Remember the real reason for the season, kids.
#homoousios #homoiusios #theology #stnick #Christianity #Christmas
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The hot air soldering station set at 260°C worked quite nicely to warm up a pair of needles to bend them for coptic #bookbinding.
Better than using a candle flame, I'd say, as there was no soot to clean up afterwards.
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@Sibylle I wouldn't mind. the phone minds a bit more, at this hour in the night¹ :D
The white part is a reflection of the light, they are just regular big sewing needles (size 2 sharps - I believe that bookbinding needles should have a rounded tip, but right now this is what I have)
Now that I've tested them, I believe that they will have to be bent a bit more, especially the top one.
I don't think tomorrow I'll have time to shoot proper pictures, but I hope in the weekend I will.
¹ it's not really night, it's just dark :)
uops, apparently it's not safe for me to go to the haberdashery to buy just a spool of buttonhole thread.
No, I don't know what to do with it, yet. maybe on a skirt? maybe on a capelet? maybe on a decorative apron of some kind? right now it will go in the stash until I find the right fabric and the right project.
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#REMINDER (specially in this foocking season)
CW on food pics is not just to respect people with eating disorders or vegan people.
It is also to RESPECT PEOPLE WHO CAN'T AFFORD TO BUY FOOD.
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@Wolfram Rösler @Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
IMO food, and especially holiday food, is a stronger case because it's deeply ingrained in one's culture and personality (or maybe that's the italian in me speaking? but I believe it's valid for many other cultures elsewhere in the world).
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Non metteteci un indirizzo nudo e crudo, ma fate un minimo di riassunto.
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Yesterday we went for a walk and @Diego Roversi took a few pictures of the flannel shirt I've just finished (and I forgot to button it up completely before the pictures were taken, uoooops)
The pattern is always sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/… , but I've cut away the excess material in the front rather than pleating it.
#sewing #HistoricalSewing #1880s @sewing group #FreeSoftWear
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@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua I've never really used the pockets in shirts, so no (not yet?)
there are two pockets in the skirt, plus access to the detached pockets below it, of course.
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Project red shirt has started!
red as in Garibaldi, not as in Star Trek, and right now I've only done one cut, and then moved on to other things (it was time for tea :D ), but I plan to finish cutting most pieces tomorrow and then start (slowly) #sewing
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I've stopped procrastinating sewing in the sleeves!
ok, technically I'm procrastinating right now, by writing this comment, but I'm going back to it *right now* :D
(oh, and the collar is finished, and the two side seams have both been felled)
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straight part of both sleeves done!
now I have just a bit more time before dinner, but do you think i'm going to press the seam and move on to the gathered part?
nope. brain off. front hem.
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gathered part of one sleeve done, the next will be sewn hopefully tomorrow. Very little hemming done.
I'm starting to suspect that on New Year's Eve I will be making buttonholes while waiting for the new year, rather than wearing the shirt :D
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This morning I took a break to visit the Risorgimento museum in Milan (and spent something like 15 minutes in the small room dedicated to Garibaldi :D ), but still both sleeve seams have been felled!
Tomorrow hem and reinforcement patches (have I ever told I much I hate them?), saturday buttonholes?
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I guess you'll have a lot more fun here:
@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua I've already been there, can confirm :D
We still have to go back and visit the last couple of rooms that we didn't have time to visit because the museum was closing down, but we keep postponing it because it's just two rooms, and what if we get lost rewatching everything else, and still miss those?
(no, we've never been thrown out of a museum because it was closing. we always left them with good grace after the second or third announcement that it was closing, *before* they actually have to come and grab us with force :D )
(and it's not because we get there late :D )
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today I sort of got distracted by polymer clay, but I did finish the hems!
also, I found that the reinforcement patches I've cut are too small, so tomorrow I'll cut new ones. and then buttons and buttonholes.
The plans for the evening (meeting people online) have changed, so there is a decent chance that the dress code will be “evening dress, i.e. pajamas”, but wearing the new shirt on New Year's Day looks feasible.
Also, there is still a bit of thread on the spool, probably enough for the patches.
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aaaaand done! the patches have been added, the shirt can be worn!
I still have to cut and sew at least one detachable collar, but that will happen later, now I think I'll move on to the jacket project and ideally the Augusta Stays.
I hope to be able to take proper pictures of the shirt this weekend!
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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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Then, with the board nicely sitting on a breadboard, a stable 3.3V and no ratnest of jumper cables I've seen that the code I wrote last week works: the board turns on, connects and sends the temperature and humidity data from the DHT22 on mqtt, sets a timer and goes into deep sleep.
As long as you don't use Serial.flush(); before going into deep sleep, otherwise it will hang on it until it *gets* a serial, or something, and it will not have a serial while running on battery (uooops).
