty to you is good. getting in social media back and forths is bad. virtue refrains, compromise snarks in a group chat 2022-06-10T19:21:20-00:00 spotify is starting to understand me. this in my release radar lol https://songwhip.com/valtos/stw 2022-06-10T19:44:38-00:00 anybody run rsshub? would you recommend it? boy it's tempting to be able to RSS Everything https://docs.rsshub.app/ 2022-06-10T19:59:22-00:00 upset by how much i want these neural net imagined gustav klimt nikes https://twitter.com/GK3/status/1533141109228023809 2022-06-10T23:25:03-00:00 i would be more impressed by a lot of gifted education discourse if people were willing to put their cards on the table about whether they think a public education is better seen as an individual entitlement, like a court-appointed defender, or a service provided for the benefit of the general public 2022-06-10T23:29:11-00:00 this wouldn't *really* help bring The Discourse closer to reality because a lot of the people involved are all in on the idea that it's that top n% that are actually moving society forward and not the masses. they therefore draw some wild conclusions about what they think advances the interest of the general public.. but it would at least help me stop grinding my teeth 2022-06-10T23:29:24-00:00 sending my dental bills to The Discourse 2022-06-11T00:59:25-00:00 is there an emoji that even *vaguely* works for "feed" \-- like RSS or atom? 2022-06-11T20:10:39-00:00 I wish you could override emoji font only with user CSS, I can't figure out how. I want to be able to use a local install of the Noto Emoji (blob supremacy) but not mess up other fonts specified 2022-06-12T00:32:10-00:00 when people use emoji it makes me trust them slightly more 2022-06-12T02:11:45-00:00 some day i'm going to kidnap a chemist and at gunpoint force them to explain retrograded starch to me 2022-06-12T02:29:33-00:00 having to upsize pixel art by 2 so stupid "retina" screens don't try to get clever about subpixels that shouldn't exist 2022-06-12T02:32:01-00:00 we don't deserve the goodness of this world https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2019/11/30/visibly-pregnant-harry-styles-comes-to-the-u/ 2022-06-12T02:33:09-00:00 tennis skirt #2 arrived and it's sunny out: summer of short skirt is Here 2022-06-12T03:09:29-00:00 no one but vipercard does those b&w interfaces right :( :( :( all the css i found was very "ah but on a modern computer this would be vector" 2022-06-12T03:10:08-00:00 in this house we are pro-aliasing 2022-06-12T03:13:50-00:00 maybe there should be more tools like https://temper.one/ to help people make cool static stuff. single file or a simple ZIP to unpack and push to neocities or something? 2022-06-12T03:18:39-00:00 days since maya has gotten mad about people shit-talking CSS: 0 2022-06-12T05:18:37-00:00 https://Squaredle.app 06/11: 37/37 words (+25 bonus words) 2022-06-13T00:47:14-00:00 i am dead, and the december 1983 issue of byte magazine is what has killed me https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-12/ 2022-06-13T02:38:17-00:00 a fun piece about eurovision i'm reading about a month late https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/peace-is-still-weirder-than-war?s=r 2022-06-13T05:00:00-00:00 saw demonstrators today that -- I have *no idea* what they were protesting. chant was "social justice is our goal / our history will make us whole" I think?? and signs with tiny-ass text? damn y'all give me something to *read* 2022-06-13T17:16:07-00:00 "Nobody is putting gargoyles on buildings anymore. It can’t be that much more expensive to slap a gargoyle up there. We used to be a proper country." https://twitter.com/vinn_ayy/status/1536086788216827905 2022-06-13T19:16:13-00:00 can people tell me about things they've used commissioned art for? I'm a little obsessed with melps' use of non-local color (see https://melps.neocities.org/jackie.png ) and now I'm trying to figure out what to ask for / what to do with it. I could replace my own drawing on https://maya.land/who/ ?? 2022-06-13T19:41:00-00:00 boosts are welcome 2022-06-13T20:05:25-00:00 prefers-color-scheme: chaos; 2022-06-13T22:12:51-00:00 diamond ring ad, dude voiceover: "All I want is for her to know how much I love her" damn y'all are *desperate* to make young people care about this shit 2022-06-13T22:46:28-00:00 jewelry gifts from significant others are a little weird, especially in a het context. i'd bet the average "best friend" knows more about what style of e.g. necklace a jewelry-wearer would like than the average partner 2022-06-13T23:00:03-00:00 you know what traditional gift a romantic partner gives that DOES totally make sense, though? scent. no notes 2022-06-14T00:20:50-00:00 three pages of linguistics paper that you've got to read: https://maya.land/responses/2022/06/13/anne-cutler-linguistics.html 2022-06-14T05:34:15-00:00 initial musing on robin sloan's spring '83 protocol idea: https://maya.land/responses/2022/06/12/robin-sloan-spring-83-initial-musing.html 2022-06-14T05:37:25-00:00 I always feel weird about using people's first names in writing like this. "Darius". "Robin". It reads as borderline hostile to use the last names, though -- like an academic trying to pick a fight 2022-06-14T05:39:41-00:00 I promise I'm not desperately trying for chumminess with people I've never met! We don't have a good name etiquette for this stuff!! I don't even *use* my last name when I can get away with it 2022-06-14T05:47:44-00:00 try to take away "Toot!" and "boost" becomes "retoot". you were warned 2022-06-14T15:43:37-00:00 if cans can have a fee that you get back for returning them, so should cigarette filters. I know they can't be recycled but I'm sick of them being thick on the ground everywhere outside that's halfway nice to hang out 2022-06-14T20:02:56-00:00 propublica is reporting on (sighted) people who have difficulty reading. I think they do a good job shining light on issues, but it'll be better if there's good representation from the relevant folks in their reporting. if you know someone for whom this is relevant, pass this on: https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/literacy 2022-06-17T06:17:40-00:00 my spring '83 key is a4813793a806d066c18f8a2d07a403393fecda667e5ccaa6fd76cfd5683e1023 :) 2022-06-19T03:14:14-00:00 speculation is so fun in a social context and makes me want to set things on fire in a getting-things-done context 2022-06-19T03:18:10-00:00 if your email doesn't have links to more detail in it, someone's time is being wasted. yours for rewriting details that might be recorded somewhere else. someone else's later when they need a detailed writeup and don't know about this non-public one. mine for having to go search for the canonical paper trail if you haven't included enough detail. everyone's if you're presenting nonsense straight off the dome as if it were a technical summary. 2022-06-19T03:28:12-00:00 idea: pixelfed or other insta-like with no boost/reblog feature for normal accounts, but a separate account type that can *only* boost/reblog, and that would then be easy to follow back to the original profile. not sure how to motivate that curation but i hate the "download and repost" accounts on insta even when i use them to find new illustrators to follow 2022-06-19T04:51:33-00:00 side benefit of user CSS: no one in this airport can flag me at a distance as visiting the Hateful Orange Site 2022-06-19T05:00:15-00:00 https://maya.land/user-styles/hacker-news/ 2022-06-19T05:07:39-00:00 https://www.etsy.com/listing/1007544142/lion-claws-feet-set-2-of-pc-classic this is on sale and i so wish i were a person who could make use of them 2022-06-20T17:33:41-00:00 we're all here hanging out on a byproduct of the American defense industrial complex and I just think some people need to factor that a little more heavily into how holy they want to try to act 2022-06-20T20:45:26-00:00 my internet friend is selling an ergodox ez. i have one (bought new) that i really like and would recommend. as of now it is a Very Good Deal https://www.ebay.com/itm/304534725246 2022-06-21T01:41:09-00:00 coquis, i love you, why will you only sing to me and not let me find you 2022-06-21T16:59:25-00:00 https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/notas/sepultan-a-shannet-colon-ponce-con-un-llamado-a-que-se-le-haga-justicia/amp/ here there are protests for justice for shannet, who died in custody under questioned circumstances. the family has spoken saying they're grateful for the protesters' support in pressing for more investigation. 2022-06-21T17:00:10-00:00 the commitment to opsec it takes to wear black long pants and a black balaclava in this weather: astounding 2022-06-22T01:20:30-00:00 how many pictures of me staring lovingly at pigeons eating out of my hand do y'all want to see 2022-06-22T01:58:22-00:00 foreshadowing 2022-06-22T02:00:36-00:00 me at el parque de las palomas, staring lovingly at pigeons eating out of my hands 2022-06-22T02:06:30-00:00 me at el parque de las palomas, staring lovingly at pigeons eating out of my hands and beaming with joyous incredulity at the camera 2022-06-22T02:12:10-00:00 me at el parque de las palomas, overcome with joy at the pigeons eating out of my hands and brandishing one toward the camera in a single-armed gesture of Adoration 2022-06-22T02:17:42-00:00 me at el parque de las palomas in a state of bliss due to the pigeons eating out of my hands, including one especially handsome rock dove with iridescent brown neck plumage 2022-06-22T02:22:47-00:00 me at el parque de las palomas continuing to vibe with the pigeons eating out of my hands, dual-wielding pigeons for a time, sharing a couple more pigeon closeups 2022-06-22T02:25:50-00:00 i have a policy that i try not to publish photos of myself that wouldn't be at least a little Weird for a local newspaper to try to Fair Use for my obituary and all of these meet the criterion gloriously 2022-06-22T22:51:20-00:00 goddamn it i thought a domain expiring today would be available to snatch today 2022-06-23T03:12:04-00:00 pigeon photo update courtesy of google deciding this one needed a ken burns effect 2022-06-24T00:37:32-00:00 i don't really buy a lot of the connections this article is trying to make https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/06/fast-fashion-trends-industry-mass-market-consumption/661371 ma'am you can just look a little longer for whatever sleeve you want without pitching it to your editor 2022-06-24T00:38:47-00:00 "I don't understand why people want this! ....it must be an algorithm" 2022-06-24T00:42:18-00:00 see also: pictures of each other's lunch, lo-fi music, racism 2022-06-24T02:38:18-00:00 https://www.epi.org/blog/corporate-profits-have-contributed-disproportionately-to-inflation-how-should-policymakers-respond/ IMO policymakers should respond as though the first offer in the negotiation was already made and it was machetes 2022-06-24T03:46:24-00:00 I am once again issuing the PSA: Whether you're into the idea or not, replacing "Christ" with "X" in words such as "Christian" or "Christmas" is not an act of disrespect/negation. X stands in for Χ from Χρῑστός and is known to have been used for that for literally hundreds of years. Think of it like referring to MLK Jr. or JFK, except with brevity being a lot more important over the centuries because, you know, handwriting. 2022-06-24T03:47:20-00:00 this is not a toot about religion! this is a toot about scribal abbreviations! scribal abbreviations: like ligatures invented by drunk demons 2022-06-24T03:48:48-00:00 scribal abbreviations: when you want to use the letter N to stand for one of 259 possibilities https://www.trismegistos.org/abb/list.php?abb=N&abb_type=exact&abb_word=&abb_word_type=exact&abb_length=&abb_size=&freq=&comb=AND&search=Search 2022-06-24T03:50:21-00:00 the letter M: "259 possibilities? that's cute. *laughs in 498*" https://www.trismegistos.org/abb/list.php?abb=M&abb_type=exact&abb_word=&abb_word_type=exact&abb_length=&abb_size=&freq=&comb=AND&search=Search 2022-06-24T03:54:37-00:00 if they start another "ianity" named after some guy named Χαράλαμπος we can revisit this conversation 2022-06-24T04:45:09-00:00 so apparently people have been doing the "Demonrats"/"Drumpf"/"Micro$oft" name-calling thing for... *checks wikipedia* at least 1800 years I can't get over this though. "Scientology? Pfft... more like... Briantology..." 2022-06-24T04:48:23-00:00 mormonism? more like norman-ism 2022-06-24T04:48:42-00:00 catholicism? more like cathy-olicism 2022-06-24T20:27:53-00:00 every time i write myself a bookmarklet to modify a webpage in some only-maya-cares kind of way, i experience the user-extensible computing environment people claim to want. i can't hear your complaints about javascript i'm too busy living in the future 2022-06-24T20:29:29-00:00 i wonder if bookmarklets would make a good intro programming project -- I've gotten a *ton* of mileage out of just "grab elements from the DOM, iterate through them, check a condition, and delete/hide/style them if they match" in different contexts. 2022-06-24T21:19:50-00:00 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/security-and-privacy-tips-people-seeking-abortion A small action item: consider doing some or all of these things even if you aren't directly impacted by The Recent News -- you don't even have to be in the US. Making choices like these more normal will make them stand out less for the people who need them. 2022-06-25T05:43:49-00:00 if the text isn't reversed it isn't a signet ring if the image looks like a wax seal rather than the tool used to leave the impression in the wax, not a signet ring 2022-06-25T21:40:41-00:00 my main impression of Puerto Rico is that at least in San Juan, no matter where you are or the time of day/night, there *is* the sound of a dembow at levels a mic could pick up 2022-06-25T21:41:42-00:00 to be absolutely clear: this is great 2022-06-25T22:57:12-00:00 this paired very oddly with the much less desirable prevalence of Hillsong en Español. I don't know what y'all know about this but from my childhood experience in the evangelical world, I would say christian contemporary music only has merit in a room with other people singing it, if then -- on a ride share radio it's Never Great. 2022-06-25T22:57:38-00:00 what I'm saying is someone needs to make reggaeton church . I will send money 2022-06-27T06:14:48-00:00 if you have thin nails, you have wanted to be the kind of person who has Done Nails, and you despair of nail polish i just took off nail wraps after a week of no issues, and they'd have stayed on longer (grow out was bugging me) i put on a new set and we'll see how this goes. it *feels* like a game changer 2022-06-27T06:49:42-00:00 https://www.etsy.com/listing/889614235/transparent-glitter-nail-wraps-gold-nail?ref=yr_purchases these are the ones, seche vite topcoat BUT you cant let anything touch them from the topcoat going on until the topcoat is fully dry or the design will come off 2022-06-28T17:38:24-00:00 with a medium-full coverage foundation the wet beauty blender helps a TON for application -- it looks like it's much sheerer as you're applying it but when your skin dries down it's less different 2022-06-29T00:48:10-00:00 https://www.givewell.org/impact-estimates#Why_doesn-t_GiveWell_share_outcome_estimates_for_deworming_programs? lmao goddamn it 2022-06-29T06:26:37-00:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canons_of_page_construction cough cough 2022-06-29T16:45:12-00:00 Hutchinson testimony: honestly, thinking about it in a bigger context, "ketchup dripping down the wall" sounds about right for the decline of the American project 2022-06-29T20:54:30-00:00 cohost's "there is value in being in the same place as everyone on a web without functioning search engines, blogs and friends-only sites may be okay for some, but they leave people who are scraping by on public visibility and word of mouth in the lurch." doesn't sit right with me and I'm trying to figure out why 2022-06-29T22:03:04-00:00 I think there are a lot of problems with the current indie "run your own thing!" mandate but "you need someone to point the eyeball hose at your stuff, don't you?" is an underpinning of the modern web that I'd challenge 2022-06-29T22:04:56-00:00 especially on a tumblr-like, where any kind of federation seems like it'd do a good job of letting things propagate across the network. I spent way more time there following individuals and reblogging content than looking at tag pages 2022-06-29T22:08:16-00:00 one commonality I hear in story after story of people switching to alternative social media (the whole spectrum: tildes, Gemini, indieweb, fedi, etc.) is the shock and ensuing relief at the absence of the eyeball hose. you get used to engagement/interaction counts being in the single digits, and it's kind of freeing 2022-06-29T22:11:24-00:00 also: you are always only at best renting the eyeball hose. it's slow as hell to build up an organic audience like an email list as opposed to YouTube recommendation algorithm audience, but when people were mad at substack, they could take their eyeballs (email list of subscribers) and leave. 2022-06-30T04:52:08-00:00 on the one hand, cohost's pitch is claiming to be something it isn't. on the other hand, they have cute little interactive css and html posts and i put a lizard back into a tank 2022-06-30T15:56:35-00:00 a great thing twitter has is hiding replies so you can go see an awful person be absolutely *bodied* at a convenient URL https://twitter.com/roddreher/status/1541010617066201089/hidden 2022-06-30T16:00:24-00:00 i was given a physical copy of The Benedict Option, a book by this guy, because my mom wasn't real plugged into His Whole Deal and we're both interested in contemplative lifestyles / new forms of community, religious/spiritual/else powell's i will pay you to take it from me without my having to feel bad about production waste 2022-07-01T21:49:11-00:00 bless tim bray: "[Wealth] due to ownership of financial instruments was being created out of thin air by equity-market machinations; and now it’s being un-created. Poor Jeff has probably lost more money in 2022 than any individual human in history has ever lost before. Not feeling sorry for him. And anyhow it’ll probably all come back. Or maybe not. Whatever. Oh, and the basic politico-financial infrastructure that lets this happen is broken, obviously." https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/06/30/Long-Links 2022-07-01T21:52:16-00:00 https://archive.ph/SSSGf up with the subjunctive mood, down with british sense of ownership over the english language 2022-07-01T22:18:21-00:00 is it weird to say "birth name" instead of "maiden name"? "maiden name" is sort of gross sounding 2022-07-01T22:19:06-00:00 technically that's what "née" is saying, "born" \-- maybe i should have made this a poll 2022-07-02T02:34:06-00:00 let's not forget cyber women 2022-07-03T17:36:05-00:00 wtfffff why does this not bother people??? police *are civilians* 2022-07-03T20:01:06-00:00 blah blah authenticity, I get it, but I feel a little bitter when restaurants in the third-highest wheat-producing state in the US brag about importing flour from abroad. it's not quality/quantity, either -- the ag school here has done *so* much with developing strains for culinary needs. how would a locally developed pizza dough taste? an udon noodle? 