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Now works with Inkscape / GIMP #ChangeTheName ! 💁🏻‍♀️

https://github.com/Kitrinx/TG16_Palette/pull/5/changes

RE: https://flipboard.com/@metrolandmedia/peterborough-ont.-news-h1jtbhvlz/-/a-9Ca7G7TAQbeX3oSpyj0Sdw%3Aa%3A2864275383-%2F0

#ChangeTheName

@alex

Okay so the solution is multiple clients.

Before Akkoma-FE (a web frontend I have installed) had post-editing or even “delete and redraw”, I used FediText (then called “MetaText”) to do that. I only opened it for that! Then went back to Akkoma-FE. These days FediText is not good for that because it loses the markdown formatting but Akkoma-FE is good for it now so now it’s the only thing I open it for. (And in both cases I have to be quick since I have app limits on.)

I make most of my posts in Emacs. Including this one; I have a shortcut set up that lets me long press your post in the RSS reader which lets me type the reply in Emacs.

And same when I want to post a link, I have a shortcut to use on URLs that opens Emacs to type the description (and the tags for link hut).

Or when I just want to make a text post of my own, that’s Emacs. It even lets me select some text from another post and hit a button and that gets posted. (This is all in addition to the excerpts that automatically get posted when I make blog posts. Yeah, yeah, I’m an insufferable firehose on ActivityPub, I understand that. I worry about that a lot but I haven’t figured out an answer yet.)

But then for quick replies to mentions and DMs, I use a Delta Chat plugin for that. The mentions become Delta Chat emails and I can reply right away. (If I want to use Emacs or markdown in the reply I can still switch to Emacs manually.)

I still use FediText for one thing: posting images and sound that originate on iPad (like screenshot from manga) since unlike Akkoma-FE it works from the share sheet, and FediText has a much more comfy space for writing and editing description text. Art that I have on my headless Debian machine (that runs all this Emacs and blog-posting and bookmarking stuff), I can post directly from there with Emacs to write those descriptions and GIMP #ChangeTheName to crop out thumbnails for my /gallery.

So Akkoma-FE has an app limit (of like 25 minutes and it also eats up of the 60 minute Safari app limit), FediText has an app limit of I don’t remember how much because I try to only use it for media posting, the RSS reader has a limit that’s lifted on Socials Saturdays which is where I can catch up with all of y’all♥︎, but Emacs and Delta Chat have no limits which is how I can post and reply to mentions all week long. A li’l solipsistic perhaps but I figured that replying to a question directed to me specifically was more urgent than engaging with what people send out more undirectedly to the wider world. (And even then I’m not on my Delta Chat 24/7. It’s fenced-off, too: I can only use it at home and notifications are off during the night and morning.)

All this a l’il self-indulgent way to say: use multiple clients! Each has its own strength.

I used three angles of the Newsprint distortion and then automasked them using three different thresholds value masks created from the original color photo. I did this twice, one version had the original photo, the other version had gone through G’MIC’s sharp abstract. I used the original for the face and hat and one finger. The main thing I wanted out of the abstract’s smoothifier was to get rid of the stitches in the sweater, they were too real.

Using threshold levels to automask was a huge mistake. The mask edges were too smooth and inhuman. Usings the smoothed version of the photo to get those threshold levels exacerbated that problem. I had to break up some of the edges by hand (and I missed some, and the ones I did do I’m not happy with). In hindsight just doing all the masks by hand woulda been worth it.

Learning how to make masks in GIMP #ChangeTheName was a good thing, and then if I save as .psd, CSP can then import those masks and I can keep working on them there. Getting the selections from alpha layers was easier than CSP and then turning those selections to masks was harder than CSP so it netted out to about the same.

I tried making a Doré style engraving (using a bunch of filters from G’MIC and GIMP #ChangeTheName + a li’l bit of hand drawing) but it looks too much like a photo when zoomed out or scaled down is the problem.

https://idiomdrottning.org/moi-bonnie-je-tremble.png

It’s the classic public domain photo of Faye Dunaway from 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde.

Maybe I should just give this obsession with approaching this Doré/Wrightson style a rest. After all, it’s the exact opposite of what computer screens are good at: big fields of solid color.

Computer screens even in the retina age have limited resolution compared to what engravings had, but those engravings were one-bit deep. That’s the tradeoff. It’s just pure skeumorphic nostalgia that makes me so into this style.

#art

I've been saying the Chef's name has been bad for years and I am FINALLY glad more people are coming out and saying that Kansas City needs to change their team name and stop all the racist iconography, chants, etc.

As I have for years, I will continue to refer to them as the Chefs.

