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The cartridge pleated skirt I've been #sewing is finally at the stage where I can try it on (it's missing closures, but who cares about closures when you can use your hand?)

and my eyeballing of the length has been, let's say, optimistic

it's definitely floor length, and I can't walk on stairs without free hands.

on the other hand, it looks really nice as a floor length skirt

so, for the time being, I think it will stay this impractical length, what could possibly go wrong?

(there will be pictures, and a blog post, when it's finished)

#sewing
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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la gonna arricciata che stavo cucendo è arrivata al punto in cui può essere provata (manca la chiusura, ma non serve veramente una chiusura quando si possono usare le mani!)

e stimare la lunghezza ad occhio è stato, diciamo, ottimistico

è decisamente lunga fino a terra, e se non ho le mani libere non posso fare le scale

d'altra parte, come gonna a terra è decisamente bella

quindi credo che per ora rimarrà della lunghezza totalmente scomoda, che cosa mai può andare storto?

(quando sarà finita farò foto e il solito post sul blog)

rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ha ricondiviso questo.

I've just realized that maybe somebody is interested here too

A few years ago I made some light resistance tests for (mostly) #fountainPen inks, by writing samples and taping them to a south-south-east facing window

forum.fountainpen.it/download/…
forum.fountainpen.it/download/…

now I have a south facing covered balcony, and I'm getting ready to start a new test between the equinox and the solstice; at the beginning of February I'm going to buy stuff from a shop that also sells ink samplers, and my budget for buying those is almost gone, but if somebody has requests I can add a couple more to the cart

Some have already been requested at forum.fountainpen.it/viewtopic… (in Italian, but the ink names are ink names :) )

#fountainpen
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Tallastro 🇺🇦
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I like testing. Thanks for sharing results and running more.

I tested a few inks in the past including a known problem ink. I used a faster method in full summer sun, UV and all. flipping.rocks/@tallastro/1122…


Tallastro 🇺🇦 (@tallastro@flipping.rocks)

Attached: 1 image Photo after 3rd day. Another 8 hours outside, partly sunny with a brief bit of rain. Not trying to add a water test but 5 -10 drops hit and spread the vulnerable inks.
flipping.rocks
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Tallastro 🇺🇦 indeed, testing is *fun*!

I'm surprised that the test started to show results after just one hour (but a bit less surprised to see *which* ink started to change after that short of a time)

@Tallastro 🇺🇦

cursed idea from this evening LUG meeting

/dev/sdb1 /D: ext4 user,noauto,exec 0 0

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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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idea crudele e malvagia¹ dall'incontro LUG di stasera

/dev/sdb1 /D: ext4 user,noauto,exec 0 0

¹ altre traduzioni consigliate di “cursed” comprendevano “maledetta” e “del cazzo”

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Il mio personale applauso alla protezione civile, ai sistemi di allerta meteo e le amministrazioni locali che nel sud italia hanno permesso che nessuno si facesse male nonostante le condizioni davvero terrificanti.
Che non si dica che le cose funzionano solo nel produttivo nord!
👏
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Yaku 🐗 @la gaia scemenza quello mi sembrava più per cose con impatto locale, mentre condividereAncheLeBuoneNotizie (o meglio, il suo equivalente inglese) l'ho visto usare più per le cose con impatto su una buona porzione della società, ma #WhyNotBoth?
#whyNotBoth @Yaku 🐗 @la gaia scemenza

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The Sticker Standard has been updated to allow for conforming stickers at integer (sub-)multiples of the default sizes. The published pages also picked up 7 years of Bikeshed updates.

sticker.how/

Stickers Standard

sticker.how
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James Just James
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I'd love a recommended appendix about where to buy those stickers for a fair price and decent quality.
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Terin Stock
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there's links on the GitHub, but in the standard didn't seem like an appropriate place. I'll probably end up making a proper landing site at some point.
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ha ricondiviso questo.

Caro storiverso,

Qualcuno ha idea delle date in cui il regno d'Italia ha emesso dei passaporti per l'interno? internet non sta aiutando, sto trovando solo delle copie di passaporti in vendita, quasi tutte della prima metà del 1900, e mi stavo chiedendo se fossero già presenti nell'ottocento, subito dopo l'unificazione (ma ovviamente sia più facile trovarne in giro di più recenti), o se siano stati introdotti più tardi.

Così, mi stavo chiedendo, se un personaggio fittizio di Milano negli anni 50 fosse stato esule a Torino a causa di, diciamo, screzi con l'autorità austriaca, e in tale città si fosse accasato, quanto rognoso sarebbe stato per la sua famiglia (piccolissima borghesia, titolari di un negozio), una volta costruita la ferrovia e avvenuta l'unificazione andarlo a trovare di tanto in tanto?

(No, non sto scrivendo un libro. sto facendo worldbuilding per storie che non scriverò mai)

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LaVi
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se hai la pazienza di aspettare che mi rimetta in sesto e torni in ufficio, vedo se riesco a trovare qualcosa.
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@LaVi ah, nessuna fretta, e non perderci del tempo in cui avresti di meglio da fare, che non ha veramente importanza

ma se ti capita di annoiarti, o ti capita sottomano la risposta mentre cerchi altro, la cosa è molto gradita!

@LaVi
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Ciao bella gente ❤
Messaggio di utilità sociale: mutare le persone sul Fediverso così da curare i vostri feed al meglio è assolutamente incoraggiato!

