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AI, spam, LOL
“<p>Hi, I’m from [redacted]. We are an LLM API Gateway and
+OpenAI-compatible router. We help developers cut costs via semantic cache,
+prompt caching, and multi-model routing.</p>
<p>I noticed your post about Pizza! on Valhalla's Things. We are building a
+shared compute market and want to partner with sites like yours to explore AI
+API collaborations.</p>
<p>Reply if interested for details. No pressure if not. Thanks!</p>
<p>P.S. I am a real person, not an AI.</p>
”

I can't even.

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Relazione della prima ascensione invernale al monte Legnone

Nel febbraio del 1891, la sezione C.A.I. di Como organizzò la prima ascesa invernale al monte Legnone. Al rifugio Roccoli Lorla è in mostra la relazione di quella escursione.

Relazione della prima ascensione invernale al monte Legnone

kirgroup.net

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Fabio ma anche

“Quantunque privi di lanterna, la guida Buzzella, pratica fin da fanciullo di quelle località, ci portò in salvamento.”

è febbraio, non c'è luna piena o quasi, stai facendo un escursione che non era stata fatta prima, e non ti porti neanche un lanternino per fare luce quando (non se) cala il buio a metà pomeriggio?

@Fabio

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jkr-free harry potter, canon? what canon? unexpected crossover, dream

post-war, Hermione had been attacked by a big group of escaped death eaters and died, but thanks to time travel there was a second chance and this time with her there were Harry Potter, Sirius and most importantly Mangus from Brütal Legend, who had all of the death eaters trapped somehow.

because magic is fine and everything, but it's nothing against the *Power* of *Metal*

I guess :D

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vaccini, PSA

voi vi ricordate vero che la protezione data dal vaccino contro la difterite non dura tutta la vita, ma si deve fare un richiamo ogni 10 anni¹?

(io no, non mi ricordavo, di solito penso all'antitetanica, e so che di solito fanno un vaccino per il tetano e quello per qualcos'altro, ma non mi ricordo mai cosa sia quel qualcos'altro)

¹ in Italia. forse in Svizzera lo fanno ogni 20, ma non sono sicura sull'affidabilità della fonte; comunque è da ripetere periodicamente.

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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

vaccini, PSA

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I guess now it's a bit late to warn people not to update the firmware on their #framework laptops, but here is what somebody did to fix them, when the company didn't help. at all.

quantum5.ca/2026/08/16/fixing-…

spoiler: it ends well, but not thanks to framework

also, the ending of the article is *epic*.

Fixing a bricked AMD 7040 series Framework 13” laptop with $20 tools

My experience fixing my Framework 13” laptop with AMD 7060 series that was bricked due to a failed BIOS update with US$20 worth of tools, instead of replacing the motherboard as suggested by Framework support.
Quantum
#framework
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deepfryed

Remember when a certain company removed "don't be evil" from their motto ?

Never trust or rather trust but hold them accountable, very loudly until it hits their bottom line.

Never let a company monopolise an industry or idea.

Framework showed its colours when it supported DHH under the pretense of larger / wider tent. I pretty much wrote them off after that.

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@deepfryed yeah, it's just that if you're using an online service like the ones provided by google migrating away may be easy or hard, but once it's done it's done

if you buy an expensive laptop, even if you stop giving money to the company, recommending it to people etc., you still have an expensive laptop, and it would be nice for it not to become an expensive brick :(

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Fabio

@Sandro Santilli 🏟️ Roma effettivamente ho omesso qualche dettaglio

#Confy è un visualizzatore di programmi di conferenze.
Supporta i programmi in formato Pentabarf (xml) e calendario (ical).
Permette di visualizzare le presentazioni per data, per track, per luogo in cui si tengono e di cercare tra titoli, autori e descrizioni.
Mostra i dettagli della presentazione: titolo, autore, sommario, eventuali link esterni.
Permette di segnare una presentazione come "preferita" e avvisa cinque minuti prima del suo inizio. Inoltre ti avvisa se una presentazione "preferita" si sovrappone ad un'altra presentazione già segnata come "preferita".
Mostra in maniera grafica l'avanzamento del programma.

Il sito è confy.kirgroup.net/ , dove ci sono diversi screenshots.

