RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/115845251891327956 Oh man, this sounds like a really Not Fun flight for the attendants and maybe everyone else too 😂

This is the gold standard for about-the-author photos

It worked! The texture is hard (like very thin wood), and they smell lovely. I'll trim/sand the top edge, and see if I can make one fit over the other. My jars weren't identical, they were just the ones I found in a hurry, so I might be able to trim one to be the lid.

@jonobie The filtering system in Mastodon is really flexible, I love it. You can choose which views the filter applies in; so you can filter stuff out from your timeline, but still see it in a conversation you are already following. You can choose to hide completely, or hide with a warning […]

Ice. #patagonia #torresdelpaine #chile #glacier #photography

Oh it feels so good to watch the #seahawks play well

I suppose this is #papercraft too Kid2 made a pair of earrings for herself today #mixedmedia - comic backing board, gouache, superglue, metal earring hook Inspired by a show she enjoyed and now finished (5 seasons) watching - Merlin #crafts

I have a filter here for various US political words like Trump, MAGA, etc. Those have been getting a great workout today. What I really like is I could tell something was happening this morning and pick WHO I wanted to see hot takes from, instead of getting everyone’s. And tonight, as I’m tired […]

Does this help anything? #caturday

Remember, when something in the news upsets you, you are *not obligated* to spend the next hour hunched over your phone reading live updates and social media hot takes. You *can* stay informed without succumbing to this urge -- an urge deliberately conditioned into us for decades by the 24-hour […]

For those who weren't old enough to solidly remember Grenada, Panama, and the US' Iraq invasions, here's a thing to do right now. Look for those who come out against this. The ones who don't equivocate. Particularly ones you might not have heard of before. Who surprise you. Those people are […]

Just seen in front of me, a FL license plate with: DRM KILLER, surrounded by a “Save the Manatees” holder. Which of you here was that?! 😂🤣

First #book of 2026 finished: Native Nations: A Millennium in North America. I sort of reviewed it earlier, but finishing it, I can absolutely see why it won a Pulitzer Prize in History. So good, and another one of those, "Holy shit, why was my school history SO BAD?" books. (Answer that shocks […]

If you have a New Year's resolution to learn a new language, check to see if your local library has Mango. When I played around with it, it seemed way better and more in depth than Duolingo. #seattle Public Library's links and information to it is here […]

Someone could legally write one where Nancy and the Hardy Boys investigate the murder of Betty Boop on Mickey Mouse’s steamboat and find out Blondie hired Winnie the Pooh to do it because Betty found out she was having an affair with Popeye.

Everyone posting about their books prompted me to see if I could figure out how many I read this year. Usually I have no idea, and I don't tend to track in Goodreads or Bookwyrm. But this year I can use dates in Calibre and whether I rated it more than one star (indicating finishing it) AND […]

Happy New Year - and happy #publicdomain day to all who celebrate! https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/

The thing I am most excited about on this table is the sunbeam. But the beers are tasty too.

Took up this Palestinian Arabic class last month, and I enjoyed it. If you're interested, Islam is having a new round of introductory Arabic classes this month (it's all on Zoom). Signup link here: https://forms.gle/ct2k2NvmgN8yyV4B9 #arabic #languagelessons #palestine

I somehow missed this before but @davidrevoy, creator of many open source and permissive licensed Web comics and tutorials (including the OH SO ADORBS Pepper & Carrot), is in the fediverse!

The Internet: Progesterone will stop your periods! My body: Let’s do ELEVEN DAYS of bleeding and spotting instead! 💃 #perimenopause #hrt

If you enjoy a year-end review to close out the past twelve months and set intentions for the next, YearCompass (https://yearcompass.com/) is fantastic and just published their 2026 version. It's a free resource that helps you reflect on your achievements and challenges. Doesn't even require you […]

RE: https://mastodon.derg.nz/@anthropy/113746943264625490 Today earth will perform a rolling reboot to update to the 2026 release. This may lead to asynchronous new year messages as we cycle through each node in the cluster (colloquially called "time zones"); do not fret, everyone is still […]

This is a funny "52 things I learned in 2025" list, and also interesting: https://probablyinteresting.substack.com/p/52-things-i-learned-in-2025 TIL several things. :)

I'm going to have like 36 hours in #seattle mid-january. Any recommendations for what I should do/see? Especially looking for coffee shops, lunch spots, cool bike shops, and any good bike/ped/transit infrastructure

Folks interested in science should be interested in Retraction Watch, which is now 15 years old. Started by medical journalists Ivan Oransky & Adam Marcus, the site is the only one (that I know of, anyway) that uncovers and tracks scientific retratcions, errors, and other controversies. My best […]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/115770757564159420 People are curious about how they make money. 1. Family size: usually 4-6 people per order per meal 2. City density: they likely cover 5x more orders in a single building than in a single block in a N American city

YOUR CLAM YEAR IN REVIEW - There are over ten thousand known species of clams and tens of thousands more undescribed. Please do your part and find a few species next year. - Cultured bivalves alone help remove over 49,000 tons of nitrogen from our waterways every year, along with other […]

