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i like everyone in this bar
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?
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
fanzine culture is of course cool but i want more zine fan culture
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
yea though i walk through the shadow of the valley of unhealthy choices i shall fear no toxic behavior
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
apparently REI was HQed for decades in the building that is now.... The Rhino Room. a lot of confused ghosts in that club
how do you get off the lists after some charity has sold your name around
watching the post-internet generations try to reinvent ethics but without using the words "good" or "evil"
acryla gouache: for when the horrifying expense of normal gouache Just Isn't Enough
how does this dilute to this???? that swatch is a LIE
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
who are the people who have sold out this norwegian dark-folk show at $450 a pop? they walk among us
'“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?
like i get that solid shampoo or solid conditioner is a little interesting, because the whole ph is different from soap, but isn't body wash... just... soap?
intersectionality *gets* complicated, sure, but people use that as a shield against having to think about it at all, and that's not warranted.
if your thoughts about "digital scarcity" are too half-baked to handle people's desire for deviantart adoptables, please put them back in the oven before an underinformed tech journalist can find them
the maybelline superstay matte ink liquid lipstick has cracked the code, lads
the joy of vi sdlfkj actually.... opening something up
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 🤷
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
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
promise me that the hanged man used soy alternatives to petroleum products, nordstrom
when we made fun of goop-style witch-capitalism, this was *not* a pivot I'd expected them to make
"so what did you do this weekend maya" "just reading, mostly"
okay, some of this isn't so bad
oh lord they're breaking out the Verily
capitalizing all your nouns and noun phrases like some kind of hypergerman doesn't actually make your text more solemn
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
may i offer you a cough drop?
I am, of course, weakly pro-woo exactly so long as it doesn't get to say its blessings over my meals
the choice of pen says "I know this is supposed to be calligraphy" but the forms say "and I don't know why"
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
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
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
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
what are people doing with the // in CWs
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
anki is kind of magic. twenty minutes or so a day can go a very long way
lying on the couch in pain (toothache) wishing my dog weren't too busy to snuggle with me
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
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
i have finally managed to recognize a session tune as being other than the name given for it. So proud
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
someday someone's gonna do sociological research around the aspect ratios of web pages' preview images (landscape: twitter, discord; portrait, especially skinny: pinterest)
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
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
at least the rise-and-grind-ers recognize they have some agency in setting their alarms
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"
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
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
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
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."
this just in: it isn't any easier to wake up earlier because you make people call it a different number
this toot brought to you by maya's deep and unending rage at the attempts of technocrats to control the sun
"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
i took off all the keycaps and cleaned the keyboard for the first time and HOO BOY i am a scrumbling flaking goblin
this photo is, like, mega staged but LOOK WHAT FINALLY CAME
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
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 =_=_
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?
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?
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
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