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2025-02-09

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hackers.town: 2025-02-09 Sun 00:07

Every utility class I scrub out and replace with stylesheet declarations shrinks the CSS payload. Honestly not yet enough to make a difference on any but the most constrained connections. Not my primary motivation.

Still. Some random person visiting my site from a phone on two bars signal strength is gonna get page load a second quicker. When I’m done.

hackers.town: 2025-02-09 Sun 10:10

Cynicism is just growling a little when you roll over.

(Real cynicism is sleeping in a barrel and barking at strangers. Anything else is just sparkling irritability.)

hackers.town: 2025-02-09 Sun 14:58

Whole lotta people picking up meds at the CVS today. Gives me a chance to absorb the ambience.

Okay that’s all I got.

hackers.town: 2025-02-09 Sun 15:20

Bounced through stations on the car radio (because radio’s better at pleasant surprises than Spotify etc), settled on Latin dance.

Two songs in: Suzanne Vega?! Wait no, but okay.

#NowPlaying

Myke Towers feat. Benny Blanco’s ‘DEGENERE’ sample of Suzanne Vega’s ‘Tom’s Diner’ WhoSampled

hackers.town: 2025-02-09 Sun 20:42

I check in on the news because it’s not always all bad.

“the neo-Nazis told police they had never experienced a response like the one they received in Columbus.”

Oh?

“They said people pulled guns on them and threw cans and vegetables as they marched, waved flags and yelled racial slurs.”

“Racial slurs.” Did they call you blue-eyed devils? Or just Nazi crackers?

“One of the officers noted the men were “covered in” pepper spray.”

gosh

“We do this all over the U.S., and we’ve never been attacked like this, man,” the driver told police from his seat in the U-Haul.

I guess the rest of us need to step up.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/crime/2024/11/25/body-cam-video-neo-nazis-claim-to-be-victims-after-marching-in-columbus/76568284007/

hackers.town: 2025-02-09 Sun 21:26

A masterpiece, I say.

Minecraft

Inside a tiny cramped Minecraft house with ivy obscuring some bookshelves, but the essentials are in place and there’s a nice mix of stone tile types

hackers.town: 2025-02-09 Sun 21:46

@bitprophet I mean the way I play, the mining is mostly for decorating materials

“I need some potted plants here, better go find clay”

hallway with checkerboard polished granite and smooth sandstone, with lanterns and potted red flowers hanging from the ceiling