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_comic/2025-04-22.md

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+image: comic/site_comic_428.png
+title: pkm - plush ensnare
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+caught!! and only a few panels after the last one!!  
+(the injustice! -bluby)

muse/index.html

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 <h2>2025</h2>
 
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         <summary>Mar 31 (written Apr 4)<br>
                 this week, recycle an old piece (or several) for this club into something new! patch lines together, ideas together, images together. frankenstein it! if you haven't been in this club long, then use any other old writing of yours</summary>

muse/private/dump.md

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+title: the dumpster fire
+layout: barebones
+---
+
+25-17-2-INTRO
+so way back when i was starting drawing and suffering on this just as bad as i am now i made a "dump" folder to just throw literally anything out there without worrying about organization and fuck it lets do that again it will be miserably bad and nobody will read this but it will at least be maybe more private than the journal page probably until someone notices it
+and yes that is why i deliberately removed all layout on this page just to make YOU suffer and leave early
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+god i hope this isnt revealed dramatically in an ironic huburis esque twist of fate or something
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+25-17-2
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+blackbird sing
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+or something
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+this is going to fail isnt it
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+so some article suggested writing about something on your desk and im going to write about the little 3d print macintosh desk thnig i have so thats from vintage computer fest southwest and that was genuinely one of the best 5 day periods of my life so i volunteered for the thing i kinda stumbled into it because i happened to be nearby and i went and it was the coolest thing ever there was so much vintage things to look at and volunteering was fun and i cannot wait for it to be that time next year
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+why did that feel wrong to write
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+yk a lot of my favorite games seem to be for completely different and conflicting reasons sometimes. like balatro is specifically /because/ of having no story, pmd is from having a really wholesome and sweet story (and the furry stuff - JOKING), Hypnospace Outlaw (and soon Dreamsettler, im sure) from the pure soul dumped into the game, and getting me into web design in the first place, even if the actual gameplay is just "heres a computer in a computer, have fun". but like the weirdest one by far is probably how absolutely in love i am with this little game called Disco ffreaking Elysium. It is ABSOLUTELY not the kind of game I would go for normally: a murder investigation? In a destroyed world? Politics???? Dr\*g use????? The /only/ reason I even tried to play it was because my friend hiyenastrike told me it was good, and it happened to be on sale (side note DO NOT BUY IT FROM STEAM THE PUBLISHERS ARE GOD AWFUL PEOPLE), and oh my GOD is it such a fantastic story and please play it. Now, I know there's a billion analysis videos out there, and rightfully so, this game is ffreaking amazing and so expertly displays humanities ability to preservere despite the odds, despite the seperations, etc etc. The world is also so incredibly fascinating, with a whole alternate history and weird mechanics like this Pale stuff thats basically destroying the world through entropy. The characters are so incredibly well done too and kim is the best character in gamign ever. The dicemaker girl is my second favorite, tho.
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+oh yea so i also figured out how to manipulate imagemagick to convert to a color palette without fkign with the transparancy. so the issue with -remap is that it also removes all transparancy because technically the netscape: psudo image has no transparent pixels so! i crafted this command to make it work properly:
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+`convert "$1" -coalesce -adaptive-resize 50% -channel A -threshold 10% -channel RGB -background "#F0F" -alpha remove -remap netscape: +remap -transparent "#F0F" -sample 200% -`
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+convert "$1" -coalesce -adaptive resize 50%. This simply loads in the image $1 (because this is just written as a bash function), runs -coalesce so in case its a gif it doesn't mess with it too bad for reasons i dont want to get into right now, and scales down by half. The scaling is because the dithering doesnt seem to have any options to become any bigger and i prefer the slightly chunkier dithering. you can ignore the resize if you want its more preference.
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+-channel A -threshold 10%. -channel restricts all commands to a certain color channel until its ran again, and here we're targetting the alpha (transparancy) channel and running threshold on it. Thresholding it makes it so anything below 10% opacity is completely transparant, and anything above is completely opaque. This is important to avoid any half-colored pixels.
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+-channel RGB -background "#F0F" -alpha remove. We then reset the channel setting to target the color channels (RGB), set the background to hot pink, and strip the alpha layer. We're using hot pink because its part of the netscape color pallete and so far towards the edge its unlikely to conflict. If you want a different palette, you may have to pick a different color here. This essentially makes all the previously transparant pixels pink, in order to smuggle it through -remap.
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+-remap netscape: +remap. This does the actual remap and dithering. Dithering is on by default, and the Floyd-Steinberg pattern gives a nice looking image in my opinion. The +remap also adjusts gifs to all use the same palette, so it saves better.
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+-transparent "#F0F" replaces the pink with transparancy, since it doesnt get erased by -remap
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+-sample 200% - just rescales it back up to 200%, and pushes it to stdout.
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+This took so so much researching to get working, so if you are reading this, use it or something. Also I'm using convert instead of magick here because debian is stuck on outdated packages again :P
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+you ever think about how like websites are entirely designed to supposed to be like a file system? Like the structure is identical of having like folders and directories and the only real magic was in rendering the html and the special index.html that made it easier to navigate. It's a more hopeful time..

personal/journal.html

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 <h2>basically the "hidden" vent section ive seen the webtracker nobody looks at this page</h2>
 
 
+<article>
+        <h2>2025-04-21</h2>
+        <p>(07:31)<br>
+        why did i agree to draw a horse for their bday aguh<br>
+        (08:25)<br>
+        how do people DO blogging at all<br>
+        how do they put their thoughts down so effortlessly<br>
+        (16:20)<br>
+        lol there was this big project for csleet<br>
+        it was built up so much as being 10% of your grade<br>
+        and i got it done in like 4 hours itwasnt that hard<br>
+        (00:03)<br>
+        WHY CANT I WRITEEE
+        </p>
+</article>
+
 <article>
         <h2>2025-04-20</h2>
         <p>(14:02)<br>