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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?

#sewing #historicalSewing

#sewing #HistoricalSewing #teamWinter
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

La foto

Il davanti di una giacca con alcuni occhielli, un'occhiello tagliato, ma ancora non cucito e qualcuno che è solo segnato col filo, e nel mezzo c'è anche un bottone ricoperto di stoffa, allacciato. Gli occhielli sono all'incirca ogni 2 cm, ma non molto regolari.

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.

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

The picture

a buttonhole stand with some buttonholes, one buttonhole cut, but not sewn yet, and a few that are just marked with thread, and just one fabric covered button. The buttonholes are about every 2 cm, but not very regular.

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.

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@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 )

#fedincontro @Fabio @Diego Roversi @LaVi
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

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 :)

#fedincontro @Fabio @Diego Roversi @LaVi
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Rant / Futuri genitori

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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major spoilers for Wheel of Time, from the first few books

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.

Clicca per aprire/chiudereThe casting of Padan Fain. He's (going to be) basically the most evil thing born this side of the Breaking of the World, and they consider it fine to cast the actor with the darkest skin for the role?


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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@LaVi 🕊️📚🐈 mi segnalano che una tizia in Germania che pendola con Deutsche Bahn ha fatto una sciarpa ai ferri, ogni giorno una riga, del colore del ritardo del treno.

Mi han detto che si trovano articoli cercando ``deutsche bahn verspätung schal farben`` e questo è il primo risultato che ho trovato con foto (ma non l'ho letto)

jetzt.de/mode/verspaetung-der-…

e che il rosso è un bus sostituitivo che impiegava 2 ore anziché 40 minuti (UGH)

„Der Schal ist dann doch ziemlich bunt geworden“

...
jetzt.de
@LaVi

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food preparation complaints, tools, non-veg

me, cooking while not really in a mood to do anything.

the ring on the can of tuna I was trying to open: breaks.

and of course I don't have a can opener! I haven't seen a can without a ring to open it in a supermarket since way before I ever started buying cooking utensils!

except for the one on the swiss army knife, which, well, works. better than nothing, anyway.

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

lamentela sulla preparazione di cibo, strumenti, non-veg

me, cucina in un momento in cui non ha voglia di fare niente.

la linguetta sulla lattina del tonno che sta cercando di aprire: si rompe.

e ovviamente non ho un apriscatole! non ho visto una lattina senza linguetta in un supermercato da ben prima di iniziare a comprare cose per la casa!

tranne quello del coltellino svizzero. che. vabbé, dai, funziona. meglio di niente.

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Somebody(TM) should make a bot that posts daily snippets of Babbage's rants from his works. And what he wrote as fun stories (complete with tables of data as the punchline!).

I don't think it would work on mastodon, however, he didn't exactly work with a 500 characters limit :D

(this is a sort of subtoot of glitterkitten.co.uk/@seventeen… , because my instance doesn't seem to be able to reply to it)

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eating with family

I'm planning to visit my father for lunch; for dietary reasons everybody is bringing their own meal (and ours will be in a fancy bento box¹), but we were talking about common things that we could avoid bringing.

I've found out that he only has a microwave oven and disposable plates / cutlery / cups.

Suddenly, I feel an unexpected need for a wickerwork basket with two china #tea cups, a spirit stove and a teapot. And I'm the kind of person who drinks tea in a mug.

¹ ikea 365+ :D but it's the one with food divider and everything.

#tea
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

eating with family

@SonjaSelena the only problem here would be that I don't have a wicker basket, I don't have access to china cups that aren't also the Irreplaceable Set Inherited From Grandmother¹ and thus aren't suitable for a trip that involves unpaved roads (yes, this detail was missing), I only have teapots that are too big and access to a vintage travel stove that is a bit too small.

I may try to get ready for this for the next time :D

(this time the boring practical solution that involves reusable, sturdy plastic glasses and an immersion heater will have to do)

¹ technically inherited from mother? since they still are at my mother's house, and she inherited from her mother. whatever :)

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SonjaSelena

eating with family
I find myself oddly ready for this kind of scenario, and still I drink my tea in a mug. 😂 Only, I just this spring gave the tea set back to my mother-in-law, so it wasn't my grandmother's and I don't have it anymore.. But basket, teapots, travel stoves, I even have different kinds.. You know, I almost want to go and ask the tea set back again so I can go and have sivilized tea with my husband in some nice flower field. 😂

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Origami Document Folder
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A pink origami holder for business cards, open, with two triangular pockets. The cards in it are pope cards and a Debian “consensually” name card.

A long time ago, around the turn of the century, I was looking at some Useful Origami website and found a pattern for a document folder with a lot of pockets.

