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- Gardener7
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I'm just back from a digging trip down south and met the chap in charge of the Creative Void studio gallery in Milton Keynes. They have offered me the chance to create a display later in the year of my more esoteric record sleeves and to also play the records from them during the show. This is RIGHT up my street as I approached a few galleries and libraries about this idea a few years ago in Scotland and got nowhere, but Milton Keynes have given me the thumbs up so of course if and when it happens I will plug it here with mixes, pics n things. This is just a random handful of the kind of sleeves and playing tracks from them out live will be such a blast!
- renderedred6
War
Fuck!!!! Real explosions!
- I'm going for a walk. Got to see and feel what the vibe is on the streets. Will report back :)renderedred
- stay safeNBQ00
- LOL normal Saturday, in spite of explosions nearby. People in the streets, mostly religious, going to synagogues. Children playing... Very bizzare.renderedred
- And now sirens again. :)renderedred
- more explosions.renderedred
- Stay safe, take care!OBBTKN
- Stay safe, man :(PonyBoy
- Gardener5
- https://www.youtube.…Gardener
- It's not that, but if I ever fall ever deeper into sad nerdery, I think I'd want to commission a chainmail Trilby.
M'Ladeh.Nairn
- yuekit2
Artificial Intelligence
Pentagon declares Anthropic a threat to national security
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared Anthropic a “supply-chain risk,” blocking all federal agencies and contractors from doing business with the company
- https://archive.is/6…yuekit
- so much respect for Anthropiczaq
- lol who cares, all the devs using Claude :)))grafician
- spl33nidoru13
Punches For:
I don't think Apple realise how their fancy iOS / iPadOs updates affect senior users.
I see it with my 80+ parents, every new version further complicates the use, requires more steps to do the same action, and adds fancy submenus they're confused by to buttons.
Especially true with facetime and the camera app.They should have a Senior UI switch in the accessibility settings to dumbify it all.
- They shouldcanoe
- < Great idea. My mom messaged me last night "I have a number 2 in the upper right of my screen". She just got a new iPad this past wknd and there's a...stoplying
- ...learning curve to say the least. Innovation never sleeps!stoplying
- iPads are perfect for seniors that don't need to deal with PCs. Those 70+ in our family love theirs. Stupid that Apple doesn't realize that.mxhxr
- Agreed. Apple just assumes people eventually don’t need visual cues we all relied on, and ignoring that many customers it’s not second nature.monospaced
- Yeah they've fucked up again. And this time they didn't even need a U2 album.MrT
- Im old, but not 80. I still hate all this churn. Most updates (looking at you liquid glass) are a step backwards for UXrobotinc
- I stopped updating a few generations ago like any normal pro user would do
waiting for change in VPs to have something food to update tografician - *goof goodgrafician
- yep. wasnt' Jobs' beliefs was that computers are a tool and tech should not get in the way? invisible, natural, obviousSquiddy
- i concur - my dad bless him struggles with his phone every day - "can you fuck that liquid shit off son, hurts my eyes."_me_
- can not agree more. had the same experience with my aunt. every time I visited her she could not use her mac or iphone because of an ui/ux "update".fairbaken
- dont need a dumbify button, they need a legacy button that makes the ui stay as it is. nothing more needed.fairbaken
- _me_ : you can reduce that liquid look in Accessibility > Display > Reduce Transparency.spl33nidoru
- yeah i worked that out and its much better.... with plain wallpaper too. i cant remember if he liked clear or tinited - but one was much better for him_me_
- "effect off" would be a better option._me_
- Nairn8
The Useful Thread
"Modern CSS code snippets, side by side with the old hacks they replace. Every technique you still Google has a clean, native replacement now."
- wen a skillGabriel
- nicedbloc
- I think this is a community of "old hacks"!