#KansasCity #NFL #Football #SuperBowl #ChangeTheName

When it comes to #notyourmascot #changethename this is the slippery slope that bigots feared would come to roost if they started changing mascots. That folks would interrogate the roots of colonialism in sports & adjacent philanthrophy orgs, ect.

I was told that Natives In movements like #changethename aren't doing enough to connect to the global struggle. So I pushed my intellect. Ive drawn parallels, i navigated traumatic materials about boarding schools to bring non Natives back to that time.

Alot of ppl have deliberately erased Natives. I've been trying to bring info to people all these years that I've advocated for #changethename. I've done the histirical research and archiving. But it's profitable for ppl to erase that and pretend they don't see it.

When Ntvs mobilized for #changethename, we pushed back against the necropolitucs of bounty hunting, trophy hunting, that has long been enabled for physical expansion of colonialism as well as its symbolic identity construction founded in death.

Another ex of colonialism overlapping with silent film and colonizer intergenerational wealth, was when i learned about Corinne Griffith during my #changethename research https://www.patreon.com/posts/my-changethename-74437276

@IndigenousCreatives This is great! #WaterIsLife #NotYourMascot #StopTheChop #ChangeTheName #FirstNations #TurtleIsland are some other ones. Might be super helpful to alphabetize them too.

When it comes to alot of these archive type post,I've had to pull up sources in convo with others regarding convos that involve topics of colonialism. When it came to #changethename I've had folks that revered Abraham Lincoln that had no idea about #Dakota38. While stubborn they thanked me later for educating.

Last year, I forget the sport event, I was told my messaging was too harsh to be effective. I'm like so if a truth message isn't soft and cuddly enough for you, you're gonna use that as an excuse to be racist?

I reject 100% the idea that message delivery holds responsibility for what white people decide to do with receipt of the knowledge.

#NFL #SuperBowl #Chiefs #KansasCity #StopTheChop #NotYourMascot #ChangeTheName #Native #Indigenous

My Super Bowl posts are very unpopular on my Facebook profile, with only Native acknowledgement, and dead silence from white people. I'm gonna guess I will hear very little about football the next couple days. White people will watch it, but secretly is my guess.

#NFL #SuperBowl #Chiefs #KansasCity #StopTheChop #NotYourMascot #ChangeTheName #Native #Indigenous

Here’s your #SuperBowl reminder that #psychology research has shown #Native mascots and associated sports imagery to be damaging to the social identity development and self-esteem of #NativeAmerican young people especially. So your personal opinion on whether #Kansas City staying the “#Chiefs” is racist or not does not matter, whether you’re white or #Indigenous. It’s about creating a better world for the next generation. #StopTheChop and #ChangeTheName! Petition here: https://kcindiancenter.org

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"You can’t pretend to be an ally while tolerating a system that disproportionately kills those you purport to be an ally to." -Tina Ngata

What's this have to do with the Super Bowl? It's a proven medical and scientific fact that sports mascotry contributes all kinds of mental health issues especially in Native youth, including suicide. Educate yourself if you don't believe me.

#NFL #SuperBowl #Chiefs #KansasCity #StopTheChop #NotYourMascot #ChangeTheName #Native #Indigenous

A lot of supposedly #AntiRacist Progressives that wouldn't be caught dead watching on TV or at a live event with Blackface, afro-wigs and spears have zero problems watching on TV or at a live event with Redface, headresses and tomahawks... #JustSayin

#NFL #SuperBowl #Chiefs #KansasCity #StopTheChop #NotYourMascot #ChangeTheName #Native #Indigenous #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon

Remember when you watch the Super Bowl this year, you are actively supporting racism.

Once Again, Racism Will Be On Display at the Super Bowl .

Sign the petition. Tell the Kansas City Chiefs to change their name and imagery.

Are the Kansas City Chiefs Offensive? YES. Are they harmful? Also, YES.

-->> https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/change-the-name-and-imagery-of-the-kansas-city-chiefs-football-team

#StopTheChop #NotYourMascot #ChangeTheName #Native #Indigenous #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon

Recognizing #httr chant was racist and written by a billionaire estate who owes reparations to Oceti people, I recognize the tomahawk chop as a hateful gimmick of corporations. Keep this in mind with #dechief and current efforts of #changethename. https://www.patreon.com/posts/jan-15-2014-fil-70387276

For anyone needing a refresher on #changethename, my old twitter thread breaking down the systemic and historical associations of savage tropes encoded in mascotry, its available on #patreon for subscribed patrons. https://www.patreon.com/posts/my-changethename-74437276
#superbowl2023 #dechief #notyourmascot