(yes, the DHT22 seems to be working fine on 3.3V, probably as long as it's close enough to the board that the voltage isn't dropping. and I'm not going to have 5V while on battery, so 3.3V it is)
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The Bag of Random Sensors that had the DHT22 also gifted me with 3 (THREE!) BMP280 (temperature and atmospheric pressure, I2C or SPI).
While playing with them I've learned:
* The #esp32c3 can use #i2c on any pin; the default I believe is 8 and 9, but they are also used while programming, so meh
* You can change the i2c pins in #arduino by calling Wire.setPins(I2C_SDA, I2C_SCL); before any Wire.begin();
* There is an example sketch called Wire -> WireScan which scans for i2c devices (you will have to change it to use the pins you want to use with a call to Wire.setPins) which is a godsend.
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aaaand, temperature and pressure have been read.
for some reason, however, right now arduino isn't compiling the sketch twice in a row (with the error “panic: runtime error: index out of range [9] with length 9”).
But I'll look into it probably during the Christmas holidays, for today I'm ok with this.
oh, right. I was supposed to look into the arduino failures.
instead, I've looked a bit at the python side of things, and surprisingly what I did worked fine, even if it wasn't much.
The whole ESP32 family can do hardware I2C on most of their bidirectional GPIO pins. I2C is a relatively simple protocol that can be simulated in software on any GPIO pin on any MCU (FYI):
github.com/bitbank2/BitBang_I2…
A software I2C implementation to run on any GPIO pins on any system - GitHub - bitbank2/BitBang_I2C: A software I2C implementation to run on any GPIO pins on any systemGitHub
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Hey fellow 🔞 NSFW artists: please add caption text to your images.
Yes, it's embarrassing, and you will rather want to crawl under a rock and die than to describe exactly what you drew, but it's for the sake of the entire community here.
Folks who need those captions deserve smut too. 👍
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Parola filtrata: nsfw
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Here's why it's worth the extra effort to purchase #handmade work directly from the #maker :
E-commerce site algorithms surface listings that make them the most money. In practice this means mass produced products are often promoted as "handmade" & out-compete real made-by-hand work. Buying directly from the artists' own sites helps them avoid corporate marketplaces that take a large cut of profits & often use them to promote items that are mass produced.
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They've found an unpicked dress and reconstructed the way it has probably been remade four times from an 1740s original into possibly the 1940s.
Fragments of yellow silk discovered in a bag have been reconstructed into a historically accurate 18th century dress, thanks to a collaboration between the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and the National Trust (NSW).National Trust
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TFW you want to do something, but you're too tired and unfocused to decide what to do, so you start taking notes on #train timetables and possible alternatives for a commute. for somebody else.
and somehow you're focused enough that it works :D
Does anyone know #geocaching?
I'm mulling over the idea of creating ActivityPub powered #project network for ppl to be able to create "pages/fediverse presences" for some items they hide/place in the real world.
Items would have agendas set by owners, like travelling to Alaska (for example) and people could help the item get closer and closer and along the way interact with #fediverse-powered presences, adding images and comments
And it's #ActivityPub - you could subscribe to that.
Thoughts?
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Il come e il perchè del Fediverso.
Links:
San Benedetto del Tronto
social.as59715.net/users/citta…
Account sul fediverso del comune di San Benedetto del Tronto
Mastodon come alternativa a Twitter; Mastodon non è Twitter, è antivirale per costruzione; La sfida principale di ogni community.
blog.quintarelli.it/2022/11/ma…
post di presentazione di Mastodon
ActivityPub
activitypub.rocks/
Il protocollo su cui si basa il Fediverso.
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From today's wikipedia trip: a 1920 ad for work clothing that mentions that they are made by unionized workers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rai…
(sorry, I don't have the energy right now to copy the rest of the text, it's mostly what one would expect, but if somebody can write a complete image description I'd be grateful)
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I've published a new pattern, for classic jeans.
sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…
They are based on a menswear block, so for people who need more fullness in the front than in the back; one day I will also draft the same pattern based on a womanswear block, but right now I don't need jeans-like trousers in non-denim and I don't have a source for decent denim, so don't hold your breath for it :)
@sewing group @FreeSoftWear group #sewing #sewingPattern #jeans
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@Mre. Dartigen [maker mode] let me know how it works!
I'm not sure how easy valentina is to use (even if just to enter the measurements and print out an existing pattern), and I'm not proficient enough to write a guide myself :(
And if you have any doubts on the instructions part feel free to ask! That part I take full responsibility for :)
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Status update on the flannel shirt: all of the main pieces have been assembled, two buttonholes out of five have been done. I still have to fell the seams on the sleeves and the sides, and hemstitch the hems. And then I must not forget the reinforcement patches at the sides and sleeves. The one I've almost forgotten about about every time I think on what's still to do on the shirt :D
Being able to wear it this weekend is starting to sound feasible, unless something unexpected happens.
