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A champion rare, with a flourish and a flair
OK so we did in fact end up with a few extra @xoxo@xoxo.zone merch items now that all the pre-orders have shipped. There's an extra Lower Your Expectations light, and a couple extra felt pins, enamel pins, and sticker sets, on sale now til they're gone: https://xoxofest.com/merch
Thank you to the now three (3) friends who wore their XOXO baseball caps when I saw them this week, you were right to think that I would enjoy seeing you in the little hat I made for you
Brickdiculous, the local indie Lego store that just helped us pack our XOXO Lego kits, are running a crowdfunding campaign to help with the costs of their impending move from Lloyd Center to Pioneer Place: https://fundrazr.com/brickdiculousgottamove2026 Limited edition Lloyd Center Lego set anyone??
Chloe would have turned 41 today.
Almost ready!
11 curly wurlys
@brook@xoxo.zone unbelievable!!
📢 We’re raising a small pre-seed round for @heck@social.heckbrewing.com as we head into the summer to support our first sales hire, grow our independent distribution, and introduce new quarterly seasonals: https://deck.heckbrewing.com
Hit me up if you’d be interested in hearing more: andy@heckbrewing.com
Something from the XOXO merch sale that may have gone unnoticed: we also made an enamel pin of the Empathy Symbol, which became popular as an emoji reaction in the XOXO community Slack. https://buyolympia.com/Item/xoxo-empathy-symbol-enamel-pin
RE: @xoxo@xoxo.zone
As someone who only knows how to work really very hard on things, let me tell you, no joke, I worked harder on this than anything I've ever worked on before, including any previous year of the festival. Letting myself feel relieved and proud today 💛
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Just taking a mid-morning break to refill my coffee and watch a livestream of humans traveling further from Earth than we ever have previously no big deal
@fonts@sfba.social Nice! So glad you put this back online!
If you have willingly and wholeheartedly plunged into the depths of truly understanding yourself, and come back up knowing that embracing who you are may also mean preparing to receive harm, hatred, and even violence about it, then the very least you deserve is an entire day of the year where everyone tells you that you fucking rule.
My friend Lyra should have turned 36 today. She was murdered by the IRA while observing rioting in Derry in 2019, almost 7 years later those responsible still haven't faced justice.
If you’re an amateur New York history nerd with a penchant for a particular mix of urbanism, civic infrastructure, and design, what perhaps lesser-known sights, museums, or activities would you suggest for a guy like that?
Am I digging through all these old projects because I'm finally building a Website? you better believe it!
Someone emailed us last night asking if our NA beer is good if you’re vegan, so of course I ended up re-writing our entire FAQ page in response, and it accidentally became a really nice sort-of manifesto for what the hell we’ve been doing over here: https://heckbrewing.com/faq
Here's one for the icons-in-menus haters on macOS Tahoe:
defaults write -g NSMenuEnableActionImages -bool NO
It even preserves the couple of instances you do want icons, like for window zoom/resize
