this request is on hold, someone graciously helped me out

the reminder i need (not sure if those are the pride/shame translations that are quite right)

http://www–arc.com/ while i do appreciate the kind of thinking this is designed to drive at, every single part of this makes me itch to create or point to counterexamples

just heard someone pronounce mic “mick” and i’m never going to be able to think of anything else ever again

which is a more useful function of a personal motto (in-this-day-and-age, but probably in Latin): reminding yourself of something, or representing your values to the world

actually you know what? fuck it. user-provided LUTs lol

profile theming system with svg-based avatars/banners referring to color variables, so you can theme the overall look like a terminal theme or heraldry color palette

I just want to send someone some CSS to shove into Stylus (or the instance custom CSS if you’re a particularly YOLOy admin) and then click around and see if anything seems mega-broken at this point it would basically fit in a toot but I’m going to put it on my website so I can add explanatory comments, which wouldn’t

hot glue gun css <3

i use the mobile web to the exclusion of Apps so i’m not doing our upgrade until i’m sure this works lol

would anyone on mastodon v4 want to help me test out user CSS to un-vertical the horrible sidebar? I have something that looks okay on the display of other people’s v4 instances, but I’m not logged in

“but does your website have a widget that reads people short fun facts at regular intervals?” — the fiance

fuck me is Chrome just not showing my photo border-image w o w w w Google Chrome, you get to go sit in the stupid corner with Apple “Sure I know what SVG filters are” Safari

society if SVG feColorMatrix produced reliable results across browsers

why yes I do live in perennial sadness at the lack of a Locked Tomb board game. while i love the fan-creation spirit, none of these count https://itch.io/c/1546288/locked-tomb-fan-rpgs I want thanergy and thalergy tokens and I want House-specific mechanics no one I play with will ever remember, thanks

anybody played either of these board games? i will immediately cop to being interested For The Aesthetic https://archongames.net/

for anyone trying to direct holiday gift $ to PNW-local stuff, https://oddmall.co/creepsmas2/ just wrapped up so I’m hoping vendors will be getting any surplus inventory up on their online stores soon

i wonder how much of the brain-rinsing feeling toki pona students report is replicated by writing in something like Basic English

if this turns into “you need to buy XYZ out-of-print book from 1985” that is fine so long as it’s halfway approachable for a non-academic

does anyone know of an english-language resource on tironian notes? not just medieval scribal abbreviations :boost_requested:

i’m really happy y’all over at merveilles are trying out lemmy for merv.news let a thousand link-aggregators bloom

I played around a lot with http://clanbadge.com/ when I was a kid and now I want that but… this https://books.google.com/books?id=mnJBAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&pg=PA667&ci=151%2C160%2C683%2C509#v=onepage&q&f=false

regretting having left this where i cannot go fetch it right now. i want to be solving tarot puzzles. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/postcurious/the-light-in-the-mist

making webpage-style content for “X things people are wrong about” and adding something to it instead of Posting Into The Rage Feeds is a nice/calming internet pattern I’d recommend. examples: https://maya.land/words/peeves/ https://maya.land/mastodon/#things-that-for-better-and-worse-are-not-universals-on-mastodon

http://tradecards.com/scrapbook/veggies/veggies.html

I think a number of new people followed me because I used to use Twitter. I use Mastodon somewhat differently; it is much closer to my own website. Instead of a choice selection of techie RTs, you might, for instance, see a few days of belle-epoque-posting for no discernible cause. Please do not be alarmed: this is intended and the system is working as designed.

this would make a good profile picture (https://www.ebay.com/itm/195321044810)

bless the victorians

so a lot of this mini-project i have somehow embarked on has to do with figuring out what it is that they’re saying the appropriate size is given that they have such strong opinions and it’s complicated by letters being written on paper folded like this.. but not written in the order you’d think?

If I could get away with writing in the register of the 19th century y’all wouldn’t know what had hit you

“But the past is gone, and dealing with the present it becomes a duty to present a review of things to be and not those that have been, and consider the living and not the recondite.” this is about STATIONERY

Ha Ha It Sure Would Suck If The Gendered Discrimination “Of The Past” Informed The “Neutral” Technological Lens We Bring To The Present

https://metaphor.systems/ why would you make this the example for your system to use text embeddings that you’re not promoting as explicitly dystopian

why was the file size of the upload huge if the details end up this blobby

https://shop.morningwitch.com/ cool print shorts/shirts in cotton, not polyester :)

https://sakofchit.github.io/system.css/ i want to like it but I question whether you can put something like this together without working from pixely assets & integer multipliers, you know? vector geneva and chicago just look Wrong to me. i should put my css where my mouth is

https://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-palaeontological-folklore-of.html

it shouldn’t be so cold in november! my poor little fall plantings :( i’m rooting for you, yarrow #gardening

jeno jando’s beethoven sonatas are my go to. there was another artist’s recordings i liked back in high school also, but there’s nothing like being able to throw Old Reliable Jando on the speakers

is it worth it to file an insurance claim for the stuff that went bad over the power outage? would it blunt the emotional impact of having to compost my nicely packed and labeled frozen meals

Paper talks.

browser extension that emits mocking laughter every time I fruitlessly hit ctrl-[ in a web app

if you are kind of programmery, haven’t messed with linear optimization before, and are curious, i have a commented sample at https://maya.land/trader-joes-reduced-delta-reduced-guilt-mac-and-cheese/ that is a somewhat ludicrous application

yesterday i hyperfocused for Quite a While on proving something might be a problem, using linear optimization, and today my brain feels sort of refreshed, exercised. whatever the pertinent characteristic is of that work, i need to do more like it.

i have found perhaps the most waffling disclaimer of all time https://sophiafoundation.org/sophia-foundation-disclaimer/

november is the month for shakespearean histories i have yet to drag fiance through the hollow crown, so…

for some reason, looking up non ad-hell youtube #gardening content, the australian stuff seems to be superior. this is totally fine but i’ll admit the christmas music underneath is throwing me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2EtDAKlyyg

I spent a ludicrous amount of time on the images/styling for this thing so I am going to promote it one more time before I allow it to gently, uh, compost into the digital garden, as it were https://maya.land/vampire-the-metasquerade/

are there queer Christian (esp. Catholic) hashtags I don’t know about? I feel bad sitting there guessing in mastodon.social’s hashtag search over and over. :boost_requested:

do NPR stations other than KUOW/OPB do local-focused podcasts? the ones we have here are great, I hope for this for the rest of you