I like the monoalphabetic cipher with a ciphertext used to determine symbol correspondence, seems about as complicated as I'd ever want to write out by hand. Anyone have a cipher they prefer for doing by hand?

Gosh I love resources like this! It's so neat that people are sharing resources that make tech more accessible to folks with less technical experience. I have a layout I need to finish up and offer publicly to help people use HTML and CSS to lay out half-page zines... but I gotta make something with it myself first to prove it's useful.

The whole site is worth checking out, but I think it'd be easy to miss stuff like this that's a page within a topic shrine. And you shouldn't! I'm someone who spends time every year looking for Halloween music, and there is still a good helping here of stuff that's new to me.

I'm back from my vacation

This one I like too https://funkwhale.audio/

This piece from 1982 is long and interesting and covers a lot of ground, but that's the bit that particularly tickles my fancy. Can you imagine?

Software shapes the feel of a social space. Just think of everyone who's so into Gemini -- or on the other side, how Reddit feels a bit unclean... anyway, this software may have been inspired by chan boards, but in the incarnation of it I know, it has a wonderful vibe. I just found out it's not some old thing repurposed, but an open source project under (newly active) development.

Chinook jargon is kind of the coolest thing that ever happened in the PNW, at least linguistically speaking. My great-grandfather taught my grandfather a bit, and he taught my mom a bit, and she taught me a bit, and that's not much as far as such lineages go but it's something. I would like to know more than I do, and should probably find some kind of podcast or audio lessons, since everything I encounter with the first mentioned lack-of-a-system orthography system has been.... puzzling. Still, since it's in the pidgin-creole space, I can do my best as far as those Qs are concerned and that's still in the spirit, I'd think.

If you like Squishables and tokidoki, these strike me as being a midpoint.

Do people actually put keys on stuffed animal keychains, though? Wouldn't they get filthy? Am I uniquely grimy?

I am extremely hype about Multiverse and this was my first try taking it out for a spin. Except for messing up one bit with overlap, I think it turned out pretty much how I'd hoped!

Inviting our friends into a larger part of our lives means reclaiming more of our time from the isolation of work and daily survival. Our social lives and our survival become the same thing. Entertaining each other at dinner parties will always be fun, but what about sharing child care or joining community organizations together? When it comes to working for my employer, a strict boundary is essential. But when it comes to hanging out with my friends, why should I be so rigid? Why not allow my social life to overtake my errand running and my chores? Why must we try to “entertain” each other when our relationships would become much deeper and more interesting if we did things together other than nibble hors d’oeuvres and drink wine?

The biggest lessons from communal living probably have to do with child care and elder care, I suspect, simply because post-industrial isolation-living has screwed over caretakers so bad.

I found this via [Anne Helen Petersen](https://annehelen.substack

when an individual goes away into the desert for a while and comes back, he can re-integrate into society. he can learn how to interact again by immersion. but when everyone leaves, for over a year, and there is no society to come back to.

nobody can predict what human existance will be like with no society. this has never happened before. it's a huge experiment. it sounds like a good idea - without society the people can't organise resistance to an authoritarian government. they can't have experiences on which they can base judgements and what is true or right. They can't have sub cultures that challenge the state senctioned mono-culture we mould them into in school. they can't have any culture at all. They can't have personal discussions where they learn from each other and become smart and confident and resilient, where they build trust and can stand united against threats.

it sounds convenient and easy.

but really anything could happen. it's a huge risk. it's a bit like vaccinat

h/t chris aldrich

I gotta say before I start that this woman's genes / moisturizer / whatever are formidable because I was going to start like "I dunno if I just remember this because I'm older but" and then I realized that she's been killing it in tech design longer than I have been able to use a terminal. Respect.

At first when you think about why we love washi tape, you imagine it's the cute/pretty designs paired with its tactile appeal. Just the right amount of stickiness! Easy to tear or cut!

That's a way of looking at it that doesn't really capture how it's used, though.

Look at how people use washi tape on Instagram.

It can take a simple, utilitarian planner and make it elegant.

It can structurally combine different elements to set off one's own creative work.

It can be [an ingredient in something more transformative](https://www

A method to generate new connections and ideas.

I learnt about it here: https://lemmy.ml/post/51387/comment/32225

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