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Eccomi di nuovo qui a rompervi le scatole.
Abbiamo deciso di chiudere la pagina facebook della nostra #Mastocartoleria e volevamo lasciare un messaggio qualche giorno per spiegare le nostre motivazioni.
È un po' lunghetto e ringrazio in anticipo chi avrà la voglia e il tempo di leggere e dare qualche consiglio :blobcatheart:

Ciao a tutti.
Volevamo comunicarvi che la pagina della cartoleria xxxxxx su Facebook sarà eliminata entro breve. Non che sia una cosa così importante, ma volevamo farvi almeno sapere il perché di questa decisione.
Non è solo la novità dell'abbonamento a pagamento per i social di casa Meta nel caso in cui non si vogliano vedere le inserzioni (abbiamo già eliminato il profilo Instagram), ci sono motivi più profondi e importanti.
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#mastocartoleria
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So fun to be interviewed about Norse Myths for this episode of Imaginary Worlds! imaginaryworldspodcast.org/epi…

Episode 237: Seeing Ourselves in Norse Myths

Thor and Loki have become pop culture icons thanks to Marvel. But the influence of Norse mythology on contemporary fantasy runs through Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings and so much more.
Eric Molinsky (Imaginary Worlds)

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Piecepack and postcard boxes
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Posted on November 4, 2023
An open cardboard box, showing the lining in paper printed with a medieval music manuscript.

Thanks to All Saints’ Day, I’ve just had a 5 days weekend. One of those days I woke up and decided I absolutely needed a cartonnage box for the cardboard and linocut piecepack I’ve been working on for quite some time.

I started drawing a plan with measures before breakfast, then decided to change some important details, restarted from scratch, did a quick dig through the bookbinding materials and settled on 2 mm cardboard for the structure, black fabric-like paper for the outside and a scrap of paper with a manuscript print for the inside.

Then we had the only day with no rain among the five, so some time was spent doing things outside, but on the next day I quickly finished two boxes, at two different heights.

The weather situation also meant that while I managed to take passable pictures of the first stages of the box making in natural light, the last few stages required some creative artificial lightning, even if it wasn’t that late in the evening. I need to build1 myself a light box.

And then decided that since they are C6 sized, they also work well for postcards or for other A6 pieces of paper, so I will probably need to make another one when the piecepack set will be finally finished.

The original plan was to use a linocut of the piecepack suites as the front cover; I don’t currently have one ready, but will make it while printing the rest of the piecepack set. One day :D

an open rectangular cardboard box, with a plastic piecepack set in it.

One of the boxes was temporarily used for the plastic piecepack I got with the book, and that one works well, but since it’s a set with standard suites I think I will want to make another box, using some of the paper with fleur-de-lis that I saw in the stash.

I’ve also started to write detailed instructions: I will publish them as soon as they are ready, and then either update this post, or they will be mentioned in an additional post if I will have already made more boxes in the meanwhile.

  1. you don’t really expect me to buy one, right? :D↩︎

blog.trueelena.org/blog/2023/1…

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For the last ... checks notes ... 14 months I've been working on the next major release of FreeSewing. The core software itself was ready at the end of September, but I still have to put the finishing touches on the website migration.

That is done now, and (the completely new) FreeSewing.org now runs v3.

There's a ton of new stuff, so I'll link to this umbrella post with an overview: freesewing.org/blog/v3-umbrell…

Spread the word because this is big news #FreeSewing

Everything about FreeSewing v3: Umbrella post

There's a flurry of news about FreeSewing v3, so here's an overview
FreeSewing.org
#freesewing

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As a reminder, no corporate algorithm here means you don’t need to disguise your words.

Twitter can be Twitter, Trump can be Trump, Musk can be Musk, etc. Using plain language is both clearer for readers than code words AND means people can set up more useable filters to control their own experience. #FediTips

#feditips
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Thanks to a friend who gave me the idea, I've taken this:

eoval.org/ppUsquXv#

saved it as ``hit🗞 .rst``, run the command ``rst2man hit🗞.rst | man -l -`` and I can indeed confirm that #manpages have no issue with #unicode and emoji (at least if your terminal is configured to show them).

eoval.org/fkaao4oP#

(the pastebin urls will self-destruct in a month; I may delete this post at that time, if I remember about it)

#unicode #manpages

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Calling all crafters & Discworld fans!

