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Poll involving definitions of kink

Some context for this #Poll
I'm gray-ace, aro, and am active in my local #kink scene. I regularly have people for which this does not compute because they see kink as rooted in sex. For me, kink is not inherently sexual at all. It's inherently intimate, yes, but #sex and #intimacy are also different things. They can overlap for people but I still regard them as distinct concepts.

Before I decide to write some long posts about this, I wanted to get a feel for where folx in my fedi-orbit are with these concepts.

  • Kink is not inherently sexual (73%, 80 votes)
  • Intimacy is not inherently sexual (88%, 96 votes)
  • Kink is inseparable from sex (7%, 8 votes)
  • To be kinky and have fetishes are the same thing (7%, 8 votes)
  • Other (Comment) (9%, 10 votes)
109 voters. Poll end: 11 mesi fa

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Allora, se vi ritrovate per le mani una corposa collezione di libri di cui volete o vi dovete sbarazzare: ho fatto settimana scorsa un colloquio con un'azienda che rivende libri di seconda mano (su Amazon, eBay e innumerevoli altri siti specializzati solo in quello). Durante il colloquio mi è stato spiegato come funziona il tutto, per cui ecco qui, sperando vi aiuti a decidere che fare dei vostri tomi.

I libri usati vengono acquistati in massa, tanto da privati, quanto da istituzioni e altre aziende.

Da questa massa, tutto quello che è troppo rovinato o decisamente obsoleto (vecchie enciclopedie, atlanti, guide di viaggio ecc.) viene immediatamente buttato nel bidone.

Dei libri restanti, tutti in condizioni buone o molto buone, una quota altissima, tra l'80 e il 90%, mi hanno detto, finisce anch'essa nella pattumiera.

Come mai? Perché il valore commerciale è troppo basso e quindi non vale la pena di inserirli nel database e rivenderli. Il valore commerciale viene suggerito dall'apposito software di inventario, che pesca i prezzi per lo stesso libro da un tot di siti e ne dà una panoramica.

Nello specifico, questo "valore soglia" era di poco meno di 9 € per i libri sotto il chilo di peso e poco più di 12 per quelli sopra il chilo (cambiano le spese di spedizione).

Do abbastanza per scontato che qualunque sito vi offra di comprare in blocco la vostra biblioteca adoperi la stessa logica, ché tutti devono fare profitto.

A vendere ci guadagnate qualcosina, ma meno di quanto guadagnino loro. E la stragrande maggioranza dei vostri libri finirà comunque nel bidone.

Non volete che facciano quella fine? Posso suggerirvi alcune cose.

La prima è di stilare una bella listona dei vostri libri in un foglio di calcolo. Metteteci nomi e cognomi degli autori, titoli, editori, anno di pubblicazione e, se presente, anche l'ISBN. Presentate poi questa lista alla vostra biblioteca civica o statale o scolastica (o tutte quante) e chiedete loro se accettano donazioni e se ci sono titoli nel vostro catalogo che possano interessare loro.

La seconda è di provare a venderveli voi. Porta via un sacco di tempo, soprattutto se vi mettete in testa di fare un minimo di ricerca sui prezzi attuali almeno su Amazon e eBay, ma se non altro i soldi ve li intascate voi.

Potete provare anche a venderli a un mercatino dell'usato, ma ho il sentore che anche in quel caso la maggior parte possano finire nel bidone.

Infine, se dalle vostre parti ci sono cabine telefoniche convertite a mini-biblioteche dove prendere e mettere libri liberamente, potete piazzare qualcosina anche lì.

Tutto costa più fatica che venderli in blocco a un unico acquirente, ma almeno così, forse, ne finiscono di meno al macero.