E' disponibile in svariati package manager e in formato flatpak su flathub

E' scritto in python3 con Gtk4/libadwaita, è pensato per integrarsi sul desktop Gnome ma non lo richiede. Si adatta a varie dimensioni schermo, anche da telefono, per essere usato su un dispositivo mobile con un sistema operativo linux (es, Pinephone con PostmarketOS o Mobian )

Essendone lo sviluppatore tendo a scrivere dei rilasci e di avanzamenti dello sviluppo sul mio profilo, sotto il tag #confy : social.gl-como.it/search?tag=c…

#confy @Sandro Santilli 🏟️ Roma

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While on the last steep-ish descent before getting back home from a walk

me> ouch. stop a second, there is a union agitating in my knee
@Diego Roversi > have they started banging pots and stuff to make noise
me> yes, and it's just on one knee, not both
diego> left or right?
me> left
diego> of course. leftist agitators

(management offered moving a bit more weight to the arms (through an hiking stick), the union was ok with the proposal and I got back home with no more issues)

@Diego Roversi

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

sull'ultima discesa relativamente ripida prima di rientrare a casa da una camminata

io> ahia. stop un attimo, c'è un agitazione sindacale nel mio ginocchio
@diegor@social.gl-como.it> hanno iniziato a far rumore con pentole e simili?
io> sì, ma è solo una delle due ginocchia
diego> destra o sinistra
io> sinistra
diego> ovviamente. agitatori comunisti

(la dirigenza ha offerto di spostare un po' più di peso sulle braccia, tramite i bastoncini, il sindacato ha accettato la proposta e sono tornata a casa senza problemi)

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@Manyfold I've just uploaded 3dprint.social/models/8s370gp9… and realized: is there a standard compliant sticker for your project?

or is there an SVG of the logo so that I can make it myself (and have it printed for our Linux Day in October)?

Hexagonal stickers tray

A tray to store and display standard¹ hexagonal stickers, sorted by type (or ...
3dprint.social
@Manyfold

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Years ago, I bought A Year of Zero Waste Sewing (lizhaywood.com.au/a-year-of-ze…) as a zine, with the intent to print and bind it when it was completed.

Then our printer was acting up, and there were other reasons to delay, so I postponed the printing and not exactly forgot about it, but it went quite low on the list of priorities.

Now I could have used a printed version of the pleating pages from December, so I decided it was a good time to print everything and fit binding it between other projects.

We have a new #printer, we've had it for quite some time and have been quite happy with it.

It printed every number of the zine with very little issues¹, with automatic two sided printing, everything was working fine

Until December.

It didn't print December. out of toner. for the first time since we bought it.

It claims we had been warned about it. Probably on a notice board in the usual underground corridor with no lights.

They know.

¹ and those were strictly between keyboard and chair

#printer

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Anni fa ho comprato A Year of Zero Waste Sewing (lizhaywood.com.au/a-year-of-ze…) mentre usciva come zine, con l'intenzione alla fine di stamparlo e rilegarlo.

Quando ben è stato il momento la nostra stampante faceva le bizze, e poi ci son state altre ragioni, e insomma ho rimandato la stampa, e non me ne sono totalmente dimenticata, ma era finito in basso nella lista delle priorità.

Adesso mi avrebbe fatto comodo una versione stampata delle pagine di dicembre sulle pieghe, quindi ho deciso che era il momento giusto per stamparlo e rilegarlo, in mezzo ad altri progetti.

Abbiamo una #stampante nuova, da un po' di tempo, e ne siamo abbastanza contenti.

Ha stampato tutti i numeri della zine quasi¹ senza problemi, con la stampa fronte e retro automatica, tutto stava funzionando senza fare una piega.

Fino a dicembre.

Non ha stampato dicembre. Toner finito. per la prima volta da quando ce l'abbiamo.

Dice di averci avvisato. Probabilmente su una bacheca nel solito corridoio sotterraneo senza luci.

Lo sanno.

¹ gli unici problemi in realtà sono stati tra sedia e tastiera

@Vespa cartolaia @Whiskey a gogo

#stampante @Vespa cartolaia @Whiskey a gogo

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Whiskey a gogo @Vespa cartolaia ah, pensavo che voi foste organizzati, col fatto di usarle per lavoro :D

io ero abituata con le due stampanti precedenti che mesi prima (per i nostri standard di consumo¹) iniziavano a fare terrorismo “ordina il toner che sta per finire! presto! sbrigati!” con luci colorate lampeggianti e ci mancava solo che suonassero una sirena.

questa invece a quanto pare è molto discreta e riservata

¹ tendiamo a stampare botte di tante (~100) pagine tutte assieme, e poi niente o quasi per qualche settimana

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Today I've marked as finished *two* #sewing projects: a corset cover and a corset. There will be blog posts.

