Grace @billiegrace@v.st

I met with a latex clothing designer today to try a collaboration on making some pieces inspired by some of my favorite Lensa renders. There were a lot of looks in the Lensa batches that I want to try IRL. #latex #fashion #stablediffusion

iPad Stage Manager: Multitasking on the recent iPad M1 has improved considerably with the addition of “Stage Manager” and I’m able to maintain an MS RDP client session while simultaneously on a iOS MS Teams video call with my local camera active. It’s an unfamiliar hybrid window manager for me but works well enough to juggle work and personal tasks. I’m also very pleased with the internal 5G mobile data and my ability to remain very mobile throughout Europe.

@heartofcode Hallo HoC! Welcome to Mastodon! <3

100% agreed, and Popova’s blog is a delightful inspiration for all sorts of life’s joys.

@pburka What motivates muting those accounts versus unfollowing them?

Made it to Dark Matter in Berlin. There are three specific pieces that I really loved, this was a nice example of projection mapping.

Unfortunately I run into folks using Zelle frequently now, without other transfer options. To access Zelle I must go through my bank’s website, and they limit me to three transfers per day. It’s 2022, Venmo and Paypal and Cashapp have all set the bar for user interfaces for transferring money. Zelle is like a 90’s website from your bank. That this became the dominant paradigm for self-service inter-account transfers is pretty vexing.

I accrued 100,000 miles on Lufthansa this year and made their second highest status. I’m not a German resident and I’m not traveling for business. Transatlantic dating.

I woke up in a bed in a flat in Marbella, ES this morning, it’s 20C here while back in New York it’s -9C. Wild.

But I’ll keep coming back because of the techno. :)

I’m in Berlin, headed to the airport. I’ve been coming here since 2016, often. I flirted with the idea of living here. I fell in love here twice. Both with messy endings. I used to have more sentimental feelings for places here, but now it’s so familiar that it seems small. I see the same places where I marked new experiences as unremarkable now. The familiarity smothers the wonder and the heartache kills my desire for it.

Flying to Berlin today just for a night, Spain on Saturday to visit my friend’s parents (and to be in a warmer place with new experiences). I’ll be in Berlin for a bit longer from January 29 or so through at least January 4. I may extend that stay a bit, and afterwards I’m considering a stopover in Amsterdam for a few days to see friends.

Working remotely while getting a pedicure at a salon is truly the future I had expected at this point in my life. Better still would be having enough wealth not to have to work remotely, but I’ll take what I can get right now.

Idle musing: We use the term “computer” to describe machines that we all have (at least if you’re accessing Mastodon here) but the term doesn’t feel so appropriate anymore for what the device represents for most of us. And in the US, we often call our mobile computers “phones” even though the phone part is a small part of its overall purpose. So few things have become as ubiquitous and essential a companion as the mobile/handy/smartphone yet so inadequately termed.

@LittleMxSurly could it be that you’re a city girl after all? You know, I think you would have loved Bushwick.

@hmason And now it’s nothing. Terrible tragedy losing so many lives to this. It was a curiosity and when we stayed there in summer 2019, a huge tarp was draped over the side from the bottom behind the bar, I suppose to catch leaks. This was around the time of CCC Camp.