adam w.k. @sabbatical@qoto.org

just reflecting on how when i was starting out in visual design, you either had to pay big bucks for software like photoshop or be OK with pirating (and know how/where to get it.)

the fact that today anyone can just use figma for free is such a win for reducing barriers. and this pattern seems to be repeating across domains:
dreamweaver → vs code
maya → blender
excel → sheets
and many more... i'm sure i'm missing some of the best examples. sure, there was some free-to-use software back in the day (props to GIMP et al), but it was generally sub-par or very niche.

not something to take for granted!

@jbwharris yeah, i'm tempted to sell this and import something like a toyota liteace or mazda bongo which have a 3-seater bench in the cab. they're a little bigger so not technically "kei" but still way smaller than NA trucks are. but they're a lot less popular to import, so would be a fair bit harder to get parts for, i think.

was looking up whether it's "mascarpone" or "marscapone" and there were at least TWO AI-generated articles on the first page of google trying to convince me those are actually two often confused but separate types of soft italian cheese!

@pixelambacht @elliotjaystocks oooh! haven't read this one. will have to search it out.

@bjb wow

@niclake i ought to do that. i never really settled on a go-to reader after google reader folded. whatre you using?

@randahl but what about bothsides-ism? are you really not going to even mention bothsides-ism when talking about whataboutery? typical.

@jbwharris yeah, i mean i do wish i could tote both kids around in my kei — if i eventually switch out for something else, that'll be why — but i also love spending next to nothing on gas and feeling like the star of my own anime when i'm out and about

my sister recommended me a book on cptsd, and was just able to read a good chunk of it on open library. forgot how cool their system is! (good book so far too: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27167959M/Complex_PTSD)

it hurts so much

variations on a theme

@jbwharris manivan? whoa

please sir, couldnt you include alt text?

please sir, do you have any old memes or tweets saved you could spare? [dickensian puppy dog eyes]

home depot parking lot. two 4x4 pickups with the same bed size. which way western man?

TBT to when the very idea of ONLY A SINGLE MAPLE LEAF on the canadian flag was a front page shocker. (found this newspaper from 1964 stuffed in our old chimney flue)

@Kilian haha… ahh. this has never been me, but i bet there’s a non-trivial amount of time the docs *are* wrong, don’t you think?

@mistersql @ZachWeinersmith tech accel combined with pervasive media outlets and polling companies who figured out that people love to click on this type of nonsense and it’s easy content to create. also very wealth-centric, as in many parts of the world, tech accel is not generational. i grew up in rural bangladesh where i had a computer, but other teens i knew didn’t even have telephones, let alone laptops!