starseedjenny: “ advanced-procrastination: “This is simultaneously comforting and uncomfortable ” A clear river flowing with leaves Runs through a red forest of trees Such a vision of maple Is a boon...morphimus (Tumblr)
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Dear european¹ craftingverse,
I'd like to put a #pegboard in my sewing room.
The local hardware stores sell the metal ones, and they have holes at an odd distance that I suspect is some absurd amount like one and a half inch or something, sometimes with two additional smaller holes in between.
Then there is the SKÅDIS line from IKEA, where the holes are at a decent and proper distance of 4 cm, but
a) they are made of particleboard instead of metal
b) I'd be afraid of getting stuck into an ikea-only standard
Are there other places that sell metric-based pegboards?
Is there something else I should consider?
Am I overthinking the whole thing?
¹ I'd prefer² any product recommendation to be available from a shop in the eurozone
² as in, I will just ignore anything else :D
#crafting (boosts welcome)
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Intanto, quando c'è LEI i treni viaggiano in anticipo!
e no, non mi risulta che sia *partito*, è solo l'orario in cui il treno prima (RE 2516) da Milano a Porto Ceresio è arrivato a Gallarate. e lì si è fermato in attesa di ripartire, causa guasto ad uno scambio
(e adesso posso riaprire il tracking dei treni che volevo veramente tracciare, dopo averli chiusi tutti per fare lo screenshot buffo senza perdita di privacy :D )
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dimenticavo nell'alt text, è il treno 2525, per chi vuole seguirlo su viaggiatreno.it/
(ommamma. http. e redirigono https su http, mi pare)
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#Mastoaiuto
Io chiedo, magari qualcuno sa: devo buttare via un paio di scarpe e dei guanti, scarpe in pelle con suola di gomma e guanti di lana con palmo in pelle vera.
Vorrei trovare qualcuno che sia in grado di riciclarli, vanno bene sia punti di raccolta specifici (possibilmente zona #Torino) o persone, artigiani, etc che magari riutilizzano gli scarti per ricavarne portafogli o altri oggetti.
Non mi va di buttarli nell'indifferenziata, so che esistono progetti di riutilizzo, io stesso ho acquistato accessori realizzati con pelle riciclata, camere d'aria e copertoni di biciclette, etc...
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Nel caso qualcuno non avesse più niente da fare da qui a stanotte:
it.wikisource.org/wiki/Regolam…
e apprezziamo il fatto che #trenord non si debba più preoccupare di dimezzare i treni “Quando la corsa di un treno in una galleria divenga lenta e stentata, e la respirazione si faccia penosa per deficiente ventilazione”
(in compenso missà che ho dei ricordi della lavagna dell'art. 6 comma 14, significa che sono vecchia?)
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e poi c'è la soluzione ai problemi di @LaVi e @Fabio : tornare ai cavalli!
(tecnicamente sta parlando della linea dello stato¹, non di quella delle nord¹ da saronno, ma il problema è sempre quello)
“Superata poi appena che si abbia la suddetta spartizion d’acqua a fianco della Camerlata, il terreno discende rapidamente verso il lago di Como, e qui è dove le difficoltà per la costruzione dell’ideata rotaja non sono veramente nè poche, nè piccole qualora si volesse continuare a servirsi delle macchine locomotive per il trasporto delle merci e dei passeggieri nel ritorno dal lago di Como alla Camerlata; ma postochè si offre per quest’ultima tratta di strada di ferro l’ovvio ripiego di servirsi dei cavalli in vece del vapore, mentre l’uso dei cavalli per l’attiraglio dei carri e delle carrozze sulle rotaje di ferro comporta pendenza e curve assai maggiori, almeno nello stato attuale di perfezionamento delle macchine locomotive inglesi, e così permettono di non allungarne di troppo la linea con molti giri per andare a spianarsi colla strada di ferro sotto il livello del pelo basso del lago di Como.”
it.wikisource.org/wiki/Progett…
¹ ai miei tempi si chiamava così, ok? :D lo so, sono vecchia :D
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e per chi si chiedesse cosa volesse dire “correntale”:
gdli.it/contesti/correntale/36…
“ogni guardiano va al casello vicino trasmettendo al compagno la notizia dell'accidente e l'ordine di disporre i segnali di fermata”
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By popular request, I'm releasing a Christmas short story to get you all in the festive holiday mood.
