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alisx) wrote2025-09-19 02:05 pm
alisx) wrote2025-09-19 02:05 pm
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cupcake_goth (cupcake_goth) wrote2025-09-18 01:18 pm
cupcake_goth) wrote2025-09-18 01:18 pmI wrote a goodbye note in lipstick on your arm
- 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?
Alis (alisx) wrote2025-09-19 06:43 am
alisx) wrote2025-09-19 06:43 amAI poisons everything.
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.
here
Alis (alisx) wrote2025-09-18 01:23 am
alisx) wrote2025-09-18 01:23 amnews.rss
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.
Alis (alisx) wrote2025-09-17 07:22 am
alisx) wrote2025-09-17 07:22 amWednesday @ 7:22 am
Scrolling past this quickly and reading it as “personal, private, perfect” . . . IYKYK.
Alis (alisx) wrote2025-09-17 03:16 am
alisx) wrote2025-09-17 03:16 amEntry tags:
Faded lady.
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 .
Alis (alisx) wrote2025-09-16 09:14 am
alisx) wrote2025-09-16 09:14 amStatic comments for static sites.
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?
full_metal_ox (full_metal_ox) wrote in little_details2025-09-15 06:08 pm
full_metal_ox) wrote in little_details2025-09-15 06:08 pmResource: tree.fm, an audio library of global forest sounds.
The link will take you to a soundscape from a random forest against a scenic woodland wallpaper (chosen from Unsplash and not necessarily from the same forest), with the location and contributor identified in mouseprint at the bottom of the page.
https://www.tree.fm/
https://www.tree.fm/
Alis (alisx) wrote2025-09-15 09:32 am
alisx) wrote2025-09-15 09:32 amMonday @ 9:32 am
HIM: And every time I wear a white shirt I just end up spilling bolognese on it.
HER: Sunlight. The sun fixes tomato stains.
ME: You know what else fixes tomato stains? Black dye.
Alis (alisx) wrote2025-09-15 02:23 am
alisx) wrote2025-09-15 02:23 amEntry tags:
The fake past.
These videos are awful AI-generated slop, yes, but it’s more than that. Reactionary nostalgia, a desire to return to a fake past or a time when you were young and things were better, is part of why the world is so fucked right now. It is, literally, the basis of MAGA. Worse, these videos about the “past” tell us a lot about our present and future: one where AI encourages our worst impulses and allows users to escape from reality into a slopified world that narrowly targets whatever reality we’d like to burrow into without dealing with the problems of the present.
On .
See also: this.
Alis (alisx) wrote2025-09-13 03:37 pm
alisx) wrote2025-09-13 03:37 pmEntry tags:
The only obit needed.
If nothing else we can say [Charlie Kirk] died doing what he loved, which was being racist in front of an audience.
Rest in .
Alis (alisx) wrote2025-09-14 01:07 am
alisx) wrote2025-09-14 01:07 amSunday @ 1:07 am
uspol adjacent
Legit question though why is every twenty-something American dude called Tyler? Like what was in the water in the late 90s/early 2000s? Was it Fight Club? Were all these kids’ parents horny for Brad Pitt???
I know this sounds like a shitpost but no for real I swear this is a thing and I’ve found like at least three in the last few months, and now there’s not one but two in the news???
It’s like how every American Millennial dude is called Evan and every British one is called Oliver. I swear to god this is a thing and once you’ve seen it you can’t unsee it hello yes I am very tired why do you ask?
Alis (alisx) wrote2025-09-13 08:42 pm
alisx) wrote2025-09-13 08:42 pmSaturday @ 8:42 pm
Oh snap the random Pinterest jeans I ordered on a whim like three months ago finally arrived?
I admit I’d kind of assumed they weren’t going to, but . . . nope. They made it. And they’re way better than I was expecting? Good quality, heavy denim, good detailing. They’re probably a size bigger than I should’ve gotten but so it goes, definitely need hemming, and I will probably end up removing the inner thigh laces (pour one out for those of us with touching thighs, I guess). But. Yeah. Good purchase.
Alis (alisx) wrote2025-09-13 08:03 am
alisx) wrote2025-09-13 08:03 amEntry tags:
Social stupidity.
There are human beings who are of remarkably agile intellect yet stupid, and others who are intellectually quite dull yet anything but stupid. We discover this to our surprise in particular situations. The impression one gains is not so much that stupidity is a congenital defect, but that, under certain circumstances, people are made stupid or that they allow this to happen to them. We note further that people who have isolated themselves from others or who live in solitude manifest this defect less frequently than individuals or groups of people inclined or condemned to sociability. And so it would seem that stupidity is perhaps less a psychological than a sociological problem.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer in .
Anyway, Bonhoeffer was sent to the concentration camps and then hanged not long after writing this. So. Y’know. About that.