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BramMeehan

@BramMeehan@ohai.social

Designing things and teaching stuff in the American desert southwest. Walking the dog when she feels like it. || Avatar by Colin Murdoch.

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Introduction in pinned post, relevant hashtags include #SantaFe #NewMexico #GraphicDesign #Comics #Fencing #Greyhound #Polaroid

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idoubtit, to StrangeTimes
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    BramMeehan,
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    @idoubtit I mean, in a way, it’s not wrong

    davidslifka, to random
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    How to Leave X

    Some of the best tips I've seen for transitioning to Mastodon.

    Don't delete your X account; instead go Mastodon-first, meaning:

    1. Open Mastodon before X
    2. Post new content to Mastodon before X
    3. Engage replies on Mastodon before X
    4. Keep using X but as a lurker; reply less, follow less.
    5. Post teasers on X ("My thoughts on ABC are posted on Mastodon. Username in bio.")
    6. Occasionally post on X that you're now on Mastodon, otherwise your absence is less noticed.
    BramMeehan,
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    @davidslifka Something that helped me, somewhere between 0 and 2, was to just watch.

    Have an avatar, something in the bio, maybe that pinned intro. But just follow and observe interactions, customs, customs being broken, see what people are saying about their instances. Maybe you switch instances before it becomes a big deal.

    You’ve got time, take a week or two to see how it all works before diving in.

    BramMeehan, to random
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    Guy in the parking lot at Valles Caldera, after hearing I’m semi-local: “You come here often, then?”

    Me, having a realization: “Not nearly often enough.”

    clive, to random
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    "The Cognitive Style of Subtitles"

    Subtitles are becoming much more common these days -- on TV, in films, on livestreamed video conferencing, and in social media

    It's damn interesting

    Research finds that subtitling has really good effects on comprehension and recall

    My essay on it: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-cognitive-style-of-subtitles-f1e9d9f27dd0

    A "friend" link in case you're not a Medium subscriber: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-cognitive-style-of-subtitles-f1e9d9f27dd0?sk=583af74146da6cfdf387414f0d048ff0

    BramMeehan,
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    @clive Last one hits on two real sticking points, why I will wait for Netlflix to dub:

    1. Need control over how big the type appears — which is generally just not big enough (shout out Paris Police 1900). TBF, my TV size would probably embarrass most Americans, but it should really be customizable

    2. Timing. Pace out that dialogue. If I can read to the end and know how a conversation goes before the characters, it’s just a bad experience.

    ComicContext, to comics
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    BramMeehan,
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    @ComicContext Ha! I just did a re-read of this series a few weeks back. I have such a fondness for it…

    ernie, to random
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    Watching the original Dune, the only movie that makes sense

    BramMeehan,
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    @ernie If only the ornithopters flapped. I could just never let go of that detail.

    SwiftOnSecurity, to random

    Remember to conduct yourself internally assuming you will have a public audience. Because someday you might.
    Was recently discussing a legal retention requirement in company chat. Made sure to be completely forthright and formal about responsibilities. Can’t play with that stuff.

    BramMeehan,
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    @SecureOwl @SwiftOnSecurity This, for me, is paraphrasing what I paraphrase as Swift’s Rule: Never put into writing anything you don’t want read back to you at the deposition.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    I Thought It Was About Time For Another Movie Question!

    What is a movie that is great, but you only need to watch it once?

    BramMeehan,
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    @Holberg @RickiTarr Oh, wow, that’s so right. I was dragged to this as a teenager… “How long? In Japanese? And black-and-white?” and the movie started and I gasped and then it was intermission and the whole thing just swept me up.

    And I’m good with not doing that again.

    dgar, to random
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    The artist responsible for the box art here fuelled my imagination though my early teens. Larry Elmore created many of the images in the materials on which we based our fantasy role-playing games. He also created a comic strip for Dragon magazine called Snarf Quest. Have you heard of it?

    BramMeehan,
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    @dgar @Tim_Eagon Wound up at a breakfast table with him at a con. I was prepared.

    BramMeehan, to random
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    For (it just came my way today), a gift link to NYT’s recent article about revenants in Poland and how to keep them in the grave: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/science/archaeology-burial-vampires-revenants.html?unlocked_article_code=gv_8o6E4rQKOGoVqUxXlf6GV2_BTblSkUvBaKrpN-kfbDPofi-fb-TkzC2deJOoMMjWZa-BKZStNteTzrZpWDpBX8wcq9tekIGV5e0kXDYOlCtl3aMNY4EDZcEWbCQoegATXET9hl-Uspa84SIUpHE9y3oXAZ1wQUwYqs2vaOIjCGbEraYr6Dt64Y6ytjd2EvuvmAhy9WmLgzOLklzOIoMH5V8JoDG6hxRRQzMbWNfmsZ7bTdO0UoCv2PNW4uuEeHXOBMU71Z7P6ECuCYyJ2BvoShluwSxDqEF8EFt7K497zwv4QUJyhlOXYKMJo6Pw4P66HTCbrmgCSqcDFPWqF_yORMRBy8LvywwmVoDVabio&smid=em-share

    chrisjrn, to random
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    Yesterday, in a rotunda in Chicago, I saw a sign that said "Rotunda", typeset in Chicago.

    BramMeehan,
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    @chrisjrn One for @LTypI ?

    mike, to random
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    What's in the DNA of tech journalists that makes it so hard for them to use Mastodon? I've never seen any other group run head first into so many pitfalls. It's not hard, create an account, follow as many people as possible, interact. If you want the deluxe experience ask around about the best third party app and install it.

