the commitment to opsec it takes to wear black long pants and a black balaclava in this weather: astounding

https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/notas/sepultan-a-shannet-colon-ponce-con-un-llamado-a-que-se-le-haga-justicia/amp/ here there are protests for justice for shannet, who died in custody under questioned circumstances. the family has spoken saying they’re grateful for the protesters’ support in pressing for more investigation.

coquis, i love you, why will you only sing to me and not let me find you

my internet friend is selling an ergodox ez. i have one (bought new) that i really like and would recommend. as of now it is a Very Good Deal https://www.ebay.com/itm/304534725246

we’re all here hanging out on a byproduct of the American defense industrial complex and I just think some people need to factor that a little more heavily into how holy they want to try to act

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1007544142/lion-claws-feet-set-2-of-pc-classic this is on sale and i so wish i were a person who could make use of them

https://maya.land/user-styles/hacker-news/

side benefit of user CSS: no one in this airport can flag me at a distance as visiting the Hateful Orange Site

idea: pixelfed or other insta-like with no boost/reblog feature for normal accounts, but a separate account type that can only boost/reblog, and that would then be easy to follow back to the original profile. not sure how to motivate that curation but i hate the “download and repost” accounts on insta even when i use them to find new illustrators to follow

if your email doesn’t have links to more detail in it, someone’s time is being wasted. yours for rewriting details that might be recorded somewhere else. someone else’s later when they need a detailed writeup and don’t know about this non-public one. mine for having to go search for the canonical paper trail if you haven’t included enough detail. everyone’s if you’re presenting nonsense straight off the dome as if it were a technical summary.

speculation is so fun in a social context and makes me want to set things on fire in a getting-things-done context

my spring ‘83 key is a4813793a806d066c18f8a2d07a403393fecda667e5ccaa6fd76cfd5683e1023 :)

propublica is reporting on (sighted) people who have difficulty reading. I think they do a good job shining light on issues, but it’ll be better if there’s good representation from the relevant folks in their reporting. if you know someone for whom this is relevant, pass this on: https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/literacy

if cans can have a fee that you get back for returning them, so should cigarette filters. I know they can’t be recycled but I’m sick of them being thick on the ground everywhere outside that’s halfway nice to hang out

try to take away “Toot!” and “boost” becomes “retoot”. you were warned

I promise I’m not desperately trying for chumminess with people I’ve never met! We don’t have a good name etiquette for this stuff!! I don’t even use my last name when I can get away with it

I always feel weird about using people’s first names in writing like this. “Darius”. “Robin”. It reads as borderline hostile to use the last names, though – like an academic trying to pick a fight

initial musing on robin sloan’s spring ‘83 protocol idea: https://maya.land/responses/2022/06/12/robin-sloan-spring-83-initial-musing.html

three pages of linguistics paper that you’ve got to read: https://maya.land/responses/2022/06/13/anne-cutler-linguistics.html

you know what traditional gift a romantic partner gives that DOES totally make sense, though? scent. no notes

jewelry gifts from significant others are a little weird, especially in a het context. i’d bet the average “best friend” knows more about what style of e.g. necklace a jewelry-wearer would like than the average partner

diamond ring ad, dude voiceover: “All I want is for her to know how much I love her” damn y’all are desperate to make young people care about this shit

prefers-color-scheme: chaos;

boosts are welcome

can people tell me about things they’ve used commissioned art for? I’m a little obsessed with melps’ use of non-local color (see https://melps.neocities.org/jackie.png ) and now I’m trying to figure out what to ask for / what to do with it. I could replace my own drawing on https://maya.land/who/ ??