Now i have the slippers in progress, but I'm starting to think about the next #handsewing project, and I have two options.

The one I've been planning is yet another shirt, using some linen-cotton fabric from the stash in blue rather than white: something that I felt the need for this spring, and will probably use again this early autumn, when it will be still warm enough for wearing just a shirt, but also not too hot for anything that isn't white.

And then there may be the fact that I still watch youtube videos, and see stuff, and decide that I want something like that, and that I even have the fabric for it in my stash, so I have no valid reason not to. But that's something that is probably more suitable for early spring, and thus I will not start working on it until I've finished the shirt.

Or at least I will not start *sewing* it. I do have to prepare a pattern O:-)

#sewing #handsewing

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Oggi ho dichiarato finiti *due* progetti di cucito, un corsetto e un copricorsetto. Ci saranno post sul blog.

Adesso sto facendo le pantofole, ma sto iniziando a pensare al prossimo progetto di #cucitoAMano e ho due opzioni..

Quello che avevo già pianificato è l'ennesima camicia, usando del misto lino che ho nell'armadio, in blu anziché bianco: ne avevo sentito un po' il bisogno questa primavera, e probabilmente la si potrà usare di nuovo questo autunno, quando sarà ancora abbastanza caldo per stare in maniche di camicia, ma non più così caldo da non voler indossare niente che non sia bianco.

E poi potrebbe esserci il fatto che continuo a guardare video su youtube, e vedo cose, e decido che voglio qualcosa di simile, e che ho pure della stoffa adatta nell'armadio, e quindi non ho neanche un valido ostacolo per non farlo. Ma è qualcosa che probabilmente sarà indossabile all'inizio della primavera, e quindi non inizierò a lavorarci prima di aver finito la camicia.

O almeno non inizierò a *cucirlo*. Devo pur sempre preparare un cartamodello O:-)

#cucitoamano

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Late Victorian Vampire Shirt
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A woman wearing an old-style white shirt with lots of fullness, wide and long sleeves and ruffles at the collar that spread out framing the neck, down the center front to underbust height, covering the slit and at the cuffs, reaching to mid-hand. The shirt is gathered at the waist with a belt, and worn over the bottom garment to show that it reaches to mid tight. Drama levels in the pose are pretty low.

The recurring joke is that because of some health issues, in summer I dress like a Victorian Vampire.

But how would an actual Late Victorian Vampire dress? Picture her, she would look like some kind of eccentric gentlewoman, as vampires usually do, probably with a style that is a bit conservative, rather than following the latest fashions.

Same woman, same shirt, posing as a vampire ready to attack a victim. Drama levels increasing.

Now, she wouldn’t probably wear men’s shirts. But what if she was a lesbian1 vampire? Wouldn’t she need a fancy, frilly shirt to go with her tailored cycling suit when she’s out seducing the more active ladies in the neighbourhood?

Or maybe not. It’s not making a lot of sense, is it? But I do have a lot of shirt fabric in my stash2, and I could use a few more shirts that were practical and comfortable, but also somewhat over the top.

For the practical and comfortable I went to my trusted 1880s shirt, while for the over the top part I looked at inspiration from the earlier 18th century frilly shirts, and their later imitations.

I decided to use some nice cotton batiste I had bought quite a few years ago to make one of my first historically inspired shirtwaists: I may have a tendency to buy a bit more fabric than actually needed by the pattern, but that’s what everybody does, right?

For the ruffles I decided to use a lighter weight cotton voile, also from the stash.

the top edge of a ruffle being whipstitched over some gathered fabric; the rest of the unfinished shirt is visible in the background.

At the front, I wanted the ruffle to be inserted in the yoke, but I was also whipstitching the gathers to it to make them neater, so I started bu attaching the yoke lining to the gathered front, then I whipstitched the ruffle to the front, catching each gather, and finally I whipstitched the other yoke on the ruffle and the rest of the gathered front.

The front of a shirt: the body was gathered into a yoke, but it has been unpicked and pulled out to extend a bit past the end of it, into where the collar will be sewn.

And then after sewing the collar, I realized that this way the slit would have remained open in the front (or the collar too narrow), so I had to unpick the front part of the yoke, and sew it again, this time leaving an excess of fabric as wide as half the placket width from the pattern, to be sewn directly in the collar band.

