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I knew that my mother wasn't home, but I needed two carrots from her fridge.
So, as a #python programmer, I did the only reasonable thing: went there, got the carrots, and afterwards told her on xmpp.
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In the last few days I've finished the boning channels on the *first* panel of my #AugustaStays and started those on the second one.
And then I've started making fabric covered buttonsĀ¹ and then buttonholes (handsewn, obviously) for the linen jacket I finished last summer, so that I will be able to wear it this autumn.
I will never finish the stays, right?
Ā¹ the kind sewn around a washer, not the ones done with a kit
I'm not angry about this, contrary to what it may sound like: I'm amused. Perhaps I'm easily amused.
Thing is, it's a pretty normal thing - and it's happening a bit more now given recent topic of discussion here - for me to wind up having conversations with people about the value of anonymity or pseudonymity, in which people volunteer the opinion directly to me, usually in agreement with me, that anonymous commenters are not all bad, or that there's some value to allowing anonymous online comments because of some example... out there (*waves hands airily*) somewhere.
To *me*. They say this directly *to me*. While I am standing directly in front of them, as it were, virtually, *using a pseudonym*.
You know the ID in my wallet does not actually say "Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis", right? My professional license does not say "Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis, LMHC". That is not what I put at the top of my IRS 1040. It's not what my patients call me.
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Posted on July 26, 2023
Since some time Iāve been thinking about making myself a top or a dress with a wide gathered neckline that can be work at different widths, including off-the-shoulders.
A few years ago Iāve been gifted a cut of nice, thin white fabric with a print of lines and lozenges that isnāt uniform along the fabric, but looks like it was designed for some specific garment, and it was waiting in my stash for a suitable pattern.
And a few days ago, during a Sunday lunch, there was an off-hand mention of a dress from the late 1970s which had an elastic in the neckline, so that it could be optionally worn off-the-shoulders.
And something snapped in place.
I had plans for that afternoon, but they were scrapped, and I started to draw, measure, cut rectangles of fabric, pin and measure again, cut more fabric.
two rectangular tubes for the sleeves laid so that they meet the body just at the corners, and a triangle (a square gusset folded on the diagonal) joins them to the body.
I decided on a pattern made of rectangles to be able to use as much fabric as possible, with the size of each rectangle based mostly on the various sections on the print of the fabric.
Iāve made the typical sleeves from a rectangle and a square gusset, and then attached them to the body just from the gusset to keep the neckline wide and low.
The part of the fabric with large vertical stripes had two different widths: I could have made the back narrower, but I decided to just keep a strip with narrower lines to one side.
The fabric also didnāt have a full second strip of lozenges, so I had to hem it halfway through it.
The casing for the elastic was pieced from various scraps, but at least I was able to match the lines on the center front and back, even if they are different. Not that it matters a lot, since itās all hidden in the gathering, but I would have known.
And since I was working on something definitely modern, even if made out of squares and rectangles, of course I decided to hand-sew everything, mostly to be able to use quite small sewing allowances, since the fabric was pretty thin.
In my stash I had a piece of swimsuit elastic that feels nice, looks nice and makes a knot that doesnāt slip, so I used it. Itās a perfect match, except for the neon yellow colour, which I do like, but maybe is a bit too high visibility? I will see if the haberdasher has the same elastic in dark blue, but right now this will do.
It was a quick project anyway: by the end of the working week the top was finished; I think that on a sewing machine it would be easy to make it in a day.
And it can be worn off the shoulders! Which is something I will probably never do in public (and definitely not outdoors), but now if I wanted I could! :D
As usual, the pattern (for what pattern there is) and instructions are on my pattern website under a #FreeSoftWear license, and Iāve also added to the site a tip on how I use electrician fish tape to thread things through long casings
Filed under #thingsIProbablyShouldNotDo
Yanking the power cable out of the #soldering iron, because they ringed the doorbell, I'm waiting for a delivery, I don't trust the stability of the iron stand, and I can never remember whether I should use a short or a long press on the button to turn it off.
(it was a long press, the short press lowers the temperature)
Confy 0.7.0 has been released
This is the first release with a brand new UI written in Gtk4/libadwaita, using Blueprint for UI definition!
User interaction has been revisited, while being mostly similar to the previous version: gone is the tab switcher in headbar, now starred talks can be found in navbar. Gone is also the map view (for now, at least).
Adding new conferences from URL is now done via a nice dialog, and editing of user-added conferences is done directly in the conference list view. Which is now a window by it's own, used as an "open" dialog.