2022-07-06T05:37:57-00:00 i know user styles and user scripts are powerful and good because using the same websites on my phone without my tweaks Hurts Me 2022-07-06T05:41:41-00:00 i have a half-written thing about how the https://malleable.systems/ dream is currently best enacted through deeply shitty shell scripting or through js bookmarklets and i haven't been able to adequately cool down the take for publication 2022-07-07T01:10:15-00:00 how much of my enjoyment of vernacular comment sections is just because of the utter lack of irony 2022-07-08T00:46:53-00:00 the weekend should be sun/mon change my view https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Monday 2022-07-08T00:47:22-00:00 (do not respond to this trying to change my view I am doing a nonliteralism) 2022-07-08T01:55:49-00:00 once https://github.com/vector-im/hydrogen-web/issues/719 is here I wonder how silly it would be to use https://github.com/vector-im/chatterbox for a chatbox on my website 2022-07-08T01:56:15-00:00 there has been zero call from The People for such a thing, but they also didn't know they needed a midi gramophone 2022-07-08T18:13:57-00:00 there definitely exist situations where some community or institution is so morally awful you must disassociate yourself and walk away. there definitely exist situations where disassociating yourself is selfish cowardice, and you must take responsibility for it and stay and fight to improve it. there definitely is no guidebook to tell the difference 2022-07-08T22:26:31-00:00 from https://www.youtube.com/?v=qjKfx3az1kA 2022-07-09T03:41:16-00:00 an internet where you have to write out your shitty opinions in cursive before they'll post 2022-07-09T17:12:44-00:00 if everyone i wanted to invite to my wedding were as Online as me, i would definitely do a bit on the advertising slogan of the employer of me-and-the-groom, but i cannot trust that attendees will be able to read the irony 2022-07-09T17:22:35-00:00 why does nextcloud's text app mangle normal md links 2022-07-10T18:19:46-00:00 bone china really used to be ~50% burnt bones huh 2022-07-11T00:51:16-00:00 google searches: how to replace lawn with yarrow how to encourage moss in lawn how to go no mow with grass allergies 2022-07-11T04:39:53-00:00 is it bad to think that you want your home to be a little bit like marianne's party house from that one season of true blood 2022-07-11T04:42:49-00:00 oh, your carrots are only purple on the outside? that's cute https://territorialseed.com/products/carrot-purple-68 2022-07-11T21:04:54-00:00 the senior engineer on my new team wrote "yee" in a meeting chat. i feel seen and included 2022-07-12T15:30:13-00:00 signed up for pinterest for decor stuff. recommendations are not quite as good as same.energy but obviously has a lot of specialized content. in some ways it's interestingly hypertextual – enriched bookmarks – even if i still hate how it rehosts content etc. etc. 2022-07-12T15:32:09-00:00 you can also tell a lot of the dismissiveness is twisted up in gender. in some ways, pinterest *preserves* the open web because it links out to e.g. independent blogs. 2022-07-12T15:34:31-00:00 twitter/tumblr/etc. all want to keep all the content right there so you don't leave and risk cessation of all-important Engagement. I always thought pinterest did the same thing because the navigation through the bookmark is so hard when you've gone there by accident as a non-user. now I can see it's really not doing that, it's just that the bookmark manipulation UI elements (which board, tag, etc.) are more important. login modals can still DIAF, tho. 2022-07-12T17:06:16-00:00 are regional gardening almanac newsletters a thing? using updating knowledge of weather to recommend when to e.g. prune 2022-07-12T17:08:31-00:00 https://www.almanac.com/gardening/planting-calendar/zipcode/98258 this is good but i want recommendations automatically generated from updating knowledge of weather conditions, in my email to bug me, and i will also take some folksy nonsense please 2022-07-12T17:10:05-00:00 planting by the moon? yes, the *only* way i want to plant 2022-07-12T17:22:37-00:00 pinterest learning no. 2: people really be out here calling absolutely anything "french" 2022-07-13T06:55:56-00:00 if your witchcraft isn't this i don't want it https://www.almanac.com/bestdays/timetable 2022-07-13T15:37:04-00:00 awww http://www.kser.org/ :) 2022-07-13T15:37:58-00:00 talk radio being the genre of choice for crotchety older guys, it warms the heart to see the options for crotchety older guys on the left side represented 2022-07-13T15:39:15-00:00 raise your hand if your dad listened to air america 2022-07-13T16:49:53-00:00 i bought beautiful skull concrete mold and fiance does not want them where he would see them every day? mods?? 2022-07-13T18:49:57-00:00 "Majores fertilissium in agro oculum domini esse dixerunt" The elders used to say that the best fertilizer on the farm was the master's eye Pliny the Elder I.e., keep an eye on everything 2022-07-14T16:58:43-00:00 the screenshot i would like to pointedly share with many of the online landscaping/gardening advice resources i am finding 2022-07-14T17:01:11-00:00 Today in "rural lifestyle does not want to acknowledge how subsidized it is by non-rural society": "Modern government regulation—in the form of building codes, food safety codes, zoning regulations, minimum wage and social security for occasional labor, and town council restrictions on landscaping and animal keeping—can increase the marginal cost of home production of food in areas affected by these restrictions. " yeah wow those damn food safety codes 2022-07-14T17:03:48-00:00 self-sufficiency as aesthetic: gaghgahghaghaghaghaghagh 2022-07-14T17:04:35-00:00 whatever you think about twee village life as an aesthetic, at least it isn't inherently militant about bad politics 2022-07-14T17:06:19-00:00 i came here for lists of electric tools i need to buy, not manifestdestinycore 2022-07-14T17:09:50-00:00 in the pnw where "homestead" goes back to "now let's be very clear that black people cannot apply, and Native Americans only if they've got a white parent" https://muse.jhu.edu/article/830034 2022-07-14T17:20:41-00:00 "if you wish to make an apple pie you must first create the universe" but for people who don't understand where antibiotics come from 2022-07-14T17:23:58-00:00 pov: I tenderly take your face in my hands and explain that we live in a society 2022-07-14T17:25:30-00:00 everybody wants to be self sufficient until they need a pharmacy 2022-07-14T17:28:28-00:00 homemade injectable epinephrine just like grandmother used to synthesize ♥️ 2022-07-14T17:30:15-00:00 there are people who are willing to go without life saving care for ideological reasons around "dependency" but an absence of hypocrisy does not actually strengthen the position 2022-07-14T22:22:38-00:00 lrt is meant in the joke way, not the trad way 2022-07-15T02:28:48-00:00 i take back the good things i said about pinterest if you search "weeding" it shows "wedding" 2022-07-15T02:39:37-00:00 if you had a friend invite you to come stay at their place in the middle of nowhere for a weekend or week or whatever, what would make you feel like it was a treat, like you got to pretend to be Bertie Wooster motoring off to someone's country manor 2022-07-15T02:40:49-00:00 real mattress is baseline. any particular food or drink? stationery provided to guests? (is that last one only occurring to me because i have paper brain?) badminton set on the lawn? 2022-07-15T03:28:34-00:00 do nice shampoo and conditioner help? nice guest towels? 2022-07-15T17:25:56-00:00 why is there a lot of taxidermy in the netherlands? (is there just a lot of taxidermy that shows up in english language searches?) 2022-07-15T23:58:35-00:00 you know the egirl stripes? where the pieces of hair closest to the face are bleached, and the rest of the hair is dark. has anyone ever seen them on someone with a larger nose? is that a schnozz-incompatible style? 2022-07-16T16:54:08-00:00 has anyone made a map of their own land for gardening/etc. purposes? are there nicer tools than screenshotting google maps and tracing/drawing on top 2022-07-16T18:35:36-00:00 came across quote: "Trailer camp slums are a very real, if as yet unrecognized, menace to our American way of life." has any sentence invoking threat "to our American way of life" ever not been aggressively terrible? in theory it seems possible yet all the data points to no 2022-07-16T18:36:35-00:00 i am guessing if such a sentence was ever said it was about fascism 2022-07-17T22:18:33-00:00 doing a bunch of small number algebra feels like brain mouthwash https://getpocket.com/explore/item/for-some-maniacal-reason-teachers-gave-this-math-problem-to-9-year-olds 2022-07-18T05:13:30-00:00 sorry to everyone/anyone waiting on a message from me, i don't know why i'm feeling like an anchoress 2022-07-18T16:14:23-00:00 you know that general "heat yourself, not the air" "heat the room you're in, not the whole house" idea? how do you sell someone on it for reasons that don't feel like asking them to give something up? is this even possible if such a person doesn't already like being cosy but breathing cool/cold air 2022-07-19T19:22:48-00:00 https://pigeonsofwar.wordpress.com/2022/07/08/saint-olga-of-kyiv-a-pioneer-of-pigeon-warfare/ 2022-07-20T16:29:22-00:00 "I am rich" pillows https://www.markandgraham.com/products/hand-hooked-sport-pillows/ 2022-07-20T23:24:10-00:00 we love a weird lowercase f https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Texturina 2022-07-21T04:48:00-00:00 remember how i said i wanted a domain and i thought it would be available when it expired well i think now for REAL it'll be available tomorrow 🤞 2022-07-21T05:43:35-00:00 does anyone else feel affection for a templating language sometimes i look at what i insist on doing in liquid and have a flash of understanding as to why people like brainfuck 2022-07-21T22:00:36-00:00 just saw a (properly graffiti, not one of those Inspired Murals) graffiti on a highway overpass that said "covid victims" and i'm just going to be thinking about it for a while 2022-07-22T03:51:20-00:00 it has come to my attention that there are people out there trying to learn about history from men in gamer chairs 2022-07-22T22:30:44-00:00 apparently you're supposed to prune raspberry canes differently in their first and second years. but how do you know which they are?? 2022-07-23T02:16:53-00:00 a neat little design detail in a linkblog: https://maya.land/responses/2022/07/22/some-bits-nelsons-linkblog.html 2022-07-23T21:39:00-00:00 domain update: it hasn't been released?? contra google's statements about how long domains stay in this particular state after expiry? aghghghg 2022-07-23T23:46:25-00:00 it's weird that there is no amount of money you can throw at a coffee maker to not find a bunch of reviews from people having defective/leaky ones 2022-07-24T01:32:51-00:00 down to the river, a short story: https://maya.land/responses/2022/07/22/down-to-the-river-short-story.html 2022-07-24T06:14:22-00:00 "l'idée de l'après de quelque chose d'horrible, de la minute qui suit le forfait, — c'est cette minute, éternisée, qui sera l'enfer" 2022-07-24T06:16:54-00:00 "on éprouve, avec un désir de la connaître toute, la crainte d'en trop apprendre" man you can't beat the french for phrases 2022-07-24T06:18:27-00:00 there's a certain aesthetic in a latin turn of phrase that french writing maintains, but with a spirit of "but what if we extended this with a series of semicolons and em dashes instead of shooting for 'pithy'" 2022-07-24T18:29:47-00:00 a genre of transformative fandom i would like to reward with money: recuts. like those "the hobbit should not have been a trilogy so we undid that". "don't like X and Y MCU characters? here's a cut with them trimmed out as much as possible". "everyone says the first 3 seasons of this show are garbage so here's a supercut of the bits that aren't so you can move to season 4." 2022-07-24T18:32:13-00:00 I enjoyed inglourious basterds a lot because I watched a cut-for-TV version. if directors' cuts are gonna be a thing there should be more fan cuts of "actually I would like 15% less of this upsetting thing" 2022-07-24T18:33:46-00:00 my parents showed us the sound of music when we were too young for it so they turned it off at the wedding saying that was the end of the movie and i've never gone back and watched the rest. something something art is as it is experienced something something 2022-07-24T18:49:45-00:00 because Canonical Versions are so much more widely accessible that should make more room for off-the-wall versions. i'm not saying i want people to do a whole version of Downfall with meme subtitles, but i bet there's a movie that *would* take to that nicely 2022-07-24T18:50:44-00:00 https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nsx49/til_that_an_anime_called_ghost_stories_did_so/ this, but with any of us idiots putting it together 2022-07-24T19:26:58-00:00 when they release css masonry i may totally redo my website (or at least its feed page) to use it heavily until then, making something responsive is just so much friggin simpler if you're basically thinking single-column 2022-07-24T19:35:22-00:00 the hypercore/beaker browser ppl (https://nitter.net/mafintosh/) are hyping up a release real soon so i'm getting ready to contribute my little bit of weird 2022-07-25T00:51:28-00:00 would it be better to get solid wood bookcases and be able to paint them all to match a wall color? or would it be better to get the blue billy bookcases as they'd fit, match the color almost for the walls, and paint other Billy bookcases various tones of blue? 2022-07-25T07:06:00-00:00 cement skull mold arrived today 2022-07-25T07:06:30-00:00 I was hoping it would be life size and it is not but it's still pretty hefty 2022-07-25T16:26:04-00:00 awwwwwww come onnnnnn 2022-07-26T03:57:20-00:00 i wonder how often joann's fabrics employees consult on the manufacture of fursuits 2022-07-26T19:28:29-00:00 don't try to do the id.me verification on firefox yes it says it's supported, But 2022-07-26T20:30:01-00:00 does anyone who follows me have opinions on raw photo editing that works for iphone raws but that ISN'T a subscription? the foss stuff doesn't seem to yet; I'm fine buying a one-time license. 2022-07-26T21:07:31-00:00 my pixel 3a grinds away and does its best but when it gives up the ghost (or if we turn out to need 5g for internet) i am looking forward to being able to take better plant pictures than this 2022-07-27T07:39:46-00:00 normalize not normalizing things 2022-07-28T19:04:52-00:00 go ask alice was fake; think about who faked it: https://maya.land/responses/2022/07/28/go-ask-alice-fake.html 2022-07-28T19:10:58-00:00 if you purchased chicken in washington state in the last 10 years, you were harmed: https://maya.land/responses/2022/07/28/if-you-purchased-chicken.html 2022-07-28T19:15:01-00:00 I want this historical claim I found on wikipedia to be true: https://maya.land/responses/2022/07/28/I-want-this-historical-claim-to-be-true.html 2022-07-28T23:49:09-00:00 i have never respected someone's weird so much https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-tanforan-shell-edition 2022-07-29T00:28:59-00:00 eyes rolling so hard i'll injure myself https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2022/07/imagine.html 2022-07-29T00:43:30-00:00 like, have the middle ages been slandered? yes, undoubtedly. are there many things that are worse about life today? sure. but spare a thought to the antibiotics supply chain, my dude 2022-07-29T00:56:07-00:00 "Their skin is a healthy bronze" also (https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-bright-ages/): "The authors state their opposition to “whiteness,” which they call “a modern idea with medieval roots.” [...] Academics love to play these little word games. Meanwhile, the rest of us know that it’s okay to be proud of the achievements of one’s ancestors. Nobody really thinks I’m racist because I, Michael Warren Davis, have more of an affinity for the British Isles than I do for the Andean Mountains or the Great Steppe." 2022-07-29T00:56:38-00:00 you are 100% right, Michael Warren Davis, that that is not why I suspect you of racism 2022-07-29T03:36:35-00:00 this piece talks about transphobia and cw: suicidal ideation but also features AI spongebobs and it's ... it's just good https://www.readthepresentage.com/p/1000-spongebobs 2022-07-29T06:21:28-00:00 how do i search for "wellies outfit" but with 110% less of a Christian Girl Autumn sensibility 2022-07-29T22:59:05-00:00 mods?????????? https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/gauh9e/comment/g7tvdzw/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 2022-07-30T06:40:19-00:00 i was looking for a font to give a fuck-off brutalist sort of effect, an ironic usage, but arial/verdana/times new roman/courier new weren't working... and finally it came to me: computer modern 2022-07-30T06:41:27-00:00 to anyone who just rolled their eyes: https://marketingexperiments.com/value-proposition/importance-of-font 2022-07-30T06:43:07-00:00 one reason i love fonts is that they are like smells in that people have strong associations and opinions and influences, and yet most people don't have the language to articulate any of it 2022-07-30T21:43:08-00:00 continued cohost invite jealousy but even on my read-only mode y'all should tell me if you're on there 2022-08-01T02:27:17-00:00 my friend messaged a group chat like "hey can you guys mail me little drawings? i want to put a bunch of little things on a wall in my new place. just strange little drawings, weird stuff" and i have never jumped on an assignment so fast 2022-08-01T02:37:22-00:00 an angle on Why Game Of Thrones' Depictions Of Sexual Assault Can't Hide Behind "Historical Accuracy" that was new to me: https://going-medieval.com/2022/07/29/on-disavowing-sexual-assault/ 2022-08-01T20:34:02-00:00 i can't be the only one who keeps confusing william gibson and neal stephenson despite the fact i really like one and, uh, not the other 2022-08-01T21:50:44-00:00 https://snohomishcountywa.gov/4152/State-of-our-Waters this is so cool! you can look up all the little creeks and rivers and see what they're doing well on or struggling with 2022-08-02T06:44:53-00:00 the disease where you focus in on any sequence of four trochees to hum the teenage mutant ninja turtles theme in your head 2022-08-02T18:25:21-00:00 look up your local soil type!! https://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/App/HomePage.htm the names are so cool-sounding: tokul, barneston, cathcart, pastik 2022-08-02T18:29:34-00:00 "Barneston soils occur on kames, eskers, and moraines" *fantasy author scribbles furiously* 2022-08-03T03:22:06-00:00 at least at the place in washington i was looking at it will tell you what the Pygmy Rabbit Habitat Suitability of a particular spot is https://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/WebSoilSurvey.aspx (it was low) (I knew it was going to be low but I still felt a tiny bit bummed) 2022-08-03T05:14:10-00:00 folklore seems wild proportionately to how early the folklorists got going collecting it 2022-08-03T17:13:56-00:00 i have this nasty suspicion that this attitude is more than anything about reclaiming Holier-Than-Thou-ness https://www.eater.com/23274496/veggie-burger-vegetarian-should-be-made-from-vegetables 2022-08-04T18:26:34-00:00 skeptical of this because "shifting their energy usage to daytime hours, so they can use all those photons themselves instead of handing them off to the grid (where, alas, we often get ripped off by our utilities, who buy our electricity at a cheap rate and sell it back to use more dearly)." does not seem to understand the expenses of Having A Grid With Electricity Available, BUT.... https://www.wired.com/story/after-going-solar-i-felt-the-bliss-of-sudden-abundance/ 2022-08-04T18:27:05-00:00 cyclical abundance is a weirdly natural thing to have associated with electricity. it's cool :) 2022-08-04T20:36:41-00:00 TIL land grant universities got a lot of funding from being assigned huge tracts of native lands that they then chopped up and sold. This isn't about their campuses; the land was often *way* far away from the actual area used by the universities. https://www.publicbooks.org/americas-land-grab-universities-robert-lee-on-colonial-extraction/ 2022-08-05T05:12:07-00:00 billionaires are a sustainable source of protein <3 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andreessens-opposition-housing-project-nimby/671061/ 2022-08-05T23:02:57-00:00 not me fruitlessly expressing my annoyance at things in hypothes.is comments 2022-08-05T23:24:27-00:00 today in man militarism sucks: seafair blue angels flyovers making my tiny dog very scared 2022-08-05T23:27:37-00:00 in terms of the list of US military atrocities it isn't on the list but it still makes someone a jerk 2022-08-06T01:36:33-00:00 running a federal agency as a business: bad, actually https://www.propublica.org/article/salmon-protection-dam-bonneville-power-administration 2022-08-06T01:38:17-00:00 > The agency used the unexpected revenues to shore up its cash reserves and lower rates for customers. It didn’t put any of the windfall toward fish and wildlife programs. bpa: court-ordered fish restoration efforts? i don't know her 2022-08-06T22:20:00-00:00 the problem with saying i "have no chill" is that it gets in the way of people understanding just how much less chill I could have 2022-08-06T23:08:52-00:00 as a open web fan, the amount of really great stuff locked in facebook hurts my soul. like we joke about it being terabytes of minions memes, but the local gardening tips I'm learning there are unmatched. 