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To resist this occupation, then, is a task imposed upon me by sheer bad luck, the same way you have to shovel your walk whether it snows 3 inches or 13. It’s just necessary. Children have a right to go to school without worrying they’ll come home to both their parents missing. Immigrants have a right to work without worrying they’ll be snatched in their Amazon vests and put on a plane to God knows where without so much as a court date. Women have a right to exercise our First Amendment rights without worrying thugged up oatmeal-brained Chaska fascists will shoot us in the head and call us a “fucking bitch” as they walk away from our cooling bodies. Every single American has the right to not experience their government, sneering, cowardly, smirking on live TV, lying to our faces about what we saw, not just on a video from one angle, but on 5+ videos from every possible angle. Wagging their fingers at us, too, lecturing us about how we owe the murderer a “debt of gratitude”.

Elena asks what will you do?

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3D printed model of a bunch of cute little little isopods on a rock formation.

My friend 3D printed me a housewarming gift . . .

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White bird of paradise plant in a wicker basket, next to a set of shelves with some soft furnishings in assorted shades of black in the foreground, and some IKEA boxes in the background.

Okay. So. Hear me out. Instead of one really long single set of shelves, how about two identical sets of shelves with my new friend here in the middle? That way, I only have to buy-paint a single new set up uprights, rather than that plus a whole new rack of shelves.

Genius!

Update: Watching the big leafy go swish swish in the breeze is

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Current Music: Vaundy, "saikai"

The best way I can sum this up is probably Oyasumi, Punpun for chick-lit readers, noting that manga itself is kind of “No Longer Human for manga readers.” So basically I guess what I’m getting at is that if you have any kind of familiarity with the whole genre of “Japanese works about not fitting in to Japanese society,” in any medium, nothing here will be particularly novel or shocking to you.

Which isn’t to say I didn’t enjoy this (I did), or that it isn’t a worthwhile read (it is), only that it’s a kind of Baby’s First Outsider Literature novel and, well. Everyone starts somewhere.

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An IKEA IVAR shelf segment, with the black painted uprights and lacquered shelves. There's the arm of a black sofa with some cushions in the foreground.

Still another section to go, and lol don’t look behind it (I had to screw and re-screw the brace a few times), or too close at the dowels (I didn’t have a hammer and had to do what I could with a dumbbell). But! Lessons were learnt, and now . . . shelf!!!

Also cleaned the bathroom and vacuumed today (and scraped my car’s mirror on a pylon, ugh) so, like. Big productive.

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Current Music: Kingdom of Giants, "Scorpion"

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anyway shout-out to every ICE agent currently making themselves the default "shoot first and feel bad never" villain mook in every piece of pop culture made for the next hundred years

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like i would’ve normally said at this rate the plot of Wolfeistein 12D when it finally comes out in 2113 is going to be just endlessly shooting corridors of ICE agents while collecting babies to return to their crying parents but lbr this might the plot of the actual next game, coming circa 202X

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Current Music: Portrait Decay, "Memory"

Sketch of two guys sitting on a sofa. The left is skinny, with a foot up on a coffee table and head thrown back, asleep. The right is heavier, holding a controller, looking at his friend. A cat sits on the coffee table in the foreground, looking at them both.

Today’s doodle while waiting for the dye to process at the hairdresser.

Text: "Eventually, Mac calls a truce, and Silas mostly honors it. Mostly. They retreat to their ends of the sofa, bright-eyed and happy, and Mac goes back to trying to beat his boss. Silas, meanwhile—and because he is, in fact, the absolute worst—retrieves the ukulele Mac and Phil bought him for his birthday as a joke, plus a fucking kazoo, and proceeds to provide live music for Mac’s gaming. Including sad kazoo sounds every time he dies and a rendition of “Yakety Sax” every time he runs back to the boss. This, of course, merely increases Mac’s until-then-somewhat-flagging determination. He does beat the boss. Eventually. It takes most of the night and Mac doesn’t even want to count how many deaths, and the actual successful fight is something like forty minutes. But. He does it. And as the cutscene plays, and Mac turns to Silas, the, “Hah! See?” dies on his lips at the sight of his friend, fast asleep and slightly snoring, kazoo on his chest and ukulele in his lap."

Excerpt from CARCOSA, CARCOSA.

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Current Music: Rev3rent, "Darkest Before Dawn"

People watching and this grandparent-core Boomer couple walk past, walking their little dog, totally normie except for the fact that dude is wearing a freaking Slipknot t-shirt???

Like I dunno what the story is there but I am sure it is fascinating.

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We have been asked to build the same B2B SaaS website with the same featureset n^∞ times, and our answers for the optimal way to do that are increasingly limited. We’ve penned all of our markup into JavaScript templates just in case a product manager needs the wrapper component to post JSON somewhere down the line, and we’ve whittled away at style code until it’s just a mechanism for deploying one of two border-radius-drop-shadow combos to divs. It’s an industrial, production-minded way of approaching a discipline that has all the hallmarks of being a great craft, and that’s understandably uninspiring to many of us.

Henry Desroches on craft vs. industry.

TFW you get halfway down an online essay, see one single image, and your creepypasta-rotted brain immediately goes, “Wait. Wut.”

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So the good (?) news is the fridge repair people think the Noise is just because the frost-free freezer has, in fact, got a lot of frost hidden in the back of it (i.e., behind the back wall where you can’t really see) and just need to be defrosted to stop sounding like it’s taking off.

The bad news is there’s no power point specific to the fridge to do this ( . . .. whyyyyyy?).

The good news is I found which of the breaker switches turns it off.

The bad news is the one other thing that switch seems to turn off in the apartment is the power outlet the TV is connected to??? Which isn’t even close to the fridge???

Anyway. Good thing I live that lifestyle where the only things in my fridge are like water and a half-eaten container of hummus. So. Okay. Off we go for a bit.

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