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2026-10-24 23:23:23 GMT

I'd value ideas on a nuanced art issue; people with similar values can come to different conclusions. The topic is *which* content tag to put on art containing non-sexual images that contain at least partly nude human figures.
I'm starting from the assumptions that for social media communities content *has* tags and is hidden behind them, that the audience opts in to what they want to click on to view.
The question isn't whether content warnings and filters are a good idea (they are). Probably anyone can reasonably guess what kind of content they should put content warnings on for their community. I feel that I can, at least. And a social media feed isn't a class or a gallery or a long-form work where the audience has signed up for the full ride. It is more like they're walking to the virtual public square. They deserve choice in what they engage with in that space. I'm solely grappling here with finding the best words with which to present that choice to them.
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The dilemma can be oversimplified to "do I use NSFW, or nudity, nude figure, unclothed figure, etc. as the content tag for art containing non-sexual, partly humanoids who are not fully clothed?"
*Do not use NSFW*: Within some art communities, any labeling that implies nude figures are inherently sexual is seriously problematic. Models, art, and artists deserve respect. Anything implying that nudity is inherently sexual casts an incorrect intent on the model, the artist, and the art. And note that the model and the artist *are* at work, and the art is going to be "at work" for curators, art historians, and students. Calling such art "NSFW" is literally saying that those people are in an unsafe workplace. This also isn't an argument that I created. But I think it is really import point and I agree with it.
*Use NSFW*: Not everyone is in those artistic and academic communities! People really want simple tags that they can understand and filter by. Make it easy for people to avoid content they don't want to be exposed to, might be involuntarily traumatized by, or might get in trouble for viewing in public. Everyone knows NSFW means *for any workplace*, not for some specific workplace. An image of heart surgery might be appropriate at a doctor's office, but isn't "safe" at an arbitrary office. Just call it NSFW. This isn't a life drawing studio, it is a Wendy's, sir, please just give me a sane tag. We can't have a million different subtle tags or nobody will be able to filter and they'll be confused and accidentally exposed, which is not what anyone wants.
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This isn't a unique challenge to the issue of bodies in art. Tags for each of lgbtqia2s+ vs. calling everything "gay". Grouping ethnicities into categories like "white" or "latino" or "asian" or "native". Music categories. There's always a tension between over-abstracting--and maybe choosing a problematic term for the over-abstraction--vs. meeting the audience where they are and in their vocabulary. I don't need to solve all of society's linguistic problems, nor social media's problems, I just need to know what to label a (not even well done) life drawing so that I'm respecting all of the different subcommunities within Merveilles.
(Thanks to @npub15c5…ncq4 for the private pre-discussion and advice on this topic.)

2026-10-23 20:53:57 GMT

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Is there going to be singing?

2026-10-22 07:47:30 GMT

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These all look like an original Macintosh adventure game that I desperately want to play :)

2026-10-08 19:11:48 GMT

There's a useful part about the disconnected systems, connected people discussion I want to weigh in on, because it affected several engineering decisions we made in our support systems.
When overhauling our boat design, we overbuilt our solar, water, fuel, repair capacity, and food storage by about 2x our needs.
(Beyond carrying extra blankets, overbuilding shelter wasn't practical. Length and volume in a cruising/liveaboard sailboat is a liability.)
The doubled capacity is to share in everyday situations, and to help others in emergencies. Resilience = relationships + distributed community reserves, not isolation. In this build out we had the opportunity to put resources into that pool.
One of the things I value about the boating community is that it is a very strong community. Most people look out for each other, even on first meeting, and across every kind of social, cultural, and economic boundary you can imagine. Luxury cruise ships stop to help small boats in distress. People help each other with repairs when they have no common language. Gear is often lent out with no reasonable expectation of a return...and then the person helped might spend six months hunting down the lender to return a cookpot or foot pump anyway.
The community and the reserves are especially important in this environment because the line between friendly sharing and emergency support is fuzzy on a boat.
Encountering someone low on fuel, with a torn mainsail, missing a 8mm wrench, or with a contaminated water tank is "everyday". But it can also be one bad luck moment from becoming an "emergency". Storms, earthquakes, and municipal system failures are exciting but emergencies arrive at quiet, private scales as well.

2026-10-08 18:06:10 GMT

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People who are upset by privacy, sustainability, education, culture, and community (!?) should clearly be ignored. I'm sorry they're ranting about you, Hundred Rabbits is terrific.

2026-09-18 08:11:06 GMT

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AWESOME artwork

2026-07-23 05:37:50 GMT

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I'm currently on the Definitive Edition because it has support for 4k monitors and a lot of new civs...but I'm playing it on a Windows box, so it runs happy there.
It didn't work for me at all on Proton/Wine last time that I tried, but that was years ago. Slow is better than crashing I guess.
Microsoft just released a macOS native version but I haven't wanted to install that. It would destroy my coding effectiveness if I could just play AOE instead of working on projects.

2026-07-21 08:12:48 GMT

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for emacs users that actually kind of tracks.

2026-07-21 08:00:55 GMT

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"Newer AOE" = AOE2
Like Terminator and Blade, there are only two AOE games I recognize. Sorry.
One of the most perfect video games ever made, and still going strong after 27 years.

2026-05-02 05:18:44 GMT

Back on the sea for the first time this year...
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/116/503/289/381/652/362/original/f1cde41036ca2619.png

2026-04-09 06:47:14 GMT

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I love reusing the parts with character for art projects:grommets, sail numbers, stitched patches, and um, rust-, mud-, mold-, and blood-stains. Dacron is such tough stuff even when its been too beat up sail on. That liner is brilliant.

2026-04-09 06:43:33 GMT

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You have amazing jars!

2026-04-09 06:39:13 GMT

OMG there is an entire unicode playing card deck now. I feel like I just received a birthday present!
🂡 🂢 🂣 🂤 🂥 🂦 🂧 🂨 🂩 🂪 🂫 🂬 🂭 🂮
🂱 🂲 🂳 🂴 🂵 🂶 🂷 🂸 🂹 🂺 🂻 🂼 🂽 🂾
🃁 🃂 🃃 🃄 🃅 🃆 🃇 🃈 🃉 🃊 🃋 🃌 🃍 🃎
🃑 🃒 🃓 🃔 🃕 🃖 🃗 🃘 🃙 🃚 🃛 🃜 🃝 🃞
🃟

2026-01-22 02:54:34 GMT

Hudson river school sunset
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2025-09-22 02:59:02 GMT

I felt sorry for a friend who was frustrated with the I/O portion of writing a Rogue/Dwarf Fortress-like game this morning. Text mode is surprisingly painful in 2025 compared to 1985, when you could just grab a pointer to the text framebuffer and poke bytes.
So, I made a little open source library that presents a proper, modern graphics API for text mode games!
textgame runs directly in the terminal on macOS, Linux, Windows 11. 32-bit unicode, 24-bit color, double-buffered, keyboard input, blitter with transparency and clipping regions, and string printing with word wrap and numeric formatting.
https://github.com/factory797/textgame
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2025-07-31 22:54:22 GMT

Thank you to whomever recommended the band Department of Energy in my live feed. I can't find the original post but the music hit the spot.

2025-07-25 18:10:52 GMT

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That anecdote is really dissapointing.

2025-07-16 22:20:12 GMT

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This is surreal for Juan de Fuca

2025-07-10 01:04:02 GMT

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Very photogenic! Is this in an aquarium? The background confuses me.