2022-08-06T23:11:00-00:00 to some extent I think that's because the UX is easy enough for very non-computer people to use. i wonder if you could leverage email somehow just because... well, just because I bet these folks also know how to use email. 2022-08-06T23:41:25-00:00 i dunno exactly who this is for but i'm happy it exists for them 2022-08-07T01:31:03-00:00 i am reading the evergreen state fair competitive exhibit submission guidelines and... 2022-08-07T01:34:54-00:00 I want to know the story behind the introduction of the top level category "steam punk" 2022-08-07T03:12:54-00:00 do people think "cyber goth" and "instagram goth" are synonymous https://www.nylon.com/fashion/alt-fashion-icon-xowie-jones-aces-cyber-goth-style-with-romwe 2022-08-07T03:14:25-00:00 there are no goggles, there is no gas mask, there are no Problematic Hair Falls. 2022-08-07T06:40:43-00:00 i have ordered ~500 iris tenax seeds and planned out roughly where they will go. honestly i'd be happy to fill in every chunk of every border with them 2022-08-07T06:42:19-00:00 bearded irises are nice! but they can't compete with the native little irises that grew in the goat pasture where I grew up, no contest 2022-08-07T06:43:23-00:00 supposedly it's common for ~40% of iris seeds to come up the first year after a fall planting and another chunk the second year. i like this because it softens a feeling of failure. "eh, not this year." 2022-08-07T06:44:33-00:00 what's that, everwilde map? https://www.everwilde.com/store/Iris-tenax-WildFlower-Seed.html they grow in skagit county to the north, but not in snohomish county? I Can Change This. 2022-08-07T06:47:02-00:00 the ones i bought are like... ten cents a seed before shipping and tax and stuff, which is pretty heavy for wanton wild spreading... but if everwilde gets them back in stock at the price they had last, i could totally pick up a bunch and commit seed crimes 2022-08-07T06:54:34-00:00 https://www.wedding-spot.com/venue/4875/Husky-Stadium/ ....hwat 2022-08-07T06:59:19-00:00 who has done this. find me the person who chose this 2022-08-07T17:14:58-00:00 holy shit furry vtuber power tool advice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPN-H56Nrww 2022-08-07T18:29:28-00:00 people are getting mad that California wants to make private well owners report how much groundwater they're pulling up (and there's a fee that's genuinely nominal next to owning any CA real estate). maybe in the schools they should explain better how groundwater works 2022-08-07T18:33:43-00:00 "so the well... is on my property. so it's getting water.... from my property. so the water... is my property" the LAND IS SLANTING, RICK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwater-related_subsidence 2022-08-07T18:41:15-00:00 "so what made you decide to come back to therapy?" "when people say 'Washington' in a general context to mean DC, i can feel my blood pressure rise dangerously. and that would be an embarrassing reason to die" 2022-08-07T19:07:09-00:00 if you're not going to bother to think about the different implications of anonymity and pseudonymity, please don't run a piece in a major national publication about it, and especially not with "I spoke with two youths" generational analysis attached... https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/06/gen-z-internet-anonymity-instagram-tumblr/661316 2022-08-07T22:06:35-00:00 i wish people understood "agnostic" better outside of belief in God. there are so many spheres where the gap between "X and Y are different/the same" and "we cannot know whether X and Y are different/the same" is important 2022-08-08T00:06:25-00:00 they canceled my iris seed order :( 2022-08-08T02:54:57-00:00 the house is so beautiful and the yard is so beautiful and i'm gonna let it all down ahhhhhhhhhhhh 2022-08-08T16:00:16-00:00 ikea gave me two desks instead of one?? 2022-08-08T17:03:24-00:00 I know that there are reasons things are the way they are and the reasons are not always obvious to the end consumer, but it's wild that I get a shipment from Amazon and one from Ikea at the same time in the same size boxes, and one has three items rattling around with some plastic filler, and one has a billion things neatly tetrissed together. And I don't need to tell you which is which. 2022-08-08T17:30:07-00:00 the ikea time to shipping was longer. but... that's okay 90% of the time 2022-08-08T20:20:43-00:00 "Costco Members receive an exclusive value on SexyModest products" 2022-08-09T17:59:38-00:00 anyone have new house superstitions they want to share? we get keys today :) 2022-08-09T17:59:59-00:00 the list so far: no old broom and salting the threshold 2022-08-10T04:56:42-00:00 salted the threshold. wandered around in speechless joy. definitely more than we deserve. gonna figure out how to segregate my hausposting 2022-08-10T17:10:38-00:00 damn it damn it damn it damn it damn it. the domain I wanted was restored to its current tenant. time to find a new plan: domain hacking or different TLD.... 2022-08-10T17:18:25-00:00 :boost_requested: i need domain advice. the surname in question is one syllable and unmistakably German. .haus what I really wanted but it was restored to its current tenant, so... [ ] ha.us [ ] .land [ ] see results / reply with other option 2022-08-10T18:22:19-00:00 there is not quite a rhyme with haus but .... almost 2022-08-11T01:09:17-00:00 hmm how much longer until i boost poll again.... we'll wait for the Evening Shift 2022-08-11T03:05:54-00:00 it is not Hess just to be clear 2022-08-11T06:30:07-00:00 https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/implementing-default-directory-indexes-in-amazon-s3-backed-amazon-cloudfront-origins-using-lambdaedge/ are you serious 2022-08-11T17:06:12-00:00 sci fi : douglas adams :: fantasy : terry pratchett :: action/spy novels : ??????? 2022-08-11T17:07:22-00:00 it takes an hour to drive to haus and normally we're only going to have to do that ~twice a week but while we move (and until the water's potable) ..... i gotta get some audiobooks we'd both like 2022-08-11T17:56:15-00:00 oh goddamnit i didn't get the font working ;-; whatever, that's a tonight problem 2022-08-11T18:52:18-00:00 https://wastenot.world/ this is a cool resource and also chefkiss trendy web design 2022-08-12T15:26:03-00:00 today hacker news is talking about goats so instead of getting huffy in the comments I am going to share goat facts with y'all 2022-08-12T15:27:11-00:00 i grew up on five acres with cashmere goats (and one milk goat!) courtesy of my parents being extremely cool 2022-08-12T15:28:45-00:00 you can fence goats. the fence has to be electric, that's all. Jurassic Park was a whole thing when I was a kid and my mom thought it was hilarious that the scary electric fence sign for the dinos gave the sameish specs of our goat fence 2022-08-12T15:31:46-00:00 goats don't eat everything like locusts. they eat in sequence from their favorite ("browse") to least favorite things. this is why they make good brush clearers; you have to move them before they eat bark off trees and destroy ground cover etc. 2022-08-12T15:32:45-00:00 if you want goats to clear Himalayan blackberries, they have to eat them down to the ground two years in a row. I never figured out how the thorns didn't bother them 2022-08-12T15:39:29-00:00 lamancha dairy goats naturally have no ears, just little shrivelly bits around the ... ear holes. they look even more alien than normal goats but are just as nice and give lovely milk 2022-08-12T15:42:44-00:00 goats naturally just have tiny tails. this is not true of sheep, who grow tails that farmers dock (I honestly don't know if this is necessary, since domestic sheep grow wool quite differently than wild sheep so it might be a legitimate disease hygiene thing, or it could just be for wool salability) so when I see a lamb's tail it freaks me out every time 2022-08-12T15:45:55-00:00 goat manure is extremely convenient for farm use because it comes in pellets that can dry out even in the Pacific Northwest. they also break down and incorporate without someone having to deal with.... well, if you've seen cow/horse equivalent , you know what I mean. the problem is that the hay that we fed them (that therefore also became bedding) has weed seeds in it, so the result must be used thoughtfully 2022-08-12T15:48:55-00:00 as with many farm animals, does and wethers (castrated male goats) have personality, and bucks are demons. this is exaggerated because I was a child and scared, but also, male farm animals just suckkkk if they're not fighting off predators and they decide you, the pudgy little kid in overalls gathering eggs, are the Real Threat 2022-08-12T15:50:04-00:00 goat husbandry books talk about pack goats and draft goats and if anyone west of the cascades is doing either, please let me know because I'd kill to go see 2022-08-12T16:00:18-00:00 cashmere is extremely cool. if you have ever had a German shepherd break out in tufts of undercoat around shedding season: it's like that. 2022-08-12T16:04:56-00:00 goats normally have twins and sometimes triplets. one time we had a goat give birth to quadruplets. this was worrying: she was a cashmere goat so not bred for milk beyond the needs of two or three kids. astonishingly, another goat who hadn't been bred that year started giving milk. one of the kids still ended up kind of runty but nobody died of starvation. 2022-08-12T16:05:13-00:00 oh fuck this thread should have been titled anecgoats 2022-08-12T16:13:35-00:00 goats are extremely good at turning non farmable land into edible calories (milk or meat) like on rocky Greek islands and such. with most of western WA it's more efficient to just grow stuff if you have the labor for it. in the utopian future I don't really buy that there's a place for the modern overbred cow, but I'll bet there are goats somewhere. 2022-08-12T16:14:53-00:00 I cannot cite this but something I read said that cats and goats are the two species that can successfully move back and forth between domestic and feral life. this sounds about right. goats are Smart 2022-08-12T16:16:58-00:00 you want to let kids grow up with other goats in the area where they're going to live because they learn from the adults what poisonous plants to avoid. we learned how important this was the sad way 2022-08-12T16:19:41-00:00 I would lead the goats down to the bottom pasture and they would all follow but if I stopped midway down they would play it real cool like they just happened to have been walking that way. goats' ability to be both herd animals and Individuals was never not hilarious 2022-08-12T16:32:15-00:00 you can fit a goat in the back of a nineties hatchback. 2022-08-12T16:34:34-00:00 we never had goats climb trees like you see in those calendars but it seemed natural that they would; our pasture was forest land that had been logged before we got it so there were many tree stumps. if there is anything that brings more joy to a goat than jumping up on a tree stump, surely it is only jumping up onto a tree stump and knocking another goat down from it 2022-08-12T16:36:30-00:00 much like everything else beautiful in this world, nothing about raising goats at small scale is cost efficient 2022-08-12T16:50:50-00:00 I have a lot of opinions about trucks because of our experiences with farm vehicles. like, it is true that if you need to be able to bring a load of topsoil from point a to b, you need something different than a passenger vehicle. however, my dad fit all his construction gear (and a remarkable amount of wood) in the back of a geo metro because of Iraq war gas prices, so a lot of what people try to tell you they "need" to have (and park on a city street??) is bogus 2022-08-12T16:52:42-00:00 my obnoxious new hobby is pointing out old trucks to The Fiance. "see? you see how that one isn't gigantic? you see how you could notice if a kid ran out in front of it? you see how it's clearly been put to use?" 2022-08-12T17:00:42-00:00 "you don't understand that you need a truck like that for life in the country" ah, yes, the Dawn of Agriculture: the 1990s 2022-08-12T17:40:45-00:00 i stan a short king 2022-08-12T18:18:13-00:00 https://twitter.com/NYMag/status/1558100870436458499 this photo illustration deserves some kind of award 2022-08-12T22:15:59-00:00 the peer mediation training i received at the age of eleven is probably the most important professional education i've yet to have 2022-08-12T22:29:30-00:00 now, it was explicitly about getting sulky eleven year olds to put words to their feelings, and the way in which I must deploy it in meetings is all about studiously representing everyone involved to have no feelings whatsoever, only diverging technical judgments 2022-08-12T22:32:40-00:00 you know how there are patent professionals who straddle the worlds of engineering and law? i don't know what an engineer-psychotherapist looks like, but this company would be way more efficient with some floating around 2022-08-13T15:49:15-00:00 sasdlfkjsdlkajfds ikea if you cancel the bookcase that is the whole reason i made an order in the first place then i wish you would cancel everything!!! 2022-08-14T18:52:14-00:00 do they make a wedding registry thing that lets you let guests organize splitting the cost of items? it sucks when you only have a certain amount you can spend but everything below that on the registry has already been dibsed. on the other hand, seems complicated: "I can cover half of the dishes, you can cover a fifth of the dishes, so we need someone to fill in 3/10 of the dishes cost" 2022-08-15T17:35:30-00:00 do you feel like a jerk returning things bought online for reasons other than defects y/n 2022-08-15T18:20:03-00:00 the piece is good but don't miss this comment https://popehat.substack.com/p/the-philosophical-and-moral-incoherence/comment/8403538 2022-08-15T22:30:36-00:00 don't regret bookmarking this https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:RandomInCategory/English_terms_with_rare_senses 2022-08-16T16:18:30-00:00 a coworker credited my idea for something in a relatively high visibility meeting where it would have been totally reasonable to just mention the small process change without saying who'd suggested it. if called to, I would now defend him in combat. 2022-08-16T17:25:59-00:00 Hmm. Anne Helen Petersen's writing is sharper and more materially specific than this makes out. (Her stuff on the fuckedness of childcare: it *does* warrant a systemic lens, and it's not neutral to paint it as personal problems!) At the same time, the regurgitated cud that makes it into the Discourse does warrant the criticisms in this piece. https://www.gawker.com/culture/failure-to-cope-under-capitalism 2022-08-16T17:27:56-00:00 "This is your life. You do not have time to wait for the revolution to begin living it. You will always be able to find someone to give you permission not to live it. But no one is coming along to live it for you." this conclusion is at its root correct yet I can't help thinking it could be far more helpful for many more people if it were packaged with, like, 20% more explanation/support and 20% less "I'm a Hard Truth-teller, telling Hard Truths" hot-takeitude 2022-08-16T17:31:35-00:00 "every impulse you have is uwu valid and good politics" and "suck it up and listen to this cold hard reality, snowflake" are both deeply unappealing framings that get taped onto otherwise unobjectionable insights for clicks, and I would pay for a service that sands them off again 2022-08-17T06:38:47-00:00 "fish, blood, and bone" sounds so friggin' metal for something that comes in a brightly colored cardboard box 2022-08-17T15:49:31-00:00 does anyone have any sources they like for "preserves" recipes meant for the freezer? i love https://foodinjars.com/ but obviously if you're not canning there's more freedom with pH and stuff 2022-08-17T20:15:21-00:00 man i kind of want a poster of one of this guy's map styles applied to my part of the world https://adventuresinmapping.com/2020/04/01/my-precious/ 2022-08-17T20:19:59-00:00 he also has 80s wargames glowy looking map style 2022-08-18T03:16:30-00:00 my mom asked me what the point of my life was going to be. we quickly scoped that question down to "the point of my life for the next few years or so as they look from here" because, well, woman plans and god laughs. 2022-08-18T03:19:06-00:00 anyway, one of the things I answered with was figuring out how to foster interdependence in my life, or experimenting with what that can look like within the bounds of a vaguely normie lifestyle. 2022-08-18T03:23:43-00:00 anyone else rolling this around their head these days? 2022-08-18T03:56:56-00:00 why not learn a little about potato technology today: https://maya.land/responses/2022/08/10/washington-potato-technology.html 2022-08-18T04:56:56-00:00 why not learn a little about potato technology today: https://maya.land/responses/2022/08/17/washington-potato-technology.html 2022-08-18T05:04:27-00:00 sorry, their open graph metadata was wrong, this will have a link to the potatogrower.com page in just a second here 2022-08-18T06:18:44-00:00 i feel like aws is making fun of me with all the billing dashboard stuff for my one dollar website anyway look i can do at least moderately responsive images https://faust.land/flora/vaccinium-parvifolium/ 2022-08-18T17:39:30-00:00 genuinely i cannot imagine being mad over *any* characterization of st. joan's gender/sexuality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dressing,_gender_identity,_and_sexuality_of_Joan_of_Arc 2022-08-18T17:42:01-00:00 you could depict her as a real femme gal who resents having to cross-dress to achieve her goals. you could characterize joan as nonbinary or a trans man and get real good stuff out of either. lesbian joan? yes! i think the people who are mad about nonbinary joan have not dug enough into how wild hagiographies get, or into *the point* of them. 2022-08-18T17:44:36-00:00 like genuinely even if you thought it were a stretch to project a modern nonbinary identity onto Joan, that is actually *exactly* the kind of stretch that makes stories about saints useful; they're supposed to feel like you or me. st clare as the patron saint of TV is not because anyone thinks there were literal cathode ray tubes involved. a lot of saints are important in non-literal-historical ways and it's already normal to accommodate a multiplicity of contradicting stories. 