From then, things progressed smoothly, with some interruptions, until I got to the first sleeve, which I failed to insert twice, as one does.

The same shirt worn without the ruffle at the collar, with just what looks like a mandarin collar, closed with a clip with an amethyst. Drama levels have gone way down.

On the third attempt, with a different method, I succeeded, I tried the shirt on, and it already felt extra.

Close up of the collar on a table: at the center back of the shirt collar there is a buttonhole, and a double button is used to keep the detached collar in place, while at the front both the shirt collar and the detached collar have buttonholes.

But it could be even more extra. With some ruffles also at the collar.

Same close up, but now the collar has been closed with a clip-on earring with an amethyst and some small fake clear stones, and it looks as if the skirt had a ruffle collar and a jewel button (or a pin).

The shirt had been made with a simple collar band, and I could have just added the ruffle to it, but I also wanted to be able to wear it with other detachable collars, so I decided to make another collar band with ruffles, to wear on top.

And that was mostly it, except for the reinforcement patches at the side seams and cuffs: I love having them, because they make the seam end neater and stronger, but they are a bit of a hassle to make, so they got postponed a few days.

Same woman and shirt, back with the ruffled collar, in a pose like that of an artist that is fainting for futile reasons. Drama levels over the top.

But finally, the shirt was done.

And I tried it on, and it was good.

But now I really need a pair of cycling breeches, don’t I?

  1. ok, maybe straight passing bi? anyway.↩︎
  2. I have no idea how they got there.↩︎

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Dear #3dPrinting-verse,

is there something I should know about prusa / printables.com?

I was vaguely thinking about making an account and publishing a few stl files for convenience (the original files are on my git repo, and they will remain there, but they are published as openscad source code), is it something I should avoid?

I don't think that there is a fediverse platform for 3d-printing files, right? mediaGoblin never got activityPub compatibility, iirc?

#3dPrinting-verse

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Manyfold

@fabrixxm hm, ok the first one should be ok, just managed to follow it from here (Mastodon). Could well be a bug with other interop… could you pop any details you can into an issue on our GitHub repo? github.com/manyfold3d/manyfold

GitHub - manyfold3d/manyfold: A self-hosted digital asset manager for 3d print files.

A self-hosted digital asset manager for 3d print files. - manyfold3d/manyfold
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The right button on my mouse had stopped working (yesterday afternoon)

So this morning I opened the mouse, cleaned the dead bodies around the wheel, cleaned everything else a bit, tried the button on the PCB, it worked, closed the mouse again, it did not work

I opened the mouse again, asked @Diego Roversi to look at it, he did, he tried the button on the PCB, it did not work, he looked at it with a bit more intent¹, tried it again, it worked, I closed the mouse and it's now working.

Now, I'm happy about the mouse working again, but.

¹ ok, there may have been a bit of canned air

#repair

#repair @Diego Roversi

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Il bottone destro del mio mouse aveva smesso di funzionare (ieri pomeriggio)

Quindi stamattina ho aperto il mouse, pulito i cadaveri attorno alla rotella, pulito un po' il resto, provato il bottone sul PCB, funzionava, chiuso il mouse, non funzionava più.

Ho aperto di nuovo il mouse, chiesto a @Diego Roversi di dargli un'occhiata, ha provato il bottone sul PCB, non funzionava, l'ha guardato con più intento¹, provato ancora, funzionava, ho chiuso il mouse e adesso funziona.

Ora, mi fa piacere che il mouse funzioni ancora, ma.

¹ ok, potrebbe esserci stata una spruzzatina di aria compressa

#riparazioni

#riparazioni @Diego Roversi

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I've started a new #sewing project and it's sewn by machine!

which means that I've spent the afternoon handsewing buttonholes, because of course buttonholes are sewn by hand :D

it's my take on the corset cover from archive.org/details/americansy… , for which I've seen other blog posts that gave completely different results, so I wanted to make another one for myself to post my method.

The American system of dressmaking : Merwin, Pearl : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

6 p. l., [15]-444 p. 24 cm
Internet Archive
#sewing

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Ho iniziato un nuovo progetto di #cucito, ed è cucito a macchina!

E quindi ho passato il pomeriggio a cucire occhielli a mano, perché ovviamente gli occhielli si fanno a mano :D

È la mia versione del copricorsetto di archive.org/details/americansy… per cui ho visto dei post su blog che davano dei risultati totalmente diversi, quindi volevo farmene un'altro per pubblicare il mio metodo.

