I got mine out last year, and the whole medical team was so complimentary about how well I followed instructions, which confused me until I realized they're used to teenagers. I think it's easier when you're older.
The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.
How To Live A Good Life #oldknees
Oh interesting! I was struck in a recent reread with my son how little knitting is in it. Lots of mending, quilting, dressmaking. Also the deep significance of Ma's "delaine" dress which was made by a real eastern dressmaker.
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I bring this article up all the time!
This is so funny because I didn't even have a specific post in mind
It actually is getting better today, the talks are still short but they front loaded the beginner stuff.
girl help this is from my tumblr feed
👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 *cough* @katalogofchaos.bsky.social *cough*
Yeahhhh, one track, mostly 30 minute beginner talks.
🧵 On social media, we feel trapped in “filter bubbles” and “echo chambers.” Often, we see this as a problem with the algorithm. Our new essay argues the problem is the feed interface itself: it constrains our movement—all we can do is scroll. We lay out an alternative vision:
"Where's Sarah?"
"Doing a plume-making apprenticeship"
If I won the lottery, I wouldn't tell anyone but there would be signs
Critically endangered crafts Crafts classified as 'critically endangered' are those at serious risk of no longer being practised. They m include crafts with a shrinking base of craftspeople, crafts with limited training opportunities, crafts wit financial viability, or crafts where there is no mechanism to pass on the skills and knowledge. Arrowsmithing Basketwork furniture making Bell founding Besom broom making MORE ENDANGERED Bow making (musical) Bowed-felt hat making Chain making Clay pipe making Clog making Coiled straw basket making Coppersmithing (objects) Copper wheel engraving Currach making Cut crystal glass making NEW Devon stave basket making Diamond cutting Encaustic tile making Engine turned engraving Fabric pleating Fair Isle chair making Fan making Figurehead carving NEW Flower making (trade and manufacturing) NEW Flute making (concert) Fore-edge painting Frame knitting Glass eye making Glove making MORE ENDANGERED Hat block making Hat plaiting Horse collar making Horsehair weaving Linen beetling NEW Linen damask weaving Maille making Matte painting (filmmaking) NEW Metal thread making Millwrighting Northern Isles basket making Orrery making Paper making (trade and manufacturing) Parchment and vellum making Piano making Pietra dura NEW Plane making Plume making Pointe shoe making Pottery (trade and manufacturing) Quilting (frame NEW | Rake making MORE ENDANGERED Rattan furniture making NEW Saw making Scientific and optical instrument making Scissor making Sieve and riddle making Silk ribbon weaving Silver spinning Spade making Spinning wheel making Straw hat making Sussex trug making Swill basket making Tanning (oak bark) Thatching (Irish vernacular) NEW Thatching (Scottish vernacular) Thatching (Welsh vernacular) NEW + Tinsmithing Wainwrighting Watch face enamelling Watch making Whip making Wooden fishing net making 84.7
new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:
Thank you!
sick of these catholic converts showing up and saying "well I have a different interpretation of the scripture" no you don't. that's protestantism and a heresy. don't like it there's the (incredibly beautiful and heavily ornamented with precious metals) door
Ah yes, for those kinds of metaphors I like Mark Foltz's paper on wayfinding: www.ai.mit.edu/projects/inf... I have a list of ways you do these things in common IA here: sarahrbarrett.com/wayfinding-f...
Putting up the @katalogofchaos.bsky.social signal
*I* think it extrapolates neatly into IA, but that's not a generally accepted theory. Egenhofer's work on naive geography was also useful for me here.
Man, that is a good question but phenomenology in general is not something I have thought about a lot. The relevant work I've read about is about how knowledge of space is phenomenal, not intellectual: sarahrbarrett.com/we-have-two-...
Aye aye, food captain!
There's never been a better time to be a guy with zero interiority.
My father in law did a bunch of early work on CAR-T cells, this is so exciting to see!
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If you are someone who thinks like this, please check your values. And weren’t you a renter at some point too?
imo what makes computers a source of epistemic leverage is precisely the ironclad reliability of deterministic formal systems
it's the ability to know that the information you get out of a computer relates in a well-defined way to what you put in
if you take that away then you have a dancing bear
they deserve the hague
It's a good setting for a sitcom! An endless supply of weird side characters.
