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"one part timeless tradition, one part hyped-up fashion" is an *excellent* formula
holy shit i just stumbled across ukraine's eurovision band and it it so good
a word peeve i have with myself is instinctively reaching for "alternately" when I mean "alternatively"
i don't even want to watch soviet lord of the rings i just want to see screencaps without context
@prologic it is cool to read through other peoples though so im maybe a free rider
@prologic oh my god no i ... cannot probably handle adding that by hand
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
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
what do we think about anonymous political physical pamphlets these days
@prologic ah... yeah... sorry, time zones are the worst #ky3n6la
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).
"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
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
@prologic also does the clock break anything for you? I know it's wrong but I didn't think it mattered a ton to fix
@prologic fully agreed, it's very gross, and it's making light of stuff that people still don't take seriously enough.... (#lstfx7a)
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
I wish there were USA-only postcrossing. 1.20 for a postcard adds up super quick in a way .36 doesn't ....
does anyone know what the etiquette is about sending the same postcard design out a whole bunch of times for postcrossing?
squarespace are the medicis
content can only be broadcast to the ~10,000 users whose locations are nearest to yours~
a local social network where your device's location information is smoothed such that you can't move your "location" at more than 60mph
it's too bad that the really fun applications of location information are completely incompatible with privacy
what the fuck is up with google tasks and google reminders not having merged yet
Georg Faustus wasn't named "Faust" as a normal surname but as an assumed Latin surname meaning "fortunate"
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
how do you distinguish goals from habits
gonna try and shitpost more to be irritated less
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
IT ISN'T WROKING WELL ENOUGH
every time a harvard-educated person misuses the phrase "beg the question" it strengthens my resolve to bring down the "meritocracy"
i know everything descends into corporate exploitation or whatever but i'm gonna say this is.... good?
PSA: sticker backing paper is typically not recyclable (it almost always has a silicone liner)
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
you know, foxtrot is pretty amazing for not calcifying like all the other newspaper strips seem to do as the artists age
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)
does anyone know what desk pen stand *does* fit the dp-1000an if the obvious one doesn't????
UPDATE: I HAVE LEARNED THE TERM "PIGOUVIAN TAX" AND WILL BE INSUFFERABLE IN ALL POLICY DISCUSSIONS HENCEFORTH
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
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
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
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....?
no maya no do not purchase an embossing folder
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
i do not need gen x dad energy!! i do not NEED it and YET
the strings' ostinato BANGS, friends
fuck fuck fuck i am so mad about weezer's grapes of wrath
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.
days since I lost my mind internally over inaccurate use of the term "performative": 0
potentially cursed idea: using special lawyer will presentation envelopes for my normal correspondence
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
lol ok my script's problem is time zones.... of course it is. feedparser y u gotta be this way
looking at the plus size section of shein.com and imagining backstories for the catalog images
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
kind of confused about what's showing up and what's not... oof
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
HAHA JUST KIDDING, IT'S CONFIGURABLE, I LOVE YOU INTERNET
i was planning to start following people on there and everything but now... I Don't Think So, Buddy
lol i put effort into making a script that pulls mastodon content into a twtxt file... before realizing twtxt only wants 140 chars
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 :)
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.
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
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
ah shit sorry s/contest/content/
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
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)"
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?
well,the only one from outside the house I guess.
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.
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