painted by Adriaen Brouwer in 1640, "The Bitter Potion" shows a common man after taking a swig of something from a small brown bottle, his face scrunched in an expression of disgust and revulsion

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   Tim Chase (gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 09:51:54 JST Tim Chase

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   @cks I played around with xfontsel(1) but it doesn't seem to let you put arbitrary text. Then fiddled with xmessage(1) but it doesn't seem to take font-resources.

   Here's an uuuuuuuuuugly (and there aren't enough letters there to express the extent of the ugliness) hack, but it seems to work for me:

   $ xclock -digital -strftime "This doesn't need to be an actual strtime format string" -face Sans-24