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Hello World!

Posted on January 29, 2023
Welcome to my new blog!

Or rather, strictly speaking, welcome to my first blog!

Back when everybody had a blog, I had an old-fashioned personal website where pages were organized by topic rather than by date, so now that blogs are dead (or so they say), I guess it’s time for me to have one :) .

The old website is still online, but updating it is getting harder, both for organizational reasons and because the static generator I’ve used is no longer supported and requires python 2; lately I’ve started publish some specific categories of material such as sewing patterns into their own website (you can find a list in the about page), but I was missing a place to post about the history and experiences of the things I publish elsewhere, as well as more uncategorized things.

Of course I’ve chosen to use a static site generator, but since I’m picky I’ve discarded most of the common ones mostly because they enforce assumptions I don’t agree with.

On the other hand, one day I wouldn’t mind learning a bit of Haskell, so I decided to look for trouble and use Hakyll, hoping that nobody will add a level 20 wandering monster to it.

Right now I’m using mostly the default theme, because I know that if I start fiddling with it I’m not going to start posting content ever; maybe one day I’ll decide to completely change the look.

As for contents, on the bits side of things you can expect me to talk about Debian, the Fediverse, Python, my inventory manging program and a bit of arduino-level electronics; on the atom side you should definitely expect sewing, modern and mostly historically inspired, some fiber crafts (spinning, knitting, crochet), maybe some bad attempts at painting (watercolours and acrilics), printing (screen and linocut), things that are written on paper and, well, any other craft I will happen to collect.

Before the blog gets too full I plan to add tag management to help people who are only interested in some of these contents.

This being a blog, of course it has an atom feed you can add to your favourite (and ideally self-hosted) rss reader, and since this is a personal blog there will be no periodicity, posts will happen when I’ll have something to say on some topic.

Until next time

blog.trueelena.org/blog/2023/0…

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Soooooo, I haz a blog!

Valhalla's Things

with a working atom feed and everything!

And if everything is going as it's supposed to be, friendica should be posting everything that appears on that feed as a post from my user.

Now, I only need to do things and write posts about them :D

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

my mother in law told my mother I was right, that life's too short to baste things, pins are enough (my mother prefers to baste everything, even straigth hems on curtains).

this happened at the same time as I was basting pieces on seam lines that had been marked with tailor's tacks and then basted to the sew-in interface and flatlining :D

(I still claim that life's too short to baste most things :D )

#sewing

#sewing

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I did it! I have a p.o. box!

It *only* took me three attempts, and of course you pay for the full year even if you only manage to get it after almost a month, and no, I'm absolutely not grumpy towards our postal service, why do you ask?

Oh, and I even managed to pay by card, rather than cash as they were trying to make me pay (because of course paying by card required additional hassles, I mean, it's not like they are mainly a money managing place, these days).

No, not grumpy at all!

But I have a p.o. box!

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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

@ModestinoSycamore @LaVi

Un paio di sere fa ho postato questo articolo sulla siccità in #California.

Anche se c'è tanta acqua in superficie le falde sotterranee (quelle che servono quando c'è siccità) non si sono ancora riempite.

mastodon.cisti.org/@GustavinoB…

rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

2023-01-21 00:39:50


«Is #California’s #drought over? Here’s what to know about #rain, #snow, #reservoirs and drought»

eastbayexpress.com/after-the-s…


#california @ModestinoSycamore @LaVi

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Aaaaand I've published another #FreeSoftWear pattern that has been in the almost-ready limbo for a few months.

A woman wearing a bathrobe in grey honeycomb with big triangular lapels, folded up cuffs and a thin black border on all edges. There is no hood, so she's wearing a separate towel on the hairs.

sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…

The finished object picture is from a different item (made in a lighter gray) than the one in the step-by-step pictures, but I've kept the latter a bit overexposed to see the details, so it doesn't really show (also, my camera did odd things with the colour balance, which varies a bit between shots) :D

One day I will learn how to draw proper pattern drawings, but today's not the day.