Myself and some friends from my crafty Discord are holding ourselves a “Discworld makealong”. And naturally we’d love to invite our friends in the Fediverse to join in too 🥳

No pressure. No deadlines. Just for fun. And any craft welcome!

So far knitting and cross stitch are well-represented but I’m sure we’ll pick up a few more along the way 😄

November 4th, through Hogswatch season, ending in the new year*. You’re very welcome to join in with your project at any point!.

Some of us will be on Mastodon under #DiscworldMAL. I for one will be on Lemmy too. And of course if you want to join the Discord, link’s in my bio, but not necessary if you’re not into that.

(Oh and for those of you who have no idea what Discworld is or what I’m talking about, congratulations you’ve got 41 books to look forward to!)

*I suspect most projects will not actually be finished by then, because we’re slow and easily distracted. As demonstrated by me not posting about this until it’s a week away 🙃

Edit: WIP pattern suggestions list docs.google.com/document/d/1--…

@discworld #Discworld #GNUTerryPratchett #Knitting #CrossStitch

#DiscworldMAL pattern ideas

Knitting: Shawls - https://www.ravelry.com/bundles/discworld-6 Socks https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/when-granny-weatherwax-knits-socks/patterns More socks https://www.ravelry.
Google Docs
#knitting #crossstitch #Discworld #gnuterrypratchett #discworldmal @Discworld
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annuncio immobiliare, varese

se qualcuno cerca casa (da aquistare) a Varese, sono miei parenti.

Posso confermare che la zona è ottima per arrivare in un bel po' di posti a piedi (ospedali, centro, stazioni)


ossolaimmobiliare.it/it/vendit…

Varese, zona Ospedali

in piccola palazzina di sole sei unità immobiliari, ampio Quadrilocale recentemente ristrutturato, composto da ingresso, soggiorno con balcone, cucina...
ossolaimmobiliare.it

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Dear #historyBounding people,

I still have about half of the red fabric I've used for the shirt, and it may be just enough to make myself a short dress using the pattern I've used for the princess petticoat.

It will have to be shorter, maybe even knee length, and I'm quite sure that there won't be enough for the ruffle, nor for sleeves (or at most they will be really short sleeves), but there may be some fringe that I've accidentally bought in the past when it assaulted me from the haberdashery display.

I have to, right? :D

Elena ``of Valhalla''

2023-10-28 13:20:57

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Some of you may remember that last year I have been #handsewing a shirt in red wool, but by the time I've mostly¹ finished it it was already too warm to be able to wear it significantly.

At least, the Sensible Season seems to have started, and I can wear it!

There will be a blog post. At some unknown time in the future.

a woman walking away from the camera wearing a black long skirt, grey braces, and a red shirt with wide sleeves and a lot of fabric gathered in the middle part of the fitted yoke. The collar is just a collar band, and there is a button in the nape of the neck for a detached collar that is not being worn.

The same, standing still, from the front; there is little fullness above the waistline (where it's tucked in the skirt), and it opens with a button placket in the front with 3 visible buttons.

¹ it does need a few detachable collar and cuffs variants, to style it a bit differently, but those don't prevent me from wearing the shirt as is.

#historyBounding #FreeSoftWear


#historyBounding

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Forgotten Yeast Bread or Pan Sbagliato
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a wide and flat round loaf of bread with a well cooked crust

I’ve made it again. And again. And a few more times, and now it has an official household name, “Pan Sbagliato”, or “Wrong Bread”.

And this is the procedure I’ve mostly settled on; starting on the day before (here called Saturday) and baking it so that it’s ready for lunch time (on what here is called Sunday).

Saturday: around 13:00

In a bowl, mix together and work well:
  • 250 g water;
  • 400 g flour;
  • 8 g salt;

cover to rise.


Saturday: around 18:00

In a small bowl, mix together:
  • 2-3 g yeast;
  • 10 g water;
  • 10 g flour.


Saturday: around 21:00

In the bowl with the original dough, add the contents of the small bowl plus:
  • 100 g flour;
  • 100 g water;

and work well; cover to rise overnight.


Sunday: around 8:00

Pour the dough on a lined oven tray, leave in the cold oven to rise.


Sunday: around 11:00

Remove the tray from the oven, preheat the oven to 240°C, bake for 10 minutes, then lower the temperature to 160°C and bake for 20 more minutes.

Waiting until it has cooled down a bit will make it easier to cut, but is not strictly necessary.


the loaf cut in half, to show thin stripes of crumb from the high hydration.

