Modern XMPP Server
Posted on December 1, 2023
Just a quick mention that I’ve updated my instructions on how I configured my XMPP serverto its current status under Debian Bookworm.
And yes, it took me just a bit of time, we release when we’re ready here :D
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TIL that dogs, cats and rabbits can visit most people in some nearby hospitals, as long as they have a vet certificate and permission is asked two working days in advance.
(source and the full details in Italian:
asst-settelaghi.it/documents/4… )
Now, what I was looking for on the hospital website was where the covid and flu vaccines are being done, and they don't seem to tell, but LOOK! KITTENS!
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TIL che cani, gatti e conigli possono visitare la maggior parte dei pazienti in alcuni ospedali, purché ci sia un certificato del veterinario e si chieda l'autorizzazione due giorni lavorativi prima.
asst-settelaghi.it/documents/4…
Ora, io ero sul sito dell'ospedale a cercare dove sia il centro vaccinale per i vaccini covid / influenza, e non sembra che lo dicano, ma GATTINI!
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I've been working on a full-on RPG for the Pepper&Carrot RPG for a while now. It's currently in playtest and I'd love for other Fate folks to give it a peek and let me know what you think.
You can download the PDF from here: craigmaloney.itch.io/peppercar…
And if you want to see the source you can visit its repo here: framagit.org/peppercarrot/deri…
Thanks for your indulgence. I hope you have fun with it. Please let me know if you have any feedback.
Pepper&Carrot Fate Accelerated RPG by Craig Maloney
A Fate-Accelerated RPG version of the Pepper&Carrot universe of Herevaitch.io
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TIL: using an hot air station (the soldering kind) to heat #sealingWax works just fine, is not messy, doesn't require a table mostly free of burnable material, and can also help fixing mishaps like not having left enough wax on the paper by reheating it.
using an open flame is still much better for the whole ritual of sealing #letters, however.
but it's nice knowing that I have the two options.
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TIL: usare una stazione ad aria calda (quelle per saldare elettronica) per scaldare la #ceralacca funziona, non fa casini in giro, non richiede un tavolo libero da materiale infiammabile e aiuta anche nel caso in cui non si sia messa abbastanza ceralacca sulla carta, dato che permette di riscaldarla.
usare una fiamma però funziona molto meglio per l'esperienza del rituale di chiusura delle #lettere, però.
ma è bello sapere di avere entrambe le opzioni.
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@zarel ah, era cera sul bastoncino o quella in grani da sciogliere nel cucchiaio apposta?
la mia era bastoncino
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ho visto questa qualche giorno fa e - con letteralmente nessuna ragione MAI per sigillare lettere - sono stato tentato di comprarla immediatamente. Il ricordo dell'odore della ceralacca mi è caro.
modulor.de/it/pistola-per-cera…
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@pgcd fatto bene a non comprarla, quella è fondamentalmente colla a caldo, molto meglio la ceralacca originale :D
nessuna ragione per sigillare lettere? una qualche scusa si trova, no? basta un po' di impegno :D
_credo_ (senza prove) che i cilindri siano di ceralacca o qualcosa di molto simile, almeno all'aspetto. La tentazione però era scollegata e più dovuta al fatto che sono un cartolerista compulsivo =)
Trovare scuse, invece, non sarebbe un grosso problema se almeno scrivessi una lettera ogni anno, ecco...
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@Kermode my partner is looking around with (rightful) despair at the amount of crafting tools and supplies that are around the house :D
in my defense the hot air station is his, not mine. but when he mentioned wanting to buy it I went in full enabler mode and encouraged him, and planned to use it too :D
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PDF planners 2024
Posted on November 22, 2023
A few years ago I wrote a bit of code to generate a custom printable planner, precisely to my taste. And then I showed the result to other people, and added a few variants for their own tastes.
And I’ve just generated the first 2024 file (yes, this year I’m late with the printing and binding), and realized that it may be worth posting all the variants on this blog, in case somebody else is interested in using them.
The files with -book in the name have been imposed on A4 paper for a 16 pages signature. All of the fonts have been converted to paths, for ease of printing (yes, this means that customizing the font requires running the script, sorry).
