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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
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
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
shep (<10min)
too powerful.... i have concentrated the good posts.... too much............. (discord messages -> filtering to links -> templating into html with image previews and all)
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
nyanseong is a cool personal site with an even cooler zines page: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/21/nyanseong-zines.html
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.
everything i'm finding uses a bunch of gross wrapper classes :(
am I especially thick or are there just no good ways to vertically center content on each page with CSS for print
this ought to be a punchline i get to pull out more often is what i'm saying
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
the self-hostable community software that powers dev.to: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/20/forem-self-hostable-dev-to.html
does anyone have recs for fiction in a solarpunky setting that isn't depressing? especially small scale dramas: mystery, romance, slice of life-y
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
has anyone ever used purple led grow lights for a combination of functional and aesthetic effect? (genuinely not about weed)
"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
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
update: heloise: https://maya.land/updates/2021/07/17/update-heloise.html
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
will i be using holo gold vinyl to add shiny detailing to steam deck if no such thing is available commercially? obviously
steam deck needs this tho: https://www.etsy.com/market/cute_switch_case
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
I also like josei when it isn't depressing
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
the $12mm da vinci sketch *is* a *really* cute bear, though
a covid confession: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/08/covid-confession.html
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
yes,, i am unironically asserting a causal relatonship and no i will not be reviewing the dates of release of the issue
i got a mullet on may 12 and the june/july issue of vogue features a whole thing about mullets
have a bunny
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
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
every western revolution ever was *technically* freemasons conspiring but not typically *as* freemasons
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
some of you are bunnies that have convinced yourselves you're cats
kicks condor's hypertexting and the syntopicon: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/08/kicks-condor-hypertexting-syntopicon.html
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
i gotta find a blog for ref images of older women wearing a ton of fun makeup
sometimes i just want to draw cute girls and then i get depressed about beauty standards
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
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
the culture of the east coast is a culture of daddy issues, independently of any individual's experiences
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
have a trash panda :)
this is mine
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
the new mastodon thing should be rat avatars https://algorat.club/ratmaker/index.html
has anyone made a ballad out of "smooth"
hannibal (nbc) : crime procedurals :: john wick : action movies
i just ordered 1260 stamps, AMA
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.
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.
how to make an image into a 88x31 banner with CSS: https://maya.land/monologues/2021/06/29/88-31-banner.html
josh lee might have the funniest about me section: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/28/the-only-funny-about-me.html
even amazon is getting in on fanfic-style publishing: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/26/kindle-vella-serial-fiction.html
inter: a very sleek open source sans-serif font: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/29/open-source-font-inter.html
maggie andersen's diagram: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/28/maggie-andersen-diagram.html
nuclear explosions for the national economy: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/28/nuclear-explosions-for-the-national-economy.html
i am a big fan of water quality
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
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~
which one of you plays cities skylines and which one of you watches videos of basket weaving
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
does anyone know about anything good written about what people mean by "mark making" in the context of non-abstract art
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*
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
*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
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"
a blackberry basket made of blackberry vines: stuff and gratitude: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/26/bramble-basket.html
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
actually some of us had heard of shein, thanks: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/23/shein.html
extra good work vibes https://open.spotify.com/track/3IfuyvTWeiTo0sXnC6K4Mo?si=46846b31160e4e4e
i am less concerned with enacting superstitions to prevent house from burning down and more wishing there were something about regional forest fires
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
figuring out how to celebrate midsummer, which in proper syncretic fashion i've chosen to fall on st john's eve
actually telescope science sounds more appealing than astronomy
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)
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
there is a starbucks in the louvre
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
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"
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
@movq 😬 seems to be real popular with peopletwt timeline i think 🙃 may win for me even though i use it for.... everything
new computer has an emoji button 👻
it is astounding that "mutton busting" exists, is what it is, and also is not even a sex thing
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
i enjoy that mcdonalds has decided they need to advertise to me in spanish
the good luck hen will give you luck today
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
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~
overgrown: a hypercomic you gotta scroll through: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/09/overgrown.html
fast food and crow cholesterol: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/09/crow-cholesterol.html
i wonder if i should be xposting my instagram stuff over here. or the reverse? ig probably has a trash API, huh
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
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
coffee deserves cardamom, not mushrooms: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/08/coffee-additives.html
archaic names for diseases: https://maya.land/responses/2021/06/08/archaic-names-for-diseases.html
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/
coffee deserves cardamom, not mushrooms: https://maya.land/responses%20coffee%20cardamom%20spices/2021/06/08/coffee-additives.html