I still have things in the backlog, but they all require a bit more work than these two.

@FreeSoftWear group #sewing @sewing group

(edit: added the url I had forgotten in the original post)

Low Waste Bathrobe — Valhalla's sewing patterns documentation

sewing-patterns.trueelena.org
#sewing #FreeSoftWear @FreeSoftWear group @sewing group

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please stop reposting art without attribution. I get that many artists aren't on the fediverse yet but the least you can do is link to their site or socials.

they need all the help they can get now that the tech industry is investing billions in suppressing their wages.

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And after sitting on it for something like two months I've published the pattern for my modern (it uses fancy stitches that weren't easily available on victorian age sewing machines such as zig-zag :D ) / vintage (it's based on something from when I was a child :D) nightgown.

The top half of a nightgown with a yoke in filet crochet with a meander pattern in light blue yarn, and rectangular body and sleeves in white linen fabric. The hem on the sleeves is sewn with a decorative stitch in light blue thread.

It's still missing a worn finished object picture, but it's too cold to take it right now, and if I wait for them I will forget about publishing the pattern, so I'll add it later, hopefully in the spring.

sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…

(Thanks to my mother for crocheting the yoke, I only did the sewing part on this)

#FreeSoftWear @FreeSoftWear group @sewing group #sewing #crochet

Liliana Nightgown — Valhalla's sewing patterns documentation

sewing-patterns.trueelena.org
#sewing #crochet #FreeSoftWear @FreeSoftWear group @sewing group
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If you get the intonation just right, and tilt your head at the correct angle, when you say "Let me change into something more comfortable", you turn into a cat for a few hours.
Not a lot of people know that.
I would show you how, but it's time for my nap.
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
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silly dream

Tonight I was in a comics and games shop with @Diego Roversi when he uncharacteristically got something from one of the gaming shelves (I think it was the RPG shelf, but I'm not even sure) and announced “we're going to play with the protestants”.

My answer was “ok. what are the protestants playing?”, trying to look at what he had just taken.

And then I woke up.

And now I will NEVER know what the protestants are playing, or even WHO these protestants are!!!

@Diego Roversi
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It has occurred to me several times since my Daddy and i have started to explore our #kinky sides that the #kink community has a lot to teach vanillas about safety. The emphasis on enthusiastic #consent, #SafeWords, and knowledge and skills makes having sex so much less fraught, even for those of us already in emotionally safe and loving relationships. These things should be mainstreamed.
#kink #Kinky #consent #safewords

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consumerism ~, deliveries

I strongly believe that amazon and their expectations of next day delivery has ruined the world, that having to plan your purchases in advance helps being mindful of what you buy (even if it also encourages having a stash, whoops) and creates a better environment where shops of all sizes (and with better treatment of their workers) can prosper in.

But the label “fast delivery” on something whose delivery is planned for THREE WEEKS after it has been bought is a joke, right? (and no, it's not an international delivery, it's from a huge multinational chain with 3 shops less than 100 km from where I live and the main nationwide warehouse less than 150 km from here)

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Need to entertain a child (or yourself)?

All 22 of Beatrix Potter's animal tales are public domain and available in beautifully formatted ebooks on Standard Ebooks:

standardebooks.org/ebooks/beat…

🐰

#OpenSource #OpenAccess #PublicDomain #ebook

#OpenSource #publicdomain #ebook #openaccess
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I really think we need to reject the term "content creator."

That phrase is used by people who aim to Monetize™ us without needing to care about what it is we create. A "content creator" is there to make the stuff that attracts people so they can be fed advertising.

Call us what we are. Artists. Essayists. Film makers. Authors. Photographers. And so many others. We are creators, yes, but what we create has so much value beyond filling otherwise empty space on a website.

