@pixelfed hate the pronoun picker. why is it not freeform text?
gatekeeping pronouns is really missing the point
this reminds me, back in the mid-2000s i remember seeing some public service announcements on a local tv station, and these were basically like presentations with music in the background, and that music was often just the default music supplied with windows xp's media player
#drawings today, I drew furry *guys* for a change! Jackal, fennec fox, spotted hyena. I drew more stuff but this was the only near finished thing.
Peeking into Affinity Publisher.
Positioned as a replacement for Adobe InDesign, Affinity Publisher holds several advantages:
• Much, much less expensive
• Doesn't extend tendrils into every crevice of the operating system
• User interface isn't a laggy shitshow
• Pretty good importing of the IDML format that InDesign happily exports
• Might be coaxed to work in Linux?
The biggest disadvantage I see immediately is that it lacks what InDesign calls "GREP styles" – regular expressions within paragraph styles that automatically apply character styles to matching text. I use these constantly, and they save me an immense amount of work. Doing without means a lot of applying character styles manually, which can be labor intensive but more importantly is very error-prone.
Even so, this might be the software I switch to. I want out of Adobe, and I want out of Windows. At the very least, I want the alternate options to be there, and the sooner I learn them the less painful it'll be if I have to make that move suddenly.
Oh, right, reminder to self to open up all my InDesign files and export 'em to IDML....
RT @jwz@twitter.com
@mozilla@twitter.com Hi, I'm sure that whoever runs this account has no idea who I am, but I founded @mozilla@twitter.com and I'm here to say fuck you and fuck this. Everyone involved in the project should be witheringly ashamed of this decision to partner with planet-incinerating Ponzi grifters.
RT @WTBBC@twitter.com
Always nice to spot an urban fox! This one painted by @Annatomixx@twitter.com at Wylde Green train station, where the @friendsofWGts@twitter.com have adopted the station and work to enhance it, including developing a 'Green Corridor' to help support local wildlife and biodiversity. Great stuff!