The same holder, seen from the top: it also has rectangular pockets on the covers, and there is even room in the middle for moar contents.

And by a lot of pockets I really mean a lot! I immediately had to fold one, and then another one, and then a few others, both in a size suitable for business cards and as a folder for A4 sheets of paper.

A document folder in the same shape, but it's white, bigger, and it has an envelope in one pocket and some stationery sheets in the other pocket.

And then, a few years ago I needed a new document folder, and looked for these instructions, and couldn’t find them anywhere. Luckily I still had some of the folders I had made, and the model was simple enough that I could unfold those and reconstruct the instructions.

I tried to show them around to see if anybody knew where it came from, but had no results.

An origami schematic; see the link below for text instructions.

Now that I’ve prepared a new website for patterns for non-fiber crafts (and that I needed a new folder :D ) I’ve decided to post those instructions on it, so that they will have a stable place to live on.

And now that the #origami crowd on the fediverse has grown, maybe somebody will stumble on them and will remember where they come from: if you do, please let me know, with a comment if you’re reading this on the fediverse, or through one of my contacts if you’re reading the blog directly.

blog.trueelena.org/blog/2023/0…

#origami
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One of the creepier tech-related incidents I remember was many years ago when I wanted the Sam's Photofacts (a third-party creator of device specs and schematics, etc.) for a very old portable TV. Way out of date, but I was trying to help someone with it.

I mentioned to a friend that I was looking for old Photofacts, but I did not say anything about the TV. He scribbled an address on a scrap of paper, an address locally here in L.A. "Try him," he muttered.

I drive over. It's a small unmarked storefront. I go in, the bell on the door rings. Sitting inside, like the caterpillar in "Alice in Wonderland", is this little guy perched on a stool, with immense stacks of paper surrounding him everywhere. Total mayhem.

I walk up to him -- knowing that this was a waste of time and really wanting to get out of there -- and asked if he had the Sam's Photofacts for that specific very old TV model.

Without saying a word, he reached over to the pile of papers right next to him, took the TOP item off the pile, and silently handed it to me. It was the ancient one I needed. Stunned, I paid him the amount marked on the item, and left with it, not completely sure what had just happened.

When I drove by there a month later that storefront was something else entirely. He was gone.

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Dear #fountainPen people: I will probably try it myself as soon as I finish the cartridge, but does anybody have experience with using other fountain pen inks in the #preppy highlighter? Can it be washed to change the ink, or is it something that should be devoted to just one type?
#fountainpen #preppy
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@(mapcar #'emacsomancer objs) the cartridge looks the exact same format as the preppy fountain pen, so I'd assume that the platinum converter would fit.

I'm not sure whether refilling the converter from the tip would work (and I'd be afraid to risk contaminating the ink in the bottle, anyway), so I think that in this case refilling the cartridge with a syringe is probably more practical.

@(mapcar #'emacsomancer objs)

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me, 10 minutes ago: I've put a drop of water on this packing chips and it now has a big hole on it, so it's the biodegradable kind, and now I will put it into a suitable bag and it will go into the biodegradable waste collection right now.
my SO: right
me: I can do it

me, right now: is building a wall out of packing chips glued together with water.

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every now and then someone makes a post like "fedi culture is getting 8 boosts and 20 likes and going 'ohh this is doing numbers' lol lmao. numbers tiny" and like i get it but also if 20 people came up to me and said "i liked it when you said that, well done" and 8 of those people were like "can i get some copies of this so i can show it to all my friends?" id be stoked

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#sewingUpdate

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 buttons¹ 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?

¹ the kind sewn around a washer, not the ones done with a kit

#HistoricalSewing

#HistoricalSewing #AugustaStays #sewingUpdate
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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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Elastic Neck Top
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A woman wearing a top in white fabric with thin blue lines and two groups of blue lozenges near the hems. It has a square neck gathered by a yellow elastic, the blue lines are horizontal on the wide sleeves and vertical, and more spaced, on the body.

Since some time I’ve 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 I’ve been gifted a cut of nice, thin white fabric with a print of lines and lozenges that isn’t 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.

The main pieces of the top laid flat: a big rectangle for the body,

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.

I’ve 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 worn top shown from the side back: there is a strip of vertical lines spaced closer together like on the sleeves, and it continues to the bottom rather than ending with a strip of lozenges.

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 didn’t have a full second strip of lozenges, so I had to hem it halfway through it.

Closeup of the center front and center back of the neckline casing, showing the matched lines.

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 it’s 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 doesn’t slip, so I used it. It’s 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.

the top worn with the neckline pulled down to leave the shoulders bare.

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 I’ve also added to the site a tip on how I use electrician fish tape to thread things through long casings

blog.trueelena.org/blog/2023/0…

#FreeSoftWear

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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)

#soldering #thingsIProbablyShouldNotDo
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Confy 0.7.0

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!

#confy #gtk4 #libadwaita #newrelease

#confy #gtk4 #newrelease #libadwaita

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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 – 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)

sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…

#sewing #sewingTips

#sewing #sewingtips

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Non ricordo dove ho trovato il suggerimento, ma per infilare dell'elastico in una coulisse lunga (1 – 2 metri) è molto più 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)

sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…

#cucito #cucitoSegreto

#CucitoSegreto #cucito
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"[This birdsite is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it'd be pushing up the daisies! Its metabolic processes are now history! It's off the twig! It's kicked the bucket, It's shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS AN 𝕏 BIRDSITE!!]"

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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

>> X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re 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. 🍿

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contiene consumismo e subtoot

Ma voi dite che è 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!)

#stilografiche
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riscv64 is now an official Debian architecture lists.debian.org/debian-riscv/…. Additional information is available on the Debian Wiki wiki.debian.org/Ports/riscv64.

riscv64 is now an official architecture

lists.debian.org
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TIL there was no single burning of the historic Great Library of Alexandria. The “single burning” 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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_…

one of the largest libraries in the ancient world, located in Alexandria, Egypt

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
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Literal sword lesbians.

(Sword given to Maréchal Joseph Joffre, former commander-in-chief of the French military, in 1919; representing friendship between Provence and Catalonia. From le musée de l'Armée 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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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?"

#microfiction #flashfiction #tootfic

#MicroFiction #TootFic #flashfiction

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The folks at @adafruit have a history of calling out hard truths and I think for some types of open hardware there are truths that need to be called out. Interesting times.
#openHardware #OSHWA
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When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Source Hardware Companies

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 colle…
Adafruit Industries - Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
#openhardware #oshwa @adafruit

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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.)

#sewing #selfInducedProblems

#sewing #selfInducedProblems
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Oggi è il Prime Day, il giorno in cui Amazon cerca di convincerci con sconti più o meno fasulli a comprare cose che non ci servono.

Penso che sia un'ottima occasione per fermarsi a riflettere.

Non può esserci ambientalismo senza riduzione dei consumi. Le cagate che compriamo attraversano il mondo sulle navi e sono spesso frutto di lavoratorǝ sfruttatǝ.

Astenerci dal consumo inutile è un atto di resistenza.

Disinnescare i finti desideri impressi dal capitalismo è un atto di rinascita.

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Pixels Chips

consiglierei a tutti di controllare cosa c'è vicino a casa, quel negozio di recupero dell'usato, dei prodotti ricondizionati e anche pensare di riprendere quello che c'è a casa e pensare di metterlo a disposizione per gli altri. in casi più particolari, ripensare se il prodotto che cerchiamo, non sia meglio di prenderne una versione analogica. pensa a dover scrivere e usare una Olivetti.
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friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Pixels Chips (lo dico da persona che scrive con le penne a intinzione e ha una macchina da scrivere di famiglia in cantina che aspetta solo che io abbia tempo per metterla a posto. Però a mano o scrivo per me, oppure sto scrivendo per essere letta da persone che amano scrivere a mano che ho trovato tramite computer / internet)
@Pixels Chips
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Yuricasetta

a prescindere dal tema AmazonPrime, credo che i radicalismi e gli estremismi siano essenziali in ogni società che voglia progredire. Personalmente non sarei in grado di portare avanti battaglie con gesti eclatanti (attivisti di ultima generazione a esempio), ma so per certo che questo tipo di sforzo da parte di alcuni è necessario. Come nell'esercito medievale, vedo voi come la cavalleria pesante che entra dura nelle fila del nemico, serviamo poi noi, fanteria a tenere il terreno vinto

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale
health, ~

I love it when I wake up with a pretty low blood pressure, it's already starting to get hot, I have¹ 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 :)

¹ technically I could have asked my SO to go, instead we went together, but that meant that we had to go earlier

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friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Elena ``of Valhalla''

salute, ~

Adoro alzarmi con la pressione bassa, sta già iniziando a fare caldo, devo¹ andare in farmacia, succedono casini e non riesco neanche a fare colazione prima di andarci.

di buono c'è che è qui vicino, e c'è anche una comoda cassetta della posta quasi sul percorso, quindi ho anche spedito una cartolina :)

¹ tecnicamente avrei potuto chiedere al mio compagno di andarci, invece siamo andati assieme, ma la cosa dava più vincoli di tempo

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hometown - Collegamento all'originale

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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LJ

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?

#quilting #painters #weavers #metalsmithing
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LJ

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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