2022-08-18T17:52:53-00:00 regency occultist snail mail rpg idea: https://maya.land/responses/2022/08/18/regency-occultist-mail-rpg.html 2022-08-18T18:53:30-00:00 our dog has started lying on the couch cushion right behind my shoulders and she is the best headrest ever 2022-08-18T19:20:03-00:00 could you green screen these patterns onto someone's clothes in a music video https://github.com/luamfb/tempest-lcd 2022-08-18T22:06:43-00:00 i don't have enough of a thing for dante to merit getting this but what a vibe 2022-08-19T03:14:52-00:00 i was just rate limited by the instance i admin harsh 2022-08-19T21:08:45-00:00 so far one inexplicable impression I am getting of the people in the country here is that.... in Seattle, everyone you meet just kind of looks - in various ways - like they probably have an anxiety/depression diagnosis, whether they need one or not. and here everyone in various ways looks like they don't have one, whether they need it or not. 2022-08-19T21:10:15-00:00 this is not a burn on anyone involved, it's just very specific as a Vibe 2022-08-19T21:16:13-00:00 they're building a Russian-Ukrainian church nearish. I wonder if that means there's a proper piano teacher in these parts 2022-08-20T23:56:45-00:00 the drawfees are very nice and I am glad it is not my job to deal with lines of people that long 2022-08-22T17:04:53-00:00 today's reminder: "performative" is opposed to "essential", not to "material". it means you have to Do Something rather than Be Something. it is not limited to Saying Something. why yes I do need to get off the internet for my own health how did you know 2022-08-22T17:53:13-00:00 very weird that people cape for teflon pans in comment sections like "no no it doesn't poison you during use" when the impact of the manufacturing process is, like a bullseye on cancer maps, innit 2022-08-22T19:48:00-00:00 https://faust.land/flora/hydrangea-macrophylla/ best plant picture i've taken so far 2022-08-22T19:48:29-00:00 is it that nice of a picture or is it just that pretty of a flower 2022-08-23T00:33:52-00:00 no taxation without representation, 42 BC edition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortensia_(orator) 2022-08-23T02:15:13-00:00 "braver than the troops" is an onlineism i have to work very hard all the time to not use around the offline 2022-08-23T17:45:07-00:00 "corporate jargon" is used to refer to Official Business Euphemism Communication ("downsizing", "location adjustment") and also Officespeak ("action items", "sync up") and I don't think we should think about them the same way 2022-08-23T18:27:57-00:00 excerpt-only RSS feeds are fine, fight me 2022-08-23T18:29:24-00:00 i do not want to pretend that the same thing is happening in my work and home life. i want as many barriers as possible between them and dialect is a great one. 2022-08-23T22:55:09-00:00 css attribute selectors + user styles = "sponsored listing" death ray 2022-08-24T03:27:24-00:00 if new GOT turns out to be good, somebody tell me. expensive sets and costumes are my lifeblood so i can excuse a lot 2022-08-24T03:35:09-00:00 i need them to have tuned down the misogyny by at least a couple notches and ideally not done a dothraki 2022-08-24T04:48:28-00:00 ngl the img2img stable diffusion stuff has me curious. i think there's a very fun human-in-the-loop workflow you could have with exploratory prompts to aid in ideation/thumbnailing, then blocking things in roughly and yeeting it into the computer 2022-08-24T17:28:17-00:00 i think if i never wanted to be called out for anything at work i would cultivate the super flat vocal inflections some people use. my brain just cannot find purchase on the flow of their speech 2022-08-24T19:36:20-00:00 if you had a small chandelier you wanted to replace, what would you do? pendant lights are cheap – but is there any way to get something more chandeliery without hitting the czech crystal cost tier 2022-08-25T02:40:58-00:00 plant breeding is so much weirder than I thought: https://maya.land/responses/2022/08/24/plant-breeding-weird.html 2022-08-25T16:59:56-00:00 it's very funny to have such arbitrary feelings about which non-native plants can stay in the yard. like, loosestrife? goodbye. foxglove? I Could Never Murder My Beloved Child 2022-08-25T18:28:32-00:00 when I start something with "Yeah, I dunno" I am lying, I do know and I have a Big Opinion 2022-08-25T22:02:25-00:00 i just want my forehead to be pet until my head feels like it's not under pressure.... at least i'm not queasy anymore. thanks, tortilla chips 2022-08-26T02:05:17-00:00 the people of r/lawncare are exactly as you'd imagine 2022-08-26T03:53:20-00:00 yes hello HWAT https://www.etsy.com/listing/1053037133/etsy-design-awards-finalista-2022-bridal 2022-08-26T17:45:23-00:00 "i've been called worse things by smarter people" bless 2022-08-26T22:06:38-00:00 you know what silicon valley should invent? a device that can tell me whether the ache in my lower back is a. reproductive organ shenanigans b. muscle / bad posture pain c. oddly placed digestive issues d. kidneys acting up again. get the hoodie boys on that instead of building the panopticon or whatever 2022-08-26T22:47:10-00:00 meat manifesto: my covenant to our shareholders: https://maya.land/responses/2022/08/26/meat-manifesto-covenant-shareholders.html 2022-08-27T01:03:25-00:00 what would the indieweb version of wechat look like? does it exist? 2022-08-27T12:40:57-00:00 Whoa. I'd heard Google was building RSS back into desktop Chrome, but it showed up on my phone. Tested it out. 2022-08-27T12:43:43-00:00 this could be important or nothing because it's kinda hard to find (very bottom of the menu, I only saw because I was looking for view source). gosh I hope this is part of a bigger plan and not someone's pet project that will be put to death later on 2022-08-27T12:44:40-00:00 ah fuck the alt text I missed is just for a screenshot of the help docs acknowledging the feature without using the word RSS 2022-08-28T00:22:11-00:00 paint swatches take..... so long (this is like...... a quarter of them?) 2022-08-28T01:49:25-00:00 forum jargon: those little abbreviations specific to a niche, you know, like the abominable DH for "dear husband" on mom forums. just learned a new one: HO for home owner on a painting contractor forum... 2022-08-28T06:43:56-00:00 some bladerunner sounding synth (from the speed up synth strings, I think?), latin chant, vocal harmony... now i just want a dxrk mix lol https://songwhip.com/eurielle/the-wolves-they-stare-nightcore-version 2022-08-28T17:52:31-00:00 a lot of "X is like a new replacement for religion" takes could do well to think less shallowly about religion 2022-08-28T17:55:07-00:00 i don't understand how people take short-form video of themselves doing anything but talking to the camera without cringing to death. a selfie is at least quick; you arrange, you shoot, it's posed even when it's not, but there's no *lie* to it. short-form video – like, you set up your phone across the room? to get that shot of you reading the book by the window? really?? super casually??? 2022-08-28T18:02:05-00:00 this is more painful the more "aesthetic" the content. film yourself weeding some dirt and i get that we're watching for the satisfaction of seeing the weeding get done. film yourself lounging on a picnic blanket being pretty and... the objectification isn't sexual but still wigs me out 2022-08-29T01:21:28-00:00 we should all be so lucky 2022-08-31T04:26:35-00:00 all the blue glass plates are from the seventies. but i can't think of them from any seventies media. were they only used by tacky people in the seventies??? 2022-08-31T04:27:08-00:00 the word "tablescape" is an act of violence 2022-08-31T04:31:37-00:00 him: wow that's an expensive plate me: but the reason why they cost that much is because they are handpainted by master artisans in a cooperatively owned hungarian enterprise that has been operating continuously since – him: okay well then if they're worth it we could get them me: ARE YOU MAD DO YOU NOT sEE THE COST 2022-08-31T04:35:31-00:00 *defensively* many of my good friends own fiestaware 2022-08-31T05:33:40-00:00 the amount of time i have just spent trying and failing to find "ornamental edge china like godinger inglenook, but bone china" is an indictment of my character 2022-08-31T06:11:29-00:00 godinger arendale, seemingly retired for quality control purposes: ordered. i cannot make any more plate decisions. 2022-08-31T16:54:01-00:00 (via https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/x24w3p/directed_by_stanley_kubernetes/ ) 2022-08-31T20:14:33-00:00 is it worth it to post about "The E-bike Is a Monstrosity" 2022-08-31T20:16:17-00:00 https://www.tor.com/2022/08/23/youre-invited-nona-the-ninth-release-parties/ :( where seattle 2022-08-31T22:33:40-00:00 i wish i could tell you how effectively i have been targeted. i grew up with my mom telling me about lentils from the palouse https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004M0LLHU/ 2022-08-31T22:39:59-00:00 i'm gonna reuse that bag like it's a goddamn hermes 2022-09-01T22:07:52-00:00 100% that bitch 2022-09-01T22:08:59-00:00 in actuality I am at most 15% that bitch but, you know, we're all doing our best 2022-09-01T22:10:08-00:00 I feel dumb for wanting these jars because they're from Italy and, like, does a glass jar really need to be shipped across an ocean because I think it's prettier than the American ones. counterargument: blue!!! 2022-09-02T21:31:09-00:00 the masc irish siri voice is where it's at 2022-09-02T22:31:26-00:00 satellite internet installed. now on hammock with my person, as my dog lies happy in the sun. 2022-09-03T18:34:24-00:00 there is something someone in the altweb wrote recently titled something like "my not me" and i think it was about the shift to profiles rather than projects. and i cannot find it and i want to scream 2022-09-04T00:25:36-00:00 update: ok mom I labeled the packing dates :acnh_pride: 2022-09-04T06:23:10-00:00 Tesla is proud to introduce: the cybertrutch oven https://www.williams-sonoma.com/m/products/finex-cast-iron-dutch-oven/ 2022-09-04T07:55:03-00:00 https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/big-dot-of-happiness-boo-y-or-ghoul-halloween-gender-reveal-party-water-bottle-sticker-labels-set-of-20/300239926?categoryId=12795&skuId= they cannot be trusted with anything 2022-09-04T18:34:07-00:00 i cannot read this because despite agreeing whole-heartedly with the topline conclusion i cannot listen to family attitude advice from david fucking brooks https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-nuclear-family-was-a-mistake/605536 2022-09-04T23:08:11-00:00 it's not nuts for us to have a gallon of or maybe even 3 but a lot of things we just won't go *through* five gallons of before they're degraded in quality. i gotta figure out how to, like, give people large quantities of oatmeal as gifts 2022-09-05T03:35:09-00:00 ahhh agam! https://songwhip.com/tilakrajthakur/khinnu 2022-09-05T03:38:40-00:00 shine on you crazy bastards 2022-09-05T18:07:19-00:00 if Labor Day is the day when the emissaries of capital express how our abstracted overlords Appreciate just how much we do, I am looking forward to Capital Day, when we go through the streets raising awareness of just how much them fuckers have 2022-09-05T21:29:03-00:00 I put a planter in my office dormer https://faust.land/haus/moffice/dormer/ I have planted one variety of basil seed and the other is still coming, along with the lights that I'm going to put on the back of this desk surround thing 2022-09-05T22:22:18-00:00 image description that i forgot to alt text: ikea lommarp desk with deskmat and a color testing page. behind it, a ~3 ft. wide planter with only potting soil evident and a little leaf-shaped moisture indicator. behind it, a window through which some sunlight and trees can be seen 2022-09-06T02:13:40-00:00 I get that no one is annoyed about this but me (https://maya.land/monologues/2021/01/28/digital-spaces-arent.html) but a website! is not! like a street corner!! gahghhh https://www.garbageday.email/p/a-website-is-a-street-corner 2022-09-06T02:15:53-00:00 "Websites are not similar to telephones. They are not even similar to books or magazines. They are street corners, they are billboards, they are parks, they are shopping malls, they are spaces where people congregate." I'm sorry they ARE like magazines, they are LIKE MAGAZINES gjsjfhfhsbdhdhehdjhfjs 2022-09-06T02:17:26-00:00 And sometimes they are like telephones! But also! You then start having to be more specific! look it owns that KF was finally taken down, it is entirely a good thing, no disagreement there, but we cannot afford this kind of sloppiness in our concepts because it will come back to bite us 2022-09-06T03:05:33-00:00 "because I am doing this thing much faster by using a machine you cannot judge me using the rules that would apply if I didn't use the machine" is the kind of argument someone makes when they want to get away with shit 2022-09-06T03:35:34-00:00 "Just because you cannot see the (hopefully) tens of thousands of other people reading this blog post right now doesn’t mean they’re not there." my dude this is a substack, please consider how your idea of "there" maps onto email 😢 2022-09-06T16:11:04-00:00 brand flavor text taken to a new level: italian glassware: https://maya.land/responses/2022/09/05/brand-flavor-text-bormioli.html 2022-09-06T17:59:06-00:00 i ordered the staub white pumpkin pot but it seems like it won't necessarily get here in time for michaelmas 2022-09-06T22:47:31-00:00 max read validates my opinions on the internet's impact on culture: thank you max read: https://maya.land/responses/2022/09/06/max-read-internet-ruining-culture.html 2022-09-07T03:13:25-00:00 what i should be thinking about: work stuff what i am thinking about: should i make fiance and dog wear matching skeleton pajamas 2022-09-07T03:14:18-00:00 "this is a family portrait," i insist, dabbing more grease paint into his eye sockets, "it's important" 2022-09-07T05:19:43-00:00 why does the equivalent of https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BQC7GNL * 3 + https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09HC5GRKY/ * 3 cost like two thousand dollars i just thought it'd be nice to not have a billion little boxes sitting around but goddamn 2022-09-08T18:19:53-00:00 oh dang! I liked this book (though not the sequel https://maya.land/books/william-gibson/agency/) so I hope this is good!! https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0B8TG91J8/ 2022-09-08T19:17:22-00:00 genuinely thought you were all just meming about the queen of england dying 2022-09-08T22:47:05-00:00 An elderly lady died today whose accomplishments and international influence are worth remembering https://archive.ph/fJCTn 2022-09-08T22:47:59-00:00 > When the U.S. Marines and some Iraqis toppled a massive statue of Saddam Hussein, the country’s dictator, she quoted somber Iraqis saying that the arrival of American troops had been humiliating and predicting that the Americans would soon be resented. By contrast, she said, the dominant images on television were of jubilant crowds cheering the fall of the statue. 2022-09-08T22:48:21-00:00 > Ms. Garrels’s first book, “Naked in Baghdad,” was published in 2003. The title referred to her habit of working in her room at the Palestine Hotel with no clothes on. Strange as it seems, her explanation was that if Iraqi security forces banged on her door, they would give her time to get dressed, and she would be able to hide her illegal satellite phone. what a fuckin badass 2022-09-09T01:01:14-00:00 my internet wasn't working and it messed up my ability to get work done and i was Very Upset until i ate some lentils. i don't know what this says about anything 2022-09-09T03:31:48-00:00 i think there is a crow bus stop near our house where they meet up to head to bothell at night. it is really fun when they are all yelling up in the trees 2022-09-09T23:18:19-00:00 "They fly along the same flight lines each day and are joined by other flocks as they go. Often there are pre-roosting sites, where flight lines coincide and crows stop to feed before flying the final distance to the roost. Communication between groups of crows often takes place at these pre- roosting sites." https://wdfw.wa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/00611/wdfw00611.pdf i like "bus stop" better than "pre-roosting site" 2022-09-09T23:31:35-00:00 "Telling young people who just graduated from college that a satisfying career is hopeless until we dismantle capitalism is about as helpful as telling somebody asking for directions to the bathroom that no true relief will visit humankind until death." https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/09/career-ambition-advice-data/671374/?utm_source=feed (laugh rule) 2022-09-10T05:46:02-00:00 if you have headaches and you haven't gone to the dentist in a while, go to the dentist and get any root canal they advise. this has solved headaches for me and for a friend. no they did not feel like toothaches. yes it is horrendously expensive, but also, you can then sleep again 2022-09-10T05:46:32-00:00 we both grew up with non-fluoridated water so watch for that as a risk factor, too, likely 2022-09-10T05:47:35-00:00 i felt like an asshole looking at her sleep-deprived face on a video call and being like "not to immediately 'have you tried' your health issue, but have you..." BUT GUESS WHAT, IT WORKED 2022-09-10T19:10:06-00:00 in seattle, wildfires make it look like blade runner. in snohomish county, wildfires make it look like god fucked up the white balance 2022-09-10T20:22:03-00:00 what are normal amounts of air travel? I'm reading this thing about how the global 1% fly a ton more than other people. what is the average amount for actual average person? average US person? average US 50-100k income person? I wonder how it's different than my intuitive guesses https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-021-00900-y 2022-09-10T20:47:18-00:00 another fun difference between seattle and snohomish county: when there is helicopter noise in seattle, a lot of the time it turns out to be hysterical local news coverage of something that could have been served by a rooftop shot. there is helicopter noise here that turns out to be wildfire response. can't be mad about that 2022-09-10T20:47:57-00:00 they do also helicopter people from the sound around for medical purposes but that is always quick unlike the goddamn protest copters 2022-09-10T21:04:22-00:00 flakes of ash... floating down from the sky... 2022-09-10T22:39:36-00:00 fiance leaves and dog turns into endless source of sad squeaking 2022-09-11T01:25:13-00:00 the reflection of the leds here is somewhat overstated, but... most of the time i hope to have this window open while i'm at the desk because we live in a v. mild climate. i need to put some white paper to diffuse the reflection when i can't have it open. should it be ghost shaped? abstract snowflakey things? a flat panel with some inspirational text on it? 2022-09-11T01:57:03-00:00 there is a lot of ash that's come down, is coming down. i went out with the dog for a bit. it's a little like drizzle, except instead of dampness, filth. 