Hi there! The new site's up, standing on its three (mostly finished) and one (slightly wobbly) leg. I'll continue working on it and share what I've le

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2024-09-26 11:30:05

Hi there! The new site's up, standing on its three (mostly finished) and one (slightly wobbly) leg. I'll continue working on it and share what I've learned along the way. Enough with intros and disclaimers. This site is the Snail of Theseus after all. Let's goooooooo!

xitter.png is what I use to embed tweets on this site with respect for your privacy. By that I mean that none of the reader data is shared with the social network ad platform.

Say, you're scrolling through an article listing 10 best dressed possums. You look at the embedded tweets from crème de la crème of the Didelphimorphic fashion community. You glance at a picture of a possum wearing a colander. Slowly, and quietly at first, a sense of envy crawls in on it's tiny, weirdly soft, weirdly human-like paws.

Fine, you already expected to feel that way. But what you probably didn't expect, that when you gaze at a tweet, the tweet gazes back: