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@alex

Okay so the solution is multiple clients.

Before Akkoma-FE (a web frontend I have installed) had post-editing or even “delete and redraw”, I used FediText (then called “MetaText”) to do that. I only opened it for that! Then went back to Akkoma-FE. These days FediText is not good for that because it loses the markdown formatting but Akkoma-FE is good for it now so now it’s the only thing I open it for. (And in both cases I have to be quick since I have app limits on.)

I make most of my posts in Emacs. Including this one; I have a shortcut set up that lets me long press your post in the RSS reader which lets me type the reply in Emacs.

And same when I want to post a link, I have a shortcut to use on URLs that opens Emacs to type the description (and the tags for link hut).

Or when I just want to make a text post of my own, that’s Emacs. It even lets me select some text from another post and hit a button and that gets posted. (This is all in addition to the excerpts that automatically get posted when I make blog posts. Yeah, yeah, I’m an insufferable firehose on ActivityPub, I understand that. I worry about that a lot but I haven’t figured out an answer yet.)

But then for quick replies to mentions and DMs, I use a Delta Chat plugin for that. The mentions become Delta Chat emails and I can reply right away. (If I want to use Emacs or markdown in the reply I can still switch to Emacs manually.)

I still use FediText for one thing: posting images and sound that originate on iPad (like screenshot from manga) since unlike Akkoma-FE it works from the share sheet, and FediText has a much more comfy space for writing and editing description text. Art that I have on my headless Debian machine (that runs all this Emacs and blog-posting and bookmarking stuff), I can post directly from there with Emacs to write those descriptions and GIMP #ChangeTheName to crop out thumbnails for my /gallery.

So Akkoma-FE has an app limit (of like 25 minutes and it also eats up of the 60 minute Safari app limit), FediText has an app limit of I don’t remember how much because I try to only use it for media posting, the RSS reader has a limit that’s lifted on Socials Saturdays which is where I can catch up with all of y’all♥︎, but Emacs and Delta Chat have no limits which is how I can post and reply to mentions all week long. A li’l solipsistic perhaps but I figured that replying to a question directed to me specifically was more urgent than engaging with what people send out more undirectedly to the wider world. (And even then I’m not on my Delta Chat 24/7. It’s fenced-off, too: I can only use it at home and notifications are off during the night and morning.)

All this a l’il self-indulgent way to say: use multiple clients! Each has its own strength.

ln.htlinkhut

While I know we must seek joy in these dark times upholding systems that oppress others ain't it.

You're going to watch a game that features an anti Native team and a league that just removed "End Racism" from the end zone.

You're asking what you can do to stop what's happening in this country? The very least you can do to support Black and Brown people is change the channel.

npr.org/2025/02/08/nx-s1-52902

1/ WARNING: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS STILL HAPPENING AND IT'S WHY NATIVE MASCOTS HAVE TO GO ALSO THERE'S A PIC THAT MIGHT TURN YOUR STOMACH

Oklahoma's Spiro Public Schools, located on the Chahta Nation Reservation, played a football game against the Pocola Indians September 13. In order to get the Spiro Bulldogs raring to go the administration and staff decided that genocide ribbons were the best way to go.

What it's like to speak while Native on the internet part 1: The Threats

The first pic is a guy who got mad that I, as Mvskoke Semvnole, want the Atlanta baseball team to #ChangeTheName, and stop doing the racist chop

Second is a guy who really likes columbus day and really really doesn't like Indigenous Peoples Day

Third is a Native r*dskins fan. I do actually live in his state but my head is perfectly fine

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I used three angles of the Newsprint distortion and then automasked them using three different thresholds value masks created from the original color photo. I did this twice, one version had the original photo, the other version had gone through G’MIC’s sharp abstract. I used the original for the face and hat and one finger. The main thing I wanted out of the abstract’s smoothifier was to get rid of the stitches in the sweater, they were too real.

Using threshold levels to automask was a huge mistake. The mask edges were too smooth and inhuman. Usings the smoothed version of the photo to get those threshold levels exacerbated that problem. I had to break up some of the edges by hand (and I missed some, and the ones I did do I’m not happy with). In hindsight just doing all the masks by hand woulda been worth it.

Learning how to make masks in GIMP #ChangeTheName was a good thing, and then if I save as .psd, CSP can then import those masks and I can keep working on them there. Getting the selections from alpha layers was easier than CSP and then turning those selections to masks was harder than CSP so it netted out to about the same.

I tried making a Doré style engraving (using a bunch of filters from G’MIC and GIMP #ChangeTheName + a li’l bit of hand drawing) but it looks too much like a photo when zoomed out or scaled down is the problem.

https://idiomdrottning.org/moi-bonnie-je-tremble.png

It’s the classic public domain photo of Faye Dunaway from 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde.

Maybe I should just give this obsession with approaching this Doré/Wrightson style a rest. After all, it’s the exact opposite of what computer screens are good at: big fields of solid color.

Computer screens even in the retina age have limited resolution compared to what engravings had, but those engravings were one-bit deep. That’s the tradeoff. It’s just pure skeumorphic nostalgia that makes me so into this style.

I've been saying the Chef's name has been bad for years and I am FINALLY glad more people are coming out and saying that Kansas City needs to change their team name and stop all the racist iconography, chants, etc.

As I have for years, I will continue to refer to them as the Chefs.

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I was told that Natives In movements like aren't doing enough to connect to the global struggle. So I pushed my intellect. Ive drawn parallels, i navigated traumatic materials about boarding schools to bring non Natives back to that time.

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Alot of ppl have deliberately erased Natives. I've been trying to bring info to people all these years that I've advocated for . I've done the histirical research and archiving. But it's profitable for ppl to erase that and pretend they don't see it.