rasterweb

rasterweb, 10 months ago to mastodon

I love that Mastodon has that thing where someone interacts with you, then you check them out, find out they're cool, follow them, and check out their boosts and find out they follow cool people so now you follow those other cool people as well and now you follow a whole bunch more cool people.

#mastodon #fediverse #cool

rasterweb, 6 months ago to opensource

I've been using Inkscape for over 10 years. If I had been using Illustrator for 10 years I would have paid Adobe over $2,500 in "rental" fees for a subscription that stops as soon as I stop paying.

Instead I started paying $5 a month to Inkscape to help make sure we can all use it for free for as long as we want.

#inkscape #openSource

rasterweb, 11 months ago to random

People who are like "The migration to Mastodon has failed!"

No it hasn't. I literally migrated to Mastodon from Twitter, and I don't use Twitter anymore, but I do use Mastodon every day.

I call that a successful migration.

rasterweb, 3 months ago to random

Someone at work ordered a bunch of cheap "slap bracelets" for a silly project and I said "Hey, do you think if I cut this open it'll just be an old tape measure inside?"

And yup...

rasterweb, 2 months ago to Milwaukee

Whoa... "New Online Tool Reveals All Milwaukee Properties Owned by Big Landlords" And guess what? 1% of landlords own 44% of city's rental units...

➡️ https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2024/03/25/new-online-tool-reveals-all-milwaukee-properties-owned-by-big-landlords/

#mke #milwaukee

rasterweb, 2 months ago to random

I saw a guy at the airport with a shirt that said “SAVE THE MANUALS” and I thought “Hell yeah, brother! You may need to reference them in the future. Glad to see another fan of documentation.” Then I saw a weird symbol like an H with a | down the center, and I realized it was a dude who just really liked stick shift cars.

rasterweb, 7 months ago to random

Twitter/X is dying. I work with a company that has over 12,000 followers, built up though years of creating & sharing good content, and nowadays posts get almost no engagement, and nearly every new follower looks like a fake account or a new user with no followers. At this point I just wish it would die faster.

rasterweb, 6 months ago to random

"Create an account to read the full story"?

Or I just skip the story. Seems easier.

rasterweb, 2 months ago to random

They should do a version of the show "The Price Is Right" but have all boomers as contestants and have them try to guess the prices of the basics needed to survive in the modern age.

rasterweb, 11 months ago to fediverse

The coolest thing I saw today was that some Star Trek subreddits just spun up their own instance at https://startrek.website/ and then I was like "Wait, can I subscribe to that on Kbin?" and yeah, I can... right here! https://kbin.social/m/startrek@startrek.website

Holy Shit. The Fediverse fucking rules, y'all.

#fediverse #kbin #rexxit #redditMigration

rasterweb, 6 months ago to random

If you want to shame hoarders start with billionaires...

rasterweb, 6 months ago to random

I wrote a lengthy reply and then just deleted it.

Some people should normalize this.

rasterweb, 6 months ago to random

Some American was trying to make fun of other countries because they haven’t gone to space. Bitch, they got universal healthcare and I’d rather have that than watch rockets I’ll never be on launch.

rasterweb, 9 months ago to random

Message from a teacher friend. It’s bad.

rasterweb, 1 month ago to Cats

I had to lie on the couch and within a few minutes was covered in cats…

#cats #mastoCats #fediCats

rasterweb, 3 months ago to Metal

About three years ago we replaced our copper kitchen sink with something else.

I put the copper sink in the basement because I wanted to sell it for scrap.

And then I never did, but recently a friend of mine started doing metal casting, and then posted "Does anyone have scrap copper they don't want?"

So I told him I'd sell it to him at half the going scrap value amount.

And yesterday he picked up the sink, and then melted it into copper ingots. Cool!

#metal #casting #making #maker

rasterweb, 9 months ago to random

This list of failures, crashes & stalls of self-driving cars from @SafeStreetRebel is... insane.

Capitalism coupled with technology is a dangerous thing.

"ConeSF: A Campaign to Rein In Robotaxis"

➡️ https://www.safestreetrebel.com/conesf/

rasterweb, 8 months ago to random

Time to get more (free) COVID tests here in the US: https://www.covid.gov/tests

rasterweb, 8 months ago to Cats

This is my neighbor’s cat Mimi.

#cats #Caturday #fedicats #catsOfMastodon

rasterweb, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to art

I'm opening a gallery this week. Sure, it's in my front yard, and it can only handle small art... but the Free Little Art Gallery is (nearly) open!

Let me know if you want to contribute any art.

#art #gallery #free #community #milwaukee #gallery69

rasterweb, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

On my morning walk I literally came across a fork in the road. 🍴 Then 20 minutes later I found another one!

rasterweb, 1 month ago to Blog

Please enjoy my blog that is free of ads, and free of tracking, and won't ask you to subscribe to a newsletter. You can even just grab the RSS feed and read the full posts that way.

I just want to publish things and share ideas and art with the world because the Internet makes it so damn easy (and cheap!) to do so... and I wish more people took a similar approach.

➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/

#blog #blogging #writing #art #share

rasterweb, 3 months ago to random

The American Library Association is a nonprofit organization that promotes libraries and library education.

And some states are like "Yeah, fuck that."

rasterweb, 2 months ago to random

You know those little cloths you use to clean your glasses? Why don't they just make shirts out of that stuff?

rasterweb, 1 month ago to random

If you run out of thermal paper for your toy camera you can just use a receipt from your recent trip to the store.