A few planners in English:
- daily-A5-ruled-en.pdf daily-A5-ruled-en-book.pdf ruled daily pages, A5, English
- daily-A5-graph-en.pdf daily-A5-graph-en-book.pdf 4 mm graph daily pages, A5, English
- daily-A5-points4mm-en.pdf daily-A5-points4mm-en-book.pdf 4 mm graph daily pages, A5, English
- daily-A6-en.pdf daily-A6-en-book.pdf blank daily pages, A6, English
- week_on_two_pages-A6-en.pdf week_on_two_pages-A6-en-book.pdf weekly planer, A6, English
- month-A6-plain-en.pdf month-A6-plain-en-book.pdf monthly planner, A6, English
The same planners, in Italian:
- daily-A5-ruled-it.pdf daily-A5-ruled-it-book.pdf ruled daily pages, A5, Italian
- daily-A5-graph-it.pdf daily-A5-graph-it-book.pdf 4 mm graph daily pages, A5, Italian
- daily-A5-points4mm-it.pdf daily-A5-points4mm-it-book.pdf 4 mm graph daily pages, A5, Italian
- daily-A6-it.pdf daily-A6-it-book.pdf blank daily pages, A6, Italian
- week_on_two_pages-A6-it.pdf week_on_two_pages-A6-it-book.pdf weekly planner, A6, Italian
- month-A6-plain-it.pdf month-A6-plain-it-book.pdf monthly planner, A6, Italian
And finally a monthly planner with ephemerids for the town of Como (I mean, everybody everywhere needs one of those, right?); here the --book files are impressed for a 3 sheet (12 pages) signature.
- month-A6-en.pdf month-A6-en-book.pdf monthly planner, A6, English
- month-A6-it.pdf month-A6-it-book.pdf monthly planner, A6, Italian
I hereby release all the PDFs linked in this blog post under the CC0 license.
I’ve just realized that the git repository linked above does not have licensing information, but I’m not sure what’s the right thing to do, since it’s mostly a dump of unsupported works-for-me code, but if you need it for something (that is compatible with its unsupported status) other than running it for personal use (for which afaik there is an implicit license) let me know and I’ll push “decide on a license” higher on the stack of things to do :D
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labrador.oblomov.eu/planner/
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@matz ho fatto una verifica veloce: se salvi come PDF da Vivaldi assicurati che in “More settings" sia impostata la carta giusta (da me sulla stampante seleziona A4 ma sul PDF seleziona Letter) e che i margini non siano a None (che è il default). Altrimenti la riga di credits finisce nell'area non stampabile quando poi stampi il PDF 
I think one of the things i appreciated most about old cw culture is that it limited that feeling of everything everywhere all at once.
Even if i choose to open and read everything in my feed, the cw + open action made me feel like i was purposefully switching contexts. There wasn’t the jarring feeling of reading a funny joke a next to a serious journalistic description of war atrocities.
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Using proper structure and punctuation because it's the correct way to write in the colonizer's language.
Using proper structure and punctuation because it makes for a more pleasant experience for my friends who use screen readers.
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It also helps 2nd (3rd, 4th…) language speakers (eg immigrants, non-majority people), and people with dyslexia or other reading/language acquisition or processing disabilities.
Conventional structure, spelling & punctuation increase accessibility* in many contexts.
(*Obligatory acknowledgement that language pedantry/policing is harmful, and accessibility needs often conflict with each other. Being a jerk to people does not increase accessibility for anyone.)
#Sewing and garment upkeep related note:
Whenever you're washing your fabrics before sewing anything of them (and you absolutely should wash them first, with the exceptions of wool and silk, more in second post) you should wash them exactly as you're likely going to be washing the garment for its entire lifetime.
If the fabric is going to be ruined by normal treatment, it's better it be a disappointing disaster before you've put the hours of work in!
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@DriftlessRoots Some fabrics would definitely benefit from it! Anything more loosely woven will shrink more when washed. I tend to wash them alone with a short program, to get most of the manufacturing gunk out, and then put them in the wash with whatever else I'm laundering on the cotton program that day, to get the rest of it.
I am pleased that my random sewing thoughts and other people's knowledge has been helpful!
#Wearable electronics projects are a recent thing, right? you need LEDs and lightweight batteries and microcontrollers and all of those things, right?
TIL:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric…
no, I don't have a new project. I don't have a use for an evening dress. And a Worth gown is not something that can be reproduced easily or cheaply.
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L'#elettronicaIndossabile è una cosa recente, giusto? Per farla servono LED, batterie leggere, microcontrollori e tutto quanto, giusto?
TIL: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric…
no, non ho un nuovo progetto. non mi serve un abito da sera, non saprei cosa farmene. E un abito di Worth non è qualcosa che si riproduca facilmente o in modo economico.
