“ Strong-minded women who have never worn a pair of stays, and gentlemen blinded by hastily-formed prejudice,alike anathematise an article of dress of the good qualities of which they are utterly ignorant, and which consequently they cannot appreciate.On a subject of so much importance as regards comfort (to say nothing of the question of elegance, scarcely less important on a point of feminine costume), no amount of theory will ever weigh very heavily when opposed to practical experience.”
From The corset and the crinoline : a book of modes and costumes from remote periods to the present time by Lord, William Barry, 1868
(Disclaimer: the historical accuracy of the book is, let's say, peculiar :D )
edit: I forgot the link to the book: archive.org/details/corsetcrin…
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Since more than a year, a lot of space in my work bag has been taken by a skirt in aida cloth where I've started to embroider a line of #crossStitch swirls around the hem (it should be about 20 swirls).
The problem is, I can't do cross stitch and other counted thread embroidery while I'm doing something else, not even on easy fabric such as this, so I never pick it up to work on it, and it never gets done.
Today I've forced myself to do so and managed to do about 3 swirls. Will I be able to keep working on it at least a bit every day, and finish the skirt by the end of this month?
Also, I really hope that the haberdasher will have more floss in the same colour when I'll go there later this week, because I definitely do not have enough to finish this.
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Tonight it was the 70s and I apparated with a group of Death Eater adjacent wizards in an empty muggle house to listen to their music (it was a Black Sabbath album, btw).
And the thing that bothered me about the dream when I had just half-woken up? That when I plugged in the stereo it was a shucko socket rather than an English one.
Speaking of coronation souvenirs, I've just realized that today I'm wearing a necklace pendant that depicts a royal.
Not a mere king of an irrelevant island, however, this one is His Imperial Majesty Krosp I, Emperor of All Cats.
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Jonathan Harker apparently (probably, definitely) had a nice & uneventful May 6th & so instead of reading his diary or whatever, I spent the evening charting out a cross stitch sampler that celebrates Count Dracula’s very normal way of answering his door (from yesterday’s entry).
I'm posting it for any interested parties; feel free to use it for whatever.
#DraculaDaily #crossStitch #sampler
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It's now officially too warm, and I still haven't changed the hooks and eyes on the linen jacket I finished last autumn, so that's the sewing thing I'll have to do in the next few days.
3 hooks and eyes attached. 28 remaining.
(I'm removing the old ones in batches, so I can probably still wear the jacket while I work on this.)
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Hiking Slippers
Posted on May 5, 2023
When I travel for a few days I don’t usually1 bring any other shoe than the ones I’m wearing, plus some kind of slippers for use inside hotel / B&B rooms.
It’s good for not carrying useless weight, but it always leave me with a vague feeling of “what if my only shoes break”, followed by “on a Sunday, when the shops are closed”.
So I started to think in the general direction of hiking sandals, shoes that are designed to be worn when resting, and lightweight to carry, but are a passable substitute for regular shoes in case of an accident to the main ones, maybe with the help of an extra pair of socks2 (or when crossing fords, but that’s not really a usecase I have).
My requirements are easier than the ones for real hiking sandals, since I’m only going to be walking on paved streets (or at most easy unpaved ones), and the weight considerations are a thing, but not as strict as if I had to carry these on my back while hiking many hours in a day.
My first attempt was a pair of hiking sandals from things I already had in my stash, with vibram soles, neoprene padding and polyester webbing. After a couple fixes they sort of worked, but they had a few big issues.
- While comfortable when worn, the neoprene made the sandals hard to make, as it tended to deform while being assembled.
- Polyester webbing is slippery. Some strips of hot glue in strategical places helped, but they weren’t perfect and in time they are peeling off.
- Most importantly, to make the sandals stable enough to wear while walking I had to add a strap around the ankle that needs closing: this makes it a bit of a hassle to use the sandals, say, when waking up in the middle of the night for metabolic reasons.
And then, one day I made my linen slippers, and that lead me to think again about the problem: what if I made a pair of slippers with a rubber sole, technical materials and maybe uppers made of net, so that they would be lightweight, breathable and possibly even still suitable in case I ever need to cross a ford.
This was also readily attainable from the stash: some polycotton for the sole lining, elastic mesh for the uppers, EVA foam for padding and vibram soles.