Non fatevi ingannare da stupide FOMO e mutate chi pubblica roba che non vi interessa: un feed più pulito è un feed che vi fa stare meglio e permette di interagire di più con chi vi è affine (o con chi volete intavolare discussioni costruttive) 💚

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Botolo
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Usteria ed io che pensavo di essere l’unico a massacrare l’italiano da quando vivo in USA. Continuo a usare termini americani italianizzati. Il top è stato lo zio calabrese di mia moglie che vive a NY da sempre e che una volta mi disse “ietta lu garbagge” (detto come scritto)

Se Atene piange…

“Ritardi e freddo sui treni della Lugano – Ponte Tresa”, i disagi dei pendolari frontalieri

varesenews.it/2026/01/ritardi-…

(consiglio l'apertura del link con apposito preservativo)

ma sicuramente è colpa del gestore italiano. anche se non credo che quella linea metta piede in italia. o forse è colpa degli italiani che ci viaggiano sopra


“Ritardi e freddo sui treni della Lugano – Ponte Tresa”, i disagi dei pendolari frontalieri

Lo sfogo di un pendolare frontaliere che si lamenta per le condizioni del servizio di trasporto pubblico svizzero che dal confine di Stato porta nel cuore del Ticino.
Andrea Camurani (Vareseweb Srl)

PSA: utc-tomorrow the Archive (no, not that Archive, the other one, the one that causes addiction :D ) will be down for planned updates

otwstatus.org/incidents/rvdbqw…

#AO3 #fanfiction


AO3 Maintenance

Organization for Transformative Works's Status Page - AO3 Maintenance.
www.otwstatus.org
#fanfiction #AO3

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Ok, quindi, grazie a una fantastica persona del fediverso, che non menziono perché non so se lo gradirebbe, ho ottenuto del cenovis.

E ora? Sapete cos'è? Lo apprezzate? In che maniera? Lo detestate? Perché?

Raccontatemi i vostri approcci a questa ulteriore dimostrazione che il mondo è davvero vario, anche ad appena una manciata di centinaia di km da dove si abita

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Carlo Ricchiardi
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Ho dovuto cercare cosa fosse... Ho assaggiato Marmite e Vegemite, equivalenti rispettivamente inglese ed australiano, e provo sentimenti contrastanti: mi piace, tipicamente a colazione sulla fetta di pane tostato, ma in modicissima quantità, trovo il sapore davvero molto aggressivo.
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Lysander il breve
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Sì, è decisamente potente, non credo proprio che potrei tollerarlo spalmato come fosse nutella come l'ho visto in un'etichetta 😆Lo provo sul toast comunque, grazie!
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Lysander il breve @Carlo Ricchiardi ma che io sappia neanche i nativi che la mangiano da sempre la spalmano stile nutella, la modica quantità è la quantità giusta per cui è progettata
@Lysander il breve @Carlo Ricchiardi
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Carlo Ricchiardi
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si ma io ne uso circa 1/4 della quantità che usano i nativi che mi hanno introdotto all'uso...
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LaVi
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la Vegemite sale a pieno diritto sul podio delle cose più rivoltanti che abbia mai mangiato. La lascio volentieri agli australiani! Se ciò che hanno dato a @lysander è equivalente, l'unico utilizzo che posso consigliargli è di farne scherzi di carnevale, tanto ormai ci siamo.
(Un ringraziamento doveroso, comunque ai rispettivi donatori: se non avessi assaggiato la Vegemite non la conoscerei, e non è detto che Lysander abbia i miei stessi gusti)
@Lysander il breve
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Ann(in)a
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la vegemite (in piccolissime quantità) mi ha permesso di fare un brodo “di dado” senza dado quando ero in Australia, e con quello cuocere un dignitosissimo risotto. Per il resto la trovo disgustosa
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Lysander il breve
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Eh infatti ricorda il dado, anche se il profilo aromatico è parecchio più complesso, a confronto il dado è pacato e gentile 😆
E devo dire che non mi dispiace! Va giusto trovato il punto giusto in cui metterlo e fare attenzione alle quantità 😃Però è anche vero che mi piace lo scotch torbato (che sa di gerani morti), quindi magari sono i miei di gusti a essere fuori scala!
In compenso non tollero trippa o fegato
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Giancarlo Dessì
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Ho scoperto che ci sono più creme spalmabili tra il cielo e la terra di quanto ne sognasse la mia filosofia.
Io sono fermo alla nutella e al patè di olive :-D
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Ann(in)a @LaVi @Carlo Ricchiardi @Lysander il breve ecco, io rimango curiosa di provare la Vegemite, perché ho provato la Marmite trovata nei supermercati etnici ed era simile, ma il Cenovis mi piace di più, mentre la Vegemite non l'ho mai trovata
@LaVi @Ann(in)a @Lysander il breve @Carlo Ricchiardi
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LaVi
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la Vegemite l'avevo assaggiata grazie a @justLucreziaM , che ne aveva scritto in un suo romanzo cui avevo collaborato¹ e me ne aveva donata una confezione, tanto più che questo alimento era rilevante nel racconto.
Ma se il Cenovis è più buono, ora sono curiosa!
@Ann_in_a @carlux

¹ lafeltrinelli.it/yulara-magia-…

@Lucrezia Monti 💕 @Ann(in)a @Carlo Ricchiardi
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@LaVi @Lucrezia Monti 💕 @Ann(in)a @Carlo Ricchiardi sbaglio o c'era un tuo portatile su cui si era detto che c'era da installare linux?

(comunque rispetto alla Marmite più buona, ma simile, e leggo in giro che anche la Vegemite lo è, non so quanto si possa considerarne una rivoltante e l'altra ottima)

(ma se è per la SCIENZA, si deve sperimentare!)