#cucito

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e gli orli che ho cucito stamattina sarebbero venuti molto meglio fatti a mano.

ma anche, questa è tecnicamente biancheria, e arriva da un libro del 1909, ampiamente nell'era delle macchine da cucire, e lo sto facendo per scrivere istruzioni e voglio scrivere istruzioni per farlo a macchina.

che piedino orlatore sia.

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Intanto #trenord abilita il servizio di pagamento del biglietto con carta di credito, passandola alla stazione di salita e di discesa

senza dover litigare con le loro macchinette infernali che discriminano contro i non morti

peccato che sia abilitato solo su due linee, per ora, ma siamo fiduciosi per il futuro :D

trenord.it/biglietti/dove-acqu…

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Cockades!
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six cockades in black, grey, white, purple, in different sizes and with different centrepieces. One is only black and white and has a penguin pin in the middle.

Earlier this year, I made myself a new hat (it will be blogged), and I wanted to put a nice cockade on it. So, I looked for suitable ribbons, and couldn’t find any. I found some ribbon that looked passable, but the colours I wanted weren’t available, so I set up the website to notify me, and kept working on the hat.

Eventually the hat was done, the ribbon was still not available, so I decorated the hat with fake flowers from my stash, and started wearing it.

And that’s when I got notified that the ribbon was back in stock.

By the time the ribbon arrived, I had decided that the hat looked better with the flowers, and project cockade was put on hold, possibly for a future hat.

And then June came, and what could be a better time than that for a project based on flag colours?

As I feared, the ribbon I got wasn’t the best: it was a bit too stiff and plasticy, and not really usable for many other things. It did however work well enough for a cockade, and I decided it was a good chance to try different methods and designs, and then make another one to take pictures and publish step-by-step instructions.

And that’s the perfect recipe to find oneself surrounded by a somewhat unreasonable number of very similar cockades, I guess.

A big cockade with four ribbons, starting with purple on the outside, and a black bead in the middle covering the centre of the black ribbon. The pleating isn't the most regular, and the black ribbon at the centre is almost more gathered than pleated.

I looked around for instructions, and the ones that gave a result that was closer to my mental idea of a cockade were the ones by American Duchess, so on my first attempt I tried to follow those.

I didn’t have a cork board with a hole, so it was a bit fiddly, and the result was passable, but could have been better. Meanwhile I saw a forum post commenting on the above tutorialand that gave me ideas for a procedure more suitable to the tools I had.

A cockade with tree ribbons, starting with purple on the outside, then white, grey, and a black bead in the middle that is a bit bigger than the one on the previous one. The pleating isn't perfect, but neater than the previous one.

The second cockade I made was indeed more satisfactory, and I also started to experiment with making a center piece with ribbons, to cut down on the types of materials needed.

On this one I also tried to add a pin backing, so that I could write instructions on how to do it in what I believe is a more stable way than simply adding it to the felt backing at the end.

I’m not sure whether the other ones will be tacked to a hat, and thus won’t require pins at all, or if I’ll just put them on some dress with pins hidden under the ribbon layers.

A cockade with three ribbons, starting with black on the outside, then grey and white, and a flat pentagonal knot of purple ribbon at the centre.

And then I was ready to make a third cockade, taking step by step pictures for my website, and I planned to start on it the next morning.

Trenord had different ideas.

Thanks to the combination of independent but complete disruptions ontwo nearby train lines, I spent the morning driving a couple of people to the nearest station that was still being served by trains, and then back home less than 10 minutes before I had to start working, which if you ask1 me was pretty homophobic of the train company.

There was way less traffic than I expected, and I did enjoy the drive2, but for various reasons it meant a significant delay for this post.

Anyway, less than a week later than I had planned, halfway in June I managed to publish step by step instructions on my website, but I wasn’t done with the project yet.

Beside the fact that I still needed to finish sewing the backing felt to the cockades I had done, I also had a few ideas for more centrepieces made of ribbon I wanted to try.

And this means that I moved on to another project that was already in progress (this one will also be blogged).

A cockade with three ribbons, starting with black on the outside, then grey and white, and two squares of purple ribbon at the centre, forming a sort of eight point star. The ribbons are box pleated and this gives the cockade a bit more of a tree-dimensional shape.

After I’ve finished that one, at the very end of June I quickly made the last two centrepieces, taking pictures for the instructions, and in the next few days I also finished the cockades.

