A pickup truck with the Delta airlines logo on
the side, bedecked with rainbows and topped with
an inflatable Delta plane. Several men are
visible in the truck bed grinning and looking
off to the side.
“Smile,” Tom reminded me. “You’re going to be famous.”
I looked up and saw people holding up their phones,
filming us. “No…” I gasped. “…not on social media!
We’ll be taken out of context!”
“The context, darling, is that everyone on 4chan and
Twitter is going to know that you’re my little bitch
boy.”
“It’s X now,” I grunted, and this time when he pounded
into me so hard it felt like I couldn’t breathe, I
deserved it.
Cliff's written a viciously funny piece of satirical erotic
fiction sending up the discourse around the place of sexuality
at pride. It's funny and it's hot and you should for sure
check it out if that's your jam. I think if more entries in
internet arguments were in the form of erotic fiction rather
than angry microposts the world would be a much better place.
when i was younger, i was honestly pretty
disinterested in makeup and fashion trends. i found it
alienating; i did not fit in with what was popular
among the youth of my assigned gender. and i think i
knew that it was a futile effort to even attempt
fitting in. no, i knew i was a little weirdo who felt
infinitely more comfortable hiding behind a computer
screen.
but there was one day where i was at the local
drugstore, and i made a shortcut through the makeup
section to get to the pharmacy. something caught my
eye. it was a display of eyeshadow quads, all
featuring different color palettes. and i stopped for
a moment, curious about the color combinations. color
theory was already a pretty big interest of mine at
that point; i had been doing a ton of limited color
palette drawing exercises, and the quads on display
reminded me of the palettes i'd use for practice.
I really appreciate tulip's articulation of their approach to
makeup as an art rather than an attempt to meet impossible
beauty standards. I'm always compelled by ways to consciously
produce art in places that aren't generally thought of as
sites for art, and tulip has a particularly interesting
perspective coming to makeup from a painting background. I
haven't worn anything beyond lipstick and the occasional
eyeliner in years, but this has inspired me to consider
breaking out the eyeshadow palette again...
Have you played with
WebC? Like a lot of 11ty stuff they're not super well
documented, but they seem like a good way to do code
reuse without having to send JS to the browser (unlike
web components or HTMX or things like that). I
recently ported my blog over and while there's some
weirdness that I had to get over, they're a good
experience overall.
I haven't seen this, and it does look pretty cool. I
appreciate a take on the web component idea that's
legitimately built around running on the server and sending
down normal HTML. That said, while I'm also not a
huge fan of web components as a dev pattern either. I tend to
pass a bunch of parameters to my components and that's
intrinsically kind of messy with HTML.
I'm also rotating in my mind the possibility of pulling some
of my embed logic out into re-usable packages, and if I do
that I'd like to make them as general-purpose as possible. The
less I can lock them into the Eleventy ecosystem, the happier
I am, and this seems very tightly bound to 11ty.
A photo inside a building looking out at a
parking lot and sky. The sky is shockingly,
saturatedly orange. The inside of the building
is clear lit in a white bordering on austere.
On September 9th, in the height of COVID lockdowns, I
woke up and quickly concluded that 2020 had reached
climax and the world was ending. Naturally, I had to
go into the office that day.
The above photo from that day is untouched, I haven't
even fixed the small cropping complaints I have with
it, the orange was even more saturated in person. It's
probably the best photo I've taken. This was the sky
the entire San Francisco Bay area woke up to; our
entire world cast in an orange light, unable to see
the sun.
I had to bike over two rather large hills to get to my
job's soon to be abandoned office to clear my desk's
personal items, in a timeslot I had signed up for a
month prior to minimize my COVID exposure to
colleagues. Of course business MUST proceed as usual,
even when every fiber of my being is screaming at me
that this is an emergency. Fortunately the air at
ground level was, counter to everyone's instincts,
pristine. You could do a full cardio routine outside
and be fine. The danger was impending, literally
looming overhead, suspended by air currents, but not
quite touching us yet.
The attitude in the office was... Distraught. Myself
and three other colleagues were emptying our desks,
picking our way through bins of electronics to find
hardware we might've found ourselves needing after six
months of work suffusing our homes. What few
conversations we had felt like both parties were
gently dissociated, everything about our situation
seeming so surreal and alien that there was no way it
was as close as it felt. The first human contact I'd
had in months and we couldn't even find the words to
be kind to each other, we were too scared.
