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@bustedsneakers

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okay i am dying of curiosity are you doing a film MA or what?

06.03.2026 18:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

this is the price where alberta starts making money again, historically

that plus the recent "canada, the largest LNG producer in the world" rhetoric makes it pretty clear what's gonna go down out west

06.03.2026 13:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As I get older I’m coming to increasingly radical views like β€œeradicating peoples jobs is bad, actually” and β€œa necessary part of having skills is taking responsibility for the outcomes of those skills”

06.03.2026 12:55 πŸ‘ 375 πŸ” 75 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

watching the NYC campaigns last year made this extremely clear

06.03.2026 11:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

jurisdiction shopping made physical

06.03.2026 10:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

wow i like neither of these at all

05.03.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the most problematic fave of the mid-2010s remains Herself

05.03.2026 13:46 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

oh better

now OCA D U

it went from ontario college of art to ontario college of art and design to ontario college of art and design university in order to continue qualifying for federal research money

they uh

arent so good about the costuming now!

05.03.2026 13:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

art school
mum single-handedly revised the beaux-arts ball at OCA and dad made wildflower costumes for three friends

they stayed pals while doing store display design (shop windows) and got hitched some years later, thus producing more propmakers

05.03.2026 12:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, when I was reconstructing things from reply trees this happened a surprising amount of the time, like, to the tune of at one point my message counter said there were 8,000 replies in a thread, some sent before the thing they were replying to sort of thing

05.03.2026 02:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

okay i went through this last year and i gotta say

email reply tree standards are Big Hard

05.03.2026 00:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

better phillip roth than alice munro

05.03.2026 00:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this is facts though

05.03.2026 00:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

*drily* oh mine were also vets in ww2, that did happen

05.03.2026 00:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

varying degrees of human rights violations as far back as we have records
and we do have them
but before that one of them was maybe a shipbuilder and that's nice

04.03.2026 22:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this week i found out spring seratonin dumps have a big stupid impact on estrogen dumps and also T, which strongly affect sleep disorders

great week for pubmed papers

not so much for other things

04.03.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

much like everything else with computers, looks like people learn by clear signposting and educational intervention and without that will simply fuck around for their own entertainment

04.03.2026 17:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

if it werent all actual people i either personally know or am relatively confident _are_ humans, it would make me less crazy

04.03.2026 17:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

god bless and hope it works
maybe they'll do toronto next

04.03.2026 16:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
a wall of posters for a NYC β€œTax the Rich Campaign” by dreamfornyc.com

one poster says β€œyou should be able to make it here” with a picture of a bearded shop owner. another says β€œquality childcare should be less than a dollar slice” with a picture of a kid eating a slice of pizza

a wall of posters for a NYC β€œTax the Rich Campaign” by dreamfornyc.com one poster says β€œyou should be able to make it here” with a picture of a bearded shop owner. another says β€œquality childcare should be less than a dollar slice” with a picture of a kid eating a slice of pizza

one the β€œNew Yorkers Tax The Rich” campaign ads on a wall in Bushwick showing a person with long hair and glasses crouched in a small crowded apartment. the caption says β€œMichael Bloomberg has six yachts. You have six roommates. So why is Governor Hochul taking your healthcare instead of taxing him?”

one the β€œNew Yorkers Tax The Rich” campaign ads on a wall in Bushwick showing a person with long hair and glasses crouched in a small crowded apartment. the caption says β€œMichael Bloomberg has six yachts. You have six roommates. So why is Governor Hochul taking your healthcare instead of taxing him?”

reporting direct from NYC’s Commie Corridor 🫑

04.03.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the brits will never let the usa claim the brand

04.03.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Frank comin' in clutch with that life experience vote

04.03.2026 13:55 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Rockwell Kent’s Moby-Dick illustration

Rockwell Kent’s Moby-Dick illustration

I reached out to the Plattsburgh State Art Museum to ask about using Rockwell Kent’s Moby-Dick illustrations for a fountain pen project.
They replied with wonderful news:

04.03.2026 12:32 πŸ‘ 106 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

it is wild to me after flash forward that this is a surprise to you! That one CYA book!

04.03.2026 02:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

okay they are though

04.03.2026 02:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

its probably cayce but i WANT it to be Sigourney

04.03.2026 02:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A chalk drawing on a green subway pillar of a stick figure head wearing a wizard hat. Below the head, the words "Gnome Lord"

A chalk drawing on a green subway pillar of a stick figure head wearing a wizard hat. Below the head, the words "Gnome Lord"

Omens of the underground, he approaches

03.03.2026 19:58 πŸ‘ 209 πŸ” 53 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4

its wild to me they kept this up so intensely after Tay The Chatbot

03.03.2026 11:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pleased to announce many excellent new additions to my archive of procedural single-stroke fonts for #p5js and #plotterArt β€” including ISO-3098; two kanji/hanzi fonts, each with 4K+ glyphs; Licia He's new DearPlotter font; and Jongmin Kim's variable LeonSans stroke font: github.com/golanlevin/p...

03.03.2026 11:12 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

this seems to have worked the last four times! I expect it will still work this round!

03.03.2026 01:55 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0