2022-09-11T01:57:33-00:00 so far i'm at: 3 sheets of printer paper that are doing their best as a bounce card 2022-09-11T18:34:51-00:00 god bless Living In A Society that has https://fire.airnow.gov ready online for the time of need 2022-09-11T18:37:09-00:00 we are in between red, purple, and the burgundy-that-is-worse-than-purple 2022-09-11T19:11:44-00:00 is silicone something i should be nervous about in a compost pile https://buyifyoucare.com/products/parchment-baking-paper i like things not sticking but i don't know if i trust those reusable silicone mats to not melt / leach skeezy stuff 2022-09-11T20:07:49-00:00 decided not to properly annotate it: https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/ea-is-a-fight-against-knightian-uncertainty i agree in that the knightian uncertainty is very, very underemphasized in EA discourse, but boyyyyyyy do I and my wildfire AQI have some thoughts about "and that's why economic growth is the silver bullet we should focus on over everything else" 2022-09-12T01:23:16-00:00 i didn't draw for a long time and it left me feeling intimidated, sitting down at the new wonderful art station. it turns out that it is pretty fixable if you start out by zine-paging up your opinions about mixes of vegetables one sautes as a base in cooking 2022-09-12T01:25:46-00:00 this sounds like it's setting up for a pun. uhh. unintended pressure. uhh... it's a miraclepoix? 2022-09-12T03:41:37-00:00 firefox css paged media when ;-; 2022-09-12T03:45:14-00:00 if you have high DPI images that you want to lay out into a PDF, but they're cropped such that you need to visually adjust margins (so imagemagick scripts aren't the best), is a word processor really your best option? is this what all those "publisher" programs are about 2022-09-12T03:50:21-00:00 inheriting fiance's iphone. exciting! the otterbox case comes with a place to attach phone charms... do people still do that 2022-09-12T03:51:53-00:00 it is fine if "people" here is, like, korean children or whatever, i just don't *totally* want to be in the past 2022-09-12T18:24:44-00:00 https://www.caseyrubberstamps.net/product/chess-set-rubber-stamps i am now imagining a chess game played through mailing elaborately backgrounded stamped boards (not encoded moves) 2022-09-12T18:27:25-00:00 i wish this were possible for a game i enjoyed instead of chess 🙈 2022-09-13T06:46:51-00:00 my first observations with stable diffusion img2img: it is really hard for it not to give women nose jobs 2022-09-13T07:36:10-00:00 i can see the gpu-niks are getting excited enough about Thomas Kincade that someone needs to write the essay about AI kitsch, but it ain't gonna be me 2022-09-13T21:49:21-00:00 i have precisely two lines from "the impression that i get" stuck in my head and not particularly good ones 2022-09-14T06:03:39-00:00 finished nona the ninth ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 2022-09-14T06:05:09-00:00 it is not a real spoiler to tell you that i teared up twice and had tears escape my eyes once. it is even less of a spoiler to tell you i was chortling aloud to myself, which is a Very Weird And Unusual Thing, even reading something very funny 2022-09-15T04:01:08-00:00 absolutely furious here that i am staring at a situation where computational complexity is relevant but there is no Clever Hack 2022-09-15T15:21:44-00:00 genuinely how do you write this piece and not talk to anyone with a Spanish name https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/what-do-professional-apple-farmers-think-of-people-who-pick-apples-for-fun/414382/ 2022-09-15T15:23:07-00:00 file under 'All the respect the culture gives to "farmers" ought to belong to farmworkers alone' 2022-09-16T03:17:10-00:00 learning shortcuts.... k is for konsole 2022-09-16T17:11:02-00:00 ya boi got herself a laser printer with a feeder scanner. i do not know how i will abuse this power but oh i am excited to find out 2022-09-16T17:12:47-00:00 i have a big stack of drawings/paintings that i meant to scan on the flatbed but haven't gotten around to so if the feeder works even *kind of* it will open some doors 2022-09-16T17:14:46-00:00 I was going to say this is a 2004-ass recommendation and then i saw "2002". not a bad thing https://www.ephotozine.com/article/scanning-leaves---a-creative-scanner-guide-4661 2022-09-16T17:16:40-00:00 anybody doing anything weird/creative with ios shortcuts? online i saw that there are some folks doing vernacular programming with them (report generation for work and stuff) so I'd bet there are workflows for creation too 2022-09-16T18:13:43-00:00 does anyone have a version of this monitored for security by mozilla https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/ 2022-09-16T22:05:54-00:00 how am i only today discovering the mathematical meaning of "fathom" i adore this 2022-09-17T16:21:03-00:00 power, not meanness: https://maya.land/responses/2022/09/17/power-not-meanness.html 2022-09-17T16:28:11-00:00 as often, fedi saw it first 2022-09-17T21:10:27-00:00 has anyone gotten client certs to work through an ios browser how is this phone so much fancier than my old one but i just want to throw it across the room 2022-09-17T22:03:39-00:00 you know what setup is going way smoother than that of this premium ass Just Works device? the goddamn budget printer 2022-09-18T16:45:25-00:00 having internet speed in kbps and metered bandwidth has not changed my opinion that *most* of the complaints about website page size are bad 2022-09-18T16:49:13-00:00 maybe it's sort of... pareto principle-y. some of the egregiously bigger-than-they-need-to-be framework-cruft-laden pages are very high traffic – and also vended by bigtech companies that could make a lite version if they so chose. so there's a lot of wasted latency/transfer that really is rude af. at the same time, most of the *examples* of "bigger-than-they-need-to-be" that people use seem to me to be reasonable tradeoffs given their whole context 2022-09-18T20:26:23-00:00 when i was a kid, i asked my dad if napoleon dynamite was set in the past, because while i wouldn't have been able to articulate that it *was* an 80s look particularly discordant against 2004, it seemed... odd. he laughed and told me that places like where he grew up, like where it's set, that rural, that remote - some things there are just *like* they're in the past. anyway in snohomish county it is christian girl autumn circa 2012 2022-09-18T21:07:59-00:00 our lawn at the new place has evidently been kept mowed very short very regularly for a long time, and without any herbicides, there's a *ton* of diversity in what's growing there that I wouldn't have expected. is this the kind of thing anyone other than me would care about 2022-09-18T23:26:41-00:00 the preview here is that there are a lot of species that will pop up with "X in lawn" autofilling to "how to get rid of X in lawn" some of them are genuinely Bad Actors, like the sheep-killing buttercup (https://faust.land/flora/ranunculus/), some lovely (https://faust.land/flora/prunella-vulgaris/ or https://faust.land/flora/viola/ and possible origanum i've found), and some somewhere in the middle (https://turf.purdue.edu/prostrate-spurge/ toxic latex) 2022-09-18T23:30:01-00:00 the other thing about this is that you can find out what might have good luck in your lawn based on the weed-n-feed crowd's laments about it. for example, yarrow "tolerates close mowing" (https://lawnandturfcare.blogspot.com/2012/06/yarrow.html) , so I am hoping it will work nicely as we transition away from that real close cut 2022-09-18T23:38:08-00:00 a pound of yarrow seed is a Lot Of Yarrow Seed 2022-09-18T23:41:35-00:00 what i don't understand is how people can look at a lovely lush layer of moss and think they need to tear it out. i'd say there's more moss than grass in this lawn and i'm hoping that doesn't stop being the case if we let the plant parts get longer 2022-09-18T23:48:46-00:00 would there be more moss if i could avoid gouging it with the mower because i can't drive and it's delicate? yes. yes there would 2022-09-18T23:53:35-00:00 this is my basil-rhymes-with-dazzle planter. why yes i did plant way too many seeds let us move past that. one thing that doesn’t really show here but that i find fascinating is that the little purple seedlings are far far purpler right next to the leds than in the further corners 2022-09-18T23:57:33-00:00 i did eat one and can report that the cotyledons do not taste of basil but the stem does 2022-09-19T00:04:16-00:00 here is my little seed starter tray and yes i did not mean to add that much water shh it is in the sun now it will be fine. the tall boys are chamomile and the little ones are corsican mint. i have no idea where on the property each will thrive but my idea is to just throw a wide mix of stuff in a wide mix of places and see what takes 2022-09-19T00:07:41-00:00 btw i will be reporting back especially on the corsican mint because the price for it is extortionate, so the seeds are also expensive but not as bad if patience alone will make up the difference 2022-09-19T00:09:50-00:00 the fact that amazon will ship huge bags of potting soil at prices comparable to the store’s is nuts to me? but also, that’s money out of their pockets so 2022-09-19T00:27:48-00:00 having a non work desk is great. the skeletons i used as a test print for the laser printer are becoming enzined 2022-09-19T01:01:10-00:00 the clover i'm trying to overseed with has ... kind of come up, in a few places? just cotyledons still 2022-09-19T01:01:59-00:00 i'll bet you somewhere on god's green earth there is a killer of a cotyledon/cotillion pun 2022-09-19T01:03:20-00:00 we saw a snake go under the house. i feel like i can handle snakes and i can handle small spaces but not at once 2022-09-19T01:06:08-00:00 the seed spreader i got is not working awesome with the small seeds, even with sand mixed in – maybe I just don't have an instinct for how heavily it's supposed to seed, but it *seems real heavy* 2022-09-19T01:22:44-00:00 haaaaaa > Zuckerberg, whose company has been blamed for enabling genocide in Myanmar because it did not bother to hire moderators who speak Burmese, for example, added that one of his life’s biggest regrets is competing on the fencing team in high school rather than wrestling. https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axabj/mark-zuckerberg-now-obsessed-with-mma-rolling-and-wrestling-with-friends 2022-09-19T01:39:56-00:00 that's probably enough plantposting for the day 2022-09-19T02:42:20-00:00 not for me but mmmmmmmmmm that good trendy web design https://www.thenearness.coop/ 2022-09-19T02:43:39-00:00 "This isn't for you if ... You're looking for therapy to deal with religious trauma" is there pre-therapy to get to the point of deciding to look for therapy 2022-09-19T04:40:49-00:00 just now realizing that popsockets are how women, tending to be smaller handed, manage to hold a phone securely but reach across it with one hand. i curse every large handed engineer that never had to think much about it and i curse the designers who would rather make the factory model Sleek than add affordances for use 2022-09-19T15:47:02-00:00 i have been saying that matrix's main client, element, was already totally adequate and not as WIPpy as people say, and the overall experience similar. i am now using the ios app and people's complaints are.... right. they're right. 2022-09-19T16:28:36-00:00 missed a wedding because i dont check messages 2022-09-19T16:29:29-00:00 fuck 2022-09-19T16:29:56-00:00 i had a DREAM about missing a wedding and it was the wrong friend!!!! 2022-09-19T17:47:12-00:00 what can a homepage be?: https://maya.land/monologues/2022/09/19/homepages.html 2022-09-19T19:27:08-00:00 https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/taking-stock-of-our-technological this stuff makes such sirens go off in my head even though it ought to be just up my alley 2022-09-19T19:31:28-00:00 like: if you are the kind of person who does not understand that the significance of “liturgy” rests in a public and communal nature, it is extremely sketchy that you are trying to invoke its associations at all, much less for a private and individual habit 2022-09-19T20:26:14-00:00 my grumbling notes about andy matuschak may even some day be surpassed in length by my grumbling about sacasas 2022-09-20T06:09:44-00:00 haha did i say i was done plantposting that was a lie 2022-09-20T06:10:44-00:00 https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/publications/00050/RAlder-Salmonberry.pdf this seems to be the kind of woods we've got. I'm not 100% on it being salmonberry, but there's an aldery boy and there's a thorny guy and getting through the woods means a lot of pruning down the thorny guys 2022-09-20T06:13:03-00:00 from https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/publications/00047/fireweed.pdf i am learning about "screefing" and i have a new life goal to use that in scrabble 2022-09-20T06:21:06-00:00 the man wants to do cool secret clearings, which I support, but I am not 100 on how we can make the path walkable. aggressive mulch? 2022-09-20T06:30:29-00:00 why do i say “to be 100 on” something so much 2022-09-20T19:14:43-00:00 it would be interesting to see cost of living indices for different areas/countries adjusted by not just household but lifestyle factors. where is it cheapest to live with three bedrooms in something denser than a suburb? where is it cheapest to live childless on 10+ acres? where is it cheapest to be elderly (medical costs) with a big house? small apartment? 2022-09-20T19:23:56-00:00 that strong towns thing about the growth ponzi scheme whereby everyone subsidizes suburban infrastructure rattles around in my head. or like – rural bus service is a lot better in e.g. ireland than e.g. america, but then if you live *beyond* it, fuel isn't as cheap. 2022-09-21T05:49:45-00:00 i wonder if it would be worth writing about how i personally am at a place where this fails to resonate with me at all and how that fits with signing up for tumblr in 2009. https://unselfing.social/ 2022-09-21T05:54:31-00:00 I am constantly showing myself by pointing at the things I love and hate and want to slice up under a microscope 2022-09-21T07:03:58-00:00 if writing about a tree counts as not about the self, i genuinely cannot imagine how i would make a full two thirds of my internet presence ABOUT myself 2022-09-21T07:04:26-00:00 follow up: yeah but maya how much are you on the internet 2022-09-21T17:13:57-00:00 are there wedding favors that don't end up being inevitably wasteful the things I can think of are * tiny jars of honey * lil plants in peat pots * cookies in paper packaging to go 2022-09-21T17:14:50-00:00 don't say that everyone hates wedding favors and they should just always be skipped because i am The Bitch Who Loves Receiving Tiny Things 2022-09-21T17:16:29-00:00 https://www.intimateweddings.com/blog/birdseed-wedding-favor-hearts-easy-and-inexpensive-diy/ hmm good energy 2022-09-21T17:19:26-00:00 https://seasalt.com/yakima-applewood-smoked-sea-salt-shaker " our Yakima® Applewood Smoked Sea Salt by Artisan®. " i'm sorry you registered *what* as a trademark 2022-09-22T01:31:50-00:00 fun wildfire facts: the fire originating closer doesn't necessarily make the smoke *worse* (since lots of factors can dissipate it) but it does seem to make it smell more like you're being carefully prepared for the table with mesquite grilling pellets 2022-09-22T01:36:06-00:00 that's one thing that i hope people from less wildfire-wrought places know: normally, imagine something closer to a burning oven than a campfire 2022-09-22T01:37:11-00:00 ordinarily, wet cigarette or the last toke or burning hair, not nice cutesy pine. but today? i get to pretend I Am Marshmallow 2022-09-22T17:11:40-00:00 electrically heated green cotton velvet wrist/forearm gauntlets with conspicuous brass power cables 2022-09-22T17:13:58-00:00 if i insulate my throat/chest it keeps itself cozy. my fingers/toes get numb as they get cold so they don't impact my comfort much. the real leverage is at the wrists and ankles which my circulatory system refuses to warm but which still feel the chill 2022-09-22T17:16:39-00:00 "aren't you cold?" people say, doubtfully looking at bare legs under a skirt. fools!! the legs have insulation! it is the *forearms* that are miserable 2022-09-22T18:14:23-00:00 omg just ran into my first work situation where the documentation is written in latex bless every phd holder 2022-09-23T17:21:11-00:00 if you’re an American who doesn’t think about Christianity much I would recommend today’s episode of The Daily. it will sound very familiar if you grew up in something evangelical-adjacent but even there I think there’s good stuff to chew on. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2GszQDrxq741NDMZgmvptW 2022-09-23T17:23:43-00:00 notably, the guy driven out was not espousing anything that wasn’t deeply mainstream. this isn’t about qanon vs liberation theology 2022-09-23T18:37:03-00:00 whattttt is the music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YDfV9jal9Q 2022-09-23T19:37:19-00:00 do i feel bad listening to bo burnham's Bezos I outside where neighbors can hear? yes. am i going to stop? no 2022-09-23T20:02:30-00:00 deeply bizarre to realize i have eight years of seasonally created playlists saved in spotify. i wonder how access to this metadata changes how reminiscence will work. not "the kind of thing we were all listening to in our twenties" but "ah, yes, the preserved essence of winter 2015 in 21 hours of songs" https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ZRuutotQLEc8uBopJYdeN?si=7a58d6a2b0144862 2022-09-23T21:02:16-00:00 i want to make a /uses page like https://uses.tech/ but i object on principle to segmenting off the "tech" technology that i use. i have a very nice trowel that is very good at cutting roots and it is just as much technology as my light up desk mat 2022-09-24T01:25:08-00:00 i know it isn't *just* reinventing the bookmarklet.... and i love the integrations.... but it's a *little* reinventing the bookmarklet https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts/use-the-run-javascript-on-webpage-action-apdb71a01d93/ios 2022-09-24T06:05:33-00:00 https://thehustle.co/the-small-town-that-saved-its-only-grocery-store-by-buying-it/ I am here for it *and what's more* people don't talk enough about how the gentry in small towns and rural places have *crazy* unelected power. Imagine getting banned from the only store in reasonable distance 2022-09-24T07:13:40-00:00 i wrote about homepages and quoted an excerpt from an essay by olia lialina but then when i actually read the essay in the published book there was a link in the footnote to her writing exactly the thing i meant but, like, years earlier. so i added it to the post but dang. i don’t mind riding around with a boombox blasting her message, though. https://maya.land/monologues/2022/09/19/homepages.html 2022-09-24T17:37:06-00:00 is anyone still on twitter who can tell me if people are *talking* about how midjourney these days forces everything to be orange and teal 2022-09-24T18:27:36-00:00 isn't michael beschloss around to stop them doing this kind of thing https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1571860789895757824 2022-09-24T18:28:43-00:00 chris i invite you to consider............ the dislocation.......of the huguenots https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The-Huguenots/ 2022-09-24T18:30:25-00:00 idk i am equally annoyed with facile "well it's like the printing press" and "it's obviously not like the printing press" just because everybody and their uncle thinks They Learned What Was Up With The Printing Press (In High School) 2022-09-24T20:47:10-00:00 PSA: porkbun weirdness. i didn't go in and change anything but A records were missing. all name servers fine, re-adding them fixed it 2022-09-24T20:58:16-00:00 tbh i wonder how much local history people know even the whitewashed version of. https://link.propublica.net/view/6162eee1ddd58d2826373217hcu7g.1gy2/ccd3b132 2022-09-24T21:12:09-00:00 what is the median time from the creation of Facebook group "X" to the creation of Facebook group "X uncensored" 2022-09-24T21:13:31-00:00 i want someone to write the investigatory report into https://www.facebook.com/groups/search/groups_home/?q=crime%20watch 2022-09-24T21:19:36-00:00 dont' mind me just sitting here on this lounge chair absolutely paralyzed thinking about investigatory vs investigative 2022-09-25T16:36:54-00:00 i need a millennials-to-snake-people style extension to do something ludicrous with "virtue-signaling" 2022-09-25T17:19:14-00:00 i feel like there's probably some obsessive fan forum post rebuttal out there that would be interesting to read ("9 reasons why you CANNOT say that the siege of minas tirith represents the siege of constantinople") but in sum... yeah https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/sjp.12477 2022-09-25T17:21:05-00:00 it's one of those things where you can roll some of it around and say that it's nuanced and complicated and refer to its original context but also then, downstream of tolkien, you look at What The Culture Did With The Idea Of Evil Fantasy Races and..... yike 2022-09-25T17:58:32-00:00 neighbor came up to porch and i went scuttling into the bedroom. 2022-09-25T18:31:32-00:00 i like how this is saying Down With Property Rights without sayyyyying down with property rights https://www.newwaysministry.org/2022/09/18/shady-solidarity-a-god-who-lifts-up-the-poor/ 2022-09-25T19:01:33-00:00 today i am wearing this extremely powerful article of clothing 2022-09-25T19:03:43-00:00 i don't remember whether i've posted these to fedi before but even if i have, You're Welcome For The Reminder 2022-09-25T19:06:54-00:00 respectfully, duck duck go, fuck off 2022-09-25T19:08:32-00:00 my originally dibsed formulation was "Illuminaughty" which didn't have search results at the time, but a friend gently guided me to the light. friends help friends workshop their bits 2022-09-25T20:08:38-00:00 they don’t advertise how unpleasant it is when you don’t brush out long hair for like two days and then you have to fix whatever happened inside your bun during that time 2022-09-25T20:14:59-00:00 she got up there by herself. are the lounge chairs even ours anymore 2022-09-25T20:16:26-00:00 you might think that is a hot tub in the background of this photo. this is a common misunderstanding. it is a frog habitat 2022-09-25T20:16:57-00:00 and re the planter : sempervivens MY ASS. 2022-09-26T01:46:56-00:00 and this is why americans end up concluding they too need large vehicles to feel safe on the road 2022-09-26T01:48:47-00:00 this is not a function of the angle at which the photo was taken. no I do not really want a large vehicle still, I’m just saying I understand the arms race logic 2022-09-26T17:06:05-00:00 there isn't a layer of abstraction that's the "real" reasonable layer to know-all-the-way-down to. it's entirely context-dependent. and given the context they *actually* work in, many Computer Men on the Internet would be better served by spending their time learning the higher and more human-interfacing layers better than bemoaning that the kids these days don't appreciate SIMD or whatever 2022-09-26T17:07:44-00:00 signed, You Have Not Fabbed Enough Chips To Get That Shirty About "Fundamentals" 2022-09-26T17:11:22-00:00 i hate having to raise my eyebrows to look like im not mad 2022-09-26T17:25:09-00:00 no YOU'RE the one putting a Mormon post-hardcore band on repeat 2022-09-26T17:25:19-00:00 wow i do not want to sit down and work 2022-09-26T17:32:23-00:00 signed, Maybe The Fundamentals Were Requirement Solicitation All Along 2022-09-27T02:18:49-00:00 i thought some amount of the death of hyper energy in my life was, like, being nearly thirty and not a teenager but i regret forgetting how much of that came from listening to hardstyle 2022-09-27T02:19:58-00:00 https://open.spotify.com/track/47SMvTZYCSH8h58CW8Q1xl?si=XWxuEQISSGG-FAn54ozizA cheers yes ill take two 2022-09-27T05:31:26-00:00 i revisited some anime of my youth and it didn't have the same sparkle but how much of that sparkle was spillover from deranged DDR offcuts 2022-09-27T16:56:14-00:00 this is the closest i get socially to vrchat folks (whom i admire from a distance) so i want to ask if anyone thinks thirdroom.io looks promising 2022-09-27T16:57:17-00:00 “metaverse” branding is obviously cringe but more open 3d vr stuff could be good? or nothing? and i am not qualifed to judge 2022-09-27T17:21:58-00:00 country life involves more equipment noise than you might imagine. def don’t remember this from childhood in similar zoning 2022-09-27T17:22:32-00:00 not a real complaint: there are birds and fresh air 2022-09-27T17:23:44-00:00 to be in a large work meeting and able from my office to listen to birdsong outside: grace i do not merit 2022-09-27T20:15:48-00:00 update: sorry, can’t have the windows open anymore, too much smoke in air. grace: rescinded 2022-09-27T23:59:42-00:00 does anyone have a resource they like that explains how to make forest photography not look like clutter or mush? https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/08/24/Woods-Walk#p-1 This gentleman has the same problem I do 2022-09-28T00:02:56-00:00 don’t get me wrong, you can tell from the picture that this is a beautiful spot - but it’s so far off from the experience my eyes had. 2022-09-28T01:50:32-00:00 flying CARS? you want flying CARS? why would you want that instead of this https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/paris-night/ 2022-09-28T01:56:54-00:00 all fairy illustrations should look at least this much like the fairy in question is on drugs https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/fairy-queen/ 2022-09-28T20:57:46-00:00 is this complaint meaningful next to the fucking joke that is having to get on a video call to introduce myself to some resident who's going to be ~an hour late and having to pay a couple of hundred bucks in order to be allowed to continue taking the medication i have been taking for a full-ass decade? no. but it does not help 2022-09-28T21:46:32-00:00 i take it all back. she wasn't a resident, she was genuinely helpful, she is helping me out with something the previous docs had shrugged and said i had to figure out on my own. all resentment now limited to whatever IT company lol 2022-09-28T21:46:57-00:00 also only like 15 min late, which for this hospital is perfectly on time, no complaints 2022-09-29T19:05:43-00:00 kullback-leibler neurodivergence 2022-09-29T19:16:27-00:00 are there any neat decision tree tools sold to mortals under guise of "flowcharts" 2022-09-29T19:17:45-00:00 I was thinking of expanding https://maya.land/technicalities/site-advice/ and have nerdsnipe-headshotted myself thinking about how i want to construct an optimal series of questions to point people towards different tools 2022-09-29T20:26:08-00:00 https://open.spotify.com/track/5vPIY9UAHmOux60VpRV26j 😘 2022-09-29T22:43:57-00:00 happy michaelmas, a traditional equinox festival today is the day that the devil pisses on the blackberries, so no more blackberries for the year 2022-09-29T23:03:59-00:00 my computer was dying so i dived onto the floor to use the laptop charger there it's been more than an hour that i've just been working on the floor this says something about something 2022-09-29T23:24:49-00:00 "Royal Society" of something or other and it was just started by a guy named Roy 2022-09-30T17:21:28-00:00 "nice white parents" by the serial folks is really good. i wonder if podcasts as a medium work well where there can be no resounding conclusion made honestly 2022-09-30T18:51:23-00:00 wrote first deciduous post on faust.land, so I naturally then had to fix atom feed generation https://faust.land/haus/2022-09-30-michaelmas/ 2022-09-30T20:37:31-00:00 ngl the "diplomatic" phrasing at the end makes it sound a bit like "we want the war to end *in order that* we can go back and look at the fun colored frogs" https://phys.org/news/2022-09-chernobyl-black-frogs-reveal-evolution.html 2022-10-01T01:18:43-00:00 i cannot get a picture of the plants in the lawn that shows how cool they are am i gonna have to learn how to edit raws for this 2022-10-01T01:20:46-00:00 there's this one section that looks like a quilt with different kinds of grass growing each in irregularly shaped patches no bigger than 2sq ft, and i would love to understand more about how that came to be. 2022-10-01T01:21:14-00:00 i'm not confident i can distinguish which kinds of moss are properly different kinds of moss and which are just Same Moss But Dormant 2022-10-01T01:21:38-00:00 what is all the purple broadleafed thing???? mystery 2022-10-01T01:22:36-00:00 you look with your eye and you can see the heterogeneity, the shifts across bits of the earth that get more and less sun, water, drainage. you take a picture and it looks like white noise colorized green 2022-10-01T01:37:07-00:00 just walking around in a haze considering how i could have changed so much as a person that i could write “dived” instead of dove 2022-10-01T01:42:06-00:00 i have a tab open on my phone. it’s for a font. the font costs thirty-five dollars. i could do that. it’s paired with another. that would make it seventy. that wouldn’t make sense, given the likelihood of my never using them for anything. so i shouldn’t get them. but i am still thinking about them somehow. so i can’t close the tab. what is the name of this paralysis and how to fix pls 2022-10-01T01:54:06-00:00 remind me how i don't need to engage in half-minded consumerism https://www.etsy.com/listing/1262886562/tote-bag-phillips-first-halloween 2022-10-01T02:16:47-00:00 gghhhh https://www.etsy.com/listing/1291627165/the-locked-tomb-series-by-tamsyn-muir 2022-10-01T02:22:26-00:00 https://beastsofengland.co/products/adams-regular theyre good fonts brent 2022-10-01T02:24:03-00:00 i want to read the chic wan perzine that uses this font 2022-10-01T02:31:56-00:00 the person who writes this perzine still feels in their gut that smoking is fundamentally cool but has gotten to the point where they're trying to quit. they have four much-worn items of clothing from vintage stores, and a lot of Sensible Wardrobe Pieces gifted them by family. what they do for a living is deeply alienating to the point where they dissociate for long periods. they once tried to flirt with someone at a party but scared them off by saying dying of dysentery had its own romance 2022-10-01T02:42:40-00:00 this person has made two failed attempts to learn welsh 2022-10-01T18:16:54-00:00 october font of the month is going to be late so it comes with a bonus code for something from the backissues....... https://djr.com/notes/aprils-font-of-the-month-club-lithographer https://djr.com/notes/pomfret-lowercase-font-of-the-month https://djr.com/notes/clavichord-font-of-the-month https://djr.com/notes/roslindale-display-widths-font-of-the-month which should i get 2022-10-01T18:17:29-00:00 clavichord is cool as hell if you adjust the hairline up but that sounds like... a giant pain anywhere but in css i think? 2022-10-01T19:38:08-00:00 a lot of the arguments to serve your fonts from your own domain rather than from e.g. google fonts never felt like they applied to my stuff. well guess what kiddos it's very helpful to have everything local when you want to run a dev server while you're tethered to your phone 2022-10-01T19:38:30-00:00 my name is Noto Emoji and I approve this message 2022-10-01T22:43:59-00:00 maybe you can safely ignore anyone talking about "the last acceptable prejudice"... because if they don't understand how many sources of prejudice are alive and well, they probably don't have as much insight about the one they're talking about as they think they do 2022-10-01T23:14:05-00:00 indeed 2022-10-01T23:16:59-00:00 and how do i get in contact with ms. slipper 2022-10-03T08:33:35-00:00 apple i do not think i actually spent 58 minutes on futurama.fandom.com last week. i do not think i did that 2022-10-03T17:50:36-00:00 haven't ridden a greyhound in a long time.... it did not use to feature so many people listening to audio from their phone speakers. 2022-10-03T17:57:02-00:00 generally i tell people that this kind of bus travel is much better than they imagine but i ...... regret not having headphones with me to block this out 2022-10-03T18:02:51-00:00 boltbus we hardly knew ye 2022-10-03T19:08:46-00:00 someone is listening to something that involves a lot of and *xylophone.* help 2022-10-03T20:36:34-00:00 okay i think i have my first properly crotchety I Don’t Have Kids But I Have Opinions About Parenting opinion: completely independently of whether it is good to have your kids on screens to entertain them, if you have them listening to their six second snippets of youtube exploitation tier kids content audio in a public confined place without headphones, you are bad and should feel bad. i would genuinely rather be hearing them screaming or crying or just bellowing than the speakers 2022-10-03T21:45:03-00:00 lady midday (the demon): https://maya.land/responses/2022/10/03/lady-midday-demon.html 2022-10-03T21:47:47-00:00 interestingly, after one of them dropped a phone and the other let it run out of charge, the mother seems much more bothered by their garden-variety child-nattering than by the truly excruciating audio that there was before. 2022-10-04T17:36:38-00:00 craft update: embossing with the pens laying down sticky is pretty easy, but the glue thing for the stamp didn't work well. gonna order a more explicitly embossing ink option 2022-10-04T17:43:58-00:00 what is the morally correct response to people letting their dog defecate on your yard. appropriate degree of passive-aggression, self-sacrifice, etc. 2022-10-05T05:24:10-00:00 if this person weren't likely disturbed i would be *all over* this "It seems like the organization, which Moriyama says has 14 members, gets old laptops, installs Linux on them, gives them to students, and then teaches them some combination of IT and occult skills. Graduated students can be both highly effective Linux sysadmins and can photograph the spirit world, identify demons, etc." https://maxread.substack.com/p/why-is-this-cyber-education-nonprofit 2022-10-05T05:41:42-00:00 command-line operation tutorial using text files of magical correspondences to practice data manipulation 2022-10-05T06:03:12-00:00 colonialism and capitalism: bad https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169 2022-10-05T06:05:52-00:00 "Poverty alleviation and gains in human health have historically been linked to socialist political movements and public action, not to capitalism." i love it when you get a near-literature-review to say fuck you to steven pinker 2022-10-05T06:14:15-00:00 anyway this is correct to say that pinker’s brand of “optimism “ (callousness) is unwarranted, but I do find it really cheering in terms of considering what is possible 2022-10-05T18:52:33-00:00 welcome twitter emigres! 2022-10-05T19:11:14-00:00 hmm. perhaps harvest time even for the unripe… 2022-10-05T19:20:46-00:00 what would you do with embossing powers 2022-10-05T19:26:40-00:00 I have gold ones I like more, and this one does ye olde glitter infection, but…. 2022-10-05T20:16:00-00:00 internet says i can give em a couple more weeks 2022-10-05T20:31:16-00:00 next year we’re going to be Good and figure out how to trim and thin them but this year is See What Happens only 2022-10-05T20:57:52-00:00 if i were going to write "All I really need to know about how social media should work I learned from fanfiction" what would you hope it would cover 2022-10-05T21:05:28-00:00 things I know that should go in it: * discovery and recommendation layers living separately from platforms that host content: good, actually * content warnings matter * explicit layers of levels of engagement (sort by views vs sort by kudos vs sort by reviews) accommodating degrees of lurker (cont.) 2022-10-05T21:05:42-00:00 (cont.) * problematic dynamics around uncompensated effort; gratitude, realistic expectations, No One's Getting Rich Off This (Besides E.L. James) * folksonomy (gonna link to maciej's thing on this, probably) and metadata * pseudonymity matters, even for the things where you'd think it wouldn't 2022-10-05T21:51:24-00:00 every time someone writes "the problem with X" my first thought is "you can't tell me X only has *one* problem" 2022-10-06T20:53:24-00:00 ordinarily after a concert i stop listening to that band’s music for a while, like hunger sated not this time you’re running after something that you’ll never killllllllllll 2022-10-07T00:13:04-00:00 in multa sapientia multa sit indignatio you just can't beat ecclesiastes 2022-10-07T07:49:20-00:00 i love the internet https://youtu.be/xu4S8v99WLU?t=579 2022-10-07T07:55:54-00:00 i love finding "american food" in the way that, you know, thai food in america often isn't thai food https://cookpad.com/uk/recipes/157226-canned-mackerel-sandwiches-from-the-us 2022-10-07T14:29:41-00:00 “the indulgences begged for on All Souls Day” ian bogost are you trying to annoy me individually 2022-10-07T17:49:15-00:00 are there good reasons to use pages (mac) instead of an html file to typeset a zine i guess that i have to use chrome to set up the page, but other reasons? 