#MastoLibri #Libri #LibriSegreti

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@Floreana @ciccillo @endecasillabo in effetti non è il primo posto dove sento di biblioteche che possono accettare solo libri nuovi, non nel senso di “in buono stato”, ma nel senso di “usciti nell'anno corrente o giù di lì”, perché è quello che gli viene richiesto, e non hanno spazio per altro :(

Qui intanto ieri sera scrivendo un messaggio di tutt'altra natura l'autocompletamento mi ha ricordato dell'esistenza dell'hashtag #fuckAldo

stamattina sono uscita a stendere la biancheria, e già si muore (contrariamente ai giorni scorsi in cui si moriva solo nelle ore centrali e pomeridiane della giornata)

(ma sospetto che non sia tanto la temperatura quanto la sua combinazione con l'umidità)

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ten. weeks. of. pink!

thedreamstress.com/2025/06/18t…

(this is the first week)

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Metti che una persona abbia aperto un dialogo con la propria estetista su dinamiche di coppia tossiche, narcisismo, privilegio e femminismo.

Metti che l'estetista si dimostri interessata e volesse leggere di piú.

Alla persona piacerebbe trovare risorse che siano sia accessibili all'estetista (e in italiano), che magari anche legate a un gruppo che poi possa essere un buon riferimento per l'estetista per continuare le sue ricerche e il suo percorso.

Aiutatemi. Cosa c'è di valido in giro?

(gradite risposte se conoscete, e boost se conoscete altre persone che conoscono)

#femminismo #coscienzadiclasse #materiale

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Piú lato aborto e autodeterminazione c'è anche prochoice.it/

Parlando con attiviste di prochoice mi era anche venuto in mente di redigere un quadernino di numeri di emergenza da tenere nelle varie collettive con riferimenti da chiamare in caso qualcuno abbia bisogno di aiuto in merito a situazioni di violenza, difficoltà ad abortire, abusi in famiglia, difficoltà legate al genere o alla neurodiversità, immigrazione, eccetera

Filed under: maybe not the best idea ever, but it worked

I was wearing a cartridge pleated skirt with 4+ m of hem, of course over a corded petticoat, and heeled boots

of course the car was parked in such a way that the driver's side wasn't accessible, so I had to get on it from the passenger's side

and when I finally managed to get myself and all of my skirts in the driver's seat, I realized I had forgotten my glasses, and had to get out and in again.

(but it was easier than I expected when I found myself in front of the car and had a uh-oh moment)

#historyBounding #costumingPeopleProblems

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Is everyone clear on the fact that consumer LLMs aren't making medical or engineering breakthroughs? Scientists might make real discoveries using machine learning, but it's machine learning that's trained on smaller, purpose-built models containing specialized data assembled by teams of professionals, not by indiscriminately scraping DeviantArt, LiveJournal and Reddit.
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I've just started handsewing a backpack, so I don't really need another handsewing project, right?

well…

the backpack is at a stage where I have to think, and today I'm not really able to think, and also it's somewhat heavy sewing, and sometimes I'd prefer to do something lighter, so my plan was to have a second project to alternate it with.

something quick and easy, right? of course not :D

what about dealing with 4.5 meters of lightweight fabric, hemming all of it and then bringing it down to 36ish cm? That's more like it :D

I've decided to make a shirt by following the instructions for a 16th century hemd, except in cotton voile, and a bit shorter so that I can tuck it into my jeans if I want.

katafalk.wordpress.com/2012/06…

Current stage: hemming all of the top edge.

#sewing #handsewing #historyBounding

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this afternoon I was too tired to think, so instead of working on the backpack I kept hemming the neck edge, and I'm past the two thirds point.

The next step should be marking the points for the neck gathering, but depending on how the backpack is going I may start to sew the bottom of the side seams so that I can also hem the bottom edge any time my brain wants to remain off.

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oggi pomeriggio ero troppo stanca per pensare, quindi anziché lavorare sullo zaino sono andata avanti a orlare il collo, e ho superato i due terzi.

In teoria il prossimo passo sarebbe segnare i punti per arricciare il collo, ma a seconda di come va con lo zaino potrei iniziare a cucire la parte in basso dei fianchi, in modo da poter fare anche l'orlo in fondo nel caso in cui il mio cervello abbia bisogno di rimanere spento.

