"We're pirates of the seven seas!"
"Which ones?"
"Uh, Mediterranean, Caribbean, the Dead Sea, the South China Sea (but not the North), Hudson Bay, the Sea of Tranquility, and the Holy See."

"...."

"Look, we get around, okay?"

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 11:40

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 11:40

Jul 25, 2018, 11:40

Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

@hal@slime.global here's an alternative that doesn't use any of that javascript nonsense: https://www.w3schools.com/Css/css_image_gallery.asp

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 11:37

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 11:37

Jul 25, 2018, 11:37

Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

@hal@slime.global oh, lightbox!
that's relatively easy, the instructions are here on this site:

https://www.lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 11:34

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 11:34

Jul 25, 2018, 11:34

Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

@hal@slime.global right!

in your case, I'm not sure if there's anything easier than just doing it manually

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 11:30

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 11:30

Jul 25, 2018, 11:30

Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

@hal@slime.global is the rest of your website hand made, or are you using some editor?

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 11:27

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 11:27

Jul 25, 2018, 11:27

Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

@PolyCement I hope you feel better soon

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 11:22

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 11:22

Jul 25, 2018, 11:22

Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

(there are a couple of other shorthands used in the pages, because these are lecture notes, but should give you a good impression)

(ðer r a kypl o yþy ʃøthands ŷzd in ð pàjez, bìkoz ðìz r lekcy nöts, būt ʃūd giv ŷ a gûd impreʃn)

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**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 11:18

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 11:18

Jul 25, 2018, 11:18

Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

2 (unrelated) pages written in my phonetic writing system for English

tû (ynrelàtd) pàjez riten in mii fönetik riitiŋ sistym fø iŋgliʃ

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**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 10:15

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 10:15

Jul 25, 2018, 10:15

Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

I should post a picture of my phonetic writing system for english here

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 10:12

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 10:12

Jul 25, 2018, 10:12

Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

@puppy@sleeping.town (aside: make sure not to mix up "a language" and "the language's writing system", because a language develops naturally, whereas writing systems are all human inventions and are generally much more flawed!)

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 10:11

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 10:11

Jul 25, 2018, 10:11

Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

@puppy@sleeping.town another point: Chinese doesn't actually have words, the translation of "word" was actually invented *after* the europeans brought the concept of "the word" over to China, where it doesn't fit neatly into a box

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 10:09

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 10:09

Jul 25, 2018, 10:09

Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

@puppy@sleeping.town ah, clearly you haven't read the chinese poem "Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den", or in it's untranslated title: "Shī Shì shí shī shǐ"

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 09:58

**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es · Jul 25, 2018, 09:58

Jul 25, 2018, 09:58

Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

@fillertrack gosh, I didn't even get close to a bingo

there's a lot of them I don't recognise!

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**Lizardsquid, maker of noises** · Jul 25, 2018, 09:16

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**Florian** @theoutrider@mastodon.social · Jul 25, 2018, 09:16

Jul 25, 2018, 09:16

Florian @theoutrider@mastodon.social

pet peeves: Slack, Discord and other applications with "loading" screens that steal focus *twice* during startup

this is especially irksome because Slack and Discord in particular take a while to start up, so you end up either having to get focus back to something else *twice* or waiting for ~10 seconds unable to do anything else while they finish starting up