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Yesterday, upon my hair,
perfectionist who's trying to
stop being such a perfectionisthello!!!!!!
finally gave 🍬self a faceI met a Spheal whose head was bare ona li @jan-PonponIts head was bare again today, is excited about bnuny horns rn
(send asks!)I wish, I wish it'd grow astray...🍬

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‘They're Made out of Meat’
by Terry Bisson, 1991
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jkap
@jkap

anyway i'm actually writing the Thoughts On Mastodon post for real. already at 1k words and 6 footnotes and i'm not even out of the introduction. might be a bit until it's done.

some of the footnotes would work better as Asides so i'm genuinely considering writing an article theme that lets me use them that way.


blep
@blep
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vogon
@vogon

100% agree with this, I love putting marginalia in shit I write and would love to provide some better way of formatting it on here

e.g. the electronic version of "host" by david foster wallace is an essential web text to me

nicky case's nutshell is also something I've been thinking a lot about recently


atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

i am of the firm opinion that the best way to add marginalia to hypertext documents (if columns aren't feasible or don't fit) is the classic tooltip (or clicky popover).

just give us some dotted underlines or similar indicators we can hover over

NireBryce
@NireBryce

on a less "ok but here's a problem" note:

check out http://hypothes.is, which is *grasps for metaphor* margin notes for the web, by the people reading the page.

but shared publicly, which is meant for researchers.

I instead use it as almost dark souls notes, things travelers through the space should know, related concepts and links, errata for how the thing has changed over time vs what's written, etc.


shel
@shel

that whatever format people use be functional cross-device. Dotted lines with hover-over don't work on mobile devices, for instance. These days most people actually don't own regular desktop computers and the majority of users are on phones or tablets. It's also important to remember screen-readers and other accessibility devices.

I love marginalia but I think something which still keeps the text fully visible by default is ideal


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in reply to @jkap's post:

Normal brain: write a blog post about your problems with Mastodon

Galaxy brain: Create your own social network to replace Mastodon

Universe brain: Add features to your own social network so that it can display your blog post about Mastodon

in reply to @vogon's post:

I made a post a couple weeks ago with summary tags and while they are functionally perfect, there were no fewer than five people who shared them apparently without noticing that the summary tags represented anything hidden behind a click lmao