Okay, not popular request. It was @ParadeGrotesque .
And it's not exactly festive.
But I'm assured that it's a Christmas story. It doesn't take place at Christmas. But it's a Christmas story! Seriously.
Previously published in WMG's 2020 Holiday Spectacular, and the lead story in the "Fantastic Christmas" anthology. DRM-free, exclusive to my store, only $1.99.
#ebook #christmas tiltedwindmillpress.com/produc…
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yesterday evening I had to stop playing wesnoth (Son of the Black Eye) in the middle of a scenario because it was bedtime.
“The problem here is that there is some *scum* that is not worth living! And that their skulls are still inside their heads, attached to their bodies, instead of being made into cups!
“And if I want to use those cups to drink mint cordial, that's my own business!
“You know what? I'm going to order those skulls made into a *tea*set*! A fancy tea set, with its own wicker basket, lined with checked fabric, to carry on campaign!”
and @Diego Roversi didn't even bother deigning me with a “yes dear”
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Ieri sera ho dovuto interrompere uno scenario di wesnoth (Son of the Black Eye) a metà, perché era ora di andare a dormire.
“Il problema è che c'è della *feccia* che non è degna di vivere! E che i loro teschi sono ancora dentro alle loro teste, attaccate al loro corpo, anziché in lavorazione per diventare delle tazze!
“E se in quelle tazze voglio bere un cordiale alla menta sono fatti miei!
“Anzi, sai cosa? Darò l'ordine con quei teschi di fare delle *tazze da té*! Un bel servizio da té elegante, con il suo cestino di vimini foderato di stoffa a quadretti, da portarmi durante le campagne!”
e @Diego Roversi non si è neanche degnato di concedermi un “sì cara”
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Hey @penfount & maybe also #MedicalLab, #Chemistry fedi?
I’m looking for non-plastic alternatives to the typical 5mL medical sample vials—that have the same aspect ratio including ledge/brim!
I use the ledges in storing and with a test tube holder as a customizable dip pen palette. Most of the glass ones I see have lids the same width as the body, not wider. Don’t have to be glass. Any leads would be greatly appreciated.
Images for reference of the plastic ones
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Coloring a Sheepskin With Hair Dyes: When you need some color in your life! This is how I made my galaxy sheepskin with hair dyes. I was a bit bored and needed colors.Instructables
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In a while we're probably going to live in a house with AC (as well as radiator-based heating)
This morning as I was watching @Diego Roversi get dressed at a record-setting speed I asked “so, what are we going to do? turn the bedroom AC on for 10 minutes in the morning to get dressed? It's probably not going to be worth the effort, is it?”
his answer: “yes.”
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@Rinaldo Giorgetti @Spazio ☮️🌈📖 @Diego Roversi @Luca Sironi già, però sulla mia testa ci sono anche i capelli lunghi, che un po' aiutano a trattenere il calore
fuori casa rigorosamente cappello e/o cappuccio e/o varie ed eventuali, quello sì
(di cachemere credo che facciano più che altro maglioni, la lana merino viene usata per le magliette termiche perché è molto morbida a contatto con la pelle)
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The candles at the points of the pentagram flickered. A demon appeared.
"Do you do Black Friday deals?" the conjuror said.
"What?"
"Like, unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures, for less than my soul?"
"Actually, it was five souls, but today it's only one."
"Oh? That's cheap!"
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And thanks to an anonymous worker who was changing some gas pipes and broke down half of the electronic payments of Italy, today we used a *check*.