There are some new shortcuts, like the "<primay>-c" shortcuts to copy the current talk details as plain text in clipboard.
The talk search can now be filtered to match only starred talks and there are two search "mode": the global search, activated by the button over in the navigation header and by the '<primary>-f' shortcut, and the "current list" search, which search in current talk list for
day/room/track.
I'm sure I'm missing something and I'm sure I've missed more than something testing this, so please open tickets on the tracker (tickets can be opened also via email just sending a text/plain mail to ~fabrixxm/confy@todo.sr.ht or
u.fabrixxm.confy@todo.sr.ht)
There is also a fix from ~edwardbetts for events that are after UTC midnight. Thanks!
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I don't remember where I've found this, but to thread an elastic or ribbon through a long casing (1 ā 2 m), a (clean) electrician fish tape is much easier and quick than the old method with a bodkin or safety pin.
There are pictures at the link (no alt text, sorry, but the text around them describe what is happening in them)
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Non ricordo dove ho trovato il suggerimento, ma per infilare dell'elastico in una coulisse lunga (1 ā 2 metri) ĆØ molto piĆ¹ comodo e veloce usare un tiracavi da elettricista (pulito) piuttosto che l'ago apposta o la classica spilla da balia.
Nel link ci sono foto (senza alt-text, sorry, ma il testo attorno (in inglese) descrive cosa sto facendo nelle foto)
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>> X is the future state of unlimited interactivity ā centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking ā creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways weāre just beginning to imagine.
> Facebook/Meta owns the trademark for "X" for use in social networking.> Microsoft owns the trademark for "X" for use in finance/e-commerce. šæ
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@clacke I'm guessing there are multiple registrations. But if he's willing to pay up, I'm sure they won't contest his usage.
I'm sure he's thinking his old pre-PayPal x.com banking trademarks will be enough, but that's likely considered "abandoned" by now.
Ma voi dite che ĆØ un cattivo giorno per essere qui felice a leggere i messaggini che mi arrivano dal negozietto di #stilografiche sotto casa altrui in cui mi dicono che hanno impacchettato e spedito l'ordine che ho fatto ieri sera?
(tecnicamente non contiene stilografiche per me (ce ne sono un paio per mia madre), ma inchiostri, inchiostri, tanti colori di inchiostri!)
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"Paper has six sides and we only use two of them for writing. The other four are for bloodshed."
Support trans liberation now!
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TIL there was no single burning of the historic Great Library of Alexandria. The āsingle burningā story is just myth.
Instead, the Library of Alexandria was slowly defunded and its librarians, intellectuals purged from Alexandria. Over generations its prominence and scholarship slowly faded away, and the collection was likely slowly lost to corruption, war, plunder, dilapidation, or dispersed across other private and public collections.
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Labels are beacons, not fences.
Itās not whether youāre in or out, theyāre just milestones by which you set your tent.
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Literal sword lesbians.
(Sword given to MarƩchal Joseph Joffre, former commander-in-chief of the French military, in 1919; representing friendship between Provence and Catalonia. From le musƩe de l'ArmƩe in Paris.)
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I bet my girlfriend that this picture of our cats could get 10 billion boosts on Mastodon.
She said she doesn't believe me. She said there's only 13 million accounts on Mastodon. She said there aren't even 10 billion people on Earth. She said it concerns her that I struggle so hard to comprehend large numbers.
Let's prove her wrong everyone. Boost away and show her just how awesome the Mastodon community is.
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@Low Quality Facts well, posts can be boosted multiple times, you only need every mastodon account to boost this once per day for about 3 years and it's done!
(disclaimer: I haven't had my breakfast yet, my calculation could be wrong)
(short scale, right?)
Until the day he died, Jason enjoyed driving a cab. Now he waited at the graveyard. Presently a black carriage arrived, pulled by a terrible steed. The driver regarded him with empty sockets.
"You're death," Jason said.
"No, just the one who guides you to what lies beyond."
"A cabbie for the dead?"
"A psychopomp," the driver replied. "There are a lot of us. Even Death cannot tend to everyone."
Jason considered this.
"Are they hiring?"
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Over the last 15+ years, innovative electronics companies have designed and released thousands of open-source hardware designs, creating a flourishing industry. Open-source hardware companies colleā¦Adafruit Industries - Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
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Today I've had an idea for a simple top, low waste, with an elastic drawstring neck that can be adjusted at different widths, including off-the-shoulders.
