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@esquiring.bsky.social

21st century digital attorney. cybersecurity & data counsel, privacy & compliance, FOSS, sometimes litigation; probably not your lawyer. ~~☆~~

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dudes rock 🤙

10.12.2025 00:19 — 👍 28    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

kerning determined by cryptographically robust RNG.

10.12.2025 02:10 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

bless microcenter for consistently stocking it.

otherwise yeah, you can buy a case from them directly though if you really need Too Much Heart Palpitations.

10.12.2025 01:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Designer Combines Papyrus and Comic Sans, The End Is Near Comic Sans and Papyrus, two font names that are like nails on a chalkboard to designers. The only thing that could potentially top seeing these two

further reading, for the typeface masochists:

creativemarket.com/blog/designe...

10.12.2025 01:42 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
an alphabet and number sampler of Comic Papyrus, the very worst font.

an alphabet and number sampler of Comic Papyrus, the very worst font.

when they make me Secretary of State, I'm changing the official font to Comic Papyrus, just for the thrill of it.

10.12.2025 01:41 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

it's still around, fwiw.

10.12.2025 01:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

this is perhaps the silliest reason anyone's made an aesthetically correct typeface decision.

10.12.2025 01:38 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

fellas, is it woke to sans serif typeface?

10.12.2025 01:35 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I see no potential problems with this approach, should go great

10.12.2025 00:28 — 👍 66    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 0

A crime most Maryland.

09.12.2025 23:42 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

well that's gonna be a fun chain-of-custody suppression motion.

09.12.2025 23:41 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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HOT NEW STYLEGUIDE ENTRY JUST DROPPED

09.12.2025 21:11 — 👍 46    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 1
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happy stylish but illegal monkey day to all who celebrate!!!!! by the way his name is darwin and he lives a farm now

09.12.2025 18:29 — 👍 1898    🔁 658    💬 20    📌 53

I guess it's nice to know that they're both bad about this.

09.12.2025 18:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

they did this with the transit card rollout in NYC too.

Except somehow even worse: it doesn't even have the decency to say "low balance" or "out of funds" or such, but just "travel not authorized" or something much more vague & ominous, if you swipe without sufficient fare.

09.12.2025 17:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

but what if that makes transit *too* functional and convenient?

09.12.2025 17:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

pedantry win.

09.12.2025 16:57 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Is that good

09.12.2025 16:31 — 👍 38    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

implies a rapid internal domestication process.

09.12.2025 16:46 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...

09.12.2025 15:50 — 👍 21    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 2

the Moon was a ghostly galleon toss'd upon stormy seas

09.12.2025 15:38 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
09.12.2025 12:14 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a robot taxi flashing its hazards at another robot taxi – for ever.”

09.12.2025 02:54 — 👍 33    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0

I was wondering if that was what you meant, or if "L1s" was some architecture lingo

09.12.2025 02:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

is this blaseball?

09.12.2025 02:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

>get prompted to verify I'm over 16 to use the internet
>ask if they'll be verifying my age, or my identity
>government doesn't understand
>pull out a chart explaining that my age and my identity are two different things
>"It's age verification, for safety, ma'am!"
>try to log in
>"upload legal ID"

09.12.2025 02:04 — 👍 159    🔁 40    💬 1    📌 1

Antistatic straps are for cowards. If you are fearless and pure of heart the electricity can tell and it will leave you and your PC unharmed

09.12.2025 00:40 — 👍 130    🔁 24    💬 9    📌 2

it intensely angers me every time I open a book PDF in Acrobat and the software reminds me that I’m reading a Long Document and gee, wouldn’t I prefer a summary instead

I am not a first grade child who requires the easy-reader version of big kid books, demon machine

08.12.2025 23:13 — 👍 1596    🔁 248    💬 62    📌 11

incredibly overpowered.
hope nobody ever drops it point-down.

08.12.2025 19:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

a late friend of mine called this sort of egregious roundabout verbosity an "attack on your resources" and I've loved that framing ever since.

08.12.2025 19:55 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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