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Milan, 1824. 4 pages of coins in circulation and their values in what I believe are lombardo-venetian lire (decimal) and an older non-decimalized system whose name I don't know. Of course the values of each coins have clean, round numbers such as 13.50 or 1.65
Why am I suddenly thinking of the neatly decimal currency (1 gold coin = 10 silver = 100 copper) of many #RPG games? :D
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Milano, 1824. 4 pagine di monete in circolazione e i loro valori in quelle che credo siano lire del lombardo-veneto (decimali) e un altro sistema di cui non conosco il nome, non decimale. Ovviamente i valori delle monete sono delle belle cifre tonde come 13.50 o 1.65.
Perché improvvisamente mi vengono in mente i sistemi di monete dei #GdR belli puliti in cui 1 moneta d'oro = 10 monete d'argento = 100 monete di rame? :D
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It's been a while from my last post on behalf of the Department of Unnecessary Projects #DepUnPr
So here is the "UEFI bootable slide show"
An UEFI executable that load tga uncompressed images from disk and display them as a slideshow in loop.
for when you feel the urge to show some photos and you can't wait for a full os to boot up.
(thanks to @Elena ``of Valhalla'' for inspiring this thing.)
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E scusate, io torno a disturbare la bella comunità fediversica con un nuovo #PersoETrovato (che più volte ha funzionato), questa volta per cercare di riportare a casa Rubina, che a quanto pare ha una passione per cantine e garage.
Grazie.
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FLOSS hiring thread for November 2023
Are you hiring? Especially for remote work?
Let us know what region(s) of world, type of work, link to opening, etc.
Are you looking for a job?
10s of thousands of layoffs in last year, lots of people looking, let's help them find good jobs
@SeaGL hybrid Career Expo this Friday
floss.social/@FLOX_advocate/11…
#GetFediHired #FLOSScareer #FLOSSjobs #CareerExpo #FediJobs
#SeaGL 's Career Expo is a hybrid for the first time this FridayWe'll be in person in UW's HUB in #Seattle and we'll also have counselors available for virtual sessions
Please attend @SeaGL this Friday and Saturday and sign up for a #CareerExpo consulting session if you'd like some #CareerCounseling
30 minute sessions begin at 11:30 after our Friday keynotes ( @baconandcoconut and @sri )
gnu-cloud.yourownnet.cloud/app…
osem.seagl.org/conferences/sea…
#FLOSSevent #FLOSScareers #FLOSSconf #FLOSSjobs
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Open Source JobHub
Find your place in the open source ecosystem. This is a hub for open source jobs and professionals.Open Source JobHub
Just learned, that #debian is going to the moon!
This is a group of rovers which will collaboratively and autonomously drive around on the moon. They're using Debian for all the dev machines and the rovers themselves.
CADRE
A trio of small rovers will work as a team to explore the Moon autonomously, mapping the subsurface in 3D, collecting distributed measurements, and showing the potential of multirobot missions.NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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that hood made of just squares and rectangles, vaguely inspired by the Skjoldehamn hood (but assembled from different pieces) that has remained on my WIP pile for more than a year because I got the side of the pieces completely wrong?
On Friday I've cut new fabric, and now I'm halfway through the hem, and then it will be finished! And it fits!
(now, the next step of the Project is going to take a lot more time before I even start thinking about doing it, but the (combed?) top (yes, top. not fabric, not yarn) is still in the Stash, not around the house somewhere not really protected from dust)
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Eccomi di nuovo qui a rompervi le scatole.
Abbiamo deciso di chiudere la pagina facebook della nostra #Mastocartoleria e volevamo lasciare un messaggio qualche giorno per spiegare le nostre motivazioni.
È un po' lunghetto e ringrazio in anticipo chi avrà la voglia e il tempo di leggere e dare qualche consiglio 
Ciao a tutti.
Volevamo comunicarvi che la pagina della cartoleria xxxxxx su Facebook sarà eliminata entro breve. Non che sia una cosa così importante, ma volevamo farvi almeno sapere il perché di questa decisione.
Non è solo la novità dell'abbonamento a pagamento per i social di casa Meta nel caso in cui non si vogliano vedere le inserzioni (abbiamo già eliminato il profilo Instagram), ci sono motivi più profondi e importanti.
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@GustavinoBevilacqua
Cazzo, a questo non ci avevo pensato. Devo fare una versione per l'utente medio facebook:
"Feisbùk cacca, sito bello, buongiornissimo kaffè"
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Episode 237: Seeing Ourselves in Norse Myths
Thor and Loki have become pop culture icons thanks to Marvel. But the influence of Norse mythology on contemporary fantasy runs through Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings and so much more.Eric Molinsky (Imaginary Worlds)
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Confirmed: they have found the mummy of Marge Simpson (depicted on the sarcophagus), and it's from the New Kingdom.
