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  • Posted 9 October 2024 by Natalie

    bcj posted 8 October 2024 on postnow.site

    An Annoying thing about feed readers

    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

    1. rss
    2. web

  • Posted 9 October 2024 by Natalie

    Natalie
    Natalie posted 2 October 2024

    doing my level best to replace my "click over to Cohost" instinct with "click over to my RSS reader" instead of "click over to Mastodon"

    • #rss
    • #mastodon
    Natalie
    Natalie posted 2 October 2024

    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


    1. I actually think that taking a few minutes to totally context-switch your brain to something low-key and fun before context-switching back to more serious work is really valuable, at least for the way I work. It's like giving my brain a quick rinse. ↩︎

    • #rss

    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

    1. rss

  • Posted 9 October 2024 by Natalie

    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

    1. meta

  • Posted 8 October 2024 by Natalie

    Elizabeth Sandifer posted on www.eruditorumpress.com

    America a Prophecy 1: Exegesis

    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.

    …

    • #america a prophecy
    via Caoimhe Caoimhe

    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.

    1. newspaper comics
    2. link

  • Posted 8 October 2024 by Natalie

    Natalie
    Natalie posted 7 October 2024

    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

    • #android
    • #enshittification
    effika posted 8 October 2024 on app.commentbox.io

    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.

    holy shit it worked

    1. android
    2. enshittification

  • Posted 7 October 2024 by Natalie

    in a kosher household you'll often keep around snacks that contain neither meat nor dairy so you can eat them whenever. it's just parve for the course

    1. judaism

  • Posted 7 October 2024 by Natalie

    theoptics posted on theoptics.bearblog.dev

    twin cities metro communion

    y'know when you're in a train car with exactly
    one other person (you've only glanced at them, if at all)
    and you fixate on the hidden enormity and complexity of your temporary companion's life and you wonder how more than two entire human beings could ever possibly fit in a train car
    1. tweaked the html/css on this one a bit
    2. hope you don't mind theoptics
    3. find poetry everywhere

  • Posted 7 October 2024 by Natalie

    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

    1. android
    2. enshittification

  • Posted 7 October 2024 by Natalie

    on The Great American Baking Show:
    Sean: I'm really worried about it poofing up a little bit too much when the jam-
    Paul Hollywood: Poofing up?
    Ellie: Poofing up!
    Sean: The correct term. The scientific term.
    Ellie: The culinary term. Yeah. "Poof up."
    Sean: Yeah, you know, poof it!
    Paul Hollywood: Like puffing up?
    Sean: Yeah, yeah, but "poof" just has a little bit of, like, *gestures expansively* poof!
    Ellie: Poof!
    Sean: Puff just sounds a little...
    Ellie, dismissively: Puff.
    Paul Hollywood: 💭 Am I the only person at this table who realizes this is a slur for gay people?

    Paul Hollywood looking baffled
    1. Prue knows but she also knows it's specific to the UK
    2. the rest of them genuinely have no idea why he's reacting like that
    3. food
    4. gbbo
    5. the great american baking show

  • Posted 6 October 2024 by Natalie

    Máxima
    Máxima asked:

    Are you going to play Silent Hill 2 OG or Remake this halloween?

    As good as the remake looks, it's made by an entirely different team

    Good question! For those unfamiliar, I've had a yearly tradition since 2021 of playing a classic survival horror game each October, because I like themes. I've played Resident Evil (GameCube version), Silent Hill (PlayStation version which I think is the only one), and Resident Evil 2 (2019 remake) so far. This year, as Máxima accurately recalls, I am planning to play Silent Hill 2.

    Originally I thought I would obviously be playing the original, since the remake was being made by Bloober Team whose horror output has not seemed particularly great. But with this remake reviewing quite well, I did take some time to consider it as a real possibility. Ultimately, particularly after consulting Christa who has strong opinions about these sorts of things, I decided to stick with the original.

    Where I've found my interest in Resident Evil as a series largely orbiting its mechanics and the use of game design to convey a notion of "horror", at least in the first Silent Hill much more of what I found compelling was wrapped up in the story and atmosphere. That's much harder to preserve, let alone elaborate on, in a remake. Even a really good remake made in 2024 will still have 2024-era textures and mocap and movement. If I'm playing a game for its vibe, I think I want the first time I play it to be with the original vibe.

    1. ask
    2. silent hill
    3. silent hill 2
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