(to pay for services, not for black-friday goods)
(and for services that we had booked at the beginning of the month, way before the strike for today had been announced, and they had legal deadlines (one tomorrow and one two weeks ago - uoooops), so we couldn't just rebook them out of solidarity)
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E grazie all'anonimo lavoratore che cambiando i tubi del gas ha rotto metà dei pagamenti elettronici in Italia, oggi abbiamo usato un *assegno*.
(per pagare dei servizi, non dei prodotti in offerta per il black friday)
(ed erano servizi che erano stati prenotati ad inizio mese, ben prima che si parlasse dello sciopero di oggi, e c'erano delle scadenze legali (una domani, e una due settimane fa, uooops), per cui non potevamo rimandarli così per solidarietà)
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@zarel stavo per scrivere “più che altro a qualche commerciante, io per oggi non esco più di casa” e mi è venuto in mente che dovevo ancora passare in farmacia.
ma vabbé, lì era poca roba e avevo ancora abbastanza contanti
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mi sono accorta di essermi dimenticata di assaggiare il campione di Gold Blend McEntee: quando ho aperto la busta le foglie avevano quasi profumo di caffé
poi avevo bisogno urgente di un té e quindi ho sbagliato a puntare il timer e non so quanto tempo sia rimasto in infusione, per cui non posso ancora fare confronti con gli altri (uooops, fortuna che il campione non è monodose), ma in generale sembra approvato anche questo, nella categoria amari e risveglianti.
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mamma mia che voglia che mi stai facendo venire di provarli tutti! Io ancora ho tantissimo Yorkshire per cui al momento non ne compro altri, ma mi sto facendo una lunga lista della spesa
(tè che odora di caffè, mamma mia, che libidine. Una cosa simile l'ho provata soltanto con il Lapsang)
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After four days on and off of building ikea furniture (on the floor, of course), as I was walking up the stairs my legs had an union meeting and started to make demands.
I told them that I can't give them a pay rise, but I suggested a significant reduction in working hours (for the same pay, of course), and they haven't started a strike yet.
We are still negotiating about a warm shower.
Related, those cheap knee pads we bought almost on a whim a few months ago are starting to go quite high in the list of best way to spend 5-ish €
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e quando son cose che uno fa di tanto in tanto non ci si pensa e non sente il bisogno di prenderle, ma cambiano il livello di comfort per queste cose in modo drastico!
@Fabio e cosa ci facevi ancora sveglio a quell'ora tarda (le dieciemmezza, giusto)? noi avevamo già spento la luce :D
Date: March 7, 2111 Abstract This document defines the syntax and semantics of the Do-Not-Stab header, a proposed HTTP header that allows users to indicate to a website their preferences about being stabbed.5snb.club
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@Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] , I assume, wrote this
and. it's. genius.
I salute you.
Only one thing: out of *pure curiosity* I have been wondering what safeguards are in place to prevent you from flagging random accounts for verification at any time when you are out of gin.
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So @hexephre and I have been working on a secret project lately & now we are excited to present to you:
✨ Fedi Trading Cards! ✨
- Create your own personal trading card(s) and share them with friends!
- There are no rules to this game, so put whatever you want on there! Or make up your own rules!
- Use the #FediCard tag to share with other fedi...carders? cardizens??
- Collect them ALL 😤
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"End this accused meeting!" Conan's bellow was nearly inaudible over the resounding crack of his huge fists against the table. "Tis been half an hour, and those IT mages still struggle to connect with Zuul. Must we continue to waste..."
"For the last time, it's ZOOM." cut in the frustrated manager.
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Leggo casualmente in giro una certa preoccupazione e/o svariate discussioni sul problema delle migrazioni di utent* dai sn commerciali al fediverso, a seguito delle merdate cicliche dei vari proprietari miliardari.
Beh, negli anni che ho passato qui, ho visto queste dinamiche succedere ogni tot. Anch'io le prime volte mi sentivo infastidito dall'atteggiamento spesso verbalmente e psicologicamente aggressivo di persone abituate ad algoritmi e bolle social echo-chamber autoreferenziali basate su numeri di followers.
