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• Post #4017011

  Any recommendations for Bobbin Lace books on 17th century edgings and inserts for shirts? #BobbinLace

• Post #2857995

  Writing for an audience (lovely condensed info) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqDJs3KCFkY

• Post #2857994

  Raining. Nice. 🌧️

• Post #2857993

  Someone uses trading cards to explain Foucault's Order of Things #Philosophy #TCG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TbHYjGvS68

• Post #2857992

  Sat on my balcony garden last night in my thickest wool jumper, listening to soft rain and birds sing, there was a nightingale in the choir of blackbirds for a little while. Air has been dusty and dry for so long, it was a pleasure at long last to breathe easy. A friend and I passed by the windows of some art studios earlier in the evening while it rained a lot, the rooms filled with people in black shirts and colourful beanies, they'd flung their windows wide open, and we admired their...

• Post #2857991

  Prunus padus is blooming right now in East Helsinki #Bloomscrolling #MitäIistimpää

• Post #2857990

  Testing KDE Connect between my KDE Plasma Linux and iOS this morning for file sharing. I can turn my phone into a remote controller now. Wish my next phone were from Jolla, I'd love to try Sailfish. Might have to settle for a smartless brick though, that's ok too. https://kdeconnect.kde.org

• Post #2857989

  This week I have really been enjoying Ursula Le Guin's poetic translation of Tao Te Ching. https://www.ursulakleguin.com/lao-tzu-the-tao-te-ching

• Post #2234333

  Balcony farmer at work, courgettes are growing

• Post #1888963

  A sunny spring day in Hellsinki #Helsinki #Kluuvi #Kaisaniemi #KasvitieteellinenPuutarha

• Post #1451947

  The Mystery Lace-Maker hard at work #bobbinlace #lacemaking

• Post #1315684

  the buses shy away from people Every girl terrified the daughters wore dark smiles #BlackoutPoetry #Poetry

• Post #1176769

  Halla is going to nap in the sun spot behind the computer monitor all day again #silentsunday

• Post #1066912

  Campbell Walker (aka Struthless) from Australia made a beautiful video well grounded in media theory about replacing phone addiction with zine addiction last week, which is not what this is about. He mentions a 43-year-old book on communication as technology, Orality and literacy by Walter Ong, and I got incredibly excited about it because it describes oral and text-based communication technologies, and what are the pros and cons of each, and while Walker uses these beautifully to frame problem...

• Post #1066911

  Pea risotto #Vegan #GoVegan

• Post #1066910

  My friend is worried about the 3D model community they used to rely on for game and other projects being flooded with poorly made genAI assets, and they sent me a picture of a static human model that had one breast, two arms blending together into one hand, and three legs (two stacked on top of each other on one side) 🤔 I don't go there myself, but I can imagine how annoying and time-consuming it is to have to check for generative horrors when you're looking for something usefu...

• Post #1066908

  Crosswords over cold coffee #BlackoutPoetry #Poetry

• Post #1066906

  The sun shines on my African violet, which I've had for three years almost exactly to the date since gran passed away. Next to it are propagations and a Mexican spiderwort I got from my friend a few years ago. No flowers yet in clivias or rose hibiscus or hoya. #Houseplants #PottedPlant #AfricanViolet

• Post #997951

  @cos@sauna.social Mä testasin sitä viime vuonna! Yksi ihminen (/20) käytti, pidin sitä sellasena brändäyksen ja UX:n ihmiskokeena, tosin en saanu mitään järkevää dataa ulos, miksi ne 19 ei käyttäny sitä (paitsi ehkä tapahtumainfon kävi lukemassa.)

• Post #996895

  Poetry over morning rituals Recycled words #Poetry #BlackoutPoetry

• Post #976487

  I make blackout poetry in the morning sometimes over coffee, it wires the brain nicely for the rest of the day. I have a broken and torn paperback for it I got from my local library for free. Recycled words. #Poetry #BlackoutPoetry

• Post #976034

  And here's Walker's video for context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-TK_oWSg0g

• Post #972383

  I received notice of a job vacancy in games retail over Easter. The entire ad smelled of particularly bad LLM, which is not surprising since Finnish language LLM products are far worse in quality than the English I’ve seen (possibly because LLM companies aren’t willing to go higher than 3€/hr for language trainers, and in a high living cost country like Finland it just isn’t enough to get by on.) Anyhow, I mentally red-penciled the job ad as a language exercise and then arrived at the end, with...

• Post #937944

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-TK_oWSg0g

• Post #937942

  Selective editing poetry from a discarded, broken paperback: #Poetry #BlackoutPoetry #RecyclingPoetry

• Post #937939

  A small #Caturday treat, just for You

• Post #907362

  For the past two weeks I've mostly been afraid of doing anything because of all the horror stories of Finnish unemployment agencies cutting benefits from creative people, because since they do creative things All The Time, that means that they are in fact secretly working (while not doing anything commercial or getting paid) and hence are not qualified for benefits. Mostly therefore one must live their life taking cues from an old cat who does 23 hours per day of nothing much. The mental s...

• Post #823945

  Gentleman Jack 😍 #Ballet #NorthernBallet https://youtu.be/tSUdalypey4?si=Rt_cbpGORBTSMH4a

• Post #803973

  To pass the time better than doomscrolling, I've been studying graphic design and illustration from library books. The graphic design part especially contained information on layout and values presented in a way how f.ex. watercolor classes don't necessarily explain themselves, and I like how both these books on these topics begin with Lascaux cave paintings, which I think is a little wild, because I've thought of them as ritualistic art, while from an illustrator or grap...

• Post #803971

  Literally crying after watching Kaori Sakamoto's last short skate #WorldFigure #FigureSkating