#MakeArtNotContent

#makeartnotcontent

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So I finally published the Instructable on my spice rack loom: https://www.instructables.com/DIY-Weaving-Loom-From-IKEA-BEKVÄM-Spice-Rack/

DIY Weaving Loom From IKEA BEKVÄM Spice Rack

DIY Weaving Loom From IKEA BEKVÄM Spice Rack: This project shows you how to build a small loom for band weaving. It can be used with a rigid heddle or with tablets.
Instructables
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Sooooooo, I may have

rectangular paper box, a drawer-like part is just a bit out of an outer sleeve

accidentally

the drawer is completely out, and it's unfolding out in a peculiar shape; inside there are game pieces in mottled green and red

a new game of Ur set

the drawer has unfolded completely in a game of Ur board, and there are 7 + 6 (uooops) game pieces plus four pyramidal dice and four additional tokens with one side marked

and uooops, while taking the photo one of the green pieces was misplaced, but I've played the game afterwards and it was there :D

I'm experimenting a bit with alternate shapes for the dice, the coin-like ones work decently, but they get mistaken for the main game pieces when getting the game out of the box, and they also roll around quite a bit.

#royalGameOfUr #polymerClay #boardGame

#boardGame #polymerclay #royalGameOfUr

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lamentele su poste italiane (ranting about the italian “post” service, in italian)

e oggi la giornata è iniziata in #posta, dove devo essere felice che mi abbiano detto subito che non potevano fare la pratica perché mancava l'impiegato che se ne occupa, anziché tenermi allo sportello per mezz'ora per poi dirmi di tornare alla mattina quando c'è l'impiegato che se ne occupa, come era successo settimana scorsa.

vogliamo scommettere che settimana prossima, quando mi han garantito che rientra, in realtà non sarà rientrato perché durante le ferie si è ammalato?

#posta
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

lamentele su poste italiane (ranting about the italian “post” service, in italian)
@diorama ١٣١٢ (demm/ihn) no, no, il dirigente è impegnato a rifilare investimenti capestro ai clienti, per queste cose... postali... se ne occupa un impiegato. uno solo, eh, mica che si sprechino risorse per cose di scarsa importanza!
@diorama ١٣١٢ (hänet/demm/ihn)

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Paolo Redaelli

Poste italiane si disinteressa del servizio postale da oltre un decennio. Vedi per esempio la chiusura delle caselle su poste.it ventilata nel 2011 ed attuata nel 2019 monodes.com/predaelli/2020/02/…
Avvilente. Meritano l'estinzione.😢

Alfin Poste chiude la posta.

  Secondo voi una società che si chiama “Poste Italiane” e che ha avuto per più di un secolo il monopolio della posta in Italia non avrebbe come “missione aziendale” ne…
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friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

sooooo, some time ago my mother bought a cut of silk satin fabric for a shawl/scarf/foulard and afterwards discovered it had some elastane in it, which makes it pretty hell to work with.

Of course I had to cut it to size, because she sews but is afraid to cut things, and that's fine, I knew it was going to happen.

But why is that cut of fabric currently in my lap, being hemmed by hand?

And while I like it, it's not really my style, so I'm probably not even going to steal it after it's finished.

#sewing

#sewing

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Today I was browsing through #fashionPlates from the #1890s as one does, and I stumbled on this

libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digi…

(the linked plate has a depiction of a 1890s style dress in pale red fabric with blue/green/yellow lines forming *big* squares (~20 cm?); the skirt is typical for the era, the jacket has the expected big sleeves, plus a very triangular capelet and a skirt that reaches just past the hips and ends in two sharp points in the front. There is also a blue belt, and blue cuffs and collars. The model is also carrying a parasol that looks more like a pointy stick)

And now I can't stop thinking of that dress in grey/silvery lurex fabric, on a #1960s sci-fi spaceship.