@Lucrezia Monti 💕 @LaVi @Ann(in)a @Carlo Ricchiardi
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LaVi
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si era detto di un mio *iPad* sul quale avrei voluto installare linux. Non so se la cosa sia possibile.

Non ho proprio idea di se e quanto questo alimento possa essere migliore della Vegemite, ma sì, sarei disposta a sperimentare per la scienza.

@justLucreziaM @Ann_in_a @carlux

@Lucrezia Monti 💕 @Ann(in)a @Carlo Ricchiardi
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Carlo Ricchiardi
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A questo punto anche io voglio provare il cenovis.

Commento a latere: su mac fino a una decina di anni fa si poteva tentare di installare delle distribuzioni un po' monche, facendo un po' di fatica ; su iphone/ipad che io sappia non si è mai potuto, il bootloader è completamente blindato; comunque da quando ci sono i processori apple silicon su mac che io sappia c'è Fedora Asahi Remix, asahilinux.org/fedora/, un bel casino da installare. Io linux su mac lo uso dentro una VM. @valhalla @justLucreziaM @Ann_in_a


Fedora Asahi Remix - Asahi Linux

Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
asahilinux.org
@Elena ``of Valhalla'' @Lucrezia Monti 💕 @Ann(in)a
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LaVi
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eh, infatti mi pareva di ricordare che fosse "Mission: impossible" :S

Circa le robe tecniche che scrivi, ho la competenza per giudicarle che avrei se le avessi scritte in sanscrito... Quindi mi fido e bon :)

@valhalla @justLucreziaM @Ann_in_a

@Elena ``of Valhalla'' @Lucrezia Monti 💕 @Ann(in)a
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LaVi
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@valhalla. XD
Non me lo merito no un simile orrore!
Ah, ma aspetta, forse non intendevi in questo senso... ;P @carlux
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If anybody is interested, micropython.org/download/ESP32… works on olimex.com/Products/IoT/ESP32-…

thanks to @Olimex for telling me that micropython was supposed to work on that board, some months ago

@Olimex

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Many people ask, why #Jabber a.k.a. #XMPP is technically successul (used by Whatsapp, Zoom, Grindr, Fortnite, Google FCM, and many more), but is still not *the* federated instant messaging for the people.

Now, it's not about missing features, technical shortcomings, or bad UX. No, the reason simply is: Jabber does not have a cute #mascot!

As the traditional icon for Jabber is the #lightbulb 💡, I wonder, if an animal performing #bioluminescence would fit?

#xmpp #jabber #mascot #bioluminescence #lightbulb

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Ulrich Popp :jf:
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It isn't the lack of mascots, it is just capitalism: A capitalist invests money most efficient: Start with a free chat protocol, consolidate clients, then change your protocol from open source to proprietary stuff.
Whatsapp, Facebook, etc. did exactly that.
XMPP isn't "successful" because very less people know it. Google Play Store offers first Whatsapp, after other META-Products. Why? because META invests money there.
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Hugo 雨果
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An anthropomorphic light bulb? Or one with like, legs and arms, caricature style?
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Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results

voteyesornoai.com


Are you YES AI or NO AI? Vote now.

Big Tech doesn't care if you want AI or not. They should.
voteyesornoai.com
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varesenews.it/2026/01/a-gallar…

waaaitasecond

significa che fino all'altro ieri Gallarate era ancora gestita a relé degli anni 50?


A Gallarate una “cabina di regia” che rivoluziona il controllo della circolazione ferroviaria

È attivo da lunedì 12 gennaio, nella Stazione di Gallarate un nuovo Apparato Centrale Computerizzato (ACC)* . Un investimento di oltre 50 milioni di euro
Roberta Bertolini (Vareseweb Srl)
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Alessandro perché tra gli anni 50 e oggi i sistemi per la regolazione del traffico ferroviario hanno introdotto un po' di sistemi di sicurezza che fanno comodo per evitare che i treni si schiantino

(e/o per far passare treni più ravvicinati, riducendo comunque il rischio di schianti, che ok, serve alle ferrovie per guadagnare di più, ma nella situazione delle ferrovie lombarde non fa neanche schifo ai pendolari)

@Alessandro
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Alessandro
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nel frattempo mi hanno soppresso un treno e quello dopo é un ritardo di 20'. E passano per Gallarate. Sarà un caso? Io non credo.
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Alessandro

intanto, stamattina alle 6:34

trenord ha scritto:

“AGGIORNAMENTO La circolazione della direttrice è stata rallentata da un guasto a uno scambio nella stazione di GALLARATE, che ha richiesto un intervento di ripristino da parte dei tecnici di RFI. Si sono registrati ritardi fino a 30 minuti. Il guasto è stato risolto e la circolazione torna progressivamente alla normalità. Info sull'andamento del treno in APP e Sito nella sezione "Real time | Linee e orari - ricerca treno".”
@Alessandro
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Alessandro in realtà mi pare che ora di quando ho postato qui le cose fossero tornate alla normalità e i treni relativamente in orario anche lì
@Alessandro
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Alessandro no, quella non è normalità: quella è “non abbiamo fatto investimenti (e pure poca manutenzione) per decenni, e ora dobbiamo rimediare tutto in una volta”
@Alessandro

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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua tu sai vero che esistono tribù di nativi per cui la BMW, o comunque una macchina in grado di andare veloce tenendo bene la strada, è molto utile per il tradizionale rituale di corteggiamento in cui il partner che dimostra di non saper correre a sufficienza sulle curve finisce nel lago (e non ripescano più né l'auto né il cadavere) e quindi si toglie dal pool riproduttivo?

certo, chi mostra di saper superare il rituale con una panda 4x4 mostra di essere ancora più adatto alla riproduzione, ma quello è davvero difficile :D

@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
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food, swiss

our plans for the morning (walking) were prevented by external factors, so we decided to to the thing we had been postponing since this summer and had to do before the end of the month when the motorway payment expires: drive to a mall in Lugano, in Switzerland.