A cockade with three ribbons, starting with purple on the outside, then white and grey, and an hexagonal shape made of black ribbon at the centre. The ribbons are again box pleated.

This time, instead of plain pleats I tried to use box pleats, and I quite like the look they give, so if in the future I’ll have a need for more cockades I may use again this pleating pattern.

A cockade with just two gathered ribbons, starting with black on the outside, then white, and a linux.it pin in the middle with a black background and two eyes and an orange beak reminding of a penguin.

For the last cockade I wanted to try two things: putting a pin in the middle as a centrepiece, and gathering the ribbons.

For the pin, I found that the only one I had that had a colour scheme compatible with the ribbons I had was one with the penguin from linux.it, which had a black background, so I put black ribbon on the outside and white next to it for contrast.

And gathering was done with a whipped gather with ribbons that were one and a half times the outer circumference of their slot, and looks decent enough, but I think I prefer the look of pleated cockades a lot. Maybe it would look better with a softer ribbon.

Anyway, I think this is plenty of cockades for the time being, unless I get tempted by buying more colours of ribbon to make different ones. But I’m not making an online purchase just for those. I am not.

  1. you probably shouldn’t.↩︎
  2. also thanks to my partner who, on entering the destination town, told me to stop on the big, straight, two-way road with plenty of roundabouts to turn around, and went through the maze of one-way streets to the station by foot.↩︎

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Today I've been *very* good and instead of cutting myself a new shirt I've picked up the twine braids I did maybe two years ago and started sewing the soles for a new pair of slippers, so that when the current ones self destructs I won't have to make new ones in a hurry.

The first part of the sewing has been done on one sole, now I'd really want to do something easier in the evening, but if I keep working on the second sole I can bring it down to the point where it's more contained, without a long tail to manage.

But I'd really want to do be sewing something else!

#selfRestraint #forwardThinking #TheShirtWillComeNext #OhWillIt!

#selfRestraint #forwardThinking #TheShirtWillComeNext #OhWillIt
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Oggi sono stata *davvero* brava e invece di tagliarmi una nuova camicia ho tirato fuori le trecce di spago che avevo preparato forse due anni fa, e iniziato a cucire le suole per un paio di pantofole nuove, così quando quelle attuali vanno a pezzi non devo farmene un paio nuovo in fretta e furia.

Su una delle suole ho finito la prima parte delle cuciture, e stasera vorrei tanto cucire qualcosa di più semplice, ma se continuo a lavorare sulla seconda suola riesco a portarla ad un punto in cui è più compatta, senza una coda lunga da gestire.

Ma vorrei davvero cucire qualcos'altro!

#autocontrollo #PensareAlFuturo #LaCamiciaSaràLaProssima #OhSeLoSarà!

#autocontrollo #PensareAlFuturo #LaCamiciaSaràLaProssima #OhSeLoSarà
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Lysander il Breve @Marcos Dione it also helps me learn Italian. which is my L1, except for sewing topics :D

mi aiuta anche ad imparare l'italiano. che è la mia madrelingua, tranne che per gli argomenti di cucito :D

(also, I don't trust automatic translations not to screw up the historical sewing details, and even less so if they had to translate between Italian and another language rather than going through English)

(e tra l'altro non mi fido che le traduzioni automatiche non faccian casino sui dettagli di cucito storico, e a maggior ragione se dovessero tradurre tra l'italiano ed un altra lingua anziché passare dall'inglese)

@Marcos Dione @Lysander il Breve
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Marcos Dione @Lysander il Breve I learned the basics of sewing in Italian, but especially for the historical bits (and other somewhat advanced techniques) finding materials in English is way, way, way easier, and I've learned most of it in that language.

Computer stuff in Italian uses a lot of English loans anyway, so it's the same situation for me, but less of an issue. :D

@Marcos Dione @Lysander il Breve
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ho un paio di pantofole basse di feltro, credo che con le nostre temperature siano più che sufficienti :D

però devo trovare il modo di farmi delle galosce o qualcosa del genere da mettere quando esco nel portico e nelle altre parti di casa che non sono proprio esterno, ma non sono neanche interno, soprattutto quanto a ruvidità del pavimento, altrimenti le pantofole di feltro senza suola non reggono

@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

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A Pair of Hair Towel Wraps
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Posted on July 2, 2026
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear
Two trapezoid shaped hoods made out of off-white towels: one is still looking new, while the other one has been bleached and roughened by having been washed many times.

