TFW you announce “and now I'm driving on a straight and wide road” and 10 seconds later you turn an almost-blind curve and see two big buses overtaking a bike and end up brushing the bushes at the edge of the road with the left rear view mirror to avoid hitting the second bus with the right mirror.
(No significant damage was done to the mirror nor to the bush, it was just a light touch, like a cat using her whiskers to check that she could pass in a narrow opening :D )
A proposito di lingua che evolve:
“Fin verso la metà del volgente secolo oltre due terzi delle tenute boscate erano di proprietà dei comuni i quali in seguito ne cedettero, in gran parte, il possesso ai comunisti”
Pietro Conti — Memorie Storiche della Vall'Intelvi, 1896
E avendo letto questo sono andata a vedere treccani.it/vocabolario/comuni… e ho scoperto che il significato di uso comune oggi non è una parola italiana, ma che è un adattamento di una parola francese.
(Ovviamente lì sopra lo usano nel significato treccani.it/vocabolario/comuni… , pagina che purtroppo non aiuta a capire se siano tutti gli abitanti del comune, o solo un loro sottoinsieme privilegiato, tipo il patriziato svizzero)
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“Quasi a contrasto dell'allegro e spaziante suolo intelvese, da Lanzo discendi nell'orrida *Valmara*. Da quel fondo tetro e lugubre lo spirito rifugge, oppresso e sgomento; lo sguardo incarcerato appena scorge una striscia sottile di cielo, che si allarga alle estremità, frastagliata tra le cornose vette dei due nuclei montuosi, che quasi si accavallano, si confondono e l'eco in quell'angusto tragitto, più che mai sonoro, dal basso all'alto ripercuote tra il fragore dell'acque cascanti, il fischio del pastore, che richiama alla stalla le capre pascentesi tra le erbose sinuosità di quelle eterne rupi. Tuttavia il pensiero anche da quell'orrido aspetto in quell'imo profondo riscontra eloquente il bello, il sublime della natura ed il sentimentalismo , anche il meno fervido, trova ad esuberanza materia, princip ̛i. concetti, idee con cui filosofare, fantasticare, vagare, approfondirsi, innalzarsi, inebriarsi.”
Pietro Conti — Memorie Storiche della Vall'Intelvi
@LaVi 🕊️📚🐈 è la strada *divertente¹* che citavo oggi pomeriggio, descritta dal libro che accidentalmente mi è capitato di comprare in fiera :D
¹ per qualche valore di divertente che poche persone condividono :D
@Ferdinando Simonetti @LaVi 🕊️📚🐈 pendenza del 18%, circa 20 m tra un tornante e l'altro
le velocità che consumano i battistrada cerco di evitarle, che non si arriva al fondo vivi, tutto il resto lo posso confermare :D
TFW you go looking for an old linocut plate to make a test print, and it's. the. first. one. you. check.
win!
anyway, doing a couple of prints with acrylic paint and a spray bottle of water instead of proper linocut ink works, cleaning up is a bit of a pain. I would never do tens of prints with it (but then I'm not doing them anyway).
Retarder medium would probably help, but I don't have it. But maybe for those few times when I want to use metallic or other special effect paint it's more sensible to buy that, and use the acrylics I already have, rather than buying more types of linocut ink.
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Allora, dopo aver visto che le previsioni cominciano ad essere incoraggianti diamo l'annuncio ufficiale per il #MastoIncontri a tema #abbigliamentoEccentrico e #trenò!
Ritrovo giovedì 31 agosto a #Saronno al binario opportuno per prendere il treno delle 14:03 per #Como, all'altezza della carrozza di testa: anche se pochi dovremmo essere vistosi :D (ma contattatemi pure in privato se pensate di partecipare).
L'abbigliamento eccentrico non è obbligatorio, ma consigliato :)
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Il cavallo è quasi arrivato in stazione, ma il treno #trenord con cui voleva fuggire era in ritardo e sono riusciti a catturarlo
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Inconsueto problema durante la riunione alle Bettole: il purosangue ha disarcionato il fantino ed è fuggito fino quasi alla stazione Nord. Recuperato, sta beneDamiano Franzetti (Vareseweb Srl)
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Here is a hopefully-useful notice about Linux kernel security issues, as it seems like this knowledge isn't distributed very widely based on the number of emails I get on a weekly basis:
- The kernel security team does not have any "early notice"
announcement list for security fixes for anyone, as that would only
make things more insecure for everyone.
