Notices by ✨pencilears✨ (pencilears@mastodon.eternalaugust.com)

@elilla they're asking for a single dollar as a token settlement because they need to protect their brand, and she's refusing to pay them anything on principle.

(I assume the principle is "I want more media attention from this")

Home from my grandma's place, brought her food, made lunch, did a little bit of tech support for her and (with permission) I have taken home her iMac for investigation by my wife.

Grandma's tech support problems stem from settings UI taking the form of a glyph she needs to memorize (the rotation lock on her iPad, the volume slider on her phone, and the Speakerphone icon on her phone)

Or from not reading error messages.

I think a lot of grandma's tech problems have actually come from transitioning from a whole-ass big computer with a mouse and keyboard to an iPad.

Somebody who types super fast because she grew up with typewriters isn't better served by being forced to hunt and peck on a touch screen.

#LowBandwidthMemes happy pride month

@skinnylatte that's so exciting!! Make sure you don't miss the canals! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xochimilco?wprov=sfla1

https://www.seattlesouthside.com/plan-your-trip/deals/savings-pass/ ok I just found this and I am surprised nobody is talking about it on here considering saving money and walking around or taking transit is the Mastodon Vibe

#seattle

The main reason I'm doing this is to fool around with making images easy to print on my wife's little receipt printer

ooooo images don't load well on mastodon,

skill issue

I think the sweet spot is 4 to 8 tones (if I can get it there) two looks like a photocopied newspaper clipping with the software I'm using (paint dot net) but 12 or 16 can start to look muddy.

tonight I am making low-bandwidth memes

@skinnylatte I think this is the kind of shit you can only get up to in a post-violence zero-tolerance society.

Like, only if you have zero fear of the minority kid coming over to immediately kick your ass, would anyone be so bold in their racist bullshit.

@skinnylatte as an American, antagonizing a group of kids is a surefire recipe for getting your ass beat. like, *that's* "asking for it"

God, not to be terrible, but Germany is worse culturally for being allowed to get away with the Holocaust. (Watch some European pop up here to bring up school shootings in America because they can't resist doing it whenever an American criticizes their racist-ass society)

@skinnylatte classmate from art school ended up kitchen manager for the in-house catering for Amazon in Seattle.

He said it was torture, because the kind of employee who won't get up from their desk for lunch wants pb&j or chicken nuggets with no sauce

Tumblr, you need to make peace with the fact that being queer means many people you admire and respect will be unhappy with your choices.

This is the "doing crimes" part of "be gay, do crimes" because being gay is itself a kind of crime.

I'm realizing that the reason why everyone on Tumblr is griping about the legitimacy of their various poly relationships is because Da Pope has issued a decree saying that marriage is a contract between two equal partners.

Which, progressive! They're not being homophobic! maybe we'll get a pope saying gay marriage is "fine as long as you commit to one person" within my lifetime.

But also, Tumblr, what did you expect??

Tumblr, the pope is not going to come out on his little balcony wearing a flower crown and decree that destiel is cannon.

Tumblr, the best we can hope for is the Catholic Church publicly condemning gay divorce.

@simx72 @0xabad1dea Ahh yes, the Three Cueing system.
https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

@0xabad1dea this is like when they say art students should all be focusing on marketable skills like graphic design, as opposed to useless make-work intro classes on color theory and composition.

@ai6yr to be fair, Meta employees jacking off in the office was a notorious problem among security when I was working there.

I never saw it, but I heard a lot of stories.