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the murderbot books as audiobooks is my current self soothe listen and I think part of it is a lot of the book is just someone being really competent at their job and then some of it is an utterly relatable existential crisis

LMAO posted this on Bluesky and immediately got someone complaining about the price that I agonized over a year ago, ha ha ha

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I feel weird making a plotter drawing expensive but: I have less than 40 sheets of this vintage graph paper left and the plot itself takes over three and a half hours. I will do a less expensive version of this drawing on more easily available paper.
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wares.lifewinning.com/products hey I made a little shopify to sell plotter stuff, currently there's only the postcard quarterly and like one A3 print actually for sale but maybe you would like one of those items??

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: monsters, strategy, high doses, groomed for gravitas, marriages and dishwashers, the promise of attempt, an emotion

the dril economy tweet but instead of candles it's Good Fonts

Meta has engaged in a “systemic and global” censorship of pro-Palestinian content.

In a scathing 51-page report, Human Rights Watch documented and reviewed more than a thousand reported instances of Meta removing content and suspending or permanently banning accounts on Facebook and Instagram that were supportive of Palestinians https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/21/meta-facebook-instagram-pro-palestine-censorship-human-rights-watch-report

Thrown out of the AA meeting for calling someone's share a "tight five"

"It's important to me that a romantic partner can make me laugh but I would never in my life date a comedian" only sounds like a paradox if you've never met a comedian

always have to remind myself when I feel like I'm not doing enough that at that this time of year I get a little depressed anyway because my dad died on Christmas, you would think I would understand this by now

Neighborhood Italian sandwich shop perpetuating stereotypes 

There's a framed photo of the cast of Moonstruck hung up

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the matter is now settled

“We have launched a new experimental feature on the SFO Museum Aviation Website: Coloring book pages (or sheets) for a subset of the objects in our collection. Coloring books are PDF files with a stylized, black and white outline of that object for you to print out and color as you see fit and can be thought of as a second attempt at producing a museum artifact that can follow you “out of the building”.” – https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2023/12/18/coloringbook/

Local politics re who's not talking about Palestine 

It's not that I expect most nonprofit arts orgs of NYC to be taking a stand for Palestine right now but feels gross seeing one that I am an alum of (Eyebeam) post fundraising slide shows talking about "art in times of crisis" in end of year fundraising w/o ever speaking to the crisis of genocide?

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buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: constant betrayal, peat, lidless, tumbleweed, his interpretive perspicacity, aloof austerity, just a head crawling, sometimes the world, inert matter

Israel has killed 90 journalists in 70 days.

Got a new tattoo because this year has been a lot but I am still alive

It's based on a drawing of a quartz crystal I found in the National Archives when I was researching high purity quartz mining in Brazil during WWII

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Horsin' Around

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