@daytonamess Since you asked for encouragement, here is my manifesto for stepping away from Meta/Instagram:
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/63903/fonts-in-use-is-not-active-on-instagram
Plus a couple of the most convincing links in there:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook
and
https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series
When I stopped using Instagram it helped to remind myself that every time I felt the urge to return (even/especially as a thoughtless natural reflex), it was the feeling of a toxic corporation’s manipulative engineering working on me exactly as it was designed to.
OMG I did it. There is a new Fontra release chock-full of OpenType goodness.
Blog post:
- https://blog.fontra.xyz/blog/opentype-harfbuzz/
Download via:
- https://fontra.xyz/
- https://github.com/fontra/fontra-pak/releases
- Flatpak
- Homebrew
The changelog is very dense:
- https://fontra.xyz/changelog.html
Did I mention that @khaled provided key functionality? He did. And it is awesome.
Feedback is very welcome!
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We cannot meaningfully separate everyday usage of “AI” from the machine of death and war. If you’re upset by the military-industrial complex? These tools feed it; they *are* it.
Bonjour à toutes et à tous 👋 !
Nous avons préparé un questionnaire que nous serions heureux de vous voir remplir. Il s'agit de mieux comprendre vos attentes et usages sur mastodon et le fediverse vis à vis de la culture.
Il est un poil long mais ça devrait nous permettre d'en tirer des apprentissages précis et intéressants.. et bien évidemment nous partagerons ici les résultats !
👉 https://framaforms.org/mastodonfediverse-la-culture-et-vous-1771542693
N'hésitez pas à relayer, y compris en dehors du fediverse! Merci! ✌️
En france on a un écosystème de la lettre hyper vivant (typo, calli, lettrage, ateliers, expos…) mais les infos restent souvent éparpillées.
Je lance donc l’Agenda de Lettres Mobiles : un endroit pour rassembler les événements autour de la lettre (France, et bientôt Suisse/Belgique/etc.).
Vous organisez ou repérez un événement ? Envoyez-moi tout ça et je l’ajoute ici !
After painting a bit, I also found that the turpentine-mixed colours look dull, and then I realised that doing the whole picture well would take ages to get right because of all the plant leaves, kind of bit more than I can chew, or want to chew today.
Anyway eventually I wasn't into it any more and I stopped there. I didn't get to painting the bird, maybe another day.
Usually the paintings I do will dry within a week, but this new paper doesn't soak any oil/spirit at all.
One problem is that I'm not using turpentine, but another more eco-friendly spirit that also takes longer to dry. So I thought today I'll try turpentine again, in hopes it dries faster.
However turpentine really stinks; I had forgotten how much, and it also dries too fast while I'm painting, so it's not very pleasant. Maybe also because I'm not used to it.
Today I snapped a cute photo of the blue tits that come on my desk to get peanuts, and I tried painting it. But I got mildly annoyed by various things and stopped halfway through, and will just rant about them instead.
In January, I was out of the previous paper that I was using, and got a new block of Canson Figuras, on purpose for oil. I used that to paint portraits from Twin Peaks a month ago.
The problem is: they're still not dry!
Nick Sherman
Fontra
Jess Rose
Ethan Marcotte
ReseauCulture.fr
Craig S. Kaplan
Anton Moglia