Liam Cooke @liam@octodon.social

god is dad

If a toddler is having a tantrum, sometimes you can break them out of if by crying along with them, but doing it "wrong" and asking if that's a better way to do it. e.g. Honking or barking, etc. They might stop to correct you, then you can ask about other alternatives. Once they're in this meta context, they usually forget about the tantrum proper.

Make your own glitchy images w/ audacity!

- Save to an uncompressed format (.bmp works great!)
- import into audacity as Raw Input w/ Encoding: U-Law and Byte Order; Big Endian
- Play with effects on all but the first quarter second or so (to avoid messing up headers)
- export to format "Other uncompressed files" and click options, set Header to RAW and encoding to U-Law. If you have issues, rename from .raw to .bmp!

Example image:

https://mastodon.social/media/EgBIl10C6awr7ad0NHo

i made a tiny thing for curling the API: https://github.com/decklin/tusk

the cli ux is very preliminary, suggestions welcome

#botally ppl may be interested? all my twitter bots use basically this level of wrapping, not a high-level-language lib.

(inspired by @tinysubversions' web page tool... thanks!)

oh boy can we please be kind to each other here instead of chewing each other out

a little bit of patience, and a little good faith, will go a long way

Do you like my toots but wish I'd stop using the letter 'e'? Check out @mattlatailor

the wonderful witches of witches.town have introduced me to the glyph ꙮ

it is "multiocular O", a variant of Cyrillic O that is used in certain religious texts in a phrase that translates to "many-eyed seraphim" and basically nowhere else

I honestly am having a hard time thinking of a single witchier Unicode character unless the Leviathan cross is hidden somewhere in the codeplanes

helpful mnemonic: it's spelled masTODOn because there so many things in the TODO list

why call it UTF-8 when you could call it...BUTT (Binary Universal Text Transcoder)

Ooh. apparently if you use the tag #nobot in your bio, the standard Mastodon followbot won't follow you! I like that. https://mastodon.social/media/cjbb9KGh16WFRvuAyis