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Piecepack and postcard boxes
Posted on November 4, 2023
Thanks to All Saints’ Day, I’ve just had a 5 days weekend. One of those days I woke up and decided I absolutely needed a cartonnage box for the cardboard and linocut piecepack I’ve been working on for quite some time.
I started drawing a plan with measures before breakfast, then decided to change some important details, restarted from scratch, did a quick dig through the bookbinding materials and settled on 2 mm cardboard for the structure, black fabric-like paper for the outside and a scrap of paper with a manuscript print for the inside.
Then we had the only day with no rain among the five, so some time was spent doing things outside, but on the next day I quickly finished two boxes, at two different heights.
The weather situation also meant that while I managed to take passable pictures of the first stages of the box making in natural light, the last few stages required some creative artificial lightning, even if it wasn’t that late in the evening. I need to build1 myself a light box.
And then decided that since they are C6 sized, they also work well for postcards or for other A6 pieces of paper, so I will probably need to make another one when the piecepack set will be finally finished.
The original plan was to use a linocut of the piecepack suites as the front cover; I don’t currently have one ready, but will make it while printing the rest of the piecepack set. One day :D
One of the boxes was temporarily used for the plastic piecepack I got with the book, and that one works well, but since it’s a set with standard suites I think I will want to make another box, using some of the paper with fleur-de-lis that I saw in the stash.
I’ve also started to write detailed instructions: I will publish them as soon as they are ready, and then either update this post, or they will be mentioned in an additional post if I will have already made more boxes in the meanwhile.
- you don’t really expect me to buy one, right? :D↩︎
I am giving a somewhat unconventional presentation next week: "A Textile Historian’s Guide to Suddenly Needing to Make her own Clothing."
Basically examining the ways that spending the past decade studying historical textile production both did and did not prepare me for the actual labor investment in providing myself with clothing.
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My presentation is on Tuesday from 15:00-15:30 (CET)
The Dressed Conference has a lot of really amazing talks planned, it's virtual, and you just have to email them for access to the zoom link dressconference.org/
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@aeva Yeah, they don't seem to be recording.
Already some fascinating talks: thanks for calling attention to this!
Yeah, it wasn't recorded, but the good news is that I've got a whole episode of @fossandcrafts outlined now! (And there were parts of my outline that I didn't even get to in the presentation)
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For the last ... checks notes ... 14 months I've been working on the next major release of FreeSewing. The core software itself was ready at the end of September, but I still have to put the finishing touches on the website migration.
That is done now, and (the completely new) FreeSewing.org now runs v3.
There's a ton of new stuff, so I'll link to this umbrella post with an overview: freesewing.org/blog/v3-umbrell…
Spread the word because this is big news #FreeSewing
Everything about FreeSewing v3: Umbrella post
There's a flurry of news about FreeSewing v3, so here's an overviewFreeSewing.org
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As a reminder, no corporate algorithm here means you don’t need to disguise your words.
Twitter can be Twitter, Trump can be Trump, Musk can be Musk, etc. Using plain language is both clearer for readers than code words AND means people can set up more useable filters to control their own experience. #FediTips
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It'll always be ex-twitter to me. X is not a website, it is the graphics system used in Unix and simliar from the late 1980s until currently beeing replaced by wayland.
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Thanks to a friend who gave me the idea, I've taken this:
saved it as ``hit🗞 .rst``, run the command ``rst2man hit🗞.rst | man -l -`` and I can indeed confirm that #manpages have no issue with #unicode and emoji (at least if your terminal is configured to show them).
(the pastebin urls will self-destruct in a month; I may delete this post at that time, if I remember about it)
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Calling all crafters & Discworld fans!
Myself and some friends from my crafty Discord are holding ourselves a “Discworld makealong”. And naturally we’d love to invite our friends in the Fediverse to join in too 🥳
No pressure. No deadlines. Just for fun. And any craft welcome!
So far knitting and cross stitch are well-represented but I’m sure we’ll pick up a few more along the way 😄
November 4th, through Hogswatch season, ending in the new year*. You’re very welcome to join in with your project at any point!.
Some of us will be on Mastodon under #DiscworldMAL. I for one will be on Lemmy too. And of course if you want to join the Discord, link’s in my bio, but not necessary if you’re not into that.
(Oh and for those of you who have no idea what Discworld is or what I’m talking about, congratulations you’ve got 41 books to look forward to!)
