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You didn’t notice most houses were sans until you met the serif
Magic hour earned its name this evening.
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@mahryekuh@hachyderm.io mark me interested in reading that post! Turns out I bookmarked Just three years ago and promptly forgot about it.
Please support this proposal. Everyone deserves a more obedient web #CSS
On good almost anything
Nearly lunchtime
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@mahryekuh@hachyderm.io I like to think there is a reason why men who are thus prone aren’t actually comparing their lengths. 😉
Investing in art you like, supporting the artist who made it, doesn’t stop feeling good.
Just so you know.
Citing your favourite bot output didn’t win you our argument.
I walked away to avoid further sunk cost talking at a machine.
My wife: “Nothing says colonialism like…”
Me: “… an Aboriginal name set in Times New Roman”.
Us, beautiful nerds, looking at a public building
– finishing each other’s sentences ❤️❤️
Have a business? Invest in your own website.
“Customers who booked directly on the website of his Bendigo City Centre motel saved plenty of money, paying $165 a night for a standard double room compared to those who reserved the same room through Booking.com and paid $190.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-30/booking-com-price-parity-clauses/106727746
For the special person out there waiting for it – version 13 of my new NetNewsWire theme is looking ripe to publish!
Spent some hours finding a way to work around a Safari SVG filter regression.
Now I need a screen break. Will be back to write up what’s new.
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@zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com @scott@typo.social investors anticipating the bad news that layoffs are supposed to offset perhaps
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@JaneOri@front-end.social oooh! Amaze!
Tangent: want my CSS vars validity syntax coloured!
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@tylersticka @davatron5000 these are some very cute drawings of some very ugly villains!
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@chriskirknielsen @alvaromontoro is okay to try again after not matching any? Asking for a friend.
There’s a metaphor here somewhere, can’t quite put my finger on it.
"The scientists will tell you that the feral cats will eat about 100 kilos of native wildlife a year," Mr Squires said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-28/cat-trapping-northern-tasmania-devil-population-increase/106813282
“When developers automate UI development, they automate discrimination from rights, services, and opportunity.”
https://conesible.de/wab/
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@seldo@alpaca.gold I watched the video and thought someone was pulling my leg. Before it finishes it wipes out. Seemed to require a lot of help to finish.
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“Geelong oil refinery fire live updates: Equipment failure to blame for refinery fire, firefighters say”
Really? How about the oil?
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@benno@eigenmagic.net @daedalus@eigenmagic.net hold that thought… Do we still Eurovision?
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@awfulwoman wow. Lady has got some strong points!
Left pondering how to encourage the non-anti folks in my life to watch this.
We didn’t need Paul Keating to point out the racism, but it’s welcome
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/17/paul-keating-angus-taylor-liberal-party-immigration-statement-in-full-ntwnfb
The energy revolution is not coming.
It is already here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgBTARXEfxU
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@jensimmons@front-end.social seeing the updates to hanging-punctuation reminded me. Where might the reasoning on the decision/s regarding which characters are “hung” be recorded?
I learnt from my own studies of typography that hanging punctuation helps visually even the leading edge of a column of text. Quote marks, without hanging, otherwise create small pockets of white-space beneath them – roughening the edge of a paragraph.
[Why then are brackets such as these given the same treatment?]
“It's not what I want, it's what I can give you.”
Good people of #Clacton
Do the Boaty McBoatface thing
Signed, The good people of everywhere else on Mastodon.
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in case the last you heard on this included the words “cease fire” https://michaelwest.com.au/what-ceasefire-gaza-still-under-siege/
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@awfulwoman On reflection, a down side on ai believers watching… More unhelpful blowback on the author!
More caveats: when I say pro, the people I personally have in mind are focused on trying to make LLM output useful, not so much looking for its harms.
“The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has received more than $176m in Commonwealth grant funding through an ACT incorporated association that is not subject to the same public financial reporting requirements as registered charities or companies.”
https://michaelwest.com.au/money-trail-leads-to-obscure-israel-lobby-entity-then-runs-dry/
Just now looked up when Global Accessibility Awareness Day falls. It was today!
As it happens I spent most of my GAAD writing accessibility fail Jira issues. Finished up the day by writing a stroppy reminder to my lovely colleagues about purposeful image alt text.
Suppose I celebrated appropriately after all.
As a first hand beneficiary of a public hospital I felt this in the cockles
https://aliensideboob.substack.com/p/the-best-people-in-the-world
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@leaverou@front-end.social @maudenificent@aus.social the other thing that looks more interesting when you assign visible colours to invisible wavelengths – the universe as seen by radio telescopes.