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all 5 buttonholes done, all 6 buttons attached (there is an additional button in the center back of the collar for detached collars).
still missing: hemming and reinforcement patches.
chances of wearing it in the weekend: very high (but I hope I'm not jinxing it)
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hem done!
And I've also added a button that was missing to the white linen shirt of the same pattern.
tomorrow I'll cut, press (that's going to be a hassle) and sew the reinforcement patches, and then it will be done!
And then on the pile I have the facing of the bathrobe and — cough — a couple of things that I really would love to have mended :D
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reinforcement patches, done!
the shirt is complete!
I'll wear it (and take photos) in the weekend!
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I have a problem: the tutorial¹ I'm following says to leave the thing in a warm place until it's dry enough that the cat will sleep on it, but I currently don't have a cat.
pliz help: what should I do? wrong answers only :D
(no pictures, because it's white linen fabric wet with xantan gum on white poster paper in low light, and I didn't even try. just imagine you're on a low bandwidth connection and you're reading the image description here.)
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Visti gli argomenti di cronaca tecnologica delle ultime settimane :D per
la prossima serata del giovedì 1 dicembre pensavamo di proporre il tema
“il Fediverso” (ovvero i social network federati, ovvero ciò di cui fa
parte Mastodon).
Il piano è:
- 20:30 ritrovo alle 20:30 su meet.gl-como.it/GL-Como per
convenevoli e consueto cazzeggio
- 21:00 breve presentazione di cos'è il Fediverso
- 21:15 circa, scambio di esperienze, domande, risposte, consigli eccetera
eccetera.
Come l'altra volta, partecipando si autorizza la registrazione della
call, a partire dalle 21:00 e la sua eventuale pubblicazione.
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#til that there is yet another #fabric-based thing that is called buckram and it has some similarities, but is definitely a different thing from the other two I knew.
A mesh material used to make fursuit eye pieces.
(The other two are the buckram used in hats and the one used to stiffen stays)
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I was outside for a walk with @Diego Roversi , and asked him to come with me to a #fabric shop, so that I could buy exactly what I needed (to wrap christmas packages), with no time to look around at what they had and get ideas.
We did. I got what I needed. We payed.
And then just before leaving I noticed some nice woolens. And I may have taken a picture and sent it to my mother.
To be continued... :D
A proposito di caffé d'orzo, l'ho detto che i coperchi dei barattoli del caffé d'orzo funzionano come tavolozze su cui il colore si pela via per gli acrilici?
(this post in italian because I'm talking about food packaging found in the italian supermarkets)
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Il caffè d'orzo mi fa abbastanza angoscia¹: vedrò cosa trovo di equivalente.
Che tipo di plastica dice il simbolo del riciclaggio al di sotto?
Molto facilmente potrebbe essere HDPE.
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¹ termine usato gergalmente da queste parti al posto di "schifo".
@ndo
Ma no, mi basta sapere che tipo di plastica è.
Se è HDPE fondo un po' di tappi dell'acqua minerale e via: li ho tenuti da parte per vedere se trovo il tempo di aggregarmi a Precious Plastic.
The alternative plastic recycling system run by people.preciousplastic.com
LDPE
ma te ne devo tenere un po' da parte e prima o poi portartene qualcuno?
io di solito faccio fuori una confezione di caffé d'orzo ogni 10 giorni :)
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I still have to finish other handsewn things, but I have the cutting mat on the table, and I decided I might as well start cutting the #AugustaStays, and then maybe later in the weekend I can make the buckram.
Natural linen would have probably been better than white¹, but oh well, in 200 years they are going to be yellow too :D and they will be trimmed with powder blue cotton
¹ yes, it's white³, the blue tint is courtesy of the vintage effect² in the pinephone camera :D
² no, it can't be turned off :D
³ and now I must look for a UV light to find out whether it's merely bleached or it also has optical whiteners, but I don't know where it is
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there is only one place our UV light usually ends up. Children room 2 😜
(also I miss sewing but what can one do. Too many hobbies 🤷 )
@Beko Pharm we don't have children, but the engineer knew where it was.
that counts as almost a children, right? :D
(and btw, the answer is yes, it has optical whiteners)
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Third layer cut!
I was tempted to only use two layers for the straps, since this time they wouldn't fit under piece A, but then I tried to squeeze it somewhere else and… WIN.