- The kernel community does not assign CVEs, nor do we deal with them
at all. This is documented in the kernel's security policy, yet we
still have a number of people asking for CVE numbers even after
reading that policy. See my longer "CVEs are dead..." talk for full
details about how the CVE process is broken for projects like Linux:
kernel-recipes.org/en/2019/tal…
- You HAVE to take all of the stable/LTS releases in order to have a
secure and stable system. If you attempt to cherry-pick random
patches you will NOT fix all of the known, and unknown, problems,
but rather you will end up with a potentially more insecure system,
and one that contains known bugs. Reliance on an "enterprise"
distribution to provide this for your systems is up to you, discuss
it with them as to how they achieve this result as this is what you
are paying for. If you aren't paying for it, just use Debian, they
know what they are doing and track the stable kernels and have a
larger installed base than any other Linux distro. For embedded,
use Yocto, they track the stable releases, or keep your own
buildroot-based system up to date with the new releases.
- Test all stable/LTS releases on your workload and hardware before
putting the kernel into "production" as everyone runs a different %
of the kernel source code from everyone else (servers run about
1.5mil lines of code, embedded runs about 3.5mil lines of code, your
mileage will vary). If you can't test releases before moving them
into production, you might want to solve that problem first.
- A fix for a known bug is better than the potential of a fix causing a
future problem as future problems, when found, will be fixed then.
I think I need to give another talk about this issue to go into the above in more detail. So much for me giving a technical talk at Kernel Recipes this year...
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Weird question, but does anyone know of a place to buy small vases or pots in the style of ones found in ancient Greece, which are suitable for painting?
...yes I want to make my students paint tiny mythological scenes, why do you ask.
(This is one of my rare cross-posts between different social media.)
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Filed under: #misleadingProductLabels
“source of calcium and magnesium”, they say
then the nutritional label claims 14% and 10% of the recommended daily dose respectively per 100 ml.
Except that 100 ml also have 65 g of sugar. it's a syrup that you mix with water to make a soft drink, and the serving is maybe 5 ml, possibly even less.
Pictures from a random source on the internet.
drogheriaolimpia.com/20861-lar…
drogheriaolimpia.com/20862-lar…
(which show that the product is “Sciroppo all'estratto di Tamarindo Carlo Erba”)
Un anno che ebbi una sovrapproduzione di mandarini feci i ghiaccioli di succo di mandarino… ottimi in estate nel vino bianco 😋
Comunque, se il vento non se la porta via, comunico che in Piazza Cavour c'è l'annuale Fiera del Libro, ottima occasione per scovare pubblicazioni di piccole case editrici locali.
#libri #mastolibri #mastolibro #LibriEDintorni @libri @bibliofiliincurabili
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Il M° Alfio Di Bella impegnato in uno dei tanti momenti di didattica in cui indica ai propri allievi l'importanza del movimento dei passi, nell'arte del bast...YouTube
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TFW I sort of want to paint some salt-dough pieces I've made, but I've also just put some bread in the oven, and it will require my attention and clean hands in 10 minutes and then again in 10 more minutes, and then again 20 minutes later.
yesterday I may also have accidentally bought another spray paint can.
Today there is a forecast for rain, so I announced that I wouldn't have used it until later in the week.
So obviously right now I'm applying masking tape to an eurobox.
I cannot overstate enough the prime rule of #sewing: if your machine starts to make a Bad Noise, stop IMMEDIATELY.
Nothing good ever happens from continuing and hoping it sorts itself out.
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btw, the first part of the assembly will be fiber-patterns.trueelena.org/f…
the second part is the experimental bit and involves the rubber thing
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I really respect the love people on here have for their cats, but I personally do not love cats and I have realized that if I filter the word cat, my feed has far fewer cats, and so I see more posts that interest me.
pls take this as nothing other than permission to filter words out of your feeds that could hurt the feelings of others if they knew about it. the feed should feed *you*
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TIL: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_216#…
and this. this. this is The Right Thing, can we have it for other things, PLEASE?
(say, knitting needles?)
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Am I the first one to point out that the story is fake?
I'm no cat psychologist, but I have never seen them do any kind of complex reasoning like that.
Please do not neglect the original purpose of the Fediverse. Indeed, of the whole Internet.
#cats
Share them and share often.
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anyway i looked up the post about seeing your grandma's boobs and tumblr has deleted the screenshot of the story where the finnish dude says that americans are "like that" because they haven't seen...mad-dame-zou (Tumblr)
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Ao3 is actually massively culturally important and very very good at being what it is. I’m so serious when I say that ao3 needs to be protected as the anti censorship, by fans for fans, nonprofit,...mad-dame-zou (Tumblr)
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If you live in a city with tall buildings, take a look at the night skyline. The buildings probably have flashing lights on them to help aircraft pilots to identify the shapes of buildings and not fly into them.
You might notice that the buildings flash in synchrony, even though they are hundreds of metres apart. What's going on?
(continued)
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No, I haven't been putting an ice block in the bed these nights, why would I do such a silly thing?