2022-10-07T17:54:39-00:00 is there a way to pay recaptcha to not get in my way 2022-10-07T17:56:26-00:00 i acquiesce to the shake down i just wanna log into paypal in a non-private-window jesus 2022-10-07T22:23:35-00:00 another day, another sit on the floor because my chair is uncomfortable 2022-10-07T23:16:29-00:00 https://thenib.com/slow-your-roll-sisyphus/ excellent 2022-10-07T23:24:04-00:00 if i ever get nervous that my obnoxiousness quotient is falling low, i can always start describing myself as a codemongeress 2022-10-08T07:18:11-00:00 if the caldav sync actually works between ios and nextcloud this might be the most polished ux i've been allowed since i started self-hosting lol 2022-10-08T07:28:25-00:00 i am pretty sure my fiance has filed all of mastodon into a box in his brain labeled “maya twitter” 2022-10-08T07:29:14-00:00 the box has a post it in the corner “why i had to teach maya how to set up postgres” 2022-10-08T07:42:15-00:00 trying agregore and it crashed first crash details i have seen to include “CORPSE” not sure if it needs more work or if i should respect that for being metal 2022-10-08T07:42:53-00:00 i may be just simple country folk but “tumblrcore” as an adjective should be illegal 2022-10-08T13:50:55-00:00 https://www.nylon.com/beauty/tumblrcore-coquette-babydoll-makeup-trend-tiktok isn’t this what we called 🍒 twitter 2022-10-08T13:55:59-00:00 ““Being girly and embracing femininity were seen as not cool” in the past, explains Beckett. But we’re now enjoying a time of reclamation with the resurgence of Y2K hyperfemininity and Barbiecore.” I’m sorry but when when has gender conformity not been rewarded 2022-10-08T14:14:44-00:00 when i was a wee teenager i remember being very skeptical of my peers giving fake-deep-sounding life advice on the social media. how would you know, i thought. you haven’t been around to see it play out. i was not nearly skeptical enough of vague perceptions of “the past was like XYZ and we’re different now” 2022-10-08T14:18:12-00:00 reading kathleen hanna zines made me realize, ah, yes, okay, there were people decades beforr me who had the awareness that i credited as being very Current and New, and conversely, very little of the awareness that i perceived as belonging to that New Moment really reached beyond a narrow range of people. so both that the past was not in fact uniformly like XYZ, AND we were not different now. 2022-10-09T06:38:14-00:00 PSA: do not buy this. https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/williams-sonoma-halloween-hot-cocoa-cauldron/?pkey=call-halloween A. it spills in shipping. B. it isn't hot cocoa, it is Bright Orange Beverage. 2022-10-09T18:02:50-00:00 https://www.sensibledefaults.io/blog/reverse-engineering-cat-feeder/index my mom said that she was pretty sure she could have gotten me ready for med school as a small child if she were willing to mete out m&ms rigorously 2022-10-09T18:31:47-00:00 nice little cutesy halloween soundtrack for ya today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqkRcoCwQGg 2022-10-09T19:12:36-00:00 got the bedroom speakers to work great room speaker casting now refusing to connect conclusion: god does not want me to have the ability to play sound in more than two places 2022-10-09T19:37:10-00:00 god changed their mind thank you 2022-10-10T00:18:38-00:00 husbento husbento husbento. what i want to know is where are the youtube videos on the waifood 2022-10-10T02:00:34-00:00 cooking is work and i don't get how people enjoy it. i enjoy having the fussy little guys when they're done, and being able to point to where the herbs grew, but dang 2022-10-10T02:06:45-00:00 i mean i do *get* it in the sense that there are things that others find similarly tedious that i can happily zone out doing..... but .... at least when you're crafting you don't have to wash your hands all the stupid time!!!!!! 2022-10-10T22:12:17-00:00 which is more defining of us having become a household properly: 1\. getting a dog together 2\. buying a house together (both names on mortgage) 3\. buying a return address stamp 4\. getting married (not yet) 5\. setting up shared/caldav-synced calendar for events and tasks/reminders 2022-10-11T04:01:47-00:00 whoever is picking the fonts for the allure special issue advertorial that i was sent: i see you, i feel you, i respect you 2022-10-11T04:02:38-00:00 my girl said fuck it they are going to pay for my Monarch license 2022-10-11T07:21:21-00:00 these are so cool (i mean, in execution, clearly some of the concepts were........requested) https://www.inspireuplift.com/shop/LatypovLeathercraft?page=1 2022-10-12T02:28:08-00:00 "do not read the hacker news gender comments" is like my personal manifestation of "people will shock themselves with electric that they know will be painful just to not be bored" 2022-10-12T02:30:04-00:00 "We're moving! Join us at our new site: " no :) 2022-10-12T04:52:09-00:00 :boost_requested: [ ] mastodonian [ ] mastodontist [ ] mastochist [ ] mastoress 2022-10-12T05:05:56-00:00 mastoress should have been mastoficer i regret 2022-10-13T00:46:19-00:00 i'm sorry *hwat* https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mouldwarp#English 2022-10-13T01:54:23-00:00 i wonder what the most bizarrely specific things are i could put together for a "in this house we" sign https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=in+this+house+we+sign&iax=images&ia=images 2022-10-13T01:54:45-00:00 they have to actually apply to me or the household or it's cheating 2022-10-13T02:00:13-00:00 in this house we acknowledge the efficacy of fluoridated water in promoting dental health 2022-10-13T02:02:17-00:00 in this house we adhere to OSHA standards 2022-10-13T08:16:34-00:00 in this house we have complicated feelings about media loved in childhood later understood to be problematic 2022-10-13T08:19:18-00:00 in this house we engage in physiological respiration to remove carbon dioxide from our tissue 2022-10-13T18:42:10-00:00 i have discovered that putting "snohomish county" in stable diffusion prompts produces delightfully familiar landscapes. RIP to all of you who have generic European language place names for your beloved places 2022-10-13T18:43:18-00:00 i'm not gonna lie i like the idea of actually putting these together and getting a sign but typography sufficiently Like That to register as authentic would Hurt Me 2022-10-13T18:51:52-00:00 might just try making this in gouache with my superior human ability to Know How Branches Work 2022-10-14T06:03:13-00:00 servers, sewers, alienation: https://maya.land/responses/2022/10/13/servers-sewers-alienation.html 2022-10-14T07:27:13-00:00 it’s only … 2400 words… when you take out the quotes…. 2022-10-14T07:53:43-00:00 update : why yes i did write an essay out of this toot 2022-10-14T20:59:25-00:00 https://themillions.com/2022/10/why-bad-catholics-make-great-art.html i was pre-cringed ready to be hurt the whole way through, but pleasant surprise 2022-10-14T22:04:29-00:00 since my old unironically beloved cringe oneupmanship winner, tATu , has now become mainstream approved somehow, you will find me listening to this hardstyle remix of bring me to life from here on out 2022-10-14T22:32:04-00:00 conversely, having an animated GIF background on my website filters certain elements out of my audience quite nicely https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/why-ancient-browsers.html 2022-10-14T22:32:41-00:00 (https://maya.land/prefers-reduced-motion/) 2022-10-15T05:32:06-00:00 are there beatrix potter illustration style furries 2022-10-15T05:54:04-00:00 I imagine that if they exist they congregate on a PHP forum where it is extremely bad form not to address each other as Ms. Troutle, Mr. Prickberry, etc. 2022-10-15T16:12:52-00:00 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220929-how-outdoor-play-boosts-kids-immune-systems mud! mud! gallons of the stuff! 2022-10-16T01:46:06-00:00 today i got blisters on my hand from clipping up twigs for compost AMA 2022-10-16T01:47:33-00:00 all of the things you read about *moderate amounts* of this shit *not under time pressure* being deeply gratifying: true 2022-10-16T01:52:18-00:00 https://www.zerobanana.com/essays/living-in-the-future/ this is Dead On IMO 2022-10-16T03:11:41-00:00 why is it redge-ex and not r-egg-ex is it r-egg-ex and i've just failed to notice 2022-10-16T03:12:50-00:00 the english language's treatment of the letter "g" is a crime people complain about "c" but "g" is the worst 2022-10-16T22:28:32-00:00 if you think that text excerpts are a functional substitute for image transclusion i urge you never to pursue a career in, like, museums 2022-10-17T03:05:37-00:00 the first 22 seconds of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEBBm4AWCr8 2022-10-17T03:07:19-00:00 see also https://youtu.be/eEBBm4AWCr8?t=57 2022-10-17T04:40:07-00:00 bless! publicly funded! science education!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLKxdYya7KM 2022-10-17T23:51:10-00:00 a rainy WA view on amending soil with wood chips: https://maya.land/responses/2022/10/17/amending-soil-wood-chips.html 2022-10-18T07:02:14-00:00 trochaic septenarius sounds much cooler than 8.7.8.7 2022-10-18T16:45:26-00:00 petitioning people to stop saying "I disagree with " when what is meant is "I think you should not do X" 2022-10-18T16:50:04-00:00 beyond general "polite-sounding" incoherence, it also rhetorically sets everyone up in a position of having synonymous beliefs and lives which is such a weirdly protestant hangup. i bet i disagree with my own lifestyle in many more ways than you do, ma'am, just different ones 2022-10-18T18:52:09-00:00 https://nitter.kavin.rocks/hillelogram/status/1534301391044460544 pondering sending him an unhinged email about Okay Well Here Are Some Sources And Also You Are Using A Specific Term For A Bunch Of Other Stuff And 2022-10-18T19:32:35-00:00 sent a polite and admiring email instead, *but* I am seeing this blew up on the orange site so I'm sure he's gotten way too much feedback now :( 2022-10-18T19:34:43-00:00 does anyone have a good clapback essay to Politics and the English Language 2022-10-18T21:51:16-00:00 https://www.semafor.com/ i love the design, it makes me want to push it even furthier and quirkier 2022-10-19T18:43:53-00:00 https://atproto.com/ <\-- i don't have time to dig into it just now – are the blog posts coming to analyze how this is and isn't as differentiated as it claims? I don't want to say that activitypub or even activitypub-with-extensions is the be-all-end-all, and i'm the adventurous user-admin happy to try new stuff, but I'm just as suspicious as everyone else of the way this is going down 2022-10-19T22:29:30-00:00 holy shit i gotta get my 404s on this level https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/master-tapes/ 2022-10-20T00:04:30-00:00 i would like to dibs r⏏️ as a rebus if it's still unused 2022-10-20T00:16:20-00:00 how weird do you have to be as a childless weirdo to have people visit your grave 2022-10-20T04:40:18-00:00 does preordering the kindle book help preorder numbers 2022-10-20T06:32:28-00:00 spooky disturbing halloween background on maya.land making everything 900% more cluttered-looking. sort of inspiring actually 2022-10-20T17:13:56-00:00 who picked #wawx as the wildfire tag. who. what is the x 2022-10-20T17:32:55-00:00 i wish i could go to a page that’d show a feed of tweets representative of the typical stuff seen by a certain demographic of twitter user 2022-10-20T17:34:38-00:00 i love all the weird language use i picked up in my days there but The Benefit Is Not Worth The Cost… just want to dip a toe into what the 25-34yo west coast women are seeing these days, you know? 2022-10-20T17:35:22-00:00 to get this funded to exist someone would need to pitch an old rich person on the idea of filter bubbles. i know it’s been done as a reporting stunt before 2022-10-21T05:29:54-00:00 https://fontsinuse.com/uses/39528/crest-toothpaste-ads-1968-1971 2022-10-21T05:43:12-00:00 user scripts to toggle youtube interface features: i am not even going to try to make this work better ug 2022-10-21T06:56:45-00:00 listen to more theremin 2022-10-21T20:55:14-00:00 hacker news error bar estimate: think of something where you have particular domain knowledge, nonpublic information, or other specialization beyond what a drive by internet commenter with a similar job title to yours might know. go see what the commenters are saying about it. estimate that level of Wrong on top of everything said on hn about anything. 2022-10-21T21:16:48-00:00 anybody like any particular option out there for aggregating many rss feeds into a single feed? (I don't mean something like a category in OPML, I mean the items should show up as all from one feed) 2022-10-21T21:17:09-00:00 https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/14030/art-gothic.rss https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/8072/artcraft.rss https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/4873/athenaeum.rss https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/14504/bank-script.rss https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/838/berling.rss https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/1698/brighton.rss https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/14824/berthold-script.rss ........... 2022-10-21T21:18:29-00:00 am i going to end up cronning this together myself with python: likely 2022-10-21T22:13:30-00:00 i will believe that there is something valuable about a 3d vr experience when the vampire the masquerade larpers can extend it for their needs 2022-10-21T22:14:28-00:00 do i have ideas in a text file? yes i do. 2022-10-22T17:03:35-00:00 does anyone want to read this lol 2022-10-23T06:20:08-00:00 no *you're* making irresponsible impulse postage purchases 2022-10-23T06:21:09-00:00 cheerleading my friend through setting up yunohost 📣🤩 2022-10-23T16:04:00-00:00 i do need to block hn for my own mental health but this exchange about accessibility in tech has killed me https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33306923 2022-10-23T16:06:30-00:00 “the root of your problem is that you wanted to interact with something closed source” 2022-10-23T22:07:07-00:00 am i nuts to associate this with edward gorey i feel like he did a handlettered version?? https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/28118/bookman-bold-swash 2022-10-23T22:08:24-00:00 http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-40640.html hmmm 2022-10-24T03:25:02-00:00 i am sad for them but also lol https://www.nylon.com/entertainment/when-we-were-young-festival-cancels-day-one 2022-10-24T21:45:16-00:00 daniel lavery: Still Got It https://www.thechatner.com/p/one-thing-you-might-have-missed-about 2022-10-25T01:54:14-00:00 thing that feels like it ought to already exist: command line tool that pages through input and allows keyboard indication of which line of it to pass on to the next chunk of your script / through the pipe 2022-10-25T05:17:56-00:00 https://www.reddit.com/r/phonk/comments/rtwbtt/comment/i0leqvm/?context=3 found this because i really liked an artist's sound and everynoise said "zxc" and WOW was I not expecting the allusive depth 2022-10-25T07:20:48-00:00 one downside of publishing things automatically to neocities is that i am shying away from putting something up on the web until it is Polished, which is not the way – the True Way is to put it up and to not include it in a feed, not link to it 2022-10-25T07:21:21-00:00 why yes this *is* the vampire: the masquerade metaverse musing (let's not pretend it's structured enough to be an essay) 2022-10-25T07:22:41-00:00 some of your most useful instincts are emotional, aesthetic. "oh, this feels like something many people would be real embarrassed by, but I'm not – I should really dig in" 2022-10-25T17:45:23-00:00 does anyone have a version of this that's about the stuff that's actually *in* browsers now https://web.dev/state-of-css-2022/ 2022-10-25T18:40:22-00:00 if foodstuffs were shipped in larger quantity and packaged closer to consumption, it wouldn't matter so much that glass is heavier than plastic, because the glass would be only for the local distribution part. the recycling is local anyway. 2022-10-25T18:41:19-00:00 don't tease me with this color modification. do you know how powerful i will be when this exists? in combination with custom properties? very powerful. too powerful. 2022-10-25T18:58:40-00:00 Maya Is Thinking About Glass Packaging Again. have any of you tried to make a list of your weird fixations like this? how complete can one get it? 2022-10-26T02:13:14-00:00 titrating off medication sucks 2022-10-26T05:27:11-00:00 voting on voting: colm maccárthaigh on seattle's choice choices: https://maya.land/responses/2022/10/25/seattle-voting-systems.html 2022-10-26T06:26:04-00:00 https://www.npr.org/2022/10/22/1130662138/opinion-yes-i-am-basic bless him 2022-10-26T20:45:25-00:00 if i want to communicate with groups of friends with ~10 second unpolished videos that are about as low-effort as toots, what is the platform people use for that is that snapchat 2022-10-26T23:02:11-00:00 having the basil planter in my office: i am nibbling on basil leaves like how salad women eat spinach 2022-10-27T00:01:15-00:00 we need institutions like knighthood with all the pageantry but without monarchic association. i think i just argue myself into the social benefits of freemasonry left and right 2022-10-27T08:00:41-00:00 https://clivethompson.medium.com/how-apple-watch-alarms-and-timers-save-my-butt-44e53a7603c5 is there a good Not That I Have An Attention Disorder But You Know, Kinda Aimed At Attention Disorders write up about the kinds of ways people use these tools? I have been underusing reminders because i dread having to snooze them 2022-10-27T09:02:40-00:00 “gamer fusion” has killed me https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2022.1007128/full 2022-10-27T16:06:28-00:00 https://nitter.net/lastpositivist/status/1584821912554811393#m :O 2022-10-27T16:44:32-00:00 i want to read ivan illich because he sounds extremely cool but also i do not like the vibe of his fanbase 2022-10-27T17:27:03-00:00 i tried out continuity camera with my phone and laptop and it is extremely rad. but i can't use it on my work computer, which is *exactly* where being able to show people what i'm drawing on a piece of paper would be handy, so... 2022-10-27T17:29:58-00:00 what in the unholy SEO is this https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/bob-woodward-trump-tapes-interviews-audiobook/671857 read the first two paragraphs and see if you don't feel concussed 2022-10-27T20:50:45-00:00 https://www.henryzoo.com/limits this was worth reading/annotating but my plea is now: please don't write on these topics without defining your "we" 2022-10-27T20:51:05-00:00 bouncing back and forth unmarked among "we" as "humans" and as "contemporary Americans" and as "people with my specific techworld brainworms" makes your writing sound universal, somehow, so people gravitate toward it but you're not doing universal thinking if you're not thinking about how people are different, too 2022-10-28T07:37:59-00:00 something in the middle of https://www.myfonts.com/collections/desmond-text-font-madtype and https://www.myfonts.com/collections/piacere-text-font-michael-rafailyk and https://www.myfonts.com/products/regular-vertrina-405252 2022-10-28T07:44:14-00:00 yes yes i am on my bullshit again but also still thinking about https://fontsinuse.com/uses/22666/recolte and https://fontsinuse.com/uses/31565/emilie-genovese-portfolio-website 2022-10-28T20:06:58-00:00 there are things that we shouldn't actually maintain a "thoughtful and curious" attitude about largely, the things that, when one is properly "thoughtful and curious" about them for more than 10 seconds and given one has a functioning conscience, the things that should make one move on to being e.g. indignant and determined prolonging the "well what if we look at it differently, while wearing a clown nose and doing a handstand" phase of inquiry is not neutral 2022-10-29T01:06:13-00:00 you can tell my level is low but don’t judge me for accuracy i wasn’t trying for 2022-10-29T05:09:00-00:00 i have been looking for a fragment of an excuse of an occasion to put on skull makeup Yes Because Of Harrowhark Leave Me Alone and as a result someone called me a Ghost fan 2022-10-29T07:30:05-00:00 damn passed my three year mastoversary without celebrating it. uhhhh. happy…. toots. 2022-10-29T08:36:59-00:00 OKAY if I were yall I wouldn’t believe me but 2022-10-29T08:40:37-00:00 there was a genuine ass Ianthe cosplay behind us after the second band. i asked her and took a picture with her but i didn’t get permission to post it online. GOLDEN ARM IANTHE. 