Zachariah

Zachariah, 13 hours ago

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Zachariah, 14 hours ago

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Zachariah, 17 hours ago

That technique stinks imo

Zachariah, 18 hours ago

How who?

Zachariah, 23 hours ago

Dam and Damrak bathed in a late afternoon sun

Zachariah, 1 day ago

Show me the error in my ways so I can learn from it, or transform me from bad to good.

Zachariah, 1 day ago

If you’re legally required to be there all day, it seems criminal not to feed you.

Zachariah, 1 day ago

I’m a potato, and I don’t like it.

Zachariah, 1 day ago

Does this hit a little to close to (your parents’) home?

Zachariah, 1 day ago

Is a blank character different from pressing the spacebar?

Zachariah, 2 days ago

Oh! “enthusiasm”; not “euthanasia”. Makes so much more sense now. That’s what I get for earl morning reading.

Zachariah, 1 day ago

Tell me you’re a millennial without telling me you’re a millennial.

Zachariah, 1 day ago

Overlooked again, as usual.

Zachariah, 1 day ago

Now where did I put my flint and steel?

Zachariah, 3 days ago

Main idea: Better and more frequent service

Buses are the most commonly used form of public transport in England - yet in recent years routes have been disappearing at an alarming rate.

One area bucking the national trend is Reading. The town - 40 miles to the west of London - was hit by Covid restrictions like everywhere else but the number of journeys on local bus services had been on the rise before the pandemic too. Reading is one of only five areas in England where the local bus company is owned by the council.

“You have local people that live and breathe the area, running the services and working out what should happen. It’s not a central head office, hundreds of miles away.” It also means that if the council puts money into things like bus lanes it sees a direct return - better services, more passengers and higher revenue from fares which can then be reinvested.

If it wins power, Labour says it would give all areas the same opportunity to introduce franchising as metro mayors, as well as allowing councils and regional mayors to set up their own bus companies.

Zachariah, 3 days ago

Performers at Disneyland theme park in Anaheim voted overwhelmingly in favor of unionizing in an election this week, the National Labor Relations Board announced Sunday. They will be members of the Actors’ Equity Association, the same union that represents performers and stage managers at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

The election at the theme park involved more than 1,700 employees in the character and parade departments. The vote count was 953 in favor of unionizing and 258 against it, according to a board spokesperson.

Actors’ Equity said in a statement that those workers had been an “exception” among the heavily unionized workforce at Disneyland “until now.”

Zachariah, 3 days ago

“I couldn’t walk away from the pen and ink thing,” says John Evelyn, creator of The Collage Atlas, a dreamlike storybook adventure recently released on Steam. The entire game is hand drawn, from tiny flowers and insects to huge buildings and the clouds that float over them. Exploring this world unwraps its dreamlike story, with environments folding out in response to your approach.

“I had been drawing for many years before that […] and I’d always draw with ink straight away, without any kind of prior pencil work or sketching,” he says. “I liked all the incidental details and the accidents that come out along the way.” He compares it to improv music — “actually, sometimes it goes horribly wrong!” — but says that the feeling of getting into a stride and being surprised by unexpected outcomes was important to the whole game.

It’s because of this that the art style underpins the rest of the experience. Where individual pieces of game art can fall into the background, The Collage Atlas requests your attention to detail — and rewards it. At the very start of the game, a pinwheel appears from a grassy plain; look at it, and it begins spinning. It was one of the first things that Evelyn created, for what was originally an app meant to accompany a picture book.

Zachariah, 3 days ago

Are cars banned already?

Zachariah, 3 days ago

If the cars are already absent, then that’s fine. If there are still cars about, seems the rolling luggage isn’t the biggest nuisance by a couple orders of magnitude.

Zachariah, 3 days ago

Good to know.

Zachariah, 3 days ago

What was the weather like?

Zachariah, 3 days ago

Ocean Pacific

Zachariah, 3 days ago

mastodon.social/

Zachariah, 3 days ago

I’ve seen that one. May is a generous lover.

Zachariah, 3 days ago

It’s the specific uncanny I’ve gotten used to seeing with AI.