If i didn't have more projects than time (many of which are also going to be used way more) I would consider doing this :D

1891-1892, Plate 008

libmma.contentdm.oclc.org
#1960s #fashionplates #1890s
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Mre. Dartigen [renovator mode]

Oh gosh, I'm thinking of a whole cast for a a show or a film - doing 1890s fashion, but it's all in metallic or neon fabrics, maybe even UV colour-shift fabrics too (I'm sure a major production could get hold of that stuff again).

If people from that time got access to those fabrics you just know they'd have done it. Maybe with a lot more questionable colour combinations than now, but they'd absolutely have gone for metallic everything, glitter Lurex everything...

(On the one hand, it's always disappointed me a little that the RDR2 devs seem to have avoided or understated the main elements of 1890s women's fashion, but on the other I can see how it could've been a struggle to keep the giant sleeves from looking too comical in-game.)

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

And now I'm wondering: are 80 cm of 150+cm wide fabric enough for a pair of cycling knickers? Do I want to stand up, look for the actual pattern I was working on and check? (not now) Is there something else I can do with that fabric that I would wear more? (maybe? I could do a vest, and I do wear those, but I'm also planning a few vests in other materials I already have, so maybe those will be enough?)

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Rivikah the first mockup I did, after following the drafting instructions was pretty fitting.

For the second attempt I enlarged them (and then I didn't do the second mockup).

Now, they are below-the-knee length, so each leg is just above 80 cm long and it would probably fit on the fabric (there is some leeway because it's the leftovers from the jacket, it's not a straight cut).

The two leg sides for the wider version are not going to fit on the fabric side by side, but the original one may, maybe, possibly with a tiny bit of piecing, or by using the wiggle room.

I would have to be creative with the waistband, but I think I can get the various facings etc. from the jacket scraps, probably, maybe.

First I'll finish the jacket, so if disasters happen I have a safety net to recut pieces, and if I find I need something more for the accessories I can get it.

But afterwards, if I still have this much fabric, I can probably try it.

Unless I get other ideas.

#sewing #HistoricalSewing

#sewing #HistoricalSewing @Rivikah

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Almost all of the fabric (main, lining, interfacings) has been cut.

Now I should be basting all pieces together with their interfacing and linings, but that requires being at the table, and this evening I'm attending fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-cra… and need something to do in front of the computer, so I've started working on one of the plastrons, the one with soutache decorations.

And now I'm asking myself: why can't I accept a soutache decoration where the braid is placed on top of previous parts of the braid? why do I have to insist on it being a proper knot? :D

(there are pictures in the good camera. one day they will be copied to the computer and posted in this thread. this is not that day :) )

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ferrovie svizzere

no, vabbé, ma è trollare.

mi dai un link all'orario in pdf, e poi sulla pagina metti un tab COSTI con cui prima farsi venire un colpo e poi aprire per scoprire che no, lo si scarica gratis.

sbb.ch/it/orario/orario-online…

Orario tascabile personale | FFS

Viaggi regolarmente su una determinata tratta? Allora l’orario tascabile personale è il tuo miglior compagno di viaggio.
Ferrovie federali svizzere FFS (www.sbb.ch)
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I highly recommend supporting the Standard Ebooks project. 📚

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

👇
standardebooks.org/donate

#standardebook #ebook #publicdomain #book #reading

#publicdomain #book #ebook #reading #standardebook
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I started pepysdiary.com 20 years ago and that means… On 1st January, Samuel Pepys' diary will start for the third time!

Read the website (or RSS feed) or get it:

* Daily by email buttondown.email/pepysdiary
* Through the day with @samuelpepys
* or samuelpepys on Twitter

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

buttondown.email
@Samuel Pepys

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rant on the producers of a gift I've received, long, (souvenir dip pens)

For Christmas (actually it arrived in my hands on the evening of the 30th) I've received a very beautiful handcrafted #dipPen and yesterday I tried it.

