spider_system | Reading

We have gotten way behind in digital communications and want to apologize. Since last Tuesday, we’ve been getting rolling migraines that we keep staving off, only to have them come back the next day, and screens make it worse. So much of our work involves computers that we’ve really had to strangle our digital activity if it’s not the most important. This is unusual for us and we don’t know why it’s happening; hopefully it’ll pass soon. If not, we may have to make more lifestyle adjustments.

Our brain and eyes just really don’t like bright or LED lights, guys.

Current Mood: sore

lb_lee

Rogan: Okay, so, in the "Summary of Legal Survey Data from the False Memory Syndrome Foundation" paper we talked about, we came across this contorted sentence:

"The most dramatic toll on families queried by the Legal Survey is loss of contact with children and grandchildren, loss of consort by non-accused husbands of wives who are developing images of parental child abuse, loss of privacy, injury to reputation, increased health problems and marital stress." (4)

Mori asked what the fuck "loss of consort by non-accused husbands of wives who are developing images of parental child abuse" meant. I replied that it sounded like "women dealing with memories of being abused don't want to fuck their husbands and that's so hard FOR THE HUSBANDS," but that sounded so over-the-top evil that even I couldn't believe the FMSF would say it.

Readers, I checked, and that's EXACTLY what it means. But why is this bad?

( aaaaAAAAAAaaaah )

lb_lee

Rogan: Someone who bought the Ebook mmmMEGAPACK confessed being overwhelmed by the gazillion titles, where to start, and how to read it. Which... fair. There's dozens of works in there.

(Some of these works may not be in the Megapack yet. Don't worry if you can't find a title.)

STANDALONES (READ WHENEVER)

( Self-helpers, prose, etc. )

RECOMMENDED READING ORDER FOR THE STUFF WHERE THAT MATTERS

( 101 and LB autobio stuff )

Hope that helps!

Current Mood: drained

lb_lee

Hey guys! Friday, October 24th will be the New England Graphic Medicine Summit, and I'm gonna be giving a presentation! Remember when I was gathering up all those many-selved family portraits? THEIR TIME HAS COME!

But now that I'm looking back at all those portraits I accumulated almost a year ago, jeez, I realize I have no memory of whether anyone's consent was given. So: if you've given me a selves-portrait, please let me know whether you'd be okay with me using it at a live event in Boston, which will then be recorded (and probably put on Youtube). Those of you I have contact info for, I've gone to poke!

For other folks who missed all this a year ago: please, send us your selves-portraits! All mediums and skill levels welcome, all interpretations of “family portrait” and “many-selved.” Please give a date and artist/s name for attribution and citation purposes. You can link in the comments below or send them to us at loonybrain at healthymultiplicity.com

lb_lee

Rogan: I am making the terrible mistake of staying up late, reading the False Memory Syndrome Foundation's "Summary of Legal Survey Data from the False Memory Syndrome Foundation: presented FMSF Conference Memory and Reality: Emerging Crisis" from April 17, 1993, so Y'ALL ARE COMING WITH ME.

( I hope y'all packed your shit-wading boots! Lawsuits, sexual abuse, and gaslighting behind the cut! )

Current Mood: groggy

lb_lee

Rogan: man, but I am so glad the False Memory Syndrome folks were so wrong about everything.

( Read more... )

armaina

A guide on making 'filters' using CSS
https://solaria.neocities.org/guides/cssfilter
And a neat little CSS layout for a little card system using the same technique
https://osteophage.neocities.org/projects/templates/bibliodex
Pretty much just using the CSS hide/display features, means you can only display one item at a time and not be able to have different sorting options, but it's better than nothing on a static website.

A sparkle text generator
https://dagrand39.neocities.org/MainPages/MoreHTML/sparkleon/

I had been manually making an RSS feed but, for a reason I speculate being my means of upload, when I made changes to my feed and uploaded them, they never.. really updated in my feed reader. So I had been looking for something to automate that for me, like a blog. Problem is.. most blogs had way way more features than I needed, required another large database install and were just overkill for my desired purpose. You'd think that in all this time someone would have made some sort of flat file database blog system but apparently, they had not! All the other stripped down blogs (bear blog, status.cafe) required making an account on their platform, no self-hosting.

In my search it was also increasingly frustrating when given recommendations that didn't fit what I was looking for when I was very clear about what I needed. A standalone simple blog that generates an RSS feed and uses some form of flat file or single file database. Someone saw my plight and stepped up, fixing up another system to make it more secure and a little bit more clean which lead to:

TKR: A simple status system
https://projects.subcultureofone.org/tkr/
https://gitea.subcultureofone.org/greg/tkr

A stand-alone project that is similar to Status.Cafe in format, but self-hosted, using a SQLite database so as to be easy to drop in or move no matter what server I use. (I, admittedly, still am trying to test it)

https://tofutush.github.io/oc-webring/
An OC focused Web-Ring :o

Current Mood: hopeful

armaina

I'm still learning about this as I write but this is a neat little thing that got started called the Octothorpe Protocol

https://docs.octothorp.es/

I don't know if I can explain it adequately but I'll link to the 32bit cafe forum post that would do a better job of it.

https://discourse.32bit.cafe/t/we-made-hashtags-you-can-use-on-regular-websites-i-hope-you-like-them/3361

I really like this a lot because it's a much more forward thinking approach to the 'idea' of webrings. One of the follies of modern webrings is that they don't attempt to utilize new technology beyond a GIT repository, and that only accounts for a small handful. (I find GIT interfaces incredibly obtuse, personally) It removes a lot of the micromanagement of typical webrings and affords a more flexible system that can adapt to how the website in question changes by permitting the web owner to add/remove context 'tags' as they update their site.

One of the downsides to WebRings was the need for someone to always be doing inventory on the ring. Making sure all the links were up to date and to remove bad URLS. This eliminates a lot of that, and IMO, makes it much easier to adapt to. It's only in version 0.5 so I'm really looking forward to seeing how this project grows. intrigued

Current Mood: intrigued

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