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