And this is why our lunch was pasta and potatoes with cenovis, while drinking rivella.

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food, swiss

@5Ub-Z3r0 that's what we had at home, after coming back from Switzerland with the cenovis and rivella

(it was supposed to be pasta, potatoes and either pesto from the supermarket or olive paste from the supermarket, or some other quick thing like that)

@5Ub-Z3r0
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Japanese artist Narumi Takada's 2021 embroidery piece, "Stepping on Fresh Snow" with snow created using punch needle and straight/satin stitches for the boot and paw prints

#Womensart #embroidery

An embroidery piece in white creating an exact simulacrum of a boot print and paw prints in freshly settled fluffy snow, 1-2 inches deep
#embroidery #womensart
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I wonder if we need to stop calling them "ICE".

"ICE" is cool. It's snappy. It's an acronym that looks good on a shield.

It's "Immigration and Customs Enforcement". *Customs enforcement*. The lamest fucking job a government has to do. Even Zootopia 2 had a throwaway joke about how fucking lame customs is.

And the fash can't stand to have the piss taken out of them. Too unfit for the army. Too illiterate for the police. Become a customs inspector and play military dress up.

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A side-by-side comparison meme showing the concept of survivorship bias applied to fantasy video game armor. On the left is a diagram of a human figure with red dots marking wounds on the arms and legs, representing where survivors were hit. On the right is a female character in revealing fantasy armor that only covers the arms and legs, leaving the torso and head exposed. The image includes a tweet by Leonard Ritter (@leonard_ritter) that reads: "our dwarven engineers came up with a new armor design protecting against the typical injuries sustained by warriors returning from battles in the netherworld." Below the tweet, a Tumblr comment by uniquecrash5 says: "Ah yes, the ol 'B-17 survivorship bias' lesson. Okay but this is a hilarious explanation."
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legitimate¹ advertisement email:


Subject: The ball season is starting

Will you be sewing your own formal dresses?


me:

surely you mean “sit on the couch wrapped in two blankets season”, right?

And yes, I should really sew myself another cuddling-on-the-couch dress, because the ones I have are starting to be a bit worn :D (but I think I already have all of the materials in the stash)

¹ it's from a shop I buy from, and I haven't bothered unsubscribing yet

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Aleksandra Fedorova
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Blanket wrap skirt (basically a rectangle with some pleats on the back) from some scrap pieces of fleece fabric is my first but also the most useful ever sewing project.

Can highly recommend for all Work-From-Homers.

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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Aleksandra Fedorova mine is slightly more shaped (two trapezoids instead of a triangle, and it's cotton fleece rather than synthetic fleece, but 10/10 would recommend!
@Aleksandra Fedorova
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I have been wondering one thing:

when residential #solarPanel installations produce energy that is used in the same house and not sold to the grid, is it counted in the stats about the renewable energy production of a country / grid-area-whatever? Or does it get missed because the grid never sees it? Or does it depend on the local regulations?

does anybody know?

#solarpanel
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The Penguin of Evil
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It seems very variable. Pakistan for example everyone does because it's almost entirely not grid tie so the non grid attached stuff matters. UK OTOH nobody seems to have a clue how much is non grid tie because it's unregistered and invisible to the government and it's probably too small to matter as a percentage.
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The Penguin of Evil
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there is another complexity too. Increasingly people are building microgrids for groups of new houses with shared big battery storage and grid connecting the whole microgrids as one supply. That avoids the grid operators raking in money moving power next door. In those cases it's even less visible what goes on.
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Jenny Chase
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usually not.

Some research houses (including ours, and Ember for Pakistan where this number is large) estimate from installed capacity and typical insolation, for some purposes.

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One moment you're reading along about the Assyrian empire and the next you trip over a mention of "the world's first film in Babylonian" and then that's it, drop everything, let's go take a look.
youtube.com/watch?v=pxYoFlnJLo…

- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
www.youtube.com

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You guys, this is AWESOME. It's Assyriology students at Cambridge performing a story from 1500BCE, that we know because it was found on clay tablets in Ashurbanipal's library.

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L'#accessibilità della #pubblicaamministrazione

comune.cadorago.co.it/novita/a…

la pagina: "Avviso! la carta di identà di cartà non sarà più valida! Vedi Allegato!"
l'allegato: jpg

questo: comune.cadorago.co.it/halley//…

dovrebbero smettere di metter li gente che sa solo mandare meme su uassap nel gruppo "buongiornissimo"

Comune di Cadorago - Nuove disposizioni sulla carta di identità - dal 3 agosto 2026 le carte di identità cartacee non saranno più valide (vedi allegat

www.comune.cadorago.co.it
#pubblicaamministrazione #accessibilità

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@akiran_n la grafica è uguale più o meno per tutti perchè segue delle linee guida agid.gov.it/it/linee-guida

Di produttori che vendono soluzioni chiavi in mano ce ne sono diversi. la grafica è più o meno simile, la parte tecnica no.
Da un veloce giro fatto ieri sera ho trovato almeno quattro diverse soluzioni da altrettante società che gestiscono diversi comuni nel circondario.