Honeycomb shirt


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Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear, GNU Terry Pratchett
A woman wearing a purplish blue shirt with very wide sleeves, gathered at the cuffs and shoulder with honeycombing, and also a rectangle of honeycombing in the front between the neckline and just above the bust. The shirt is gathered at the waist with a wide belt, and an almost lilac towel hangs from the belt.

After cartridge pleating, the next fabric manipulation technique I wanted to try was smocking, of the honeycombing variety, on a shirt.

My current go-to pattern for shirts is the 1880 menswear oneI have on my website: I love the fact that most of the fabric is still cut as big rectangles, but the shaped yoke and armscyes make it significantly more comfortable than the earlier style where most of the shaping at the neck was done with gathers into a straight collar.

A woman wearing a shirt in the same fabric; this one has a slit in the front, is gathered into a tall rectangular collar and has dropped shoulders because it's cut from plain rectangles. The sleeves are still huge, and gathered into tall cuffs. It is worn belted (with the same wide white elastic belt used in the previous picture) and the woman is wearing a matching fabric mask, because the picture has been taken in 2021.

In my stash I had a cut of purple-blue hopefully cotton [#cotton] I had bought for a cheap price and used for my first attempt at anhistorically accurate pirate / vampire shirt that has now become by official summer vaccine jab / blood test shirt (because it has the long sleeves I need, but they are pretty easy to roll up to give access to my arm.

That shirt tends to get out of the washing machine pretty wearable even without ironing, which made me think it could be a good fabric for something that may be somewhat hard to iron (but also made me suspicious about the actual composition of the fabric, even if it feels nice enough even when worn in the summer).

A piece of fabric with many rows of honeycombing laid on top of the collar and yoke of the shirt; a metal snap peeks from behind the piece of honeycombed fabric. There are still basting lines for the armscyes.

Of course I wanted some honeycombing on the front, but I was afraid that the slit in the middle of it would interfere with the honeycombing and gape, so I decided to have the shirt open in an horizontal line at the yoke.

I added instructions to the pattern pagefor how I changed the opening in the front, basically it involved finishing the front edge of the yoke, and sewing the honeycombed yoke to a piece of tape with snaps.

Another change from the pattern is that I used plain rectangles for the sleeves, and a square gusset, rather than the new style tapered sleeve , because I wanted to have more fabric to gather at the wrist. I did the side and sleeve seams with a hem + whipstitch method rather than a felled seam, which may have helped, but the sleeves went into the fitted armscyes with no issue.

I think that if (yeah, right. when) I’ll make another sleeve in this style I’ll sew it into the side seam starting 2-3 cm lower than the place I’ve marked on the pattern for the original sleeve.

The back of the unbelted shirt: it has a fitted yoke, and then it is quite wide and unfitted, with the fabric gathered into the yoke with a row of honeycombing and some pleating on top.

I also used a row of honeycombing on the back and two on the upper part of the sleeves, instead of the gathering, and of course some rows to gather the cuffs.

The honeycombing on the back was a bit too far away from the edge, so it’s a bit of an odd combination of honeycombing and pleating that I don’t hate, but don’t love either. It’s on the back, so I don’t mind. On the sleeves I’ve done the honeycombing closer to the edge and I’ve decided to sew the sleeve as if it was a cartridge pleated sleeve, and that worked better.

Because circumstances are still making access to my sewing machine more of a hassle than I’d want it to be, this was completely sewn by hand, and at a bit more than a month I have to admit that near the end it felt like it had been taken forever. I’m not sure whether it was the actual sewing being slow, some interruptions that happened when I had little time to work on it, or the fact that I’ve just gone through a time when my brain kept throwing new projects at me, and I kept thinking of how to make those. Thanks brain.

Even when on a hurry to finish it, however, it was still enjoyable sewing, and I think I’ll want to do more honeycombing in the future.

The same woman with arms wide to show the big sleeves and the shirt unbelted to show that it is pretty wide also from the front, below the yoke and the honeycombing. The back can be seen as about 10 cm longer than the front.

Anyway, it’s done! And it’s going straight into my daily garment rotation, because the weather is getting hot, and that means it’s definitely shirt time.