I decided to assemble most of them by machine, and it was quick and painless (possibly also thanks to the elasticity of the mesh)
For the soles I may have gone a bit overboard with the vibram claw, but:
- I already had it in the stash;
- if I need to wear them on an unpaved road, they are going to be suitable;
- why not?
The soles were glued to the slippers rather than being sewn, as I don’t think there is a reasonable way to sew these soles; I hope it won’t cause durability issues later on (if it does, there will be an update)
As for the finished weight, at 235 g for the pair I thought I could do better, but apparently shoes are considered ultralight if they are around 500 g? Using just one layer of mesh rather than two would probably help, but it would have required a few changes to the pattern, and anyway I don’t really to carry them around all day.
I’ve also added a loop of fabric (polycotton) to the centre back to be able to hang the slippers to the backpack when wet or dirty; a bit of narrow webbing may have been better, but I didn’t have any in my stash.
The pattern is the same as that used for the linen slippers, and of course it’s released as #FreeSoftWear.
I’ve worn these for a few days around the home and they worked just fine, except for the fact that I had to re-glue the sole in a few places (but I suspect it was glued badly in the first place, since the other sole had no issues).
Right now I have no plans to travel, so I don’t know how much I will be able to test these in the next few months, but sooner or later I will (or I’ll keep wearing them at home after I’ve thoroughly tested the linen ones), and if there are issues I will post them here on the blog (and add a link to this post).
- the exception would be when I’m also bringing some kind of costume, and even there it’s not always true.↩︎
- and one should always carry an extra pair of clean socks, as they are useful for so many things, as Pratchett reminds us.↩︎
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@Diego Roversi had just finished a confcall
me> black or green?
diego> (thinks for a few seconds) black
me> mug or IV?
diego> (no answers)
I should serve the tea in an IV drip, right?
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A List of Things People Blamed on Flappers
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Linen Slippers
Posted on May 4, 2023
I hate going out to buy shoes. Even more so I hate buying home shoes, which is what I spend most of my life in, also because no matter what I buy they seem to disintegrate after a season or so. So, obviously, I’ve been on a quest to make my own.
As a side note, going barefoot (with socks) would only move the wear issue to the socks, so it’s not really a solution, and going bare barefoot on ceramic floors is not going to happen, kaythanksbye.
For the winter I’m trying to make knit and felted slippers; I’ve had partial success, and they should be pretty easy to mend (I’ve just had to do the first mend, with darning and needle felting, and it seems to have worked nicely).
For the summer, I’ve been thinking of something sewn, and with the warm season approaching (and the winter slippers needing urgent repairs) I decided it was time to work on them.
I already had a shaped (left/right) pattern for a sole from my hiking sandals attempts (a topic for another post), so I started by drafting a front upper, and then I started to have espadrille feeling and decided that a heel guard was needed.
As for fabric, looking around in the most easily accessible part of the Stash I’ve found the nice heavyweight linen I’m using for my Augusta Stays, of which I still have a lot and which looked almost perfect except for one small detail: it’s very white.
I briefly thought about dyeing, but I wanted to start sewing NOW to test the pattern, so, yeah, maybe it will happen one day, or maybe I’ll have patchy dust-grey slippers. If I’ll ever have a place where I can do woad dyeing a blue pair will happen, however.
Contrary to the typical espadrillas I decided to have a full lining, and some padding between the lining and the sole, using cotton padding leftovers from my ironing board.
To add some structure I also decided to add a few rows of cording (and thus make the uppers in two layers of fabric), to help prevent everything from collapsing flat.
As for the sole, that’s something that is still causing me woes: I do have some rubber sole sheets (see “hiking sandals” above), but I suspect that they require glueing, which I’m not sure would work well with the natural fabric uppers and will probably make repairs harder to do.
In the past I tried to make some crocheted rope soles and they were a big failure: they felt really nice on the foot, but they also self-destroyed in a matter of weeks, which is not really the kind of sole I’m looking for.
Now I have some ~ 3 mm twine that feels much harsher on the hands while working it (and would probably feel harsher on the feet, but that’s what the lining and padding are for), so I hope it may be a bit more resistant, and I tried to make a braided rope sole.
Of course, I have published the pattern and instructions for the slippers as well as those for the braided rope sole as #FreeSoftWear.