On my way out through the lobby I looked south and saw
the view above. I won't pretend to have instantly
recognized all the meaning and parallels I've found in
it about that day and year. I took a minute to line up
the photo before getting back on my bike and hauling
ass home. The air started to have the occasional hint
of smoke in it, I had to book it before the danger
reached ground level.
HIII just wanted to say thank you for bringing h-entry
to my attention! I've added it to my own static blog
generator and, by extension,
my blog! there's so many things out there in the world you
just never know about and would never stumble upon
without someone going "hey look at this cool thing"
hell yeah glad to see more people doing it! consider also
annotating your p-author with an
h-card
so you can provide an avatar—I had to pull this one manually
from your tumblr
I've put some effort into making my site look as close
to not bad as I know and to make things from friends I
reply to look distinct and then feedbin just presents
it as largely-unstyled text. Hmm, I guess technically
my own feed is probably missing most of that styling
now that I think about it
My friends have spent time making their pages look
actually good and then unless I click through I don't
get to see that.
I guess I could consider a deeper look at alternative
feed readers
#rss
yeah I add inline styles and everything to make my embeds look
nice in the pared-down feed reader rendering, and my reader
just strips everything. not even a token effort to allowlist
safe styles. it will load iframes though! insane
it's actually really nice to take the time I'd
normally spend purposelessly[1]
browsing social media and spend it reading a blog post
instead. I read pretty slowly so it always takes some
dedicated time to get through anything longer than a
few paragraphs, and it feels good to actually dedicate
that time intentionally
okay this is still true but I am faced once again with the
fact that I read really slowly even when I'm focused so it's
very easy for me to just evaporate three quarters of an hour
reading a blog post. doubtlessly pleasant, often rewarding,
but not without danger
trying to get tumblr post embedding working properly, which is
to say using the official API to get the semantic building
blocks of each post instead of the dog vomit HTML they
actually contain, and I've found myself
shaving a yak.
hopefully someone other than me will find this useful
This structure does not inherently preclude a sincere
or substantive engagement with 9/11–it’s entirely
normal for comedy to use its final reveal for brutal
effect—a stunned, awkward laugh that makes use of the
shock of a perspective shift. But that’s not what’s
going on here. The revelation that Snuffy has been
talking about 9/11 does not provide any incisive
commentary on what has gone before—it is simply a
sudden intrusion of grief into a context that had done
little to suggest such a thing was coming.
Is this supposed to be funny? Certainly it in practice
is funny, in that the strip is a ridiculous absurd
thing. But this is a humor of bathos—one in which we
laugh at the strip instead of with it. Indeed, it is
funny only to the precise degree that it isn’t
supposed to be. If the strip is read as insincere,
with its punchline meant to be funny then it becomes a
cruel and ghoulish thing. What is funny about it is
its misapplied sincerity—the fact that it genuinely
appears to be engaging in an act of public mourning
and is getting it wrong, instead ending up weirdly and
dissonantly tone deaf.
When I wasn't in high school, one of the most compelling
English class assignments I ever got was to find an ad from a
newspaper or magazine and do a close critical reading of it to
develop a deeper understanding of the cultural context in
which that ad was created, what its specific goals were, and
how it aimed to achieve them. It was a blast, and one of the
most influential projects for me in developing my critical eye
towards the world around me.
In this post, Elizabeth Sandifer turns the same close reading
techniques towards the installment of the newspaper comic
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith published on the
ten-year anniversary of 9/11, which takes a particularly
bizarre approach to commemorating the event. 9/11 is already a
notably strange cultural touchstone in the US, and so coming
at it from such an odd angle suits the subject perfectly.
so apparently you can't add a bookmark of a particular
page to your home screen on Android if that page
happens to be on a site that supports being a
progressive web app. it'll just always take you to the
site root
The solution I use: turn on Airplane mode, then try to
load the site. Firefox will, of course, be unable to
load it, but you can still add a shortcut to the
homescreen. Doing it this way means you block the PWA
manifest that it's loading that takes away all the
reasons you loaded it in a web win the first place.
If that doesn't work, you can also put a rule in
uBlock to block it, clear all the caches/cookies, and
try again. If you need that rule let me know I will
grab it.
