@jedda oh dude I feel the awkwardness of transitioning away from skinny/slim jeans. I've found I can manage a baggier style if they're still tapered and cuffed at the ankle but I can't get my head around just having loose fabric below the calves

Weekly digest 34: https://thetangent.space/2025/digest34/ #blaugust2025

I set today’s crossword in the Independent. puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti... Hope you enjoy!

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This is the most incredible headstone I have ever seen. Sad to have not known him with this kind of memorial!

Note the border inscription.

If you want an ebook of some public domain work, either:

1. Check standardebooks.org before Gutenberg. They clean up books from Gutenberg with sane typography and print design.

2. Consider buying a "Dover Thrift Editions" version of the ebook. Many fly-by-night ebook "publishers" are turning a quick buck on selling you a Gutenberg edition. Dover is a real publisher, even in print, and their well-formatted ebooks of public domain works are usually under $4, or even less.

@jsit Dover do a great job republishing out of print academic textbooks at normal paperback prices, so thanks for this tip, I'd like to keep using them even though I don't do academics much anymore

@thelinuxcast one of the things keeping me in vim is the fear that if I like Emacs I'll want to port my entire markdown notes folder into org mode, which will feel _very important_ at the time but won't necessarily make my notes any more useful

@thelinuxcast I agree with this. I mean, it's your life. But I probably will skip over your post if it's not even capitalised

Haha! Can't believe it worked!

#photography #Edinburgh #Concrete #CarPark #RedArrows

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@tanepiper spam is the primary reason I barely pick up. idk what dodgy data brokers got my phone number but the sheer volume of spam calls means if I don't recognise your number you're unlikely to get an answer from me

"Boycott Microsoft: I am no longer asking"

https://noescapevg.com/boycott-microsoft-i-am-no-longer-asking/

#xbox #XboxGamePass #linux #microsoft #gaza #Palestine #bds

Hingehenge

On the screen to my right, I just noticed what amounts to an advertisement for AI. Someone uploads their resume with the prompt, “Can you make a storybook for my 2- and 4-year-old daughters explaining my career in the style of a coloring book?”

I am not a parent, so maybe this is an unfair criticism, but this seems so utterly hollow. Maybe at those ages, children won’t differentiate between something created by their parent or generated by a prompt. Maybe they won’t even remember these moments. But that hollowing out of creativity doesn’t stop—it bleeds into everything else, especially as we get older, busier, and more consumed by the grind. Yet it’s exactly those bits of effort that are most transcendent and memorable.

When we replace the creativity we expose people to with a cheap, generative imitation, no matter how polished and clean, we teach them that creativity is simply another commodity, that the special spark that binds us together as human beings, as family, is nothing more than a throwaway prompt.

Perhaps I’m being overly judgmental—again, I’m not a parent—but making time to create something for your child, something using your own effort, your mind, your hands, and the bits of you that can’t be expressed in a simple command, those are the kind of “deliverables” that will hold value and foster enduring memories.

10 Years Of Marriage: https://thetangent.space/2025/marriage10/

10 years of marriage

https://thetangent.space/2025/marriage10/

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@m2m All fair enough points. I'm wathing to see how it develops but I'm not opposed to joining.

@m2m I see, they have been a bit misleading then in interviews I've seen. Out of interest, why did you register for the newsletter but would not be interested in membership? I've not signed up for either

The new Corbyn-Sultana party will need more than democracy to win

https://thetangent.space/2025/new-party/ #blaugust2025 #blaugust

@hollie @nothe This was a joy to read. Trying eleventy without knowing JavaScript is brave, in a good way. My site is eleventy too. I've found once it's set up I don't really need to touch the code much, but my site is pretty basic.

If you're not already using it, it's worth considering git. It's what programmers use to roll back changes when they screw something up, allowing fearless tinkering. But it also has a learning curve...

Anyway, good luck, and have fun! Look forward to reading more