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Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)

She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (
web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).

So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!

i think i'm supposed to take it as a compliment that most of my friends seem to believe i can write a dissertation in like 8 months but like, i really don't want to

Had a panic attack on the way to a protest so I didn't go to the protest and now I feel guilty

Just met a thirteen year old scruffy little dog named "Mister" so perhaps I will live another day

The animal rescue we adopted Kitty from has an annual block party with reunions of pups from the same litter and they put us on an email thread to connect us with people who adopted Kitty's puppies so now I'm crying??

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: enjoy, construction site, a bonk, chormble, not smooth, gravity well, tote bags, pirated

Just got mad because a dumb content farm site had a headline about tech investments in "rare metals" but the article was mostly about a copper mine, I hate that I am like this

Cramps 

Don't like em, don't want em, this sucks

a ruthless criticism of *everything* existing, in this economy??

Thinking about how John Yoo got to have a fancy job at Berkeley and Alberto Gonzales gets brought in as an NPR talking head sometimes and how there's a direct line from these facts to CECOT today

Did u know Tele Atlas data collectors were given company cars and the company car was a silver Chevy Malibu

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Did a preliminary interview with a former Tele Atlas data collector about her years driving around the United States logging detailed info on road networks to build out maps for the consumer nav tech and she had so many good weird stories!!

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: culinary weapons, heresy, bricks, pillaging, groveling, Beaver Derivative, microwave, typo, doing historical materialism, detectable hazard, throes of hagiography, waterpark, Nevada-style

a1: steak sauce
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a24: movie studio

Mental health, pol 

Feels like most mental health modalities I've tried have really failed to acknowledge that maybe it's the living in a dying empire and all the fascism that's contributing to my suicidal ideation

Not doing great 

Pretty sure I will not make it through this year, not loving this for me

Just trying to live long enough to get to read Alecto the Ninth

The Warby Parker sales person asked if I wanted an "anti fatigue" lens thing on my new glasses and I said "no thanks I'll just do drugs" and I don't even really do drugs besides caffeine but I wanted to break up the monotony of the day for him

"When an oracle foresees your future based on eye gunk that's reading the rheum"

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.