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RFC: maintenance dinners
3 mind-mapped clusters against a dark, starry background. on the top left, a pulsing star shape labelled 'maintenance & care' is surrounded by more stars and the text 'collective maintenance as knowledge sharing' and 'sysadmin as care worker'. on the right, stacked on top of a photo of an outdoor nighttime potluck, there is a gif of hot pot, the food not bombs logo (a purple fist holding a carrot), and the text 'potluck / family meal / dinner club / food distro' and 'to nourish is to maintain / table as gathering place'. on the bottom left, a translucent note held up with a thumbtack reads 'infoshop / zine share / mailing list / repair cafe / hackerspace / meeting space (physical, virtual)'
Kid Pix Studio Deluxe on macOS
iconic Kid Pix Studio Deluxe splash screen
deep web transmissions
screenshot of a website. on the left are two panels: the first has several form fields under the headings 'from', 'content', and 'printer'. the 'content' fields include a custom message and a reorderable set of checkboxes labeled with the names of generative art bots. the 'printer' section has an input to connect to a printer, buttons to check the connection and print, and a checkbox to preview printer dithering. the second panel is titled 'what is this?' and reads 'deep web transmissions is a tribute to generative art bots, formatted as a digest for the little printer and compatible thermal printers'. on the right of the page is a preview of a receipt, which contains the heading 'deep web transmissions', a tiny star field made of unicode characters, and a tarot card from uncle buddy's phantom funhouse.
ephemeral web presence space
a website with a gray-and-white checkered background and several GIFs of abstract shapes as well as a setting sun and a palm tree reflecting on the water. blue-borderd, overlapping boxes at the top of the page contain the title, 'ephemeral web presence space', the instructions 'your username is alex, click to type messages', and the buttons 'about' and 'log out'. chat messages scroll up from the bottom left of the screen. two animated animal cursors are visible, 'lizard friend' (a lizard) and 'alex' (a cat), a text box appears below alex's cursor and starts to type.
pulsar
a cropped view of two tumblr posts on a soft blue background. the text and metadata of the top post, which is about a star in the crab nebula, are displayed in crisp white text. a white line separates the body of the post from the metadata, which is slightly faded out. only the very top of the following post, a photo taken underwater, is visible.
chromosphere
a cropped view of a tumblr blog on a muted pink-to-blue gradient. on the left, a floating sidebar with the blog's description ("and the ultimate blogging begins") is followed by the links "home", "ask", and "tags". above the sidebar is the shiny Pokémon Mew. there are two posts partially visible on the right, the first, an audio post, has visible metadata in a black footer attached to the post, the second shows part of a painting of some gradient shapes. the posts as well as the floating sidebar have a thick black border and a drop shadow made of spaced-out pixels.