EHHH???!!!ideaist - Niceprophetone
- I have been using so much old CSS!slappy
- Me too lolprophetone
- CSS is wankkingsteven
- :is(wank), purleese!Nairn
- thanks!renderedred
- what about IE 8.0?hotroddy
- lol for all your hotroddy-ness you still pop off a joke once in a while :)_niko
- Lolz @ hotroddy; classic!ideaist
- _niko10
Nuclear holocaust
I for one welcome it lol
We live in a world run by pedophile sociopaths. The most ignorant, vile, depraved excuses for human beings. Running shit, controlling "governments" murdering civilians, raping children, sending innocent kids to the meat grinder in fucked up wars or in the name bullshit imaginary gods. All untouchable. all above any law. free to do as they please with zero consequences.
And at the top of this steaming heap of shit is Donald J Trump. king of the world.
fuck me.
- Unfortunately, all of the other non-human lifeforms on this planet absolutely don't deserve what humans do. Species-selective nuking needs to be discovered.Continuity
- +1 continuity_niko
- Sounds like you've given up. Sad.zardoz
- i got stung by a bee last year, and dont even talk about mosquites... they all seem nukeworthy to me.neverscared
- i hope u guys are all vegetarians ...other wise your whining about fucking up animals is kinda weak sauce..neverscared
- @nevery Just gonna throw it out there. Everyone knows bees are our important pollinators. Mosquitos have their faults, but also serve that funtion and..garbage
- are a massive biobase for bats. If we don't have bats, we lose a fauna pollenator, because they eat bugs and fruit, properly spread that shit around.garbage
- What I'm trying to say is kill your local pedo, but wear bug appropriate clothing.garbage
- or the bugs learn some manners.neverscared
- You like chocolate? Respect biting midges as they're the only insect that can navigate the cacao flower to pollinate it.cotton
- Basic ecological concepts seem to be largely lost on general society and it's really fucking depressing.cotton
- i think that a.i is and will be indifferent to choclate when it comes to a.i driven nucllear holocaustneverscared
- Well with that attitude, all you'll be left with is a chocolateless neverscape and cockroaches for miles and miles.garbage
- So you can't deal with me on here but you want a nuke instead?
Oh wowgrafician - rats will survive too, they can make good food according to the ratatouille flick, graffy has a nuked brain already .. he is like a prototype of the wastelandneverscared
- of earth which happened in his brain.neverscared
- I know you're joking, but the fun facts are the good cooking rats will probably die.garbage
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm…garbage
- Even overbreeding mammals like rats won't stand a chance. It will be a bug's world.garbage
- (And yes, I am going from the assumption that Remy was an escaped lab experiment)garbage
- Burn All it Down!utopian
- time to work on that cyborg remi then...neverscared
- Morning_star8
- 42.86
Multiplayer sounds fun!spl33nidoru - great, there goes my afternoon_niko
- 44.2/50 my first roundmonospaced
- 42.1cannonball1978
- 41.82dbloc
- first round
43.5/50pango - @mono
https://i.haasie.com…pango - I got lucky! Never got much past 42 after that.monospaced
- Then I got 45.27. :)monospaced
- Wife got 49 on first go, but she has younger eyes than meGardener
- 42.86
- neverscared1
Nuclear holocaust
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
- Because AI already figured out that humans are the problem.ApeRobot
- not only, it probably bombs itself out of existetence too in that case.neverscared
- just ask any AI if you should walk or take your car to the carwash 100m away from you. you will stop fearing this tech.uan
- Not really sure we need AI to work out war scenarios. Does seem really good at murdering innocent people everyday thoPhanLo
- If the carwash is literally across the street, walkcotton
- the fear of dirty carneverscared
- Department of War instead I mean...grafician
- Burn it all down!utopian
- it clearly has no context or understanding of what a nuke does. Firing one will also start a retaliation strikeNutter
- prompt spits out what prompt asks for... much wowinteliboy
- ok_not_ok5
- Depeche Chodeutopian
- Lol_niko
- Enjoying the sileceKrassy
- Taco DaveNBQ00
- All I ever wanted, All I ever needed, los tacos hermanos.thumb_screws