I've almost finished cutting a piece of fabric that I've had in my stash for a while, waiting for a suitable project (it has a non-uniform print that made it hard to decide a good pattern to make use of it).
It's most definitely a modern project.
So now the obvious thing to do is to sew everything by hand, right?
(I'm not sure whether this is to procrastinate cleaning the table with the sewing machine, or to be able to use tiny sewing allowances, since the fabric is very lightweight.)
āāMastodonā is a competitor toāā
Why do journalists always say this? This is some capitalist-brained mindset.
The only thing the Fediverse competes with is your sleep schedule.
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Oggi ĆØ il Prime Day, il giorno in cui Amazon cerca di convincerci con sconti piĆ¹ o meno fasulli a comprare cose che non ci servono.
Penso che sia un'ottima occasione per fermarsi a riflettere.
Non puĆ² esserci ambientalismo senza riduzione dei consumi. Le cagate che compriamo attraversano il mondo sulle navi e sono spesso frutto di lavoratorĒ sfruttatĒ.
Astenerci dal consumo inutile ĆØ un atto di resistenza.
Disinnescare i finti desideri impressi dal capitalismo ĆØ un atto di rinascita.
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Problem: I only have one set and a half of vintage linen bedsheet.
Fact: I have about 7 m of vintage bedsheet-linen (~100 cm wide)
Obvious consequence: I now have to sew almost 3 m of a seam that should be extremely flat, plus two hems, on a deadline of ānext sheet changeā, during a heatwave.
@LaVi šļøšš @Elikorokoros in realtĆ la foto (e la spiegazzatura) aiuta a nascondere un po', ma sƬ, posso essere soddisfatta del risultato.
grazie!
Consigli su Como ne abbiamo?
Continuo la traversata intorno alle Alpi (lavoro) e domani arriviamo lƬ, se avete idee per un posto dove mangiare o bere, consigli sono ben accetti!
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I love it when I wake up with a pretty low blood pressure, it's already starting to get hot, I haveĀ¹ to walk to the pharmacy, stuff happens and I don't manage to have breakfast before doing so.
at least it's a short walk, and there is also a convenient post box very close, so I also sent a postcard :)
Ā¹ technically I could have asked my SO to go, instead we went together, but that meant that we had to go earlier
Adoro alzarmi con la pressione bassa, sta giĆ iniziando a fare caldo, devoĀ¹ andare in farmacia, succedono casini e non riesco neanche a fare colazione prima di andarci.
di buono c'ĆØ che ĆØ qui vicino, e c'ĆØ anche una comoda cassetta della posta quasi sul percorso, quindi ho anche spedito una cartolina :)
Ā¹ tecnicamente avrei potuto chiedere al mio compagno di andarci, invece siamo andati assieme, ma la cosa dava piĆ¹ vincoli di tempo
Someone asked me if they could commission a sweater from me. And, honestly, I was flattered. But then I explained that:
1. It takes me approximately 50 or more hours across a month to knit,
2. The materials alone cost $60-$80, and
3. I knit because I find it meditative and relaxing, which would not be the case if it was paid work.
And even if I wanted to turn knitting into a paid gig, and even if I valued my labor at a really low price (say $5/hour), a simple sweater would cost over $350.
Handmade work is expensive. And so many people don't know what it takes to create something. Materials plus labor doesn't even capture the years of practice it takes to develop the skill to make the thing in the first place.
So when you do find folks taking commissions for hand crafted items, understand what it is you are paying for.
(Brought to you by someone who definitely does not take fiber arts commissions, but who just might make you something as a gift.)
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On the other hand, the calculation looks very different with my pottery. I can throw a dozen pots in any given session at the wheel. Now there's drying time, trimming, glazing 2 trips through kilns, but a lot of that time is unattended time.
I estimated once that it takes me on average about an hour of hands on work per piece.
Most of my pieces sell for under $50. My average price per piece is about $30. This pays for my materials, my equipment, electricity, and time.
I'm not a production potter and only make a small amount of work a year. I sell enough to make my hobby pay for itself with enough left over to continue to outfit my studio.
I'm interested in other creative folks' processes. Any #weavers #painters #metalsmithing #quilting (etc) folk who want to chime in?
I guess my takeaways include:
1. Not every creative outlet needs to be/should be monitized, and
2. Creative people who do choose to sell work should be paid for their time and expertise, and
3. Buying hand crafted work from the artist supports a person rather than some distant shareholders who more often than not, exploit those who make what stores sell.
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Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed Ʃcrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingƩnieur, Ʃcrivain de science-fiction, dƩveloppeur de logiciels libres.ploum.net
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Reitero l'appello.
