clarity flowers @clarity@xoxo.zone

reminder that I have a tabletop rpg available for sale! fall in love, get bloody revenge, and claim the throne in just an hour of play. https://clarityflowers.itch.io/queen-killer

If you send more 🤞 than you have hands in one text then it becomes bad luck instead of good luck

My company is hiring for a sales position. 1-2 years exp preferred. $120,000 salary. Portland-based, US-remote-friendly. Please help me make this place gayer and less white. https://jobs.lever.co/ridereport/26b96d9c-c384-4936-aee9-071853ce6618

"Freedom is the negotiation of ghosts on a haunted landscape"

Now reading:

"By investigating one of the world's most sought-after fungi, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examination into the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth."

or what if we stored our DNS servers in a local database, and we have to prefix all of our urls with which DNS server we're using, kind of like mastodon usernames being suffixed with the server domain.

what if, instead of DNS, we treated domain names the way we treat our phone contacts, saving IP addresses in a local database with a user-defined name

Sometimes I forget how good my old ambient electronic music is until I wear a pair of nice headphones and then I remember how much I depended on good bass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3j3onOOPLU

anyone have recommendations for drawing tablets? Thinking of picking one out to help me do pixel art. Bonus points if it's particularly durable/maintainable.

It's amazing how, when I have the discipline to sit down and write down my ideas for a project into my wiki, I often end up ending a whole collection of new pages reflecting various research topics.

I like this one quite a bit

ahh I was using the wrong bitwise endianness

text rendering bug

text rendering bug

designing character sheets is forever a humbling process

Every time I write RPG rules text I gain further admiration for those designers who manage to make their rulebooks so readable and full of character & charm.

I've been avoiding metronome practice because I don't have a physical metronome and I hate apps, but I realized today that I could use my PO-12 and practice to an actual drum beat instead and now I feel so powerful

"This worldview looks at city services and wonders if the city could be more efficient and better organized if these systems were 'smart'. But these systems already are smart. They are all operated by people with intrinsic knowledge — and not just where that one neighbor hides the recycling cans, but also the names of kids and the birthdays of dogs and the needs of elders who can’t make out to the store anymore. This knowledge does not make it into the dataset."
https://everestpipkin.medium.com/a-city-is-a-city-against-the-metaphorization-of-data-2139be087a71

Gonna start saving pdf copies of online essays to be more resilient to link rot