#Word processing

[shadesofmauve]

I want to step away from the art-vs-artist side of the Gaiman issue for a bit, and talk about, well, the rest of it. Because those emotions you're feeling would be the same without the art; the art just adds another layer.

Source: I worked with a guy who turned out to be heavily involved in an international, multi-state sex-slavery/trafficking ring.

He was really nice.

Yeah.

It hits like a dumptruck of shit. You don't feel stable in your world anymore. How could someone you interacted with, liked, also be a truly horrible person? How could your judgement be that bad? How can real people, not stylized cartoon bogeymen, be actually doing this shit?

You have to sit with the fact that you couldn't, or probably couldn't, have known. You should have no guilt as part of this horror — but guilt is almost certainly part of that mess you're feeling, because our brains do this associative thing, and somehow "I liked [the version of] the guy [that I knew]", or his creations, becomes "I made a horrible mistake and should feel guilty."

You didn't, loves, you didn't.

We're human, and we can only go by the information we have. And the information we have is only the smallest glimpse into someone else's life.

I didn't work closely with the guy I knew at work, but we chatted. He wasn't just nice; he was one of the only people outside my tiny department who seemed genuinely nice in a workplace that was rapidly becoming incredibly toxic. He loaned me a bike trainer. Occasionally he'd see me at the bus stop and give me a lift home.

Yup. I was a young woman in my twenties and rode in this guy's car. More than once.

When I tell this story that part usually makes people gasp. "You must feel so scared about what could have happened to you!" "You're so lucky nothing happened!"

No, that's not how it worked. I was never in danger. This guy targeted Korean women with little-to-no English who were coerced and powerless. A white, fluent, US citizen coworker wasn't a potential victim. I got to be a person, not prey.

Y'know that little warning bell that goes off, when you're around someone who might be a danger to you? That animal sense that says "Something is off here, watch out"?

Yeah, that doesn't ping if the preferred prey isn't around.

That's what rattled me the most about this. I liked to think of myself as willing to stand up for people with less power than me. I worked with Japanese exchange students in college and put myself bodily between them and creeps, and I sure as hell got that little alarm when some asian-schoolgirl fetishist schmoozed on them. But we were all there.

I had to learn that the alarm won't go off when the hunter isn't hunting. That it's not the solid indicator I might've thought it was. That sometimes this is what the privilege of not being prey does; it completely masks your ability to detect the horrors that are going on.

A lot of people point out that 'people like that' have amazing charisma and ability to lie and manipulate, and that's true. Anyone who's gotten away with this shit for decades is going to be way smoother than the pathetic little hangers-on I dealt with in university. But it's not just that. I seriously, deeply believe that he saw me as a person, and he did not extend personhood to his victims. We didn't have a fake coworker relationship. We had a real one. And just like I don't know the ins-and-outs of most of my coworkers lives, I had no idea that what he did on his down time was perpetrate horrors.

I know this is getting off the topic, but it's so very important. Especially as a message to cis guys: please understand that you won't recognize a creep the way you might think you will. If you're not the preferred prey, the hind-brain alarm won't go off. You have to listen to victims, not your gut feeling that the person seems perfectly nice and normal. It doesn't mean there's never a false accusation, but face the fact that it's usually real, and you don't have enough information to say otherwise.

So, yeah. It fucking sucks. Writing about this twists my insides into tense knots, and it was almost a decade ago. I was never in danger. No one I knew was hurt!

Just countless, powerless women, horrifically abused by someone who was nice to me.

You don't trust your own judgement quite the same way, after. And as utterly shitty as it is, as twisted up and unstead-in-the-world as I felt the day I found out — I don't actually think that's a bad thing.

I think we all need to question our own judgement. It makes us better people.

I don't see villains around every corner just because I knew one, once. But I do own the fact that I can't know, really know, about anyone except those closest to me. They have their own full lives. They'll go from the pinnacles of kindness to the depths of depravity — and I won't know.

