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Paperposts

@Paperposts@zirk.us

Now my primary account - supposed to be a home for all my paper, design, art, poetry and ephemera ramblings. But is ending up a place I post bird and landscape photos, with the occasional climate, environment and tech bits thrown in.
Avatar shows a person with a lens over one eye. Header background says “missed it” but the CMYK colour is offset too much

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Paperposts, to random
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Looks like I'm not the only one who admires their pup.

If anyone recognises this dog/person from Rodeo beach, Marin, please let them know I have this pic and to reach out if they want a high res copy.
#DogsOfMadtodon

Paperposts, to Birds
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#silentSunday #birds - always lovely to sit and watch a great blue heron fishing in the shallows

Great blue heron hunting, with beak touching the water
Great blue heron hunting, wading
Great blue heron side on crouching

dgar, to random
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Nobody wants to show me a cool rock they found anymore.

Adulthood is so dumb.

Paperposts,
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@dgar here’s a fav of mine - I call it Seal

Paperposts, to random
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As @ai6yr mentioned earlier Nov 7/8/9 has some serious fire history. Here's the skies over the bay and Alcatraz from 5 years ago - Nov 9 2018

Paperposts, to Typography
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2 gems from the Cooper Black type specimens

from these 2
https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_0088&targPic=lfa_type_0088_002.jpg

https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_0089&targPic=lfa_type_0089_005.jpg

#typography #typespecimen

'Cooper says: “For far-sighted printers who have near-sighted customers"'

ai6yr, to ArtificialIntelligence
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Seoul: South Korean man killed by industrial robot that identified him as a box https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-man-killed-by-industrial-robot-that-identified-him-as-a-box

Paperposts,
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@ai6yr paperclip problem? Must lift boxes, no more boxes, man must be box etc

Paperposts, to Typography
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Nice to see some live, hand #kerning

#Typography

Paperposts, to apple
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I know #itunes or Apple Music has always been a shitshow from a UX perspective, but wtf, don't take away 'search in my library' and just search the entire music catalogue. Also, FFS #Apple - only one woman across these genres, you sure about that.
#applesucks #algorithms

Paperposts,
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so I just updated my system to Sonoma. And the 'search your library' option is back. Which makes me think - did they use that as an upgrade nudge?

MikeDunnAuthor, to Philippines
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Today in Labor History November 6, 1968: Students at San Francisco State College went on strike, leading to what would become the longest student strike in U.S. history. The strike was led by the Black Student Union and a coalition of other student groups (including Indigenous, Hispanic, Philippine, and Asian students) known as the Third World Liberation Front. The Black Panthers and Students for a Democratic Society were also involved. The strike lasted until March 20, 1969. Throughout the strike, activists were violently attacked by the San Francisco Police. The activists were demanding equal access to public higher education, more senior faculty of color, an end to ROTC, and a new curriculum that would embrace the history and culture of all people including ethnic minorities. One of their victories was the creation of the College of Ethnic Studies in 1969, inspiring similar programs at hundreds of other universities.

https://youtu.be/As_P3DueKrY

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #sfsu #students #protest #EthnicStudies #ThirdWorldLiberationFront #BlackPanthers #sds #filipino #indigenous #asian #mexican #BlackMastadon

Paperposts,
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@MikeDunnAuthor I was looking at Right On just the other day, has a few bits from SF State. https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_unitedstates_0046&targPic=lfa_unitedstates_0046_001.jpg

A spread from the book Right On! with this quote: "Actually, I don’t see the worst disrupters as being either Communists or...anarchists. They are just plain nasty." and a picture of S.I. Hayakawa as a puppet
A spread from Right On! A person is sticking up posters. The posters say 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 strike in bold black letters

skinnylatte, to BelieveInFilm

Street scene in Singapore.

(Nikon FE, 50mm f.18, Ilford FP4, Rodinal, scanned on Plustek 8200i)

#BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead #BlackandWhite #blackandwhitephotography #Photography #FilmPhotography

Paperposts,
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@skinnylatte @skinnylatte wonderful, looking forward to seeing more - especially after you posted that contact sheet. Also i saw there’s an #FP4Party tag

Paperposts,
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@skinnylatte @skinnylatte i tried that for a while but now I’m slowly gravitating to a single account - but not sure how me home instance feels about that. I do like just haven’t found the groove there

Paperposts, to random
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The old (or in this case younger) man of the woods.
#ents #thegreenman #FolkloreSunday #silentsunday

Paperposts,
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@madargon dead tree trunk

Paperposts, to Halloween
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Something #spooky - it’s probably Echo waiting for the bunny men to return

Paperposts, to Halloween
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So here's my annual The Dance of Death post, from the tiny very battered black book I found dirt cheap in thrift store many years ago.