Ci sono 3 cabinati da videopoker IN REGALO a chi viene a prenderseli a Imperia.
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@Kat
I really did just follow a beekeeper, for the record.
More interesting than anything on Twitter, Threads or Bluesky.
My mother's washing machine is breaking down, and she lives close enough that I'm washing all of her laundry.
Now, I like being able to fill more loads and wash things more often, rather than have them accumulate until the laundry basket is overflowing, so I'm not encouraging her to buy a new machine (an attempt at repairing hers has already been done, and failed).
My real question is: should I do the proper #victorian thing and embroider my husband's initials on all of our household items? should I do a radical feminist thing and embroider my own initialsĀ¹? And what should I do with the bedsheet that already has my great-grandfather initials on it?
Ā¹ or rather design. which has the advantage of having a form that is extremely easy and quick to embroider, and I already use on my conference t-shirts that are identical to @Diego Roversi 's ones :D
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@Fabio no, you were right at the margin of my field of vision, I wasn't looking at you!
but text only lesana can work with something like zbarcam through the shell, Collector would need some QR-code reading of its own :D
Thread di benvenuto all'ondata di nuovĒ utenti!
Ciao! Avete trovato Livello Segreto, un'istanza di Mastodon pensata per sfuggire alle logiche dei social commerciali e per creare una comunitĆ piĆ¹ umana e felice.
Qui non ci sono influencer, non ci sono pubblicitĆ , non ci sono brand, non c'ĆØ monetizzazione.
Qui l'algoritmo ĆØ cronologico, quindi i like e l'engagement non contano.
Qui parliamo per il gusto di farlo, senza gare di popolaritĆ .
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Finally, the twitter shitstorm reached a point where I was personally affected and I had to do something. I just added a key combination to my keyboard map to easily get šæ.
E alla fine, il casino di twitter mi ha coinvolta personalmente, dandomi cose da fare. Ho appena aggiunto una combinazione di tasti alla mia mappa tastiera per poter digitare rapidamente šæ.
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@keverets org Self hosting is kindof a dealbreaker for most of my correspondents. I can and do host my own server, but I don't want to host everyone I talk to.
@0xDEADBEEF @snikket_im@fosstodon.
And I've just managed to refactor a long file with tons of #ifdef into a hierarchy of classes, in C++, a language I have vague notions about, through the establish industry practice of copying stuff from stackoverflow.
No, the code isn't anywhere where it can be seen.
Yes, if this fails somewhere the worst that can happen is that I have to get up from my chair to know whether the temperature is higher outside or inside.
And I really needed a project where I could give myself permission to do things that only work for me, rather than having to consider other possible usecases, and possibly even to do bad things, like this one.
patreon.com/posts/understandinā¦
December 2022, one month after the huge influx, me writing about why one huge instance is far worse for many reasons than lots of small instances, when we closed .art registrations in order to control our growth in a healthy way.
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I refer to this as āstallmanisingā
Named after Richard Stallman, stallmanising is to be so obnoxious about your perfectly good and just cause, that you actively turn people against it.
Donāt stallmanise your causes.
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Your instance admins will appreciate content warnings on Russia-related posts, which will let people filter, make it possible for folks not to fixate on the topic, and frankly reduce the number of reports they need to handle about bad takes, racism and glorifying violence so they can go back to sleep.
Relatedly, I'm going back to sleep. Please do me this favor. I'm very tired and I need to cuddle my cat.
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ā(passeggiando per Roma) scorgiamo in fiamme un isolatoĀ¹ di notevole altezza, a molti piani; giĆ tutta la zona vicina bruciava in un incendio spaventoso. Allora uno degli accompagnatori di Giuliano disse Ā«La proprietĆ urbana offre grandi proventi, ma i rischi sono enormi, senza confronto. Se si potesse trovare un rimedio contro gl'incendi di case tanto frequenti in Roma, giuro che avrei giĆ venduto le mie campagne e comprato in cittĆ Ā».ā
(Aulo Gellio, trad. Giorgio Bernardi-Perini)
per caritĆ , apprezziamo l'onestĆ e la mancanza di ipocrisia, but stillā¦
Ā¹ io avrei tradotto condominio o palazzina
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Unknown parent • •@Kermode yes, that's a custom translation with things like āEngageā on the āpostā button.
Sadly friendica doesn't allow to set the language of a post to a different language than the one used in the interface (which is wrong, but I've never been bothered enough to find the time to open an issue over it O:-) )
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