Il grosso problema, secondo me, è chi poi va a scriverci in questi siti.
Non puoi mettere una news "cose importanti da fare: vedi allegato" e l'allegato è una jpg a fondo azzurro e testo verde che sembra un meme girato via uassàp.

E' l'antitesi di quello che dovrebbe essere quel sito. E' l'opposto del concetto di accessibilità. Quella immagine faccio fatica a leggerla io, che ok che porto gli occhiali da lettura, ma non ho problemi di daltonismo.
Oltre al fatto che vado sul sito, clicco sulla news, clicco sull'immagine e da li devo aprire un'altra finestra del browser per copiarci l'indirizzo che è scritto nell'immagine. Perché non è nel testo? Perché non è cliccabile? Perché c'è gente che ha la competenza informatica di un tasso del miele con il compito di tocchicciare il sito con le manine appiccicose?

@akiran_n
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akiran_n
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perché lui è quello che ce ne capisce, poi lo aiuta suocuggginoquellobbbbbravo.
Un po come quando mi altero con mia moglie e parentado perché invece di condividere il link a tale sito/articolo mettono una screenshot
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Sunrise has happened

I could get up from the chair and go outside to do things

(checks the temperature, it's -4°C)

maybe I'll wait another 30 minutes :D

(it's 8:30 here, and sunny enough that I expect the temperature to go above freezing soon-ish)

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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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Il sole è sorto

potrei alzarmi dalla sedia e andare fuori a fare cose

(controlla la temperatura: -4°C)

ma magari aspetto ancora mezz'ora, vah :D

(qui sono le 8:30, e il cielo è abbastanza limpido per cui mi aspetto che salga sopra lo zero abbastanza presto)

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@Kermode you are in Canada :D I live in a technically subtropical climate :D

(also, it's still the middle of the night over there, right?)

(-4°C is on the colder end of what we routinely get, nothing unusual, but I'm not sure it's a good idea to get outside without gloves and use water based glue right now :) )

@Kermode
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#sewing friends!
especially people who sew their own clothes:

I want to sew my own PJ pants

I am plus sized & have long legs & a large bottom. (mens xl ish) these will be 100% cotton, so no stretch. I like loose & comfy, but not TOO loose or flowy & they MUST have pockets.

what are your favorite patterns?

#sewing
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Sibylle
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go have a look at apostrophe patterns. You need your correct measurements, type them in and get your pattern to print at home.
They also have videos on the take measurements part.
You can use the pattern with different sizes over and over.
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And now for something completely different

Posted on January 4, 2026
Tags: topic:walking

Warning

mention of bodies being bodies and minds being minds, and not in the perfectly working sense.

One side of Porto Ceresio along the lake: there is a small strip of houses, and the hills behind them are covered in woods. A boat is parked around the middle of the picture.

A lot of the youtube channels I follow tend to involve somebody makingthings, so of course one of the videos my SO and I watched a few days ago was about walking around San Francisco Bay, and that recalled my desire to go to places by foot. Now, for health-related reasons doing it properly would be problematic, and thus I’ve never trained for that, but during this Christmas holiday-heavy time I suggested my very patient SO the next best thing: instead of our usual 1.5 hours uphill walk in the woods, a 2 hours and a bit mostly flat walk on paved streets, plus some train, to a nearby town: Porto Ceresio, on the Italian side of Lake Lugano.

I started to prepare for it on the day before, by deciding it was a good time to upgrade my PinePhone, and wait, I’m still on Trixie? I could try Forky, what could possibly go wrong? And well, the phone was no longer able to boot, and reinstalling from the latest weekly had a system where the on-screen keyboard didn’t appear, and I didn’t want to bother finding out why, so re-installed another time from the 13.0 image, and between that, and distracting myself with widelands while waiting for the downloads and uploads and reboots etc., well, all of the afternoon and the best part of the evening disappeared.

So, in a hurry, between the evening and the next morning I prepared a nice healthy lunch, full of all the important nutrients such as sugar, salt, mercury and arsenic. Tuna (mercury) soboro (sugar and salt) on rice and since I was in a hurry I didn’t prepare any vegetables, but used pickles (more salt) and shio kombu (arsenic and various heavy metals, sugar and salt). Plus a green tea mochi for dessert, in case we felt low on sugar. :D

Then on the day of the walk we woke up a bit later than usual, and then my body decided it was a good day for my belly to not exactly hurt, but not not-hurt either, and there I took an executive decision to wear a corset, because if something feels like it wants to burst open, wrapping it in a steel reinforced cage will make it stop. (I’m not joking. It does. At least in those specific circumstances.)

This was followed by hurrying through the things I had to do before leaving the house, having a brief anxiety attack and feeling feverish (it wasn’t fever), and finally being able to leave the house just half an hour late.

A stream running on rocks with the woods to both sides.

And then, 10 minutes after we had left, realizing that I had written down the password for the train website, since it was no longer saved on the phone, but i had forgotten the bit of paper at home. We could have gone back to take it, but decided not to bother, as we could also hopefully buy paper-ish tickets at the train station (we could).

Later on, I also realized I had also forgotten my GPS tracker, so I have no record of where we went exactly (but it’s not hard to recognize it on a map) nor on what the temperature was. It’s a shame, but by that point it was way too late to go back.

Anyway, that probably was when Murphy felt we had paid our respects, and from then on everything went lovingly well!

