orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

this less of a specific artist & more of a tragically unheard of digital watercolor program called Expresii (expresii.com)

it was originally developed for calligraphy, over the years it's been exanded to be just the BEST digital watercolor app/program there currently is on the market

cons are: it's Windows only, and it because it was made in Japanese first, the translated English menu might be confusing

the pros? endless!! AND IT'S GOSH DARN BEAUTIFUL!!!

if she's ur jackdaw how come she's on my big sphinx of quartz

Cold war era spy tape recorder. Early 1960s Fi-Cord 101S. Made in Switzerland. More tiny tape recorders: here. https://quinnception.tumblr.com/post/186936711444/vintagecollectorguy-cold-war-era-spy-tape

believe the priorities tell you with their actions, not the ones they tell you with their words

Dang, I guess Ed was right this whole time

Apple's hardware aesthetics have an almost terraforming effect: the sleek MacBook makes the rest of your desk look cluttered and irregular, their stores feel like alien temples you must assimilate into the customs of. I would like technology to feel more like going down to a local co-op hardware store where a lesbian sells you a hammer you will own for 30 years.

wow I had no idea that arctic birds were all communists. they even have a common tern

A friend of mine needs a place to live. She's in upstate NY, near Lake George. White queer trans woman. Willing to pay rent

Please boost, and tag anyone you know who's in the area or has connections in New England. I can give you her discord on request

The lazy, white supremacist trope in fantasy writing where nonhuman races represent nonwhite humans has a name now: Tolkien Minorities.

That is all.

'you' actually *became* a singular pronoun at a particular point in the history of English. this is not clearly true about 'they', which seems to have been the unmarked, ungendered singular pronoun for as long as the recognizable personal pronoun system has been in place

there was, however, a historical moment when a bunch of 'grammarians' (again: made-up job!) with a boner for Romance languages began to insist that 'he' was a gender-neutral pronoun. this seems to have never taken root in the spoken vernacular, ever