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Notices by St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me), page 16
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"suffer" https://mulligrubs.me/photos/stjohn/image/143303b12c988911f8639720d822aab1
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A night in the Haight. Some of the eye-popping color and high grain are thanks to the Adox Color Implosion film. The rest is just because the hippies are tripping balls.
https://mulligrubs.me/photos/stjohn/image/fca2f8aa56e6e6d588538a7d5a05cfe6
https://mulligrubs.me/photos/stjohn/image/e92d0e5c652f0b51d518c73bb7a218de
https://mulligrubs.me/photos/stjohn/image/6a1c037c47259c8093362947909698dc
https://mulligrubs.me/photos/stjohn/image/03e42e658d29114c18b27f1a0bd1bf65
#photography #filmphotography
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@multijanet Thanks for the inspired work 😀
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@multijanet Oooh, do I see some Latinizing in the new version? Plurals that end in -as are turning into -ae. Brilliant.
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@multijanet I've been using this for the last couple of weeks and I love it. It tickles my potato every time I see a diaeresis where it shouldn't be (or rather, where it *should*).
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The Web is a Shot Bird
I writed a thing on my blog, full of sausage-fingered outrage. https://www.fuzzjunket.com/the-web-is-a-shot-bird/ Also on my phlog, if you're that way inclined:
gopher://gopher.fuzzjunket.com/1/the-web-is-a-shot-bird
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@ajroach42 Apparently everything I know about Da Vinci is derived from 1970s Doctor Who, so I gladly withdraw my comment :P
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@ajroach42 Really! I didn't know that. Welp, that makes Da Vinci slightly more boring.
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@ajroach42 That depends on knowing what the original was for, which I don't think anyone does. It's lovely to see a take on the Voynich Manuscript done with an eye towards modern surrealism. You can't just decide, "Right, I'm going to be weird today." It has to be a part of who you are.
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@ajroach42 There's a long history of being arcane for its own sake. The Egyptian Book of the Dead is written in retrograde hieroglyphs because the additional layer of abstraction gave it some sort of mystical emphasis. Like Da Vinci writing backwards — he knew he was being weird, but he did it consciously anyway.
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@ajroach42 I didn't mean it was a hoax exactly, but whoever wrote it chose to write it in an indecipherable script and fill it with illustrations of non-existent plants. Whatever they were doing, it was deliberate.
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@ajroach42 Well, no weirder than the Voynich Manuscript, which was surely on purpose too. It reads more like an exercise in weirdness, but one I thoroughly appreciate. The artwork is beautiful and very unsettling.
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@ajroach42 So long ago! I was a student at the time, so I thoroughly appreciated the parody of academia, but I was also genuinely terrified. I need to read it again. Have you heard the album by the author's sister, Poe?
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@blackle Doctor Who?
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@ajroach42 I still use Pidgin every day. I connect to my company's Slack via the IRC gateway :P
I wish more chat systems supported third-party apps or federating with independent servers. It's impossible to find a chat app in common these days. Every conversation I have goes:
"Are you on Whatsapp?"
"No, are you on Signal?"
"No, are you on Facebook?"
"No, are you on Skype?"
"No, are you on GChat?"
"No, are you on XMPP?"
"What's that?"
"Forget it, just email me."
"No-one uses email any more, it's too complicated."
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@bjoern If that's the case, then it sounds like there's more of a problem with the subscription models these news services are offering. If it's too expensive to subscribe to more than two, then they're probably charging too much.
I really like the Patreon model where you can chip in a couple of dollars a month, but for something like a proper news site, have you checked out your local library? Libraries often have digital subscriptions to a lot of online services which you can access from home with your library card (e.g. I use the Oxford English Dictionary online almost every day through my library's subscription; that alone would cost me $29.95/month if I subscribed to it myself).
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@bjoern Don't have any qualms about blocking ads. Ads *are* harmful — they clog your connection, they're intrusive, they're distracting, and they have an impact on your psyche. You're not obliged to load them, even for websites you want to support. What I do is buy something. If I visit a website all the time and they make a book or an album or a fluffy pink walrus or whatever, I'll buy their thing because I want to support them. Of course my flat winds up crammed with fluffy pink walruses, but then you know what it's not full of? Ads :P
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@twitter Oh my god yes, why do people do this. Many sites today even seem to use JS to load the body of the article from a CDN or something. Which means the whole website doesn't even exist — it's just a haphazard assembly that's thrown together at the last minute on the client side.
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@djr You're right, there's definitely a perversity to it. Still, it's hard to imagine it any other way. I'd be a lot less interested if the movie looked any good.
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