(Yes, I have)
No, non sto mettendo un ghiaccino nel letto in queste notti, perché mai dovrei fare qualcosa del genere?
(sì, lo sto facendo)
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Periodic reminder that if you're working with woven, non-elastic fabric, there aren't many reasons¹ not to use cotton thread to sew it: it will work, it won't break and it won't rot² unless it's really bad quality thread. The time between everybody using linen thread (for linen and cotton) and when plastic thread was available wasn't that long, compared to the history of clothing, but it was still many decades, and at a time when clothing was still an expensive thing that needed to last.
¹ and other than variations “I have a TON of plastic thread and don't want to buy more” I can't think any that doesn't involve another natural fiber such as linen or silk thread.
² in your wardrobe, things may be different if you bury it in soil :)
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@kamikat uops, right, I had forgotten about the existence of sergers :D (they had not been invented yet at the time of most of the techniques I use :D )
When I had a serger I used both the light weight and regular cotton, but I never had a great experience with sergers, so I think it's better to hear from somebody who has.
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Went to the kitchen, found my SO's milk on the stove, but the stove was still turned off.
Asked, turned the stove on.
Put water in the kettle for my #tea.
Put frozen bread in the sandwich maker to defrost it, turned the sandwich maker on.
Left the kitchen.
Can you spot the missing steps?
It is nice wearing a garment that you made from fabric bought when visiting a friend.
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È bello indossare un vestito che hai fatto con stoffa comprata andando a trovare un'amica.
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This whole thread!! "Assuming all religions are bad because yours was is actually still perpetuating Christian hegemony" - yes! exactly!
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There are lots of books about schools for magical kids: Hogwarts, Camp Half-Blood, Unseen University, Strange Academy, and on and on.
But what about a retirement home for magical grownups? Imagine reaching a ripe old age, children and grandchildren grown and gone, and one day you find a gold-embossed letter in your mailbox:
"Greetings!
You have been selected for residence at the Moonfrost Home for Exceptional Elders."
Somebody write a novel about a magical retirement home. I want to read it.
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you know what else is magic?
Getting in your climate controlled coach, driving to somewhere 40 miles away and arriving about a half hour later, and all the while you listened to a symphony played by a 100 piece orchestra.
I admit it's not as magical as being moved by words written someone 1000s of miles away or centuries in the past, but it is pretty damn good nonetheless.
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BEFORE you share that angry, hateful toot, just STOP for a moment to think about WHY you are sharing it.
Are you trying to make people as angry as you are? WHY? How will that make the world a BETTER place? What will it achieve?
Are you trying to sway people’s views? What makes you think that we are incapable of our own thoughts and opinions or that yours are better than ours?
Did you ever think that some of us don’t come here for angry, hateful crap?
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Questa cosa era in un paio di jeans da uomo (non comprati da me :D )
è un segno che la profondità delle #tasche è un surrogato della lunghezza del pene, vero?
non ho (ancora) controllato se i cm del righello sono corretti, o se son stati accorciati un pochettino
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This video has an interesting technique to make an historically inspired skirt with an extension so that it can be worn at almost floor length or at a more modern length.
youtube.com/watch?v=bQhbFSh5v2…
She used button loop trim, but it reminded me a bit of the way period manuals suggested to use lace and a ribbon to join together the top and skirt / legs parts of underwear, to avoid having multiple waistbands.
(the actual method is at 11:37, if you don't care about the whole skirt story)
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looking at the sky this evening we saw a line made of small dots, moving at some speed; we assumed it was skylink-related.
a short conversation that involved big penis surrogates resulted in the name “space bukkake”
I'm not going to call them in any other way, from now on.
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guardando il cielo stasera abbiamo visto una riga composta da piccoli punti che si muoveva a velocità discreta; abbiamo supposto che fosse qualcosa che aveva a che fare con skylink.
c'è stata una breve conversazione a proposito di grossi surrogati del pene, e ne è uscito il nome “space bukkake”.
D'ora in poi, quello è il loro nome.
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The hooks and eyes on the linen jacket I did last year aren't working. I think I know why, and the next time I'll do something similar I'll add some boning where the hooks and eyes are supposed to be, but doing it on this jacket would be too much pain.
So, buttons and buttonholes it is.
And in the last couple weeks I've made 32 fabric covered buttons (with a metal washer, not with a kit), marked with thread the position of 31 buttonholes, made 16 buttonholes (15 remaining, plus attaching all of the buttons).
And the time of the year when a linen jacket is useful is approaching fast (or at least, I hope it is. #teamWinter).
Will I finish the jacket before the weather cools down a bit? Will we have a week of cool weather while the jacket is still not done, followed by a month-long return of summer?
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update: only four buttonholes remaining!