*I suspect most projects will not actually be finished by then, because we’re slow and easily distracted. As demonstrated by me not posting about this until it’s a week away 🙃
Edit: WIP pattern suggestions list docs.google.com/document/d/1--…
@discworld #Discworld #GNUTerryPratchett #Knitting #CrossStitch
#DiscworldMAL pattern ideas
Knitting: Shawls - https://www.ravelry.com/bundles/discworld-6 Socks https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/when-granny-weatherwax-knits-socks/patterns More socks https://www.ravelry.Google Docs
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se qualcuno cerca casa (da aquistare) a Varese, sono miei parenti.
Posso confermare che la zona è ottima per arrivare in un bel po' di posti a piedi (ospedali, centro, stazioni)
ossolaimmobiliare.it/it/vendit…
Varese, zona Ospedali
in piccola palazzina di sole sei unità immobiliari, ampio Quadrilocale recentemente ristrutturato, composto da ingresso, soggiorno con balcone, cucina...ossolaimmobiliare.it
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Dear #historyBounding people,
I still have about half of the red fabric I've used for the shirt, and it may be just enough to make myself a short dress using the pattern I've used for the princess petticoat.
It will have to be shorter, maybe even knee length, and I'm quite sure that there won't be enough for the ruffle, nor for sleeves (or at most they will be really short sleeves), but there may be some fringe that I've accidentally bought in the past when it assaulted me from the haberdashery display.
I have to, right? :D
Some of you may remember that last year I have been #handsewing a shirt in red wool, but by the time I've mostly¹ finished it it was already too warm to be able to wear it significantly.At least, the Sensible Season seems to have started, and I can wear it!
There will be a blog post. At some unknown time in the future.
¹ it does need a few detachable collar and cuffs variants, to style it a bit differently, but those don't prevent me from wearing the shirt as is.
#historyBounding #FreeSoftWear
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@AlwaysARedhead 🇨🇦 from the place I'm buying it right now it's 2.25 € / 50 m; for comparison I'm buying cotton at a bit less¹ than € 2,95 / 100 m, so basically twice as much.
It's a bit stronger (not in a game-changing way, however) and smoother (which feels different when sewing by hand, but I don't think is an advantage nor a disadvantage).
¹ I think the haberdasher sells it at 2.50 / 100 m, but I'm not 100% sure, so I've checked the price on the producer's shop, which is usually a bit more expensive.
Forgotten Yeast Bread or Pan Sbagliato
Posted on October 29, 2023
I’ve made it again. And again. And a few more times, and now it has an official household name, “Pan Sbagliato”, or “Wrong Bread”.
And this is the procedure I’ve mostly settled on; starting on the day before (here called Saturday) and baking it so that it’s ready for lunch time (on what here is called Sunday).
Saturday: around 13:00
In a bowl, mix together and work well:
- 250 g water;
- 400 g flour;
- 8 g salt;
cover to rise.
Saturday: around 18:00
In a small bowl, mix together:
- 2-3 g yeast;
- 10 g water;
- 10 g flour.
Saturday: around 21:00
In the bowl with the original dough, add the contents of the small bowl plus:
- 100 g flour;
- 100 g water;
and work well; cover to rise overnight.
Sunday: around 8:00
Pour the dough on a lined oven tray, leave in the cold oven to rise.
Sunday: around 11:00
Remove the tray from the oven, preheat the oven to 240°C, bake for 10 minutes, then lower the temperature to 160°C and bake for 20 more minutes.Waiting until it has cooled down a bit will make it easier to cut, but is not strictly necessary.
I’ve had up to a couple of hours variations in the times listed, with no ill effects.
I convinced Scientific American to publish a scholarly article on werewolves and space exploration.
scientificamerican.com/article…
What Happens to a Werewolf on the Moon?
As space agencies turn their gaze to the moon, we need to consider what werewolves might mean for lunar exploration—and vice versaScientific American
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Can we please bring content warnings back? for descriptive violence?
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Some of you may remember that last year I have been #handsewing a shirt in red wool, but by the time I've mostly¹ finished it it was already too warm to be able to wear it significantly.
At least, the Sensible Season seems to have started, and I can wear it!
There will be a blog post. At some unknown time in the future.
¹ it does need a few detachable collar and cuffs variants, to style it a bit differently, but those don't prevent me from wearing the shirt as is.
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@Giselle thanks
the same triangle (or square-ish) patches are also at the end of the side seams, so that detail is matched elsewhere on the shirt
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Wooops, apparently I've been writting in the Void for a couple of days, except that the Void was carefully storing everything I had written to be ready to send it to the right recipients as soon as asked.
Sorry for the flood :D
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John Gordon
in reply to kratom doyenne • • •GunChleoc
in reply to John Gordon • • •@jgordon @acdha As long as she understands it's the start of all wisdom and not the end of it 🙂
In any case, definitely better than using social media posts without source links.
Jimmy Havok
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