Routing had been done on the OpenStreetMap website, with OSRM, and it looked pretty easy to follow, but we also had access to an Android phone, so we used OSMAnd to check that we were still on track. It tried to lead us to the Statale (i.e. most important and most trafficked road) a few times, but we ignored it, and after a few turns and a few changes of the precise destination point we managed to get it to cooperate.

At one point a helpful person asked us if we needed help, having seen us looking at the phone, and gave us indication for the next fork (that way to Cuasso al Piano, that way to Porto Ceresio), but it was pretty easy, since the way was clearly marked also for cars.

Then we started to notice red and white markings on poles and other places, and on the next fork there was a signpost for hiking routes with our destination and we decided to follow it instead of the sign for cars. I knew that from our starting point to or destination there was also a hiking route, uphill both ways :) , through the hills, about 5 or 6 hours instead of two, but the sign was pointing downhill and we were past the point where we would expect too long of a detour.

A wide and flat unpaved track passing through a flat grassy area with trees to the sides and rolling hills in the background.

And indeed, after a short while the paved road ended, but the path continued on a wide and flat track, and was a welcome detour through what looked like water works to prevent flood damage from a stream. In a warmer season, with longer grass and ticks maybe the fact that I was wearing a long skirt may have been an issue, but in winter it was just fine.

And soon afterwards, we were in Porto Ceresio. I think I have been there as a child, but I had no memory of it. On the other hand, it was about as I expected: a tiny town with a lakeside street full of houses built in the early 1900s when the area was an important tourism destination, with older buildings a bit higher up on the hills (because streams in this area will flood). And of course, getting there by foot rather than by train we also saw the parts where real people live (but not work: that’s cross-border commuters country).

Dried winter grass with two strips of frost, exactly under the shade of a fence.

Soon after arriving in Porto Ceresio we stopped to eat our lunch on a bench at the lakeside; up to then we had been pretty comfortable in the clothing we had decided to wear: there was plenty of frost on the ground, in the shade, but the sun was warm and the temperatures were cleanly above freezing. Removing the gloves to eat, however, resulted in quite cold hands, and we didn’t want to stay still for longer than strictly necessary.

So we spent another hour and a bit walking around Porto Ceresio like proper tourists and taking pictures. There was an exhibition of nativity scenes all around the streets, but to get a map one had to go to either facebook or instagram, or wait for the opening hours of an office that were later than the train we planned to get to go back home, so we only saw maybe half of them, as we walked around: some were quite nice, some were nativity scenes, and some showed that the school children must have had some fun making them.

three gnome adjacent creatures made of branches of evergreen trees, with a pointy hat made of moss, big white moustaches and red Christmas tree balls at the end of the hat and as a nose. They are wrapped in LED strings, and the lake can be seen in the background.

Another Christmas decoration were groups of creatures made of evergreen branches that dotted the sidewalks around the lake: I took pictures of the first couple of groups, and then after seeing a few more something clicked in my brain, and I noticed that they were wrapped in green LED strings, like chains, and they had a red ball that was supposed to be the nose, but could just be around the mouth area, and suddenly I felt the need to play a certain chord to release them, but sadly I didn’t have a weaponized guitar on me :D

A bench in the shape of an open book, half of the pages folded in a reversed U to make the seat and half of the pages standing straight to form the backrest. It has the title page and beginning of the Constitution of the Italian Republic.

Another thing that we noticed were some benches in the shape of books, with book quotations on them; most were on reading-related topics, but the one with the Constitution felt worth taking a picture of, especially these days.

And then, our train was waiting at the station, and we had to go back home for the afternoon; it was a nice outing, if a bit brief, and we agreed to do it again, possibly with a bit of a detour to make the walk a bit longer. And then maybe one day we’ll train to do the whole 5-6 hour thing through the hills.

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@Fabio e invece no! :D sempre disattendere le aspettative! :D
@Fabio

food

and under “technically Christmas leftovers” (ingredients bought in excess for Christmas and not opened): sushi with smoked salmon and avocado.

/me makes a convincing impersionation of Tux (i.e. a penguin stuffed full of herrings)

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Happy Jabber Day 🎂 🥳

On January 4, 1999, Jabber was first announced to the public¹.

Twenty-seven years later, Jabber—or XMPP, as it became known after standardization through the #IETF—remains the only truly vendor-independent, federated instant messaging platform.

In almost three decades, XMPP has never stopped evolving and remains our best tool for digital independence.

¹: tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?s…

#DigitalIndependenceDay #Jabber #XMPP #DiDit #DigitalSovereignty #DiDay #JabberDay

Open Real Time Messaging System - Slashdot

Jeremie writes "Jabber is a new project I recently started to create a complete open-source platform for Instant Messaging with transparent communication to other IM systems(ICQ, AIM, etc).
tech.slashdot.org
#xmpp #jabber #DigitalSovereignty #ietf #diday #didit #jabberday #digitalindependenceday
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We all just pretend the Matrix protocol with federation, builtin E2E encryption and several open source client and server implementations does not exist.
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Daniel Gultsch
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Show me the actively developed alternative server implementations and show me the clients that don't depend on the Matrix SDK.

Element might work fine for end users but when it comes to vendor independence #Matrix is a joke.

#matrix
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Element only develops the Rust and JS SDKs. And the libOLM crypto library of course. All other SDKs are community projects.
On the server side, there is Conduit which forked into conduwuit which forked into Tuwunel which will eventually reach maturity, if the moon is in the right phase. The phone number mapping service is controlled by the foundation. You could use alternative ones or none.

I think Matrix is getting there eventually.