And I've even taken a picture, but it's still in the camera.
Most buttons haven't been attached, however, but I guess there will be more time for those after I've finished the buttonholes.
Or maybe I could stop working on it, and hope that the weather will cool down out of spite.
aggiornamento: mancano solo quattro occhielli!
E ho persino scattato una foto, ma è ancora nella macchina fotografica.
La maggior parte dei bottoni è ancora da attaccare, ma immagino che avrò più tempo per farlo una volta finiti gli occhielli.
O magari potrei smettere di lavorarci, e sperare che il meteo rinfreschi per cattiveria.
La foto
E quello spazio vicino alla tasca? è più grande degli altri, ma troppo piccolo perché ci stia un'altro occhiello, e non ho segnato un'occhiello lì in mezzo.
E quindi ci sono 30 occhielli, non 31.
E chissene. Funziona ugualmente. E di sicuro non sentirò la mancanza di un bottone da allacciare tutte le volte che indosso la giacca.
Comunque, al momento tutti gli occhielli sono fatti, mancano da attaccare buona parte dei bottoni.
The picture
And you see that space close to the pocket? it's a bit bigger than the regular spacing, but smaller than a space that would fit another buttonhole, and I didn't actually mark a buttonhole in it.
And now the front only has 30 buttons, not 31.
Whatever. It will work anyway. And it's not like I'm going to miss closing another button when I wear this jacket :D
Anyway, all of the buttonholes are done, now I have to attach the buttons.
@LaVi 🕊️📚🐈 @Fabio @Diego Roversi
ma se l'ultima settimana di agosto ci facessimo un #fedincontro a tema TreNord e abbigliamento buffo (quest'ultimo solo per chi vuole)?
tipo un giro a Como, o magari addiritura un giro sulla Como - Lecco (non per andare a Lecco, per andare sulla Como - Lecco, che credo che ora che si arriva a destinazione con quel treno sia già ora di tornare indietro :D )
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uops, e i comaschi in settimana praticamente non ci sono mai, soprattutto così vicino alle ferie.
Allora propongo piano B: un giorno tra il 28 e il 31 agosto io e @Diego Roversi possiamo trovarci con @LaVi 🕊️📚🐈 , e il sabato facciamo con @Fabio e i comaschi.
Per il giorno infrasettimanale, per noi è abbastanza uguale, hai preferenze?
Ovviamente se qualcun'altro che non ho citato vuole unirsi ai #fedIncontro faccia un cenno :)
wooops, yesterday I forgot to celebrate
social.gl-como.it/display/086e…
I've had this #fediverse account for 10 years! :D
vim hello.txt
Hello Worl⎋bdwaFriendica!⎋:wq
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Ieri ho parlato di eco ansia con una coppia di amici che a breve saranno genitori. Ovviamente hanno deriso la ragazza che piangendo ha detto di non voler figli, aggiungendo che l'eco ansia sarebbe solo l'ennesima malattia fittizia inventata dalla gen z per attirare l'attenzione.
Probabilmente sono io che non ho figli e non posso capire, ma mi sale veramente il veleno se penso che questi stanno per mettere al mondo una persona che vedrà il peggio della catastrofe climatica senza nemmeno porsi il problema di cosa stia succedendo oggi.
Inutile aggiungere che la società chiama loro maturi e responsabili perché hanno figli a scatola chiusa e me bamboccio perché non ne voglio e mi faccio domande...
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I've had a chance to see the first episode of the Wheel of Time, and I have many questions about their choices, but the biggest one is this.
Did they even bother reading even to the end of the first book (if I remember it correctly, or maybe it's the beginning of the second) before doing the casting?
Or are they going to skip a major episode, drastically change the character and the series should basically be considered a completely different thing from the books? (this would be the least bad option, I guess. The books *do* have a number of problems.)
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •TFW annunci “e adesso sto guidando su una strada larga e dritta” e 10 secondi dopo esci da una curva quasi cieca e vedi due pulman che stanno sorpassando una bicicletta e finisci a sfiorare la siepe a bordo strada con lo specchietto di sinistra per evitare di toccare il secondo pulman con lo specchietto di estra.
(Nessuno si è fatto male, né lo specchietto né il cespuglio, è stata una cosa tipo gatto che usa le vibrisse per controllare se ci passa da un pertugio :D )
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Unknown parent • •@David de Groot it wasn't that bad: when I got out of the curve there was plenty of space for the first bus to finish overtaking, and thus plenty of space for me to react to the second bus who did the same when there *wasn't* plenty of space (because of course it would do that, they were probably traveling together, and my expectations were safely low :D ).
It was just proof that, while definitely *wider* and *straighter* than the road I had been driving just before, well, calling it *wide* and *straight* was still a bit of a stretch :D