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@maya@social.seattle.wa.us
mastodon 4.7.2allegedly witchish. aesthete, enthusiast, techie scum. PNW pasture-raised.
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at one point i was looking at those concrete entrance statues they have and no one actually makes a lion lioness pair
which seems
like it's gotta be an underserved market
if you search "german sense of personal space" on kagi the sixth result is the wikipedia page for Lebensraum
so many strong perfumes. a ton of rose. can't tell if paired with amber or oud. public perfume etiquette being different is really interesting
the production of macbeth at the met is wonderful. they do flashbang the dress circle which was an unexpected creative choice but we support bold direction
my life involves a lot of freedom i personally enjoy because i'm not getting socially pressured as a woman to be an unpaid carer and that is the flip side of the decline of the "village"
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you cannot get me into a dusty-ass field to pay more-than-Seattle prices for stuff if it feels like everybody is trying to get one over on me and i feel i am not alone
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the digitally printed synthetic image of a tapestry with melting shapes kills me dead. like. you could have just upscaled (even with AI!!!) an image of an actual tapestry and had something so much cooler for equivalent non-effort
oh my god we are a THIRD of the country???
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/american-transportation-revolves-around-cars-many-americans-dont-drive/
(via @aphyr@woof.group)
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my best counterexample was not photographed and it was just "HAMBURGERS" painted onto a piece of wood emulating a reasonable typeface, single color no shenanigans
second best is this
there were of course signs made with a lot of design sense and high effort but people who can do that don't go to synthetic images; ren faire vernacular decoration is what i'd like to uphold
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it is occurring to me that while i explained to someone that this was AI by looking at the acanthus details, Horse Have Three Ear
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ok done! antony and cleopatra starts on saturday :D
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i used to get sniffy when i could see digital art shortcuts in finished work (like: you didn't actually draw out both sides of something, you did one side and then copied and flipped it so line weights identical, implied shadow doesn't make sense, eye shines drive me batty for this because it's so low effort to correct) but wandering around yesterday catching them i felt like.... well..... at least a person did do whatever was done here
plain seltzer with a dash of black walnut bitters tastes like the classy ghost of cream soda
I am the first employee at $EMPLOYER to write in a ticket (non-locked-down-access, within the lifetime of the last couple ticketing systems) the phrase carthago delenda est
I was not bullied enough as a child
it turns out when you're out and someone is explaining blanchard and the concept of agp at a table near you, you have to hear a LOT of their conversation before you start working yourself back from being ready for a fight
seattle i really need you to absorb that not all shakespeare in the park has to be comedy
I don't want to see a single whimsical restaurant menu ever again in my goddamn life without this font involved
via @phire@phire.place : this is so good
(and no not just because of the one GOTTIM bit you will read near the beginning, rolling your eyes at my whole deal in particular. finish it it's good!!!)
https://internetprincess.substack.com/p/the-perpetual-present-tense
rewatching the decameron. there aren't many things so clearly Full Of My Nonsense that are nevertheless light and entertaining enough that i can recommend them without worrying
llms and design
if i start typing in "sculpt" to my url bar, i should not get a helpful suggestion for sculptra
everything is such a fucking psyop
reading the lord of the rings since the first time since childhood
i think i was so marinated in british authors that as a kid i failed to clock how english this all was
i need to figure out what I'm doing with my hair
terence tao on the value of mathematics and how to preserve that as people use AI to do more in math research
https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/age-of-ai-icm-2026.pdf
and now i'm going to be honest with you: i feel much friendlier toward this man since revisiting the page with the rules of cripple mr onion, the fan-devised eight suit card game from discworld that my family played when i was younger, and discovering his name there
https://web.archive.org/web/20081209035939/http://cripplemronion.info/plain_text.txt
i love this. and also: i want some abuse of it that upsizes and downsizes to create more compelling compositions for arbitrary images (you know, how you want to have areas of high detail and low detail)
https://trekhleb.dev/blog/2021/content-aware-image-resizing-in-javascript/
i love humanity and nerds specifically
https://psarando.github.io/shire-reckoning/Lunar_Readalong.html
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my theory with this project is that it's easy to catch up because shakespeare's only like ~1000 lines/hour performed, so that's a bit over an hour a week for something like
https://open.spotify.com/show/3hEk07sOhk0NJiC1Y1wFYP
i wonder if you were going to rank entirely shallowly
decor, architecture, choir, instruments, floral
what parish in seattle (west side only, let’s say) would come out on top
if this hadn't used so much LLM in its own composition i feel it has a good unhinged geocities website in it somewhere
https://gist.github.com/gnusupport/3eea61c329b26400607e8b4ed6bc2208