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i'm just warning you now nobody knows how to use a computer
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?)
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
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.
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
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!!!!!!!!
this tweet brought to you by my instinctive rage at a professor criticizing a "popular X" YTer as an "influencer"
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
no i will nOT stop misusing the latin "pace" to mean "according to your Bad Take"
are there any third party "discover weekly" analogues for bandcamp? or based on last.fm data or whatnot
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
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.
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
what is the good middle ground between comfortable stagnation and trying to grow by holding a hobby to professional standards
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
how much do you have to listen to girl in red to participate in the memes
downside: revisiting the feeling of being a teenager
olivia rodrigo captures my feeling of being a teenager in exactly the way people always *said* taylor swift would (but didn't)
is there an emoji that captures "forced smile"
kneaded erasers may be injecting a bunch of plasticizers into my bloodstream but .... worth
"ménage à taika" have we done that one yet
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
especially pernicious when one side is taking the side of "common sense" and another is taking the side of "moral principle"
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!!"
my apartment is too hot for flowers but they look lovely briefly
so when your children quarrel and nothing seems to quell them just tell them that you'll take them to the edison museum
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*
"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
questionable content but it's some furry's anthro barista AU lady and the tramp fan comic.
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.
if you watch one video on youtube about the freemasons they start recommending stuff about aliens :|
what are your desired attributes in a lightweight cult/secret society
*steps on gas pedal of porsche* *accelerating banjo*
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
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.
god grant me the confidence of a man dropping into a Disqus comment thread with " uses Linux based OS which is hackable."
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.
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*
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......
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!
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
so far the bone shard daughter is not living up to my gideon the ninth expectations.
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.
i really recommend learning some non-latin scripts. excellent brain juice to start sounding out cyrillic every time it crosses your path.
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.
every painting of judith with the head of holofernes is an idealized aspect of #girlboss and i will not be taking questions
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
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)
day 2 of having a mullet is still great in case any of you are wondering
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
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
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
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"
what is the appropriate skull density for home decor
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.
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.
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!
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
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?
should have bought this stamp (self inking!) ages ago. resisting the temptation to use it as an 'ex libris' mark
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
tennis gets you some of that "swing hard" but everything involved is light AF
fanart of the locked tomb trilogy has some real yaoi-anatomy-problems vibes and I want to figure out what photo references are Best
what is the sport played at a global level that requires similar muscle strengths to wielding a longsword
trying to decide if i care enough to take off the color layer that makes things hard to read
RT @hecanjog: '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'
@jlj @prologic 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.
@darch I do hear! I don't check as often as I post, but I do check!!
anybody have strong opinions on vegetarian meatball brands? precooked ideal cause I lazy
and i have only now realized it won't happen because it requires expensive FX yet wouldn't fly in China