Però posso dirvi che il 90% delle nuove persone che sbarcheranno qui in questo periodo, non faranno altro che lamentarsi che il fediverso è troppo difficile senza sforzarsi un minimo di capire, non chiuderanno l'account commerciale e torneranno di là a leccare algoritmi appena passata la bufera. Durano un mese. 🤗
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I think I had seen it here on the fediverse when it was announced, but I've missed the date when it was made actually available (last summer, uooops):
bloomsburycollections.com/mono…
a new English translation of the Enuma Elish in open access
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TFW you have to reflash a device on site, and forgot home the mini-breadboard and jumper cables that you use to ground pin 9 on the board, but an electrician has just finished working on the 230V lines and they have left droppings (i.e. small bits of electric cable of unknown size)
it worked, the device is now reflashed and safely in position :D
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I've just declared sock mending bankruptcy.
(I'm talking about thin cotton ones, not thicker wool ones I've knit)
* darning them is basically useless: as soon as they have been darned they break somewhere else
* patching them with bits of other socks works, but takes some effort and I have a years-long backlog. really. it's a huge bag and I'm not going to go through it ever, and there are others in various piles around the house
* I need materials to fill a few draught excluders, and I don't have enough textile waste of other types (that I don't want to reuse in some other way)
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@MaialeCosmico forchetta o qualunque altro strumento opportuno sia stato usato per cucinare o mangiare in quelle pentole / piatti
e i programmi più lunghi tendono ad essere più risparmiosi, per cui preferisco usare quelli.
x.x.x.x - - [10/Nov/2024:00:02:37 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 162 "-" "okhttp/4.9.0"
You know what’s interesting about this log line? It repeats 56,686,963 times in www.kernel.org logs for yesterday, across 4 nodes. That’s about 700 times a second, and this has been going on for months.
These requests aren’t intentionally malicious – they issue a simple GET /, receive their 301 redirect, and terminate the connection. From what I can tell, this is some kind of appliance or software installed on mobile clients that uses “can I reach www.kernel.org” as a network test.
This wouldn’t be that big of a deal – a single plaintext “GET /“ that triggers an immediate 301 is very cheap for us to generate, but the number of these requests has been steadily growing.
If you have any idea what this is and how to make it stop, please reach out?
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going to fawn over Standard Ebooks site standardebooks.org for a minute here
So aside from providing beautiful ebooks of public domain books, the site is blazing fast serving pages for so many books, and it's all static pages:
alexcabal.com/posts/standard-e…
Then look on a page for a book. There's a render of a book with the cover, the books at like an angle and if you hover over it the book floats a little.
Turn off javascript and the pic still renders and floats a little. If you right click and say open pic in new tab just the unaltered cover comes up.
Which means all the magic to take the cover and turn into a render of a book with a floating animation is all done in CSS.
And even better, go to a typical book. Typical thickness in that render. Then go to a big book, like The History and Decline of the Roman Empire.
standardebooks.org/ebooks/edwa…
Look at that chonk of a book in the rendering. So each book rendering is rendered the relative thickness of the book. Just such a cool detail.
edit: Oh, and go to the feeds for books:
There's OPDS (the catalog feed format), and RSS and Atom. Normally, you make the mistake of going to a feed URL in your browser instead of a specific program to read feeds, and you're punished with horrible XML.
But click on any feed link here and it's the nice looking HTML like the rest of the site. Is the server determining dynamically if a browser is reading the feed or a different program? But wait, isn't the site static?
That's right, all those feeds are also good looking HTML. Just brilliant work.
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From one of the blogs I follow, a list of primary sources of interest for historical costumers
sewhistorically.com/free-patte…
(mostly #victorian / #edwardian)
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TFW you're packing up your RPG books and in the second row in the back you find a printout of The Complete Guide to Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
and you have to see if it still exists online
and yes, it does!
and has even been updated to d20!
