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	@<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> fully agreed, it's very gross, and it's making light of stuff that people still don't take seriously enough.... (#<lstfx7a https://twtxt.net/search?tag=lstfx7a>)
2021-04-04T09:49:59-07:00	@<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> (#<lstfx7a https://twtxt.net/search?tag=lstfx7a>) 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	@<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> 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	@<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> oh my god no i ... cannot probably handle adding that by hand
2021-04-05T19:24:25-07:00	@<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> 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	@<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> (#<alastnq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=alastnq>) 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