Mastodon + Libraries = SO VERY COOL. I posted about considering redoing my 20 year old Ikea chairs that are done with Danish cord. I got SO MANY lovely replies to that (thanks everyone who boosted and shared knowledge). ❤️ @liliwithers found an old and useful "Fine Woodworking" article about […]

Last weekend I had the privilege of hosting a wonderful group of hooomans at my place for a cpr and first aid class. The instructor kicked booty and the class was excellent. Do you have your first aid and cpr training? It’s a great new years goal! […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

iPhone: Changes fuck(s) into duck(s) and thinking into honking. Me: Ok, who at Apple has a fowl (foul?) fetish?!

Went to a needlepoint shop on the snooty island I’m on right now, and one of the patterns said “Please no profanity”. Given my people needlepoint such things as “behold my field of fucks, it is barren”, I nearly laughed out loud while thinking “who the hell would needlepoint THAT”? Not a moment […]

RE: https://sfba.social/@PlinyTheOlder/115795096752009199 This article (direct link below) is really interesting and worth a read.. That "editing" Underwood talks about is (I suspect) common for anyone in a minority position in the culture they're operating within […]

Meanwhile in Canada. #icestorm #freezingrain #tigers #tiger #cat #cats #humor #humour

Being aesthetically impaired I rarely post photos or art, but this… A Man Feeding Swans in the Snow, Poland | Marcin Ryczek

That was weird as fuck: At the beginning of I guess the Buccaneers game in the Englewood sports bar I’m in, they turned off all the sound and made people stand up for someone local to sing the national anthem? Never seen that before. Don’t love it.

Does anyone here do #SeatWeaving? I've got 6 old Ikea chairs like these, and the Danish paper cord on them is starting to fray. I LOVE them and they are discontinued. Trying to figure out if it's folly for a beginner to attempt to cut off and reweave. The curve […] [Original post on social.coop]

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are: 1. Getting up in the morning 2. Going to bed at a reasonable time

[Parental whinge] I know intellectually hoarding disorder is A Thing. AND, it is so hard emotionally that the answer to any question of "Can we get rid of X," is, "Welllll, no, I might need it for [completely made up and usually ridiculous reason]." I actually was in a training for this […]

Thank you, Ruth Goodman, for making reenactment shows. Today, when we realized we had no hot water and the dishwasher had failed to clean, my first thought was, right, I need to heat water up on the stove like Ruth talked about doing on Victorian Farm in order to do her chores. And lo, the […]

Hey #portland frens ... not to incite panic or distress, but there is a non-zero chance of abnormally high winds tomorrow, which means increased risk for power failures. Today would be a good time to verify you can manage a couple days without power. Seems like it's a remote possibility […]

Fediverse heads up! Try not to put hashtags in the middle of sentences, maybe one or two hashtags, but not more than that Reasoning: Screen readers. For you, that's just a small character and some colored text, for a blind person using a screen reader, that is the word "HASHTAG" being […]

Currently reading "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America", by Kathleen DuVal. This is a *fascinating* book! Highly recommended. It centers the first nations of the US in history, setting them against a sweeping history including the rest of the world. So we learn at one point that […]

@jonobie It's still on the loom - having problems stopping weaving that pattern :) but my plan is to play with it a bit next, I wrote it all up here btw: https://thentrythis.org/notes/2025/12/15/weaving-to-understand-how-humans-think/

This is the shoelace that I’ve stalled out on. So so boring to work on - just 4 forward, 4 back, forever. Not sure if I’ll get two laces out of this or forever have one lace because I don’t wanna do this again 🤣😂 I really wanna get this off the loom but can’t […] [Original post on social.coop]

Bleargh. First error in the warping for my #tabletweaving. Put the cards on wrong, without checking where the letters were expected to be. (I.e, if I turn forward does my card labelled “B” come up to the top, or does “D”?) Take two.

For the #sca and other historical cooking geeks, this looks like an absolutely delightful book: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ampersandbookstudio/a-pamflyt-compiled-of-cheese-private-press-edition/ It's a #kickstarter that combines fine modern craftsmanship, a 16th century manuscript […]

Kwanzaa Facts 1. Kwanzaa is a made up holiday. 2. So is every other holiday. 3. Anyone can celebrate Kwanzaa. 4. It was created by Black, (mostly American and Christian*) people in the 1970s to celebrate Black history and the influence of African culture in the African diaspora and to assert […]

I just finished reading “A Memory Called Empire” by Arkady Martine. It’s a science fiction political thriller. The protagonist is the ambassador from a small republic on the edge of a sprawling galactic empire, who is trying to preserve their independence, when she discovers that her predecessor […]

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any #TabletWeaving, mostly because I had a few frustrating fails, and then goofed and put shoelaces on my main inkle loom. They’re cute but the pattern is SO BORING now that I keep not working on it. Imagine the equivalent of […] [Original post on social.coop]