maya 🫐

literal swamp #goblin. admin. aesthete, enthusiast, techie scum. PNW pasture-raised.

no hard feelings about dipping out after following if my stuff turns out to not be for you. i follow/unfollow without thinking about it much.

my employer has never wanted me to share an opinion publicly and i do my best every day to ensure they never will

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2024-08-26 15:06:16

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my favorite part about this recurrent trend is that it picks up new elements each time it comes around. the british arts and crafts movement arguably shades into art nouveau and is very loud about its premodern influence. you see that alongside the occultism of the golden dawn. so in the 70s we get midcentury medieval but also https://cari.institute/aesthetics/gay-nineties-revival and they go together more than people think (plus another big era of occultism)

2024-08-26 14:45:06

let’s fuckin GO
https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/elizabeth-goodspeed-column-future-medieval-graphics-graphic-design-150824

2024-08-17 18:58:43

trying to refind something: there was something I read many years ago looking at buildings that were very overbuilt during the depression as makework and evaluating their long-term economic value, and it concluded they survived long enough and were repurposed for so much longer than more cheaply built structures that the investment actually paid off big

2024-06-17 19:48:58

since the 2000s i've been reading stuff on livejournal about taking in the sides of t-shirts
are there real people who have done this who can offer me reassurance before i go at my collection of band tees

2024-05-19 05:16:47

"McMansions are built for people who have achieved some level of affluence, but who stubbornly retain a non-elite love of ornamentation. They inspire passionate contempt in many sophisticated critics, to whom they afford a rare opportunity to flex cultural power without looking as though one is being nasty to poor people."
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-beauty-of-concrete/
(you can't try to tell me mcmansions aren't ugly but this piece is really good)

2024-04-25 20:43:15

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@npub1km9…rh4n "[&>*>*>*]:" ow

2024-04-18 16:15:53

who these days is doing print-inspired blog designs that don't just look like tufte.css? (self-promo in replies welcome)

2024-04-14 16:37:47

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@npub132e…d4aw limerick soviet would be a sick-ass band name

2024-03-23 14:08:51

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@npub1esj…75v2 i suspect it doesn’t really cover that because it’s a different post: https://dynomight.net/class/

2024-03-23 00:14:22

https://dynomight.net/taste-games/ <- not an endorsement of the writer or whatever but i honestly wish i could force everyone i interact with IRL to read this down to the first intermission

2024-03-01 18:16:51

respect crow labor
https://www.king5.com/article/tech/science/environment/reason-crows-tearing-up-washington-lawns/281-6beea608-eb89-4683-b5cf-fce90e824042

2024-01-09 22:39:19

https://stackoverflow.com/help/someone-answers
"Please do not add a comment on your question or on an answer to say "Thank you". Comments are meant for requesting clarification, leaving constructive criticism, or adding relevant but minor additional information – not for socializing. If you want to say "thank you," vote on or accept that person's answer, or simply pay it forward by providing a great answer to someone else's question."
lmao what is this shit

2024-01-05 23:43:45

huh! how about that!! how ABOUT that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGvErotkIk

2023-10-23 16:11:30

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon
I like it! But it doesn't emphasize enough to my mind how much the platforms fight you on this
Including the weirdness of how, for instance, Google will downrank things that it sees posted in multiple places
And Corey is a bit infamous on here for doing his POSSE rudely, which makes him a less-than-ideal prototypical POSSEer

2023-10-13 00:23:49

i want to use the phrase "Under the auspices of" in a context where i do intend the patronage/support meaning, but the people who know the phrase will think i am using it incorrectly instead of "As part of", and the people who don't know the phrase will have to google, and both groups will think i'm being pretentious
but like
i'm RIGHT

2023-08-07 15:54:12

I would really love if @npub1sqf…5skr or somebody went through some popular services' *existing* Terms of Service and made a not-legal-advice legal guess at whether they have *already* given themselves permission to use user data within generative machine learning systems.

2023-08-02 03:19:15

books used to be cool
https://www.facsimiles.com/facsimiles/codex-rotundus

2023-05-31 18:07:52

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@npub1zak…d6uu @npub1y9v…t45y those packages pop open a lot IME. we have... bought ones that have opened before as long as the internal packaging is ok 🙈

2023-05-25 05:08:31

Oh, Moomin.
https://pool.jortage.com/occultinstitute/media_attachments/files/110/427/574/368/631/944/original/80a9ed1e0479739a.jpeg