The first surprise is that the nib (which they declare is a vintage one from the early 1900s) seems to be glued inside the pen. waitwhat? Don't they know that nibs get ruined with use and have to be changed?

Oh, well, I've tried it with my fancy nib test setup¹ and it's a beautiful fine/extrafine flexible nib that writes smoothly. Sadly I can't know which nib it is, but I guess that when it will get worn down I can try to pry it out and find out.

And then in the package there was a small bottle of black ink. That I tried with my fancy ink test setup² and was really horrible and hard to use even with a rigid nib, never mind the flexible one on the pen.

And ok, I get it that most people who buy a souvenir pen at a tourist attraction (like this one was) do so to keep it unused, but really, it's a pen, it's a tool! why can't they make a tiny bit of effort of making it usable for the few people who would want to actually try to use them³? It wouldn't take much, just a cheap off-brand german fountain pen ink (maybe they require too high a quantity to allow for rebranding? but there must be a solution that is still cheap)

This way they are going to spread the myth that writing was really hard in the past and we have to be thankful for having ballpoint pens (UGH), and discouraging young people who may have shown interest in writing with the tools that are actually nice to use!

And now, off to check whether that ink is usable on fancy paper, because this specific kit. WILL. BE. USED!⁴ :D

¹ a random scrap of paper and cheap but trustworthy Pelikan 4001 black ink.
² a consistent piece of the same printer paper (not fancy, but known to work decently with average liquid inks) and a variety of nibs (rigid extrafine, lettering, flexible)
³ I mean, other than the enthusiasts who are already well equipped with their own favourite inks, fancy paper and everything :D
⁴ At least the pen. the ink is probably not worth too much effort, except as much as I'm having fun being stubborn over it :D

#dipPen
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friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Elena ``of Valhalla''

I told a fountain pen user friend of mine about this and he told me of an even worse story: his first *fountain pen* came with a bottle of ink. luckily the shop he bought it from knew what he was selling, and also gave him a bottle of cheap pelikan 4001 and the recommendation to never use the ink from the box, because it wasn't fountain pen ink. it was for dip pens only. The kind that will clog and ruin a fountain pen.

At least, if you put something inadequate in a kit with a dip pen you have to make a really huge effort to ruin it.

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hometown - Collegamento all'originale

10 Image #CaptionTips from a transcriptionist:

1. Any words are better than nothing.
2. You don't need to say it's "a picture of…" screen readers will already say it's an image.
3. Start with the framing or format (i.e. close up, landscape, meme, text).
4. Think about the reason you're posting the pic and describe that first, add background details if you have time.
5. Pretend you're talking to someone on the phone and want to tell them about this cool thing you're looking at.
6. Transcribe any and all text in the image, even if it's the only thing you do.
7. If you've described the image in your post, you don't need to copy and paste it again in the caption. But again, don't leave it blank, just put something like "as described."
8. You can add small subjective notes, but don't give too much interpretation of the image in your own opinion.
9. Caption jokes are fun, as long as they still describe the image objectively.
10. Use punctuation, and capitalize words properly. A lot of us have interacted with this tech when calling customer service or talking to Siri, so keep in mind that you're writing for a computer to read, and it needs all the help it can get.

#CaptionTips
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hometown - Collegamento all'originale

‍🌬️

also tagging #AltText

pagan.plus/@Cat_LeFey/10956959…

Cat

2022-12-24 16:29:42


10 Image #CaptionTips from a transcriptionist:

1. Any words are better than nothing.
2. You don't need to say it's "a picture of…" screen readers will already say it's an image.
3. Start with the framing or format (i.e. close up, landscape, meme, text).
4. Think about the reason you're posting the pic and describe that first, add background details if you have time.
5. Pretend you're talking to someone on the phone and want to tell them about this cool thing you're looking at.
6. Transcribe any and all text in the image, even if it's the only thing you do.
7. If you've described the image in your post, you don't need to copy and paste it again in the caption. But again, don't leave it blank, just put something like "as described."
8. You can add small subjective notes, but don't give too much interpretation of the image in your own opinion.
9. Caption jokes are fun, as long as they still describe the image objectively.
10. Use punctuation, and capitalize words properly. A lot of us have interacted with this tech when calling customer service or talking to Siri, so keep in mind that you're writing for a computer to read, and it needs all the help it can get.