It's not a failing. It's just being human. Something to remember before you slap labels on people, before you condemn them or idolize them. Think about how much you can't know, and how flawed our judgement always is.

Grieve for victims, and the feeling of betrayal. But maybe let yourself off the hook, and be a bit slower to skewer others on it.

[eightiesfan]

Sony Produce 200 (1988)

[mewvore]

Sometimes you need to read something twice to get it. You might need to watch a movie three times to understand it. You might have to have that album on repeat for a week until the lyrics make any sense. You're allowed to engage with it and can keep engaging with it until it means something to you. People will see a painting at a museum and laugh about not getting what the big deal is but like you can come back, you can see it at another time, and maybe that next time it'll be different for you. I'm of the belief the "media literacy crisis" would solve itself if more people just sat down and did it again. Watched, read, played, listened, etc like I don't think people are getting more ignorant necessarily I just think we're not glorifying personally replaying things nearly as much as we should be.

[humanoidhistory]

WordStar by MicroPro, 1984.

[bridesforblacks]

I like to keep a word document open while I'm doing anything on my desktop so that I can jot down hotwife caption ideas as they occur to me. The problem is that all word processors are overly complicated monsters. I've tried Open Office and the other free ones but they're still way more than I want or need. Simple text editors don't do enough. I've been using WordPad (it comes with all versions of Windows) but it doesn't have a spellchecker. Enter Jarte. It's a free word processor that uses WordPad with some embellishments including a spell checker...and it's FREE. It has tabbed documents, uses few resources and is rock solid stable. And it's FREE! Something I like is being able to apply different colour highlights to text. This lets me highlight stuff I'm working on, stuff ready for an images, stuff already published, etc in different colours. Give it a whirl!

[noctumsolis]

Ever since I was a kid it has annoyed me when I receive an official form to fill in and it looks like it was hastily assembled by someone who'd never used a computer before.

Does this make me some kind of snob?

The fact of the matter is that my mum, back in the eighties, saw the way things were going and did two important things. 1. She took accredited courses in the use of computers in an office setting (word processing etc.) 2. She taught her children what she learnt.

As a result of the above I have, for as long as I can remember, not only used computers but done so to what I suppose must be considered a professional standard. When I was, oh, maybe seven years old I was making pretend newspapers on an Amiga 500; hundreds of words formatted in columns, with little clipart type images and the text wrapped around them. Ask me about oil-slick pancakes some time.

So yeah, when I'm handed a form or sent one to print out and it is unjustified, mixed fonts for no apparent reason and in seemingly random sizes?! With no actual boxes or horizontal rules?

It drives me round the bend!

[basic-retro-programming]

Evelyn Berezin (1925 - 2018) ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/obituaries/evelyn-berezin-dead.html

Post #329: The New York Times, Evelyn Berezin, A female pioneer of the digital development all over the globe, 2024.

[spiral-wizard]

So I drive a big diesel-chugging truck for work (much bigger than those huge pickup trucks insufferable men drive but smaller than a semi) and this morning I was rolling thru a small rural town, around 7:30 am, behind a bus that was picking up kids for school.

After the bus turned a corner I drove by a gaggle of kids on the sidewalk waiting to be picked up. They were all pumping their fists in the air: the universal gesture of children who want to hear a big truck honk their horn. I give them 3 big honks and wave as I drive by, and I catch them all in the rear view mirror jumping up and down and cheering... maaaaan, something about that really got me - warmed my heart, roused my inner child, and made my day all at once.

Sometimes all a kid wants is for a grown-up, any grown-up, to indulge them being silly. Who am I to deny that? Honestly I think I needed it too.

[periodically80s]

[river-taxbird]

Help me, writing/design Tumblr!

Microsoft Word sucks, there has to be a better way.

