my favorite part about this recurrent trend is that it picks up new elements each time it comes around. the british arts and crafts movement arguably shades into art nouveau and is very loud about its premodern influence. you see that alongside the occultism of the golden dawn. so in the 70s we get midcentury medieval but also https://cari.institute/aesthetics/gay-nineties-revival and they go together more than people think (plus another big era of occultism)

@maya many times a working parent will come home just as dinner starts or partway through or even after depending on the work. I know a bunch of people who start work at 6 or 7 to end at 3 or 4 too

@maya i would say 6:19 is probably right on point for us. my partner likes to work out or do yard work immediately after office hours, then we make food.

@maya I was just thinking about dinner times earlier today thanks to someone doing an AMA about life in Irish prison. Apparently they have to have dinner at 12 in the day. Bizarrely early. It might follow on from that being an old-fashioned rural thing here: dinner at lunch, evening meal then became "tea".

i am >a decade into this moon-stars symbol so i'm not changing it, but if i had a time machine i might tell young maya to spend more time sniffing around the interesting unicode blocks before she commits

@maya the see me blobbin'. they hatin'. we don't mind, we blobbin' to the blump blump blump of the beat

@maya this literally happens at the club i work in on Second Life, the LOD settings are automatic but when an event is really popular we all have to dial back our settings and everybody is reduced to what is called "jellydolls" which are colored silhouettes, or glowing orbs (the final form,)

@maya see, this is the kind of weird tech+nature stuff i love.

@maya 🤩

@maya neat project!!!

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/686237/how-can-i-use-a-terminal-within-a-firefox-tab oh, denvercoder9. :(

someone braver than I am should write about the upsides of "friendship ended with native now browser is my new OS". (I have found almost every electron app more domesticable within the browser)

i am pretty sure my fiance has filed all of mastodon into a box in his brain labeled “maya twitter”

"Poverty alleviation and gains in human health have historically been linked to socialist political movements and public action, not to capitalism." i love it when you get a near-literature-review to say fuck you to steven pinker

i grew up on five acres with cashmere goats (and one milk goat!) courtesy of my parents being extremely cool

to some extent I think that's because the UX is easy enough for very non-computer people to use. i wonder if you could leverage email somehow just because... well, just because I bet these folks also know how to use email.

Today in "rural lifestyle does not want to acknowledge how subsidized it is by non-rural society": "Modern government regulation—in the form of building codes, food safety codes, zoning regulations, minimum wage and social security for occasional labor, and town council restrictions on landscaping and animal keeping—can increase the marginal cost of home production of food in areas affected by these restrictions. "

yeah wow those damn food safety codes

i wonder if bookmarklets would make a good intro programming project -- I've gotten a *ton* of mileage out of just "grab elements from the DOM, iterate through them, check a condition, and delete/hide/style them if they match" in different contexts.

mentioned: @darius and @makeworld

*bangs pots* don't ‼️ confuse ‼️ the newbies ‼️

@maya Thank you for being patient with us newbies.

@maya good advice