Notices by artsyhonker aka Kathryn (artsyhonker@mastodon.xyz), page 3

Snowwwwwww! Not much, but enough to make an angel and totally disrupt the Tube. #fb

@MsYutani @artsyhonker I managed to make a whole bunch of buttons today, see http://artsyhonker.net/support/subscriptions

@Katharsisdrill because under crapitalism we are trained to trust corporations and entities that are not corporations are generally under-resourced

@neither @katebowles Am a musician so my abstract is different than visual though not unrelated. Lovely to chat. Must sleep.

@katebowles @neither I don't seriously object to visual/abstract culture; I'm just much less fluent in it than I am in words, in some ways.

@katebowles @neither @artsyhonker BB reminds me of OK Go. (or maybe OK Go reminds me of BB.)

@neither @katebowles sorry for infodumping at you. Very tired. Was in seminars all day and now think WALL OF TEXT is acceptable mode of conversation. Oops.

@neither @katebowles Similarly the ubiquity of smartphones or at least feature phones with rudimentary browsers means way more people can participate in online culture than could twenty years ago; but let me tell you, YouTube videos on a featurephone are pretty terrible or even impossible.

@neither @katebowles It's paradoxical, esp with screenreaders, because the average smartphone represents a truly amazing amount of assistive technology compared to... Well, anything that came before.

@neither @katebowles And at least another in how digital cultures that are very graphics-based are less accessible to people with poor connectivity, low bandwidth, or using assistive screenreaders -- so people likely to already be at some disadvantage in society

@neither @katebowles There's probably a dissertation in discussing how tech advances (higher resolution screens, more bandwidth) have influenced a move to a more visual culture

@neither @katebowles But when people use a whole string of emojis I want to shout "you kids get off my lawn!!" and I'm only 37.

@neither @artsyhonker @katebowles I write music by making dots on paper with a pencil, and I consider this technology. :-) I do subscribe to a service that transcribes my voicemails to text and e-mail, it's great!

@neither @katebowles What didn't exist in 2004 was the expectation that "normal" people would have anything more complicated than e-mail. I was using IRC and MUDding and using LJ, but the majority of people I knew in meatspace didn't use any of this stuff. Now? Only a minority *don't* use the Book of Face.

@neither @katebowles Smartphones were, of course, much less common, and there still isn't a good Dreamwidth phone client which is a shame; but I was reading various blogs (and LJ) and posting from my phone using WAP by about 2007, and I was a late starter with that.

@neither @katebowles Livejournal existed in 2004, and could deal with RSS feeds, so probably yes.

Home. *splat*

Did not fall asleep on Tube! Beloved, who already got a squillion spouse points this morning, is coming to meet me and walk me home.

Mustn't fall asleep on the Tube and miss my stop. Mustn't fall asleep on the Tube and miss my stop. Mustn't etc etc

Someday I will learn that trying to write music on a train when hungry is apt to give me motion sickness. Today? Not that day.