    BramMeehan,
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    @mike

    The tech is the scapegoat.

    They just want their Twitter, the way they used it and remember it.

    Not that the onboarding and experience can't improve (and is and will) — it's made out to be the issue, but it's not.

    The issue is it's Not Twitter.

    kristinHenry, to random
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    Just out of curiosity, how many folks here know what the question "Red or Green?" means?

    And if you do, which do you prefer? Do you ever answer with "christmas"?

    BramMeehan,
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    @kristinHenry

    Theblueone, to random
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    Me (GenX) just asked by a Boomer "Why do you hate the suburbs so much?"

    "The suburbs in the late 70s and 80s did things to the adolescent mind. Things you can't come back from. It was the grid formatted and freshly-mowed-lawn scented actualized heat death of culture neatly stored in parent's locked liquor cabinets. It's airless existence mocking all karmic civilizational laws — superpositionally located as both the zenith and nadir of the 20th century American imperial project."

    BramMeehan,
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    @Theblueone @flockofnazguls The Swimmer, yes?

    aram, to random
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    Neither UPS or USPS will accept the responsibility for losing the package they both told me they delivered yesterday challenge 2023

    BramMeehan,
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    @bobthomson70 @Jyoti @aram It’s kinda appalling. Xitter was often better customer service than their own support.

    clive, to random
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    For a long while, it seemed like the "paperless office" would never arrive

    Throughout the 80s and 90s, as companies adopted computers, the amount of office paper exploded

    Why? Because people were communicating more and more -- but wanted paper copies of those reports, emails, memos

    Paper was superior to screens in nearly every way

    But!

    That may finally have changed

    My essay: https://medium.com/@clivethompson/the-paperless-office-is-finally-arriving-92ce060e6070

    A "friend" link in case you don't subscribe to Medium: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-paperless-office-is-finally-arriving-92ce060e6070?sk=5530b921b8aaa01ae899a0a01f6f0c87

    BramMeehan,
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    @clive In the year of our lord two thousand two hundred twenty-three, I have again submitted a PDF to a client — all a decade+ younger than me — requesting Acrobat’s commenting tools for revisions. Again, I have received a scan of hand-annotated pages.

    I appreciate proofreading on hard copy. Especially since the final will be a print product. And getting proper edits with proper marks (which… they kind of mostly got).

    We assume people know how to use the tools they have.

    textfiles, to random
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    I've gone through 3 million manuals in the Internet Archive's collections and produced a "Manuals Showcase", a few dozen manuals that are sure to catch your eye here and there. Readable online, downloadable, and ad-free.

    https://archive.org/details/manuals_showcase

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    BramMeehan,
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    @textfiles “beehaus” in Bauhaus is the the bee’s knees.

    BramMeehan, to SantaFe
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    So… apparently Ricardo Caté received an Inkpot Award at San Diego Comic-Con last month? Nice! https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/new-mexican-cartoonist-receives-inkpot-award/article_bf81f36a-3ae0-11ee-8a06-e708a190435f.html

    BramMeehan, to animals
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    The face of a dog who knows you have treatos RIGHT THERE

    Tim_Eagon, to alternativenation
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    @alternativenation I'm always looking for recommendations for online radio stations that play alternative and indie music! Let me know your favorites!

    BramMeehan,
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    @Tim_Eagon @alternativenation https://indiesf.com/ is pretty much always on in our house.

    GWillow, to random

    What are you reading right now?

    BramMeehan,
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    @GWillow https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691211084/greek-fire-poison-arrows-and-scorpion-bombs

    glennf, to random
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    Somebody in production design on Only Murders in the Building really loves the typeface Albertus—I must know whom!

    poster of Richard II in the background of a frame of the show Only Murders in the Building in the typeface Albertus

    BramMeehan,
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    @glennf

    video/mp4

    idoubtit, to random
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    BramMeehan,
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    @feditips @idoubtit @Kozmo Ah, nice. That’s really what I want to use Lists for, check into a topic every so often without seeing it in my Home all the time.

    SimplyJennifer, to filmsFr

    I have my TV hooked up after my move.

    Someone mentioned a good recently.

    Which platform? 🤷🏻‍♀️

    X?
    Threads?
    Facebook?
    Mastodon?
    BlueSky?

    Drop your , your must-see , and anything you’ve discussed lately!

    BramMeehan,
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    @SimplyJennifer @flockofnazguls Nimona on Netflix. A beautiful-looking delight that I think actually improves on the source material.

    mythologymonday, to books
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    Greetings, myth lovers! For the upcoming we are asking: what are your favourite mythology-themed ?

    Tell us about the and the with the hashtag for boosts!
    Let's swap some awesome recs, all right? 😊
    Your host @AimeeMaroux is looking forward to all your reports! 😚

    🎨 Armchair Books, Edinburgh
    https://www.armchairbooks.co.uk/

    @bookstodon @mythology @folklore @folklorethursday @TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @curiousordinary @wihtlore @FairytalesFood

    BramMeehan,
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    @mythologymonday @AimeeMaroux @bookstodon @TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @curiousordinary @wihtlore @FairytalesFood The Wicked + The Divine: the gods of old are the new pop stars with only a few years to live, imaginatively reinterpreted in a twisting, turning story: https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/the-wicked-the-divine

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