#halloween #holbein

https://www.paperposts.me/posts/2014/10/31/one-for-halloween-the-dance-of-death

Old style engraved illustration of of nobleman kissing the feet of a Pope. Waiting in line is a skeleton and also behind the Pope . The text below it says The Pope.
Old style engraved illustration of a skeleton dragging a mother superior out of the abbey.
Old style engraved illustration of skeletons pouring alcohol down a mans throat, whilst he is surrounded by fellow drunks, one of which is vomiting. The text below it says The Drunkard.

ai6yr, to NewZealand
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Small New Zealand city plagued by roving cars armed with loudspeakers blasting Celine Dion at 2am #celine #dion #battles #NewZealand https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/24/porirua-siren-kings-new-zealand-city-speaker-battles

Paperposts,
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@ai6yr there used to be a guy and 2 mates on a Bullet bike (load cycle) with a massive car speaker, battery and amp etc that would cycle around Copenhagen blasting hiphop - thankfully not Celine.

onpaperwings, to random
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Type nerds: I’ve got a type ID challenge for you.

Metal type, used for foil stamping, no special pin marks that I could find.

R and M feel “British” but I don’t think it is Monotype cast as sorts?

@fhardwig @stewf @nicksherman @kupfers et al

A capital letter W metal type sort under a magnifying glass.

Paperposts,
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@onpaperwings i do love “the R and M feel ‘British’” because they do, my sense of Britishness (i guess visual but it’s more than that) is really heavily linked to type. Funnily it’s all sans and I think the result of Johnson’s Railway type for the underground, Gill Sans and The Transport font by Margaret Calvert and Jock Kinnier. All very municipal (probably a class thing too)

ai6yr, to random
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Looking for some remote operating software for amateur radio, and I find that everything out there has adopted the corporate motto of "you must pay a monthly fee to access this". 😢

Paperposts,
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@ai6yr i'm really sick of the subscription software model. this move to subscription everything is a disaster.

ai6yr, to random
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Interesting note for Fediverse/Mastodon users: you do not get a "view" count here, which makes some new folks (ie journalists/others) feel like they aren't being seen, even though their message is being read by lots of people. They only see the boosts and stars... So hit the "star" button often, especially on new people finally migrating here!

Paperposts,
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@ai6yr I do that too. I star often, I remember when I first joined and there were lots of posts about how stars are meaningless (as no algo), and boost were all that mattered. But for me a post getting a star indicates that someone saw it and thought about it, it would be nice if they boosted but that's the extra bit, the bit that says 'I agree' or 'wow everyone look at this'.

Paperposts, to art
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Today's
3 wonderful serigraphs from Sister Corita Kent, that were on display at SFMoMA a few years back

Art by Corita Kent. Colourful screen printed, manipulated typography collected from advertising and signage. It reads "the stars come alive tomorrow"
Art by Corita Kent. Colourful screen printed, manipulated typography collected from advertising and signage. It reads "Tiger thinks humble research works wonders with oil who cares"

Paperposts, to random
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I know this isn’t but it feels very much like #visualpoetry to me #vispo

Paperposts, to Birds
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A young and very bedraggled Red-shouldered hawk trying to drip dry

#birds #hawks #usbirds

A red shouldered hawk sitting on the apex of a roof in the rain. Wings partially outstretched and raised to the wing trying not to be so wet
A red shouldered hawk sitting on the apex of a roof in the rain. Looking very forlorn.
A red shouldered hawk sitting on the apex of a roof in the rain. Wings partially outstretched with feathers ruffled

Paperposts, to random
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I would just like to say #fuckHP printers and their shameful ink racket

Paperposts, (edited )
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@samueljohnson @quixote @CenturyAvocado I was just thinking about the new Californian right to repair laws, be nice if HP got caught by those

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