@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2026-04-07 18:14:22
@david@boles.xyz2026-04-07 11:07:41
The Bare Face as Radical Act
Something changed in the relationship between women and makeup, and the change happened in public. For decades, the beauty industry sold women an escalating arms race of coverage, contour, and correction, with each season demanding new products to fix problems most people never knew they had. The reversal now underway is striking for its specificity: women with access to every cosmetic resource on earth are choosing, on camera and at major…
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-04-08 17:12:18
Wow things are going great.
#uspol
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-04-06 22:41:12
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2026-03-07 17:20:18
Well that escalated. What started as needing to replace a broken washing machine with one we've had in storage turned into relocating a fridge and shelving unit into the garage, taking down a cupboard and finding homes for the contents and ordering a storage unit for the dining room which I've had a hankering to do for a while. We would have had to move everything anyway for the air pump installation in May so we're ahead of ourselves.
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-03-06 00:08:05
While I mostly agree, it's worth noting that, while "Eighty-five percent of San Francisco is zoned so that it’s illegal to build apartments.", developers are not building them where they are not only allowed, but also approved - because it "doesn't pencil out."
The arguments about homelessness ignore the problem of expecting the market to solve a problem of profit margins.
Urban Truth Collective: Straight Talk About The Joy Of Cities In An Age Of Disi…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-03-06 00:08:05
While I mostly agree, it's worth noting that, while "Eighty-five percent of San Francisco is zoned so that it’s illegal to build apartments.", developers are not building them where they are not only allowed, but also approved - because it "doesn't pencil out."
The arguments about homelessness ignore the problem of expecting the market to solve a problem of profit margins.
Urban Truth Collective: Straight Talk About The Joy Of Cities In An Age Of Disi…
@m0les@aus.social2026-04-05 01:26:13
Went to the new Capital Brewing Lager House in the new East Trading Hall (which I think used to be Anzac Park East). I had the steak frites, which was pretty good with a nice smokey flavour and tarragon butter. The only slight let-down was the packet gravy (which just tastes of salt, MSG, corn starch and Parisian brown) - but the steak's good with the butter and you can drown your chips in the gravy. Their house lager's pretty acceptable too. The building is still a little incomplete…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-04-05 12:17:38
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-05 01:13:08
I can understand why it works for dead-tree media—the instantiation costs are much higher—but it’s always struck me as a particularly stupid business model online: “If you don’t pay us, then we’ll deny ourselves the advertising revenue you’d otherwise make us.”
And it’s not as if most paywalls are difficult to bypass anyway. https://