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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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.
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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.
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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.)
@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)
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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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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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@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua uhm, missà che quelle mi mancano.
pinze con la punta dritta ovviamente sì, le ho.
ma come si fa con quelle ad infilarsi a prendere il coperchio della lattina per sollevarlo?
Con un tronchesino o una tenaglia tiri su il pirulino che tiene l'anello sul coperchio.
Se salta ci rimane il forellino in cui infilare la punta delle pinze a becco.
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@:manjaro: Anon perché, con cosa vi facevano aprire le lattine?
Al massimo ho provato ad aprire una lattina di piselli supponendo per assurdo che fosse aperta (l'altra persona che stava cercando di cucinare con me ha provato a farli uscire per effetto tunnel).
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perché, con cosa vi facevano aprire le lattine?
boh, non lo so, a me non mi c’hanno voluto, gli facevo senso
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perché, con cosa vi facevano aprire le lattine?
tu non vuoi saperlo. Credi di volerlo sapere, perche’ non lo sai ancora.
btw, ora di quando ho scritto la lattina era stata aperta, e il tonno era stato cotto.
quando è successo avevo già il fornello acceso e la pentola quasi in temperatura, non avevo tempo di stare a cazzeggiare qui sui social :D
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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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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.
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@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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Posted on August 1, 2023
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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@(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.
refilling via ink bottle works fine for the highlighter Preppy, the feed is exactly the same as the fountain pen Preppy.
The normal Platinum converters are probably not worth it, you could get the CR-50 slide converter from AliExpress or eBay for about 2€.
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And 7 ml of De Atramentis Document Valhalla ink was made :D
(it's a mix of 7 parts white, 3 parts cyan, 2 parts magenta that matches the colour of some outfits I wear a lot)
And I'm somewhat regretting not buying another preppy for myself, to use with that shade, but right now I'm mostly using dip pens anyway.
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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* tries to attach the box of packing chips to this post so that everybody can join in the fun :)
I think that was a mistake...
*hours later*
Look! I made a life size Spider-Man! He conveniently sticks to the wall! Yay!
:D
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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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@Kermode yes, that's a custom translation with things like “Engage” on the “post” 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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