gene wolfe in the streets, clive barker in the sheets
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Hunt 101 with India ink. Not my best but regular practice is necessary to not suck. npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park tired: using an LLM to answer someone's question npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park So fountain pen ink, which has to be thin so as not to clog the workings of the pen, is formulated differently from India ink (like what you use for calligraphy with a dip pen and nib), which has binders that make it a tiny bit thicker and, when dry, more permanent. 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Octopus Fluids' Medusa, rich purple with a green-gold sheen that comes out on less absorbent surfaces. npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park @nprofile…7q9q oh, you're one of those people npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park @nprofile…7q9q oh, well, basically Windows 10 is end of life and Microsoft is like, if your computer doesn't support Windows 11 you just have to throw it out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ So it is basically the ideal moment to help people switch to Linux. npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park free idea: omarchy but it's a Linux Mint install with all the apps and dotfiles and stuff preconfigured to make things easy for windows users. also not done by a fascist who can't code. npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park @nprofile…v35z npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park …the swash s's are too much, aren't they. npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park so, my current de-stressing activity is learning English round hand from period copy-books. the lines in copy-books that aren't just practice letter-forms are horrifically boring, extremely cringe moral mottoes, and I'm running out of stuff to practice writing npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park Fedi thoughts: npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park Okay, I've been thinking about this, and you know what Dracula needs more of? BICYCLES. npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park i have questions npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park everyone's like "waahhh don't be the fedi HOA to everyone coming over from bluesky" and i get it but like. mate. we're only human. you gotta give us just one "i fucking told you so". because. we fucking told you. npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park @nprofile…0n93 as a longtime user of Linux desktop environments, I am familiar with having to put in a lot of effort to make someone else's product stop sucking, lmao npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park people are all like "google is useless now" but like…am i the only person who still doesn't have much trouble finding shit? npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park Sincerely delighted to discover, 45 minutes into this nearly-wordless three-hour documentary about French monks who take vows of silence, that among the reasons they can talk is "to make sure the monastery cats know when it's mealtime by making little kitty-calling noises at them." npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park @nprofile…ulpn the font is Monotype Corsiva (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/MonotypeCorsivaSpec.svg/712px-MonotypeCorsivaSpec.svg.png) npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park Wikipedia: npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park Oh, are we looking for alternatives to GitHub again? I'll just leave this here: https://nevillepark.ca/2025/03/13/branching-out-some-github-gitlab-com-alternatives/ npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park @nprofile…llxm the monster is Ghidorah. Guidora is his trashy Italian-American cousin npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park it's not a general strike unless there's actual organizers, unions, a strike fund, or offline coordination involved, otherwise it's just sparkling telling people to skive off npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park Since I've read a few news stories on this and none of them linked to the actual fucking report: the US Coast Guard has just released a hefty (335 pages!) investigation report into the June 2023 OceanGate Titan implosion. npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park when you think about it, Robert's Rules of Order is just a TTRPG rulebook with less dice rolling npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park Overheard, a mother to her son: "I know you like dogs, but you don't have to say hello to every dog." npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park idle question: does anyone (ideally in Canada) sell refurbished ThinkPad X230s with all the upgrades done? bigger SSD, more RAM, etc. (OS not required.) npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park tfw you don't have air conditioning and you have to choose between a) outside (potentially cooler, but wildfire smoke), b) inside at home (hot, slightly less smoke), and c) in some air conditioned indoor place (but you're the only one masking) npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park roses are red, npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park Euractiv: "Major turnout as Budapest Pride defies Orban’s ban in Hungary" npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park @nprofile…h4yv i see your "doom/linux running in PDF" and raise you "Pokémon running in a font" https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park big brain seo strategy npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park It's once again time for the Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park @nprofile…vtjv a vape store in my neighbourhood is named "Vape Store Near Me" npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park okay #golang I want to fight. npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park "I ask them, 'How do you know this is true?' They move their phone closer to me for emphasis, exclaiming, 'Look, it says it right here!' They cannot understand what I am asking them." npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park @nprofile…36ma oh my god the full questionnaire is out there npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park @nprofile…gel0 npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park TEST POST #KnuckleTats npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park uh, okay, looks like I'm not seeing mentions (in any client I use). Can people try replying to this post? npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park @nprofile…0vne Source with more details: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/04/12/air-pollution-paris-health-cars/ (archive: https://archive.is/29uTN) npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park New blog post: You Need A Blog. Why you should consider blogging; and some off-the-beaten track options to try (largely thanks to @nprofile…pye9). https://nevillepark.ca/2025/05/12/you-need-a-blog/ npub1n5yrkxn09ev6ty0l8vfmay5tlk6g3xtczxdvhr4acg93n3yuksxqqd76sx Neville Park speaking of, the trackpoint on my keyboard (it's a separate USB keyboard with a trackpoint in it, not the one on my laptop) is getting worn down and needs replacing. i could order official parts but is anyone making, like, special or even better trackpoints? 🔴 #AskFedi #ThinkPadClub #thinkpad