Many months ago I had been ordering some furniture from IKEA1 and on one of those orders I got tempted by a hair towel wrap: it mostly worked as an idea, but it was too short for my hair.

On the other hand, I had two old towels I wasn’t using, and a recently unpacked sewing machine.

A towel cut in two trapezoid halves with a STJÄRNBUSKE laid on top of it: the IKEA wrap is a bit less than 10 cm less deep, and at least 30 cm shorter, and is also triangular rather than a trapezoid.

I didn’t plan too much, I just put the STJÄRNBUSKE over the towel, cut, realized that the two pieces didn’t fit with right sides together, cut the second towel (I had planned to make two wraps, anyway, so it wasn’t a big deal), and started sewing by machine in what seemed like a reasonable procedure, taking notes and pictures.

A towel, with its original care label, that has been cut in a trapezoid shape and reassembled into a hood shape with a long triangular tail. The machine sewn finishing is still neat and pristine.

The result was pretty good, and I started using it every time I washed my hair, but then I started to entertain the idea of shooting myself sewing the second one by hand for a video, but never found the time to actually doing it, and the pieces remained in the Pile for months, and months, and way more than a year.

The head of a woman with a turban-like thing on the head, covering all of the hair except for a tiny bit at the center front.

Until one day I bought a meter of cotton cheesecloth (mostly because it was almost cheaper than buying a sample) and it felt like a good material to make a nicely looking head wrapper, to keep my hair out of the way when needed.

A woman in a bathrobe with her head tilted downwards, covered by a towel thing that lies on the back of the head and has a long tail hanging on the front, in the process of being wrapped around the hairs and then brought over the top and back.

A couple months later, it was finally time to bring this project to the top of the list, and even if I was sewing two by hand it went pretty quickly: we had a weekend when it was too hot to do anything else, and by the end of it the wraps were done.

All that remained was finish writing the instructions for my FreeSoftWear patterns website <https://sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/contemporary_unisex/headwear/hair_towel_wrap/index.html>>, and having some pictures taken, and this project was done.

And now, on to documenting a few more things I’ve done lately, and to start working on the other projects I have added to the queue in the meantime.

  1. small things. Like, you know, a kitchen :D↩︎

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Some time ago my mother bought (online) some pairs of white cotton shorts with whitework at the hems, she tried them on, they fit, she used them a couple of times, washed them, and they no longer fit.

so, she gave them to me, and they fit me, as in “i can put them on, but I'd need to take in the waist”, but as long as I'm unpicking them to make them narrower I might as well unpick the crotch seam and turn them into proper split drawers that I can wear both as shorts under skirts to prevent chafing and as underwear under properly victorian dress with a corset and everything.

the funny thing? they have #pockets (and decently sized pockets, too!)

so, yeah, my underwear is going to have pocketses :D and I didn't even have to make them from scratch :D

#pockets
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Un po' di tempo fa mia madre ha comprato (online) dei pantaloncini corti bianchi con l'orlo ricamato, li ha provati, andavano bene, li ha usati un paio di volte, lavati, e non le vanno più bene.

quindi me li ha passati, li ho provati e mi vanno bene, per valori di bene “li posso indossare, ma devo stringere la vita o cadono”, ma già che sto scucendo per stringerli posso scucire anche il cavallo e fare dei mutandoni apertti per bene che posso indossare sia come panmtaloncini sotto le gonne per proteggere le cosce che come biancheria sotto i vestiti vittoriani completi di corsetto e tutto quanto.

la cosa divertente? hanno le #tasche (e anche di misura dignitosa!)

e quindi la mia biancheria avrà le tasche :D e non ho neanche dovuto cucirmela da zero :D

#tasche

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Today it was too hot to do, well, anything, really, so we decided to take a day off and rest.

Which means that I've spent the whole day #handsewing.

Which, one could assume, means that I've finished the vampire shirt? of course not, I still have to attach two pairs of finishing patches to the sleeve slits, of course.

But I've worked quite a bit on a new-ish project, so that's good, right?

And to be fair, I had cut the fabric for that project close to two years ago, so it didn't completely count as a *new* project either.

(It's a towel hair wrap, and a second one in a lighter fabric to use as general head wear)

#handsewing

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

finito. finito. finito!

ho finito la camicia, ed entrambe le cose da mettere in testa!

3 degli 11 progetti da cucire a mano che c'erano nella lista che avevo scritto ad inizio giugno sono stati finiti!