Now what is left is trying everything under daily use, and I hope I will have updates on this at the end of the season, rather than soon :D
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Playing openttd I've just sent a full passenger train to the depot, sold the engine, bought a new one, attached it to the old carriages and then allowed it to continue on the route. Which, in the game is afaik the standard way to do so.
However, while doing so my mind was thinking of what the passengers were experiencing.
And well, not even our local commuter train company has ever done something like this :D
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@Kermode ora che ci penso... :D
Non mi prendo impegni, ma quando posto qualcosa (ovvero quando non sto rispondendo ad altri) cerco di farlo sempre (a meno che sia un repost dal blog, perché quelli sono troppo lunghi e automatizzati per tradurli senza troppo sforzo :) ).
Programming the ESP32-C3-DevKit-Lipo with Arduino
Posted on April 30, 2023
A few months ago we may have bought a few ESP32-C3-DevKit-Lipo boards from Olimex.
Since every time I go back to working with them I’ve forgotten how to do so, and my old notes on the fediverse are hard to find, this is the full procedure.
Setup
I start by sort-of-following docs.espressif.com/projects/ar…
- Install arduino from the distribution packages (version 1.8 is ok).
- Under File → Preferences, add the development URL to the Additional Boards Manager URLs field. (on 2023-04-30 that’s
https://espressif.github.io/arduino-esp32/package_esp32_dev_index.json). - Under Tools → Board → Boards Manager make sure that you install a version of esp32 by Espressif Systems that is above 2.0 (on 2023-04-30 there is a 2.0.8 that works).
Programming
- Under Tools → Board → ESP32 Arduino select ESP32C3 Dev Module.
- Under Tools → USB CDC On Boot select Enabled.
You can now compile and upload your sketches.
If something goes wrong, to force the board to bootloader mode bring GPIO9 to GND.
Note that the serial port device /dev/ttyACM0 only appears when in bootloader mode, but uploading sketches and the serial monitor will still work even if the port is not set in the arduino IDE.
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I've decided I need to do something vaguely useful with a few microcontroller boards I have, use some of the simple ESP8266 ones to collect temperature and humidity data from various rooms of the house to a MQTT server, collect that data in a RRD and show the current values on an epaper panel together with the current time and weather forecast.Current status is:
* the MQTT server at home is no longer working (uops, that's why I wasn't receiving other unrelated notifications. I believe I know what the reason is, and how to solve it, but not today. I have mosquitto installed also on the laptop and that one is working)
* the python library I wanted to use to read data from MQTT is broken in debian testing (bug opened at the end of november)
* I can't find the ESP8266 boards. I know that they are around here somewhere, but WHERE???
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Hey, I just finished a MASSIVE project.
What a wonderful time to run some backups!
*kicks off backups*
Creative friends, if you needed a periodic reminder to make copies of your work, you just got a periodic reminder to make copies of your work.
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Sauron was 54,000 years old when he forged the One Ring.
Cthulhu had seen galaxies flare into life and fade into darkness before he put madness in the minds of men.
See, it’s never too late to follow your dreams!
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And then you think you've gone through all of the sort-of-urgent repairs, move to another room to put away things, and discover that there is another hole that needs fixing, and it's on one of the good shirts, even, so you have to mend it *carefully*.
The Pile of warm weather things that required some #mending love has been taken care of. And I've finished adding buttons and buttonholes and lace to my new linen combinations (there will be pictures).
Now (for “tomorrow” or “next week” values of “now”) I need to change all of the hooks and eyes on my linen jacket, and then I think I may be sort of ready for the hot season?
(I'm never going to be ready for the hot season.)
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So folks, don't forget to check if your Ikea chair is compatible with your screen. I'm not kidding. A thread 🧵.
I've had the problem with my new screen for several weeks now, that every now and then the screen goes black for a few seconds.
Today I had enough and wanted to investigate the problem. So I started changing all the cables, plugging the screen into a different socket, and and and. Nothing helped.
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I've made a poster/flyer for @Minetest 🌸 (click to see it in full)
Download the .svg, .png and .pdf files here, and share the love: gitlab.com/marco_a/minetest-fl…
#minetest #videogames #illustration #mastoart #gaming #art
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@y5nw
Supertuxkart has this page for posters, would love to have something similar: supertuxkart.net/Posters
Could have other stuff like sticker designs, leaflets, and flyers
There's not really enough content yet though
Posters
On this page you will find our official posters. Click on pictures to enlarge them.SuperTuxKart
TFW you finish sewing a pair of slippers with rope soles (there will be pictures), take off the slippers with vibram claw soles you have been wearing (there will be pictures also of these) to try the finished ones on, and they feel slipperryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
after a few minutes I realized it was just a feeling caused by the comparison, they aren't *that* slippery, but for a second there I was worried.
