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litherland

@litherland@typo.social

Design + type + text. Solidarity forever. Views are my own.

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gvwilson, to random
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I am seriously tired of books and blogs and TED talks telling me how to grow a business. I want to know how to sustain one at a comfortable level. My dentist isn't looking to 10X his practice; neither is my accountant or my lawyer, and they're all (a) happy and (b) not regarded as weird or as failures. Where are the best-sellers on how to maintain a business until you're ready to pass it on to the next person?

litherland,
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@gvwilson Alas, in the US at least, dental practices (and veterinary practices) are being scooped up by private equity firms. And they will try to 10x the practice.

ntnsndr, to random
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I think I'm going to stop using Mastodon in my Intro to Social Media class and focus on teaching the use of pre-Internet forms of social media.

litherland,
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@rose_alibi @ntnsndr CB radio

litherland, to random
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“Prescriptivism has a bad reputation among linguists and the descriptively minded. I’m in the latter group, but I routinely apply prescriptive rules in my work as a copy-editor. It’s a more nuanced picture than is generally supposed.” —@stancarey https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2021/07/25/four-types-of-language-prescriptivism/

litherland, to random
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A weird thing happened earlier when I was out walking the dogs. A friendly woman approached me and asked me if I needed a dog walker. I said no and asked her if she had tried putting up flyers around the neighborhood.

litherland,
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She said no, and added: “This is all new to me. Until now, I worked for the New York City school system.”

“Oh,” I said, “you’re no longer part of the school system?”

“No,” she said, smiling. “I refused to participate in the Covid vaccine.”

Upon which I turned and walked away from her as fast as I could.

mariyadelano, to random
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Writes and publishes an extremely revealing post late at night

wakes up
“Wait…. Why did I do that?”

(Also known as my newsletter posting cycle)

litherland,
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@mariyadelano Thanks for this. Relatable. “No matter what I accomplished, it was never enough to guarantee safety, financial stability, or social acceptance.”

litherland, to random
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Some typefaces have glyphs for primes and double primes, but not all do. I know that common usage tends to compress straight quotes and primes, i.e., most people just use straight quotes when they mean primes. Do you (type friends) think there is an increasing tendency not to design primes? Is it considered a waste of time? For me primes and straight quotes are very different things, but I totally get that most people probably don’t think about the difference.

ntnsndr, to random
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Has anyone experienced LLM-induced writers' block?

litherland,
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@ntnsndr Yes, indeed.

Teri_Kanefield, to random

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    litherland,
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    @Teri_Kanefield Definitely not today, since today is the day he is invited to appear before the grand jury—but maybe tomorrow!

    onpaperwings, to random
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    Linotype Book Project - Issue № 4 is coming out tomorrow!

    Learn all about my three days spent at the Museum of Printing north of Boston and see exclusive images of never-before-seen objects and ephemera related to the Linotype.

    Sign up here: https://linotypebook.com/

    litherland,
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    @onpaperwings Common. I’ve been known to write “final” drafts in one fell swoop, but that’s only because I’ve spent tons of time writing in my head first. No shortcuts, alas.

    “Text takes time.” https://linedandunlined.com/archive/serial-series/

    litherland,
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    @onpaperwings Haha, mine too! 🤝

    kitoconnell, to random
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    No judgment, but curious if you still regularly in your work, shopping or daily life. Will reply with mine later below. 😷

    litherland,
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    @kitoconnell Yep. I wear KF94s (they fit my face better than N95s) in shops, in the subway, and on crowded streets.

    litherland, to random
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    TIL

    “wrack”

    litherland,
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    Cf. https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary

    “There’s no play, no delight in the language. The definitions are these desiccated little husks of technocratic meaningese, as if a word were no more than its coordinates in semantic space.”

    (This article makes the rounds every so often. I have Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary installed on my laptop and phone and consult it all the time.)

    litherland,
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    @stancarey Well said.

    litherland, to random
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    Directions for getting to a friend’s birthday party in Brooklyn 🤔

    litherland, to random
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    “But if there’s anything I know about practicing it’s that it isn’t about rules or consistency or scarcity or god forbid optimizing: it’s about coming back. A practice is built on the movement of return.” @aworkinglibrary

    https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/fifteen-or-one-third

    litherland, to random
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    Very grateful for this series from Frere-Jones Type that resists Monotype’s flattening and erasure. History is important. This is important. Text by @onpaperwings. https://frerejones.com/blog/designing-surveyor

    litherland,
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    @onpaperwings Kudos, Doug! 👏

    litherland, to random
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    Private equity snaps up Moog: “The acquisition means Moog is no longer employee-owned; those owners are now bought out.” https://cdm.link/2023/06/moog-music-has-been-bought-by-inmusic/

    litherland, to random
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    It’s bonkers that even inside with all windows closed and air filters + AC running, I still have a splitting headache and feel nauseated. Why do things hit me so hard / why am I such a wimp?

    litherland,
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    @scott I do and I already have today :)

    litherland, to random
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    The ATypI Paris FOMO is intense. Intense, I tell you.

    scott, to random
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    litherland,
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    @scott ❤️

    litherland, to random
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    Do other people write the way I do, i.e., counting words until they finally have enough words?

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