2022-10-29T08:41:23-00:00 i was awkward and like “look we have the kickstarter pins! two of us do! but it’s not as cool as your whole thing “ and she was very gracious 2022-10-29T08:47:23-00:00 but! goth god giveth and goth god taketh away 2022-10-29T08:48:04-00:00 they cut priest’s set short. priest. all the way from fuckin sweden. and they cut them off. 2022-10-29T08:48:52-00:00 she was psyched someone recognized her 2022-10-29T08:49:42-00:00 i want to post it!!! but cosplay is so recognizable that even if i crop out her face it will pinpoint her location gahhhhh 2022-10-29T08:50:04-00:00 ianthe listens to priest: canon 2022-10-29T09:29:40-00:00 experiencing that music right next to the subwoofer is The Way. also was close enough that mercury touched my head. excellent 2022-10-29T20:52:47-00:00 feel like i'm on drugs https://aaatec.org/documents/article/jmh1.pdf 2022-10-29T23:21:16-00:00 i’ll write something up properly but: wendell and wild: real good! 2022-10-29T23:23:29-00:00 if you forgot about it: it came out on netflix yesterday. henry selick, responsible for 80 percent of what is good about the nightmare before christmas, and key and peele, impeccably credentialed in comedy and horror. what a combo! 2022-10-30T16:59:59-00:00 i have been thinking about this and i think it is unfair to danny elfman 2022-10-30T18:02:31-00:00 etsy. ... is selling.... counterfeit stamps?? 2022-10-30T18:02:54-00:00 why can i not find on the usps website how to report this 2022-10-30T18:05:26-00:00 reported to etsy but who believes that's gonna do anything 2022-10-30T19:04:59-00:00 i enjoy treating this as a halloween novelty song even though It Is Not https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/guesswho/clapforthewolfman.html 2022-10-30T21:49:51-00:00 usps use one of the good designs for the postcard stamp challenge 2022-10-30T23:55:46-00:00 so we moved out to the country, and it absolutely is a Culturally Different Place much like where I grew up, but they have a real cute harvest market farmer's market thing. and for various Cultural Reasons I feel like supporting a local artist is somewhat more meaningful out here so I want to plug some of what I got: 2022-10-30T23:58:45-00:00 https://curiousnature.art she’s got a lot of cool stuff that isnt just the ordinary print and sticker. i was excited about the mari llwyd and she said she’s got new spooky christmas stuff coming out soon 2022-10-31T00:03:09-00:00 https://gingeryartistry.com she’s newer to selling her art and has very cute little DBT reminder possums 2022-10-31T00:06:38-00:00 a couple minutes' musing have brought me to think this wording ("but") is wrong because the trash politics people have wouldn't reasonably be assumed to prevent market cuteness. We Apologize For The Error 2022-10-31T04:10:28-00:00 occasionally i start thinking that well i've already used a tool to make a pixel typeface and i've made a tactically derpy handwritten typeface so i could make Proper Fonts and then i slap myself 2022-10-31T06:11:31-00:00 quick note for those of us who have been on Mastodon for A While Now: if the association is public enough, you might consider linking any Twitter account you might also have on https://twitodon.com/ and going through its rigamarole, because even if *you* don't need to find your contacts here, it'll help others find you 2022-10-31T06:12:30-00:00 in a better world I think this kind of discovery would work by traversing twitter profiles' web links, then looking for a rel="me" mastodon link or vice versa, but we're not in that world today 2022-10-31T17:21:22-00:00 happy halloween! I took the day off and am planning the Thematic Activities what I think I can do on my own out here: 2022-10-31T17:25:29-00:00 collecting some leaves for compost (the poetry of decay!), foam pumpkin carving (it's what I got), playing wytchwood, listening to carpe jugulum, and taking a final edit pass and posting the vampire metaverse thing. 2022-10-31T19:33:41-00:00 So I have browser-brain: "everything is a tab" works really nicely for me. At work, I will often pop open a tab of the internal paste tool to approximate a vim buffer as a scratchpad. Is this common? Is there a way to shove my actual terminal application inside the browser tab interface even though I recognize this is an abomination? 2022-10-31T19:35:11-00:00 https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/686237/how-can-i-use-a-terminal-within-a-firefox-tab oh, denvercoder9. :( 2022-10-31T19:41:38-00:00 someone braver than I am should write about the upsides of "friendship ended with native now browser is my new OS". (I have found almost every electron app more domesticable within the browser) 2022-10-31T23:00:19-00:00 i don't vouch for most of the snarking on this page, but the paul graham screenshots here: my GOD. https://matt.sh/tech-gossip-update-2022-09#_vc-ego 2022-11-01T08:27:10-00:00 btw I voted, cheers to WA’s eminently sensible mail ballot system 2022-11-02T06:08:45-00:00 this is a seventeen-second video advertisement from a chicken supply company: https://maya.land/responses/2022/11/01/seventeen-second-chicken-automation.html 2022-11-02T07:22:30-00:00 I promise I will stop talking so much about fonts soon how does this look https://maya.land/monologues/2022/05/20/missing-concepts-link-culture.html 2022-11-02T07:32:07-00:00 I think this is about right, but I'm not at all sure whether I can translate the homepage without losing too much. I think I'm all right with leaving all the old styles and such in place, so maybe only new things will end up with the new styles..? (Erwartungskonformitaet is for losers; "consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative") 2022-11-02T18:14:44-00:00 kind of hopeful about lemmybb :) doesn't have RSS feeds yet but since lemmy itself does... 2022-11-03T04:28:47-00:00 maybe i'll just start using https://macos8.app/ stickies as my scratchpad 2022-11-03T06:24:25-00:00 ....what do i need to fix before i write the update post to add it to my RSS feed in like twenty minutes https://maya.land/vampire-the-metasquerade/ 2022-11-03T07:04:50-00:00 update: fonts and vampires: https://maya.land/updates/2022/11/02/update-fonts-vampires.html 2022-11-03T07:16:38-00:00 https://maya.land/vampire-the-metasquerade/ 2022-11-03T14:52:46-00:00 https://caniuse.com/css-filters The green is a lie 2022-11-03T17:18:33-00:00 https://www.metafilter.com/197055/something-extratextual-was-always-going-to-be-conveyed me, out loud: oh hell yeah 2022-11-04T04:53:52-00:00 https://www.wsj.com/articles/crows-found-to-be-smarter-than-we-think-11667412092 not to be crude, but to be crude, suck it chomsky let the birds recurse 2022-11-04T17:58:18-00:00 considering asking to be added to Trunk lists with the idea of being helpful to new Fedi users as a regular five-a-day poster. having minor identity crisis about choosing which ones 2022-11-04T18:35:44-00:00 I am incontrovertibly a Woman In Tech and I do Blogging and I certainly have an Everyday Life so that's about what I can say for myself. .....sound about right? lol 2022-11-04T18:36:11-00:00 I do also post Catholic stuff a standard deviation more than the rest of the fediverse, but that isn't saying much so I shouldn't join that list 2022-11-04T21:00:20-00:00 who here has replaced a light fixture? and how hard was it? there is a chandelier in my office with a Lot Of Pink and i would like to get a semi-flush replacement stat 2022-11-05T00:15:00-00:00 just noticed our carport has a skylight?? 2022-11-05T20:43:53-00:00 "don't forget to follow us on social media for the latest news" you are the *power utility*. there needs to be a CMS your employees can use as easily as social media. tech has let everyone down. 2022-11-05T21:30:42-00:00 I don't hold it against little companies and stuff that post everything to Facebook because this study rattles around my head all the time https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/ but you can really start to see the rubber hitting the road when power outage recovery info is behind a login modal 2022-11-06T02:41:56-00:00 I have a round robin sort script that I use for Miniflux, so I can have a page load hundreds of posts, then round robin sort them by feed. Would that be useful on Mastodon? Is that worth trying? Hmm. 2022-11-06T03:18:09-00:00 update: tried it, UI doesn't want to load more than about 170, so that wouldn't go back far enough to catch e.g. people posting from maya-is-sleeping timezones. boo! 2022-11-06T05:17:59-00:00 All pinned post noticey disclaimery stuff now lives here: https://maya.land/mastodon-landing/ 2022-11-06T05:28:17-00:00 Assembling all my #feditips for new arrivals here: https://maya.land/mastodon/#advice 2022-11-06T07:22:56-00:00 The curved channel in the yard began again for the year to fulfill its purpose 2022-11-06T17:43:29-00:00 pondering whether I want to make an alt for faust.land microbloggy content. it is currently managed much more manually than maya.land (zero cron? in a maya project?? :ACNH_Shocked:) but... 2022-11-06T18:08:49-00:00 https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ali/ali032.htm am I wrong to think that the moral of the story is Let People Enjoy Things 2022-11-06T18:46:04-00:00 "the cloud is just someone else's computer" is incorrect. the cloud is someone else's oncall rotation. 2022-11-07T19:49:16-00:00 oh no a phone call :ACNH_Shocked: 2022-11-08T01:26:04-00:00 why is everything I ever want to do in the browser a violation of CORS 2022-11-08T01:38:35-00:00 is there fediverse lore written down anywhere? like – there was that one person who had a coworker who ate dog food, right? and – fuck brewster kahle? I don't want to be the one who makes this list but I want it to exist 2022-11-08T02:35:26-00:00 is "truck bloat" the official name https://theweek.com/articles/929196/case-against-american-truck-bloat 2022-11-08T04:09:02-00:00 had someone report me to me. i sort of respect that 2022-11-08T05:51:51-00:00 The phrase “SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT” comprises 17 characters, including the dash between the two words. The colon (:) and the space following the phrase are the 18th and 19th characters. 2022-11-08T05:55:37-00:00 this is from the can spam act. why did they choose the hyphen. do they actually require a dash instead of a hyphen. i have questions and no one should take the time to give me answers 2022-11-08T16:38:24-00:00 do NPR stations other than KUOW/OPB do local-focused podcasts? the ones we have here are great, I hope for this for the rest of you 2022-11-08T16:46:02-00:00 are there queer Christian (esp. Catholic) hashtags I don't know about? I feel bad sitting there guessing in mastodon.social's hashtag search over and over. :boost_requested: 2022-11-08T16:49:55-00:00 I spent a ludicrous amount of time on the images/styling for this thing so I am going to promote it one more time before I allow it to gently, uh, compost into the digital garden, as it were https://maya.land/vampire-the-metasquerade/ 2022-11-08T17:44:48-00:00 for some reason, looking up non ad-hell youtube #gardening content, the australian stuff seems to be superior. this is totally fine but i'll admit the christmas music underneath is throwing me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2EtDAKlyyg 2022-11-08T21:26:29-00:00 november is the month for shakespearean histories i have yet to drag fiance through the hollow crown, so... 2022-11-09T06:19:35-00:00 i have found perhaps the most waffling disclaimer of all time https://sophiafoundation.org/sophia-foundation-disclaimer/ 2022-11-09T16:55:29-00:00 yesterday i hyperfocused for Quite a While on proving something might be a problem, using linear optimization, and today my brain feels sort of refreshed, exercised. whatever the pertinent characteristic is of that work, i need to do more like it. 2022-11-09T16:57:40-00:00 if you are kind of programmery, haven't messed with linear optimization before, and are curious, i have a commented sample at https://maya.land/trader-joes-reduced-delta-reduced-guilt-mac-and-cheese/ that is a somewhat ludicrous application 2022-11-09T18:12:38-00:00 browser extension that emits mocking laughter every time I fruitlessly hit ctrl-[ in a web app 2022-11-09T21:33:50-00:00 Paper talks. 2022-11-10T04:11:47-00:00 is it worth it to file an insurance claim for the stuff that went bad over the power outage? would it blunt the emotional impact of having to compost my nicely packed and labeled frozen meals 2022-11-10T06:48:40-00:00 jeno jando's beethoven sonatas are my go to. there was another artist's recordings i liked back in high school also, but there's nothing like being able to throw Old Reliable Jando on the speakers 2022-11-10T15:54:24-00:00 it shouldn't be so cold in november! my poor little fall plantings :( i'm rooting for you, yarrow #gardening 2022-11-11T06:11:32-00:00 https://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-palaeontological-folklore-of.html 2022-11-11T06:31:34-00:00 https://sakofchit.github.io/system.css/ i want to like it but I question whether you can put something like this together without working from pixely assets & integer multipliers, you know? vector geneva and chicago just look Wrong to me. i should put my css where my mouth is 2022-11-11T18:37:33-00:00 https://shop.morningwitch.com/ cool print shorts/shirts in cotton, not polyester :) 2022-11-11T18:39:34-00:00 why was the file size of the upload huge if the details end up this blobby 2022-11-11T23:07:49-00:00 https://metaphor.systems/ why would you make this the example for your system to use text embeddings that you're not promoting as explicitly dystopian 2022-11-12T00:55:04-00:00 Ha Ha It Sure Would Suck If The Gendered Discrimination "Of The Past" Informed The "Neutral" Technological Lens We Bring To The Present 2022-11-12T02:28:46-00:00 "But the past is gone, and dealing with the present it becomes a duty to present a review of things to be and not those that have been, and consider the living and not the recondite." this is about STATIONERY 2022-11-12T02:30:34-00:00 If I could get away with writing in the register of the 19th century y'all wouldn't know what had hit you 2022-11-12T03:53:25-00:00 so a lot of this mini-project i have somehow embarked on has to do with figuring out what it is that they're saying the appropriate size is given that they have such strong opinions and it's complicated by letters being written on paper folded like this.. but not written in the order you'd think? 2022-11-12T18:14:40-00:00 bless the victorians 2022-11-12T18:19:22-00:00 this would make a good profile picture (https://www.ebay.com/itm/195321044810) 2022-11-12T18:26:01-00:00 I think a number of new people followed me because I used to use Twitter. I use Mastodon somewhat differently; it is much closer to my own website. Instead of a choice selection of techie RTs, you might, for instance, see a few days of belle-epoque-posting for no discernible cause. Please do not be alarmed: this is intended and the system is working as designed. 2022-11-12T18:31:55-00:00 http://tradecards.com/scrapbook/veggies/veggies.html 2022-11-12T19:22:04-00:00 making webpage-style content for "X things people are wrong about" and adding something to it instead of Posting Into The Rage Feeds is a nice/calming internet pattern I'd recommend. examples: https://maya.land/words/peeves/ https://maya.land/mastodon/#things-that-for-better-and-worse-are-not-universals-on-mastodon 2022-11-13T00:41:53-00:00 regretting having left this where i cannot go fetch it right now. i want to be solving tarot puzzles. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/postcurious/the-light-in-the-mist 2022-11-13T07:06:25-00:00 I played around a lot with http://clanbadge.com/ when I was a kid and now I want that but... this https://books.google.com/books?id=mnJBAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&pg=PA667&ci=151%2C160%2C683%2C509#v=onepage&q&f=false 2022-11-13T18:20:33-00:00 i'm really happy y'all over at merveilles are trying out lemmy for merv.news let a thousand link-aggregators bloom 2022-11-13T19:03:28-00:00 does anyone know of an english-language resource on tironian notes? not just medieval scribal abbreviations :boost_requested: 2022-11-13T19:07:57-00:00 if this turns into "you need to buy XYZ out-of-print book from 1985" that is fine so long as it's halfway approachable for a non-academic 2022-11-13T19:16:04-00:00 i wonder how much of the brain-rinsing feeling toki pona students report is replicated by writing in something like Basic English 2022-11-14T02:26:18-00:00 for anyone trying to direct holiday gift $ to PNW-local stuff, https://oddmall.co/creepsmas2/ just wrapped up so I'm hoping vendors will be getting any surplus inventory up on their online stores soon 2022-11-14T02:30:27-00:00 anybody played either of these board games? i will immediately cop to being interested For The Aesthetic https://archongames.net/ 2022-11-14T02:33:52-00:00 why yes I do live in perennial sadness at the lack of a Locked Tomb board game. while i love the fan-creation spirit, none of these count https://itch.io/c/1546288/locked-tomb-fan-rpgs I want thanergy and thalergy tokens and I want House-specific mechanics no one I play with will ever remember, thanks 2022-11-14T06:06:05-00:00 society if SVG feColorMatrix produced reliable results across browsers 2022-11-14T06:45:26-00:00 fuck me is Chrome just not showing my photo border-image w o w w w Google Chrome, you get to go sit in the stupid corner with Apple "Sure I know what SVG filters are" Safari 2022-11-14T06:53:53-00:00 “but does your website have a widget that reads people short fun facts at regular intervals?” — the fiance 2022-11-15T01:40:29-00:00 would anyone on mastodon v4 want to help me test out user CSS to un-vertical the horrible sidebar? I have something that looks okay on the display of other people's v4 instances, but I'm not logged in 2022-11-15T01:43:51-00:00 i use the mobile web to the exclusion of Apps so i'm not doing our upgrade until i'm sure this works lol 2022-11-15T01:47:36-00:00 hot glue gun css <3 2022-11-15T01:56:29-00:00 I just want to send someone some CSS to shove into Stylus (or the instance custom CSS if you're a particularly YOLOy admin) and then click around and see if anything seems mega-broken at this point it would basically fit in a toot but I'm going to put it on my website so I can add explanatory comments, which wouldn't 2022-11-15T20:18:07-00:00 profile theming system with svg-based avatars/banners referring to color variables, so you can theme the overall look like a terminal theme or heraldry color palette 2022-11-15T20:26:26-00:00 actually you know what? fuck it. user-provided LUTs lol 2022-11-15T21:13:21-00:00 which is a more useful function of a personal motto (in-this-day-and-age, but probably in Latin): reminding yourself of something, or representing your values to the world 2022-11-15T21:25:00-00:00 just heard someone pronounce mic "mick" and i'm never going to be able to think of anything else ever again 2022-11-15T21:39:00-00:00 http://www--arc.com/ while i do appreciate the kind of thinking this is designed to drive at, every single part of this makes me itch to create or point to counterexamples 2022-11-15T21:50:38-00:00 the reminder i need (not sure if those are the pride/shame translations that are quite right) 2022-11-16T00:22:53-00:00 this request is on hold, someone graciously helped me out