#chatter

[tozettastone]

This speaks to a lot of my feelings about modern technology. I want a dumb house. I want locks that answer to keys made out of fucking metal. I want lights with real switches. I want devices that work without an internet connection. I want a fridge that doesn't need software updates — so that, when the manufacturer abandons support for that model, it's not a massive security risk within 2 years. Goddamn.

But occasionally I still find out about a piece of new technology that feels a little bit more okay, and that makes me feel less like I'm backsliding into being Grongk The Exceptionally Grumpy Caveman.

I found out that a thing called "Fairphone," exists last year and that's probably the thing I've been most excited about, tech-wise, in the past year. I do not have one and I can't speak to whether or not they're any good. I was just kind of excited to know someone's out there making phones designed with the right to repair in mind.

But when it's time to replace my current phone I will spend some time trying to figure out how to acquire one in my country to try it, I think? I don't want anyone to mistake this for a sponsored advertising thing, so I will just link to the Wikipedia page and not their website: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairphone

But yeah. That's the only tech thing I've been excited about in years. For the most part... it's a long litany of "is this the thing that makes me learn how to use Linux?" and "Perhaps I will move to a mountainside and become a goat herder," on repeat.

still mad about smart TVs. that shit should be in a separate box like you can literally buy one of them androidtv boxes for £30. it doesn't need its own ip address it doesn't need its own app store it doesn't need to replicate the functionality every device plugged into it already has

[barrenclan]

With PATFW finally finished and The Dog Star coming close to an end, how are you feeling with all of this?

[themetalhiro]

ZINE TIME..

[hyrude]

this is how news gets delivered in my pinball league group chat

[businesstiramisu]

For the purposes of this question you might as well answer for the equivalent position if you want. Since you're in new england I assume it's one of these two?

[stitchposts]

okay but can we SEE the project that makes experienced crafters lose their shit every time?! assuming you haven't posted it already and i somehow missed it

if you want obviously. love your blog! :)

lmao I haven't posted it on purpose. It's mostly the tote bag I referenced in another ask, along with the other totes I keep folded up inside of it because I live in a city and there's a bag ban at a lot of stores. I know I've posted my dragon vest on here and it's incredibly identifying, but my tote bags are also pretty distinctive and I don't really like the idea of being so easily identified in public.

The other thing that impresses other crafters is that they are my everyday carry bags - I use them for groceries, takeout, errands, etc. I set them down in the dirt or on the floor of public transit. So when someone notices them and the pieces fall into place, I can flip them inside out so that the guts can be seen, and my linework in particular is tidy on the back as well as the front. You need neat linework to pull this off too, otherwise the backs would snag on anything you set inside the totes.

My mentor hates that I do this and snarks about it every chance she gets. She understands my approach to it and that I love my stuff to be used, but that I spent tens of hours making them, made them look good, only to get them covered in pizza grease and crushed berries, makes her need to close her eyes and count to ten.

[bonni]

okay even setting aside the fact that grimes was not asking for money, claiming this is some kind of power struggle between rich parents is just absurd. elon basically bankrupted her, it's the reason she can't bring him back to court. she's not rich anymore.

[same-pic-rick-roll]

hey rick, what stormlight book are you on?

About 200 pages into Wind and Truth

[papaya-inspiration]

I unironically use "orthogonal" when I'm describing things that are. well. orthogonal to each other.

My friends have called me out for this multiple times.

math-y sayings you can start using to have even less friends (= more time to study algebra):

"what the funct?"

"it's isomorphic" to mean "it's the same"

"ACR" (after certain rank) to mean "eventually"

"epsilonesque" to mean "very small"

"clopen door" to mean "half-open door"

abusing the prefix "co-" to invert the meaning of words

please reblog with more suggestions on how to become mathematically insufferable :>

[barrenclan]

I know your not writing Warriors anymore (which I can understand as someone who just turned a Warriors oc story into an original one) but are you done with writing xenofiction in general?

Probably? It's not that I don't find the xenofiction genre enjoyable or interesting to write in, I just... don't have any more ideas for xenofiction projects right now. I may return to it someday if inspiration ever strikes me. But anything I would make next is human-centric. Speaking of which,

In something like half a year to a year, I'm going to be starting a comic called "Gilded Roses"! It'll be posted to ComicFury and likely to Tumblr assuming all goes well. I've talked about it a few times before on this blog, but in short - it's a supernatural human murder mystery comic set in Edwardian England.

[themetalhiro]

Just stumbled across the Pokémon teams I made with my partner for all 10 of the strawhat pirates. Took like 3 hours and several bottles of wine. maybe I’ll draw them when I have the time?

[papaya-inspiration]

@animatemush holy fuck y'all are popping off in the tags today 😂

Calle Francia, El Arenal, Jalisco.

[saturno-ah]

[enfranchisement]

hello?

[hyrude]

it is so sweet when a new hire fresh out of college does something very slightly wrong like miss a few mins of their shift and then apologizes profusely and gives you a detailed and personal explanation why it happened. i remember when i used to overshare like that. dont worry, you will learn someday soon that almost nothing you do matters and no one will notice unless you mess up 4 days continuously. and if they do you can say “whoops, my bad!” and that is perfectly sufficient