This day’s portion
A blog about the indieweb, music, politics and Ipswich Town Football Club. Contact: mail@thisdaysportion.com, micro.blog and Mastodon.
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Went to watch Days of Heaven at Ipswich Film Theatre today, purely because I’m on leave and that’s what they were showing. It was great – 6 quid a ticket, you could take a Briarbank beer in with you and if there’s a better film of golds and fiery skies I’ve not seen it.
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Link: Sam Bankman-Fried will grow old in jail. But don’t forget those who basked in his orbit
A gruesome list of Bankman-Fried groupies. Take your pick from Blair, Katy Perry, Shaq, Biden and (sigh) Larry David.
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Link: Labour Will End Neoliberalism. Just Not in a Good Way
This is interesting on what Labour has planned for us. The common view is that Starmer and Reeves are running a Blair tribute act and, in turn, neoliberalism will continue to be the order of the day. According to Meadway, that’s not what’s happening. It’s worse.
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MacOS fonts really do work randomly
Yesterday I wrote about how some native MacOS fonts only seem to work in Safari, and how I can’t work out why some do and some don’t. It all got a bit more unpredictable today.
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Link: ‘It was like we’d signed up for a cult’: the weird, wild world of Butthole Surfers
For about three months in 1989 (I think) I was obsessed with Butthole Surfers after seeing them on Snub TV – probably the most deranged, drugfuelled band I’d ever come across. It’s lovely that they’re mainly still alive, if obviously damaged.
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MacOS, ttc and “disappearing” fonts
I noticed several typefaces recently failed to appear on my website, including two I often use; namely, Iowan Old Style and Seravek.
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A word of warning… Apple are prone to removing fonts from MacOS. The latest Sonoma doesn’t include Iowan Old Style, which was, in my opinion, its best serif. Bear in mind if you’ve been using Modern Font Stacks. Seravek has also gone 😒.
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I tend to set primary and secondary background colours on my site to distinguish between the primary, content area, and the secondary footer and header areas. —The primary area contrasts text and background more than the secondary because the background colour is lighter. You’d expect to follow the same rules in dark mode by making the content area background darker than the secondary areas, but for some reason this never looks right.
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Link: Get Capitalists’ Grubby Hands Off Our Hobbies
I’d add: if your hobbies are online – blogging, for example – not “monetising” them and avoiding platforms that will monetise them for someone else keeps them as leisure.
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Apparently, ☉ is the Pythagorean symbol for the monad. As such, I think it’s the perfect website pictograph (and writing that I’m picturing one reader sniggering at the back there).