I’ve had up to a couple of hours variations in the times listed, with no ill effects.

blog.trueelena.org/blog/2023/1…

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I convinced Scientific American to publish a scholarly article on werewolves and space exploration.

scientificamerican.com/article…

What Happens to a Werewolf on the Moon?

As space agencies turn their gaze to the moon, we need to consider what werewolves might mean for lunar exploration—and vice versa
Scientific American

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Some of you may remember that last year I have been #handsewing a shirt in red wool, but by the time I've mostly¹ finished it it was already too warm to be able to wear it significantly.

At least, the Sensible Season seems to have started, and I can wear it!

There will be a blog post. At some unknown time in the future.

a woman walking away from the camera wearing a black long skirt, grey braces, and a red shirt with wide sleeves and a lot of fabric gathered in the middle part of the fitted yoke. The collar is just a collar band, and there is a button in the nape of the neck for a detached collar that is not being worn.

The same, standing still, from the front; there is little fullness above the waistline (where it's tucked in the skirt), and it opens with a button placket in the front with 3 visible buttons.

¹ it does need a few detachable collar and cuffs variants, to style it a bit differently, but those don't prevent me from wearing the shirt as is.

#historyBounding #FreeSoftWear

#historyBounding #handsewing #FreeSoftWear

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#CatsOfMastodon #EveryDayIsCaturday #CorvidsOfMastodon #Odin #Freya #NorseMythology
#CatsOfMastodon #norsemythology #odin #everydayiscaturday #corvidsofmastodon #freya

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Not really a hot-take but: open source projects moving public discussions from project run mailing lists or chats to commercial (albeit "free") platforms is inevitably and eventually going to backfire and we'll all lose important knowledge and content either completely or behind login-, ad-, or paywalls.

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Mathematician & inventor Charles Babbage died #OTD in 1871.

Babbage is considered by some to be "father of the computer". He is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, that eventually led to more complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers are to be found in Babbage's Analytical Engine, programmed using a principle openly borrowed from the Jacquard loom.

Books by Babbage at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/55…

#books #mathematics

Books by Babbage, Charles (sorted by popularity)

Project Gutenberg offers 71,820 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.
Project Gutenberg
#mathematics #books #otd

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During a nine-month period in 1842–43, Ada Lovelace translated the Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea's article on Babbage's newest proposed machine, the Analytical Engine. With the article, she appended a set of notes.

She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation. via @wikipedia

fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.ht…

#books #mathematics

Sketch of The Analytical Engine

www.fourmilab.ch
#mathematics #books @Wikipedia
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

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Il termine corretto è "crocini di registro" per quelli che servono per centrare i colori (nell'immagine di esempio NON sono centrati!) e "crocini di taglio" per quelli per tagliare.

it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocino

Crocino - Wikipedia

Contributori ai progetti Wikimedia (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
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I've introduced a lot of people to xournalpp (and xournal). I couldn't do my job (current or previous) without it -- best thing I've found for writing/typing on top of PDFs and inserting signature images. If you don't know it, check it out! xournalpp.github.io/

Xournal++ - Xournal++

xournalpp.github.io

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Tube🌿Time

there are three lessons here:
1. internet search has been made nearly completely useless by SEO spam and autogenerated websites.
2. never trust proprietary software. use open source software or software that generates human readable files.
3. maybe print out your important documents

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In honour of a friend's device that has just crapped it's self.

Back up your stuff. Do it now. It doesn't have to be fancy, a zip file copied to a free Google drive with your most important documents and pictures will do, or multiple Google drives if you've got too much stuff.

Plug your phone into your computer and copy everything over. At least it's in more than one place.

Something, some way of recovering the stuff just in case. Something, anything is better than nothing here.

You don't need to have full 3 tier grandfathered backups to bother starting. A usb stick in the bottom of a draw full of your pictures is better than it being blank.

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Waking up thought of this morning¹:

“Higher than the sun” describe the earth every year for a time centered on December-ish when the sun is in Sagittarius² and thus between us and the center of the galaxy, right?

¹ actually, it was still the middle of the night, I woke up briefly and went back to sleep
² wait, while writing this I've just been reminded of the precession of the equinoxes, so it's actually centered in january-ish

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Pensiero al risveglio di stamattina¹:

“più in alto del sole” descrive la terra ogni anno per un periodo di tempo centrato più o meno su dicembre quando il sole è in sagittario² e quindi tra di noi e il centro della galassia, giusto?