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The nice thing about #handSewing is that today I wasn't feeling very well, and had very little ability to concentrate on things.
But at least there are 7 more buttonholes that weren't there earlier this afternoon, and the day doesn't feel wasted!
(at least 4 are still missing on this garment)
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uh, Dracula Daily (Dracula, rearranged in chronological order and sent daily) is starting again in a bit more than a week!
I think that the website talks mostly about email, but there is also an rss available.
About - Dracula Daily
Get the classic novel Dracula, emailed to you in real time as it happens. Click to read Dracula Daily, by DraculaDaily, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of readers.draculadaily.substack.com
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"Which is best, supplying a regular or getting someone new hooked?"
"Hm. To satisfy the desperate, or create a lifelong addiction? I-"
I turned around. "Have you drug dealers no shame?"
"What? We're booksellers!"
"Oh. Um. Do you have any here?"
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic
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Hello Fediverse!
Wikipedia 
is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system called MediaWiki -- at least that's what our Wikipedia article says (w.wiki/W).
#Introduction #FreeCulture #FreeContent #OpenKnowledge #wiki #CreativeCommons
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this afternoon I received a package of assorted googly eyes.
they arrived late and I had urgent stuff to do, so they still haven't been divided by size and counted, yet.
this will not do.
(or maybe I'll wait until tomorrow? it *is* getting a bit late.)
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oggi pomeriggio ho ricevuto un pacchetto di occhietti ballonzosi misti.
sono arrivati tardi e avevo cose urgenti da fare, quindi non sono ancora stati divisi per misura e contati.
non è accettabile.
(ma magari aspetto domani, che si è fatta una certa)
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24 medium big (16 mm tall)
23 medium small (13 mm tall)
28 small (10 mm tall)
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@las_lallero il dubbio mi è venuto leggendo il caso di Milano in cui a quanto pare la vernice non è venuta via con l'acqua.
poi ammetto di non aver letto gli articoli di tutte le volte che è successo.
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𒎙𒎙 @manishearth suggested that I translate xkcd.com/2758/ into Akkadian.
Transcription (it should hopefully be somewhat singable, though the long vowels are all over the place):
mû eli illurī ū ziqnū šurānī
šannī ebbūtum ša werîm iḫserū
šunu abnū werâm uḫḫuzūtum
Ea-nāṣir nikiltam unakkil
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ok, apparently some people aren't allowed in the spray paint aisle without adult supervision, and it seems I'm one of those people.
I got the plastic primer I was there to buy.
@Diego Roversi for some inexplicable reason prevented me from buying the magnetic blackboard paint I didn't exactly have a plan for.
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If you're wondering what the rainbow pentagon thing is that a lot of accounts use, it's the Fediverse logo 
It's a public domain / CC0 design, its original designer shared a high quality copy at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…
It represents all the different server types that make up the Fediverse.
(Note: There can be no official logo on the Fediverse as there's no central authority to make anything official. However, this logo is by far the most widely used one.)
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diego: “it's also wet”
me: “like a cloud”
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La mia pasta madre si sta dedicando ai grafici di crescita esponenziale manco fossimo a primavera 2020: la sto anche usando, ma credo che nei prossimi giorni ne farò seccare un po' per farne farina (che poi si può conservare nei mesi, e usare come starter quando si vuole della pasta madre).
Qualcuno ne vuole? preparo anche qualche barattolo per la consegna?
Zona Varese – Como (non so se si possano trasportare colture viventi, anche se dormienti, extra UE :D )
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@Katy B. :debian:📚 🥛 beh, essendo il mio lievito immagino che debba essere in una scatola di legno tenuta ben chiusa con fasce di ferro e ricoperta di rune protettive incise a fuoco.
per il resto l'immagine mi pare estremamente accurata.
e sto bevendo una tazza di té (e non bevo alcolici da svariate settimane, o per un motivo o per l'altro)
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Usually I check my P.O. box about once a week, and it's empty.