Edit: Word has this feature. It's called Linked Text Boxes. It's still word with Word's jank though, Microsoft Publisher has it, but it seems like Adobe Indesign has it with a better user interface.

I have been doing a lot of document layout work for my degree lately, and Microsoft Word continues to be just horrible. As a famous post once said, nothing about it works. So my question is, there has to be a better way, right? If anyone knows about writing software, is there anything that does the thing I want? (I do the bulk of my writing in Google Docs but the layout tools aren't good enough for the kind of design I need to do.)

My dream word processor (This may be hard to describe):

I want to be able to define specific boxes where body text is allowed to be. When one fills up, it overflows into the next.

Instead of word where you have the body text in the background, and it moves out of the way from the images, I would like text boxes that contain the body text. Like you lay out your images and static text boxes on a page, then you can fill the rest out with dynamic text boxes that contain the body text. I am sure you could do something like this with text boxes in ms word, but you couldn't do the layout as you write the body.

In my dream word processor, you could define blocks as Body Text 1, Body Text 2, and so on. If you added more text into Body Text 1, anything that is pushed out automatically goes into body text 2. If you delete text, excess text comes back into body text 1. Just like how text moving to the next page works in MS Word and Google Drive. Body text can only go into defined boxes, but it is dynamic. I feel like this could prevent the problem in word where moving one image destroys the formatting for your entire document because the body text tries to move out of the way.

Am I making sense? I am not even sure what to google to find something like this, but it has to exist, right? Magazines exist with very clean and nice layouts, they must be using something like this, but Microsoft Word doesn't do it that I know of. If it can, please tell me!

[ceilidhtransing]

My life changed so much for the better when I discovered you can actually turn off the red-underlining spellcheck and the green-underlining grammar checker in Microsoft Word.

The amount of time I used to spend manually right-clicking underlined words and going "Add to dictionary" or "Ignore rule", oh my god. (Especially given that Word's judgement for what apparently constitutes incorrect grammar is horrendously oversensitive.)

But it turns out it's possible to just! Turn it off! And then you'll never see those ugly red and green squiggly lines ever again! You can type in peace and leave it up to yourself to check for spelling or grammar issues rather than having Word throw danger signals at you every four sentences.

[typebarmagazine]

Before/after cleaning photos of a Royal Quiet Deluxe I found at an estate sale back in June.

[krjpalmer]

[basic-retro-programming]

WordStar CP/M Edition Release 4 ...

The screen of text editor ...

Source: Wikipedia

Post #319: MicroPro, WordStar, Texteditor, Released for 8-bit CP/M, Distribution 5 1/4 " diskettes and packaging for the last version 4, 1980.

[spiral-wizard]

48 days sober today yipppeeeee more thoughts under cut ⬇️

big thing my sick brain didn't want me to know about being sober is that it isn't really subtracting anything from my day-to-day. if anything it is adding time, money, headspace back into my life that was previously taken up by addiction

quitting alcohol in 2020 was easy for me bc it wasn't a big part of my life anyway. but for so long i talked myself out of quitting weed because i worried that i would feel its absence too much, like i'd be missing out on experiences i would otherwise be having. and idk maybe that could have been true in the past but at this point in my life it's really quite the opposite. really feels like i uninstalled a spammy program that was using up a lot of my brain's bandwidth

obviously everyone's different and i don't mean to make it sound like the process of getting sober is easy (it isn't) or downplay the immensity of that experience (it's huge) for anyone. honestly i don't think my journey toward it started when i quit cold turkey in december - i had spent the last few years him-hawing around about it to the point where when i finally moved ahead with it my brain was like "ohhh noooo you have foudn my secret,,,, smoking weed everyd ay is not neccessary for ur survival adn emotional regulation,,,,,,,, woooops sowwyyyy....." and i was like ok fuck off. i will sit thru all this brain fog if you'll just shut up already. and now i'm coming to u live from the other side with breaking news: sobriety is cool and chill👍

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