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The 2022 Ace Community Survey is now open and everyone is welcome to submit their responses! It’s a yearly survey that explores the demographics and the experiences of people in the ace communities around the world – but everyone is welcome to answer, including people who are unsure or non-ace!

Here’s the link to the introductory post with the translation guides: acecommunitysurvey.org/2022/10

#asexuality #asexual #AceWeek

Filk, Marvel characters, all caps, very bad ideas 

BIG AND GREEN AND STRONG AND HORNY
THE HULK FROM IPANEMA GOES WALKING
AND WHEN HE WALKS NEAR PUNY HUMANS
HULK SMASH

LaTeX woes. 

So l3regex doesn't work like I'd expect, and it looks like fixing the whole "all spaces disappear" thing will take some programming chops because the one example I've found of how to fix it doesn't seem to work and I can't figure out why.

This is going to be a theme for LaTeX and I kinda hate it. I want reliable regex-based formatting without having to hire a programmer.

But I fucking well will hire a programmer if that's what it takes. I need this.

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Ah-ha! Got the `l3regex` stuff working!

Now to figure out why it's stripping all the plain spaces out of the search text.

@Doephin I wouldn't know – I never look into them 'cause I've been turned off of the software that was giving me such trouble. *grin*

The fast way to turn me off of a software package:
"For help, join our Discord!"

The slow way to turn me off of a software package:
"For help, join our mailing list!"

RT @ZweiDouble@twitter.com

🖤🤍💜 It's ! 🖤🤍💜

Don't mind if I bring this back up! And kind reminder that asexuality in itself is, like many other things, a spectrum! 😁

🐦🔗: twitter.com/ZweiDouble/status/

@packbat Either mid 2010s or a few weeks ago, depending on whether "used it for actual chat" matters. ALttP randomized co-op uses an IRC server to communicate among players. :)

The l3regex package (integrated into expl3, I know) gives me InDesign's "GREP styles" functionality for LaTeX!

...or it would if I could everything to stop erroring out on not finding l3regex.sty. What the heck? I know expl3 is installed....

One of the most frustrating things about wildlife photography is you're entirely at the whims of nature regarding lighting.

Which makes moments like these all the more wonderful. ^_^

#WildlifePhotography

The podcast jam we joined just wrapped up! itch.io/jam/one-mic-stand

The episodes go up on The Podcast Mines - the-podcast-mines.pinecast.co/ - this coming Friday, but they're up on Itch right now if you wanna dig in! Ours is "Laying the Mechanics As We Play" - packbat.itch.io/ltmawp - and we're really proud of it: us and our cohost make and play an RPG to create the prologue to a YA creature horror novel.

...but also, y'know what? We're gonna post about the ones we listen to in this thread. :D

- 🎒 ✨

Return of the Custom Symbol Font Troubles. 

Remember how LibreOffice was mutating OpenType CFF glyphs on export to PDF? And how saving the font as TTF reduced the precision to where the details became a wibbly mess?

When LaTeX builds a PDF, it reduces the precision of the CFF font to about the level of the TTF.

I give up! I'll use SVG files!

lewd furry trashpost (hyper genitalia) 

@LexYeen undesired: ...a Vogon ship?

me: Hey, I'm gonna buck tradition and actually go through the tutorial that came with this software to learn to use it!

software: *throws errors on tutorial, refuses to continue*

me: Welp, guess it's back to the old me. *fucks around*

"Good to have executive function, isn't it?"

"Yeah, I'd do anything to get it."

You know, I really strongly considered learning LaTeX so I could bail on InDesign, but it just might be too crunchy for me. Don't wanna give up before I've started, but I'm starting to feel like I'm merely trading one expensive set of problems for a different sort of expensive.

The hookshot, or as we like to call it... 

@fluffy Back when I didn't know how to 100% the game!

. . .

Okay, I still don't. I was never actually that great at it, but I sure had fun trying!

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