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@Fabio it does have nanowar blasting¹ out of the stereo quite often :D
(and so does my mind, now. :D)
¹ FSVO blasting :D
Today in Fediculture History, I want to talk about the WHEEL OF GENDER. 🧵
There's a joke that goes around the Fediverse that Mastodon turns trans about 10% of the people who use it. Of course, that's nonsense; it's more like 20%.
Ok, that's nonsense too, but what Mastodon _does_ do is it provides a space where openly trans people are able to flourish and be noticed.
That leads to the situation that users who arrive here, who have never questioned their gender before, get to examine what gender means to them personally for the first time. And, surprise!, some of them turn out to be trans.
Even those of us who arrive here previously transed, like me, have a chance to revisit the concept of gender and develop a more profound understanding of it.
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In person I can't really express myself due to where I live, family, etc. After a week of being on mastodon? I feel amazing and have already learned so much about myself.
I'm gay/pan but analyzing gender was something I felt I couldnt remotely approach until joining here. Now I'm pretty sure I'm gender fluid and i couldn't imagine coming to that conclusion without the people I've met here.
Beside the nightgown, the sewing plan for this week involved making a second bathrobe like the one I made a few weeks ago (in the picture, this one is a darker gray) so that a) I now have a SPARE! (rather than just one disintegrating bathrobe :D ) b) the bulky fabric isn't taking up space in the stash anymore c) I've taken improved step-by-step pictures to publish the pattern.
Today I've done all of the machine sewing, I only have to hemstitch all of the binding by hand (because I'm a masochist).
And this makes it three garments for which I have written instructions, taken pictures, and “only” need to edit those pictures and add them to instructions to be able to publish the pattern.
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Hey all, with the continued influx of Twitter people, I'm once again seeing a drop in the number of people who add alt text/image descriptions to what they post, denying access to many disabled users here.
Exactly how you do this varies by Mastodon client app, but it is usually just below the image once you upload & before posting.
Even a short-but-useful description is better than nothing—focus on what you're trying to get others to get from the image rather than describing every detail.
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@Teffer and people who has made 18th century #stays : I'm reading the instructions for the #AugustaStays and they say to layer the fabric, starting from the outside, as outer layer, heavyweight linen interlining, buckram, so that buckram is towards the body, with just the optional lining separating it from the shift.
Do you have any idea why it isn't layered as outer layer, buckram, heavyweight lining?
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Germany has defeated (will defeat?) England 4-2 at the final, but one of the players (sorry, I didn't catch the name) has been hurt because of a foul committed by England.
I've seen it in a dream.
There, now you know how it will end, so there is no need to watch any of the matches, and you can all boycott this world cup :)
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@Julian Andres Klode 🏳️🌈 I think I've seen some posts on the topic even here on the fediverse, yes.
I'm not sure whether it was people watching it, people wishing to watch it, but who were doing an effort to boycott it or what.
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Nella categoria THIS IS INSUBRIA, nel forno al momento c'è un pane fatto con 100 g di farina di mais (fumetto), 50 g di farina di grano saraceno, 650 g farina bianca forte, 480 g di acqua (e 3 g di lievito secco, e 13 g di sale).
non ci saranno foto.
però vi farò sapere se è un abominio, o se viene degno del Nord (detto con la voce di Rob Stark, ovviamente) :D
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Se siete un'azienda e non volete fare la figura degli straccioni (tipo quelli che si mettono sul furgone l'indirizzo mail ＠virgilio it: è come scrivere il numero di telefono sul sacchetto del pane!) DOVETE farvi una vostra istanza, perché:
1) siete VALIDATI (se ci tenete) perché es. admin＠standa è di sicuro vostro, standa＠bida non si sa
2) potete scrivere quel che volete, e anche farvi l'account BlackFriday＠standa che nessuno dice nulla
Varie ed eventuali.
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Ti annoi e non sai che fare? Sei un programmatore esperto? Allora ho quel che fa per te!
Vai a pulire quel putridume che è il codice di GIMP. O i bug. O la lista di pull, merge etc
Scegli, sta pieno così di lavoro quel software maledetto.
Scherzo obvsly :V
Benve su mastodon e LS!
E ricorda sempre di aggiungere la descrizione ai media caricati e di scrivere sempre in maiuscolo l'iniziale di ogni parola negli hashtag con più termini per rendere tutto il più accessibile!
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TFW you realize you've been cleaning and oiling a domestic power tool while it was on, because the sun was shining on the lamp and you couldn't see it was on.
luckily, my foot was quite far from the pedal, so the actual risk was minimal.
@Gustavino Bevilacqua with the woodworking power tools? of course I would always do that!
the sewing machine? it has a plug? I thought it was directly connected to the mains :D
(I know)
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