This week I was feeling lazy and was almost tempted to maybe skip a week, it's going to be empty anyway, right, and I can go there early next week?
6 (SIX) cards.
YAY for forcing myself not to be lazy!
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@welshpixie Wow, when you necro a post, you mean business! It was at 2 boosts and 0 favourites before you came. 😅
Thanks.
Emergency Prep 101: Go-Bags
It is spring, which means it's a good time to update emergency supplies before summer rolls in.
I consider myself a small-scale prepper. By this, I mean that I am not interested in preparing for 'the end of the world as we know it' (TEOTWAWKI) or stocking up on weapons for the 'inevitable civil war.'
But I absolutely am interested in having enough emergency supplies laid in for 'predictable emergencies' (plus a bit).
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this is really well written and approachable! thank you. :)
i especially like the aspect of the go-bags being in-use items – it reminds me of a really hardcore outdoors survival guy (i think he did cold weather stuff for the military, even) who recommends what he calls ‘exercising your system.’ his thing is outdoors clothes. he says you might be investing in puffy jackets and all sorts of fancy gear to shield you against the elements, but on top of just having the things, you also need to experiment how they fare in different conditions. how do the items combine? which combination for what activity in what sort of weather? if you get soaked through, how much walking does it take to dry yourself back out again?
your way of having the go-bags as items you use even outside of hard emergencies seems to work similarly: you butt up against things you overlooked or things you overinvested in, and optimise. and you know how they got you through x amounts of challenging situations.
also, i liked these prepping articles (especially ‘we’re all preppers now’!) by margaret killjoy! i feel they’d jive well with your more real world, less apocalyptic war with bunkers approach: liveliketheworldisdying.com/ar…
Conta come #origamiSegreti se non arriva da livellosegreto e non è neanche chissà che origami? Avevo bisogno di una scatolina per evitare di perdere in giro degli aghi, e mi serviva *ora*.
Ho seguito le istruzioni di youtube.com/watch?v=7u-4G1lkx4… ma credo che sia un modello tradizionale.
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Se conosci qualche tipografia che stampa in offset puoi recuperare le lastre di alluminio delle matrici (il solvente per pulirle costa più di quel che vale l'alluminio da 0,10 mm, quindi le buttano).
Tempo fa le provai per origamare e si comportano benino, anche se sono un po' delicate nelle pieghe.
Per tagliarle basta farci una riga un po' calcata con una biro, per dare un'idea.
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uops, mi rendo conto ora che oggi è il *secondo* giorno del mese, non il primo, e quindi...
meet.gl-como.it/craftaggio , dalle 20:30 in poi, per fare quattro chiacchere mentre si fanno cose
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Ho visto questo e ho pensato alla conversazione dell'altro giorno sull'uso di stampante 3d e cibo
mondo-artista.it/artidee-verni…
certo che non ho idea della resa, ma sospetto che non sia sto gran che rispetto al costo, e probabilmente non è neanche così ideale dal punto di vista del lavaggio (immagino solo a mano, con acqua tiepida ma non calda), però *esiste* :D
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Buono a sapersi, grazie!
Un'altra cosa che si può fare è usare la 3D per fare stampi per silicone, che almeno si va sul sicuro.
Ma bisogna usare il silicone giusto… non quello da idraulici come ha fatto qualcuno.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Also, if the haberdasher does not have it, I've found that DMC sells online and filled a 50 EUR cart.
(and then closed the private mode browser window, so that it is now forever lost)
(but I remember what I had selected, more or less)
(I really hope that the haberdasher has the colour I need :D )
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •the second haberdasher I tried had DMC floss in the right colour (except it's one of the colours that have changed, ouch, but this means that I just can't find exactly the same colour anywhere).
the first haberdasher was out of this colour, but had a pair of proper braces to be used with buttons and everything. which is something I wanted to make myself for a long time, but was missing part of the materials, so I ended up buying them.
(12 eur of unplanned shopping is still better than almost 50, right?)
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Delib • •@Delib For some reason my brain has a really hard time concentrating on audiobooks, but it can listen to people talking on video while only glancing at the video now and then, so that's what I usually do while handsewing or knitting.
If I have to count things, however, it all breaks down and I can't listen to anything (but then I get bored after a while, because I miss having something else going on at the same time. Brains are weird.)