lobster @Lobster@social.cleverlibre.org

Celebrating ALL CREATIVES today!

I've been Gobsmacked over the last year seeing so many talented and dedicated people willing to be vulnerable by sharing their writing and art.

YOU MAKE MY DAY!!

#writing #writingcommunity #writinglife #writer #writers #haiku #smallpoems #poetry #poem #poems #poet #poets #shortpoems #shortstories #author #authors #artist #artists #art #artwork #fediart #mastoart #painting #creativity #creativewriting #creative #creatives #photographers #pottery #jewelry

If you respect the dinosaur, it will let you pet it

They’re losing, that’s why they’re wrecking everything. That’s why they wrecked Twitter, CNN, and they’re wrecking MSNBC, and the press… they own it all and they are losing so they are wrecking it all in a last ditch sweep to brainwash us into thinking there is nothing else… that only fascism will work. They’re losing. They don’t want us to realize it, but that’s why they’re wrecking everything. To distress us, confuse us, distract us. We’re winning, we just don’t know it yet.

#Wildlife #Photography

So, you don’t like my Ad Blocker.

Well, I don’t like my personal information being harvested then sold to companies that relentlessly spam me later.

That’s a hard pass on your website.

(This is why we need quote-posts).

H/T @deadbeefmonster

When I was a smartass computer nerd in the 80s and 90s, an eternal theme was people asking me for tech support help and me having to slowly, patiently explain to them that computers aren't scary, they're actually predictable, they won't explode or erase your data (unless you really make an effort), and they operate by simple (if somewhat arcane) rules. Edit > Cut, then click, then Edit > Paste. Save As. Use tabs, not spaces. Stuff like that. Maybe not easy, but simple, or at least consistent and learnable.

But that's not true anymore.

User interfaces lag. Text lies. Buttons don't click. Buttons don't even look like buttons! Panels pop up and obscure your workspace and you can't move or remove them -- a tiny floating x and a few horizontal lines is all you get. Mobile and web apps lose your draft text, refresh at whim, silently swallow errors, mysteriously move shit around when you're not looking, hide menus, bury options, don't respect or don't remember your chosen settings. Doing the same thing gives different results. The carefully researched PARC principles of human-computer interaction -- feedback, discoverabilty, affordances, consistency, personalization -- all that fundamental Don Norman shit -- have been completely discarded.

My tech support calls now are about me sadly explaining there's nothing I can do. Computers suck now. They run on superstition, not science. It's a real tragedy for humanity and I have no idea how to fix it.

#HCI #UX #UI #okdoomer

Do you think that a large cohort of the general public would benefit from being taught detailed courses on #logic at secondary #school? #Question #Education

RIP Melanie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r44Ach4mXE4

@ai6yr Do you know about tap code? I somehow missed learning about it until recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tap_code

#ForestGarden #GardenDesign, now with added drone!

Took first aerial photo of client's woodland garden the other day, will be using it as foundation for planting plan, so client knows which trees are planted where. Clearer than satellite, less work than measuring up for a non-rectilinear plan.

#Syra