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My M4 buying guide: meh, just get a package in each of the lengths that the shop has, you're going to use them all anyway
because M4 is a size of screws and nuts, right?
(this subtoot brought to you by being tired and misinterpreting other toots for a few *long* seconds :D )
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This contains good information too: youtube.com/watch?v=NExdHb1-_D…
The main choice to make is whether one wants to have a new machine or a second hand heavy duty pro version which I recommend.
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
This was an interesting dive for me as well. I could not find an old video in which a senior mechanic explains the fundamentals of quality of sewing machines explaining the details on material choices etc.
Never mind this. My advice is simply to get some old reliable machine. It is also way cheaper.
Do you think Instagram/TikTok are a problem and you'd like a tiny, free and cheap fanzine to spread around the awareness?
Say no more!
Download it here:
cloud.kenobisboch.it/s/TgG5fAx…
This is an 8 page copyleft fanzine, printable on a single A4 sheet. You can cheaply print/photocopy and give it to your friends or just leave it around.
Here's how to fold it:
videoteca.kenobit.it/w/19vxGAm…
Text + layout by me, translation by @valentinabarreca
INSTAGRAM IS A CAGE!
(boosts appreciated!)
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I want people to maintain personal sites in the same way they wrote zines. I want people to share homemade music through homemade social networks, and to create both just for the pure love of it. I want our personalities to come through not just in the words or links we share, but in the URLS we use and the code we write. I dream of regional communities forming online, based around organically grown web rings, and for idiosyncrasies to form in the aesthetics of our sites based on the communities we learned to code from. Basically, to bring back all the things that made the early internet so exciting and open and welcoming.
~ from Basic HTML Competency Is the New Punk Folk Explosion!, by Zach Mandeville
A manifesto for making yr own personal websitescoolguy.website
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Gente, butto qui la cosa anche se non so come siamo messi a livello di gente in brianza e zone limitrofe.
Ma se si tirasse in piedi un piccolo gruppo Origami (con ritrovo tipo una volta al mese e modelli adatti sia a neofiti che gente navigata) qualcuno qui sarebbe interessat?
Battete un colpo anche solo se verreste a fare un giretto per vedere che aria tira 
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Promemoria quotidiano: per favore i thread sulle elezioni politiche americane sotto CW.
Già se ne parla ovunque, facciamo che se qui qualcun vuole evitare l'argomento possa farlo senza problemi.
Grazie.
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Where to Buy Books Other than Amazon
A few years back I had a habit of every six months or so doing a thread on Fedi about options for getting books other than Amazon. Eventually it finally occurred to me that I could write it once, put it up on website, and update as needed, rather than constantly reinventing the wheel.
Here’s the updated version for the new site.
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ilpost.it/2024/11/04/sciopero-…
sciopero dei treni (non solo trenitalia come dice l'url) per oggi, con poco preavviso per delle specifiche motivazioni #trenord #trenitalia #tper #italo
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in reply to Vi 💙 • •@Vi 💙 I'm right at the crafting/sewing room reorganization-in-a-new-place stage of a move :D
(I have access to a 3d printer, not a great one because it's one of the first (home) ones and it's showing its age)
(but then I guess that I could also adapt the SKADIS files to work with a different distance between holes, since the difference isn't that much.)
(argh, more things to consider)
(I'm not complaining :) I like overthinking these things :D )
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drill: check.
sheet of metal: I guess I could find one
ruler: check (multiple)
centre punch: I don't think I have one, but I guess it's not hard to find
enough time: (tumbleweeds rolling)
:D
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The sides of dead fridges are a good source of sheet metal.
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in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • •@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua do you also have a good source for “enough time”? :D
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(and no, I can't use the time I use to handsew garments: that's usually the kind of time when it would be pretty unsafe for me to be around any kind of power tools, be it a drill or a sewing machine)
(and that's one of the reasons why handsewing is great: it fills that kind of time when want to do stuff, but aren't able to do anything that requires more than a modicum of concentration)