(e altri tre sono in corso)

e nessuno di quelli da cucire a macchina

e poca roba nella categoria “altro”

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ilpost.it/2026/06/27/energia-e…

“Il massimo storico risale a luglio del 2015, quando toccò 60,5 gigawatt. Negli anni più recenti i picchi si sono assestati su valori un po’ più bassi, probabilmente grazie a una maggiore efficienza degli impianti di condizionamento”

mi chiedo quanto abbia influito anche la maggior diffusione dei pannelli solari, perché i consumi dell'aria condizionata di chi li ha in teoria non dovrebbe essere visibile a Terna (se non come calo di produzione)

Quanta energia si consuma con questo caldo

La risposta breve è “tanta”, soprattutto per l'aria condizionata; per la risposta completa ci vuole qualche numero e grafico
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Alessandro c'è un contatore in uscita, ma mi risulta che conti solo l'energia che viene venduta alla rete, e un contatore in entrata che dovrebbe contare l'energia comprata dalla rete

ma quella che viene usata per caricare le batterie e/o usata direttamente sul posto non dovrebbe passare dai due contatori, ma solo dallo scatolo dell'inverter, e quello che passa di lì dovremmo vederla solo noi e il governo cinese¹

credo che passasse tutto dai due contatori negli impianti dell'epoca del conto energia?

¹ il bello delle tecnologie smart!

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Intanto su ferrovie nord

varesenews.it/2026/06/tranciat…

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#trenord #treno

Tranciati i cavi della ferrovia per un tentato furto di rame a Busto Arsizio: treni cancellati verso Malpensa, Gallarate e Novara

il tentativo di furto nella notte ha mandato in tilt i sistemi di gestione della circolazione. Corse soppresse e bus sostitutivi, tecnici di Ferrovienord al lavoro dalle 2
Tomaso Bassani (VareseNews)
#trenord #treno

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TFW you see a building with scaffolding covered by netting in the colours of the Italian flag, and you think WTF

but then you realize you're in San Fermo della Battaglia, i.e. (if I'm not mistaken) on the very place of a locally important battle of the wars of Italian unification, and one fought by the army of idealistic volunteers, not the regular one, and then it becomes ok.

#patiotismIsOkButOnlyUpToThe1860s

#patiotismIsOkButOnlyUpToThe1860s

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Oggi ho visto un edificio con un ponteggio coperto con delle reti tricolore, e il primo pensiero è stato WTF

poi mi sono resa conto di essere a San Fermo della Battaglia, credo nel punto preciso della battaglia eponima, ed erano i garibaldini idealisti, non l'esercito regolare, e allora dai, direi che hanno fatto bene

#ilPatriottismoVaBeneMaSoloFinoAgliAnni60dellOttocento

#ilPatriottismoVaBeneMaSoloFinoAgliAnni60dellOttocento

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

I have to admit it was definitely a form of patriarchal oppression *and* because of capitalism.

When we were starting the game I was putting my token on the female marker, and then decided “no, in honor of Pride month let's start as a male” and everybody else did the same, starting as female, and I won as the only male in the game.

*And* I finished the game with a class of Tycoon, not because I'd chosen it willingly, but because that's the only class card I got.

And I also won one level early in the game by tattling to the police.

I'm not proud of this game.

But I won, and that's the important thing in #munchkin, right? :D

#munchkin

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Devo ammettere che è stata oppressione del patriarcato *e* colpa del capitalismo.

All'inizio della partita stavo per mettere il segnalino su “donna”, ma ho detto “mannò, in onore del Pride inizio come uomo”, e gli altri mi hanno imitata (imitato?) iniziando come donna, e ho vinto essendo l'unico uomo del gioco.

*E* quando ho finito la mia classe era Tycoon, non perché l'avrei scelta liberamente, ma perché è stata l'unica carta classe che ho pescato..

E ho vinto uno dei livelli verso l'inizio della partita andando a fare la spia con la polizia.

Non sono orgogliosa di questa partita.

Ma ho vinto, e questa è la cosa importante in #munchkin, giusto?

#munchkin

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Bella serata ieri al Circolo Gagarin di Busto, con @Alessandro e @alephoto85 . @Kenobit ha presentato il suo libro "Assalto alle piattaforme" e poi ci ha sparato svariati dB di energia 8bit dritti nel cervello. C'è stata anche una improvvisata dimostrazione di come la magia viene creata.

Alla fine siamo rimasti a nerdeggiare fino a tardi. Che ogni tanto ci vuole.

@Kenobit @alephoto85

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