tulip posted on platinumtulip.bearblog.dev

my makeup philosophy

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.

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• #makeup
• #thoughts

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...

Ryan asked:

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.

alice slimelia asked:

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

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

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 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

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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

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

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.

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• #america a prophecy

via 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.

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

holy shit it worked

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