- Hi Dave, nice shoes!OBBTKN
- *choad, but brilliant jokegarbage
- Personal Jesúsfooler
- He let me down againcanoe
- Best tortas in NYC! I just can't get enough!Akagiyama
- Eric Bana, waiting for the night?Squiddy
- Depeche Müdejagara
- Depressed ModeKrassy
- pango5
- Is this castle even in Romania? Europe? Middle Earth?grafician
- But nice try pango, you always blow it tho'grafician
- :( i thought the bats were dead give awaypango
- ya sorry man. romania is not exactly travel destination. this is the only romanian castle i can think of lolpango
- i mean look at that castle! that is one cool looking castle. be proud man!pango
- https://i.haasie.com…PonyBoy
- is that a real place?inteliboy
- they say it's AI generated
https://stock.adobe.…pango - lol you can't even google, not to mention fact from finctiongrafician
- I googled exactly what I wanted. I just wanted to post Dracula castle. It's a cool castle!!! Fact from fiction? Wait it's real? I thought it's fiction.pango
- Dude. I picked the ones with bats I thought that's pretty obvious. Not my fault you can't tell that's not realpango
- hydro7433
Show some recent work
WHY NOT a design related post. :)
Recently my contract ended over at EA (Electronic Arts). Figured since I hit the 50's a couple years back, might be smart to find a spot and show my love for the last leg of my career (FUCK WE ARE OLD)
ANYWAY, it was a temp contract with the hope of getting pulled in full time but due to the buyout from Jared and the Saudi's, there was a hiring freeze thus killing my chances (or at least that is what I was told.)
So, after a year and a half, dropped back into full time freelance, which thus far has been productive. My first project was for Orlando City (MLS team) for this weekend's match against Miami (Messi). Decided to really dive in on this one. All pen tooled (except the typography) and old school mouse. Took a minute, but felt nice diving back into the illustrative world.
anyway, thanks for coming to my ted talk...
- YO DRO! beautifuldopepope
- Amazingskinny_puppy
- Lovely!mort_
- Whoa thats awesome! Side note, did you work with Stan at EA?instrmntl
- Dope as ever!PhanLo
- No Stan. Was he in the Orlando Office? I worked on Madden & NCAAhydro74
- I think I originally came to this site because of your work. In awe of your career, man.DRIFTMONKEY
- nice!utopian
- Very!YakuZoku
- Just saw your site. Amazing Stuff. How were you approached for the movies? Like the Sicario Blu-Ray and the Pacific Rim Poster.toemaas
- like a rennaisance paintaing.neverscared
- So clean, you know you're good.
Now we need the Jared tea if it won't get you killed because I've heard horrible things.garbage - And this is not a Stan thing, but this whole sidenote makes me think EA is absolutely reckless with their freelance game.garbage
- Killin' it!canoe
- so dope! great work as always!lvl_13
- Is EA still a sweatshop?robotinc
- skwiotsmith3
Font like this?
Visby from Connary Fagen
https://connary.com/fonts/visby/…- VERY nice. Thanks :)jagara
- https://thetypefound… is great; dig into the foundries...ideaist
- < Lovely! :)jagara
- Perhaps something from www.grillitype.com like Walsheim or Eesti?duckseason
- < Ooh! :)jagara
- cultural connotation; a character like mater (pixar) has a high chance of getting dubbed with a visby-accent in sweden.ArchitectofFate
- https://www.youworkf… - kinda similarcanoe
- Try Guggenheim Sans, It's free to use https://www.guggenhe…voiceof
- neverscared4
Romania calling
In 2024, 16.9% of people in the EU lived in overcrowded households. The highest rates were observed in Romania (40.7%) and Latvia (39.3%), while the lowest were in Cyprus (2.4%) and Malta (4.4%).
- so much for the homeownership bragging...2 posts down the lineneverscared
- everybody owns a house and everybody lives in the same house.neverscared
- don't forget. they also have castles. everyone has a castle there.pango
- king of the castleneverscared
- Most of them have houses in todvana with their own vineyards and pools. You’re just poor peasants, idiots.monospaced
- So you can't afford houses in Toscana still?
Peasantsgrafician - only in romanianeverscared
- Tell me you're dumb and have no clue about how Europe works without telling me...
...through your dumb posts and commentsgrafician - So do you have a castle?pango