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Daniel Gultsch
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@hisold Tuwunel sounds interesting. Thank you. To be honest I lost track after the fork of the fork got forked again.

I’ll have a lot more respect for Matrix once I can deploy that without running any soon to be rug pulled, VC funded Riot-New Vector-Element Inc code.

@hisold
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As far as I can tell, work on the standard has slowed down due to being more and more complete. This is good for projects implementing it.

I think the entire ecosystem is on a good path. It needs fair competition between companies and community projects. Let's wait another 2 years and see what we get.

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Dan
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@debacle @maikel adding to XML vs. JSON this illuminating article process-one.net/blog/stop-tell…

Stop Telling Us XMPP Should Use JSON

XML vs. JSON: Stop Worrying About the Wrong Layer
Mickaël Rémond (ProcessOne)
@Debacle @Maikel 🇪🇺 🇪🇸
las_lallero ha ricondiviso questo.

Comunque, oggi ho preso un treno di #trenord ed è arrivato con uno o due minuti di anticipo

certo, è sabato.

tra capodanno e l'epifania.

con mezza linea chiusa per cui i treni del nodo di milano non potevano interferire.

però era in anticipo :D

#trenord

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I suggest you support Standard Ebooks 📚

“Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of … copyright restrictions, and free of cost.” ⚖️

See what’s free to read on January 1 👇
standardebooks.org/blog/public…

Please boost 🙏

#StandardEbooks #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #Copyright #Ebooks #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Python

CC @standardebooks

Various electronic devices showing the same ebook on the screen.
#python #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #publicdomain #copyright #ebooks #StandardEbooks #publicdomainday @Standard Ebooks
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Paolo Melchiorre
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from the website:
“Ebook projects like Project Gutenberg transcribe ebooks and make them available for the widest number of reading devices. Standard Ebooks takes ebooks from sources like Project Gutenberg, formats and typesets them using a carefully designed and professional-grade style manual, fully proofreads and corrects them, and then builds them to create a new edition that takes advantage of state-of-the-art ereader and browser technology.“
standardebooks.org/
Elena ``of Valhalla'' ha ricondiviso questo.

As 2026 approaches a happy new year's toast to you all with this marvellous 4th century Roman cage-cup, which bears an inscription, a toast that reads:

BIBE MULTIS ANNIS - Drink for many years!

Cheers and here's to a far better year in 2026! 🥂

#NewYear2026 🍀

On display at Antikensammlung München

A close-up of a cage cup. It comprises an inner, translucent glass beaker and an outer decorative shell. The shell, affixed to the beaker via short stems or shanks, features circles at its body and an inscription at its top.
#newyear2026
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(0.25 l / 1 gallon * 2 pounds) to g

needed to write no person living in a sane world ever.

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Marcos Dione
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OH. g is grams, not 9.8m/sˆ2...

still, units don't seem to match, volume times mass converted to mass?

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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Marcos Dione volume (proper unit) divided by volume (ungodly unit) multiplied by mass (ungodly unit) , the result converted to mass (proper unit)
@Marcos Dione
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@Kermode it wasn't anything special, just checking the ratio of shellac to alcohol that is typically used as a wood finish, and converting it to sane units I have an intuitive feeling for.
@Kermode
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Prepping!

Things we're doing in preparation for the incoming ice storm tonight – toots have inspired a few items here, so I'm sharing additional stuff in progress in case it inspires others too.

A thread…

1/n

#ONstorm #iceStorm #IcyOttawa

#icestorm #onstorm #icyottawa

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Electronics in a power outage.

Consider turning off and unplugging potentially sensitive electronics. I'm thinking my NAS backup box is a good candidate. I have a laptop, but my SO's desktop will be shutdown overnight too.

The risk is from repeated power fluctuations or surges with a grid being hammered by tree falls, heavy ice and high winds.

15/n

#icyOttawa

#icyottawa
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Ross of Ottawa
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Where do you park overnight?

With ice accretion and high winds, it's probably a good idea to think about the risk of falling tree limbs. An alternate parking spot, or garage might be a good choice.

I'm a bit worried a falling tree branch will knock some of the hail dents out of my car's roof. I've become attached to them.

16/n

#icyOttawa

#icyottawa
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dear #DIYverse,

does anybody know how long #wheatPaste takes to dry and to cure?

i.e. how long should I keep the pieces under weights, and how long should I wait until covering it with waterproofing material

I'm assuming somewhere between overnight (~8 hours) and a day (~24 hours) for the first part, is it wildly off?

right now the specific application is gluing together 4 layers of corrugated cardboard approximately B3 sized, but generic guidelines are welcome for the future

#wheatpaste #DIYverse
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua quando son scesa nel pomeriggio qualcuno, probabilmente il gatto, aveva appena spostato i pesi, e sembra attaccato bene

per andare avanti a farci cose aspetto domani o dopo, a seconda degli impegni, comunque

@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

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E come anticipato ieri sera: questo è quello che ho trovato in cantina:

una pila di Andata e Ritorno, mensile delle Ferrovie Nord per i viaggiatori con titoli tipo “Come e quando vengono lavati i treni”, “Arrivano le tariffe ferroviarie in Euro” e “Intendo protestare vivamente…”

la propaganda stampata su cartoncino di #FerrovieNord, prima dell'unione in #Trenord, con cui speravano di tener buoni i pendolari mentre i treni nuovi non si facevano vedere (ricorda qualcosa? :D ), e qualcuna delle copie ha pure l'etichetta con il mio indirizzo, perché lo spedivano pure a casa agli abbonati! (questa cosa non me la ricordavo, onestamente)

a qualcuno interessano? io non ho posto per tenerli, quindi se a nessuno interessano mi tocca farli finire nel riciclo carta

