- I had a dream last night where I was in some sort of high-end, very posh mall, and spent ages looking at a mysterious cosmetics counter that had lipsticks that were exact matches for the OG Chanel Vamp and MAC Verushka. They had tubes of those discontinued lipsticks to swatch and match. I woke up as my dream self was about to spend $160 for two lipsticks. I'll admit I'd be tempted to do that in real life if the company did indeed have the OG tubes to swatch against.
- The US leg of the MCR tour ended last weeked. HOWever, as of yesterday, new ads related to MCR have been seen in New York, Detroit, Minneapolis, and San Diego. Some are just spray painted logos in parking lots outside of stadiums, but some have been bulletin boards and signs of either one or more of the band in the Black Parade uniform, or the Keposhka MCR logo. The fandom, no surprise, are losing our MINDS. Does this mean there's going to be another US leg of the tour? If there is, does it mean more weird storyline/lore that the band is potentially in some sort of stasis or time loop? (I won't give you the whole breakdown, but over the course of the tour Gerard has become more and more corpse-like; paler, wounds on his face, etc., and he's stabbed to death at the end of each Black Parade segment of the concert. There's more. There's a lot more.) Does this mean there's going to be a DVD or something? Should I start saving money for tickets and travel just in case? Who knows? Not the fandom, that's for sure.
- I've been tired ALL THE TIME lately. I'm sure some of it is the ambient stress level we're all dealing with plus the ongoing varying stress levels of work, but the rest may be my chronic health issues flaring up? My body trying to stage a coup and force me to rest? I don't like any of these answers.
- I'm finally getting back into a rhythm of witchy things. I'm pulling a tarot card most days, and I did some ritual work this week. It felt good. I need to do more, because it helps me approach things with more clarity and giving myself grace. And whooooo-boy, do I need both of those things.
So! How are you folks doing?
On algogen and trying to with sign-up applications. This is something I’ve noticed more and more at f.ink too, and I’ve been fooled a couple of times. (Mastodon keeps a note of the text you used as your account application in the backend, incidentally, so yes as an admin I can see what spambots wrote that fooled me enough to manually approve them.)
It does suck because I 100% know I’ve rejected really real human beings who would’ve been great community members. But, like. I only have a very blunt instrument to be able to tell who is a who versus a what. And, well. This is where we’re at with it.
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Sherlock (mostly of Moriarty), Fleabag, Andrew Scott in Hamlet, Andrew Scott, Winona Ryder, Gillian Anderson, Little Mermaid, Moonstruck, Alice in Wonderland.
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As someone who’s had an RSS reader in some form continuously since the early 2000s, y’all without one are , hey.
I also think my dogged resistance to ditching RSS is why I hate, hate, newsletters. Email is my workflow inbox for things I need to action in some way, or that otherwise directly relate to my actions. RSS is for shit I just wanna read. It asks nothing of me but my attention, on whatever schedule I want to administer it. If I don’t check it for months on end (which has sometimes happened!), it just sits there, diligently archiving posts until I get back. It doesn’t try and track me or show me ads. I think I’ve switched reader apps maybe four times. Ever. It feels like a gift from another universe. Perfect little system. No notes.
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Scrolling past this quickly and reading it as “personal, private, perfect” . . . IYKYK.
We kept getting fed the same bullshit, and it’s being laundered in the same kind of stories. [The New York Times] sucks, man. It doesn’t suck because it posted something dumb that betrays the paper’s poor commitment to video gaming’s wider place in our culture and artistic landscape. It sucks because it’s doing to games, and AI, what it seems to be doing to every other important beat of the 2020s: taking the worst people at face value.
On .
On using the fediverse to manage .
One of my todo list items is to implement something like this at alisfranklin.com, originally via PHP though it does kind of occur to me I could probably do it in JavaScript? I wrote some of that once. How hard can it be, right?
