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It's incredible what a difference hanging out with a dog has on my entire deal

dogsitting update: i'm working on my laptop on the couch with a dog curled up next to me and i'm so happy with this setup i could cry

Dogsitting for a week starting later today, excited to have something to live for

Is Tuxedo Mask the only superhero whose name is just his outfit

I just realized that bookshop dot org is offering free shipping today for #IndependentBookstoreDay, so if you wanted to pick up a copy of YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION, hey here you go https://bookshop.org/p/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union/8c1f7dfcf467bfb3

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: MALICE, pillar, keeps on happening, tolerance, turbines of this, dishonest ovations, sand-filled, tectonics, power, eggshell life, Moon argument

Which of these do I actually need in order to deal with a headache and late day out of it ness rn

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!!

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Horsin' Around

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