¹ in realtà di quando mi sono svegliata brevemente che era ancora notte fonda, per poi tornare a dormire
² no, mentre scrivevo mi son ricordata della precessione degli equinozi, quindi centrato da qualche parte attorno a gennaio o giù di lì

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opinione estremamente impopolare, CW, gatti

poiché ultimamente ho visto varie discussioni su uso e non uso del CW, vorrei dire anche la mia: mettete un CW a tutte le foto di gatti!

non è che la mia allergia si scateni anche con le immagini (fortunatamente, se no internet sarebbe off limits 😅) è che ogni volta che mostrate un gatto che fa la sua bella vita io provo invidia, una fortissima invidia, uno struggimento doloroso... sto male! perché quella è la vita che dovremmo fare tuttə e non solo i privilegiati felini, mannaggia...

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Carissim*, ovviamente i fatti di cronaca recente ci stanno pesantemente impattando, e tutt* abbiamo la propria opinione e vogliamo esprimerla.
È normale e non è ovviamente un problema.

Però per favore, ricordate che esiste la funzione CW (Content Warning), e che nel dubbio è sempre meglio usarla.

Non è censura: è una forma di cortesia verso chi non vuole leggere anche qua cose relative a determinati argomenti.

Grazie.

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Fervono i preparativi...

[Domenica, 8 ottobre, in occasione della Domenica di Carta promossa dal Ministero della Cultura, l'Archivio di Stato di Como inaugurerà una mostra su Fernanda Wittgens, prima direttrice donna della Pinacoteca di Brera e attiva antifascista, che non esitò a mettere a repentaglio la propria vita per porre in salvo molte persone di religione ebraica, venendo per questo anche incarcerata a Como]

#ASpassoNellaStoria #storia #donnetoste #FernandaWittgens #asco

#Storia #aspassonellastoria #donnetoste #fernandawittgens #asco

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Periodic reminder that "don't speak ill of the dead" is for, like, not mentioning at her funeral that Aunt Sally was a drunk and a lousy cook. It's not for suppressing public discussion of public figures and their complicated legacies.

Or, put another way, the obligation to "speak truth to power" is way more important than the obligation "not to speak ill of the dead". One is about justice and the other is about politeness. To be frank, FUCK politeness.

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/me, playing a game of 0ad and looking at the random factions: “oh, it's civil war between Syrians, and my Syrian allies have asked the help of the Roman empire against the yellow Syrians”

@Diego Roversi “fools”

/me, looking and how my ally still has more or less their initial corner of the map, while my territory has been enlarged significantly “you're not wrong”

@Diego Roversi
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Messaggio di utilità sociale. Contiene marchi e prodotti.
Messaggio di utilità sociale.
Carə maestrə delle #scuole materne e asili, fatevelo dire da uno che conosce i prodotti scolastici.
Lasciate perdere i prodotto Giotto, costano un botto e qualitativamente non sono niente di che.
Molto meglio i prodotti Faber Castell o Staedtler, ma ci sono anche tante altre marche poco conosciute che costano meno e sono migliori.
Eventualmente ci sono i prodotti Fila (che è comunque Giotto) a più o meno pari qualità e costo più basso.
Ma soprattutto, e questo è molto importante: a meno di esigenze super specifiche, NON DOVRESTE indicare i marchi da acquistare ai genitori, ma solo la tipologia di prodotto, altrimenti li obbligate a sostenere spese che potrebbero essere proibitive per qualcunə.
Grazie.
#scuole

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Vespa cartolaia

Messaggio di utilità sociale. Contiene marchi e prodotti.
@twisterrm aggiungo una postilla che potrebbe essere un mini rant.
Ma a livello asilo/materna, cosa cazzo parliamo di qualità a fare?
A meno che non siano tutti figli di Picasso direi che l'unica cosa che conta è che siano colori atossici e lavabili (cosa obbligatoria per legge tra l'altro). Fine!
Tanto a livello di resistenza siamo più o meno allo stesso livello e comunque nessun pastello o pennarello resiste più di tanto in mano a un bimbo di 3/5 anni, mettetevi il cuore in pace.
@Multiforme Ingegno

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This week I haven't complained about #handsewing with plastic thread yet, right?

well, now I'm complaining about handsewing plastic fabric with plastic thread when there is even a layer of mylar safety blanket under the fabric.

but binding the edges with a machine seam and then handsewing it on the back is so much neater than trying to stitch in the ditch by machine!

#sewing

#sewing #handsewing

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