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I absolutely love your honeycomb shirt! 🐝🍯
It's not only incredibly beautiful but also a masterful work of art. The intricate design and attention to detail are truly impressive. I can see the time and effort you put into creating it, and it really shows! 🎨

Your talent for crafting such unique and stunning pieces never ceases to amaze me. Keep up the fantastic work! :blob_cat_heart:

anyway, 2019 journal from the CGIL/FISAC union (workers of insurance companies) 1, fancy moleskine notebook from the insurance company 0

no feathering, almost no see-through (and the paper isn't too thick), nice to write on

compared to “lol, use a pencil, ok”

#fountainPen #fountainPenPeoplePriorities

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comunque, agenda 2019 CGIL/FISAC (assicurativi) 1, quaderno fighetto moleskine dell'assicurazione 0

niente spiumaggio, sul retro non si vede quasi niente (e la carta non è troppo spessa), piacevole scriverci

confrontato a “lol, usa una matita, ok”

#stilografiche #PrioritàDegliStilografari

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It's that time again! The systemd v258 release is coming closer. Let's restart the "what's new" series of posts for this iteration! Hence:

1️⃣ Here's the 1st post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v258 release of systemd. #systemd258

As most of you probably know "systemctl start" is how you manually start a systemd unit. Starting a unit can fail, and systemd tracks that for you and tells you this. When you encounter such a failure the next thing you'd typically do…

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I think I'm officially insane, but

new project started: a new backpack, completely sewn by hand,

because I have the fabric (off white coated cotton canvas), and I do have some thread suitable for sewing backpacks by machine, but it's black (and afaik they don't make it in any other colour), or I have some sturdy linen thread in the right colour, but it doesn't go in the machine.

Fabric has been cut, I'll finish this herbal tea and then I'll try to sew it and see how it will work.

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@Kermode usually it's considered quite important to match the strength of the thread to the strength of the fabric, and if a precise match isn't possible to have thread that is *weaker* than the fabric, so that it won't tear it (resewing when thread breaks is always easier than having to mend / patch the fabric *and* resewing it)

of course if the fabric is some kind of abrasion resistant work-clothing synthetic, I see no reason not to use fishing line (other than possibly hand health issues for the seamstress)

earworm in italiano

e durante la cena è stata citata la parola intorno (in contesto generico)

e @Diego Roversi ha pronunciato le parole “per ogni”

e adesso una voce nella mia mente sta canticchiando

“per ogni epsilon, esiste un delta
per ogni ypsilon¹, minor di delta
eeeeffffeee di ypsilon minor di eepsiiilon”

(sapete su che musica, vero?)

(e adesso ce l'avete in testa anche voi, vero?)

¹ y anziché x per ragioni di metrica

food, meat, but the real point is the bread

Dinner this evening was chicken breast with yogurt sauce in pita bread

followed by cleaning every leftover of yogurt sauce with another piece of pita bread

followed by “I still had some pita bread, I could put some raspberry jam on it, right?”

I may have eaten too much pita bread

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Today I have been wondering whether there are mechanical pencils (for 2 mm leads) in the shape of a carpenter pencil, and apparently if they exist they aren't easy to find online.

And now I wonder how hard it would be to take something cheap like eshop.koh-i-noor.eu/_c62812608… , take the mechanism out (that's the easy part, I've just checked on mine and it's easy), and then either 3d-print or machine a carpenter pencil-shaped case for it.

(Not that I'd *need* it. I probably would have no use for it. But it would be cool if somebody did it :D )

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Oggi mi son chiesta se esistano dei portamine (per le mine da 2 mm) a forma di matita da muratore / falegname, e a quanto pare se anche esistono non si trovano facilmente online.

E adesso mi sto chiedendo quanto complicato sia prendere qualcosa di economico tipo eshop.koh-i-noor.eu/_c62812608… , tirar fuori il meccanismo (questa è la parte facile, ci ho appena provato con la mia ed è banale) e poi stampare 3d o lavorare nel metallo un nuovo corpo di forma piatta.

