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[image description: A creature resembling some manner of antelope. But possessed of more (and more confounding) horns. The Dilemma’s 5 largest horns curl and twist about. The birds that perch on them suggest that each horn generates its own inexorable and specific gravity. Text reads, “185, THE SMALL GOD DILEMMA”]

Sometimes there is no good answer. Sometimes the only way to win is to lose with a little less absolute finality...

Seanan McGuire's full text here:
smallgodseries.com/small-god-1

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After yesterday's success with the #GameboyCamera #Trichrome for the #1990sCameraChallenge #ShittyCameraChallenge, I thought I would use a full-spectrum #Funtograph (taken without using the infrared cut filter) to produce a #Gameboy AEROCHROME.

I used the full-spectrum funtograph for the red layer, the red filter image for the green layer and the green filter image for the blue layer, according to the method of Joshua Bird. It looks pretty darn good, if I say so myself.
@ShittyCameraChallenge​

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When designing a typeface, test it with real text.

#LoremIpsum is a nonsense snippet used to test #fonts and typographic layouts. It's based on a passage about pleasure and pain from M. T. Cicero's "De finibus bonorum et malorum" ("On the ends of good and evil") written in 45 BCE.

Nonsense harms design mockups by drawing attention away from the meaning that a design aims to convey.[1][2] So instead, I test a #PixelFont with meaningful text, preferably a draft of the copy to be displayed. If I must use Lorem Ipsum, I use H. Rackham's English translation of the passage, which calls to mind the pain of design leading to the pleasure of the result.

[1]: Jason Fried signalvnoise.com/archives/0010
[2]: Kyle Fiedler smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/l

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do you wanna support a queer, trans family, get a fun game, AND save 40%??? you can do all three right now and buy princess farmer on steam! #indieGame #IndieDev

store.steampowered.com/app/132

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I dreamt I was learning a language with two important words, wimak and mak. You used ‘mak’ in factual sentences where the basis for your assertion was anything you could touch (including taste) and ‘wimak’ if what you knew came from dreams, communication with ghosts, or intuition. Stuff you saw or heard was an unmarked case. People argued about whether tv or internet was wimak or not. #linguistdreams

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im gods sleepiest soldier and tbh i am being so brave about it right now

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My greatest fear at the moment is backsliding into behavior patterns that are dysfunctional yet comfortable. At the same time, these last few months of activity have been such a welcome change that I don't think the backslide would happen as easily as I think

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Those “Bank error in your favor.” Monopoly cards really set up unrealistic expectations of adult life.

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Hipster artificial intelligence that insists only on operating on systems that are two or even three generations behind the current.

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anyone else upset this morning because the limits of American cultural expression are dictated to us by Mastercard?

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... Shoot, I did that thing again where a game concept might be remotely playable. Sorry.

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