@LaVi @Matteꙮ Italia @Yaku 🐗

#trenord #FerrovieNord @Yaku 🐗 @Matteꙮ Italia @LaVi

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@Yaku 🐗 @Matteꙮ Italia @LaVi ah, e in realtà nel trafiletto c'era la spiegazione del perché avevano pubblicato la lettera (per avere ”un rapporto più diretto e rispettoso dell'utenza”), la risposta sui vari punti era sotto alla lettera e a pagina quattro
@Yaku 🐗 @Matteꙮ Italia @LaVi
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Matteꙮ Italia
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OK quindi più o meno quel che mi han sempre risposto, probabilmente si tengono lì quel volantino come template 😄
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Project manager: "What's technical debt? Explain it to me like I'm 6 years old"

Devs:

(source: "Richard Scarry's Storybook Dictionary" : archive.org/details/1scarryRic… )

A small comic drawing. It represents two houses, and a text. The house on the left with a hole in its roof on a rainy day, and the character, apparently an anthropomorphic dog, can be seen through the window on the ground floor. On the right, the same house with its hole but it's sunny outside and the character is seen hopping through the roof's hole and watches the sun. At the bottom, there is the following text: « Haggis has a hole in his roof. He never fixed it because on rainy days it is too wet to work. And on sunny days it doesn’t need fixing. »

Storybook Dictionary Richard Scarry's : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

  Storybook Dictionary Richard  Scarry's
Internet Archive
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Giovanni Mascellani
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@syllopsium @njr I doesn't necessarily have to be dangerous or close to braking. The point of technical debt, just like financial debt, is that it gets a thing done quickly, at the expense of a recurring interest until you pay it back. Good idea if it enables you to reap some short-term gain and then you eventually pay it back. It becomes a trap if you never pay it back and the interest ends up draining your budget (and makes you unable to ever pay back).
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Giovanni Mascellani
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@syllopsium @njr It's fine to have a hole in your roof if every time it rains you can allocate some of your resources to mop the floor or hold an umbrella on the hole. If in the meantime that enables you to do other stuff that gives you more short-term advantage, great. If you end up doing this too much and have a hole in the roof, a broken door and shattered windows you're always using all your time to address short-term issues and will never fix anything any more.
@Pete / Syllopsium @Nick Radcliffe

Intanto su #trenord varesenews.it/2025/12/un-cervo…

(consigliata l'apertura con ad blocker, che altrimenti il sito è inguardabile)


Un cervo entra in corsa alla stazione di Induno Olona

Il maestoso esemplare si si è inoltrato nella trincea della ferrovia Varese-Porto Ceresio, spingendosi fino alla banchina. Ritardi sulle linee transfrontaliere e per Porto Ceresio
Roberto Morandi (Vareseweb Srl)
#trenord
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Luca Sironi
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a me fanno morire i siti che hanno l'avviso per chiederti se per piacere puoi disabilitare l'adblock, solo per il loro sito.
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THE GOAT HAS FALLEN
GOD ITSELF SENT A STORM TO TEAR IT DOWN
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After 15 months of hard work, my dad has finished this impressive model of Minas Tirith! It is 1.4 m high and entirely hand-made out of wood. One of the most time-consuming parts was manually engraving the bricks on all walls and buildings, but this was key to properly convey the huge size of the city. Everything was painted by hand, adding some wear and tear. For a behind-the-scenes look at how he built this check out this video: youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Ywlc8ojj…

#lotr #MastoArt #art #craft

A model of a tall fortress city. Buildings are arranged in different circular levels, each smaller than the one below, like a wedding cake. All levels are crowded with lots of different buildings and towers of various sizes, giving the city a busy look. On the top level there's a palace and a tall spire. There's a huge flat rocky spur slicing the city in half. The buildings and rocks are mostly white. The model rests on a table, with some tools visible in the background.

- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
www.youtube.com
#art #mastoart #LOTR #craft
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Juan Carlos Muñoz
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And here are some additional shots from different angles. Enjoy!
A view of the Minas Tirith model from below, with the camera looking up, as if one was approaching the city at ground level.
A closeup view of the castle on the top level of Minas Tirith. the model is full of intricate details like tiny windows and engraved bricks. There is a circular garden in front of the castle, with a white tree and two statues.
A top-down view of Minas Tirith, shot from behind, showing the buildings below and the long and narrow platform on the rocky spur that divides the city.
A top-down view of Minas Tirith, shot from the front, showing the buildings below and the long and narrow platform on the rocky spur that divides the city.

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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ha ricondiviso questo.

meanwhile, I've just used another bit of the flour that has been around the house for, I don't know? three years? after suffering a bit of delivery mishap that made it not really something I'd trust for eating.

It looked like flour, it didn't smell bad, currently the forbidden budino smells like lavender oil

nobody will ever know how it tastes (hopefully not even the bugs)

#diy #glue

#diy #glue

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ha ricondiviso questo.

Elena ``of Valhalla''
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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e intanto ho usato ancora un po' di quella farina che è rimasta in giro per casa per, boh, tre anni? dopo aver subito traumi durante il trasporto che l'hanno resa non proprio adatta all'uso alimentare.

aveva l'aspetto di farina, non aveva cattivi odori, al momento il budino proibito odora di olio essenziale di lavanda

nessuno saprà mai che sapore ha (spero neanche gli insetti)

#faiDaTe #colla

#faidate #colla

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