(Non che mi serva. Non me ne farei niente. Ma sarebbe bello se qualcuno lo facesse :D )

My mother: “we could go to the plant nursery and buy a few flowers”

The flowers @Diego Roversi and I choose: strawberry, raspberry, and they were out of blueberries but they'll probably be there next week

I mean, they *are* flowering plants, aren't they?

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@Diego Roversi @rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @Dún Piteog (dove con “budino” in realtà intendo “latte in cui è stata fatta cuocere della maizena in modo da farlo addensare, mangiato caldo o freddo a seconda della stagione”, ma mi risulta che si possa anche fare il budino con tutti i crismi)
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@Dún Piteog @rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @Diego Roversi

ah, e se qualcuno ha altri suggerimenti di piante utili che si possano tenere in vaso e che siano anche gradevoli da vedere ditelo che sono tutte orecchie

(se non ricordo male le aromatiche già prese al giro scorso sono salvia, maggiorana, timo, basilico, prezzemolo, i soliti classici)

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TIL: overpass-turbo


Metti che una mattina ti viene il bisogno di avere l'elenco dei capoluoghi di provincia e relative posizioni.

E ti viene in mente che queste informazioni su openstreetmap già ci sono. Come fare a estrarle?

Apro il sito overpass-turbo (overpass-turbo.eu/), e vedo che c'è già un esempio che cerca le fontanelle. Ok, sembra semplice, ma se devo fare qualcosa di più complicato?

Guardo in alto e vedo nel menu "Wizard". Permette di generare query complicate partendo da descrizioni semplici in inglese. Con tanto di esempi di ricerche più complicate. Un veloce giro sulla wiki di openstreetmap per vedere i campi giusti per la query, guardo gli attributi di qualche città a caso per vedere qualche esempio e arrivo a questa:

(place=city or place=town) and (capital=2 or capital=4 or capital=6) in italy

e la query generata è:

[out:json][timeout:25];
// fetch area “italy” to search in
{{geocodeArea:italy}}->.searchArea;
// gather results
(
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="2"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="4"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="6"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="2"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="4"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="6"](area.searchArea);
);
// print results
out geom;

Che fondamentalmente vuol dire, città con più di 10.000 abitanti e che siano capoluoghi di provincia(6) / regione(4) /stato(2).

A questo punto il tutto può essere salvato in un file json.


Prossimo passo: usare jq per estrarre solo le informazioni che mi servono.

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I may have done it again

my mother invited 3 people for tomorrow. 4 people with her, and 6 people with us (we may or may not spend most of the time with them, but we do plan to eat our share of the food :D )

I may have already prepared 1 kg of rye flour and 0.5 kg of white flour, and have plans for a dough with 1 kg of durum flour this evening. Plus there is a 0.5 kg of white flour dough that will be cooked for dinner this evening.

0.5 kg of flour per person is reasonable, right? :D

#bakingBread

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I have a piece of cordura with holes cut out in it

I have a hot air station, technically bought for (de)soldering

I want to have a piece of cordura with holes with stable edges

I have no idea what temperature to use

I should wait until there is an adult in the house to supervise me (and grab the fire blanket if needed), right?

#MYOG

(the adult will be here in a few hours)

#MYOG
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Ho un pezzo di cordura con dei buchi

Ho una stazione ad aria calda, tecnicamente comprata per (dis)saldare

Voglio avere un pezzo di cordura con dei buchi i cui bordi siano stabili

Non ho idea di che temperatura usare

Forse è meglio se aspetto di avere la supervisione di un adulto (che possa andare a prendere la coperta antincendio se serve), vero?

(l'adulto arriva tra qualche ora)

dream

It was alarm_clock_time minus 10 minutes and a radio somewhere started playing Painkiller, so I was gently¹ woken up

halfway through the song, however, the music stopped, and I realized I had been dreaming it, and I had woken up too much for it to continue.

I was telling @Diego Roversi what had just happened, and the real alarm clock started to ring, and I woke up, this time for real.