#alttext
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Cat

Whew! Thank you all so much for the boosts, what an awesome community!

I'll take this opportunity to add clarification on some of my #CaptionTips:
2. The reason not to start with the words "image" or "picture" specifically is because the screen reader will announce it with those words, so it will sound like "image image of a cat." Not a big deal, just sounds a little odd. Instead, I suggest starting with the format (photograph, portrait, chart, Facebook screenshot, text, all of these are good!)

10. When a screen reader comes across a comma or period, it takes a little pause, to mimic natural speech. So just put commas and periods where you would naturally pause when speaking. And if you, like, use too many, it's better than not using enough. Capitalize after a period, then use caps sparingly. Capitals are read out letter by letter, so ask yourself if that's how you want them read.

#CaptionTips

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Today I unexpectedly received a box of #ArtSupplies. I had sent the order on boxing day, expecting it to arrive next year, and I hadn't received any notification of it being sent.

Anyway, one of the things in the box is a big (A2) picture frame. I distinctly remember putting it in the chart months ago after carefully measuring *something* (possibly it was two or more matching somethings), so I kept it in the chart when ordering thinking “oh, well, while I wait for it to arrive I will see the thing(s) around the house and remember why I bought it”.

so... any suggestion on what was supposed to go into it? it's probably not something I painted, since I mostly do A6 or smaller, and it's definitely something that I already have.

#artsupplies
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Ma la vera domanda è: la bandiera Descrittivista che continuo a sventolare ha un disegno specifico, oppure ciascuno ne usa una diversa purché riporti alcune caratteristiche a scelta tra:

* ha forma rettangolare;
* è fatta di forme in colori distintivi;
* con uno stemma più complesso al centro;
* aggiungere qui altre caratteristiche tipiche delle bandiere :D

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Can anyone recommend a good tailoring reference book? #sewing #tailoring

Specifically for tailoring trousers (and sleeves) around difficult body shapes.
My intuition of where to adjust some seams is having quite the opposite effect 😵

#sewing #tailoring

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#SillyCuratorPrompts #WoobleWednesday

a purple fuzzy ball with big eyes, birdlike legs and stick arms. ink and watercolour

I didn't read the description, of course

OTOH, a voice in my mind has been saying “you can't comb a hairy ball” for the whole time it took me to paint this :D

( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ba… )

#sillycuratorprompts #wooblewednesday

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#mastoTip On the fediverse, nothing punishes you for adding links to your toots.

And you don't even need to shorten them: mastodon counts all links as if they had the same (small) number of characters, no matter how long it is.

So, if you're talking about something, *do* post a link to it, don't force people to google for it and hope they're getting the right result!

Some caveats.

* Check the rules of your instance: some of them don't allow links to proprietary social networks, or to commercial services, or they may have other custom restrictions.
* Speaking of commercial services, even if it doesn't violate the rules of your instance, if everything you do on the fediverse is posting spammy links to your own commercial service people will block you, but the usual practice in most parts of the fediverse is that sporadic links to your own commercial things among other things are fine, or even welcome if you are a small artisan selling the things they make or something similar.
* Some platforms may show a preview of the link, so please add CWs as appropriate.

#MastoTip
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Elena ``of Valhalla''

#mastoTip (pss, don't tell people about this, but you can also post a link to the permalink of a toot, hint, hint :D )

(there isn't anything technically wrong with that, but remember that the mods are human, and in most cases they will know if you're doing it with the intent to harm, and act accordingly)

#MastoTip

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