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One of my favourite self-portraits inside a stunning Art Deco control room.
Quand mon connard de mec veut pisser bleu alors que je veux pisser orange
DARK FORTUNE (2017)
Acrylic - 12” x 9”
A dark smudge on palette paper suggested a hooded figure...and it turned into the Man in Black from Stephen King’s opus The Dark Tower.
https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/2017-leftover-7/
#fantasy #leftoversandpalettegremlins #stephenking #darktower
Oh FFS!
Just was in a retail store for all sorts of things, looking for new blankets and I thought: "Hey, let's get this cute leopard sofa pillow from that one stack while we're at it." I was already pretty tired so I didn't pay a closer look, aside from checking price and if it's washable. And also didn't expect these cheap things to have design changes since the 90s or so. (Aside from that shift from "stuff on it" to "boring white, grey, beige and black".)
Went home, satisfied with what we got in general, got myself some food, and then it dawned on me what I might have gotten.
Looked at the pillow again, and ofc, the "cute leopard" is another AI abomination. The whiskers are weird, there is an artifact near the nose, the leaves around it are all green random sludge. When looking at it more closely it's not even that hard to spot the tells, but you have to start looking at it consciously, awake enough so your subconscious doesn't file it under "style" at a mere glance.
It seems I can't even let my guard down for anything as supposedly harmless and every day like buying a freaking pillow anymore! And now I am questioning that design of the jaguar fur print blanket as well, which have been regularly inaccurate to begin with, so it would be tough to tell. I couldn't find any obvious signs though, so that's something though.
Can't this shitty industry just leave me alone for one minute?!
I still have a receipt and they can be sure I'll tell them why I want to return it, but I doubt anyone will care about the reason. And if one pillow is AI slop, I cannot be sure the rest isn't as well and maybe just better at hiding. Guess I can just no longer have nice things. And not just in that store, in any store or website I might look for pillows in the future, unless I make them myself. (Which I suck at because I am kind of afraid of sewing machines, and making pillows by hand has been... challenging.) Or go by "one colour", which is boring.
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@SallyStrange That is a great feature. I also love the fact that 'old' is a relative concept in the Fediverse. I like the way it's Slow Social Media, that it's natural to just pick up a conversation when you come across it long after it was first posted. Or when you wander back into the Fediverse after a few days or weeks away. Like wandering into a café and meeting someone you haven't seen for a while, you just chat on naturally.
@dfstarshine I believe, in practice, that the style simply comes from digital-typesetting. It finally became possible to print books with full colour digital images anywhere in the page. That had been either prohibitively expensive or impossible in the past, and I think it lead directly to Utopian Scholastic’s design elements of disparate items combined together on the page. Education books no longer had to be boring and digital photo manipulation allowed designers to play with layout in a way they hadn’t been able to before with manual / photo-typesetting
Unless you were largely cognisant during the late 90s, it's very hard to get across to you just _how_ bristling with positive energy computing was back then, just **look** at this opening screen, it screams "ARE YOU READY TO LEARN MOTHERF*CKER?!".
It has dolphins, in the clouds. How many smartphone apps welcome you with dolphins in clouds?
@efi for reference: original / white balanced / channel swapped
got new hair too
doll's back babyyyyyy
Drop your office chair recommendations down there I guess lmao
@plexus Don't make any letters invalid. Swedish addresses frequently contain ä, å or ö, for example. Just because your alphabet only has 26 letters doesn't mean everyone's does. (Don't remember having this problem with UK sites when I lived in France so maybe they can cope with é, è, â etc. - or maybe my addresses just didn't contain any of those characters?)
Also, post(al) codes aren't always the same structure!
Pro-tips for anyone creating an address form.
ZIP code is not a generic English term for postal code, but instead a very specific USPS thing (it stands for Zone Improvement Plan). If you serve anyone outside the US of A, call it "Postal Code".
Not every country has states, don't make it a mandatory field.
Many, many more nuances to international addresses, but these are the ones that bother me most as a Belgian.
Cinnamon turquoise green cheek conure
Love this old threshold mosaic in Grain and Grind on Clarkston Road on the Southside of Glasgow. It's a reminder of the Scottish shoe company Greenlees and Sons.
This company was founded by James Greenlees, who had become a bootmaker in the 1850s. By the 1880s, he had started a mail order business called Scottish Wholesale Speciality Co, which then branched out into physical stores as Greenlees and Sons (aided by some of his eleven sons).
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Avez-vous connu le mini-jeu bonus de Dactylogiciel où les lettres tombaient du ciel et où mon honneur familial dépendait de ma vitesse de frappe sur la ligne QSDF - JKLM. Le vrai Survival Horror.
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#90sKids #Retrotech #PCCompatibles #Retrocomputing #retrogaming
Oh hyped, finally the green yuri anime adaptation, looks coo- WHAT OPENING NOW??? :neocat_aww: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL-IGyJGf-w