¹ FSVO gently, but it worked :D

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sogno

erano le ora della sveglia meno 10 minuti, una radio da qualche parte ha cominciato a suonare Painkiller e sono stata delicatamente¹ svegliata

a metà canzione la musica si è fermata, e mi sono resa conto che la stavo sognando, e mi ero svegliata troppo per continuare a sentirla.

Stavo raccontando a @Diego Roversi cosa era appena successo, è suonata la sveglia vera e mi sono svegliata, stavolta davvero.

¹ per qualche valore di delicatamente, ma era piacevole, ok :D

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sogno

Sensitive content

Tonight at 5:19 my phone rung. it was my mother's phone number.

The call went something like:

me> hello? hello?
me> hello?
her> what? how?
me> hello?
her> my phone called you as I tried to check the time

luckily @Diego Roversi was reading in bed because he couldn't sleep, and I had just half-opened one eye enough to see the light from his ebook reader (and then closed it again, but had not completely fallen asleep yet), so it wasn't as traumatic as it could have been.

Then this morning we were all in her living room, her phone was on the table, I could see that *she wasn't touching the phone* and her phone called me again!

Should I worry?

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L'8 e 9 giugno si vota per il #ReferendumCittadinanza
per ridurre da 10 a 5 gli anni di residenza legale in Italia richiesti per poter avanzare la domanda di cittadinanza italiana.
Questi miei disegni compaiono sul numero di Aprile di Ossigeno, interamente dedicato al referendum sulla cittadinanza del prossimo 8 e 9 giugno, in quello che per noi è l’appuntamento politico più rilevante del 2025. (continua nel commento⬇️ )
People #diritti #politichesociali
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#bookbinding #diy

Does anyone know of an online library of open license, interposed, print-ready books?

I've been bookbinding copies of copyleft books you can only get as PDFs, and helping some authors and a game dev group I know make their books available as binding-ready files.

Is there already a site for them somewhere? If not, it's something I'll try to do, eventually

I know prepping the files is part of the fun but if it lowers the barrier for entry for bookbinding I think it's worth it

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@foosel that's funny, that's exactly the one I use! (It's nice to know that part matches even if I have a ton to learn elsewhere) I was amazed at how easy it made things.

I've only done one TTRPG in the past (they published my interposed files and someone made one!) I've been binding my softcover books as if they're hardcovers, signatures and all, and gluing them into canvas printed with a plotter printer. How did you do the cover for yours? The glossy paper/cardstock looks very professional!

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Oh, softcover binding with signatures that way is something I still need to try 😀

The cover on my core of The Perilous Void was just some 200gsm card stock I have here, originally bought for printing photos on. It has a bit of a matte finish. I printed it and the text block (which I used basic 80gsm paper for) on my colour laser.

Most of the books I so far case-bound as hard covers with cloth, and then used the vinyl cutter to put the title on cover and spine.

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that's really cool! The Vinyl looks so good! Most of my hardcover books are covered in that plotter-printed canvas (which is nice because I can make full color/art covers) but I did do one with home-dyed bookcloth etched with a laser cutter!
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@foosel Prepping the files is a barrier - I wasn't aware of that Bookbinder tool, that looks pretty neat.

I wrote up the steps I used of prepping an epub file for print, some it it may be of interest for this exercise, I used command line tools:
hotelexistence.ca/printing-and…

If I were to do it again, I'd definitely check out that Bookbinder, it looks like it would get around all the command line steps.

@Matthew Dockrey

yesterday evening, just before sleeping, I watched your custom font wheels video (youtube.com/watch?v=vi81D3YJJi…)

and then I couldn't sleep until I wrote down on a piece of paper two words: Ogham and Roman Cursive

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham (I think you might just *hate* this one, but I hope it's a nice kind of hate :) )
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_cu…

And then... you do know about Verdurian, right? zompist.com/vergram.html#Alpha…

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The words 'fiction' and 'dough' derive from the same root.

They stem from a Proto-Indo-European root that meant "to shape" and "to mould".

'Fiction' came to English through Latin and French. Its meaning now denotes something that's shaped by the mind.

'Dough', something that's kneaded, was inherited from Germanic.

Click the graphic to see the journeys these words took.

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